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Sonia's midnight slip
"D
IS SHOWING
ID I ever tell you about my operation?" Sonia asked me one night. We had been to see a Hollywood spy-film and were back at Sonia's latest hide- out, a low dive near a swimming- pool.
"Not that sort of operation, was really silly boy," he said. "An espion age operation. 'Operation Headache was the code-name.
I was all agog to hear yet another exploit in the career of London's notorious Crime Queen.
Sonia puffed a series of smoke-rings from her long, black cheroot and said: "It was Chick Hari, Mula's ex-husband, who gave me the job of alching the plans of a secret factory that I was being built for making secrot
plans.
"The papers were in the safe el Sir Xavier Ray who lived with his wife Violet. Disguised as the sority beauty, Lady Molly Kule, I went down for a week-end party at their castle.
"My contact," Sonia went on, "was Sir Xavier's albino valet,
MT,15
CAN YOU TELL HOW TALL
by GEORGE SAVA
the
YOUR CHILD
It now ponsiblo. to foretell more accurately than over before how tall a child will grow?
Research Into the rela-
In California promising ex- tionship of age to height ruficially fed the former has been intensified both in
grows more quickly.
poriments have been made in, From the second to the ninth controlling children's height by America and Britain. Thou- year giris will grow more use of thyroid drugs and hor sands of painstaking calcu- quickly then boys; then the mones. lations have been made,
process is, reversed — the girl slows down, the boy shoots up. Certain hormones have been Hero a chart board on
used to Increase the predicted In Britain, wo know the height of short boya; others to under-the-latist results of this research present generation is talker than curtall the rate of growth of a chart showing for both boys its parents and grandparents gais expected to become over and girls what percentago eventual adult
of du: to the more rational and tall. hov: been reached at a
height should hygienic life of sport, fresh air,
Kiven and
unconstricting ege.
clothing. Many a modern 14-year-old boy Every parcat will want to could not get into a midieval study these height-are increase knight's suit of armour. tables, for doctors claim that the growth of children ned no longer be a matter of chance. It is becoming an exact medical science..
WILL GROW?
counter spy, X12.
Headacho told me that X13 altered the combination of the safe every night just after mid- night,"
by
ERNEST DUDLEY
The
Armchair Detective
So Sonia slipped away from the party, opened the library door and swit- ched an the light.
"In the mir- ror," she said
"I saw the time was exceping up
to 12. Only a few minutes and
"
Main factors
HAT are the main
Now research'
MEANWHILE, quite. apart
from
'Bone-age'
"THE drug and hormone experi-
ments to control growth are experimental. To qvald danger they must still be carried out under strict medical supervision. The time is not yet here when mother can bake a "shortening cake" for junior, or buy plila will make him
the statistical tests carried out to create the kind of chart you see here, challenging which new research is now going on in taller. factors the actual manipulation
of height by outside induences.
X12 would turn up! Quicidy IW-in the way we grow?
crassed to the safe which I knew was lidden by picture Whistler's
father.
"In a Bash i had the safe open. There were the heard n
Full height is
reached
girls at 18, boys at 19.
for
Generally, there is very little vital force in The length but then I torso of adults; difference
GIRLS
BOYS
Years
Height Years
.
18
19
15
16
9
12
grow
What do the men and women who are carrying on this work Eny?
В
10.
Knowledge of the vitamins and hormones which govern our growth has increared rapidly. They point out that perhaps or And, today, diets can be devised even more important than any In for children which will supply treatment is the immense psy- significance of the new ability to determine in advance the height a child may Krow to.
Headache Mason, who walked plur. dden movement de-freight is due moxily to the micsing viluming and thus allow chological
with a catlike tread. I seared us tuon as I arrived that
one of the guests, who called himself Professor J. Edwards, Wns wearing a false moustache. He
Acanthus-
"But this is pentur, Inigo-Wren / Unquestion- ably it solves all our housing, emigration and shipping problems."
London Expreza Sersion.
These two discoveries made the modern
wrist-watch possible
The witch you wear on your wrist today is a refined, highly accurate piece of mechanism. But it would not be what it is save for two drest horological discoveries. This year, marks their. anniverary. Twenty-five years ago, the Role "Oreter" case was perfected, twenty years ago, the Rolex "Perpetua!” movement.
The old pioneers of horology, dreaming of perfect accuracy in watches, always know that their ultimate goal was unattainable until the perfect mechanium it demanded could be protect- ed by a really waterproof cass, and guarded from the vagaries of hand-winding by a reliable self. winder. In the Rolex "Oyster" case, patented in 1928, we have the first truly waterproof case. In the Rolex "Perpetual" movement, we have the first truly trustworthy sali-winding mechanism.
Proof of their efficiency, if proof were needed, Bas in the fact that the waterproof self-winding watch is accepted today as an integral part of Our modern life. Genuine advances in watch. making science come at all too rare intervalet here are two to which the entire watch industry ower debt,
ROLEX ROLL OF HONOUR: Autumn 1905. Launching of the first Rolan wrist-walch,
March 22, 1910, First Rolex wrist-chronometer to be cantralled by the Swiss Cararnment, obtains an Official Timing Certificate at Bienne, Switzerland.
- July 13, 1918. Rates obteine the first Cha"A" Observatory Certificate avat awarded to a wrist- chronometer by the Kew Objurystory.. October 7, 1927. Marcedes Gleitze, London stenographer, wima the Cheanal wearing a Rolex Oyster, the world's firal waterproof writi-watch. 1911. Creation of the Rolex "Perpetual“ the Best waterproof wrist-waith to wind itself. 1940. Launching of the Rolex Datejusž, firsk waterproof, sall-winding wrist-chronometer, in which the dite ls shown through a small window on the face.
December 1ght. Production of the 100,000th Officially Tested and Certified Roles wrist. chronometer.
September 30, 1948, Rolen achiures the highest- aver accuracy for a atima, also welik-watch at the world-famous National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, England, with 93.8 poista. December 31, 1949. Rolex kako u now securacy. record et Genere Obssystory for ■ 10,5 mái, sien movamant with 839 points.
January 4, 1951. Production of the 130,000th Officielly Tested and Certified Etolen welsh- chronometer.
THE ROLEX "OYSTER"
Materiale of all sorts, rubber, aven oil had been used le a vain attempt to make a waterproof watch, it was left to Rolex, in 1926, to discover the simple principle of the self-sealing action of one metal on another, and produce the first truly waterproof watch.
THE ROLEX "PERPETUAL"
A radical and brižlianą departure from all other attempts at a self-winding watch was the secret
of the success of the Rolex "Perpetual". Be- fore, the hammer jark principle was ured in pocket watches, but the continual (orking of the self-winder as the wearer walked soon told on the mechanism. It was left to Rolex, in 1931, to discover the Rokor, a semi-circle of matyl rotating smoothly on an axis, and produce the first self- winding wrist-watch which Rolen christened "Perpetual".
The cream of the Relax production i marked by the famous Rolas Red Seal." it is a sign thai tho chrono meter to which it in atteched han been admitted by the Swice Govera ment to their own rigorous lasts, has passed them with honour, and bas been awarded the covated Official Timing Certificate.
ROLEX
Swiss Officially Certified waterproof, Selfwinding
Wrist chronometers
length of the legs.
the child to develop more na-
hind me and turned round.
"X12 stood in the door smiling at me from behind his pistol." The height of a newly bom turally,
"Reach for #1,
baby, regardless of sex, is Bout Sonia," 我公 30 grated, "You've beco and gone maturity. and made one of your Борру
lips again!
percent. of Ita ultimat:
The growth of the bores of the legs is usually arrested in Armed with this knowledge girls by 18 and boys by 19—the parents can take steps to Dro: Bonta brake off and her eytauference between
For the first year there is no time full height is reached-and pare their children mentally to shorten or being either too short or too tall. filed with tears as she sobbed but the growth
this period by adhus personality problems that cup the mistake she had made.
of certain hor- might arise in later life can be (Solution on Page 16)
partly tackind in childhood.
the sexes, now dectors can of the child lengthen will depend siightly upon ministration whether he is naturally or mones,
FRIENDSHIP IS THE
NEW SECRET WEAPON
Bonn.
THROUGH the sullen
T
ranks of Red Army
By Norman Lindhurst
gence office,
men in Eastern Ger- dom," in spurring maas deser, the cold chambers of an Intelli- many are passing whispers tions from the Red Army.
"home" in the As a "Friendship House"
official remarked to m
of
For instance, recent "guests" arriving at "Friendship House"
Inmates of these nightly-guarded" camps.
Although not all Red Army deserters belleve that the Siplin regime can be overthrown from the inside, all agree that morals is very low among the Soviet
West" which awaits any "What good. it to broadcast are emphasizing in their chats forces in Germany, Russian casting his lot with the East on the BBC are
the Free World.
Voice of America if it re Not even
tho sinister, tulis, ar it has, in the disillusion -ever-watchful M.V.D., and ment of the refugees, who wind harsh Red Army discipline up in the West without money, designed
a home or a job?" to seal Soviet The sponsors of "Friendship troops hermetically from House" believe that words from contact with the West has the wet must be backed up been able to silence this with concrete deeds, "grapevine."
W
W
There
the
are 30 divisions of Soviet troops, numbering nearly If the West encourages flight 400,000 men, deployed from the from Iron Curtain, the plains of Mecklenburg to
the American organisation argues, it marshy lands of the Saxony. And
her nicula e by
Red Army men relum from Siberia should be pinpointed by leave home to Russia with bliter the West as Russia's "soft under stories of the privations their belly."
families still must undergo,
"You in the West thould not "Hundreds of thousands of underestimate the effect upon men, women, and even children Soviet soldiers when they we are working throughout Siberia that even now the defeated mates of these camps are de ond live in better homes than in forced labour campa. in Germans have better clothes sperate, and forces invading from the East would fini
no ΠΟΣΟ flerce and loyz' allies anywhere behind the Curtain," a young captain declared.
they ever had seen before,” a
lanco fuzzy-cheeked
corperal observed.
Funds are now being raised in the United States to build a
A sergeant advanced the view chain of 11 "Friendship Houses". Neisso has the moral responsibility to that a revolt might be touched at key points along the Curtain
every rehabilitate the sefugee and put off by parachuling arms to the from Trieste to the Baltic.
Western In the year, the morning him on his feet in reports of a dozen or more of society.
river in
day
W These units turn up "missing"
men.
There are uncounted thou-
A few werks clapse after sands of Red Army Cach disappearance, and then roaming Western
desertoru Germany,
the barracks "grapevine" hums many of them homeless, jobless with the cryptic massage
and hungry. German officials that "Feddor" or "Sergej" or "Plot" their shoulders and the has reached "The House."
The Hours 13 "Friendship
Allies, after intelligence officers have pumped the deserters dry of information, cast them adrifi,
That was eas
was six months ago, and depressing reports passed back
House," an all-too-small hot!- prospective deserte;s to decide on the "grapevine" led many type building on a Munich side not to choose freedom, street which caters to a highly
deserter.
Here tho diserter, usually blanched and quaking with four, is welcomed as a brother, assigned a room, given money and new clothing and served an appetising meal.
THESE, THEN,
WAS
5
3
21
Birth
14.
Birth
From this age-height table you can calculate how tall your children will be when fully grown (giris at 18, boys 19).
For example, a boy of three who is $ft, tall will be 6ft. at 19. If you gre worried about 'a child's height and it varies greatly from this table,. consult your doctor.
WERE THE
EVITA
MIRACLES OF
By Antonio O'Brien
Buenos Aires. gram to Pope Pius with to swear to more personal
Eva Peron a similar demands. miracle worker? A
miracles worked by Eya. Most have been of a practical mature sudden supplies of food
books.
Exclusive clientele the Soviet Now, the outlook is changed citizens' committee will try T.. Vatican explained where none existed before, ay I chatted with a half-a-dozen and prove she was respon- that proceedings must be work for some who had not young de esters, aged 22 to 35sible for at least two during started by the bishop of done a strele for years, wrader-
expanded with hey
great enthusiasm on
her lifetime.
the diocese
ful toys for tots who had never their plans to
where Eye
seen a boy except in behind the Curtain to flee. encourage their comrades still Fifty miles from Buenos Peron lived. Two miracles These were the miracles of Eva
Aires, in the tiny village must be proved to the Peron, cay her followers. "Why, If the West could care of Villa Soldati, a small Church's Raiisfaction. Even He is treated as a member for them," one stocker, blond group of Gauchon have al- then years, "even cen- of the family" who has been young Red Army private ex-ready accepted Eva Peron turies." may elapse, said But I also found others who
through
EL
shock.
p:rlod
This "shock treatment"
of
great
claimed," half the Soviet Army
in Germany would come over 88 "Saint Evita."
сол
Unucs for several works, during which the Friendship
*
House staff assists the "recruit Wesem Intelligence officers,
the Vatican, before the claimed miraculous cures after final decision is made.
praying to Evita. All their claims will be carefully examin The villagers of Villa Soldati ed. A committee will be set up I went with the village say there is so problem about when mourning ends en August mayor to a shrine set up the miracles. Wasn't her whole 28.
life a miracio?
#
to Freedom" plen new life. with whom the Soviet deserter close to the schoolroom. A He is given legal advice, as com only too glad to co-operate,
However, church authorities sisted in Ming out papers to
Anding this "Friendship large noticeabove Evn's I toured the village and was say they have not heard of any Immigrate 10 the Western House" a rich lodn of informa-portrait says: "Comrades, shown the Hemisphere, and promized ald Lion. They report that it demand
new. schoolroom, miracles yet, "It all depends on
and welfare what you call a miracle, canonisation of children's clinic
high in getting launched on a new much simpler to elidt facts on
headquarters. All bore the name dignitary told me. But what career,
conditions behind the Iron Cur-Saint Evita, the workers'
Eva Peron Foundation. A ever the Vatican decides now or "Friendship House" is a bold tain from refugees in groups, martyr."
miracle, said the mayor.
centuries hence, thousands of experiment by a private basking in a warm homelike American organisation, "Friends atmosphere,
devout Catholics in the Argen- than
Last week the Food- from in-
In the past few days I have tine will revere Eva Peron as of Fighters for Russion Free dividuals fearful and hesitant, in workers' Union sont a tele met countless people prepared "Saint Evita,"
JOHNNY HAZARD
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