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World Copyright. By derangement with Daily Morale
Fascinates
The General's Man
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RS CORINNA
******* Lumpur.
Mr. Alex Peterson, 43- year-old headmaster, is called from a quiet life at an English grammar school to help fight the terrorists in Malaya.
DON IDDON'S
IDDON'S DIARY
The Wisecracker From Illinois Is Something Quite New To Voters
burns as fiercely as ever despite.
New York, Tuesday, get accustomed to the Steven-
subtleties and flashing the cruel taxes.
vcrbalisms.
I found a note in my apart
S a strict heutral in son
this election, I rate The Democrats hope they ment the other day. It said: Adlai Stevenson as the haven't picked a fancy Dan, un "Shoppers, let me tell you how most dazzling and delightful Intellectual gogster and high. I found $5,000,000 In a push- personality, to appear on the flown humorist. They long for American political platform bellow, the familiar bray and the old hackneyed hollar for
a Signed, Patsy D'Agos
We do some of our shopping for years.
blast.
at Mr D'Agostinon'. He runs a The man's wit is de-
Stevenson has part of the "scrve, yourself food market, vastating, his satire is part country feeling
terate, or, rather, several markets. Mr. awkward. Per D'Agostinos came to the United
са
funny and part acid - ignorant, and
s baps he ido bright, 100 States from Italy in 1020 with formidable, mixture. After original, loo rare and remark a few dollars in his pocket. Ho you have oncé heard able for an American election sold vegetables from a hand- Stevenson, most
other campaign..
cart which he pushed round the customers speakers seem fumbling and Behind this sparkling facade streets. Today his
there 13
Dush 11 record of solid Dusk the carts in his super- bumbling.
achlevement
markets Governor
and Mr D'Agostinos of ind If I were a Democrat in- minois. Stevenson has proved nas $5,000,000. stead of an innocent by himself a fine administrator and He had an idea. He had stander I would be worried-a determined reformer. It would energy. He says if you com- that the Governor might be a pity If he is put down bine the two you can still make
ns the wisest of wise-
a fortune in America. be above the heads of his crackers.
I suppose the big difference audiences. During his re- By contrast, Eisenhower ap between the United States and cent speeches he has pears plodding, pialn, even ill-
the
United Kingdom at this like
and I at ease. sparkled
There particular period in history: is а Roman secure
has been a collapse of the that here almost everyone has candle and the crowds have Eisenhower idol image, but the the idea that given good luck. lagged and struggled to man's sincerity and genuineness good health, and accurate timing keep up with the barbed emerge every time he trudges is still possible to reap huge
through a
rewards, whereas In quips, the epigrams, and
England
•No two could be that conviction has withered the aphorisms.
the result New Hemingway
more different, which makes and died. Stevenson said this must be it such an interesting cam- the Arst occasion that it has paign, and anyone who been contended, that "now is the irics lo forecast time for all good Democrats to at this Ume, two months come to the old of the Re- before the election date, is publican Party,"
being ridiculously. rash or He expressed the pious hope stupidly simple,
it was not too much to ex-
that
4
At its
THE
.
THE talk of the town, after money, baseball, and the election campolan, is Ernest book "The
-Hemingway's new best
which; as a town, posserves half a dozen cinemas and most modern amenilles.
The Petersons will be swap- Ave-bed- ping a three-storey. rocin, 17th century house with a Cromwellian panelled dining pect his opponent, General Eisenhower, to read the room, and staircases to for i
which speeches Government bungalow
Old Man and the Sea." were being and
furniture written for the the ponderous
General,
The critles are in ecstasy over the PWD provide. Servants (Stevenson writes his Own
Hemingway's simple story of a will be plentiful but expensive. speeches, shuns ghost-writers.)
only 30,000 words long and They will be able English car without purchase desnibed the Republicans is the time of year when tragle fisherman. The book is Parly B a two-headed re-discovering New York. Man Life magazine had already paid clephont being pulled in op hattan is at its magnificent best the author two dollars a word tax.
posite directions in mid-stream. in the early autumn. The days for the privilege of publishing He said General Elsenhower reminded him of a mule that toy
are blue and golden, and the
on starved to death standing be- and proud..
towering buildings tween two sigeka of hay trying,
to buy an
On the defensive
is that this is
popular
Shameful sin
are
hundreds of thousands are
look clean
The first furs-mink, and silver fox-are
before it appeared in book form.
It is a good story expertly told
by the master, but whether
is a work of genius, as many insist here, is doubtful. Hem-
s
ingway's last book, "Across the
PETERSON, the young wife of the grammar-school headmaster in the little market town of Newport (Shropshire) is ad- vertising for n-nurse. She is at pains to point out, whon wording her require- ments, that the job offered was something he had chanced is in an area quite free from to encounter," had enjoyed, and bandits.
now was behind him.
Then Generat Templer's Mrs Peterson is moving
summons came, In the form of house next month from
a telephone call, to return to the Newport to Kuala Lumpur East for three months. His wife
the situation in the And of (Malaya), where Mr Peter was not greatly enchanted by
Peterson' *WET?
says
The rich have returned in son, headmaster until next the prospect of his going away jungle
this:
"This bandit now is on
to make up his mind which to force. Fifth and Park Avenues cat, hurt He won't half-term of the 17th cen- for all the summer holiday.
blocked
with limousines, But when he came back, with the defensive.
hand in tury Adams'
you unless you hurt him-ki-
the parking lots conver- Grammar the proposal to move to Kuala
tibles are lined up, dripping River and into the Trees, was School here (the school's Lumpur with his family, Corinna leas he thinks he can get arms
with chromium.
5 forlorn an effort (and so What people don't daughter of from "you. motto is Serve and Obey), Peterson, who is
anti-General sable,
Mont- absurdly Sir Arthur Cochrane, Claren- all understand is to take up the £3,400 a
appearing gomery and foul-mouthed) that post of Director- ceaux King of Arms, took a deep not, in any sense whatever, a
was, her
STEVENSON is gay, suave, de- on women's shoulders, and men The Old Man and the Sea" breath and
husband movement with
sup-
are abandoning the, Palm Beach looks superb General of Information Ser- sald,
by comparison. "exelted," thrilled,
bozir, dashing, confidently are ap- p
It' Anyway,
a resounding is purely a Communist pausing for the laughs and the sult and panamo, vices, Malaya. Mrs Peterson prehensive."
movement, maintained by ter- applause, atid then shooting The weather is so perfect and their three children, into a bungalow
"Hemingway, again riding the rorism. There was a time when another arrow into the Republi- that it is difficult to remember
says he plans a trip. William (four), Henry at once fell to wondering some of the young nationalist can hide, His manner is more that this is the same city that crest, (two) and Cassandra (nine about how they would, be able, idealists joined it from idealistic British than American, and this burned and broiled under the probably to Europe, and con-
could be a handicap.
relentless sun only a few weeks cedes that he has a happy life: months) are going with in Malaya, to get good milk for motives, but that in past."
The the baby; about the hazardof-"
bandits keep away from
Already his harassed enemies ago. Business in the stores is "Personally, I am happy when which, in Kuala -the main roads. Mr and Mrs pythons
are suggesting- that
Stevenson brisk--and the restaurants are I work hard and love someone." Lumpur, may turn up anywhere, Peterson were discussing the has on English accent-a most full of cocktail drinkers and And he says he has done both
these things for a long time. He was borrowed even in the lounges of the best schedule of the
newly
re-shameful sin. The Republicans canape toyers: established hotels.
don't Kuala
Lumpur-
understand him. They Cafe society, which was Early in the Bummer,
Now, Mrs Peterson is surprising Singapore bus, when I was withsay he is "cute, fruity-voiced, disgrace when a vice ring was General Sir Gerald Templer, shop assistants in Stafford, their
nearest big town
one might discuss and don't come off. and lucking: velvet rope, has recovered its Malaya's High Commis- counters where a week ago the criticise a Green Line route.
substance." sioner "borrowed" the was pricing winter things for Only the timings were im- They are trying to portray There is no sign whatsoever DROADWAY is in mourning
not what
as a literary godny, might him as
more of a fall in prices or an end of
for Gertrude Lawrence. headmaster from the school, herself and her children; and portant,
happen on the way. According fitted for a role in a slick the fabulous boom. The Re- She was One of my closest and Peterson flew out just demanding summer frocks.
Is it hazardous to take young to Mr Peterson, nothing would comedy than
for publicans can thunder all they friends, and I am shocked that before his school's speech- children to Kuala Lumpur? Mr happen.
the Presidency.
want, but never before in his she should have died so sud- day on a three-month Peterson says no. The nearest
Born and bred on bromides tory have so many people had denly and so young.
And the old Ameri- special mission to Malays, and country is 40 miles away.
She had been worried about audienco is taking some time to can faith of rags to riches her health for some time, but Now the General wants him No one carries arms in Kualo
Liten Gertrude {sho disliked for longer.
being called Gertle) always
him
Alexander Duncan Campbell Peterson, who is 43 years old, slim, greying, gay in the manner of a university don, gentle but with a potential of ruthlessness behind the gaiety, is no stranger
to the For East, though as
them, in much the same terms full by going to 09
BUCCOBS.
In
;
of arch wisecracks that discovered right, behind the Broadway mourns
candidate #
nerve.
Hugh Cleland and ellches, the vast American so much.
MAYBE THIS
IS WHY
CHAPMAN PINCHER
ין
at the British Association conference, reports on:
Jet flying. Why women are smaller than mon... and Naval efficiency
YOU DIDN'T GET THAT JOB.
on
was rather a worrier about her Carcer. about being
from away London, which sho loved and sometimes about her rivals. Sho need not have worried about the rivals there was no one to approach her.
and
Oneo the and I were in Lon- don together just after the war, and
she said: "They haven't forgotten me here...à at home,
Every
havent on the first of
remember her Perhaps you book "A Star Danced"; now the stor has danced for the last
POCKET CARTOON
young man, a scholar of Balliol and son of a father in the Indian civil service, he roundly declared that nothing would induce him to travel east of Suez.
When a pilot is faced with a machinery and equipment so Before the last war he was THE best candidate at an. THE JUdgments schoolmaster ot Shrewsbury H
January Gertrude used to send taught he
most subjects Interview rarely gets students entering a London sudden emergency it may take that it was cheaper to produce
me a blue leather diary. Bhe out of it and to act, said GROUP It improved the drill for load had done this ever since this except selence. The way ahead the job because most bosses college bore no relation to him four seconds to think a way and easier to work, of him looked to be fairly clearly are hopeless at judging their eventual performance CAPTAIN W. K. STEWART, ing a six-inch gun ao-much that Diary began in 1943. I have plotted. The war sent him to
professor in their degree examina- chief of the RAF. Institute of one man could be dropped from them all. he became Personality, a the Far East, and
Aviation Medicine.
the gun crew while the speed of tions. claimed the other day.
This
that if he is loading was increased by nearly Mountbatten's
mean deputy-director of
"Most people, however travelling at; 050. milles an hour: 25 percent. paychological
After 25 years of study. swarfare... In a rather academic way, he ing human character London confident they may be in his aircraft will have moved It revolutionised the training time." fell in love with the East, par- University's PROFESSOR their ability, are not good nearly three-quarters of a mile ticularly with Malaya. But when
"before he can begin to do of radar operators,
Yet the unit was always anything. the war was over he came back. E. VERNON in. satisfied in assessing personality," and resumed his old
old occupation,
If two aircraft, are approach starved of staff, and its work don, that the standard interview Professor though now” ` na
now as head of the nearly always gives a dis- "Many professional psycho- ing each other the gap between was repeatedly frustrated be Adams School, a
logists, employers, and them will have clored by nearly cause Mr Murrell could not get
of the Navy, trators pilot can act
The Admiralty bosses could Even when a pilot anticipates trouble, it takes him about two not be made to realise the seconds to react to it, Group Importance of studying the man as well as the machine. Le has Captain Stewart said:
Scientists at Cambridge are to work, Murrell claimed. trying to deviag instruments As a result, equipment is which will help to reduce this now coming into use which, dangerous timo-Jug
because of the "neglect of the human factor, will be unable to operate at its maximum
school where they alm towards a
Vernon said.
grammar torted picture of an aponciers are thoroughly bad ́¤ mile and a halt before either access to the high-level adminis- half boarder, half day boy popu→ plicant's true personality.
lation. It is one of the several
His evidence, given at a
at it."
He urged research workers to schools of the Haberdashers British Association meeting produce more reliable testa of
in Belfast:
character and ability. MANY of the personnel. selection officers trained to
Company..
Not enchanted He worked off his feelings and
The little woman' WHY are women generally his expertise about the East In recommend ·Army recruits: Waaller than men? - a book that became a standard for the right job during the
PROFESSOR' 'WILLAM work almest on. publication, in war did worse than if they BULLOUGH bellever broadcast talks, and in articles had never seen the recruits
wrote for the literary at all.
ho
that
body 'produces
1
Savo sailors.....
woman's smaller frame is due to F TF scientists had not been stint- emclency," he said. «.
ed by the Admiralty, they the fact that her boo hormone could have saved the taxpayer Toviews.
The East fascinated him, par- A RECRUIT'S barrack now being used as a treatment huge sums every year and great- ticularly Malaya. Telling me room mates proved to be for rheumatism.
why,
more
ly improved the efficiency of the AN ELDERLY Dublin pro- fessor at the British Asso- he said: "I think it was much more accurate in pro- He has found that cortisone Navy, an ex-Admiralty scientist
ciation meeting forgot whers seeing the transformation of dieting his possible value as fand chemicals like it slow clairned. ancient civilisations into a quite
down the growth of the skin He is MR K. F. H. MURRELL, he 100g staying. He could not new form of civilisation. Malaya an officer.
former head of the naval motion remember the name of his and other tissues. " WHEN two psychiatrista ' has the chance of developing a
study unit. He left the Admis: hostel or any details of its Split seconds
Location: Job in alty to take on a similar with new form of society, a antion no! Interview patients
University stewards did some bullt on race."
explained why jetghter bis did sulary.
smart"detective work, then put| But he was a headmaster, in mental illness, they disagree RAF chief medical scientists industry at more then double Shropshire, specialising now in their diagnoses in about plots need to be so quick to During its first give years, him in a taxi ... with his ad-
the English Literature, and the East half the cases,
unit
-ship : dress written on a slip of paper.
react.
redesigned
́by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Personally, my lord, view - the's proposal, with *grave disfavour-after all, "one doesn't want dangerous. lunatics in the. Uppar Making M