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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 27, 1952.
Coronation Radio
;
By ROBERT CANNELL
London.
ALL-EMPIRE Coronation
broadcasts will be discussed
by radio chiefs from zoven Com- monwealth countries. It will be the first radio conferenet seven years.
for
The B.B.C. will act no host, and officials from South Africa,
DIAMOND
New York.
HARRY
The map who sedur tho
World for
gems would
Buvor 'waar: One la his tis-pla
stuff that gave his friends their
Na second floor office by Frederick Cook Hving Ho worshipped Bigness.
on. New York's East
51st Street, sand-
the romantic and-in-a-million gens ho read about but seldom
It was the depressiori ydura
wiched between a ham. Winston of East Glat Street saw. India, Pakistan, Australia burger restaurant and the to secure the Angola gems. that got his feet on the ladder. Canado, New Zealand, and headquarters of g Left- Ceylon will take part. Plans
already being made for wing trade union, there sits zelf, and for most of the core in London or Amsterdam, Coronation sometimes when he is not monies which will follow.
are
broadens of the
Angola's last report, lesu. Many private collections were
friends know. Winston bought, ed in Lisbon, reiterated that coming on the market, though
through the Oppenheimer which has Portuguese diamonds would the owners would not let their continus to be marketed and learned the art of secrecy
The Empiro will share in Kimberley or. Rloi, man interests. And yet Mr Hy since rounded every
many of the special programmes marking Coronation year, And it is likely that Britain will also hear broadcasts from the E- pire countries.
TV s preparing for its biggest-ever programme
schedule. Orders have been placed for micro-wave relay phite so umat mobile TT teams may televise royal tours of the provinces and important celebra- ions.
to
the trade they say now, ""It' with a face so valuable that winston apparently believes you put down the money for a it is never photographed.
His insurers Lloyd's of he stands a chance. It is not 30-carat diamond, sure, I can denied that negotiations are get it for you. But in this London like it. that way.
country. I have to go Winston." They do not want the inter going un.
In the New York diamond- He 15 the specialist in the big national jewel thieves to get market, it is widely believed stones and big customers. Ho too familiar with the fea that the trump card in the will concede that his collection'
behind the electrically-locked tures of Harry Winston, din secret game now being play- burred dopra of his place on East mond denler,
ed out is that Winston is 51st Street is only the world's Winston has been the offering Portugal payment the glittering display in the second best, that it ranks below ee Post Office has been ask-nwner at one time or an- in dollars instead of sterling Tower, which he never falla to ed to make arrangements for other of a collection of gems and hopes thus to capture study when he is in London and Joining programmes to the TV surpassed in value only by some or all of the Angola has a spare hour between aero- network at any point.
the British Crown Jewels.
planes. But in a rare talkative To extend the range of the New he is embarked on the
moment he once said. "The mobile cameras, receiving
Kings and Queens of England "bowls" will be mounted on the biggest campaign of a-life-
have been: collecting for -500 glant aerial masts of TV time filled with dramatic THERE is widespread be years and I've been at it only ctations.
lief, too, that he is asking 34. And I'm entirely, on Pictures "flung over inter-coups. He is waging pay- vening hills will be picked up chological warfare with the the Portuguese Government own. No loyal subjects to pre by the bowls for brontlcasting. De Beers diamond syn- direct to override the Angola sent me with gems"
Special TV Aims will also bodicate hended by his old company's arrangement with made, either by newsreel cameras or from the TV screen, friend 72-year-old Sir Ernest De Beers..
to all TV
tion.
production.
AT THE TOP
competitive
SILENCE IN oplic
my
of this handicap Winston owns--or did until These will be made available Oppenheimer, whose place It would not be the first
especial- organisations,
baubles as the Jonker diamond ly to Canada where TV is ex- he wants one day to occupy tinie this thick-set, dark- recently such celebrated pected to begin later this year as Number One man in the haired man of Gft. 9in. has 1027 carats in the rough state); and Australia, which may have world's most selective luxury started the trade. He is at the Vargas (728 carata), largest TV by June 1953.
trade.
the pinnacle or almost found in the world since the Cullinan in 1905; the 442-carat The films WB1 go into the
It is a bitter, if oficially of one of the world's most
diamond, the "unlucky" B.B.C.'s archives as a complete
alquely-coloured sapphire-blue picto.ial record of the Corona-undeclared, gentlemen's war. under cover
bently once worn by Marle The prize is the diamond businesses.
Antoinette. output of Portugal's rich At 15 Harry Winston
Who buys such trifles in this veins in her West African started work in the shop of age? Neither Winston nor his colony of Angola, which pro. his father, a small retail trained to silenco atoff will Buy duce eight per cent of the jeweller. At 18 he launch answer such questions. total world supply.
ed out for himself in the s safe for life. But, they say, from Winston and your secret. wholesale trade, on the New "there most definitely 逗 York diamond exchange. market. In fact, Ane gem This was and still is stones sell rather quickly the
days, and at quite satisfactory
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DOLLAR BAIT FOR years now. De Beers
have controlled the quan rough-and-tumble; sort. of prinston goes on buying
these
By the
nt
tity and price of diamonds place, where a dealer armed, that reach the markets of with a small wad of cash rate of many millions of dollars and a banker's good opinion, over the world watching for every year. He has scouts all the world,
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer may buy a atone in the stones that he come on the has an agreement (it still morning for four or five market Hos factorie for. has four years to go) with thousand dollars often 90 cutting and polishing: he tuppilas top Jewellers in a scoru the Angola producers where percent on credit and find of countries. by Portugal's diamonds are a buyer that afternoon, net- sold only through De Beers. ting 40 or 50 dollars for him
Sir Ernest is on the board self. The man with poor of the Angola company, and judgment is soon ploughed
under controls many shares, all of which seems to suggest that From the start, Winston was
not much laterested in the run it will prove hard for Harry of-the-mill brooch and ring
-HOW FIT ARE YOU?
ADOLPHE DEBUNKS SOME HEALTH FADS
\(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
667OU'RE looking very to carry
YOU'RE
**
be
In
Gir
the
.
Winston hardly ever stays more than a day or two in any he received a transatlantic tele- phone call at three o'clock, left the office at 3.18 without saying where he was going. He walk- ed in again at nine o'clock on Wednesday
morning, having
one place. On a recent Monday-
been to, London to see "an Indian gentleman. In his pocket was a packet of stones whose value and whose source are his secret still.
BRAZIL FIND COME years ago a two-line Ditem in a New York paper caught his cyn—a report of u tremendous find In Brazil, He
did. nat. wait for confrmation, but was Rio-bound by air with in the hour. When he got there the stone had already been sold to a dealer in Holland and was on the way to Amsterdam by ship.
Winston flew there and paced An hour his room for days, after the diamond arrived he had it, and the buyer had his cheque for a reputed 700,000 That was dollars (£250,000).
how he became the owner of the Vargas, since cut up into an undisclosed number of jewel- lery-size gems.
on his occupation to though he admits that as a re I fit," is the usual greet the best of his ability and with creation dancing is not to ing friends and colleagues the greatest happiness, Fitness despised.
means satisfactory adjustment It is commonly believed that offer to us when we return to one's environment."
short a
spell of strenuous from holiday. It helps us to The last sentence is impor- exercise Arst thing in the morn
tant, because there are soma ing induces a feeling of vigour. get over our feeling of hor- ror at the thought that 11 people who choose for them- People who have dificulty
selves very, unusual environ- dragging themselves out of bed months so of work ments--the upper ice slopes of will
or
warmly support
Is there a lucky Mrs Winston? the lowest Adolphe's contention that it separates us from the moun- Mount Everest,
Indeed there is, and two sons. likely to do exactly of caves, the cookpils of more
the But she does not wear the Hope Fitness, depths tains or the sea.
guntested acroplanes flying at vast opposite.
diamond when she goes out to we feel; may carry heights and
and fantastic speeds,
The
theory that cold baths dine. She has some
·Jowel- through, if anything can, For these specialists, as well improve stress also comes in lery" is all that Mr Winston has
So with teeth set we decide
for
serious athletes, the dor some questioning, Si authorised his staff to admit, to keep fit from now on-to achievement of fitness racans Adolphe admits that though he just the ordinary sort of thing watch our diet, to smoke less, hard training and great mental himself is an addict, he catches normal for A women in her Nothing to take more exercise, to cul- application. For
bracket. the average cold no loss often than those financial ilvate equanimity.
the way is much easier.
who ha
have never had a cold bath special." While the holiday mood still
in their lives
As for Harry Winston him- lingers
DAILY DOZEN we may make Bome
Nobody can keep it without self-he wears no jowellery, not a diamond ile-pin or a progress. But by the middle of
The average man will, for in enough sleep, and fortunately even be
Not that he disapproves next month most of us will
“just, living the same old unhygienic stance, be relieved to learn that most of us know quite well the ring. life that we are used to and Sir. Adolphe is no great sup- amount of sleep which sults us of bejewelled men, He
so porter of the "dally
blame that seems to suit us not
even
If we regularly cut down himself, that's all." badly.
on of sleep, people the absolute neglect
exercise socms of uny form
The main reason why athletes consistent with
with perfect well in training have to go early to from being: and he quotes, without bed is to keep them away fro
un- tempting but unhygienic ways violent disapproval,
of amusing themselves,
The
author'a advice
HIS ADVICE
man
admits that He best. We have only ourselves to doesn't, happen to care for it
an
Come
about
It would be hard to find a subject about which more non- named celebrity as saying that sense has been written than the whenever he felt like diet strikes me as full of sound Biness, exercise he was accustomed sense. There is nothing in the cultivation of physical Let me therefore draw your at-.lle tention to pomcope who does
AD
to
on until the feeling pais idea that special foods confer|
opinion special benefits on athletes. Cer not write nonsense Sir Adolphe In Sir Adolphe's
(Once he Abrahams,
the cuused walking 15
fundamental anty a well-balanced diet is be all-important to health, but horrified astonishment by me- exercise, because it Con
no need to be too Resting that
Decasional graduated to suil the physical there is
about our present cigarette, might help, rather than capacity of the individual, from pealmistic
rations, hinder an athlete.)
the feeble and elderly to the Sir Adolphe, who has been full-blooded athlete,
COMMON SENSE honorary medical adviser to A great many of us who think
Bir Adolphe's opinion, and i British Olymple athletic teams going for a walk is an insipid
absorbed is authoritative, is that British aince 1012 and is the best known form of exercise are
golf ball. athletes are at no disadvantage athletes' doctor in Britain, bas by walking after now brought together bis Ideas The concentration requiret for in International competition
takos the mind All in all, Ariens is a matter
mind because of about physical fitness in a book every stroke take
of food restrictions. called "tines for the Average of the worrice which so odien common
it.
schso, Most of ui Man' (Christopher Johnson,
svoll who like to exercled are perfectly wel
of those *People, who
aware 10. 04.).
Fitness,
Ess, broadly speaking, by modern dancing will be dis- aspects of our vos mental as ancans feeling well. Sir Adolphe appointed to learn that as well as physical which are profers a more elaborate defini- form of musnular movement: is insatisfactory. Only tow can tion, Fitness be writes, har little value.urthermore, e contented and it without that state of mental and physicals Sir Adolphe canyw, with; truth some coerciad in, the frealsit well-belog which enabica a man, tint little tack theshabitual and willout-apperumilles
relax to take bir place as a citizen and, sociations are myslenie
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