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MOSCOW—BY AN AMBASSADOR'S WIFE
Mrs KIRK takes her ear-rings off
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From such gilded scenes Mrs
RS KIRK, from Erie, A tea at Mime. Vislinsky's Was the gesture observed?
Pennsylvania, went "I really liked her and found Mrs Kirk doubts,
her pitiful with her hair dyed Soviet hands were well-down in to Moscow (1849) that cantous mahogany affected the trough."
But her last determined to keep her eyes by alterly European actresses"). thought was one of sisterly open, her powers of criti. Mme, Gusev (wife of the former dicitude: "Poor Madumis Ambasador to Briain), Gromyko must be feeling very, Soviet clam unimpaired, and her criticised American building tired his morning." spirit high, as became the plain like large boxes”—io wife of the new American Mrak. Ambassador, Admiral Kirk, Mes Kirk, who had used up all Now she has written a book her kindness on Mme. Vishinsky, called Postmarked Moscow, contented herself by nolicing that Mme. Gusov, in a monstrous compiled from letters sent hat of cabbage cases, looked like to her children in America. a provincial lady attending hor The younger Kirka, son's wedding, and that she ate Marion, Deborah and Roger, anger in the most refined possible pastries, "extending her Bttle can never have doubted that way." Moscow had put a now edge on their mother's native gift for antire.
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As she was leaving Mrs Kirk took occasion to ask. Mme. Vishinsky's young interpreter if the had learned her English in Mowow, "Oh, yes," was the arper, "I hope one day to go abroad. That would be interest- ing and helpfull" · "It would, indeed," replied Mrs Kirk.
TOO MUCH
To hear, a Russian criticising Arnesicon buildings it had been too much.
Now Russian buildings... 01% this topic Mes Kirk could write
Kirk, turns to domestic detalir. American Embassy, out of order the deep freeze cabinets, in the after a single year ¿"there seems to be no conception · of
MAG. KIRK
They must be tough,' -
nd-class English nursing of cortine.
SIBERIA
a volumna and very nearly does so: Their dirt and down-al-heel maintenance"); the difficulties ness; the slipshod way in which of buying flowers in Moscow; they are put up, only to fall the problem of Russian down again, their perpetual dis- vants. repair; the destructive feats of " HOSE whom the Yet how
"The explain the things, or even convinces itself of his article on the Tories be-
British Counsellor's gods love die young famous old men greet the birth
gaiety with which so many that it is overworked.
cause he is sitting here with Russian repair gangs.
wife tells me that she has lost You cannot be a really good me."
Climax of these horrors is the four malds this year, the That truth was of each new day?
Is it that hypochondriac unless you have He is still an urchin blowing overcrowding. Mrs Kirk in Luxembourg Minister's wife, uttered in the days they are elated at getting the lots and lots of time to think peas at top hats. His newspapers tamed because, "there do not two... No hot water, The of ancient Greece and better of the Psalmist and the about yourself, and such is the are rich and powerful, like him- appear to be great epidemics of furnace man was home, drunk Is it a power of mind over matter that self, but he still retains that disease,"
The British are down to a has been quoted throughout Insurance actuaries?
spirit of it
which can create that
fooling of the born
For, with "socialised medicine second-rate lot (of servants). the centuries. The accepted secret pride
imagines to be so.
who insists that every day's issue to the nth degree," equipment in except for
their Belgian cook, meaning is that the gods in bravado?
the best hospitals is "İlke that, who goes to bed with a bottle The scoffer may reply that is either a triumph or a disaster. their fastidiousness take I watch the 78 year old am doing nothing more than If at times he roars like Caliban of a
to console himself Could condemnation go for having come to Moscow, young people from this Churchill convulsing the House rediscovering Coue, who advised he is far more often the ageless
Puck. UCK.
The Egyptian Minister is do- world to Valhalla, perhaps with the swiftness of his report, us to say: "Every day in
games, Yet, In spite of it all, the ing his own cooking, the summoning
slumbering way I grow better and beting
He plays no more to give radiance to their
greatness of Britain to awake. That charge not truc. To thos
eithor of cards or golf, but he tusslans fall obstinately to die ཐ9འ temples.
walloping his opponent on the think constantly about your good plays the game of life as if the like flies. Mrs Kirk gives it up:
is a form of hypochondria
yet prizes have jaw, and never, never, playing health is a
must dea be won. They Bro-they the weary Titan.
in itself. The
thing to do is Sometimes I have thought that
tough people."
Where do all the servanta go? Has he perhaps some secret of. to refrain from thinking about ho creates dificulties so that
Mrs Kirk was equally obser- To Siberia, if they are unlucky. maintaining
It good health? your
at all except as an can overcome them. But when vant when she comes to describe body at
The cook at the Norwegian a diplomatic reception. may be so. Certainly he takes instrument to house the soul and the time comes for me to leave
the no exercise beyond walking from serve
Montego Bay and mind.
"The hordes had fallen on Embassy, told by the author Downing Street to the Houses of Which brings me to a problem London, I shall feel
the supper tables... I took of itles she must no longer work Parliament. Is he abatemlous? that confronts so many men of who has taken a refresher course my diamond ear-rings and put for foreigners, packed her bags. Last winter when I lunghed, with mature years today the prob in an intellectual zymnasium. them in my bag-o use losing and left for Siberla on her own him in the Queen Mary, ho lem of
Insurance ex- Some day the twilight will come
There account, Voluntary emigra- smoked three cigars and was two parts tell us that retired admirals and after that the night, but anything in that mob.
was a top on my shoulder and ton entitles the individual to Beaverbrook JUST before his 80th birthday brandies up on
will me when we normally have a brief life after until then
lived wrestle with life like a champica Gromykowhom
a cordial greeting Mme. keep his or her passport."; lunched at his country house finally parted.
retirement. They have
Min Kirk with Lloyd George, for it is im-
actively and healthily but have who rejoices in his strength and had met a year before."in a To escape from the servants possible to write or think of him
sanitation and the never been trained for inaction. in his skill.
plum silk dress reminiscent in and the Earl
Lloyd George. Almost TOT long ago I went to the The will to live must be founded CENTENARIAN
style and cut of my Great Aunt speeches at Communist Party attacked 25 the only sign
railler (America old age was that Lord of
Mayor's Inaugural
on the desire to live, and the his most vivid memories were of Banquet at vast Guildhall desire to live must be based on BUT we must not imagine that Fanny who died in 1920,′′. **
tanes Britain, 2) Mrs. Kick D this gift of youthful old where, the personalities in the 1914 war
by tradition, the the adventures
would, from time to time, leave SOLICITUDE to men or to instead of the Hitler wer which Prime Minister of the
age is confined day mind.
Moscow on one of the four instead of had opened with such sluggish speaks on foreign affairs, Bernard Shaw owned a loan those who are sustained by
From Mme. Gromyko, Mra roada "permitted to diplomais ness. His wit was as caustic as The Lord Mayor, being a body and had never played any the ambrosia of success. when it riddled the Tories in youn
Youngish man, wisely used the games, but the burning flame of member of Parlament I went Kirk's eye passes on to take in (48 hours' notice necessary),
Marshal Budenny "tossing down the other Saturday to
Once the ventured as far, në glass after glass," when it respects to one of my
Leningrad: room (dirty) and
Yet there are philosophers who contend that the Greeks meant something quite different, "Surely," they say, "there can be only one meaning to those worda-that those whom the gods love die young, no matter at what age death,comes."
as
SPARKLING
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As a
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But it 19
Churchill spoke his mind kept him alive until 10 of merriment still made his eyes towards it but that was all. The he was over ninety, sparkie, and there was Welsh vibrance of his voice would have grew tired of his worn out body. constituents who was celebrating time. for the American contin- bath (no hot water), 64 dollars
to quit the reception. music in his voice.
filled
hall without Once when I was an editor i her centenary. The Mayor also gent On the wall was an attractive adventitious aid.
asked him to write an article for care, but was she impressed by "Dad" (Admiral Kirk) bad for the afternoon. It was more this visitation of offelaldem? If told us we were all to leave than she could bear, "I got into tho train arid went to sleep Mediterranean painting and I
then begin to discover my newspaper. Can
In answer he the M.P. and the Mayor came to after 45 minutes, the some usked the name of the artist, some quality which is charac- sent back a postcard on which he her party she did not mind, but length of time
the Soviets exhausted by sheer rape." "Oh, he's promising young teristic of all these men that I had scribbled: "Don't waste she knew quite well that they stayed at our reception...CULT fellow," said L. G. with a twinkle have mentioned? In Churchill, time on the setting sun.
am could not
G. M. Thomson steal the limelight watches were synchronised." in his eyes. "You ought to get Lloyd George and Samuel there 78 today." But the sun was not from her. to know him. His name is is to be found merriment, reck- disappear for a long time.
Five daughters, ranging from Winston Churchill."
even a suggestion lessness and
TELEPHONE -70 to 80 years of age, looked When he came
like a telephone. The cursed Grandsons, granddaughters and NOMETIMES I feel that life is after her with the care that the young always show to the old. thing rings when one is in the great-great-grandchildren litter- bath or is having an important ed up the house..
will
ion of out to the bravado and deflance. This does however to John
temporaries.
age.
the
Never
They "Took" The Crown Jewels
—BUT NOT FOR KEEPS
terrace to say goodbye, his face not apply has treated every became serious, and his voice Simon, who took on a harsh imperious note, thing, including the years, with "I don't like this phoney war," a dignified respect. he said. "We have not yet got One might think that there is talk, or trying to complete some With the Instincts of the re- to grips with the enemy. We something about political life task against the clock. We curse porter I asked for the secret of should not leave the decision to which keeps men alert, physically it for an ill-mannered intruder her long life and good health. Hiller. We should impose our and mentally, beyond rollti-knock, but bursts upon our a little mumblingly, but with their con- visitor that does not even "Live in London,” she answered, on him." It was the last time I saw him, clans live an irregular life which privacy.
cbvious pride. "Never been out ROBERTSON, WILSON & CO., LTD. for a tle later the gods decided may postpone the hardening of But the telephone that never of London in my life.
that they needed his youthful arteries, but they are not the rings! There it squats in its wanted to be." spirit. He was eighty years of only exponents of vibrant old funereal black like a mute by Although the Mayor and I THE first pictures of the
Some of the team of helpers age, but he died young Indeed
That pictures of the worked all day in the small cell graveside. Its very dumbness had to go, the party went on for there are detractors who say that It has been argued that lack is more strident than the loudest hours, the climax being reached
in which Henry VI was once when a telegram of congratulacial press photographers imprisoned, unleading and re- he died too young for his years. of exercise is a great preservative and most irritating ring.
Birt
arrived and conserver of energy.
When the questing mind has Next day the old Indy died, Fer are due to bo released for loading
from the Queen, SECRET?
photographers' is that true? The 85-year-old lost its curiosity, when the sense THERE was a great celebration. Toscanini turned up not long ago of adventure has left the veins, hundred years had reached a publication in newspapers slides, In all, they made some in London a few weeks ago at the Festival Hall, rehearsed when music and great argument from the Queen, and the tributes the United Kingdom early each man doing nearly 200 glorious end with a telegram and magazines throughout portant pieces in the collection, to celebrate the 82nd birthday of the orchestra for three hours no longer stimulate....then life Viscount Samuel, who has been and
them
community, to say conducted then
at becomes
dumb of the like a mute,
nothing of a visit from the this month, after a team Ektachromes and 200 black and Liberal leader in the House of night. Roughly speaking. telephone. The line is dead,
fellow, of London cameramen had white negativas. They operated Lords for a number of years. would say that the strain of
alfamately, one re-loading, his This winter I shall make my Mayor and the other
whoever he was
undergone the most gruel- camera white the other tool: a On this occasion the great 80- such a day would be the usual pilgrimage to America sund year-old Lord (John) Simon equivalent of three rounds of
will
Her life was centred in her ling peacetime assignment picture. Some test colour "shots". stay
for a few days in expanding family, in her little
were taken first, and while these made a
a witty speech, but it was golf on a championship course. Jamaica with my old friend,
were being prepared black and nothing to the galety and sparkle IRRESISTIBLE Lord Beaverbrook How will my garden, and in the sprawling In Fleet Street history.
The metropolis of London,
white exposures усте taken of Samuel's reply.
host 73-year-old political service (for he was in Sir Thomas Becchem, who is known
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The team was led by are. until noon. All manner of pic- "Did he, Samuel, plead long AS for that irresistible gamin, cannot say, for I have only days and the years had brougcameramen Alfred Harris and dies ware takɛn "to, sult. in- the Commons before going to the a mere 73 and has yet to attain years, this much is certain. On foolish of Hitler to think he behalt
women like that about, it was to "shoot the Crown Jewels on ments.
of the entire
But
the
for thirty-three multiplying of interests, With R.R. Tanner, whose mission was dividual, newspapers" require-
dobate the Political render.
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Belish
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Upper House), and did he wax the calor of maturity, he would sentimental, or indulge in the think nothing of conducting the way to swim in the gentle could bomb London into surpress for the first time in 20 luxury
of memories?. He did Gotterdammerung from 6.30 to waters of Montego Bay we shall
years. The estimated cost of the with perhaps an hour off, fiercely none of these things, He flashed 11p.m.,
TENACITY
day's coverage was in the region situation of Britain,
of £300, or argue his keen mind upon the sport. It is true that nature has made about newspapers, until he is met PERHAPS no one has ever ex scene of today and made
So exacting were the condi- of it. The past was for older ita protest by giving Beacham by his secretary who will hand plained this tenpelty of the tions under which the two men
gout, but even it temporarily him day's men than him.
message from hir
Winlari Mulock. It was in I have not summoned Lloyd disappears under the mesmerism editors in London. There will ears better than the fato Bworked that, they were almost tens concerned. There was not George from the other side of of Wagner's music.
also be newspapers
ers from London, 1941 that I saw him in Canada out on their doet through sheer sufficient room the River Styx or Samuel from Therefore, I think we have now and he will sit in the sun and for the last time, on the eve of sinuous work. All through the a
Ume. the Upper House merely as summoned sufficient evidence to roar loud praise at a good ploco his 18th birthday. We had had veterasis who defied the Paalmist, agree on one or two conclusions of writing or curse the failure a dinner party of men, and sales of weste
rules of procedure imposed upon obtained
foron had to be 345-ton daržom I want to know what it is that Why, for example, can Toscanini of an editor to put a case forci- much to Mulocks disappoint them by security requirements, room van to enter the Tower—
tenacity of and Beecham hurl themselves at fully enough,
others went gave to them this
home. at about eleven o'clock hardly pausing for refreshment,, the first time in tilatory # pala URCHIN the years. All of us who are of an orchestra for hours at a time on without collapsing from fatigue?
So we sat up together, and except for an occasional modest vate vehicle was thus allowed
cup of tea and, cowards the end › to remain inside the gates: women borri and Journey of The answer must be that music, RACK at his lovely villa ho asked him also for his secret of the session, constant whiffs of
road which at point
Up" sekswhen **
Another no return. There is no turning plus the exellement of conduct- alt before his dictaphone is always get a bang out of online
the gates" comments on things," he answered.
For the whole 15 hours the were opened for the back. There is indeed no
Volicie, to Rkh and poor;;sick and healthig, insulates, the body from the and deliver wise
the newspapers he has studied. mind.
In other words—at least I have Then ideas will pour from him in end our homile had better team was under the host strict leave AFTER the Ceremony of in the and female, wo say
supervision and guard. They the Kers. And the team tad to on 24 hours it is so-a a torrent. If 'I am in. the roon. live the old soGEN
day. I been-assured that
were not allowed to touch, a be at the. Tower suitably armed contend that Euripedes Hingle Jewel and any required with two specially isfied, pastes "One sweetly colemn thought muscle does not tire until the he very likely to say to the sull
the young
inheart re-grouping had to be done by one from the Lord Chamber" Comes to me o'er and o'er: brain sends it a message to that distophone. "Mr Baxter shotad meant
off An Idie mind that is not go to Russia. He always writes when he proclaimed the pre- the Crown Jeweller. Both Harris «tain's office, and, the old grom I am nearer hema today
is travelling ference of the gods, and not and Tanner were so "purich Than I've ever been before." occupied must do something, so better, when he At least that is what we should it suggests to the heart that it Or equally he might say "ir only those who have been cut drunk towards the end of the Botland Yard Plurk say, for it is trucy and it is 'is' in bad shape or tells the Baxter does not like criticism, off by an untimely frost in the day they had to warn ancha oshine.
think, springtime-of thez: Kresg sarines double exposure, Indeed a sworlly solemn thought, stomach that it is overdoing so i shall not say what
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