EVEREST CHANCES GOOD
From ERNEST ASHWICK
THE
Geneva.
British Mount Everest expedition has every chance of being the first to reach the top of the world when it makes its attempt in a few months' time, thanks to the wealth of data handed over by the Swiss.
This is the idea of the six-man Swiss team which has now returned home after falling to reach Everest's summit.
Said Dr Gabriel Cheval- ley, the 30-year-old leader of the team, "Many faults, mishaps and time lags that have delayed other expedi tions or affected the moral of the sherpas can be avoided. Better equipment can now be produced as result of past experiences. The main problem they face, though, remains the weather.
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1953.
"He said 'Happy New Year' to everyone we met and when they'd gone a little way past he said 'and I hope you fall down a hole'"
WM.
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London Express Service
Quality Variety Value
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up the. of eating
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baked by
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BARKLEY:
HE politician of the year? If the test is newspaper space the name i a Aneurin Bevan. Not that
Thirty-eight-year-old | he fled so much space with Raymond Lambert, another his own speeches but that of
busines1.
faith
in
As the Americans tot up the those rare and moving docu- advantages of sharing their ments that restore atomic wrapons' sécrets with human courage and the Christ- Britain the bait which, attracta lan way of life. them most Is Penney's brilliant brain.
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or
50,
the team's members, he induced others to DUKE, not because he is about of every showman and artist Mr Robert Henrey ought to be
strersed that the success of the British team will de- mad on their physical fit-
They burst into They emerge briefly. lasting fame and sparkle for a day.... They uy the foundations of a generation's respect and love.... Who are THEY? The men and women who win the public's eye in any your. Would you agree with these for 1952?
1062-29-year-old, GEOFFREY show the nearest thing to perfection is a ring inolor-cycle. but because, having refused to ride for the Italians, he decided he would sill race for Britain as If the test is concrete-- a novice in motor racing.
other building
nume materials-the
ANNE EDWARDS: Harold Macmillan. He is the present darling of the
moré space about him last year than any other M.P. But what does it come to?
and mountaincering | Nothing concrete.
"You cannot experience. take the men to a spot for the final assault by hover-and
been plane
hus
suggested. The. men must acclimatise themselves to
the different heights. This acclimatisation takes ten to fifteen days and must be ace:mplished, otherwise they would never down alive.
come
"Hoverplants can be used to earry the tens of material n. ry 15 the base camp; this would avoid tedious marching with 200 hired coolles. But from there on, the men must climb slowly to get uned to the rarified air and physical efforts demanded,
"I the British team~-goes- before the monsoon period in spring it will meet with heavier Know then after the mansoon but the temperature will be better. And they will face the danger of the monson breaking earlier than usual, which would spell disaster.
"If they go after the monsoon the snow will be harder but the
I
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was to entice him back to the box office window.
I do not name Alec Guinness
digi
but
cinemas
CECIL SMITH:
N the wide world of Bri-` tial music and ballet,
who made the year's pro-
foundest contribution?
or
•
NANCY SPAIN:
OULD you, perhaps,
man choose the woman who wrote the The efforts most books in 1952? If
Was It Margot Fonteyn. who danced with such sustained high on your list, with a score brilliance in "Sylvia"? No, be- of three completed last year, caure this ballet showed us no and all of them of a high stanically fresh aspect of her artis- Ahun dard, although he did more
con- Or would you pick the book any other British Delor
Or such conductors as Sir for that took you weeks and weeks quer Americans
Mal- enjoyed John Barbirolli and Sir Betleh lims.
Claire to read because you Ncr
wanted colm Sargent, who confer dis- Bicent,
om, who is the most over every word of it and
our orchestral emphasised actress of any year. It to last for ever, like caviar? linction
or maste? No, because neither of My vote goes to the man who Then either Martin Boyd
not change
ange his style in 25. Joree Cary would get my per them dared to be adventurous
in Bie music he played. Y POSSIBLES: The
brought
variety au- sonal crown....
To my mind, the arst.excit To my mind, one artist sitr- nuchers of Kent. Uiences, 100-conscicus of cine
passed all the rest. She playe bechuse she has got ma glamour, back to applauding ing Elizabethan Year nects
Beethoven ccacerlos back into the place the held by British warmth, tenacity, and young writer to represent it, all five
one who has written a best and made cach one a bonedle- the news before her husband
robust carthy comedy..
tion of beauty. We tend to take More, he taught the man who seller. fedt...and it's nice to see her
stayed at home to listen Twenty-eight-year-old RUS- for, granted her great art and farget ruinly - all great, humanity, and to speech there.
Alan....because British rongs during the Sun- GELL BRADDON she gave a jolt to the dreary day lunch haur radio pro- these conditions. And I shall to thank her adequately.
"The Woman never forget his book,
of 1952. a solid basis of hard work usewives who imagine
It is one of DAME MYRA HESS. to so nice get which made him expert in It must be
Man of 1952 dil 11. Naked Island.** and appear on that by remaining as unspoil- the administration of the amorised social services, although he luge-when it's really so much as a four ale bar with saw-
enviable more
to be able to dust on the floor. He is BILLY held no official post. He put
put your feet up on Sunday COTTON. seized the chance to grapple afternoon, in verbal combat with the terror of the Tories, the Bame Aneurin Bevan,
Tories, called in aid when they are in difficulties.
But I choose a man who sprang to fame, last year in one night on one To found his career he had
M
Elizabeth
that gramme.
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which TT was. n year in
tear ruled the dim busl- "ness," and "icc-cream-sales in the stalls (rather than star qualty on the screen)
MY CHOICE LADY (KEN- NETH
she LEONARD MOSLEY; CLARK-because did her job of keeping Landon
map fashion designers on the more spectacularly than anyone In just five weeks my could-have-
have hoped.
curtsy Iter
sensational choice, at the age of 38. to royalty was so
unknown that it was published in every jumped back - bencher to Front newspaper, front-paged on one, cartooned by another, became a Bench Privy Councillor and topic of conversation among £4,000 a year Minister of women, Henith.
The
from
name? IAIN
made the difference between success and failure.
Except in one case. One Olm the suddenly burst through murk, with a supersonic crack. qualities
MACLEOD, Tory MP for FREDERICK ELLIS: to show the shining
West Enfield.
winds, will be strong and the ROBERT CANNELL: temperature very slow.
ONE
NE warm, vivid, human "Al50, the days will be personality stands out shorter, so the distances will
from the year's TV as the take a longer time, to cover.
one I cannot forget.
"Making a start at either time has a drawbacks, but it is possible to reach the top of Everest in both seasons-with a great amount of luck."
On the question of oxygen apparatus, Lambert said that it must be remembered that if the team starts using oxygen at low levels then for more uxygen and heavy equipment must be taken up.
If the oxygen were not used until the greater heights wẹrê, reached, the amount of equip ment carried would be far less. But the men would be in such state that even with a weak
oxygen they would not have the strength necessary to climb the last 900 feet.
This decision must be taken: by the leader of the expedition after considering existing atmo
spheric conditions and all
Physical factors. On
his decision
depend may well whether the expedition
sue- ceeds or falls."
. Lambert sald that all his ex- perience was at the service of this British if they desired It. Asked if he would try again, ho said: "Yes, I would go again asked, but for the moment pust start to do some work. I have got to livet"
Her rise in twelve months from occasional in- terviewing to the status of a major star with pro- grammes specially designed to sult her talents is sen- sational enough.
But look at the subjects of those programmes! Mental health, unmarried motherhood, deafness. all injuries to body and soul of the kind that TV would not touch before it found her talent.
Now there is a waiting audience of millions each time she faces the cameras. JEANNE HEAL'S merit is that she has brought some- thing new to television- and something which does not exist anywhere clec,
BASIL CARDEW: THREE men come to my mind as candidates for Man of 1952 in my field of action. They are:
John Cobb, who died testing
in
aircases
American-held- world-
speed record
of.
and high fullment of a great Ali.
and TNTO the City's foll It had the excitement
Jame and fortune for sincerity of genuine entertain- 1052 must go Jack Bill- ment. It had brillant per- And mitr, the dapper, dark shipping formances from its stars, nagmate: He started life on 8s. Todd and Sir Ralph Richard- a week. He started 1952 by sen; it had a story In keeping making £1,422,000 tax free by with our scientific age, written by master-hand Terence Ras- zelling ships:
Sir Patrick Hennesty goes thean; it had tingingly lovely re the record. He clipped car camera work, especially in the
Ope
man, a tirector, brought ments of EC.2. But the man all these qualities and achieve- the naricial year walks in ments together, called the re- Westminster, S.W.1.
sult "The Sound Barrier.” HE raised the Bank rate....
The name is DAVID LEAN. HE
bank clipped
overdrafts Man of 1952 in Elms. tight....HE and made money slashed Imports....HE balanced our payments oversees...
These men strut the
closed the dollar gap.. halted the gold drain.
Dave-
HE
air.
"HE made himself feit from Bodmin to Buckle. BUTLER friends. CHANCELLOR to us ສ.
for What a year, man.
is the nome, "RAD"・ to his T
what
TREVOR EVANS:
A
CHAPMAN PINCHER:
THE Sélentist of 1952
has been so outstand- ingly successful that his nomination is automatic.
knighted I give you newly A
BIR WILLIAM PENNEY, designer of Britain's atom bornh and chief architect of the Monte Bello test which proved its power to the world.
LAN BIRCH is my Man
of 1932 In the trades unions. At 43 he
Is young as trade union-elicia
go. But he gets my medal noti ARTIE'S HEADLINE for his age but for his inde- pendence.
His 350,000 strong Union of Allici Shop, Distributive and Workers, you may recall, went
What is remarkable is -that
"Bevanite" last year.
younger mem,'-
despite this kick agathat orig his doxy Birch has retained his unknown:
on the speedboat Crusader, His only own personal prestige object was to win back the general council of the TU.C.
Nearly all the elder water
Elates. men of the T.U.C. will be out
through
retirement Bike Hawthorn, 24 years old, of office now, whose rise to racing stor/within five years. They will be om in six months-has never Birch has shown they need not
succeeded by The cost of the second Swies een bottered,
be afraid to think for expedition was £20,000. One Leopard Lærd, El. In his sherpa and two coolin lost anties, a business dynambi who selves. › their lives. Eight tons of has no political ambitions, material were taken up and 250, whose down-to-earth speech, at cpolies employed to carry the Motor Show time shocked all minteriál on the #22-day-" márch || but those who accept the from IChatmandu to the base truth. But I
pass over these to pick Noréng the Men - of
them-
DAVID LEWIN:
T
THE man in the quilience ¿who stayed at home was "the "Man of 1952. for
“...und the Hollywood film star and her fourteenth husband, Elves 'happily ever
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