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HE MADE A LAST GAMBLE
34From
Ernest Ashwick
Lausanne.
MAN who 40 years ago vas known ДН the world's greatest gambler: ark who won and lost for- tucs in night's play has lost his last gamble.
Jo bet a nurse who was looking after him that he would live until May, He was buried in the last week of April he Lausanne.
is-name was Zourphos. He was 67.
Nicholas
Nicholas, who first saw the light of day in Greece, left his homeland, when still a youth, for Molite, Curlo, the alittering lights and the big money.
Teut T Jub at the Monte Carl chin and rapidly made MS WEY H
to the chair of croup.br. Watching other people Win And lose fortunes at the wheel or on the turn of n eard started Nicholas off on a life of rembling
He left Monte Carlo with his pockets filled with money that. he had earned, or won playing baccarat in the early hours of the morning with friends after the casibo had closed,
Went To Play
I went to Deauville, but not to work. He went to play. Night after night gay Nicholas would be at the roulette tables orf at the baccarat tables, and
night after night he won.
He soon became well known
to the employees of the casino,
as
he always gave enormous.
tips to them--in remembrance,
of the lime when he himself
thanked the ellents for the frants they
hey put in the em-
ployees' box.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1953.
"Sir Winston's not the only one up all night looking after our interests, is ho?!
London Express Service
Barmaids,
All Over 40,
Can't Hide
Johannesburg.
Tis illegal to buy matches in a public- house in South Africa, they give them away. Lemons are not lemon- green, and coloured but
The rich and the mighty from all over the world who rpent time and lots of money In theenacinos of Europe knew Nicholas well. His became
name byword in the gambling so Tooms-of France and Italy,
Ha courage and his luck alware seemed to hold, and the Fabulous Nicholas Zographos there is a tax on lemonade. was always in funds and ready And here's some more 10 lend a thousand francs or 30 to employees of the casino, but incidental intelligence about this country that I do not. refused ally to len
lend one single
frane to any other gambler. suppose they taught you at
He was always ready to bet school.
Last Wish
ox or
You can almost 'say you have boon there
If you have Fun Finding Out with
· BERNARD WICKSTEED
....
they have to get their hus-
*
OWN
Their
barmaids could continue their golf in
Age
Nor
of
Cape Province trade, but there must be no new Sundays (but they do). ones.
So all the survivors are may they sell newspapers well over 40, a fact they cannot cigarettes (but they do that conceal,
100).
FINANCE: Threepenny - Bits
On the Vaal river you can are called telties and you use Whisky is 29s. 0d, a bottle, and stronger than ours, Good flah from one bank on Sunday them in telephone boxes. A ticky cigarettes are 3s. d. for 60 but not from the other. Anglers is the lowest fare on a bus or and tobacco (not so good) is say the feh know this and act tram, Taxis are twice as exper- about a shilling an ounce... Accordingly.
TRANSPORT
ONE BOWLER
sive as at home, but you need only a penny starp on a receipt. SPORT: They cancel Soccer when it rains
There is'n fish fito, cod called 4 "seventy-four," and li you are sluck for conversation all you ask why. Nobody need do is
CLOTTIES: Men put water- BUREAUCRACY (pone mad), on anything; fine weather, the LANGUAGE: An Afri- bands permission to open a seems to know.
Modern flats have no dining proof edyers on their hats when When oranges are plentiful the movements of a fly, the type of kaner is a person, but an banking account. At least, rooms and you cat in the hall it rains. Spivs wear, wind jam price is controlled, but when cigarette nn unknown client
they do if they have not just inside the front door. mers and bell-bottomed trousers, they are scarce it is not, was smoking. Everything was a Afrikander is an
contract before reason to bet to this man, who cow, Africans from outside signed a
There is only one bowler hat CURRENT NEWS: My paper earned the title of the world's the Union
called marriage saying they will are
contains items about an elephant In Johannesburg. It is worn by shot
on a greatest gambler,
COWS verandah, 23 "foreign natives," and "hou keep control of their
Jack Sharp, 70-year-old stolen, and 2,000,000 red-billed Otherwise they property. links" means "keep left."
THE AFRICANS: They are mining house messenger, He weavers or inches killed by A shop is a "winkel" and are considered to have mar-
never called Africans and they gets a new one sent out from dynamite in Northern Transvaal. to beat the Italians to gain white people are "blankes." ried "in community." have to buy their liquor from England every three years,
WEATHELL: -Johannesburg control of a chain of French The plural-for a gentleman Ahusband married in the municipal council..
-gets-720-more-hours of sunshine Pustmen always have a Kamr AMUSEMENTS: The cinemas a year than the French Rivieta, years had a lot of shares in the is "here," a word that has community can say to
its conveniences, and the wife: "What's yours is to carry their bags,
are called bioscopes and have 'bui in ten days I have seen only Africans cannot go on a bus no continuous performances. So about four hours of it, For the last few years, in speed of sound is "snelheid mine and what's mine is my
Ilved alling health, he
in van klank.” -
He' can even go to or a train unless accompanied the phrase "This is where
by a while person. They have came In" means nothing to a to carry a pass to be out after South African....
p.m. unless they have a form collect her wages.
of exemption. Then they
He helped a Greck syndicate
cusings: He himself In Inter
Monte Carlo casino,
own."
his
Switzerland, where he lad been English-speaking South his wife's employer and undertreatment. He was operated on recently and accord Africans say "Look here, ind to the
at man," or "I'm telling you, where he was living man," even if they are talk
the hotel staff
Lo have known that heling to a woman.
hel
was dyinga
a final
Yet in his lust hours he took bet that he would live unul May, What the stakes were Is not own, but Nicholas will never be able to pay.
♫
have A widow may marry her
but
to carry that to show they need husband's brother,
not carry a pass. divorced woman may not. An African who was recently held up for crossing the street
BEST END
British
GEOGRAPUT: Newcastle is FOOD & DRINK: You can get against the traffic lights said he a calmining lown in Natal, but
named after green peas all the year round paw all the Europeans crossing it was (but they are not as tasty as when the light was green so he lord and not. after the town ours). Gin L 109. l. a bottle, thought as an African he had to upon Tyne Newmarket is o at Johannesburg, and there are only two barmaids cross when it was red,
• racecourse in Johannesburg.
but Kempton Park is an airfield. not The east end of Johannesburg is
the best end.
HIS RIGHTS
WOMEN: They are not Perhaps this was his Inst wish to show that in the end allowed in bars except in
Twenty-five years ago there THE LAW: Judges, do Southwest Africa, and was a law passed that practising wear wigs. People may not play
garpblées cannot win,
DOCTORS WHO FLIRT WITH DEATH
By John Ashwin
The Reed story is worth
men,
The Walter Reed Society gained its first members.
Drastic Result
ussid ∙to 4.
soon
Respiration
To
A
There have been many more
Lazaro Spallan- Actor has just been
It was a grim experiment. A scarlet and twisted with agony 10th century 26-year old American
number or those who had and his whole body convulsing. zani-who went cven further volunteered to be bitten caught He had been conducting, a than his colleague, being Just honoured in Chicago for allowing research workers
the disease surely enough and "ttle experiment" an himself that much more fascinated by died in what Dr Reed (a factual by inhaling hydrogen gas the his stomach and its queer dis-
described
atice
tribution of to use him as a guinea pig
man)
food values. as awful inflammable gas cut off his breathing,
eating had discover the effect agony." But the volunteers had all balloons....
on health, Spallanzani began North to Scotland-where. an string him unconscious from recalling. It begins in the rot died in vain. The mosquito nah braved to be the carrier of a telephone pole, and force Cuban village of Pinar del the disease for in the area is November night finds a Scottish swallowing bread sewed up in doctor and two assistants Lak- small linen bags also meat him to eat one" pound of Rio at the height of a "yel- near by, other volunteers who ing it in turns to sniff bottles of and bone harboured in tough raw liver a day.
little wooden capsules. low plague" which was kill were actually using the same
utensils ns the yellow fever volatile liquid. They don's lake.
that Spallanzani discovered The cut in the doctor's ing
it in turns for long, for women and
sufferers remained as healthy 14
he didn't feel too good. He also they are all three stretched
'discovered, however, that the breathing was made to help children in their hundreds as ever.
out under the Inberalpry table. Within a few weeks after the
more he swallowed after such develop a new method of every day. It was a "killer".
experiment, the first mosquito The ploture aronly needs a meal the better he felt. artificial respiration; the disease of the first order
but, to jog the memory le matter of saliva forming caption, control rcheme was under way.
James doctor was Bir telephone pole stunt was a burning fever, giving way
had the
a digestive fluid.'. Simpson, And Sir James and just to help keep him at to blazing delirium, convul-
his colleagues had been poking the guinea pig" stage; and sions and a horrible death.
their noses Into the botiles of the liver dlet tested his Dr Reed decided to follow
Not all such self-inflicted chloroform. metabolic reaction. In other up the theory, advanced guinea pig experiments by What
happened to them gave "guinea pig experiments in words, how much his body locally, that the Stegomyia doctors hit the headlines. As them quite enough to work on, the cause of selence. To take 1951, a young and within a low years Sir one more is to recall how Dr could absorb.
mosquito carried the dis- recently
Italian doctor persuaded an James was able to see the use John Scott Haldane, an Edin assistant to give him an injec of chloroform as an anaesthetic buruh prystologist, 'extended
the world, knowledge, of re-. Unfortunately, animals were fion from -Q bottle of clear in all types of surgery. impervious to the disease. This liquid which he had made up. Not that these experiments by spiration by leading a group of Dr Lloyd Koritr, the meant that it was necessary for Within an hour the doctor was factors on themselves are any British students to a mountain
had thing
is, for top in Colorado. At a consider- guinea pig concerned, got truman beings to contract de dead. Unfortunately he
liberately
exported and under conditions, not
quite euch, a example,.
of the oble dititude, the little group away with the experiments allowing for observation if chy drasile result from the injec Renalegance Itailan abbot San- then conducted a whole maze mentioned above, to be theory
experiments. Thoy tion, for even his assistant was forio who was fascinated by of self prove unable to identify the contents the changes in health (and didn't know anything about awarded the annual prize comert
The plan was almple once Dr. of the syringe which had to weight) which different foods pressurised air travel from the that he Walter Reed read de su his mind. quickly caused the death of equred. Sitting In a small aeronautics angle, but they did volunt human guinea under ideal barrack conditions,
micro- ing machine,-ho
the human, body of life & in would be bitten by. the biologists.
stuff himself. to rarified atmospheres. alternately T pign the society, in fact, would
Thanks to such men owene to one such mosquito, Another group, living More widely known in the burning point and then sterve volim Dry Walter Reed the tormented fever word, story of Sir Humphrey Davy, watching the scales all the the
not only developed the time. Today would be screened from any who
Sénior to would by the the latest award of the Army who, na such bites. The only way they miners rafely lamp dut also most probably, be classed as an human beings are able to suder far badiozän 1899. nguored could contract the fever would, discovered one of the first expert nutellionist! We just that muchlers where once
bo from their fellow room- skrpical anaesthetics. In 1800 An American writer Me their forbours (the ruinen pig ous-you- mates. It it was carried in that he was dragged "from"his Richard Reinhardt, records the doctors Included) sumered NET-
laboratory in Bristol, his face case of anoitier Italian the (cordingly, GHANATATE
Dread Fever
case.
were
to bo
new. Thero
the story
Society wives to successful One group of volunteers, Hvins, Italy's most brilliant
Glovunni Pauleita... one of wooden chair bulit as a weigh learn the very many effects on
thdad d
Jow, fover)
Sway DDS
dovin
Walter Reed Society,
-(London Express Service)
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