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Mr Eden's Surgeon Wants No Publicity
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From Donald Ludlow
Washington. ICHARD Bartley Chan- ning Cattell, the sur- geon to whom Mr Eden flew for an imperative" opera- tion, is one of the most re- tiring men in American medicine.
Tall, spare, greying Dr Cattell (accent on the second syllable) still retains the mft, slow draw! of Ohio, where he was born 53 yours ago.
And he has
all a country- man's modesty. So much that now that hia name has jumper into world news he has forbidden hin associates at Bostan's famous Lahey Clinic to say anything about him ollier than what has appeared in his sparse ference, books,
record is rc-
Private Soldier
AFTER graduating at Mont A Union College, Alliance, Ohlo, he joined the U.S. Anny 19 a private soldier in 1017, verved in France, and returned two years later to begin his studies at Harvardi Medical School
He quantified In 1935, spent two years walking the wards of a New York hospital, und then joined the Lahey Clinie, with which he has been usro- clated ever since. becoming a specialist in liver and, goll bladder operations.
He has done so many of them probably more than any other surgeon in the world--that he has lost count.
: There are few days that do not see his hands at work in the theatre of the New England Baptist Hospital, Boston, which, toker patients from the Lahey. Clinio and where suite of Vrooms has been reserved for
Mr Eden.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1953.
GILES STILL FURTHER AWAY FROM IT ALL?
"Very well-lof's hear YOU explain in YOUR impeccablo Spanish that we've promised Grandma wo'll bo back in time for the Coronation,"
London Express Service
Peers beat the Archbishop-
Coronets
JELL, she really is +++++*jajaf
the
of Queen
ན
go
on too
W BERNARD WICKSTEED
England now. I
am glad I've been allowed to see the business through because I have a personal interest. I was in it right from the beginning.
describes what he saw from South, then West,
an eyric in the Abbey
When Elizabeth II. became Queen without knowing it on that sunny morning in Kenya 444fecte 18 months ago I was among the
first half dozen of her subjects
up there, then out at the front.
He had only three feet of headroom and had to sit or crouch there without a chance
to the Coronationi
climbing
soon
But she too was in sight for pushed the Crown off when he only a few moments before touched it. while the young going to pray at her faldstool. Duke of Kent seemed to be
We 'daw her again whet she giving it a top to see if it won' came out for the Recognition cal and turned first East, then
and North. 'Unlike the royal Dukes the
other
kissed the peers Sho scomed intensely serious and earnest. Then she was out Queen's band, and Miss Sweden of sight again while she took was critical about the way come the Oath. But we heard her of them did it. She said it took make her promises in a clear, at least six generations to learn though quiet, voice.
how to kiss band gracefully. we saw She approved of the technique +···|||||||||ter 100 the Anointing
little but the golden canopy of a marquis and an earl, but it was much mere uncomfortable a quarter of an hour to go tho held cbove her head. Nor did not of the Duke of Narfelk.
100 yards from the West Doorwerty Invesung. There was it hitelt tries this, She did not even know she
Theatre.
But by practically
Everyone should have shouted was Queen herself then and she
There were 13 'curls in it and Into the ceiling
out "God Save the Queen." But of the Abbey looked a lot different for she
nine duites, but out in front, andong a group of carved and the signal for this appeared to But he still Bnds time to be a was simply dressed In a bush to stretch for eight hours. I saw like a drum major, was George headless saints
ints the three of us have been overlooked and ho him just before he went up to Calvert, the Abbey Beadle, He devoted
has two Jacket and trousers. father-he
one knew the right moment to his roust by some steps at the is known to thousands because itself. The archbishop was so nice in the nave took up the got a good view of the crowning shout. At last; accurageous doughters and three sons and take on additional professional
She had been sitting up all back of the altar.
when there is not a Coronation
slow duties
night in Tree Tops, an observa- "The rehearsal Was bud an
on he takes visitors round the tion post built in a giant fig tree enough," he told me.
"But that Abbey. African an
waterhole, was only an hour and a half splash of bright red be
-A looking at elephant and After eight hours of it I doubt if hind him was made by nine rhinoceros taking their nightly I will ever stand straight again,"
chaplains, four of whom have From where we were it seemed- DY my timing the Queen wore won the Millary Cross. One much too big for her and op- the heavy crown of SŁ SO WARM
was our old friend "Tubby" peared to be slipping down over Edward for two periods, one of Clayton, M. C.. the founder of her eyes..
24 minutes and one of 14-
saw so well was the brilliant Dean of Westminster in a cope into the Throne
The Coronation rubrics say making 30 minutes in all. ANOTHER_reason why millions Toc H.
Behind the chaplaing was the that the Queen is to be lifted-
This was atreamlining of by, the arch- lighting from special lamps in made for the Coronation
of bishops, bishops, and peers, but her father's effort, He had the the roof. There was not as much Charles II. With his high brow she seemed to manage it without crown on
his head for 45 BRAINWAVE
light as there is in a normal and his lantern jaw he looked their help.
Ininutes, The Bishops of Dur- studio, but there was more than and
hom and Bath and Wells, who COMEONE in the Earl Marshal's there has ever been in the Abbey like one of those medieval priests who lurk in the background of
stand at each side of the Queen historical films and plot against
through most of the curemony, I am told the Dean of West- the king.
He Is past president of Boston Surgical Society, on honorary consultant to the U.S. Navy.
J
Men Overhauled
TUT is his 20 years' work at the Lahey Clinic in rlingmosis and surgery that has but him a reputation havoured by colleagues throughout the world.
Founded by Dr Frank ́ „H Lahey, the clinic deals only with the most serious operations -the kind that other hospitals A hesitate to attempt.
ti specialises, too, in the most difficult branches of diagnosis, Recently, however, its 50 specialists and surgeons have taken on the job of keeping America's big business men fit for their jobs.
Great corporations send their executives to the clinic for re-
over
drink.
But on June 2 instead of wild animals she was, surrounded by Chamberlains and Kings of Arms, bishops, and peers of every degree.
Ofler had a brainwave and put a section of the Press,
before.
F
including me, on a perch high minster was worried about it at Thore is nothing like that above Pools Corner. But it did first. He thought the heat of about him really. In fact he is not turn out to be such a gond the lamps would be too much one of the principals in the idea after all because you cannot for the Queen
in her heavy religious part of the Coronation, write lyrically about something robes. But she stuck it out. you don't see.
THEIR MITRES
Close to my scat
and it had this epitaph:
Life
SGW
putting. It on that many of
the pears, anticipated, him and cry and everyone joined. In. had their coronets on before the
ÁT LAST
Queen was actually crowned.
BE SEATED'
THE Archbishop of Canterbury are supposed to take the weight used to be headmaster of of the Crown if it becomes too Repton and whenever he came much and put 14 straight if it into the assembly hall and all topples over to the side. the boys stood up he would stare But all the time" she was in over their heads as if invoking sight of us she appeared to need
delty some tribut
and then
si tid."
But there were things we saw Was B memorial to the poet John Gay that perhaps TV missed-the TARLS and dukes and other mer the magle words "no help. SAN
Wo didn't see young Charles. Gold Sticks, for instance. They peera began to come thick A cousin of mine who was we didn't see the Queen and is a jest and all things looked like characters from some and fast. You could pick them there at the time said it was her husband kneeling at the show it.
picture painted for the Academy, out at once by their page boys several terms before he dis- Altar, Most of the time we did I thought so once and now a hundred years ago.
carrying their
coronets behind, covered that the words meant not get the feet in the roof that I know it.
There were
40 page The Earl
boys "be scated." The archbishop we were taking part in a great The jest in this case was that
Marshal, who ap altogether and none of them was appeared to be doing something religious service. gulor overhauls, They have sitting on my
perch in the points them, must have scored allowed to be more than 5ft. Gins, of the same kind, at the enthron- found It pays off in sweeter Abbey
the clubs and officers' messes of
But we did see her going out fa height.. for less than Britain in search tempers, better judgment and millions of people did on TV. I
of colourful fower collapses.
ops. The homage was the one part a fully fledged Queen at last The
Now for the two archbishops. naval contingent Dr Cattell leaves home every satisfaction, but I have
was there, which is a personal looked like admirals to a man There has been a lot of dis of t
the Coronation that we in with the Imperial Crown on her heard morning at 7.15. Only on his
and those from the Army wore cussion about their mitres. They our part of the Abbey saw really head. Yet somehow I shall still summer holiday--"such a very
far more about what went on
bright rod tunes with gold were wearing them for, probably, well. The Duke of Edinburgh remember her best as the girl in short month," says his wife since I came out.
and kissed a bush jacket and trousers who even know that Attings suitable for the ball on the first time at a Coronation touched the Crown I did not
since the Reformation.
the left check of the Queen as had just had a wonderful night
looking Princo Charles was there though the eve of Waterloo.
at elephant and The Archbishop York's laid down.
ol
The Duke of Gloucester was, rhinoceros drinking.
and
nearly vigorous.
-{London Express Service)
· does hú find much Ume for his two sports, golf and sailing.
The men who treats so many averworked
overworks himself, without a thought.
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POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
Now wonder if |*Faudiferay «M). haz zuffu ciently Fecovered from his Itelĕvlítón' triumphi at the Abbeys to give me the plans egenitive plural of 'mensa????-
They seemed to be having a I did see the Queen give a glance once that I thought must be for wonderful time, like an old boys mitro had a blue or green stripe-
reunion in fancy dress, They down the front and the Arch more her boy.
of Canterbury's, was ' So you must pardon me if I bunched together in Ittle knots bishop silver. do not give you the illumination and talked happily about
Now como the Duke of Edinburgh and the two girls beside ine were thrilled. really do like him, he la so good
Poona.
that you might expect, from NO KNITTING
someone who was actually there..
For TV and colour films, the Abboy was almost turned Into a studio. There were cameramen "hidden all over the place.
ON EFFIGIES
est
INSTEAD of sitting comfortably looking," said Miss Sweden, and at home looking at TV we had Miss Ohio piped, "Im'the D
to be, in the Abbey between 6 wonderful man?"
and 7
7am. So we had to amusa He certainly loaked Impressive ourselves for four or Ave hours with his fur cape and orders and before the Coronation began.
dom a Swedish his velvet train. But we had only a glimpse of him and hó concealed in two tombs only paper on one side of me and u was gone from our line of view. from Oblo on the other. We the Queen was crowned. The spent the first
ONE batch of cameras
Was
a few yards from the spot where
zir
There were about 400 of
ori her way long before sho
-hour or two THE QUEEN tombs, that belong to a couple watching the peeresses opposite of 14th century characters called 3. Aylmer de Valence and Edmond them. The duchesses had what you could tell the Queen was Crouchbock, were made sound- you might call the front row, come digit because of the proof but the cameramen had to gtails and behind them wero tlers Westrainater schoolboys shouting atand on the effigies.
of tiaras going back to the Vivat Regina" as she passed up There was another set of peep- baronesses in the pit
The Choir. I know one of thaj Through the glasses it looked boys. He lives near me and holes in the south transept, just
his above where
the peers were as if some of them were sorry mother says that for weeks ho's sitting. It seemed quite a side- they
brought their been practising, shouting "Vivat" show and some of their lordships knitting..
In his bath appeared to spend more of their timo staring at the cameramen
at work than looking at the Coronation,
hadn't
IT'S HISTORY
#THEN
EN at last the prosession
And now was my turn to say
to the girls, "Isn't the lovely?"
because the Queen was coming up the steps.
But the best "hide" of all was began. By standing on the How, different she looked from high above the Allar where they backs of our scald and risking a that morning in Konya, some had turned a window into some drop of 30ft. or 40ft, on to the may have seen her better on "bút through my glasses · I
thing, that looked like, a Gothic geers belöw us Miss Ohio, MissETNINA The seemed a*Utilin sp÷|
dovocok Only instead of doves Sweden, and I could just co poeping out there wore the figures as they camo up the prehensive, as if she would have photographers,”. One of them steps from the choir.-live been for happier murrounded by was Bill Jordan of Pathes, who is "This really, was the history of elephants in Kenya, than: by all Just back from Korea. He says Ingland come to life. It look thi" (pomp, less s
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