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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1953.
FABULOUS
THE BIG WEEK IN WALES
by GILES
HEADLINE
PLAYBOY
From Richard Kilian
New York..
E was known as the
HeFull-time playboy"
In an age of fabulous play- boys.
Je
a
All over the world people followed his exploite da scribbled his signature on Imitless supply of blank cheques Now backed by a $30,000,000
York
fortune.
real estate and carpet
Ha name was Eugene Higgins. in Born in 1858, Higgins died 1048, aged 00, at Torquay, England, and his catate indicated that his lavish, long bachelor hood had not depleted the huge forlune
ine considered to be among the top 60 in the United States.
Recently use not amount of that fortune wah officially an- nounced. It was $40,111,000 dollars.
The
bulk of the estate-about $38,000,000 dollars went to four universities, Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Columbio.
Clerk's Prize
The will of this "playboy" stipulated the money would be used "or the general advance- ment of selence through in- vestigation, research and experi- mentation."
1921,
This does not seem strange in vlow of the fact that in efter his "retirement from the social whirl," Higgins offered a prize of $5,000 for the "simplest explanation of Einstein's
coin-
plicated theory of relativity."
The winner of the prize was a modest clerk in Britain's Patent Office. But that
Higgins' heyday.
Almost
after was
everything the
men
did won headlines. In 1890 he won the US, fencing champion- ship. Later in the Gay Nineties his 1,620-ton slearn yacht crush- ed on the rocks at Madeira, on
ca on
island off French Morocco, Ila received a medal of heroism for rescuing his quests.
His partics
were acclaimed,
one newspaper reported at the time, as "sumptuous
campaigns."
picasure
A thumbnail sketch of what
married New Yorker. He is
a
LEN INTERNATION AL EISTED
ofe
KISEMA
"To the stage, lads-and sorry I am if we do not bash the living daylights out of our opponents with 'Poace, porfect Peace."'
ORGANISING
THE
THE
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T
by L. J. CARTER
Secretary of the British Interplanetary
other
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Society
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arset In Britain work is proceed. clsts, medical ing pace, and it is likely that gincers of all sorts are needed
Anglo-Austrultun rocket
to the eventual to contribute.
earlier n TE British Interplane, point of fact, a rocket is pro-
great deal testing range will be put to good conquest of space.
The results of their work te tary Society was form- pelled by its recoil, and actually of ground had been covered by use.
"Many of the selentists and
in the published
Society's works beiter when there's no other society, the Verein fur ed in 1933 to pro air around to slow it down.
Raumschiffahrt, Ja Germany, techrleans working on these Journal, and discussions and was thought of Higgins comes mote the development of
This socicly carried out n num-, projects, both in Britain ad lectures On their studies are rom a society editor's column
Even scientists before the war her of basic experiments,
held regularly in London, Bir- written in 1898;
interplanetary exploration,
thought that space-fight was. Imall rockets, but was
NORTH DAY Spunifies, arg mcmbers
Society Bay not
Bristol mingham, Manchester, "Mr Higgins is, not only the by the study of rocket en almost impossible. In 1827 on taken over by the German min mumbers una technical inen. and Leeds. Besides these meet-
Kald richest but the handsomest un-gineering, astronomy, and scientist he thought lary authorities. We now know - Sɔme have joined because they
ings speakers glve- several with mali relevant would take eight million years that experiments
realise the importance of the hundred lectures a year- mans. devuled golfer and expert cruas eciences. The first meetings to achieve, though a little later rackets are of little value when work und would like to be assor lectures to other organisations 10 the problems of ciated with it, while others, all over the country-and so country rider, a 'good gun', a ukliled fisherman and a yachts- were held in Liverpool, but he reduced this estimate to " applicant and can, in fact, be like the late Bernard Shaw and
few thousand years,'
(Now-
Society 12- spread the adays, of course, leating rekel positively misleading. afterwards
But the Dr Olaf Stapleton, were in- help the techinical
to knowledle and mean seamanship. shortly man of no
think will be work carried out at this time terested largely from the 30- bring home, to everyone the Sartorically he is all that can be Society moved to London", engineers
over 2,200 achieved during the next hun was exceedingly important be- ciological point of view. Himlticas possibilities of rocket desired."
and now, with
cause it wus largely pioneer
in- propulsion and the great members, the B.I.S. is the dred years)
work In rocket engineering.
portance to us all of the even- Because early Slowed Down
everyone without which space-flight can- largest society in the world
tual crossing cứ space. devoted exclusively to the thought it a joke the early mem- not be realised.
bers of the B.1.S decided that the best thing they could do was During the war tremendous But no woman proved capable problems of space-flight.
to design an selual spaceship in progress towards the achieve of winning his lasting affection.
taken
as much detail they could. After World War One (Hiz
for rockets were out on a vely glan was then 80 years old) he place since the Society was first This took a very long me be ment space-flight took place, started slowing down. He went formed. In its carly days the cause to begin with no
The Germans developed a large to live in Europe, and gradually whole idea of space-fight was really knew anything at allarge scale for the first time, his name disuppeared from the dismissed as ridiculous, for most about spaceships and every idea mumber of guided missiles, cul- to be affected by it.
minating in the V2, and at o end of the war Allied investiga lors were amazed to find plans for a rocket so choss the Atlantic and bombord America, and even Ideas for a rocket to circle the Earth like an artifcial Moon.
public cyc.
Many changes have
one
people believed that large hud to be thought about, studied Tockets couldn't fly very high, and erillelsed. In Torquay he took. an even if they were built, becņuse amateur's Tvid Interest physics, and apparently devoted himself fully to investigating his taste for that subject. And
once they left the atmosphero they would have nothing to push against."
less and less was heard of him. Some people say this even to
He made a slight resurgence day, but this proves that they do with his award to the British not understand how a rocket Patent Office clerk for his cx works, and do not know that planation of relativity. But then already rockets have reached a silence surrounded him again height of 250 miles, where there at Torquay practically no air at all. In until his death forgotten to all but a handful of old timers who were mostly when Higgins was a children full-time playboy.
• The offices are now at 12, Bessborough-gardens, S.W.1.
Ike chooses golf-and oh! what a row!
By RENE MacCOLL
Washington.
A Working Plan
cuits.
Artificial Moons
PUT there is room for every- Done, for space-flight is so immune in its scope that it covers most branches of science
human activity which
are bound and there are so many fields of
is no longer
thought
likely that a chemically propelled rocket is suitable for a to the stoen, wie dat we shall 110 there straight from the Earth in a single "do-or-die"! attempt. Scientists now envisage many
VENTUALLY, however, the
years of continuous develop- prewar B.IS. Spaceship was
Since the end of the war work- ment, with rockota gradually designed and it aroused a great
has continued unabated, and flying higher and faster until at For the first deal of interest.
be made to time relentists really had a plan reket research is regarded as of last a rocket can
complete prime importance and under- circle the Earth like an artificial to work on it was
token by many countries. In Moon, and telemeter data buck even to the electrical ring cir America work began by using to us for a longish period.
captured German V25, though
From then on we shall prob- the development of ably seg quite large artificial Moors, some containing men, which will act not only as refuelling bases fer spaceships but will be In themselves research labora- tories of great importance.
Ja Britain very little actual these were later supplanted by work on rockets took place, a vast array of newer missiles,
******* On-the-spot reporters glean more than on-the-spot news they garner, too, the off-centre item that can highlight a
nation's habits
members as pephunt, "symbol of she te- of Staff-civilian publicans," poring over a well a military-but the com- pamphlot untitled
to plote incoming staff as well.
it is
"How
hidden a smaller
called "How to break 00."
Atomic Power
the
to
TN time, it is likely that the real spaceships will emerge, and it is possible that they may bo very different from balance the budget." But Inside Well over a hundred men will rockets of today, as they will work be there, including stalwarts bo driven by atamle power. They will 'nover land or take-off like outgoing General Omar les, It's tough to be Bradley, the chairmant, and his from the Earth direct, as this might be too dangerous, but Prendint and find even your successor, tough Admiral. Rad-will discharge and tako on favourite game turned into a ford.
passengers and drew from the political factor..
It could be that sweetness and artificial Moons the trip Bight might not be unbroken at Earth being undertaken by HEARD THIS ONE?
this house party, for there are winged" "ferry"! rockets which
fcuds formidable
will probably took rather dini- Washington America that golf is the rich CTORY all
is some against itself. A jealousies: among America's "top lar to our present high-speed find other stont meets a' hare. “What's your
jet. planes, brass,"
All these... and many other hower! When he first rather ritzy resorts, Ike is "being hurry?" asks the siost
But Wilson is loking a chance saya on that. His formulaenfer- problems, are at present being "Haven't you heard?" came to office in January high hat is not "one of the
the hare, glancing apprehensively ences in the morning, golf in studied by members of the
B.I.S. This huge project re he set himself. A terrife boys."
drinks in the make matters worse, 20 the rear.
"Senator McCarthy the afternoon, pace. Worked so
committed a well-nigh has ordered all kangaroos to be evening... fact, that his doctors, gave unforgivable sin of the start of shot on sight," him a stiff warning. the current baseball season. It "So what?" rejoins the stoat."
has become part of Washington "You're not a kangaroo.” traditim for the President to
POOR President Elsen at country cluis playing it feiling
And to
hard, in ke
Ite must, they insisted,. case. off and have a little fun new and then. So he took to playing golf regularly
NOT AMUSED
and
"I know," parts the hure, JOHN FOSTER DULLES'S "throw out the first ball" of the preparing to fake off again, Under-Siccretary of State,
that "but dan I. prove never McCarthy's satisfaction?"
exam which
first game," a, task. Well, ll'e a funny thing, but Truman, this golf of his has gained him failed gingly to extraordinary
Lox!
But Ike, not only sjupped this
unpopularity he
was away down In Georgia
''BRASS PARTY
to Carl McCardle, was markedly not amused the other night when:a, Bght-Hearted British official approached him at cocklell party with. The kindly EFENCE MINISTER Charl greeting Burned Any
-good
General Motors) is trying á novet
the men and women of dmong America. In bars. tuurants, in taxicabs and trains And comment welled in
overhees Presidents golf, and while some
wid res- playing golt on the great lox, Wilson (former boss of bocios Intely, Cari?
wisecracks about the, of Amérlain homes little resture. ''In a few days, time heal
aro good natured, - definitely are not.
Ike's Democratie fees
others very cashing i
"in "nez-oil" "thisq; They- is inviting down to Marine H. Q.,
have started a new dot, Quantico, Virginia for Definition of Why? E the first place, the magazine, and the cartoon in three-day get-together, not only draftee Into the ormy- notion Ungers obstinately in the first number, shows on the entire outgoing Joint Chicls cuff volumes,
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