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Fast... Faster.....
The New Battle Of Britain
By DAVID DIVINE
of
London. the 'speed limit for fierce short
speed limit the THE Battle of Britain in bursts,
the nud
Dieterle
German
The plane was built in 1838. was the beginning of the when greatest of all races-lhe speed the fighting began. It was race for the
TWorld War Two was Pure Be 112.
fought for weeks on end until exhausted pilots no ft longer remembered
Britain won
fought at heights that beusly. gan with
sately of Britain.
TCCR.
h. Won it. curl- through actent wave-skimming Through the Schneider Trophy and ended six miles up in a races, even if indirectly. sky so blue.
Endurance, valour, skill--those
#
SPITFIRE
p
more
were the three great human In 1830 the British Air Staff factor of the Battle of Britain, drew
a specification for a the to answer There was a fourth factor, only fighter aircraft
[acto hordes human
of fant bombern that Indirectly
Germany had niready in pro- speed.
are In the very duction or in centemplation, Today we
RAF of the heart of a new battle of Britain.
An emissary The battle of speeds beyond the
went to Vickers Supermarine
works
Lhat with aviation imagination even of the genera
for 01 It called tion that preceded ours.
specification. Squadron-Lender Duke's thee
eight-gun fighter with speed over Faro of 350 miles an hour- nighter supersonle cracks
powerful borough were a skirmish in the
Incomparably
yel linch battle,
the The design, the trials, testing and the production of t
aircraft are a matter
RAF
wanted new y:ars, The #ghter with desperate urgency, It got it. Vickers and designed
private and built as a
venture. arising out of its early compett tion in the Schneider Trophy, ulrcraft or four Runs and on
lower speed. Its de slightly
Mitchell. Th
What does it all mean? Just very look back a little-only u little. Less. In fact, than half a century.
Santos Dumont was astonish- with a world then Ing the
of 25 miles 1172 That was in 1000, LINDBERGH
masterpiece hour,
In 1914, at the outbreak of
the First World War, mon had
than
anything that been thought of.
++
it
11 WI
just notched 200 miles an hour, signer? R. J. but average speeds throughout plane? The Spitfire. the war period for working pur- adapted rapidly, and as rupidly poses burely topped the hundre mark.
Twenty-six years ago Charles Lindbergh set out to ly the Atlantic from West to East In monoplane that could, and did, average for 33 hours much about the same level speed,
2
The other day John Murray
It
seems
put Into production
the
the
Simultaneously, and in much same circumstances,
into being! Hurricane came They were ready for the Battle of Britain.
is something of the same sort happening now?
took the. world's al Britain
published his book "The Spirit speed record back in 1945 when in the forcing house of war gave that Lindbergh, her the Meteor Mark IV, the jet Bie established that lonely fighter the staggering ocross
of St Louis." conceivable
emptiness of the Atlantle, only first world's jet record at 606
his courage
full in
measure, miles an hour.
shout out:
could sight a fishing fleet, glide
down to them
and
"Which ways Ireland?"
By the time Duke got to the
end
QUESTION
Britain lost it to America in
of a quick-shouted "Which 1947 at 623. America took it up
.." he would be a mile and a to 715; Duke won it back for
Britain with 772.
away.
Britain has won an air battle Fifteen years ago-memory is
that perhaps the
process getling nearer--the speed limit in had shot up above the 400 mark, more than any other single thing won the war-or made its win- ning possible.
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same
When aircraft went above 200 milica an hour the philosophers déclaration. made the Abine passengers fly in comfor at 400 m.p.. not
Assisted by science, inan will stand higher speeds yet. Only for the question is left jone
philosopher to ask.
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• so different!
The days of the drab dresses are over. Now Nora con wear the bright, pretty accessories she missed so much. Here sho matches a cravat with her new costume.
0.11
CURTAIN DANCERS
THE IRON FIND FREEDOM
S
now
London.
not
by Louise Reid
and those wonderful kippers!
) IN LONDON
But, although gay' and excited of about her new life, Nore is not
frivolous,
Gradually they are peeling service fat in, Curzon Bireet and off cast-of-Curtain tricks and want with her to a top dress mannerisma: O his 'first designer round the corner. Sho night at the Festival Hall, was fitted for her first houte which was also his first' singe couture sull, a gray" worsted
In the appearance
Wesh classic, und we all, helped, Rabovsky look his curtains choose accessory colours, with arms stiffly to his sides
made and
three deferential bows as if to boxes full. commissars and their wives.
That was how he was taught
Sometimes a shadow comes to bow with the State Ballet in across her face, That means Budapest. That was how he she is bowed after partnering
"My only unhappi- Ulanova with the nesa," she says, "is that I was company in Moscow t highly and at the Marlinsky, Lenin- not able to tell my mother wo'
I und were leaving. grad, where he and his wife mentioned to her my hopes, of, did a season's guest dancing. geiting away to The Western
world."
WETO
ETTLING down west of the Iron Curtain after growing up and carning your living east of
Her salary as prima ballerina It is like settling down on of the Budapest State Opera
amiablo
planet, was £44 a week-big money behind the Curtain, though Nora Kovach, 22, and her
here. 23-year-old husband, Istvan The cowl of living was high. Rabovsky, the two escuped but their joint salaries Hungarian ballet dancers sufficient to buy rich food and comfortable apartment. whose sensational pas de a deux are making the most Adulation was theirs in plenty fabulous
"In Nursia, ballet audiences the are enthusiastle and expert eyes pop at
When they Festival Hall, have been in crities. free
for three pleased they show 11. Europe
"They sent me great baskets months.
of flowers DS big
as myself. show crowds of all 19 the station for
ал
arc
Botshol
fe in Hungary, about her ma.her
never
The sharp line. To lance like the Robovskys
HIT once had not spoilt is of his partner, Boon he will be won the breakfast kipper,
Leaving all their luggage After tho behind them, they made their people used to follow Relaway from East Berlin on the way to fcurpenny tube train tickets to autographs." the American side
hour before they were to have secret
Wa had been taken part In
Hungarian . It only
allowed to come and go with- dance festival.
out being watched and reported on. I couldn't stand the snoop- ing any longer."
Everything But
Since their breakaway
they in have been busy in Munich for the U.S. making a fim
"Dancing Department, Nora. State
into Freedom."
Now at last they are getting used to the lock, feel and taste of freedom and marvelling al the friendliness of the natives.
In Budapest, in Moscow. Leningrad, "we had everything
says except freedom," "Bul money, position, are nothing without freedom to go where you like, when you like, to do what you please and wear what you please."
For
,
Ten a day
you have to cat, The Raboyrkys He now takes curtains with laugh at lettuce, egg flips and
fruit juice. One of their first. groce and Ouidity, making
London says Nora, "the gallant gestures in the direction happy discoveries in
moro Western than the West, They have had two each every
Another minor
with tea, least' was morning since WOITY make-up. An Hungarians, and Jam Rabovsky and his wife were strictly subject to Soviet make- up styles, which tend to be harder and sharper than oura....
his first performances
For lunch they like a largo here Rabovsky had, his faco grease-painted and lined by a beefsteak and they enjoy it best those West'. End one of master of all the ballette arts, in. Anton Dulin, his artistle diree restaurants with plenty of
Then clothes,
scenery, where the women wear Nora
a cane silly hats and
cloth-capped in A away
black skirt and commissar would never get past sweater, as unglamorous as most the head walter. Iron Curtain styles. Istvan was Istvan Is non-smoker. Nora Wearing "Just clothes," In edmits that in this respect shee Munich, at an American forces a bad girl. She has to be
Istvan bought himself a rationed to ten cigarettes a day.. srady-made blue suit, Nora an- They promise to come back other sweater.
next year in full length works." They decided to wait unt! But will 'America's Jure keep they reached London or Parls them longer? The dollar is a before buying clothes in a serious powerful argument and freedom,
other way. The
morning I is not less, attractive when It' collected Nora at their modest comes with mink edges.,
THE JUNGLE GIRL
AFTER THREE
T
a
Bergen-Op-Zoom
(Holland).
on
By JOHN
CLARKE
YEARS
TODAY a name that rang round the world comes out from the shadows that have hidden it for more than two years. The name is Bortha Hertogh~~the child bride of a Malay school-teacher who was restored to her parents in Holland by court order.
The
HE house was one of
a row built since the. war round a grassy the out- square skirts of this small town, a red-brick four bedroomed
with house
2 steeply
• BUT WHAT HAPPENED aftor the restoration? pitched roof of red tiles.
world's memory is short. The Jungle Girl slipped from My hand had hardly left the
How John Clarke has been to Holland bell-push before the door was public view. opened by a pretty teenaged to see Bertha Hertoghand to find the answer to a girl Ix dove-grey dress, who question that two years ago made her a subject of discussion demurely showed me into the for mothers and fathers overywhore. sitting-room where her mother was. and then withdrew, riccly-mannered children do when their elders want to talk
That,"
said the mother. gesturing towards the door the girl had closed behind her, "is Bertha." Saying she sounded proud-understandably.
For the girl
wus Bertha Hertogh who, three years ago, around the world headlines proclaimed as "the jungle girl." the 13-year-old who, married to
Malayan, furiously resisted. the efforts of her family, from whom the wag had separated her, to bring her back to them.
Riots flared up
firmly. "People prayed for us, we know the help it was."
Her marks
marks out of ten,
me.
for
tor.
you see," she WILLIAM HAMSHER meets a woman.
was long then, said. "She had it cut short to be like her sisters."
Tant, perhaps, spoke best for the children's part in bringing Bertha back into the family. It was not easy for them..
Bertha
when
the came back from Malaya grudgingly ceded victory to her mother but the turned her back when
the
brothers
con-
one of
others spoke to her; and
and sisters were nol in the limelight as Bertha was. But they found a place for her In the nursery-democracy, and gradually she became them.
you want to be "What do when you grow up?" I asked Bertha.
"To be at home, and make dresses," she said.
Happy laugh
the.deep
SHE HAS FOUND
A LOST
CITY
Bonn. metres east of Heligoland and TARAU KATHE FRIES, Herr Fries went overboard.
38 year old blonde; Frau Kathe excitedly con- blue-eyed wife of a West tinued the story. "Less than an business man hour later he was on board German told me how she walked again and excited. "We've found it he sald, and soon be was with her husband In the lugging up to the surface build- ruins of a city that the ing stones which were carved North Sea swallowed 8,000 into regular squares. 'Obviously
hewn by man. years ago.
When the sea was smooth a
Bertha, when she came back, was imperious, aloof, suspicious
She Bertha fervently agreed. and afraid; for a child of 13 she was most dieult to live with, has become devoutly religious. While we talked, her father Patiently the mother went work; so did the nuns at the sent her upstairs to get her convent where Bertha was sent school reports to show
She hates sports, explosively,
Frau Kathe is convinced that school; 50 did to
father, Shyly she handed them over, is not interested in dancing or the ruins into which she dived glass, and the sun overhead tu brothers, sisters. There was and
blushed when I read the
the cinema. She has friends of are those of Atlantis, the sunk is helped Frau Kathe' over give the maximum fight Herr too, influence,
that verdicts of her teachers on her her own age (neighbours' child- en land which historians another
and made itself felt.
first schooling in Holland.
ren accepted her
as one of archaeologists have been looking the side-and with their frog....
them Threats
themselves from the start), but for since the Greek philosopher through the swift currents, they
men nippere Mrs Hertogh's
getting sgalast life had been made by irrespon-
only girls, and preters to bring Plato wrote of it in the fifth walked over a stone wall. sible Mosiem elements when she
them to her house rather than century before Christ. went to Singapore to claim her doughter. When Bertha came For Scripture she had won visit theirs,
Leaving the house, I saw in homo there wag whispering seven
a framed photo- that attempts, would be mado behaviour, nine: for reading, the hallway
Dutch language, graph of Bertha's arrival home. Born, like most here kidnap her or do her other eight; for the
of
She stood at a window eight.
of the banner brothers and sisters, in the East, harm.
From that primary school, floodlit house, above where her father hatt been a
Bertha has moved on now to which said, in Malayan for her sergeant in the Dutch Army,
une where she can specialise in
"Welcome Home." and are Bertha had become a Moslem, word of Dutch, spoke not one
dress malding.
In the sliting-room of the crowd gathered to greet her,
The pastor says one derman an all- Now she looked up at the Lutheran pastor from Schles Hertogh home, hangs
laughed at her wig-Holstein, Jurgen Spanuth, professor is attacking this theory, of Bartha done by # photograph and painting young Indian when she was in old self. The happy laugh of a in the last stages of his 20-year saying the wall formation is the
with hunt for Atlantis.
result of the regular rhythm of shows sultry 10-year-old confronted Malaya, It
the sea waves"over milliong' of young woman whose long black absurdity. "Like someone else," Dutch, She no
years. 2 hair falls over the shoulders of she said-in a scarlet dress.
longer speaks Malayan, is for getting it, as she is learning to forget Malaya and the past,
A child again
A police-officer was assigned and answered only to the name to escort Bertha to and from Nadra Adabi. that had been school, and to stand guard over given her by the Malayans who her at home. On police orders, had brought her up from the
telephone way installed in the age of Ave.
Hertogh home FO that any "After the war, when she dis- suspicious. stranger might be covered where her daughter immediately reported. was,
Mrs Hertogh fought in the
The policeman appointed as rourts of Singapore to
Mrs Hertogh saw me looking have
shadow was Bertha restored to her and to Bertha's
a tall, at the pictures "Bertha's hair common Bense Lough,
man child's marriage the have
named Frank Borremans, the whom children She was successful to the type of man accompaniment of rlots Instinctively adore.
Gently, by bonier, he played that dared up in the colony as
Bertie's the case was heard. Seventeen his part in deflating
were killed
ego, and trans- before exaggerated people
from a haughty Bertha, at the case's conclusion, forming her
woman Late E happy was slipped aboard an alrera young
a scowling, sulky child again. and flown, girl with
chip on an outsize
Borremans
quashed.
race
to Sowered at the galety, mands her back.
Bertha the messages
of welcome
(in
sent
Bertha agreed
.
STONE WALL ·
Frau Kathe said: "Wo 'could not see much, but, my husband had showed me where he found openings in the wall entrances which Pastor Spanuth Frau Katho and her husband thought led to the courtyard of deep-sea divers, members the palace of the King of
beked crossly down on the of the French Alpine Underseas Allantis,"
she
Club, and they joined
U
The pastor was in command of the Cuxhaven fishing cutler Mara, Salling by dead reckoning. they let the anchor go 9.2 kilo-
LIVING HIGH ON THE HOG
New York.
TAXPAYERS have had
by to provide mechanical ham slicers for U.S. civil servants living in Bonn.
AMERICA COLUMN
from
NEWELL ROGERS
art
Yet by Fifth Avenue dards Miss Ay fashioned girl."-
-Hal:dressers
[
"All I can say is "I wish he would come and see for himself the stones we have in my sludy," ssid the pastor.
ROYAL CITY..
..
2
Spanuth is convinced that on stan- land near Heligoland was a royal old- and 'prlently, city, engulfed by the sea.in the disasters, described. would look in
the carly chapters of the askanco at the ash-blonde locks Bibl. failing from her shoulders, Model agencies might hesitate "Calculations mado after por over her Bft. 8in. height,
Ing over Greek manuscripts and For the rest, Evelyn Ay is 20 Egyptian wall writings showed MARIUS SPADA, soap factory years old, weighs 8st. 11ib.; has me that Atlantis palace must be foreman made his wife 37-inch bust, a 24-inch waist, looked for exactly 9.2 kilometros
30-Inch withdraw from a beauty conter and
hips, Sht is from a certain Helgoland elit.
And so it turned out, studying medical technology.
T719KER from moustached
"A German selentille research
found. These accurate with modern measurements equipment proved that Plato
motrea out: was exactly two wheri he said that the Atlantis: wall was 927, metres long."
her shoulder, back to Holland, Bergen-op-Zoom's police chief
to accompany
me on my visit Royal welcome
to the Hertoghs, Without him, I should not have been admitted,
And that Congress informed Bergan-op-Zoom, a prosper for. understandably, reporters the State Department, is "living ous town of 30,000 Inhabitants come within the category of too high on the hog," which is an
near the Bel- on the seacoast
*uspicious strangers.
old American expression for He translated for me when I doing yourself well. gian frontier, whose Industries Include asparagus growing, an- asked Mrx Hertogh her viewa These slicers are part of the at Asbury Park, New Jersey, to chovy fishing, the distillation of
Elena Sebsentoya, the equipment in 485, flats built in choose Mrs America. Industrial alcohol, and the manu- pon
girl, 13 years old, as Russlan
He said he did not want the West German capital at facture of iron stoves, Have Bertha was three years ago, American
скрепа. Somehow pictures of his wife and nine K men may bring on violent ship measured for us the length Bertha royal welcome home.
ert Berthu Hertoga Committon who, for eight years like Bertha, costs crept up and up until each children in all the parto, 20- allergie reactions, says a pro- of the Atlantis embankment, we
So pletures of blonde,
of paediatrics help was cared for by foreigners Adt for ale clerka hnd four-bed-
(child had funds to
year-old Mrs Spada and the fossor had provided
foster parents and rooms and cost 28,000 dollars, night the case and pay air fares English
The Treasury also gave cach children are in all the papers, medicine) at New York Univer for her mother. whose Russian mother now de-
of her noble, elty. civil servant two Bower boxes, with stories a wall clock, and a dozen renunciation.
THE Bible is the book moet ginstics.
VOLCANOLOGIST Werner frequently stolen from the n Juble is lost in the Valley of Tulsa, Oklahoma, publia library When TUIE POSTMAN: brought in no two
Pastor the eight in one year. "It must have been very dim-
speaking Frat Katha said: "It is with her!" I said minds about the problem when letter of congratulations to Ten Thousand Smokes on
as it Cologne Cathedral had been, cult dogh.
it was explained to her. Sha Mr Stephen Krawczyk, in Cleve Alaskan peninsula, Ho left his
camp 13 days ago to watch DROADWAY may miss T. S. inundated by the sea for at
BRO difficult at all, she jumped up from her chair and land, Ohio. not
Also a tile box-containing the Mount Kalmol (7,000ft.).
Aircraft sald. She is a alightly built, cried: "But the girl must go
Silver Star, third highest U.S.
are dodging the Eliot's The Confidential least 3,000 years." smoking cratera to, ibok for determined-looking woman of back, to her mother."
"Theoretically" Ja," Bertha agreed. |award for gallantry,
Actor Equity may 60 percent 35, whoon maiden name
good the foster
Place: Montdidier,
on the him,
of the cast must bo. American said, "It is possible to bring all
the ruined a masonry-to Hunter her grandfather was parents, have been, whatever Somme. Date: June 1, 1018. a Scot who married a Dutch
ported saying: unloses he can woman in Java, her mother was they have done for the child, Corporal Krawczyk was twice MISS AY is 50,000 dollars Producer Henry Berck le re-wrface. We also to
they must send her back now, wounded in rescuing comration silencing German Mira Hertogh makes light of even to Russia. It is very heavy and
must "bo," machine-gun neet. tho tuske of indoctrinating on the heart, but it Bertha into the ways of the
"Tomorrow morning, Bertha TN aix yours the number of U.S. West and integrating her with bu
Instruments has in close to the family! know how mother may have back. her musical great the tank'WAR,
wald Mrs. Hertogh crossed 180 percent.
Dutch and Malayan) festooned
across her home.
to Mry
No,
half Indonesian.
musakase
Mrs Herlogh was
ja,
:
yes, must be, Bertha mid."
Clark."
the
her
finished
husband
the
richer than the was. For that is the worth of the bring his whole British cast the next summer and we shall have: prizes, including a one that go play will not crom the Atlantic, new apparatus that will coriach
PREKY Any metal beneath the wuzie." to Evelyn Margaret Ay of gui
"Motel?" Ephrata, Pennsylvania, a win-
Washington, aman, cut a 44 the title of Miles tooth on his 100th birthday "Gold, her six other children. Those, and I will say prayers that thai,' youngsters taking lessons on nor of the Attentio. City beauty (SCAR" ASSMAN, à MARANG BA
child,”
confort and America of 1954
...
''the fifth in his fouuriki" not.