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Uno's now Secretary-General faces jittery session with one big pull: he is still on speaking terms with Mr Vyshinsky
By EVELYN IRONS
THE SG
tively unsound" he ured his pre- rogative as Secretary-General
to refuse to do as he was told by the Administrative Tribunal to whom eleven sacked em- ployees had appealed.
The Tribunal decided that four of the employees theuk be reinstated. Hammarskjold rid
no. That pleased the Americans, but left the staff in a state of Utters.
Marquis always dined in
his bat
by JAMES BARTLETT
THE most
T
scandalous
serial story of a life. time has been running for more than 40 years,
All the most respectable Hibraries put it openly on their bookshelvck.
For its title is "The Complete Peerage,” now stretching out to twelve 500,000-word volumes."
It looks auch a sober work. But don't be fool-
ed.
Apart from its eye-raising revelations of high-society amours. and intrigues the new Instalment shows how # Duchess of Somerset served only a leg of mutton and dish of potatoes when the duke brought home a guest for din- ner
n
folk, frail how an Earl of Suf- and sickly in health, worried his friends because he wanted to marry a lusty widow
how the marriage of Duke of Sussex was not legal after all.
Dip where you like and comes a sensation...
The gambler
"
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THERE WAR Lord Thane: who went gambling in Paris, broke the bank twice by winning £40,000 one night, and then lost £120,000 a few nighis laar.
Marquis
The wine-loving Townshend always sat at din- mer with his hat [: a Lori Tänkervilla ro fancied his rich basa-baritone voler the he became known as the Singing Earl,
The ron at one peer was so
for a fortnight at a time miner than get up.
daughter, who stayed behind when her father moved out,
The following week, however,lczy, that, he would ein bed But there is no serious or come the great gel-19thc immediate possibility of the SC party withst another member the SG proclaiming "going steady." He seems' quite happy as he is.
of the
UN staff," and
with
As
It has been noticed that giris Ereat bonhomic acting as com in whom he takes even a sight per at a variety show on the
podium
General of the Interest are not of the magazine-sembly. hall. cover type. He likes them banksy and brainy; his own He also used the occasion to
authors as tell the tastes rum to such
assembled thousands
T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, that he was retting up a sprejal New York gossip columnists committee from the staff to ad- have not been able to pin ony- viso him. thing cn him yet, although one hinted the other day that he was actually seen around with a woman journalist.
Contrary to expectation, he Americans pleased
They like him
the new boss.
required,
The beautiful wife of another
peer did not marry him until The had had an affair with an- other peer and had "passed through the hands of soveral other gentlemen."
"Take my coach',
(KELETONS in the peerage famly cupboards are not peculiar just to these S to T families in the newest volume,
Nearly all the great families already exposed in
carller volumes keep to the When the first
MOTONG
of Abercorn, for exemple; found that his wife planned to ruN away from him he bogged her to go In the family coach.
All the shameful, shameless, eccentric incidents that have kept gossip going for. nearly 1,000 VERTS OTO now on отеть record for nine out of every Intermediate floors iften high-society families.
He also began to take meals with the rest of the staff in a cafeteria in the building. And пе went round personally to every office In the whole labyrinth, shaking hands with each of the four thousand. The effect of all this was rewarding. "He's a good guy," one of the doormen fold me. "You know- democratic."
In his wide-windowed, deep- carpeted office on the 38th floor
Meanwhile the great, majority of the UN budding, Hammarsk jold is seeing far more people of the staff are inclined to like than his predecessor did.
He started off by making one He takes the line that he is There is no saying, of course.
change in UN custom-- when some unforeseen tiff may
an intermediary between the tiny disrupt this harmony; but for pluhy restaurenta. In the delegations, someone who must instead of whizzing up to the floor without stopping the moment, at least, all is nature of his job he has to be constantly available for con- 386h
Hation and advice.
when the SG got on board, the sweetness and light. Hammars- entertain a great deal, but his sultation kjold speaks fluent English, guests are invited to meals Thus far Hammarskjold has clevator girls were told not to French and German, but an either at the UN or in the Park been paying greatest attention treat him like a VIP but to stop Russian.
Avenue apartment.
to domestic problems. And he at any Lic the Norwegian, and Ham- They are invited with a pur- has plenty in his own staff. marskjold, the Swede, are about pose to talk; and their host
10 talk different as two men can be prefers
In peaceful Lle, a family man, lived as surroundings. Secretary-General In a large
any married oficial residence whose upkeep has never asked took oll of the 15,000 dallors lady in the UN diplomatic corps
Seventeen allowed him for the purpose, in to act as hostess for him at a
hundred of them addition to his tax-tree 40,000 party.
Americans. And although Although he is apparently shy. Hammarskjold has firmly Pro dollars salary and expenses.
of the Bachelor Hammarskjold de- he is by nature self-sufficient, claimed that "members
entertains clined to live in the big house, and he
his guests sinft must maintain a loyalty to without So the UN set him up in an himself
requiring D the organisation and to no one else," he is up against the fact elegant duplex (maisonnette to woman help
theca Americans aro us) on swank Park Avenue with There was chatter among the that
large living-room un the gossips when the boss, fraternit required by their own govern.
floor, three
bedrooms ing with members of the secre- ment to prove their loyally to upstairs and quarters for his Larlat and their friends at the the United States.
Without any explanation day" party. butler, cook and
other UN's first "staff one
otherwise that to act servant.
was seen dancing with Gurl Lie, excent This
is
24-year-old would have been "administra- predecessor's not his arrangement exactly cheup, but as it costs 10,000 dollars a year it save the UN 5,000 dollars, since the money cannot be switched to any other use.
a
An outlet
to
aro
URANIUM DIVINER
By. Jack Comben
Buenos Aires. the ground with a forked rod The place is rented unfurnish- ed, and Hammarkskjold, whoIR Christopher Gibson, of hazel, oak, peach or cherry. likes to tell his staff that they ; ▶ a British businessman "The trouble is to find some- must cultivate a purely inter who claims psychic powers, thing strong enough. I am very national outlook. 13 having It decorated a modern Swedish is to lead an oxpedition into sensitive, and reds often break South when I get close to what i am De an cutlet for unexplored central his
nationalist feelings. America-in search of
a. after " But he has an irreproachably uranium field. And his only cosmopolitan taste in platuros, and on his walls are a Braque gear will be a small ivory painting and drawings Matisse and Picasso..
Sir Christophor is a member
head- by elephant and a diviner's of the British Society of Dowsers
-water diviners-with quarters In London. He has many striking
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He has found water for dozons paraphernalia," he told me in the Buenos Aires office where he of celtie broeders, all for. Royal runs his agricultural supply Dutch and quantities of Jesult business. "I am paychic. I intend to and uranium tising my extra- sensory perception and a forked rod.
omers.
Last year he located, again by moana of bla "magie pendulum,"
a huge coffer suspended by fron chains under. Water near the
I am sure there's a big Great Mocona Falls. uranlum field on the northern border ojot, e Argentin, near, "Unfortunately, we hadn't got Frenguty. I found it while in the equipient to lift he told Buenos Airco by holding my me: “This King I shall go fully hollow elephant Ivory pendulum prepared. I am certain 1t con- over a map of the district. Now in Josult gold hidden there in all that remaine is to go over the Seventeenth Century,"
Only the remaining families between the Tredegers and the Zellands are left unexposed. They must wait another year, or two before they find themselves In the final instalment of the 20th century's most scholarly, scandalous tale,
[* "The_Completa Peerage”: _S«T, Vol. 12. Part 1; St. Catherine PrezÜ, just published.
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