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The British Museum
What's a 200th birthday when
talk in thousands?
yent,
are
you
HE British Museum celebrates its 200th
anniversary this
by VIVIEN BATCHELOR
But the 548 people' employed at the Museum magazine is kept, too. Any pub-
taking the birthday lisher who does not send a copy,
of his publication to the British calmly.
Muscum is able to a fire of in
antiquities 23. If you deal dating back thousands of years,
domed reading room are 6,000,- books on almost every 000 subject and in every language, "Every year they increase and retational copic take up one quarter miles of said Mr N. F. Sharp. of the Reading
Mr E. H. Hinton ans been in t
a mere bi-centenary is scarcely the department for 34 yours. worthy of note..
"But we have mounted some special exhibitions to mark the occasion." said Mr J. McIntyre, the assistant secretary.
One of the exhibitions is collection of 100 drawings, let-
medals
and a terra ters and cotta by Michelangelo--some of them lent by the Queen
will An exhibition of maps
held at the be the largest ever
is in the King's museum. It
and Library,
has been 05- sembled by Mr R.A. Skelton and one of the few women em-
played at the
H.M. Weilis.
Miss Waliis,
Museum. Mies
geographer,
has been assistant keeper at the museum since 1951.
"It's most
exciting work. Do you know, I discovered an entirely unknown copy of the earliest English gicbe once?"
Miss Walls made her dis- covery In 1949 at Lord Lecon- field's home at Petworth, Sussex, where she had gone to do some cataloguing.
Half Million Maps
Mr Skolton and Miss Wallis look, after half a intlilon maps 'dating from the 6th century B.C. to modern times.
"People from all over
world come to consult
aps," said Mr Skelton.
Us
the on
mother woman who works
muscum
on some of the treasures in the Mies is 26-year-old Elizabeth Lucas, red-haired student from Trotuscliffe, Kent. She is studying under the In- stitute of Archaeology helps to repair Ming vases and
ancient
been dancelains
and
which have
Another dep
department of the
British Museum deals with today and not with history.
In the copyright receipt office
a copy of every newspaper pub- lished i Brifäin arrives every day and has to be catalogued and filed. Every book and every
AMERICA COLUMN
from
NEWELL ROGERS
"Last year we received 187,232 copies of newspapers, 133,084 hocks, magazines, music pieces and maps.
As there is not room for all the books and papers at the museum, many of them are sent to Colladale, Middlesex, where they are kept, bound, for ever. It is not only new books that help to fill the museum. On the shelves Ground the famous
"We lost o
Room.
us. fold quarter of a million books in the war through bombing.
Admission to the Reading Room is by ticket only.
"Some people have come here every day for years. They are mostly people engaged in per- manent research. Other people write books here."
"Many of the old characters' are dying out, but we still have
two regular readers over 90,"
who
סיוה
The tax-payer helps to pay for the museums upkeep. The 1953-54 vole from Porilament was £392,000. Out of this the salaries of the staff taka £340,000.
The affairs of the Muscum are ndimi iztered by 51 trustees, of whom 20 form ณ standing committee.
are the
Principal Trustees Principit trustees Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and the of the House of Speaker Commons.
One trustee is appointed by the Crown. The present Royal
Is trustee the Marquess of
The director Cambridge. Sir Thomas Kendrick.
THE DIRECTOR of the British Museum, Sir Thomas Kendrick, sits in the fore- court of the building, which is built on the site of the former Montague House.
THE
DEATHS WERE A MISTAKE Ing
A
$15.00
FABULOUS DAWSON
By J. W. TAYLOR.
440
A
hirn
the trade is unchallenged.
is
THO is this "Spot-Cash their hands and have of moved equipment that was to be the foundation of hls Labulous W Dawson, the Wonder away-man give away prices. Boy from Brixton"
"the other
He entered the game against budness progress. Both worked shrewd, fast-working dally with but a few hours 10 Scrap Metal King," now set operators. Deals would be clinched sleep driving loads of scrap on smashing the ban on the after all-ight dashes neccss the different parts of the country. landing of Icelandic fish Connen, in powerful sports cars Gradually Daveces built up a or hastily commissioned planes. bank balance and launched into British ports and giv- And thus did the fabulous George out into the scrap metal trade
housewives
cheap Dawson prosper,
in a big way. Came the time when he needed but 30 seconds fish?
Although he tailingly rejects outside reckoning that he has to eize up the worth of This bu:ley 45-year-old male
cool £35 millons in stoccid-hand
larry. New York.
Cookngy millennite sarap denier buying and selling war surplus Dawson admits to having MAN spoke 14 words from Bermondsey, non-smoker on an externational basis and in "burned his fingers" now and into a phone.
and non-tambler, except in his other business tangactions then, but his remarkable busi- In seconds the sirens of busines, was agendy newspaper, since leaving the Amy, he does nees acumen has enabled
headline news who be
not dispute that he has at times to offect this and today his 25.00 police cars were screaming the Army in the lost tvar. As made fantastic profits on his personal and financial status in
in the streets of San An-early as 1938 he had told ce- deals 35.00
Not all his deals have been gelo, Texas city of 52,000 porters that having made and loet £300,000 in eccond-hand motor
NO STOPPING HIM 10.50 people, on
a major emer-vehicle dedus, bo was then penni- rucessful or profit-making. He claims that the outbreak of the
He will need 10.50 gency call.
less. But not for long.
all his wit, Korean war cost him a fortune. brains and toughness to wiri For those were the 14 words, Square-bashing and milltary Surplus war materini he' had
imervention Bald in a Texan drawl: You'd duties over, George
through with his Dawson bougle from the Americans in in the fish trade, noted for the better hurry or you will be too visited o
riend in, Guernsey Germany Luddenly late. Ten men have died shoy enter the wars He valuable, and lis former owner who have been in the business high-powered finance of many already,
big opportunities in the heaps of requisitioned it: Dawson always It was all a mistake: it was sorop metal and try equip claimed that the compensation before them, but once George a lifetime, and their fathers fireman on a house-phone ment, left by the Germans after paid to him was totally Inade-
his
a "yen" for anything, there system, calling his comrades to their occupation of the island,
quale.
is no stopping his determina come up to the recreation roomRecognising that there was a for- and watch a cowboy movie 'on' tune in it for anyone who could'
tion to go through with 12, 2 ABORTIVE ATTEMPT 24.00
quickly dispose of it ins the pre-
He married his wife Olga, an roadly
Another stroke of hard luck, attractive. ex-show girl and. In his excitement he pressed walling lucrative and 15.00
the wrong button and those marices for "junk", hat seranged
buying-up the £4 milion colonel, after the war. It was werdiu blurted out of every to scquire the bot from the Minds his abortivo attempt to daughter of a White Ruslan Way of Supply. Most of the worth of Greek war surplus Olga Myrs (her stage name) $18.00 police radio in the town,
soon sold, bringing him consider material and reparations. The second marriage. Together sbie financial advantage,
Greeks suddenly changed their with their
children, THE
brought from George they
live
sumptuous cir “You can't, do business
cumstances, They have two London residences. There was a people like that. 5.00 Uke following the Presidential
As a young man working in splendid villa at Canne and a yacht Williamsburg into methadoneind future in the big-
and was surplus market, and his native, Bermonizey Dawson 1260,000 yacht to help malce MrElsenhower travel mostly od w' professional, eye, on the survggled to keep going a small; we life more comfortable, bit thegs, Had to be sold by air, He has und the coachtainerent and fastoundions fast, bock, stroot, near Brixton Hul, Ist year thes only orientalisco his inauguration, were embarrassing governments At the age of 20; he and a pai do meet French Income tax It was built by the Pullman an over the Contiber. He saw bought Jorry between them demands and mable George to Company in 1942 for President that there was a fortune in it for out of hard-earned moving better conduct his aftales from ROOKY
Baby, ona who could take off the fret Dawson nequisition of his London centre.
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Common Marine Food-Fishes of Hongkong
Isecond enlarged edition)
Weights & Measurements
Chineso Croods & Customs (V. R. Burkhardt)
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Presidential private railroad coach,. "U.B. Car No. 1, which is :143 tons of armour-plated ⠀⠀ Júxury, looks
balls
VISUALISED FUTURE
frind
and
Dawson meediately visualised
became
"
CONORETICKER CURLPs of war material, scrop, fron and junk yard. In the
wo
MR J. PRESCOTT, 68, works on a cast of one of the heads on exhibition In the Muscum. This head is to go to New Zealand. Mr Prescott has worked at the Muscum for 45 years. Top left: Under the domed roof (second largest in Europe) of the famous reading room, 470 people can sit at desks at the same time.
MISS H. M. WALLIS, assistant. keeper in the map
section, examines an early English globe dated 1592.
STUDENT Blanco Ben, from the St Martin's Art School, visits the British Museum regularly to sketch.
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