THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1955.
Interesting News Stories From. All Parts
Of The
World
Meet Matt
O'Shea, Guardian
WHAT THE 3.50 |
He's Building
Of The Blarney Stone
Blarney Castle.
Matt O'Shea thinks 1955 is going to be the best year yet for "seekers of eloquence and the gift of the golden tongue."
"And the B1-year-old Malt castle proper, and slightly low- should know. For he has been er than the level of the castle rampart. The kisser must lie on the back, bending the neck to the point where his chin faces heaven, The view from this angle is of a sheer drop ending in a yew tree 180 feet below,
the guardian for more years than he cares to remember of the famous Blarney Stome which <traws thousands at visitors every year to this picturesque Part
of Ireland.
It is Matt who leads them" the 108 steep steps to the up top of the castle and is Mate who holds their legs as they lean out over the dizzy drop -to das the stone upside down.
Dozens of sets of false teeth have been lost this way and at least two people have dropped
into the branches of the tree. One man tried to sneak a solo
kiss one night, fell through and
broke his neck. His relatives. OWBCT. "He WIN sued the
Film stars generals, prize fightors, writers and nonentitles have all left their imprints on The stone. "I keep it scrubbed: for hydene purposes,” Baid There are at least 100 stories Matt, "but not 100 often or we as to how the Blarney Stone got wouldn't have a blamey stone its name.
shines ke marble from the dissing and scrubbing because nobody
comes herc
without putting their lips to it. It costs one shilling and six pence, but nobody mind because legend has it that all who kiss it re- ceive the gifs of the gab."
drunk," said Matt haughtily.
Jacob's Pillow? The most likely one dates back to the time of the
first Queen Elizabeth. The castle was then owned by a cheiftain Coe mac MacCarthy who, while professing to be the Queen's
subject, never once ful filed a promise or condition and 30,000 Pilgrims talked himself out of
every pro- About 30,000
which he fali, dicament into seekers smooth-talk of all maCES and Finally, in cismust, the Queen in London, professions muke the pilgrimage raged at "nides
of
It is the
to the orätorical oracle every"Blarney, blarney, what he says year. Among the molley crew
he does not mean, of Blarney-kissers in modern usual blarney." times are Sir Winston Churchill, Laurel and Hardy, Wrongway" Corrigan, Rita Hayworth, June Haver and Moshe Rovenburg, a kosher restaurant owner. from yia Brooklyn, New
of its worshippers,
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The stone itself was supposed to have been "Jacob's Pillow" according to one ancient belief and was brought back to Ireland One part during the crusades. is said to have been diverted to England where it is believed to have been incorporated in the present Coronation stone.
Y OTHE
On many however, the store seems work in reverseit renders The present castle was built them speechless with fear. The in 1446 by MacCarthy and is stone is set in the battlement owned
by Mrs Jack Hillard,
about two feet away from the the former Penelope Hamilton.
America Offers
A Haven For China's Art Treasures
New York.
Events in the Far East are focussing the interest of art experts and museum directors on the fate of the more than seventy thousand price less Chinese works of art that Chiang Kai-shek's retreating Nationalists moved from the mainland to Formosa in 1948.
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niece of previous owner Sir George Colthurst. Hilliard and his wife lend a quiet life with the upkeep of the castle, stone and traditions their only bitions.
AMTI-
Major Hillard said offers of millions of pounds had been res ceived from America for the stone, "But it will never leave here" he emphasised.
Liked June Haver
Matt, one of the few mea living who have held thousands of
pretty girls around the waist and never got slapped for votes June Haver the American
movie actress as his favourite kisser. "A grand little girl, I was quite mad about her," he said.
Matt Ukes his American visitors but one thing he will never forgive-the quarrying of 40 tons of stone similar to the
at
lingstone of The Sto ter sale si shipping to New York for a dollar a piece.
"That was a terrible thing indeed," he said.-United Press.
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"Now that you congressmen have voted yourselves a raise. George, why don't you pass it around and step letting your hair go so long?"
A 'WHIZZO RUSSIAN BEAUTY
MAY COMPETE
FOR THE MISS WORLD TITLE
London.
PRESS agents often rush in where capitalists fear to tread so Major Neville Willing a small, dapper publicist knocked on the door of the Soviet Embassy recently to talk about bathing beauties.
His Atomic
Shelter!
Los Angeles.
An Atomic bomb shelter is being built on the sabar- ban estate of a Los Angeles industrialist.
Everyone
hopes it will never be put to a test, but the men who designed it believe they have come up with the best iden yet for survival under Atomic attack.
The shelter, involving a cylindrical iron "hull” burled in the ground, is the brainchild of Paul Laszlo, a noted industrial designer, and James Clark and Major Robert Crawford, two aerodynamics experts.
They believe the shelter would
complete protection
offer m
to its occupants as close as one
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mile to the "ground zero" of an Sole Distributors- Atomic bomb explosion. Op dinary
buildings this close to
zero would be de-
The Los Angeles City Plan- ning Commission earlier this}" month gave its approval to the shelter. The first one is being built on the, spacious grounds behind the home of industrialist Mr John D. Hertz in suburban woodland Hills.
The shelter itself consists of a corrugated iron tube 10 feet in diameter and 30 feet long. It will be surk in the ground and covered with about six feet of earth. It will have three roomtr and
a capacity for about 14 people.
Air ducts will be equipped with alters to clean radioactive particles out of the air sucked into the shelter. The equip-. ment also Includes oxygen
emergency water supply,' a set
and radio.
tanks, an electric generator, an of tools and a geiger counter
These worried days no clue to Soviet intentions is ever disregarded and Whitehall is probably busy even now trying to evaluate the surprising fact that Major Neville Willing was cordially invited inside and asked to feature of the shelter, state his case.
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The Russian diplomatic miss- ion in London is a wee bit friendlier than it used to be But even so its house Millionaires Row is not exactly the heartiest place for a West- emer to spend an afternoon, There are usually long waits until wanted officials
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nicer to me, dear fellow," he the Urals for all we know." said futtering his hands in ex-
The Entrance But the most significant as Mr Laszlo describes it, is the en- trance, A concrete mound with
out лето-і 4 carefully worked "They couldn't have been some fantastic lookers beyond dynamic shape surrounds the This mound is No one in the audience could entrance well. citement. "They asked me what bring himself to believe that designed to create a low pres- sure area around the entrance I wanteti. I told them I was Russia actually would take part no matter how powerful a handling the Miss World Con in an international beauty con-blast of air is pushed over it.
I wanted best and I
to invite test, but the Major gleefully Mr Laszlo said this feature Russia to send a a girl to repre-
rubbing His well-manicured protects the shelter from having this appear sent them
Hands.
its door torn off its hinges. Au ana a caller often tiros of After whispered cor
conferences They asked me how long ordinary door would be ripped noticing that the portraits of among officials it was appar- their girl would be needed if
or eight Malenkov
recur place enlly divided that beauty con- she came," he said. "How often miles away from grou more durable tests come under cultural affairs she by the
have to wear a bath-
zeror The shelter on the Hertz and the greying, sprightly Majoring suit and how and by whom estate will be just outside the before his mar shows up.
was ushered into the office of the
edging was conducted. the cultural attache.
Tike
house, on the side away from sounds
they'll participate doesn't it? And since the city of Los Angeles. It will
cost $12,000 about £4,000. matter of always a matter prestige "Well go on from this to "Charming fellow," recalled with them to win I can only say simplified models which can be
must have someone much larger, they
and
Not so with Major Neville Willing
The entire collections of the to their rightful ownerse Move To Halt
Peking Palace Museum and the Chinese people-whenever it is Central Museum of Nanking, the evident that they have a ro- flower of Oriental art, contain-sponsible leadership." ing many of the most precious masterpieces of old China
In January 1954 Dr Hu Shih packed in 2,279 cases and storedmet in New York with directors in some hidden mountain hide of the greatest American art
out of Formosa,
are
of
These art treasures contain more than 24.000 pieces porcelain, more than 6,400 call graphic works and paintings, more
than 4,500 bronzes and more than 4,500 jades The most precious part of the collection of the
is about 200 paintings which Sung and Yuan ore considered some world's greatest masterpieces,
of the
museums and a plan was pre- pared to bring 200 art objects among the finest is the mosan collections to the USA where they would have gone view in Washington, New York, Boston,., Chicago and San Fran- risco.
on
False Alarms
Tokyo.
The Tokyo fire department is
boxes in Tokyo's "gay" quarters.
attaching loud buzzers to alarm
year.
Charming Fellow
Major Neville Willing. "Really most pleasant. I told him what
that
for
for schools whizzo in mind. Yes, someone instance, or much smaller, for a absolutely sensational."
family of more modest means,' Mr Laszlo said United Press,
I wanted and he listened in- tently. Then he said: Of course
And the Major closed bis in Russia
eyes as though already seeing we have the beautiful girls in the world in imagination. Miss Collective
Farm
of 1955 step out before in an effort to halt false alarmsaid the Major, did not admit
The tone of this utterance the judges in her bathing suit. which cost the city about $150 of argument. It had the author-United Press.
A red bathing suit, of course. each
Four out of five alarms tur Radio
Ity of an announcement by Moscow of another ed in are fake.
But the Are department said It would cost over $150,000 to allach the buzzers to all 2,000 Took An Inventory boxes throughout the city and It does not have that much money In Summer, 1954, Aschwin
So the authorities are putting Lipps, Associate Curator of Far up a dozen or so buzzers. Eastern Art at the Metropolitan fire alarm boxes in the Yoshi-
on
Russian first say the discovery Shoots. Wolves
of a recipe for apple ple a la mode in a cook book published
Petropavlovsk in 1512.
Didn't you challenge this?" asked a fan of Western woman- hood,
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Kenora, Morris Merikel of Wadena,
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The old Koenigshof Hole!,
Art News, America's oldest art Mustum of New York, visited wara and Shinjuku amusement! "I suddenly had a mental flash Ontario's best airborne wolt for generations the leading hotel
magazine, publishes in the May Fermosa, took an inventory of areas, where false alarmS isite
article an
and
by Horace
the collection H. F. Jayne, Vice-Director of the Philadelphia Museum, who some of the aspects of
American exhibition.
the
owner refused
to rebuild
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"Frankly no," said the Major. claimed
in the city, was bombed of those belles are
of Byelorussia hunter.
He recently claimed bounty during World War II and the discussed most
whose pictures we used to see frequent. The buzzers are set to emit occasionally before the war. I've for 20 wolves he had shot from because they believed Bonn was loud noise when the alarm is seen some ashblonde Slavs who plane. The winter before he only the temporary capital of turned in Police believe they were positive smashers. It's a bagged 44 in Ontario and 26 West Germany and they feared "Unfortunately discussion of can catch the pranksters more big country, no one has combed Northern Manitoba,
they would be left with a white this project seems 10 have easily when the new gadget is all of it and there might be Press,
elephant. bogged down for SUTTLE Under Constant Threat revealed reasons," writes Mr set up.-United Press.
says the United States should offer a haven for these trea- sures
Jayne, "though lately informa-
In the same issue of the tion has come to as that there FREE® COFFEE magazine, Dr Hu Shih 1 is a hope of the project's
Trustee of
AN EXPERT SAYS:
- United
But even though the American When The Alarm Rings WOMAN'S PLACE IS
the Collections, revival." warns that the art treasures are in storehouses that are neither
exhibition might protect 2 fire nor bombproof, and kre "under the constant threat and selected group
danger of mountain dampness, humidity and air-bombing.
better
Granada, Spain,
IN THE HOME
Chicago.
Now they have apparently decided that the East-West split is here to stay,
The Boun Government is putting up the funds in conjunc- tion with the Governanent of the state of North Rhine- Westphalia, the city of Bonn and one of the country's biggest banks,
The rebuilt "Koenigshof" 19 expected to open for business early next year,-United Press.
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THE OUTLAW'S DAUGHTER
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of objects, It i would have to be returned to The alarm has been sounded Formosa. The majority of the in the cafetaria coffee war. And In urging removal of the art works of art would in any case it is a three beil alarm at that.
remain in Formosa And Mr The war started when one bar
free a
shave works, Mr Jayne writes: "The Jayne concludes that it would offered patrons world can little doubt our ult-be
Dr Herbert Ratner is one of those people who "offer with an electric razor. frankly to male intention of seeing that sanctuary to the whole enormous Its rival has struck back with. all are in due course returned collection, letting parts be shown free coffee all around for those believe that women should stay home and look To Help 'Enslaved A SELECTED PROGRAMME
I wanted chosen
museums, in the war when an alarm clock after their children and stop trying to make but providing proper storage for turned face to the wall, goes off "assistant wives" out of their husbands. the balance until time solves the This performance is repeated problem af ultimate resting three times each morning. --- place."-United Press.
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Blind Man
Toronto.
Ken Gardner, a "blind canteen operator, is literally keeping in step with the atomic age. He finds his way home with a Geiger counter
The 30-year-old bachelor lost his sight Ave years ago and found it difficult to get around the way most bind mea do-
A
CABLE: $170
by counting slope. He kept
"the count and missing
his house until he thought of the Geiger counter.
sighted friend with experience
in electronics helped find him
a $30 counte, no larger than
two packs of cigarettes, and a
Home
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piece of radioactive bee to bury in front of his door. Gamines connected the insinu
Dr Ratner, Health Commis- Many young mothers, he said, sioner of Oak Park, made these were too busy with clubs and points at a mental health lec-community work" ture attended by married couples.
Russians'
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Reduced Admission ----- enslaved Roxy: $1.50, $1.00 & 50 Chỉ. Broadway! $1.20 & 70 Ctx. Russians Aghting for freedom” was announced here by a groMD), of intellectuals,
Athens.
The foundation of a union of "Friends of the
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Older Women's Job Civic and community organd- Busbands should not have to
The aims of the new organisa- wash the dishes unless they sellors should be left to older tion are stated in its charter as volunteer, he said. "Then why women who have already raise
their families, he said follows: (a) anti-Commamist pro- should I have to wash them?"
paganda and enlightenment of But many young mothers be the Greek people on Commist young housewife asked.
willingly "Because it's your job," replied come Dr
ensnared" who minces no ens red in such groups, he
ald, and persuaded themselves (c) that they were doing a "greater
Ratner,
went to his write cane and to words.
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and happily (2) help to Russian
a small detachable emphone. The Med Laughed good" for their children.
pusły
her
fighting for its freedom re-establishment of close traditional connections between Today, he finds his way home
the Greek and the Russian There was a hush; followed by So the child, unsure of his without Lattering
people. 17.9 the counter begins leiding fur-masculine laughs.
parents' affection, shows off or The Union has sent a letter to "Why should a woman try to acts up" when company comes, the Greek Minister of Foreign make a second-rate woman out or scribbles on the walls to ex- Anairs requesting his aid in the for the liberation of Ret campaign
Alexander Trouszoviich who are we trying per saldresentment, Dr Rat- et up a matriarchy
One out of every 12 children was abducted on April 13, 1954 He wants scientisis to develop Dr Ratner, who is an associate born in America was destined to from West Berlin, and was a Geiger counter that will it Professor of Preventive Medi- end up in a mental institution, reported by a Commmiet radio inside a white come, and he cine at Loyola University, said he said, so it behoved parents to have presented himself “will- wants cities to mark strategic most parents, husbands included, lo expend their energy on
"aingly to the Communist points with radioactive paint, did not show their children bang-up job of child rearing.”—– authorities of East Berlin,
-United Presa.
enough affection.
United Press,
United Press.
Now
has solved his own of problem-Gardner in pressing man?" Dy Ratner de-press his
for more help for the blind. to do, set up a
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