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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1955.
HERE'S A BIG CHANCE
FOR PLANE
T
Toronto, Tuesday. HE Canadians" say the men-the railway men --may have let Britain down, but the machines have not.
The Canadians have in mind the Vickers Viscount few airliner which just a weeks ago started a 'service five times a day between Toronto and New York and between Toronto and Mon- treal.
DON
IDDON'S
DIARY
SPEAKING
TAW
Noisy town
live in The New York Times says: diens
Ontario, which Vickers Viscount has Toronto dominates, and 40 per- income brought a new look and a new cent of the national sound to commercial air opera- comes trom the province. tions in this country."
When the St Lawrence Sea- The success of the Viscount way brings the occan trade here is about the only good news as Toronto will be a glant You far as Britain is concerned I will understand therefore that can send you from North Toronto today has little time America this week.
for strikes. It is cocky, lusty, Toronto s not striking --- in spots, and sometimes just the reverse, The eighth compares itselt to Chicago. I Canadian international trade fair wish, however, it was a tidler has just begun here. and it is a town. whopping effort. Two thousand Arms from 30 countries are ex- hibling their goods. Incident- ally. Czechoslovakia's exhibit The turboprop plane is not
covers more space than Britain's. DROVE from the airport after only a success but something Other big American aviation. Oh, England It is a mammoth disembarking from the In l * sensation among North companies want the Viscount business show and Toronto is comparable Viscount and was Americans
and particularly in and admit that at the present' teering.
dismayed to see the Etter on the aviation trade,
The Vis time there is nothing like it in
Toronto's inhabitants have the Lakeshore Drive. There were count has of course been tried the U.S.
1,000,000 people literally tens of thousands of and proved for some time in I
New to Toronto from New been called
sheets of discarded newspapers, Europe and elsewhere, but it is York in a Viscount a few days with a sharp eye for a dollar." shee
This city is obsessed with cardboard
containers, bottles, new here and has recaptured
to watch American and
business.. It is expanding, cigarette packages, chewing- for Britain most of the prestige Canadian passengers
reaction. booming, and growing riche: gum wrappers. It was worse we lost over the unfortunate The plane and the flight were Comet.
every day. The favourite phrase thar. New York's Times Square. excellent. The showmanship Trans-Canada Air Lines are was not. Some of the Americans operating the Viscount in North aboard knew they were flying America and are delighted with in anew-type British plane, but it and their increased business, they were hungry for informa- Soon the U.S. company, Capl- tion which seemed hard to get. tal Airlines, will be flying, the Viscount they have ordered
60 of these British planes-and
wish they could get more,
1790
(REGISTERED TRADE MARK
SANDEMAN SCOTCH WHISKY
The King of Whiskies
SANDEMLAN SCOTCH
Effortless
N American sitting behind me
♫ said to one of the air hoalesses: "Is this a jet? The lady said "It's *propeller. turbine aircraft," From the time, we took cif smoothly and effortlessly and whined to our Landing in Toronto
one hour
and three-quarters, later there
were no announcements on the louispeaker, no "sebig" the plane
showmanship
T+
that
no
at all.
It is only a few weeks ago I flew from Chicago to New York in a D.C.T, one of the biggest
the
Just now is that Toronto is the on a Saturday night. centre of the Golden Horseshoe Toronto is a noisy town and
a 150-mile stretch along Lake it is quite obvious that there Ontario..
is no railway strike here. All The gold is undoubtedly flow- night the trains whistle and Ing because of the effort and hoot, ring bells,
shun ond industry of the people and the groan. It is bedlam, and I even rich minerals of the land. To "bought carplugs to try to shut day 33 percent of all Cana- out the noise during the night.
DID IT HAPPEN?
FACT or FICTION—another famous author tells a tale to set you puzzling. Find the answer tomorrow
and fastest planes67
on
Americans have produced. When we got aboard and had settled in ou scats the loud- speaker went and a voice said: "This is the pilot speak- ing Good morning to you all
hope you enjoy your This is our flagship, the We expect to make New York in two hours, averaging over 400 miles an hour. We have a 50- inile-an-hour tailwind.
1: may
be slightly bumpy. We will climb to an altitude of 1 forget the aurel and when you hear in pace of the pro a change peliers that is because we are switching on the superchargers. "I am sure you wil be very impressed with the
D.C.7% we are. We all were. People probably are still telling their friends: "I flew in a D.C.7, and it's certainly something."
No showmanship
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"W
HY not put an advertisement in The Times Personal Column?" Sibyl said.. We had been looking for months now for a place to live in, a small cottage on the coast with a bit of land and mooring for a boat. A place where I could get on with the book I was writing and yet have something to occupy me physically; perhaps a few lobster pots, a spot of duck-shooting, and a cabbage patch where we could grow Our own vegetables. Such places seemed to be few and far between.
The advertisement went in. AUTHOR REQUIRES SECLUDED HOUSE ON BRITISH COAST, and we had quite a number of replies. Most of them were from owners of large estates, people who had obviously set such an exaggerated price upon their possessions that the estate agents had refused to handle them.
These people evidently thought that all authors were wealthy and here was a heaven-sent opportunity.
At the other end of the scale were the offers of converted railway carriages and decrepit barges on muddy tidal creeks, from people who were better acquainted with the true posi- tion. Only one of the letters
SOLE AGENTS: DODWELL & CO., LTD. NOW, during this Viscount heid promise of something in-
Headaches BAYER
Toothaches
Colds
are quickly overcome by
CAFASPIN
flight I heard several pas-teresting, and we at once wrote sengers remark about the lack oft saying that we would call on
of vibration, the lack of noise, the following Saturday.
the wonderful visibility from
the huge windows, the absence
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It was a long way from Log-
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Drawing by Hesseltine.
1926
LIFT
at your
Own Risk
LOW.
"I THINK I'LL WALK "
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
A MANSION FOR SALE
that was yellow with age. collar and tie and a straw hat
The
extremities of her skinny brown legs were clothed in ankle socks
and black leather boots.
"Have YOU come Tommy?" she asked,
A small place
is
the owner,
had mentioned in her letter that the house (quite a small place) was
**Tommy?"
"Yes,"
it was a mansica.
Alone for years
"The shatters were closed
and the whale
enormous edifice had a fortora and forgotten air
scribbled the name of a well- It was a enchanted spot on known London estate agent on which somecae had built a looked like the
a greasy paper bag which was house that lying on the table. "I write British Museum and felt just to Him and tell him to quote about as big and draughty. you a special price.
I think
money
for
such a
the old place has taken to you. I set off for the lecture bour By the way, I wonder if you by car, leaving Sibyl quite happy. could clear a drain for me be- in the museum. She had decided fore you go? It's so useful to to distemper the walls of the have a man about the place, gun-room, paint the racks and revving at take-off, the grace doo, on the south coast, and we and beauty of the plane, but no started early in the morning
"Yes," I said.
huts obviously left there by the Ayway, you should learn how make it imo a kitchen. We were Home Guard,
saddied with the house, tre but the house it's done
because it happens sad among
the staff of two On the drive down we discussed
"Well, let's take Tommy to itself..
was no doubt about that. Lady and two
quite often." pilots
C. had found us easily enough, over the fact that this was a exactly how we would divide our
the yet. Then we can look round the very special British-made plane, days into work and pleasure.
house. I couldn't
Some three hours later, weary or her we had found her, but of things like that don't happen in and Vickers have done a splendid
bear to do it with him here; ho
smelling strongly job of publicity, but I think
drains, we made our departure, quick succession we could not about mustn't know we're thinking of Trans-Canada could
to pay possibly
going. He's gat a cold, poor
We slept in the village pab that imagine anyone else fool cough more. There have been expen-
"It's quite convenient," Lady right, where there was a bath, liability, dear, the place 13 50 damp." sive advertisements and there
C. assured us, "I've been living and all the way home on the She darted to
After my third lecture I was have been Press trips, but the
here alone ter returned with
years. The Sunday morning I told Sibyl
ä handed personal showmanship between Lady C..
telegram: HOUSE
and
cat. thing to do is to shut yourselves how impossible the place was. BURNED TO GROUND BUT which Jay company lacking.
"No," I said. "My name's It regarded
and But she sat silent with a faint AM OK STAYING That's my criticism, and when set in the middle of rather Williams, I've come about the malevolence.
forget the rest. I just have a smile on her lips and a faraway LOVE SIBYL. I talked to some Americans
few pieces of easily portable look in her eyes, and I knew that. "It's only wher, we were going through neglected woods on the edge of house,"
move arounri
she was seeing the sun on the Canadian Customs they said; the sea. It had
furniture and
"But that's the
room to room. It keeps smooth bark of the beech trees, British way, family for generations, and she
them all aired and saves me isn't it?"
was the last of the line. Now
the blue sea against the grey of we should change she was going to the South of Perhaps
from getting bored. As you're the rocks and the deep green on The Viscount is our way,
a writer, it's the very place for the grass under the trees. you." having a good Press since its France to live, and wanted to debut. The columnist Bob Con- see the old place in sympathetic
who writes: sidine,
for more bands. She had invited us to newspapers than I would care stay the night. to read, says; "The Viscount is a dinger almost total lack of vibration and astonishingly low noise level.
Let US handle
,
passenger
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Telephone
were
been
in the
We
be prepared to sympathetic, If the price was low enough for us to buy.
We had some difficulty in finding the place but were at last directed, by a postman, to a pair of large rusty iron gates set in stone wall We passed
a
through them and drove down a still-magnificent avenue of beech trees beside the bank of a. narrow estuary.
Forlorn air
The avenue opened out sud-'.
denly into a clearing, with the
basket
a corner and
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enormnicus
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with
some
up in one or two rooms
an open,
car," I
from
"Oh, I thought you'd come said. "I be very draughty, about Tommy," she said. *I 7. wrap him. In my coat," can't be bothered about the Lady C. said. "It's
not far bouse today." She made as You'll have to drive slowly be
cause of the road." though to shut the door,
by ERIC WILLIAMS
WITH The Wooden Horse, Eric Willems
quickly captured the public imagina tion in 1949, and suck books as The Tunnel (1951) and The Escapers (1953) hive. helped. him to hold it ever since. For his bravery he received the Military Cross in 1944, and his second wife, Sibyl, is an MBE. Now 43 and bearded, he works off extra anargy in less dangerous'axercise—salling and squash. The Williamsen five in Devon, where this story la 1.
GALERIELL STILL AS ALLE >
We've come from London," I reminded her,
"What about heating it?" I asked.
cold down "Oh
it's never here," she said. "It's so near the 'sea!"
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"Aren't the rates high?".
She looked at me with her clear blue eyes. "Oh I don't pay any rates," she said. "I'm It's not occupying it you see, not furnished.”
We looked
and
over the house,
"I know it's a lovely place," I said, "I don't suppose there's a loveller spot in England. what about that house-1's im- possible!"
"The house?
AT FUR
Well covered
I rang her that night. "How did it happen?" I asked..
"I do't know, it was the But stove in the kitchen. I think I say we are insured, aren" we?"
"Yes," I said, “we'ra, well covered."
Oh, we'll soon do something about that," she said.
Ridiculous
We saw the agent, as I had
seven
"Good
Don't worry, you frish you "lecture. I'm busy designing the new house. We'll budd it with the stone from the ruinade
isn't there anything of the
old one left?" I asked."
"Net a thing, darling. Must
as we walked from one known we would, and the price empty room to the next I felt was low: indeed-ridiculous In more and more depressed. No fact. We bought the property. dastr now, there's a policeman one, except a Government Do There were With the cat deposited at the partment, could possibly afford gardens as well as the woods.
keep
place as Here to vet's, Lady C. became
this. One
need interested in the sale of the s
acres of just come to see me?!!!
д such
would
And
I Codshed the rest of the lec- We could not move in untii"tures and drove back to Devon the Lady C. had gone to France, thanking my lucky stars that
staff of servants. house, and on the way back she furniture we should require and for the rest of that summer the house had been well insur- sea blue in front of us and on She showed us into what must told us that she was sure that to A all these rooms. Even we fretted in London, sching toed But how on earth had t
"Well, you'd better come in"
been the gunroom we were sympahellë.
covered with
whose The
one side the house, tall and grey, with classical facade
complete
Once have
with pediments and balustrade. The walls were
The shutters were closed across glass-fronted cupboards
A special price
to
DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?
I
used get red-hot if they were furnished we should get down to the sea and the happened? The chimney of the
It stove
had said. It have to ask countless people freshness of the Devon air grounds, neglected down to sleep in them. No, the was aufuran before we gained knew, but Lady the windows, and the whole empty leather padded racks held though they were, still retained whole thing was impossible. The possession--exactly two weeks had been doing that for years, "The house? Oh, we'll soon do enormous edifice had a forlorn nothing but dust and
an in the warm afternoon sun the boathouse alone would have before I was to start a series of I kept hearing Sibyla voice,
lectures in the north of Eng
something about that!?! and forgotten air.
land. occasional tin of baked beans quiet security of their Georgian beer big enough for us.
WORLD COPYRIGHT, RESERVED What a wonderful place," or powdered milk. There was planning. Smooth lawns, mature
Those two weeks were spent Sibyl said.
a sink in one corner of the trees, huge banked rhododen-
in making a couple of rooms terraces, and room and a cast-iron stove in drons, paved
habitable and in finding out "Yes," I replied, "for a
another
somewhere in the background
exactly, what was wrong, with nursing home."
in the the suggestion of tea
I looked at my watch. Good the house--which amounted to The roof Against the far wall was- a garden. Behind the house heavens," I said. "Is it as late almost everything massive front doors, and I divan bed, unmade, and on rough grass grew right down as that? We must be getting leaked, the drains smelled, and seen the other there was dry rot behind the an old brass handle wooden table by the window to the rocky foreshore, where on." I had which was fixed to the stone stood a chipped teapot and the there was a stone quay and a "furnished" room and rather panelling. There was spring
boathouse, A
hoped that Lady C. had forgot under the floor which at high architrave." A. bell clanged remains of a pienie lunch,
ten her invitation to us to stay, tide flooded the kitchen in the the gardens the night There certainly basement. be kept in their present seemed to be no signs of prese The door was opened by a C announced "All the rate of picturesque neglect paration. woman of about 50, She was ture's gone and I'm only using with little effort once we had
barbed "Call and see my agent: wearing a shiny blue-serge this and the room next door, cleared away all the
couple of Niseen write down his name: | skirt-a frayed college blazer, a Have you got a car??
We climbed the steps to the
pulled
distantly somewhere inside the camping out," Lady
house
12
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coul
I thought,
wire such a
But all that fortnight the sun thone, the light danced on the I'll see, and bees droned among the She, Bowering shrubs in the garden.
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