THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1955.
A Fine Romance, My Friends, WILL MEN LIKE THESE
SMOOCHIE THE TYPE OF PICTURE THAT
BUILT UP THE ROMANGE-1.
and SNAPPY
This Is!
The 'inside' on the engagement
of EDDIE & DEBBIE
By DAVID LEWN.
but
FINE romance, my
Mr Fisher said: "We don't friends, this is--this mind a long engagement,
Junc's the date." But when love story of America's they returned to America from record singing star Eddie London the wedding date did Fisher and film personality not seem quite so certain. girl Debbie Reynolds.
Nine months' untiring efforts by Eddie and Debble to prove they are Love's Young Dream now appeur just tired.
Mr Fither scized the oppor- unity to launch his new record "Wedding Bells," Then his busi ritss advisers said thore couldn't possibly be a wedding until his TV series was over.
New dolay
THE
For the other day 22-year-old Debbie Reynolds was in Holly- wood raying mournfully: The wedding date is unsettledit TV series has now ended, but there is another delay. was to have been June
Mir Fisher has gens off on his nation-wide soft-drinks tour. Mise Reynolds went filming in Hollywood.
And 20-year-old Eddie Fisher was patrolling America with a song and a mile in the Interests of a soft-drink company that he would be kept pretty busy until the end of the year.
So
In June...
NO what is it all about?
March Debble and
Exidie want to London-chaperoned by Debble's mother, Mrs Maxenc Reynolda -- just bursting with The joy of being engaged.
Mis Reynolds suki to me then: "I have my mother along because it wouldn't be proper ollerwise."
THE TYPE OF PICTURE THAT BUILT UP THE ROMANCE - 2. EDDIE AND DEBBIE DANCE WITH TOP-DANCERS MARGE AND GOWER CHAMPION,
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RULE THE WORLD?
S
ENATOR Charles Potter, logless young victim of a last-war Infantry battle, had the word for it.
· Asked for a quick comment on the White House announcement that the U.S. was going to launch earth satellites, he said, "It certainly is a scarey thing."
The Mr Fisher's advisera got to work again. Another snag to immediate marriage appeared. Edillo Fisher's fans (among them Princess Margaret) are nearly teenage youngsters who have loyally been buying his records. But the advisers feared that the fact. teenager following might falter if Fisher broame a married man. And in all the capitals of the world the After three months of on-off-question is asked: How long before some- on again romance, the Eddie and Debbie affair began to assume
one from another country may be watching a slightly self-conscious air. us from space? Could their love story merely have been arranged to promote their separate career?
By my book "scarey" is right. From the White House, of all the staid, sedate places, heavy and dull as it is with solid Victoriana, comes word of excursion into space. Selence fiction becomes a science
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Make no mistake about it. This object on the basketball scale which U.S. scientists now say they will toss into contribu- outer space as a tlon to the International Geophysical Year is
'We insist... ASKED my Hollywood re- porter to check. He cabled that Debbie's studio says: "The engagement brenk rumour being prepared for, such
that
taboo here. We insist Debble and Eddie are still in love. When the couple have arranged the wedding the studio will announce it."
not
ELM
purely innocent reasons we are being led to suppose.
All this talk about how lly
Note that word "Inslat." Debbie Reynolds is a deter-nations to swop mined young woman.
It will be for scientists of all the observations
She is about cosmic rays and air how hoping for a date this density and heat from the sun month (August) for her walk should be taken with a pinch to the altor.
of salt or a shot of brandy, ac- cording to taste,
I doubt if she will make it. But if she fails again she will have much to console her. In addition to all the fome she has reaped
from the Eddie and Debbie romance she is still a girl scout. With 47 badgos for good, conduct and efficiency.
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Today the film-makers' fantasy comes nearer to reality.
FROM WASHINGTON comes an important despatch on the news that has become today's top talking point. -by Group Captain- HUGH DUNDAS, D.S.O.,D.F.C.
dent Eisenhower has handled this affair. Qulie-the contrary,
He means it, when he ex- presses gratificat the hope That these experiments will help all scientists everywhere.
But do not irongine that he is generously giving away any great defence secrets,
As I'see it, Eisenhower has made a shrewd move. His space 'explorers are almost ready to sheet-off some of their basicet-
Could they be certain of doing
occupied on nations observing. the progress of these new celestial objects,
And take careful note of the target in any country with de- ball prototypes. The fact is, that down
namo
of Dr Wornher von vastating accuracy. scores Alabama
of scientists, Braun, technical director of U.S. Of course, other men in the so without scientists of other with guttural many of them
Before satellite will be Army gulded missiles. German accents, have working for years on the satel- going to America at the end of more idealistle projects.
the war this brilliant German te project..
They will be measuring move- perhaps of picking up the mes- scientist was a co-inventor of ments in the upper atmosphere sages they will transmit?. Hitler's V2--the weapon which which will enable us to enjoy came within an 'ace of 'oblitera- weather forecasts for months ahead. They will be watching ting London.
the moon and the stars from an undreamed of by certainly Observatory
Who THEY the are muffed by layers of atmo about their discoveries to
sphere. scientists of other nations.
THE SIX-FOOT SCOT WHO became a mOHAMMEDAN
FRENCH SECRET
POLICE ARE SCARED
OF HIM
professor:
could
Men like Braun
have not been sonding notes earth-bound astronomers THEY
Their
instructions have been simple and scarey. Get any manned satellite into space be-
stallation to match the one in itself. Alabama. And that there too
Watching
then
The risk
could not. Imagine, the awful fear which would have swept the world If It became known that some nation or other Into had launched satellites spaco, Imagine, for instance, the
in Moscow.. consternation in Most
it not possible, that the
fore the Reds do the same thing. AND they will eventually be
Is has any illusions A assembling-from components For no one about the fact that somewhere gont up from carth rocket Russians-thinking that they had in Russia there is a defence in ship to circle round the moon been tricked and lulled by soft words--might in desperation launch an atheis with nuclear the guttural accents of German But depend on one thing. The weapons?·· technicians who went
far in important men in that satellite
Remember that the country mapping the road to space for which will hover above you Adolf Hitler are to be heard. twice a day will be the men which first truly conquers space watching you and the Russians wil dominate the world in an not the men watching the absolute sense, planets.
Just a start
rifying frontiers of the West lands.
Shrewd
London, drove straight at me and I only FROM back-street Tangier just managed to jump clear,
cafes to remote Moroc- "There is no doubt about It- Only can villages the word is they meant to kill me,
By giving fair notice of what going: "The British Major the French extremists the so-
is to be done, Eisenhower has anti-terrorists called
The Americans do not play at will be back."
have been responsible.
this kind of thing. With a com- But he has been able to demon- given away no vital information. BASKETBALL whirling bination of superb
inventive strate
before the Sykes And Major Ián
ence again. "Why? Because I am working
political around 250
miles up may genius and coldly practical
busi- Maclean, formerly of one of for the religious and
freedom
the Moroccannot sound too sinister. But ness method they march forward world his desire to be friendly, the famous kilted Scottish people. regiments,
of science, just as their grand- the Seaforth How did this British officer listen to the experts. "We must confidently to pass the frontiers to be unwarlike, to share. Highlanders, paces his room come to be a Mohammedan? By learn to crawl in space before fathers marched across the tet- here in Britain, fuming at a chance meeting with a Moslent we can fly in space." being deported from
That's what they were saying
I am bound to say that I find E timing of his armounce.. Tangier, and planning to Side By Side
on the White House lawn.
President Elsenhower's Pressmont is clever. It is a shrewd return to help the Arab
Secretary, James Haggerty, a follow-up to his performance in Invalided out of the Seaforth
What
They tribe naive when he tells us that Geneva. It opens the way at nationalists
do they mean? against the Highlanders at the end of the
that
rather scientific ex- least for a partnership their experimental this is "a purely war, his health gone, he found mean In the Moslem faith which the basketball is just
The only connóction than a competition between men a beginning, periment, Night and morning bearded, professor discussed with him the They mean that as soon as pos. the Defence Department has with at the start of a new era, which
It is supplying the rockets." six-foot Maclean,
which sible It will
could be short and cataclysmic be followed by a
be everlasting" and larger, wheel-shaped, satellite
Well, of course, playing down or could
glorious with a crew of men in its rim. the importance of the rockets in "Now the French know I am
this busness is rather like play But I and myself wondering prepared to fight by the side of What will these men bo doing?
ing down the importance of the how things are going in my Moslem brothers." he says, "but what they really fear They will be looking at the horse in winning the Derby. No space research station in Russia Petition To Queen the effect of a British major earth from the most perfect ob horse, ro Derby. No rockets, no As well as in Alabama?
writing and talking in the cause servation post ever devised.
And what is the spirit about of the Arabs.
With telescopio cameras opera-
sharing information They may have got rid of
ing in the ideal conditions of I shall it was only by petitioning the me for the time-but
space they will be able to ob- Queen that I got a visa to go to return. I cannot let my friends arve even a newly dug shelter Tangier," he said, showing me. "Perhaps I shall petition then your back garden, let alone TN the matter of space explora the Foreign Office letter telling
troop movements.
I then motive power provides him of the Queen's intercession Queen again. But this is cer-
"From the moment
I landed taln-1 do not fear the secret
French.
a converted answer to his troubles. Moslem, spreads out his prayer included a romance that mat, bows low towards Mecca broken up. and thanks Allah for twice de- vering him from murder gangs in Morocco.
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"Afler the British Foreign Office had rofused to help me,
down.
had
18
space ships.
No secrets
the
so for 19
the Kremlin is concerned?
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And how about Britain? Aro
our New Elizabethans preparing our their Jaunys of discovery?
Might my son perhaps be a ploncer of outer space?
⚫ problem number onc. this celestinl run- From platform they will be ready-t For all that. I do not intend a single order from earth-to to suggest that there is no sin- Plenty to think about, isn't JOHN RALPH auide atomic missiles on to any cerity at all in the way Prest- there?
I was shadowed. French secret pollee. It is they who fear police lurked outside my hotel. me." And turies when I was in the street, n' powerful black Citroen "
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