| POCKET CARTOON
By OSBERT LANCASTER
"Guess what → I'm
WHO
T
HE answer is Elsie do entitled
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1955.
. INVENTED MAUVE HAIR?
STOOD ON HER
..FIRST BACKED THE FOXTROT ?
| HEAD EVERY MORNING?
AND INCIDENTALLY LIVED TO BE 92 ?
"Handsprings
de Wolfe, the wonder- across the Seas......' ful Lady Mendl whose
memory has now been made
The dear old girl was cor- of the amaze-
bright by her friend Lud- tainly one wig Bemelmans
enchanting book TO
the
County Planning Officer, and I've just issued " demolition order under the
Act!"
in
an ments of the age. She went entitled to parties like a very com- THE ONE I LOVE plicated rich little Christmas THE BEST (Hamish
tree, beautifully ornamented, delicate, glitering with jewels."
Hamilton, 158.).
Myself, I think it would have been more happily
A British Crossword Puzzle
2
18
26
3 Kept (8),
ACROSS
Motor spirit (8).
Felgn illness (8).
11 Lowered (0).
12 Symbol (4).
13 Disdain (5).
18 Boredom (5).
10 Accustomed (4).
22 Chose (8).
18
110
12
14
15
24 One who leaves a will (8).
20 Musician (8).
26 Sword (0).
YESTERDAY'S
[23
25
DOWN
Implement (5).
2 Details (5).
3 Love affair (7).
4 Impetuosity (4).
5 Parched (4).
Dram (6).
7 Venturesome (6).
19 Get to know (5).
14 Attack (5).
15 Figure (7).
10 Habit (6).
17 Motive (6).
20 Denude (5).
21 Worship (5).
22 Sallor (4).
23 Learning (4).
CROSSWORD.-Across: 3 Arranged. 7 Plumb, 8 Artesian, 18 Create, 13 Systems, 1 Chat, 17 Iterate, 18 Recluse, 20 Oral, 21 Sardine, 20 Leered, 27 Trestle, 20 Lunge, 29 Dungeons Down: & Epics, Cures, 3 Abale, 4 Anew, 5 Guishia, 6 Denote. Reiniss, 11 Ryder. 12 Atoll. 14 Steals. 15 Crude, 18 Atone, 18 Routed, 19 Covers, 22 Reels, 2 trons, 24 Edged. 25 Stye.
When she "did over" 1 house (apparently she was to do over Fort Belvederc for the Duke of Windsor, and there was happy rumour that she was going to do over Buckingham Palace for him too) she went to town on the bathroom, concealing the "unspeakable porcelain fiture" behind a Louis IXV cune chair.
Rigid with discip- line, crackling with strange enthusiasms of diet she was an carly Gayelord Houser fan, said of soup that she would not buill a meal on
lake.
LADY MENDL MADE 1002.857 GAYELOND LOST 60 DOLLARS
BHE
NANCY SPAIN tooks
back at a Vory Gay Old Girl
fece like "a ripe plum lying on
Bide"),. its Houser.
and Gaylord
L
PARADE
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS.
"Some of the Alfred funny. Society.. is doesn't think it is 50 Duck DONALD Donald
about him DUCK hardly the nams for Someone keeps forcing open the stories, like the one
a cricketer,
never beavy timber door of the cave burning the cakes, are quite theless M. D. Duck, of, Welling and he has to keep putting it harmless," he said. "This one.
the back on its hinges.
however, perpotustes a0 Lin- turned out for borough, Public Schools against the
Servicca Combined
fair, myth, and the recently,
un Donald, ist his name,
The keeper suspects courtes are the culprits. He fears that one day love's young dream with
should take action.".
•
Although he made only 9 and finish up in hospital through EDEN JUST
Inst year.
and
council
The logend of 0 (run out) against the Ser- wandering about the cave
a valley "Gar victs, Donald is
on "rabbit." potholes without a guide, so the A SWAMP the existence of He is captain of Wellingborough authorities have fixed up a con- den of Eden" in the Papua high- flashlight camera to lands has been shattered by a Because Elsie was so upset School and headed both their cealed
patrol officer's report. "What at batting and bowling averagen photograph the couriers, in
first appeared to be grassland," About Grace Moore's death.
always
sad Mr J. P. Sinclair, "turned a plane accident she
Ever since 1882 an out ALFRED'S
of swampy to be belts carried with her a fatal cyanide
A. lone soldier whe
obelisk has stood BATTLE.
ground.". on Swanage pill in an emerald and diamond LONE
Reperis of the "Garden of right to acknowledge (Dorset) seafront commemorit- capsule. She instantly lost it, MARCH looks neither left nor but Hauser managed to make the people who watch him, but ing a "great naval battle fought Eden" spread after aerial aur- her sleep by saying softly:- marcher straight ahead, makes with the Danes by Alfred the veys of the New Guinea jungle. in Swanage Bay, AD The valley is between the New Karius Range Sleep, Elaje, sleep; see the litle his way through Canterbury cae. Great
day from the Buffs barracks 10 877. little the Cathedral.
Now Mr Ernest F. Oppe, a Guinea border, about 400 miles black sheep; see the
Auttering black butterfiics
retired
of actuary.
Worth northwest of Port Moresby.
"Our pairol was met by a Smartly dressed and with a see the
པ་ over black velvet;
band of about 70 men there never was such a battle. black sheep softly sailing over white sash he sets off at 10.45 Matravers, Doset, has discovered
Q.M. on his daily task. 'block rocks; watch the black although he never falters and
Mr Oppe has asked Swanage with bows and arrows.
were friendly and escorted us Council to alter the inscription, through the valley," Mr Sinclair frogs climbing out of black the people and traffic make way
but the council decided to take
in said. bogs; watch the blue light, for him as he goes on his way,
Today, said the the only star the velvei a clore observer would notice no action.
chairman of its night.
that it is a different soldier cach
mitee, day.
Which would be enough give me screaming nightmares.
tu
bill
of
But
the
He is chosen as the smartest nan
on parade each morning when the Buffs are Inspected and is handed the white tash. But not so Lady Mendl. She Hy duty is to turn one page in just sent Gaylord Hauser a the Buffs Book of Life in the
Warriors for his
Chapel passage money.
"Cathedral. "Good Lord," he groaned,
ከነነ was invited. Elsie said to
The Book of Life contains the 'Gaylord, you're my guest, But I'm just a butler. names of every man in the Regi- She's taken over 60 dollars from ment killed in action and that a huge success (making me,
playing gin rumuny.
Iis why an observer in the Chapel the £892,857) and
would see the "Smartest Man' early bought always pay for the drinks.
to attention and stand rigidly mother nothing like the "most beautiful bed in the Tiere's
salute before he turns the page world" for Henry Frick, love,"
and salute again when his day's founder of New York's famed
task is done. Frick Museum.
In 1936 she was voted best-dressed woman In the world. And also sald;
• A great many dreams have come true in my life, but none has amused me more than having been able to create, live in and enjoy a that I myself
bathroom Donceived.
conce
Never, never
in my
have I cried in bed. Hollywood Is
life
a fairyland peopled by goda and goddesses.
To be too chic is not chic.
was
1020
Canadian and did
not become
neward
food
to
Mr J
com- works
the and
armed
They
The patrol's object was to find Swaine, "the possible sites for an airfield. But cholar knows it is false; the most ports proved unsultable
because of ground conditions. layman does not care."
The council's chairman, Mr A. E. R. Gray, said: "It is of Little Importance."
But the chairman of Dorset County Education Committee, Sir Theodore Tasker, thinks correction should be made, "Accuracy should be established at any price," he said.
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#
The patrol found traces of oil in the streams running through the valley.
of a
"One, oddity which we found In Lavani Valley was a river which plunged into a cavern in sheer limestone the face ridge," Mr Sinclair added.
Another Australian patrol will be leaving for the area to estab- So does Mr Bernard Sturdy, lish friendly relutions with the
Purbeck people. of the member
Nuclear Gadget Aids Research
By ROBERT CHISHOLM
at TWO or three times a the provision TW
wayfarers
car
leaves
Here Its precious cargo is un- loaded and stored with all the precaution and respect due to a
Astonishing woman. She had that such a head for business she did over the suite in the
BUN On St Bartholomew's Renowned as a lady bachelor Hotel Plaza in New York when
Day did the RUN
the children of astounded she
by she stayed there and .everyone
in Holly-
Sandwich will go "bun marrying in
Sir name for a hospital gay
wood where she had an opera- running." All they do is race Charles Mendl.
tion. Then sho sent both round the church which stands they in the centre, of a equare of Although she was renowned managements bills, and
But oh my word, how almshouses at the town's St as an American hostess and paid. business woman, she was in fact tiring it must be to live to 93. Bartholomew's Hospital. Their
the "Bartelmas Bun," Hypnotic, fantastle, like some on American citizen until 1948. astonishing drawing by master
centuries 1 year, Addams, macabarlist Charles
ago. And the ceremony dates Scunthorpe in Great Britain miniature atom bomb. When Bemelmans entered the Mr Bemelmans has achieved a
back to before the Reforma-
for the Atomic Energy squcaking gibbering likeness of
15on'.
It is not, of course, a bomb. Elsie, cur heroine, was born scene, Elsie was living in
Research Establishment at It is a plece of artificially- in his dear old pal. After All, in 1858, presented to Queen house called
For those who watch the Harwell. It makes the 320- created radioactive material Victoria (her mother's cousin Beverly Hills. He had planned
His book is one of the finest
"bun run" there is also a re- was chaplain to Queen Victoria a happy hobo existence in a pleces of Indigestible reporting ward. Free biscuits are given mile return trip in the one from the atomic pile at Harwell. in. Balmoral), and went on the beach hut without
plumbing that I have read in years.
aroday and carries on its front It is no bigger than a pea, yet. stage in 1891 at a salary of £100 but was fascinated by her and Indeed, so rich is it that one of
the cen- and rear windows notices its radiations can penetrate week, Ethel Barrymore
to live its finest chapters is completely turies ad averet was accepted her invitation
recipe and warning other road users toughest steel-and that is
procise
of the company her understudy, but Elsie was in After All instead.
irrelevant, has nothing to
though they look apnotising that it has radioactive makes of It. is mare renowned för
The isotope is wed to tako chie than talent.
with Lady Mendl at all.
material on board. about Willam Randolph Hearst actually rock hard.
photographs on the same system the newspaperman, and how he looked at a movie of President CANDID They say that "love
as X-rays-of steel weldings. It up internal faults and shows Roosevelt and said: "Looks like
flaws, CAMERA Hughs at locksmiths,"
and
Its rays, gamma rays, a plate of tired_whitebait,"
but the keeper of the
do no harm to the steelwork. famous cave at Matiask
It is an extremely simple, non-destructive method of test- ing," says a company spokesman, "Industrial radiography is tre coming Increasingly widely Used,
Beamed Rays
Parislun
Later he fell off a horse while out riding, got pneumonia and In 1004 she left the stage and then found that Elsie had don with her good friend, literary over his beach hut and ruined. agent Elizabeth Marbury, she it, Later still he accepted an opened tip as Elsie de Wolfe invitation to go to Europe with
(he had decorator, She Elsie, Sir Charles Inc.. interior
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When the car arrives in Scunthorpe, its destination is an organisation known as the United Steel Structural Company Ltd.
BY HARRY WEINERT
FROZEN FOODS
GRANDMA MIGHT HAVE BEEN PROPER, BUT SHE WAS NEVER SO COMFORTABLE.
FIGHTING
"THE BEST RESULTS ARE OBTAINED BY
HOLDING
SOMETHING COLD IN FRONT
OF THE FAN.
1150
the
Its advantages over X-tay up- paratus (which would produce better pictures) are that it is comparatively cheaper and Gnitely easier to handle.
in-
In the place ΟΙ cumbersome apparatus, the only pioco of equipment is a small container, in size and shape Bice the head- lamp
of a small car, and T-shaped handle
to curry Carry
about.
But the system is the same as the X-ray which will reveal broken bones in the body.
A photographic film, behind which is a lead shield, is placed on one side of the steelwork to be tested. The container stands on the other side. A half-turn on the T-shaped handle swivels back a shutter and brings the radioactive pellet .to the aperture..he
Through this its rays aro beamed. They poss through the steelwork and impinge on the photographic film. The lead shield behind prevents stray radiation attacking the film and there is a protective capsule en- closing the
According to the thickness, and density of the steelwork under test, so do the degrees of and shade vary on the light photographic negative.
When
the tim developed in a dark room, trained eyes can detect
the
slightest flaw in the weld.
of radioactive Two types material are used at the Scunthorpe
company* whose prefabricated steelwork
goes into bridges in foreign lands, into West End of London shops, into schools, into power stations, and indeed into every kind of building imaginable l over the world.",
Highly-trained
These are the powerfully- radiant, Cobalt 60 for thick teat materiala, and the less-powerful but more sensitive Iridium 192
for thinner veel structures,We
Their - use is confined to
handful
opentory Cena muhly-trained
who work i secluded corner of the vast structura?"stop, sury Botic
ded by