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• Like patient, elegant crands they stare at us from glossy, magasines and windy, street-comers. They are the top models, the girls who are more closely inspected, and publicised than flim stårs-until the Modol's Ruin sets In.

The Five-Year Faces

By AMANDA MARSHALL

T was only a very few a look of interesting malice

years ago thal, stuck Sue Abralum, the golden Eng- 1st Pose, whose dramatic.

in a trafic jam one generous features combine night In Oxford Street, del's exaggented beauty with touch of the locked at the neighbouring an unexpected

line of ears and spied one of the then most famous faces

clean wholesomeness and shin-

in health of the nicest nort of public school #tri Campbell-Walter,

Flona

exotic

neat and

in The country, gazi orchid of the bunch. serene and aloof, over imperious as an Egyptian spered wheel of a slinky drop-hund; vat Ancie Gunning, the Miss Barbara Goulen. then stoe-eyed girl with the curly And Margaret at the height of her success smile

blonde with Phillips, little as the model

whose name circumflex eyebrows who looks everyone knew, i umed as transparent ns glass. Inte splendour, looking like

How long will these present

every male undergraduate's femt-le-few stride across dream of home.

As the lights changed and she purred way, a st. small question dropped into my hend: how long can even the greatest model hold her public?

newsprint and art paper, wear- g everything from swimsuits to ebin-ln-toe mulution minks?

Wise girls

lo

It

The wise girls At their bows with a second string for apare. It may be marriage, may be a complementary career More closely mispeclect ad-Suzy Parker, the ravishing, mired and publicised than any red-headed, pruch-fed Sister of im tra these new gods have Dorian Leigh (who was always become known by nome. and Beaton's favourite model). had recognised

on glossy the prudence

pigen but

comers

JAY

nly

to buy a catners windy street- and is now herself a successful

like fashion mturid

photographer using their HORIC heat tricks

leurned

they elegant cranes,

Alic

masters at the

feet inng fashionably east from working the other side of and west, with a photographer the lens with and one or two lesser mortal in attendance,

eye,

A warning

not i

hope Ave

game

Bettina, one of the most in- telligent and ambitious models in Paris, works with Givenchy ated plays tennis with Aly Khan. Sheila Wilson, not so very long ngo a most-in-demand model. has moved anurtly intu the fashion-editing field wille looks are still at their best,

example

with

of that vintage

Amateur talent

tho

These days the professional

THE CHINA MAIL," THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1965.

RAPPED for calling BULGANIN a ‘hypocrite” Cummings

An ex-enthusiast for abolition of capital punishment,

NE DULLES

Marilyn Monroe prim and prudish lady.

A combination of the cunning of Disraeli and Machiavelli.

DON

Lady Docker-o girl of simple tastos.

A former winner

A

of the Nobel Peace

Prite.

"A quick guide on how

to describe public figures safely

disinterested and unambitions statesman.

An alternative Goitrament to the Tories.

London Express Service

IDDON'S DIARY

CAN IKE BE THINKING OF CHANGING HIS MIND?

N

The

Anyone's guess

the

to adopt

wonder

car

which makes the latest Detroit product es old-fashioned as the Ford Model "T"

Too big

New York. Tuesday. "The fact is that I am week after week to consider to impose her will on Ike in tion takes place, the political ment of the Ferguson EW YORK

and envious. impressed throbs completely convinced that running again.

anything regarding his pot is seething. The Re car

saying with politics, ambitions-le

The both the United States and

Republicana They have one

know career."

publicans are denouncing at. Just when I had been

the British motor-car industry get to the top while they have

big city is much the world need the Presi- that without Ike as their The confidante of the tacks by the Democrats on was lagging behind the Ameri- their health, strength, looks and

more preoccupied dent's leadership so desper- leader at the next election Eisenhowers also says the country's foreign policy cane and wing when we were sunity. And at the top they fuce

going

self-change her with political manoeuvring utely that I cannot think in they are beat,

that the President is finding as unpatriotic. The Model's Ruin-the time may

transmission, electrically oper oper than the vast spaces

Mr Leonard llall, chair- his restricted life on eume when they have been seei

and any terms other than his 106 often. or little lines are Elsa Martinelli,

The Democrats say it is ated windows and seats, wrap- the 20-year-spread-out towns of the re-election."

man of the Republican farm in Gettysburg, with

around windshields, along beginning to crease round their old Italian with the fashionable West.

Now Mr Dewey knows National Committee, has only occasional trips to the the duty of the Opposition comes Ferguson with his and

the Great Public lost-urchin Tace, is already Alm- You will,

to oppose loyally. re- how sick the President has been seeing Mr Eisenhower nearby Camp David, rather begins to say "oh, no

Hollywood,

perhaps, her again?"

that ex-member my recent Diary in been. He knows

the and although he says he boring (I must say when I Adlai Stevenson, who model, Lauren Bacoli, to guide which L suid that ex heart attack was dangerous, did not discuss campaign was in Gettysburg recently seems to have the Democrat Cecil Beaten, who should hier.

Governor Thomas Dewey and that there might even plans he convinced no one. I found it anything but nomination within his grasp, know, has recorded the awful

The

Mrs Eisenhower and her stimulating). , warning:

highest paid

was my long-range hunch be more attacks. He is

has been fairly mild in his. model in New York can

us Republican standard- aware that the President's mother, Mrs John Doud,

criticism, but the other for a successful span of

bearer in the Presidential doctors have refrained from have been strongly opposed

rivals for the prize, Gover years." The greatest exception

campaign.

saying at this time that to the President assuming to the rule is, of course, Liza

nor Harriman and Senator amateur kulent. At any moment, Fonssagrives, whose astonishing

Since then Mr Dowey has Mr Eisenhower is fit chough more gigantic burdens, but ́ a girl from Girton, an Espresso- bones And mobile. extra-

bar waitress, or a debutante with completed his world tour to run again.

during the past few days EISENHOWER is a man of Kefauver, have been using feminine beauty, the colour of

family an old

great energy and wide the bludgeon. may be and is back in New York. name

Mrs Eisenhower has told pale corn, have stood the test of photographically discovered. and He has refused all comment

Stevenson is for "modera friends that although ahe spread interests. He has a two children and no small num-

Harriman is for tion," theirs will be the new faces to ber of years under

the lunch at least a thousand new on his political future until

does not want her husband voracious appetite for life.

violent assault, revealing lights of the world's hats and A-to-Z-line

Some of his friends Mr to run again she has

Vice-president Nixon is main greatest photographers--includ clothes.

Eisenhower and Mr tainly not been pressing the "We cannot see Ike being taining a steadfast calm at ex- ing her husband, frving Penn,

Dewey conferred,

but

no President to retire from content to stick out there President

alleged statement was issued.

public life.

in the sticks for the rest of statement in Los Angeles: "

don't even want to discuss that The question is: Can Ike Miss Ruth Montgomery his years."

blank." blank, blank, and Mr be weakening in his resolve journalist

So today it is anyone's author

Mr Truman has denied the what the President statement, although it was close not to run again for office? and

friend of Mrs guess Tremendous pressure is Eisenhower, saya:

"Those will decide.

ported by bwa separado Las being put upon

Angeles newspapers. the Presi- who know the First Lady Although it is almost dent, day after day and best say she has never tried year before the actual elec-

model's career in menaced by

couture now,

Толи

ex-

Mr Dewey has written to Suee her marriage and retire- one of his most enthusiastle

Ro Think of some of the famous ment, who dreams of wanting to supporters, Mr Peter modelling names of today--and look like the once-so-gozed-ut

sent the botti, who And how then think of how long you will Mise: Goalen? want to go on booking at their will we all love that bright little Governor my article.

Jean face with the white-blonde crop. Dewey writes: "Mr Iddon Patchett, the slant-eyed. long- that sparkles so merrily

ut us has certainly written lexged Ainevicun with the over so many bottles of milk on gallant piece and I appre- colouring of a ribe apricot and So many hoardings?

remarkable fuers

ciate it.

EL

No statement

A FEW days ago

cer.

say:

B

Truman's

The US. motor-car Industry is impressed by the amounce

“IT WAS ALMOST FRIGHTENING TO LISTEN TO BRIDEY MURPHY”

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Bo ago I listened to the voice of Bridey Murphy-coming (so from

When Margaret, a young American housewife, was hypnotised by an amateur, Moroy Bernstein, she started to describo_life_In_Ireland 150 years ago, She said her name was Briday Murphy and she went into great detall. Sho used words that wero unknown to her as a modarn American girl. Was she really Opinion is divided. speaking of a former life? Now an investigator has listened to the voice of Bridey on recordings made by Bernstein.

By Peter Earle

some people believe) the remote world of County Cork in Ireland one hundred and fifty years ago.

It was

a tense, almost terrifying experience. Wė were warned that the tape recordings made by Morey Bernstein were a little frigh- At first Margaret's voice was tening, that some women her own--the relaxed, dat accent had fainted on hearing of the Middle West, and it was

adult them.

Answering Morey's questions, us what schools she But none

of the small she told group of Investigators with

hey friends were, and where they me was quite prepared for ant in class. He took her back "oharacter." what we did hear.......

from the age of soven to five

went to in her childhood, Who Briday Murphy

Was

#

was not worth

How Ford wishes today that they had never quanfiled with Ferguson, it is now obvious

А тего £3,500,000 domares that Ferguson General Motors would willingly pay him ten times this suna for his services and his patents. Her the Road Safety Coun-

motoring clubs cil and criticising the 1986 models being

big, too wide, powerful, and too brassy. In- cidentally, I have almost com pleted replying to the letters I received when I was in Eng- Jand commenting on American car.

my

too

ns too

If you care, i am consider- ng trading it in for a Ferguson. Special have seen so little of

As

Now York lately and this is the height of a big, busy season, I took in the town the other night with Squadron. Leader Geoffrey Page, D.5.0., D.F.C. and Squadron Leader Anthony Bartley, D.F.C., but even these heroes and beaux-vivants were exhausted by the merry-go- round

Pandemonium

the realisation of the unexpected Breathlessly we waited for turn which the situation had the anGWAT, Bridey's voice is taken

faint, bewildered. "I stayed in Moray Bernstein no longer had the house," she says.

TL Morocco was packed pan- next few

minutesdemonium, We had only been

a hypnotised Margaret In the For the

of Bridey Murplay in his Bride describes . strungo In the place five minutes when He had a wide-awake existence in a shadowy land. She we hailed and were being hail- chair. Margaret who still had the mind can see living people, talk toed by Maurice Chevalier, Cole of Bridey!

them--but they don't answer.

Ann Todd.

The excording tape betrays the Sho sees dood friends and speaks Crawford, Gregory Broderick

got a linen?" play says: "It is a waiting Room,

One

my

until you are robor.

Raton, agonised panle in Morey's voler with them. as he urges Margaret to "sleep Bridey

bells of an existence and, of course, Elsa Maxwell again... sleep... sleep,"

dovold of hate love, physical (this is the name-dropping de- Over the tape comes

the sensations, and sleep. It is a anxious mutter of witnesses to

who is as vigorous at world with neither sad wo

72 as she was at 17, the recording, and Bridey's

was giving voice

dinner name for New York) is limited crying painfully. The linen, Brides anys:

a din in the Champagne and her guests, who by the fact she died in infancy. hasn't anybody

But it is to Ireland that the Then she falls back asleep again Nobody tells you--you are just included Mrs William

escaped Hearst, subconscious mind of Margaret and her deep gasping breath, is suddenly born again."

from there to the zebra-striped. is drawn most strongly to the the only sound on the tape. Fantastic? Fake? Blasphemy? days when she says he was "

can argue about the Brideyoon.

Chevalier, who is being pub- Murphy recording for ever, Heised hote Briday

on, the King of During this foquence

does she pot mintis Hearts playing cards captioned Why volco na

events floe the Irish potato young Cork collcen who married palms were clammy. I glanced treat

killed vart The King is Back" looks fat- at my companions, They sat famine which By some unintentional trick of years, Her favourite game was a promising young barrister has not upright in their chairs, With numbers, and through which she te and greyer, but he is very

debonair. the microphone held near Max- "Bubble She had a doll called the ghioty of a girl who enjoyed relief we heard' the

must have lived? There are a voice palmer life, and

and it is heard. on this re of Morey Bernstein continue the dozen auch questions. But Morey Ann Todd la being greatly

In a lovely, lifting Irish gentle

gentle questioning of Margaret Bernstein is not a trained inter-sought after here, and could

thing to exhausting, both for him and commitments would allow

Broadway, and Cafe Society Margaret. After

ace_booming; each supports the waking

other. argued that

decid

If the whole thing, is a fake, to try an even riskler, th

ustry. It in'a very clover one. And the "Could be take the

realms ot

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Margaret's answers Margaret's volce; it was the volca. But as Brider, trives her long. Bez onco again quiet’answers, ́-Viewer," and the bypadals is often en la dozen-contracts. If ther

Treland, so, her voice agere, amiddle with the name The

garet's face, it sounded as if we were listoning to some awful Inquisition.

the

questions of purring Interrogator

in little whispering gasps.

Bernstein's recording apparatus was only for use in the home. It Lacked the volco control reing- ments of a bigger recorder. · În

At

three riddenly realised something had

happened

is a

her

of a child of three,

life in

"A wonderful fake," was my The bregue is there, but the tone the scare, of, Margaret first thought." But then Morey is no longer that of a colleen-a up, took her back to Infancy. young girl. The voice matures. As Morey Burnstein progressos

his questions and drives n

Mink- He asked her what she said paret deeper into the life of

of periment, entirely from her.

could

be

Harry

Laxwise in ving

BIA

Comeback

fact, Masyarti's "kreething was when she wanted to drink. She Bridey, certain Americaplains Margaret into the protiaca experts with whom. I talked hiffer, | Prits hoftest name

in

na peaceful and natural: as if glo pronounced the word "water" os dies in the middle at the deaths Nephere in our record' alaborate borús could have been Į prieki" who used to be called

were asleep); (which she was).

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ponfessed they business is the Groundr2. couldn't se how much.. a child would; who had not yet. It i learnd" to cnunciate property Briday story that the crisis oc- playing cubicle, was electric as conceived far les socuted teenagery delight but now in

The

The Volce" and was the and in a kind of faint, pleading curs, Morey is questioning her try. And what #milk?**** Some

moments peintal gueping and then Bridey says "I want a linen. Upo

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did sheśmy for about Belfast when mildere we heard Morty gradually work Mogotiations drein progress | Putra, three and actor

know.) can't. úný-it, a

can't, and she sounded almost

this point on the for a condensed ↑ version of the

Y now dis an old. Helder (Mussby' tápe to be sold | said to be spushed "voloo, is, quimudous, in: record

Amerka,

pugh that Briony swanted i handicorn When she is asked to emborate, Li given gway dree was a book dve new pictures on The Bernsteins did not rectise and occasionally badebempered Ia)es. In Atelier and gun trat ba Bernstein did chiar la mir Bentekrều thought of spelt an frail, ord i uke Money - Barnabalugi

nits") hian - written yent and de that must five/red

she wanted; a drinic and, went to "Cuchniain”

lant), about Briday (Morphy choklad versatility.

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