Pare
THE CHINA" MAIL," THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1956.
BACK TO SCHOOL
I Got Tired Of Racing Round The Buoys
So I sailed into the ocean,
says Britain's toughest woman skipper
by ANNE SHARPLEY
London.
N the breezy world of the Boat Show, where they talk a cryplic tongue of their own ("How can it go to wind'ard with "Well, you two keels 7" have so much leading elge at a reasonable draught"), the sceptic goes looking for
нере.
But anchor an enthusiast and ask him to talk simple English and
plain sailing.
the
18
rest
the
Mr. RACHEL PITT-RIVERS
persuasive raticare
Mrs Rachel Pitt-Rivers,
only woman to be elected rear- commodore of the Royal Ocean
Racing Club und
#nos!
women,
and
"I did try , however, was beaten by only 12 minutes, although it was wildly uncom- fortable and there was nowhere to the down except in wet oils on the floor. It blow full gale their and
lost several boats masta.
"It was so exciting i decided to get a bigger boat."
Mrs Pitt-Itivers bought Fox- hound, a butter built in 1935, in which she won the Dinard race twice over and also the gruelling 440-mile Santander race (Brlinin to Spain), in a galo which sent
enale
competitors
many harbour.
Into
All this sailing into full gule, isn't it terrifying"
La Everyone "01 course. frightened sometimes, and often things can go terribly wrong."
in Here for the well-versed sailing terms is an outline of a typical sequence of disasters:
"We sta
started in full gale from Brixham when one of the spinnaker booms washed over. board. We recovered it by
miracle, and the hawse pipe got louse and the water came pour Ing In faster than we would one ol Our
pump it trut. The pump was ali yachts- distinguished
bunged up, and we spent severni enlightens the sceptic
Those in a car. When you sellers kying head downwards in Then A with permusive patience
your bont it hasn't depreciated the bilges freeing i With soft fair skin and
in value as does a car. In fact, tremendous new struck the boat Is quite the elegant hunds, she
Half-peared, you sell it for almost the price and all the bunks broke loose. We were a horrible wet duos of reverse brown-skinned yachtswoman in
and splastered "Lak ut
sul, blankets, bodies. she her mid-ties that one experts.
waving an elegant hand at Uffa world. Fox's Albacore, price £169.
of
the
A challenge
11
Yet he has been consistentky the only woman to skipper yacht in the world's toughest yacht races.
Why do you do it?
"Because it's a challenge and
very exclling. Because once a get out there in the middle of worries the ocean your other secm. tox far away 10 think about and you're far too busy to core. Because it finds out char- acter.
know you never really people until you've sailed with them.
You
bought
11."
thin."
"that is a real family boal, What fun a family of four could have 10 1."
th
Closer look
rouse
0
to gel
How did you start solling"
"When we finally made good "My father Wis 21 Kreat helmsman and we lived on the weather every scrap of clothing Even had to be awg all over the ship Solent, opposite Cowes
children we were expert- to dry. We were such an extra- Hiner sight that ed to be aven and not heard. So ordinary instrued of
the changed the going aboard! yachts 249 children nowadays closer lark us!"
aid were given would, we dinghy to row around in.
Are there any snags V poij- lenge "Later on became the owner
YU's. Lime. There
never and yacht of an eight-metre won the eight-metre "champion- enough time to do the long trips. I am hoping to do the Bermuda ship in 1936."
ruce in 1956, but it takes so long to cross the Atlantte and back after the race that it will need marly the whole of the summer to do it in."
How did you take up oceaß racing?
Why is it so expensive?
"After the war eight-metre "But saling is not expensive."
Rot she said, widening a putr of boats were finished and I
the rather bored racing round ses-blue eyes at the sceptic.
"Take the value of £500 boat buoys in the Solent and always against a £500 car. In the boat gelting in first with mine. When taking iny four people con holiday and someone suggested live. You don't need fuel except eight-metre in the race to Din
ard I said at first that I'd be hind There are no a bil of breeze. maintenance costs comparable to crazy to try it.
seein
is
Salling began to the sceptic to Justification for laking time in a Comet ridden age.
And molive. For silence when a motor is be-
very
courage,
for
by GILES
"Follows, I have information for thee-Chalky is going to collect your National Savings after all."
-{London Express Service),
DESERT TREK FOR HEALTH SECRET
A
By John Ivey
Johannesburg.
MEDICAL research inquiry, which is ex- pected to have worldwide attention, Is to be staged Boon in the wastes of the Kalahari Desert in the British protectorate Bechuanaland.
The
of
group of doctors forming the inquiry team will trek into the desert in the hope of discovering one of the most vital of all health secrets perfect teeth.
the key to
And where do they hope to get their knowledge? From the primitivo race of African Bush-
who have Inca,
the lived in depcrt for centuries.
These desert Bushmen rarely suffer from tooth decay, and most of them keep a perfect set of teeth throughout their lives. NORMAL DIET
Champion of the Downtrodden, the Unemployed & the Outsize Woman Tvestigation is to be
T
BATTLING BESSIE IS
STILL IN THE RING
When she
By John McKenna
discovered insload
She
a doctrinaire party polgner for a that it was glared to e narrow line and
size" wan{TL. tuking is orders from Moscow she left.
of
But she didn't leave the ideal
by the Witwaters- rd University in co-operation with the Chicago Univeralty. The scientists will set up their research slation hundreds of miles from civilisation at Tshwane, on the Okwa River, in the Kalahari,
At the camp they will together a group
of Bushne whose normal diet consists of reptile or buck meat, spiced occafionally with such delicacion as tortoise legs, insecte, snake mcat and lizard.
It 19
world
on this repugnant-
determined is a
cam- of Liverpool, snapping, "I don't sounding diet that these little better deal for shake hands with Tories," And keep the healthiest teeth society in the women--and especially for "out last year she refused to sign the of any known
M.P book presented to Win ston Churchill on his eightieth It is known that those Bush- their native men who leave She has sponsored fashion birthday.
areas to work for farmers and shows featuring clothes for "out- size" women, done battle with In the party, she is the bano buy their food from local stores and Galtakels zoon begin to suffer from tooth stocking manufacturers whose of the Attlees nylons, she thinks, ladder too the "middle class idealiste" in deeny. quickly,
her phrase. "We can't depend on them," she says Datly. “Labour After har tiff, hylon makers must be kept a workers' party." pronounced her legs "a good British average", showed her
the cussless paradise be- hind. She took it with her inte Un Labour Party, and whether HIRTY-TWO years the party leadership approves of determined it or not, Besale has hung on ago.
tenaciously. woman young stamped angrily out
In 1930, she became a mem- around their factories, and near- of u Communist
party ve
of the Liverpool City ly convinced her that all meeting. She tore her mem- Council, and she has stayed one well in the stockings business. hership card into shreds na ever since. The depression years she devoted to championing the she went.
Elizabeth Braddock had been a foundation member of the Communist Party of
cause of the unemployed, speak ng kong, loud and coherently on any platform she could get.
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bitterly: The
We
Hot
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AQUALLY, however, she has
become
the bane of the
THREE STACES
Ho doctors will divide their research. on the natives Into three stage:
First, they will make extensive amination of the mouths and
She takes jokes about her size Bevanites--the unrealistic dab-eeth of the Bushmen.
feed them on Д sugar- that she woman in the House of Com- mrons,
well-and often. But she insists blers in left-wing Sodaliem in Then for six months they will
is not the biggest her phrase book. She accuses
Finally, the doctors will re-
Mrs Alice Cullen, MP them of having no solid policy supplemented "civilised" diet, for Glasgow's Gorbals, is a full on the one hand, and of lapsing examine the Bushmen for any into dangerous views Uke ther stone heavier she says.
opposition to Gerinan re-arma- Cullen stoutly denies it, saying ment on the other. she weighs only 14.
and Labour Pin-up Girl
or-
party is not directed by TN 1944, she was elected sur- prisingly, president of this people in this country, but
Liverpool Trades by people in Russia. We
Council an orgardsation have no way of deciding dinarily almost the last strong- how this party has been hold of the male sex. run."
Throc
years
age,
THE
Mrs
signs of changes.
They expect to discover which would
otherwise be perfectly
foods cause docsy on what
Found toeth
The mission of this group of doctors at their rough camp in the desert might well prove a major step towards ridding tho world of the menace of all teeth troubles.
Supported by no faction in the
her party.despite
popularity with the voters she constantly Ands herself in hot water. THE classic came when she was
elected "pin-up" girl by the The right-wing of the party sub- suspects her of holding views The next year she contested crew of the Royal Navy
Exchange in the
mrrine Scythia. The crew sent dangerously near to the Com- still Liverpool
FOOTNOTE: A famous South election. The con- her a note saying "Please send munists (aho was blasted by thei determined if no longer young, general
Colonel despite its
explorer, grubby, us a picture of yourself, but not party in 1952 for having written African the same woman stood up at a stituency,
the Daily a full-size one. This is a small for
Worker) while | Laurens van der Post, has just Labour Party conference winding streets and its overload
irr
the Bevanites regard her as an returned to Jobannesburg from Margole and announced that of the poor and the depressed, submarine."
arch-enemy.
the Kalahari, where he took she WB9 through
the had been a Tory stronghold. with
In politles, however, sho
Aims and recordings of the Bevanites.
for few jokes and no But at any time of crisis the Bushmen to be used on British She won it by a tiny majority stande The problem was still Russia, of 685. But once in, there was sentiment. In 1945, she refused party is almost certainly glad i Broadcasting Corporation radio
In 1950, the to shake hands with the Mayor has her.
and television programmes. no shaking her.
"I prefer a rearmed Germany majority climbed to a whopping to n Europe oveITUN by the 5,342. The next year it W
6,835, In both those General Russians," she snapped.
Elections the Socialists
were
The yours in between and sliding
the Tories badly and since have been torn with hard ought to have had no trouble in words and bitter Auds But regaining the seat.
Elizabeth Braddock-long since
"Bessie"
to the world has changed very little.
★ Fifteen Stone
Her success may have some- thing to do with her militant left-wing Socialism; but Bessie doesn't think so. She thinks she is successful mostly becausy sho works like a troop of Trojans keeping her constituents happy.
of
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IS THIS THE ANSWER TO
THE
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LEAVE PROBLEM? LEAVE
By HAROLD JAMES
་་
London the physical, machinery which asked
the
eminent
Under-
TUVE feet two inches tall, 40 Finches around the waist and weighing a next 15 stone, sho She gets between 250 and 300
MALAYA reports that in the long trash Parochialism expounded. And when they launches into political con- letters a week. Every one
future a limited num- would diminish. Imagination told him "yes," the answer was hoversy with all the momentum them is answered persuber of top-ranking British would be stimulated. She can't in red ink. afford a secretary and she never learned to type,
and staying power of a Centurion usually tank.
And she has never lost a round yet,
★ Open House
Her mother, Mary Bamper, was a Justice of the Peace and
"Never—so long as I am here.” It is many years now since that for gentleman retired, but still there tow colonies really air- mladed.
in
Ra ex-Sudan
has civil servants will get six
Again, It would make weeks' leave at home every continuity of policy if a man aro year, travelling both ways could go back to the station
which he had done a good job of by air.
for too rarely are men Ten years passed, and than "back.
to their old district. Despite the higher cost But, above all the fearful ex- in the House of Commons in
air travel on itave was, debated one of Britain's pioneer women T home she conducts regular
Sunday, Apon house to anyone with a of air fares this arrange pense of reller staff would be made use of Command trade unioniste
As it was-and largely Parker, himself young Elizabeth was sent not to problem Servicemen displeased ment, it is thought, will church but to a Socialist Sunday with their COs passengers not cost any more taking is for every three men at work, civil servant and now Under-
who don't like the way British
cost of living will cat down leave and done as a reitet during long Relations.
Send the man Thome At 10, she became a member bitter about the of the Union of Shop, Distribu-workmen out of a job, all go to leave pay considerably. For every year, and the relleg could tive, and Allied Workers. And see Bessie.
the official in Malaya today be cut out, remained a member she has ever since.
Most of the complaints she gets six months' overseas, with by explaining the leave after three years as Shortly afterwards, she be dens came a member of the Indte situation to the complainer. The well as six weeks' local leave
reat she looks into thoroughly a year. pendent Labour Partythe and badgers the appropriats ilitant loft wing of the Labour Minister in the House. Movement,
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The Colonial Office, said M Creech Jones in reply, was "watching the matter, #Xt La stijl being "watchied."
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Many prefer · the This plan may be new to in the summer holidaym.." To:alk jelourely sea voyaga home, kold- Malaya, but it is not a new iden. there a time of year, when
that too drastio a climate. In 1919, she signed on as
The result is that Besale is a 111 now 20 yours ago that Sir work is below the normal peak. a
It is then that they should go. then! En LADIES' WOOL SCARVES in 15 beautiful charter member of the Com constant pain in the neck to the Philip Michell
told his staff to
hard but kat beller munist Party. Her reasons for Government Front Benchand's Tanganylics,
Sir Philip's pins of 20 joining wore connected with her constant joy to her constituents, draw up a scheme whereby all
cold ago met with a servants,
reception, they want examples of hardin civil reasons for leaving five Come In botwsen, she is still the
the however, in high quarter. To they need not look for Pey and faunline, too, Would Jater. She thought the
of the top dogs in the often has the Primega munist Party was genuinely this hard-working housewife-cook-ty home once a FEAT.
Colonial Office the daily trok stepped from party of the working tinaga ing darning and sewing
from the suburbs to Whitshan the sunny warmth cachewing the shilly shallying buttons for husband, John, who himhors spell and moderate Socialists and is also a member of Liverpool's would bein people deferznked to bring about the City Council mod
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