THE CHINA' MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1956.
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Man-made Floods Put TOWNS
UNDER WATER
By ROBERT MOON
Montreal
HOUSANDS of Canu- Tus and the houses they live in-are now being moved to make way for the St Lawrence, Seaway, biggest peacetime Interna tional project in history.
The towns that arc being moved are just west of Montreal, at the lower end of the 1,200- mife long water deepening
cheme.
Townspeople from Morris- burg and Iroquola are leaving the streets they have lived i all their lives-treets that, with the construction of new dains, will soon be under water..
Wooden houses which can b lifted on to carrying frames are being transported to two new sites. Those which can't aro left, and the town cemeteries will soon be watery graveyards. In North American boksier style, slyng are Lidoraing
long
the highways reading: "We have to go but watch us Hrow,"
Meanwhile, as the Big Move beging, 40 milles of rinlway lines have to be rerouted in 35
miles of highway will be rub-%% merged.
COMPLETION DATE
When
all the dans, canals, hydro-power plate and other worrie have been completed, the chees wil. have ARA! £100,000,000-money being put up by both Canada and the United States, alth
although Canada
Is bearing the major
After the completion date m 1959, ocean-going ships will be able to travel to the heart of North America by way of 1,000 miles of the St Lawrence Hiver from the Atkelle to Montreal, and then 1,200 miles through inke und river by means of the seaway.
To Britain, this wil mean that deep sea craft will be able to lenye Liverpool and travel all the way to Chicago or Port Arthur,
their cargoes, drop reload and travel all the way back home. Nu reshipments will be necessary,
British むっ will Thes Canadian and American markets direct and be able to compete more readily because of lower transportation costs b
At the reaching retail outlets. sotne time Canadian will reach Britain more Aronomie:lly.
"A fow burst pipes and a power cut pack 'em in better'n all the sermons, oh, Vicar?"
London Express Service
☆★☆ MISS MONROE GOES IN FOR SERIOUS ART
MARILYN TO ACT WITH
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER
NYONE Who
pro- gresses from em- ployment as a nude
calendar #
to
(#)}
being the
By Les Armour
Then she met James Edward Dougherty. Dougherty was
He was 21.
a
employer of handsome, gulet, -polite, Terence Rattigan and worker at a nearby Lockheed potential colleague of Sir aircraft plant. Laurence Olivier can hardly. She was not quite 16. be uninteresting.
Yet the fans of Norma Jean Mortenson purport to find nothing surprising about the transition,
Among the personnel of American wheat
folk legend it is traditional that nothing, should
The cavings in some instances may not be large, but taken in total signiflennt. The real
the
will Agure
real essence of this pro- ject, however, is not that deep draft ocean vessels can go Inte the Great Lakes, as important us this is.
The real importance 10 Canada's national economy is that a clear channel is provided for upper-lake vessels. nat necessarily occan-going.. to carry grain to tidewater with- out recourse to reshipment.
REAL IMPORTANCE
Canada is now carrying on a With a daring experiment. thin though growing population. it is trying to build up a highly- industrialised civilisation 1,500
He asked her to marry him.
Misa Monroe has since ro corded that she married him because she was desperate and lonely. The aunt with whom she was living was going to move. That would have meant going back to the orphanage. The alternative was to marry Dougherty. She agreed,
be impossible for them. They, Friends have said, in con- characters of fairy tradiction, that she wag ke the tales, are traditionally held to obviously in love with bim. be immune to the laws of cause and effect.
Norma Jean Mortenson (alias
Munroe) Marilyn
the fits She was orphaned at an early ago. She pattern perfectly. rose to success wholly by her
miles from the sea.
Untit
now, railways have handled the majority of goods. Now the new seaway will come
Its own.. But cheaper
is transport utilise
fully necessary Canada's natural products and obtain the benefits et moss pre- duction. Both land and water
10
transportation ta
That is
why the
necessary.
sonway
construction comes at a most
opportune time
history.
In moving
in Canada's
themselves and
their homes, the people of Morrisburg nod Iroquois arc making way for a
better Canada.
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| POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Selwyn Lloyd's quite right about the Russians' lack of candour-why, it's taken them even longer to admit that they - Posand Band M than it did for the Foreign Office to admit they let them }**
himself hos Mr Dougherty consistently refused to say any tring.
☆ Model ✩
uwn forts. She married TN any case, the marriage took Great American Hero, She IN
place on June 19, 1942 in the
how, appropriately, rich and Christian Church, Torrence, powerful and yet she is held California, before the Rev. Mr bo wholly unmarred by to
Lingenfalter. R. H. worldly success,
has been quoted Lingenfalter All this is vouched for by 09 saying to the bride on that occasion: "You're very at- more press agents than you
tractive, but you're very could conveniently shake handout at. About generalisa- young." there is complete
lons unanimity.
On matters of detail there la Her studio, less agreement, for instance, long insisted thal Miss Montoc was extremely re- ficent about her privato lie, particularly about
first marringe.
her
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The story got round. Miss can art,
The little girl from the Los Ten Points About Pearls Monroe's studio asked her to
may yet Points on judging jade deny that she was the central Angeles orphanage
place for herself in Outline Relief Map of Hong Kong Sho make a figure on the calendar.
history. She may even con- refused.
On Sale At There are now said to be vince the editors of the British 8,500,000
of there calendars Who's Who" that her name be- hanging on American walls. By longs in the lists. act of Congress, it is not any through the mails.
permissable to send them An enter- prising firm, however, is re-
producing ported to be still NST them. It has superimposed black net on Marlyn, and its calendars
now bear the notation, "Photographed in the nude with black net super. -imposed."
☆ Baseballer ☆
ESPITE success of this kind,
Dowever, Miss Monroe was
no
known to complain that she had boyfriends. Men, sho "A feared, were afraid of her. carcer, she noted, "is wonder- ful. But you can't curl up with 1 at night,"
Joseph
At this entered
the. He is not on record as having
was attracted to DiMaggio, once possibly denied this blinding flash of Hollywood
Hollywoodworld's most skilful practitioner the obvious, and there is very Mra Dougherty.
of the art of baseball. Mr additional Uttle
because, in one DiMaggio was not afraid, Information was attracted
They available about the occasion. month, four national magazines
Mre were married. Not long afterwards, Mr used her as a cover girl.
announced: "I'm Dougherty joined the Merchant
Hollywood also decided that DiMacdo
yours for keeps, Jocscy boy." Mrs Dougherty took a Navy.
Mr James Dougherty neither
That did not turn out to be Jean Mortenson nor Norma
quite true. job at another aircraft plant.
a movie star. ever be It was then, or shortly after could
Just 283 days later, on wards,
that someone decided Marilyn Monroe was born.
October 4, 1054, she said that After but, not that the Rev. Mr Lingenfalter
much
she proposed to divorce Mr was a man of sound judgment happened for two years. and Mrs Dougherty began to her first year under contract she DiMaggio.
model.
was employed for a bit part in one film. The film editors the other hand, there is
That was the beginning of
cut that bit out, The contract in existence a long articlo signed by Mis Monroe in which her success and, so far as any was terminated, she goes into excruciating detail one can tell, the beginning of
The next year, with a new of end
marriage. Br about this inurrloge to a man the
she got a slightly who is now : Los Angeles Dougherty is said to have come employer,
home on leave one day to find bigger part in a musical called in policeman.
the Chorus" bla wife had a distant "Ladies Some agents maintain, long-
engagement. She which she played a burlesque At the end of the year and loud, that Miss Monroe is insisted on keeping it. He queen,
that contract was terminated. shy, retiring, and home-loving.
that she cancel it.
100. She herself hes given some She kept it.
She Rug
Thereafter (four and a half fty years after the wedding) Mr
appearing under her
22 500 to this view in state.
Welling insisted
On the other hand, Dougherty Bled a petition for
the in reputed to have sald divorce in Las Vegas Nevada,
the break-up of her alleging "mental cruelty."
after
of
✩ Success
marriage to Mr Joocph She was successful. But she MISS Monroe decided that she
DIMaglo that the marriage was has
culist
a great actress,
very
Both reports
can be at least partially sub-
stantiated from
since
insisted that in any Sho
Nude☆
In a court in Santa Monica, California, she urged that Mr DiMaggio had been "cold and Indifferent" to her. Mr DIMagglo entered no reply. The decree was granted.
The extent of Mr DiMaggio's indifference is debatable. They mony together have been scen
mes since. Mr DiMaggio has even thrown party for her in New York. But there have
Thus ended Aracrica's TIMANICO.
been no signs of a recone arcam
Λ Kroat hero hero married a great heroine and they went off to live happily
ever after, only to appear be- hind writs in a Santa Monica court.
America noon, recovered from its, disappointment, however.
Producer ✩
204
into
nerded seling lessons. She took them. less than a success largely, be Dougherty was not,
Mr DiMaggio insisted ordinary
There are those who say that Sense cruel. on keeping her at home and has determinedly and with
the acting lessons wore unim- You may believe elone overmuch.
some regularity sold that she, portant.
not as you She these cynles or boars, blm no grudge. There are reports that Miss simply prefers to forget those
chooto. Monroe has had ambillons to four and a half years.
Thereafter, in any case, came
FTOMA success.
Alma be-and to stay-very,
like PÚT a chango has sot rich, and others that her only
"Niagara," in which sho proved Miss Monroe. 'Since her umbition has been to become
that sox was still calable com divores nho hon chown an ins modity,
Gentlemen through
creasing distaste for living off Prefer Blondes," in which she the avails of her measurements.
she
could statements MODELLING led to something demonstrated that
to be acrious, to mako Alma under her own name.
else. A photographer named also sing, to the delicate farce, he has insisted that she wants
Itch," in which will be mord
thon In the circumstances, it is Tom Kelley occasionally took The Seven Your
which perhaps as well to pass bully photographs of young women
she proved that there interesting specimens for over these fine points. There totally unadorned, Those ho was no doubt at all that she futur archncologists tape are, after some facte.
sold to printers who attached could act. Norma Jean Mortenson was them to calendars, Ho wished It was not long after sho bo Born not quite 30 years ago in it to be recorded that he did came California and, very soon after, not at any time make a babit of calendar
ward, of the wards, became
A certain gango at this County ́of Los Angeles-an · In any case, he photographed tendant, it is paid, was fred amictal "orphan,
Mrs Dougherty kneeling on a bouse be devoted too much of For the better part of the rod carpet. 7. All she had on, an his time to looking at a certain hor next 18 years she lived in: she has since put it, way the calendar. 'Orphanages and with an amorti radio,
- His employer, apparently ment of relatives in various Meanwhile, in Dougherty clamical. American typt, Er zw. to co-star Razia De Callmocista
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a
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