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1956.
HEAD TOOK PUPILS LARRY MAKES
ON MIDNIGHT FLIT
Buses For 70 Boys
THE
London.
time was near midnight outside a former stately home of England converted into a boys' private preparatory school.
Seventy
excited whonltinys,
its origin spicodotu
witer:
boutcra
with all their belongings, stoot it was bukit ka 1702.
the drive in orderly columns.
And in eune
the
"Answer your names, boys, as their parents impressed by his you slep Intes the roach,”
the headmaster. reading
the roll.
"Smidth minor,"
said | magnificent seat of learning
from
"Here, mir.""
Anki so
went in until
all
wine
park
into two motori
The
FANCY PHRASES
They were being transportand
thut
the headinaster. "Dr Barrington Davies, Ph 17. B.S and his
MI
la March 1955, came the first melight fil. The whole school was transferred to nearby A lot
| Clinton, and Aylesbury
was opened,
College
It was here he wi itbs Whoaker. newly discharged! from Lester Grol Dovies, wh but sent bun 2 for B Tar
hemat litera TRANDVEITAS
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Tax hedgier Wertiķer
D'olonel
"bursar," known
Whitaker, Royal Marlues, could! bilk creditors.
45%
DEAR MOTHER
their
- two
the vc-ton
The convey started conches with the boys and
domestle staff, ihres
lories with the school furniture and beschling, and two cars be- longing to the principals.
Muster of the Moonlight Flit was Headmaster Ronald san Davies, 42-year-old street
Sam- former
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pron der
"C") Inel," 147 bon to him of eu dealers and
night him
purchase
aateon w
Then Bac CACAO haut sad W..
Five medica| ules aured at
But that venture dried 16
The
started civilitors Ang. presing, so the ronvay inoved out frem the former home of
violinist, with the bogus the late S Antbony de Rouss
scholastic degrees,
Twee he
anoved by-
set of
the
RONALD DAVIES
He painted roky futures
Gravestone Cow Path Starts Row
Grendon.
MUSIC ON
·HIS DUSTBIN
London.
DUSTBIN man with a difference is Larry Jones,
A For he doesn't empty dustbins. He plays them.
Right DOW
Larry-known
in the West End as Rlack
| Larry-spends bia evenings entertaining Soho with a
performance that sounds like
a double bass and looks like the Indian rope trick.
He plays his D. B. (dembl? ba:s to you and dustbin to Larry) at the Cottage Club, in Litchfield Street. near Cum- bridge Circus, with Fiddle lob Clarke, violinist, unct Danny Purssord, guitarist.
stands apside- Larry's dunübirn
down on tour blocks of wood. A piece of rupe is threaded through a hole in the bottom at the bin and the other end Is led to the head of a broom,
OLD SPOON
Fe strume out hi Jazzy
rhythms with an old spoon or bottle (you can see him beating
out the rhythm on the right),
D
Before he graduated to his he player guitars and banjocs made from rigar boxes.
"Nowadays I go, busking in the street playing my gullar,"
"Bul "ILLAGERS were com says 53-year-old Larry. VILLAC
that's only because I can't carry Stow-on-he-Wold, plaining that the cow the 12. B. round with me."
home over thep are coming gravestones of their ances | letter tors. Mother
Residents of the little humkel purents of Grendon (population: 40) suid it was “un-Christian" red to allow farmer Phil Hope to pave his cow path above RAF corporal, had left with headstones from the village
Chotter sure t fart wold College,
સ્ક beal creditors. this second Cope was organized with
Home again wing the assistance of Horace Edward Whitaker.
former R.AS.Cf the boys: Dear
We moved again last night. private.
until the exasperated removed their sons.
With cap and gown Davies, a master of fancy phrases despite
Davies, the self-styled wing "rilegious"
his elementary school education, comunander hoodwinked parents and trades-
men
schools
homyco
whe never 1060
private bebird unpaid tradesmen running four
ancestral totalling £3,367 during his edu cetrtred in
cational tour.
On Speech Days he impressed parents by painting rosy futures
for their
spectors
academic
claimed.
sons.
were
£22,000 FEES
churchyard.
The vicar, the Rev. Wallace sald he had the Cauldwell.
remove 'church's permission to
Inter- ancient stones that were Hering with the cutting of the
churchyardt grass.
rut
his
111 Education
None of the inscriptions could Be had obtained £4,528 from deceived by
Ave
received be read, the vicar said, and he people
Mr allowed qualifications
Hope. he 222,000 in school fees. He never had
paid the rent for his schoc is or warden, to take the stories home It was in Leicester Cact that even the cost of the roaches and for use on his farm.
the moves.
But wear on the stones which Davies,
BETVLINE 11 14-month lores used
a rattle At the Old Bailey last week Mr Hope used to line fru soncence, decided to found
out has brought
some of Davien was gaoled for three years one of his schools.
for conspiracy, traud, und false the names on the stones, villagers pretences. He had several pre-
They considered it improper vous convictions,
For bovino hooves to trend on 43 CX- Whitaker,
nich inscriptions as "Sacred to kastal boy. was sentenced the memory of who died Jan 18 months for conspiracy and 10, 1855. United Press false pretences,
On his release he tuck over i
boarding school and was joined by Whitaker on Aprli 1, 1055, when he came out of the same prisen.
'WAR HERO'
Davies had previously told the buys they had to be on their best behaviour as the new bur sa was 2 war hero Colcciel Whitaker. The headmaster did not tell then that, before his Prison sentence the "Colonel" was a atodeer at Leeds Infirmary.
Emblazoned on the boys the school motto in jackets was
things." "I scom evil
Latin: me average cost for a term was £60 plus a few extras.
The history of Headmaster Davies could be followed around the country by a trall of dud cheques and unpaid bills.
In June 1951 he contracted
to buy Morcott Hall, Upping- ham, Rutland for £3,000. At
the time he was penniless.
In June 1933 ho left and took over Ranksborough Hall, Rut- renused it Ranka- Landi, wad borough College. There he ob- iálne. £4,000 from 1 Kroup captain and a brigadier,
He paid nothing for either
school, zan up bila with trades.
man, and disappeared in August
∙1959.
pay was
The only, money Davies did to his staff of mis. fresses · ko 1. keep going hi academies of fraud.
Colonel"
sald
This is Wotton House, Buckinghansshire, farmer home of the Dukes of Buckingham. From here Davita saged kis
firat moonlight flit.
CANCER:
Cigarettes AND
Hot Soup
Are 'Dangerous'
Moscow.
in
Larry gets down to businen,
HIS FANS
PLEAD: DON'T GET MARRIED'
A
Winnipeg.
SINGING disc-jockey who plans to be married
in July has been plagued by mail and telephone calls from irate teenagers de manding
stay that he single.
Gordie Road, who handles all the_ferringe shown for radio station COB in Winnipeg, waid the letters were mostly from high school girls who felt that us a inarried non he would be un- able to contime with the teen- age shows.
"Letters have been pouring in since I announced my plans," Hoas said. "**The girls think that it will make me what they call and will disqualify J'an adult' Ime as a teenagers" M.C."
His Favourite
Rosa 25 has epent eight yours in radio. He started at the nge od 17 writing sports copy for a station in western Canada before he mwitched to playing records. He also doubles as a singer in a Winnipeg night club on weekends.
Some of his fan mail is smear- ed with lipstick.
a
Ross's favourite letter is from girl who wrote: "Unolo Gordle. when you got married you'll be a real adult. Will you sull be able to do the show?"
which Another,
pent "with lots of love and kisses,"" implored "Gordic, please don't got married.
WOS
Ross did not say what the future Mrs Ross had to May about the Hipstick-smeared tan mall he gets-United Presa
NEW LIGHT
ON PARIS
Paria.
SOVIET professor ad- PARIS, known the world over as the "city of light,"
vised Russians to give
in the process of emerging from a 19th century blackout today. up hot soup and cigarettes
if they want to Avoid
cancer.
goen
mast
In almost every quaster the city workers are busy in- Professor Larionov, an asso-stalling new neon and fluore cluto member of the USSR scent light to replace the age- Academy of Medical Sciences, old gas lamp-posts that helped
onc of the told his Moscow Radio audience make Parts that "#
without saying beautiful cities in the world.
The Champs-Elysees has that by giving up smoking the changes of contracting cancer of brand new neon light lamp- the hing
can be considerably posts. reduced."
The gas light system was in-.
iri 1859. He then discussed cancer · of augurated
Several ago Paris decided the stomach, anxt said: "On the months
to whole it is likely that the intake modernise the Champs-Elystes brighter. The of excessive hot food, plays an and make it important role in
a storm from project raised stomach cancer.
benuly-lovers who feared that modern neon lights might maire the avenuo brighter but far ugiter,
causing
Old Ones Kept
Now, In Egypt...
"Many people, for instance, love soup, the temperaturo of which is 60-70 degrees Centi- grade (140-158 F.), while the cells of our body can be dam- gged within a few minutes by various temperatures of 45 degrees C. lighting
(113 F.)."
After months of testing systems of fluorescent authorities adopted 25-foot high lamp-posts with j He then said that "at the double zems carrying fluorescent same time, Brizong the rural arms. The 300 gas lamp-pouts population of Egypt, who con- were retained but fluorescent sumo mainly fruit and milk, bulbs took the place of gu.
Similar there
renovating projects are practically no cass of malignant tumours of the are underway in other parts of stomach.
the city. At the Place de "All this bears witness to the L'Etoile at the top of the fact that it is possible to avert Champs-Elysees the problem various
of malignant will
more prove
dificult to this end it is first because
the of
architectural of
Exential to eliminate the structure of the square which influence
those very often mukaa of
the choloo
of Bullable prolonged 2********* | mild but
couses lamp-posts dificult. which givo risk to rumours."---.
Several other main stredis of United Presi
the French chplied have already equipped with modern fluorescent lighting. Avenue de L'Opera is also in the proc of being equipped with modern
18,000 Happy Hours
·In The Stalls·
Nottingham.
THE two cinema seats in which 58-yearold Mra Mary Bettison was courted by two husbands have been offered her as a memento. The cinema, in which she reckons she has spent 18,000 happy hours, is to close:
1
formst
Portuguana Decide
SLUMS TO GO
boun
mummer the famed Selno ancient Quais will alter their Mrs Bettison, of Lake Street, "I met William in 1917 and
gas lighting and at the end of Nottingham, bas boon the New wo always net in those two
the year the major commercial- Boulevard's best customer, the monte.
Oparia.!
streets of Paris will adopt the going there three
"Somehow we drifted apari,
The unhappy and unhealthy new system. In November 1963 he went boo
and I mauried another man, islands" of this city which L In some three or four years bankrupt for £13,000. Soomes a week for 45 yems.
She firet avent in silent-film after that he received a
"William got married too and the name that Oporto gives to the authorities plan to have 14 days. Then she paid a ponny
abolished completely the gam" monlar sentence for obtaining and a jam-jar to go in. The boy he and his wife och to sit as slums are to disappear.
They will make way for airy, system--United Prok credit by fraud from leading she married went there with dew seats away along the.row. hotels in London's West End hor-ho died when she was 20 "When I es a widow and be clean new buildings under a and she still goes there three a widower we started counting 10-year urbanisation plan at en mpooember 1954 Davies mes a week, with her eccon ogninin the same old seats.": infiial cost of over £1,000,000 ugreed toget buy Coketon husband, Willam, 54.
(HK$24 millions) which is to be met by a subsidy and a loan School, at Wolton-Underwood;
from Buckinghairahito,':
The Oporto
Venipo. beon authorised
table at The Italian molanhip further sum of close on £1 Rosenden steaming. He way bo million "(HK$10) million) trom Trigesh and Vedica, plekol fnecessary to
y to complate the pros up three Trickte boys drifting in
othe
Adriatic Sea atlar The mortality rate on
rate on the minch ran out of saline;
theAll three were sent to hospital
when they bath
HUGE LAKE
Drifted Apart
And sho aliyeos wide In the samo utalls #calthe end of the fourth row from the back, the former home of Mrs Bettison said the other the Dukes of Buckingham; e 30- day; "It would be nice to have roomed house standing in certs comething to remind
It was
me of so
of ground with a huge lake, and many happy days, but I don't ja long warbue-lined drive, and think we've got room for the
humbpad and
ment the Portugue
Fred
Thus
Boys Ordeal In Open Sea
faring from expo
about-two,
LEE theatre
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TOKYO
GRAND
REVUE
Revised Admission:
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SHOWING TO-DAY
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9.30 P.M.
THE HUNT FOR MILLER 'MAD DUS KARLEJ
“Idied thousand
times
JACK PILLANCE, SHELLEY WINTERS
EDIT HELSON LEE MARYI-GONZALEZ COREZAKEZ
Sunday Morning Show At 12.30 p.m. "MY FRIEND IRMA
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An event unique in the history of watchmaking
The 250,000th
A
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