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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1956.
"IT'S A DIFFERENT SORT OF WAR”
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THE GREATEST VCs
OF THEM ALL
By Donald Gomery
Three hundred VCs were in London this week to parade before the Queen to mark the centenary of the Empire and Common- wealth's most treasured award for valour. Who are the greatest of these? Men will argue that for 300 hours. Today the China men who showed Mail begins the stories of some of the qualities outstanding even by the standards of these heroes.
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But the liberty ship that should have taken Mageums
brum jelly
to destroyer
that had gone.
So he divel in reskian
the sharks be
clustering Cristal
looking for refuse.
the dark.
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swam to the wrong
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FIRST: THE STORY OF MAGENNIS
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was saying:
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Come on, y me fellows."
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Magentis fustad swimming
Samling,
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et in killed by the mine.
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tve,
twinkle inite the destroyer which had
them. 10 at hampaw 18 males. Not all of The as.
1.
Per-
that was in the war. Ve, was going to would have to swim
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Hot, fest, what had happenɔ><l 13.000. Magento 13,000 1- Page of B... hard collum; when he WED FL #cal" Goes, all gone. TECngh I didn't no wild on
Fond Makenna,
11.
1.
I was just that he was in the Timelight
after winning the VC. Late stepped up 1116 things. Like un extra round af drinses, perhaps, with friends
und Maxenais, even before the V.C.. hud always plenty of friend.
So the £3,000 was gone So what? There was his circus Job
C25 al
Twice a week. Magennis, VC. Whs tocked inside a bux and lowered into a lank of water
.. tuleen. Magnolo escaped, swimining, swimming, up to the surface,
But the circus folded its tenta
weeks. after three bow"
There were jobs at £7 a week
tad bilis.
iste.
in euf
f was pretty And 14 WAS INU
Well, he get his meri) back, Magetals.
The dealer by had
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3d 11 to gave it herk to him. Then a Spray of jobs, arsel onher
та d care on first
his wil.
hospital a mighbour come running to him! and satel ..
David bun
Leen years old, nast down,
818 knockert
Magetulis race to that other
to ser his Son. husplin! Never In his heart had there been a fear like this.
Ja h tile we!
VC.
MRFITHS, The window the mfhing of his house in village of Rossington, near Dan- CUSIC, as he told me all this, We watched the smoke from the stacks of the mine in which he now works.
After his dled he had not been able to stand any longer the house in Belfast with its view uf the lane with the hedge where the accident teok place. Happ in the mines.
THE JOB HE
DREAMS OF
bech working
15
LIE Su what. He be
month now lawn the minus: 40 or £10 a week. They speat well of his work.
But I think I know the
Juts
One day he pleked up the V.C. and went out and sold it. For £75.
WIIN
that he would like best; the job
1 belleve he dren of
coptado
lung again for the ure of the The Lails were aid
507. Not, mark you, the life of won'
level-pegging the big ships. After the war Mageung To
with the neighbours again. (For I we poing to be all right.
didn't fancy the peace-time The Was ng the lup
even in ireland one must keep Navy ngala, too much spit-and cil *19 in Loperly
up with the MeJoneses.)
Fulich and I was always next punshinear Che day's sluppare mat
But oh the Gutery when
believe
he long for the hard too to keep aflont in Civvy news get out that Mageanls had a haircut.")
Misty
people rect Mag Totes Stre, A.
him of the ten around blamed him too again; a frogman, perhaps, or u It was in 1949 that he got his blamed him Capetown's rifeur
He was 30 then-and easily. "They must have thought diver watch
with wrries in that now; "Found hd icon in the Navy since he it was easy to part
the ning, swimming. If this Heating in the water.
latoe Only JARGO what
dini
Live the
it isn't yours, throw back in
the ditch."
DEVIL-MAY-CARE
"FROM BELFAST
WELL,
WE
that's Magennis for you....happy-go-lucky,
devil - may Migrennis, from Belfast.
Paddy
James Jeseph Magennis,
That's
the stórics
V.C.
Magennis tells. He lices epinning storks-otion against himself. The one
slory that
he
was 15.
uld b
nedal,"
V.C'.
the
I
said Magennis. "But
one more to be swim-
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William Hickey
BLONDES PREFER BARTER, By MISS LOOS
London. Mins Loca ROM Anita Loos, that will later pop
where "Gigi" titiliator
tho of
New Theatre, Twenties, I heard about tax-dodging in the under Fifties.
doesn't often tell is the famous Mugennis story....
How he and thres others in a
midget submarlas crept
MARILYN
la visiting Paris,
into
zebra A black-and-white
led London- carpet
to the lounge dary.. plate-glass is running at the through a
Modern tomato-coloured chairs stood out against an indigo-blus carpet. More pliding panels, concealed lighting.
the Japanese cruiser Takno at She wrote the successful MARILYN Monroe
wriggled cut in
hla охуден
belmot and for 46
Takno so that the lmpet mines Brunettes,” would hold.
blew
may have
G%
And the kitchen!
Mies Mootor-you'd love it.
the entrance to Singapore that "Gentlemen Prefer a place in Park Lane day in '45. How diver Magennis Blondes," followed it up well as an Ascot houta when
minutes with the equally successful she comes to Britain next month. THUNDERFLASH
Mr Michael Ferszt, 44-year- THE debat most popular band scraped at the barneles on the "Gentlemen Mary old bachelor texille tycoon and leaderTommy Kinsinan---
banker, offers h£1,100-0 is suffering from
a practical year pushbutton penthouse over joke by Cambridge under- How he got back to the sub- And she adapted Colette's looking the Park. marine
exhausted, his breathing novel "Gigi" for the stage, He told me: "I have been a graduates.
He, was in a car with a party gear leaking. And then weat Sho sighed aboard the liner proached to lend my flat to Miss after a party; and while the out again with a spanner bote de France off Plymouth Monroe for a few weeks. But I enuse the submarine could not "You can't rellre these days, won't accept any money for it, Car want through Hyde Park a jaker in the. саг thrown a free herself from the macs. The tax men won't let you.
She takes the place as a gift," thunderflash-oogiant Breworks. Up, up, in a cloud
He twiddled the knobs of a That is why everyone in the
It was meant to go through £500 radio set, casually slid the window, but it missed and the Takuo
Slates takes commodities in- Two men got the V.C. that stend of cogh.”
back half the wall to reveal a
full at Tommy's fest. day --
- Leelast
Seaman Everyone? "Well," said Miss cocktail bar.
The car pulled dil. Everybody Magennia and his chief, Licu-¡Los know a great many "... As long as I um abroad perambled out before
tho.ox. 1erent Jun Fraser.
in the people
ontertainment when she takes it—I don't want ploglon-except Tomthy, who Strange how often it was world who do not accept money to have to stay in a Londen fold mo that Megemla hpå cause to be at all, They take their wugds hotel when I could be here... "I wasn't quite so fast as thankful lie was a good swiin-in came, Jewellary, fridges, and The flat tool mo 12 months, those bring young men, being, mer.
Like that day tho. Kan-Iso on. Or they get their hotel to destin, I've eslooted the best' algir mes thing exploded at arating the dabar: lut a mino in the Med. bill paid. -
of everything from Inally tamples. atul licoled over to an angle of "Almost every American who countries. 40 dégroes.
works in England i. living on He turned up am Arm Coot, FEE
Tion roult in that my hear~ Abandon slip." That was the commodities. Ware, going bucic, glat unit coned through ing her bikra sifólied, and I am order. And who was that subs, a thousand years to the age of the bedroom blinda, A sliding; atli very much on edge. I have loutonant by the rail with arm bartor. I think money is on ile wall bponed into a bámboð"' had to ses spécialist zuisod? The Marquie, of Milford ||way out,"
ganelled study.
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SIXTY BOYS ON BOOTH'S
0
THE BALL
By Romany Bain
No
N Monday, June 25, "Absolute stillness during
the
All England play" is their erced, Lawn Tennis Cham- player must ever be kept plonships started at waiting for the ball, and it Wimbledon, and the William must be bouneed to him at: Baker Technical School at exactly the right speed and Goldings, Herts, ataried distance. "It takes a lot of two-week mid-term holiday. practice.” the Rev. Sidney
Corbett reminds me.
This is not a coincidence, The 60 ball boys who patrol
are
The bad boys have to know the in courts at Wimbledon me *th fads 201 tempera-
taken from this
Dr ments. 100 Drebny lies the Barnardo's school, and for bas-line boys as far away the last nine years they possible from his serving arm, have been trained in the The ambklextrous Beverly fine art of ball bearing by Baker-Fleitz chops her kreond their fory #1-y.ar-old Welsh bali after service, and dnes mint chaplain and vice-principal, nike i to be picked up, "Aud the Rev. Sidney Charles when Art Larson gets going he Corbeil,
can be very awkward; but the hoy all know it's just Arl."
There in tremandoas
Also in the line of duty are competition among the boys, viranes for cold les, sweatbands, says Mr Corbett, with salt tablets or gluco e plla But Land of our Fathers Ul. Pot all boys stand oud wait on "We start at Easter to rouse et have to hate-"It's a bit those who rerve, Two at the their interest by show ng tulog, but it keeps their heads them Duris
Cup
matches out of the cameras' way."
On
#
#
B-year-old sits and a film called Glorious
crow's-nest Wimbledon. Then as soon as lephone
above Court Three and reports comes, on
the games la the Galer the tennis weather
to the umpires below. the 200 boys start hanging courts about with rackets and Two more bein work the muleh-
indicator,
others ant balls, and we start weeding Play
Collect early leaver Hickits for them out"
shilling a large re-sale at a times
The chosen 60 have thre final weeks of intensive
You have to know the game training. Coaching is rigor and be quick on the up-take to ous and thorough, and the earn the honour of taking t Barnardo boys take their Wimbledon, "But good manner. duties very seriously. At 15 ere the most important thing of all," says Mr Corbelt with great you are in your prime for solemnity, "No boy must ever the Centre (purt.
hack. answer
whatever the circumstances"
For two weeks they are
at the spotlit beck and call
the
House of Lords
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black plimsolls, chuckie: reminiscently. shirts and they take up their positions.
Then the claims of English On the Centre Court there Lawn Tennis are Anlated for are six boys always at the another year, and he can return
number ready. The
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