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Interesting News Stories · From
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1956,
Alt
Of Parts
The
World
Now Motels Come
WILL SHAKESPEARE IDENTIFIED' To Europe
Now He's Queen Bess! DETECTIVE AIRS NEW THEORY
New York.
a second-string William Shakespeare was
Those plays, ваун actor from the country. California scientist, were written by his Queen Elizabeth 1.
MAN FALLS 250Ft DOWN CHIMNEY
And Then Walks Away!
Leeds.
Carrying with him a cascade of over-worsening mishap, John Hayhurst, a bricklayer, crushed 250 ft. down the inside of a 340 ft. power station chimney at
Leeds last week--and walked out at the bottom.
The 200-wide Platform No. 3 Ton which he was standing it
George Elliott Sweet, professional the chimney's top looking geophysicist and amateur Shakespearean delec-down at the Third Test match, tive, has a solid lunch there is something in way, and he hurtled 140ft, Elizabeth's tomb to prove his carefully documented
theory.
Gurkha VC
Owes A
Little Boy * Kukri
London.
lo
The great idea came Subahdar Lahadur Thapa, first Gurkha other VC of World War II, as be watched his eleven-yvaroht son Ranbahadur play in the dusty courtyard of Their home in Nepal,
Thaten Bad just poetavert mvitation to attend the VC een-
down with tons of concrete and
ricks to Platform No. 2-20011,
from the bottom
That
On that platform were
Three
The hasn't any illusions the British are going bo start
diintermera
ne suggests
minediately, but
that
two slightly less distinguished graves right alp yield some evidence.
" happened to be true, it woul The fun stry." sald Mr Sweet with a twinkie He la stare if 18. She sure that he has written and published his
DWL eunviction in a persuasive little volume that reads like a detec- tive story printed by Stanford University Press).
The case intricately buşit m dates internal evidence and the arts of the lives of Eliza- named beth
the actor Willam Shakespre, pë
Brilliant
Woman
demen-
71 Queen ww strably b
wotnap Hfe-long
3 playe schedar have a ratige of knowledge and understandi
rarely
ever
tenary celebrations in London. eruntled by any individual
Gurkha kuf
Say's Mr!
of the Elzher men. The mass of debris
he
A few months carlter he had - most eratainty.
Ranbuhat a miniature Sweet, by any given kukri, the cur
curved, razor-erigedhethars otherwise advancest
about which
"The real Shakespeare " Thousand
stories
have been told!. Thapa had ben lu London The vocabulary of the Shake- Leform In 1943 he went to speare works todos 15,000.
Palace to receive
notes, us compared
the Buckingham
with VC fHT AN art of un
average college graduate's 3,000 passed bravery" in North Africa to 4.000. In the skimpy facts of
Will he killed four factor which
Shakespeare's life Germans with tog kukuri and there is no such erudition--there he 1 wo others with his revolver. is not even time in which
rould have acquired it, not any Indication he was inclined to
cloring
Bul even
his great
his brave heart
squalled when he thought again of
idea. Would thread or write any more than he
THE SUBAHDAR
With his ferskeri,
had to. Mr Sweet said.
hangs
condest that platform away also.
The four of them were hurled down another 119rt, to Platform No --9011. from the ground.
When fireanta reached the
of wreckago they found mus Hayhurt hist-he was on top. He was helped down to safety.
The extent of his injuries? dislocated shoulder,
bruises,
A
50111
shock. Firemen pulled
out Jurney Bowman. Be had a spine injury. Mr Sweet spells the writer's After four hours of effort in
And nome shake-speare
the choking dust, rescue workers Elizabeth's chuice on an earth-pullert 22-year-old Barry Farish quake, u war and the queenly but of the wreckage He was
quivalent
of Theodore Roose velt's "big alick," He surmis That
when William turned up in London as an notor. Elizabeth found in the coincidence a con- vement cover, mode sure
Was
+1-
never quit of work. though. Mr Sweet says, he never
· had top billing.
Sonnets For Essex?
He funda other kinds of evidence: the two
works dedicated to the Earl of South- ampton were published during the years Elizabeth was in love with him. The body of the sonnets--the "lovely boy" group - time, Internal reference
zon of the kreut Queen like 10 and feeling with Elizabeth's re-
have Ure kirl of his 50 lationship with Essex, Runbahadur? The gods would
decide.
London,
Subuhdar Thapu Jeft for gesty.
promising 레 rather
very badly injured.
The fourth mun, John Walker, 25. of Dorchester, Dorset,
HE DIDN'T WANT
HIS FIRST
PRIZE
Witt
Darwin.
the
In Elizabeth's tomb, he sug-
Life went quietly for tall, there might be some
most prob- lean Thomas Darmody, 53, carly manuscripts, tearful small boy that the local ably in the hand of her vehicle inspector at blacksmith would make him secretary Windebank. He be-Motor Registration Branch another kukri if ho returned leves there may be a ring in until he won a raffle.
chain around her neck which <mply-handed.
tells the secret.
Be took a ticket in a rallie
crocodile dicin.
for what he thought was a Mr
in London the Gurkha be- came one of the select company of VCs from
all parts of the The zonnet manuscripts,
have been world.
may He matched with them Sweet said,
Countess of In Hyde Park and was enter buried with Mary, tained
by the highest in
the plays with her land. The Queen spoke to him, son, William Herbert,
thePembroke,
but Subahdar Thapa could not
summon the courage to tell her
In the body of the plays and
of the gift he hati for Prince sonnels, he finds other evidence, Charles.
come in riddle form, of what he Believes is the true authorship, epilogue
Then, last month be Wis One riddle he un-riddles is the guest of
commanding his old officer, Colonel R. C. Jackman from
vf Henry VIII-and that he talec's a wry his title page: Kent quotation for
OBE of the 2nd Gurkha Rifles,
Tunbridge Wolls
nt
Thapa told him of the gift he "They'll say 'tis naught had brought and that it looked United Press.
an though he would have
take it home again.
'Very sharp'
to
He Fell For His Sweetheart
Penang.
Last weekt, a truck pulled up outside the motor registration brunch with his, prize.
Mr Darmody looked up from checking a car and gasped, "I
don't want int.
CAD
What I do with 137 I mn't keep that in my room? "Why couldn't somebody else have won it?**
thie brunch comte a past advertising a circus.
12xem
Cr
at
Out stepped the driver, looked the rette prize and asked,
"How much?"
"You can have it," said Mr Darmody.
And off to the cirem went the first prize Codric, a eft baby manenting salt water crocodile,
A 17-year-old plumber fell LEGACY CAME
for this sweetheart in a big way
Last week a proud Subahdar had a private audience with the Queen at Buckingham Palace, With him was the kukri, tes six-inch blado razor-sharp, Its Ivory handle and beaten sliver-filigree sheath.
The modest 5ft 4in. Guricha here, officer was beaming happily when he left 30 minutes "Yes," he said, "Prince Charles now has the kukri. The Queen was there with Princesa Anne, I showed the Prince how to draw it and then replace it in the sheath.
Inter.
"He was still holding it when Loft But I do not think that he will be allowed to handle. It until he is a little older"
Thapa beamed again; "It is very, very sharp."
TOO LATE
The youth was listening ent- raptured to the singing of the
Patras 16-year-old
when he Irene Panagiotakopoulou,, who suddenly toppled and fell off 2 died at the village of Lappa, verandah 25ft down a drain close to Patras, at the reputed below.
age of 116, inherited $25,000 last The boy told police from his year from a brother who died in
Tho United States.
hospital bed that a jealous She left six children aged room-mate had pushed him tron between 60 and 96, who will his chair, tipping him over the now inherit the legacy which verandah cago, China Mall came too late for her to enjoy. *Special
***China Mail Special,
dead when rescuers reached him an hour later. The other three, now in hospital, were all Leeds VISA
Для be rested from restuc work, Charles Warke, 30 ot Woodlesford, Deur Leeds, told me: "Hayhurst, John Toddi, and had just been watching the Teri match for few minutes from the platform on top of the
there chimney when
Was creak and the platform began to
Lintee.
a
Horrible
"Todd and I jumped clear on to the chimney-top, and when I turned round the platform and sewffolding hact disappeared, and I could
hear Johnny Hayhur shouting
fell. It horrible.
climbed down the W side of the et miney met back inside to
comick
fentses
WIN
Car Bowls Over An Elephant
A
Bloemfontein.
Viljoenskroon motorist knocked elephant down with his
car.
an
Mr G. A. Haasbroek, a building contractor, was motoring from the station to Viljoens- kroon. Ahead of him he Baw
elephant walking on the side of the road.
an
He slowed down. It seemed as if the animal would keep to its side of the road, but just as Mr Haasbrock about to pass the elephant swung into his path.
was
He applied his brakes but it
late was too and with a thump the car struck the elephant,
Nice.
A touch of middle class Americana- motel has sprung up on the sunny Riviera, playground for the European titled and wealthy.
Sharing a Mediterranean vista and bench with anobbish villas and ornabe rambling MUXTITIGA homes the 'Motel Cote D'Azur, a string of 40 modern cobins, each with hot and cold running water and bathroom, and over- looking the sca
If it proves as popular and financially successful as ilg the United counterparts in
DOW
States where there 60,000 motels, a string of mantels | la expected to pop up through-
out France,
At present there are only two others in France-at Touquet and Saint Jean De Luz.
NO TIPS
The "Motel Cote D'Azur" on one of the busiest highways in France the famed National Route Seven which skirta the Mediterranean coast. It is almost two miles from Antibes.
French
newspapers
notice of the phenomenon
took
last
Week and noted that it offered the traveller comfort and roms
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