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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1956.
Interesting News Stories From AR Parts OF The World
BID TO CUT DRINKS ON PLANES
American Airlines Take Action
INTERNATIONAL CARRIERS 26-AND
VOICE OBJECTIONS
New York.
America's airlines are cracking down hard on passenger drinking during flights.
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Now it's wa danner and that all, wate drink to contam more than traces of alcohole brow
Things that drinks are sneimes fire on Arst clung 1.
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airlines
Midnight Closing
wine
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while cock- Ca be had both before after meals.
On first class service, Pat- to settle the drinking terlent serves free Issue A bill to prohibit drink? jenis with meals, ing in fight is being Muded in feils Congress and the afflies new ind policy in
10 police peterally closes themselves before polienur sight done for them
The
Like arouzid mach-
Commenting on the airline'# about passenger drinking,
The new polies, set forth by ja Pan American spokesman said the Air Tratport
last month, Pobranes son mujor points. They are
Associations Tad ka something the passengerA + Ex! As long as they want Itquor. we'll provide it We're I th service buŠÍDEOS.
Another
thing." rampelition,
Liquer is definent กรม R form of distitied spirits not !The romp Beluching the (T 17
No the wi}} grante The ailablity
In its flights
a grat
Na drink will evitary mate than 1. angoas aj alenholte beverage.
he added. particularly by foreign carriers. Is Kiift. particularly whey they serve whinky and caviar. For us or any airline, it would be risky to discontinuo liquor.”
Pan American is strutly Д foreign currier.
KOTVES free drinks on
WA certain Ambassador { super Not more than fun drinks (deluxe) non-stop Coast to Cost will t
passenger.
seeped
+3
Edah airline turolmad refuse to arti drinks
behered to be PasgeRgjera intoxicated Airlines will Pontiacke paliny ot
wilt to
alrehobo
Pompton
beverages,
This agreement as gone into viTect,
but
jani overstas Bights. Drinks can be purchased on some Brst class fights, while no liquor at ul) is Iserved on tourist flight
'No Problem'
the Arcording to In airline Tepukom iman, TWA consichers
liquer un problem
The liquor consumption is so s the spokesman Kaich, alvendy !*${ There is no problem. A
be passenger
board line inay Broken by any airline giving the loodeel or with a bottle ennetaled ATA six months prior notice 28, in a hip pocket, but the amount welling. It has been signed by ensued on board is no prob- all United States airlines and in now subject to approval by the Civil Aeronautics Board.
The airlines appear to be split on whether to charge for drinks. In antelition to TWA. American United Airlines serve free Exanisation of the policies of
anterl
Eastern two major carriers. Pan Amer-liquor, while National, Can Airways and Trans-World asid North-Western Airlines de- Airlines, reveals anung other mand that passengers pay.
Next-Fungus Soup
How do the pilots feci about passengers drinkler aboard their fights? They oppose It.
What Pilots Say
Testifying before the House Interstate
and Foreign Com- merce Coinmitice on April 20,
Londos Clarence Sayen, President of the
Fugas soup my suon be Airlines Pilots Association, de appearing on British menus,
and
burden
created hazards.
of
A report by the Department Sayen testified that the Union
Scientific Of
Industrial passed resolution at its conven- 1954 opposing the serving Research told of initial suc- tion cases in experiments to "proof drinks aboard aircraft, duce cultures of the spawn of The bill to end airline drink-
ing has been approved by
edible fungi".
were now being
STILL A 'MISS'
By ROBERT MUSEL
London.
Princess Margaret reaches her 26th birthday next week and the royal matchmakers, affeind and unofficial, are about remly to surrender,
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The little Princess has now met almost every eligible male in the Kingdom without visible spark, Two years ago Inside Buckingham Palace Bource, predicted
might never marry. Even Incurable optimiste are ready to concede this is very possible.
she
The
now
Bro
Tried To Keep It Under His Hat
Варку
Bombay.
A Customs official arrested two friends at the docks here when he saw them change hats in the midst of an apparently joyful re- union.
•
Inside one hat he found smuggled gold worth £225.
SPIVS CASH IN
ON WHAT'S
MY LINE' STUNT
London.
the
"Psst, want some good ancestors?" Anonymous-looking men hovering in shadows of St Paul's Cathedral are apt to hiss with questions like to this to American tourists.
If the matchmakers worried, the Princess is!, She altends cocktail
parties. the theatre and night clubs just s she always did except that the people she runs around these days are "amusing" rather that eligible.
a
Oddly enough, it was all started by that stald and The other day she sang and
dollar conscious organisa- dunced to gramophone records till early morning at
British Travel small tion, the party in the flat of art student Association. Geruld Bridgeman 20 who The BTA Lecently published also cooked the dinner. Bridge advertisements in many Ameri- man is a clansman of the Earl on publications urging would- Df Bradford family motto be lourists to look up their
ancestors "Neither rashly nor timidly."
Brian broadly intimating they might Then she discover a lincal descent from attended King Arthur or a distant cousin, EL cock - ship to Sir Anthony Eden. "I tall party at you don'L have
British which guests ancestor, why not invent one,"
ncluded added.
In They Come
`BETTER LOOKING THAN
Amen
GRACE'
can who that
obylous
сап screen end (elev). slon One Ameri-
while
#
The Association says the idea people met with instantaneous success and helped boost American actor, asked tourism by 13 per cent so for
his this year.
**Margaret who?" he inquired when he was presented.
drunkenness aclared that
The boom has extended to the
feld Government publication reveal-passengers placed an additional name be withheld for
and obscure arrived late
of genealogists. Bight on
and reasons, стена
pre-advertise- ed recently.
breathlessly raced through intro-To the regular
ment crowd hovering around the ductions.
records contre at Somerget House has been added a variety of new seekers after the past.
Many of them charge up to The hostess nearly collapsed, USAS for a
The tracer Job. the Houst Committee on Foreign A close friend of the Princess' regulars in the field are more It said some of these spawn Commerce and 'cared for "a conilded recently that she did scrupulous, but still charge ec- cording to what the traffic will Com- nut believe she has ever really bear, starting at about $3 per grown in
Boor vote by the Rules
The Group Cap family tree. Commit-tain Peter Townsend episode is
being described in the One of the old-1lme pro- dwindling Margaret set as "a (essional ancestor hunters serious infatuation" - bul no Vivian Ward-Jackson),
bowhiskered old man who be camo interested in the neld when involved in a legitimacy sufi over his own most immediate ancestors. Ward- Jackson's investigations proyed that he was the son of a Member of Parliament.
pilot project, and were expected mittee, A similar bill is before been in love.
to produce suitable food
dried soups-United Press.
for the Senate Commerce
tee-United Press.
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As proof they cite the in- disputable fact that a few nights after her highly dramatic act of renundation the Princess was back on the bubbling night club circuit happy as usual. Townsend, still brooding nearly your later, is about to embark on an 18-month "getting away
Since
And Protests
READ THIS
-Then Drop That Cigarette
London.
Two men fainted recent-
on
ly during the showing of a 30-minute horror films lung cancer.
MEN
The film, In colour, tells the story of a
FAINT 40-art
AT
SHOCK
15
A
FILM
then, he has devoted helping
from #tall" car tour of Europe his working life to
and Asia.
At the moment the Princess
is preparing for a dx-week air-
others find out about their untecedenta "I've just helped
ses journey to the Indian Ocean one of my clients, a London bus
Not Going To U.S.
of
mour
was
driver,
trace his ancestors back and Africa starting Into next |***
to a -French
Countess who month. Shiq will visit Mauritius eloped. with
work- n British and Zanzibar in the Royal
man," he said, tak Yacht Brittanjo and Lour
But trong the tourists a Tanganyika and Korya..
storm of protest followed the Travel Association's ancestor ad- vertisement. They said.
It. vulgar and in poor taste.
underland what has can't Recently a report was widely!
happened AV
British to the
senso circulated that she would also visit Hollywood late this year
Travel Association or early next. This is not truc,
meant as a Tho Princess
"It was obviously would
joke. "Ifkcơ to visit the United States
And it has brought in dollars." Tourism is, as & but such A trip is not y matter of fact, Britain's biggest possible.
dollar-carner,United Press, As the approaches 20 Princess is sui o miniature footnothing, 95 unds) whose photographs do her so little Justice her face-to- face impact is, apt to be quite surprising
.
the
Coco Barker of Los Angeles,
tes-a-day journalist who gets lung can- cer,
h operation
TEINOVO bis infect- ed lang 19 airown all its grud
some detall the scalpel cutting into dripping his body, blood from the incision and the surgeon lifting the smoke- blackened lung from his chest.
Midway through the sortening, one mân feil to the flour in a faint and a few seconds later another man joined him,
A panel of doctors later aniwbred.
and questions reaffirmed ........ their opinion fist smoking definitely caused cancer.
The Medical Director of Middlesex Hospital. ·· Dr. Hormon Juin mid: “Kinlong we do something a million people will die in England and Walts from lung cancer before the end of the cen fury, enque
"No nation has ever been faced with an epidemio of "this nature."
HAS NOT SLEPT FOR 30 YEARS
Manila.. Goonzon said he started Fabiano Geonzón claims that | beyling hondachni'ns el child; and, producer of the Rodkelton he has not slept for 30 years found it harder and harder to Television show and com
moimour, of beuky, owa)) DID- Three doctory "baclore the 40- vented to her lug month and year Intor-faueck, ihla communji
knockout if she worked
Woolworths Instead of a Roy
Palace. I rate her batter/look
Mindanao) resident's
By the timo ho was ab could not sleep at
How Rainier's Ancestors Won Monaco: Ancient Claim Found
Boston, July 20.
A document which may prove to be the legal claim of Prince Rainier III's family to the principality of Monaco has been discovered in a Boston bookstore.
The 79-page manuscript, niong with A $1,000 price tag, was offered to wealthy" John B. Kelly of Philadelphia, father of her
highness Prinonge
Grace.
Sérefe
The former Hollywood Alma 8000~ actress married into the
family year-old Grimaldi
in April this your. The wedding to Princo Rainier III mndo the blonde Philadelphia girì a mem- ber of one of the oldest royal families in one Europe's
od smallest states.
said
Bookseller Milton Starr
Mr Kelly planned to ecrud photostats of the manuscript to the Prince and his bride before making any decision
written In The manuscript, Latin, present the claims of Giovanni Battista Grimaldi for rights 10 the territory of Monaco It is addressed to the Emperor of Germany and King of Hungary.
Histories
the
the Grimaldi family record that such a claim wes presented around 1218 by
Grimaldi IV. But he was never further identified.
From Peer's Library
Mr Starr said the document originally came from the library English of an 18th century nobleman, Lord Guilford
"} found it here recently a pile of while going through
old books," he Bald. "With hundreds of books coming in overy week, it's hard to tell where we picked it up."
Giovanni Battista Grimaldi may have been a pretender and not
whose the Grimaldi IV rights to the then feudal terri- tony were historically estab- lished, but he wrote Intereating-
ly
enough of his family.
He tells of one of Rainier's ancestors who, temporarily Ousted dron his castle home, gathered some comrades, dress- ed them en Franciscan monies and passed through the orchily Unca
Once inside the fortress they ahed their robes, donned armour and won back the castle.
"Great story," says Mr Starr
about "If those rumours Prince expecting on heir are
the
true, what better gift could he give than a copy of his birth- right?"-United Press.
Solomon's Problem For High Court
London.
claimed Two inventora ownership in the High Court last week of an arbi- ficial pig mother which even grunts at its "children."
The "mother" - an electric machine fitted with an intra- red lamp and teats for feeding 14 piglets at a time, stood on the atenographer's bench while lawyers for farmer John Percy and the Nicrotherm Electrical Company anguet the claims of their clients to be the father of the "mother".
Percy strengthened his claim by testifying he could even make his pig-mother grunt. But he said the feeling piglets had shown no interest in con- versation.
The company sought an in- Junction to restrain Percy from manufacturing the machine,
The case
was actjourned..... United Press.
Her Eyes Really Change Colour
Chicago,
Margin, Adama, beautiful brunette mcdial, changey #the colour of her eyes to match her costume,
It's confusing, to say the
** least,
Marge, an katructor at the Patricia Vance Scho
ling, wears contact
blari as a bat withe
them, "ather said.
contact - "lebs "odmpany's.
nere. She owns five
Gently Does
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