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THE CHINA MAILA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1956.
The man who sells Ike
calls in the experts
After his recont illness the
traditional whistle-stop
«lection campaign would
be too much of a strain for
President Eisenhower.
So Leonard
planned
L
Wood Ball
Ho
complains that his Job jeaves him no time for exorcise. Ho irritates his wife by rending newspapers all through mools. Tho Test show he cemembers seeing was South Pacific, Too tense
"My wife loves playa, showa, operas, concerts and so on, but I'm too tenso now to sit still for
three hour.”
nil
SEOSE
AOTE
of
campaign
New York,
IKE all trainers of odds-on favour- ites, Leonard Wood Hall, whose joli as chairman of the Republican National Committee is to get Pre- sident Eisenhower re-elected in November. has a thankless task. If his horse loses, the trainer is blamed. If it wins-that is no more than was expected. for him, Hall, aged 56, is not unduly sensitive to critic- fam, and fortunately for his party he is a glutton for responsibility.
Fortunately
business
LEONARD WOOD HALL
He believes in taking only big risks
auo.4
chajm ins the party's years' History
For though he appesus to have
MIX Theries and buke.
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IS IT TOUGH ON THE KON-TIKI BABIES?
other
BUT THE OCEAN-WANDERING PARENTS
young
AND THE LANDLUBBERS DISAGREE
to
DON'T want to Mary, but even the slight seem melodrama- 15 degree roll on those tic," said Nicholas frightened him. "I think Monsarrat it is a type of brutality to gloomily, "but there's only subject a young child one word to describe the that sort of thing." sca.". (I'll leave you to
As a landlubberly mother guess what it was.). "II
I entirely agree of four, the time in the world to
an ex-farmer with with him, and so did many with Kossip
Republican Were
limted sailing experience, who drops Into his
parents I the massive calm, valoc,
the think it would be sheer know. Mrs Peter Twiss, easy
outward manner
& young wife of jet air ace, said. "I are cruelty to take deceptive. Holi comploins of trouble with his nerves. He has baby on a long voyage in a think it's a terrifying idea. Hiven up smoking.
If Sarah were a baby I'd Six months small boat." ago he found that his 80 a day
We were talking about certainly leave her behind. had crept to 100...120. He de 31-year-old Brian Elverson
Mrs Geoff Dyson. cided it couldn't go on. gave them up.
I broke the habit and his 22-year-old wife (Olymple hurdler Maureen
and
of in four days."
wife Rosamund, who are now on Gardner),
chlef Carpentry used to be his great the first stage of their Melbourne - bound Joy: he was a better eraftimen Then most men who make their
from Cornwall to Olympic coach, would not
Seas. living by it. He hen't touched the South
With dream af
her taking his tools for four years, Semne- then on their 20-ton ketch children on any sort of long ilmes he looks sedly at The Scolopax is their 11-month air or Men journey, "let
800. Rupert.
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**I just
sears the miner sccidents of 100 lifetime have kft un his hands
Then he hurs to answer the phone, shake a hand, slap a For having won his great gamble on Eisenhower's running again, he is lenying as little as all believes in taking only big he can to chance. Like Napoleon,
man who forms the backbone of his party.
The Republican Party
He is almost certainly the most been Hall's
even energetic. The work he puts in back le be w born into it His father was would much ela a chairman rallied the {superintendent of the gardens at of the Tay Party. It was he who Tepublicars after Elenhower's Teddie (the Republican big-
Hall sametimes holds his first heart attack a year
Roosevelt's house, Saga- emferenc akci. by stick)
of the straight-away announcing that
and he rely loves his office he was making all his pläne eti His god-parents were a son before 9.30 at night, the assumption that Eisenhower and daughter ul Romuveli's.
would run again.
Having mado hie
decision.
Hall started to plan an entirely now sort of elee- tion
campaign.
He reasoned that Elsenhower prould be unable
maka the
more Hol.
und ho Was named aftasy (1
by C. NICHOLAS PHIPPS
traditional folly barn-warning. Whistle-stop campaign in person. So he booked $2,000,000 worth of ra
radio and TV me, choosing peak periods after populer abows like $64,000 question," called in the b.k. high- powered advertising and publ!- city fus of Madison AvenKURE.
*I Дыть merely hiring 2321 expert," said Hall evenly.
not to
tually 1930.
General Leo-
nurd Wood who
WAR stuying in
the house when
he was born.
He worked his way through law school, went into
Long Island local
politics.
and Woa even- elected to Congress in
He proved he was no mere party hack by being one of 21 Republican rebels who voted for in conscription bill in 1941 that was passed by a majority
of
He gaurd the reputation <! being ilked by everybody, and
he developed Into
skliful
odjuster of rivalries within the
*1:
would be foolish thern. In the same way candi- dates uw cars and planes
TIN
P
-
stead of buggies and trains."
Old fashioned
In contrast to 112 high- preasure experts with their differentjul equations and queer psychological jargon, Hall him- act is a typical, American politician.
Eisenhowey valka on hum in help organise his cumpalgan dra 1952. and after Its triumphant onteome he was chveled nailonni chama
He proved he was as capable
Was
nu odnuinistrator us he politicia "I found my hd-
olds his fat
risks
(COPYRIGRT)
voyage
Get scared
"Children
alone in a little boat," she shuddered.
Blackbearded: Brian Elverson, aged 31, and Als wije Rosamund, aged "27, hava, no doubts about thetr' plan to take cleven- monik old 2011 Rupert with thom on their 10,000- mile trip to the South Seas,
Mr.
Elverson,
百啡
farmer who has been live ing for three months aboard the ketch Scolopax with wife and baby whtie fitting out, saya life at rea is good for a baby......” better than living in a study alty."
by- Romany Bain
"I
· But when I spoke to half -a dozen other hardened sen adventurers who had Actually DONE what the. Elversons' plan to do. I heard a very different story. According to Adrian Seligman, famous oceanic wanderer, thero's really nothing to it. As long as you follow your weather forecasts and charts for a week or two beforehand, "use your loaf and follow depression"' (which shouldn't be difficult this year) you'll be over the Bay of Biscay and across the Pacific before you say "baby overboard."
"
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"As for the child it will be quite all right if they take the right things,"" said Rosemary Seligman, Arthur
admire the mother daughter of Sir Only Mrs Donald very much," she said from "Pattern of Islands" Campbell, still recuperating Coniston, "but I don't think Grimble.
thrill of her I'd have the nerve to take ensily got from the
world Intest
young child." Mare Mousarrat, aged three, shattering record run, gave paused for reflection. "Un- Scarod even on big boats." husband's has only ever travelled in the matter any serious con- less Donald were with me, of course," she said brightly. ships the size of the Queen alderation.
SHHH...DON'T
MENTION
KAY KENDALL
New York.
ANE ticket clerk was polite-but unhelp- ful.
"I could get you a seat for next April. perhaps..."
"Otherwise?"
"You could try the black
·by⋅
Roderick Mann
a man of good character where the show last month to dy to
women are concerned?"
The audience laps it up.
old-fashioned quarter split up in three dif- Į market. But you'll have to vicce, he admits his love for the
He is a gregarious glad-hander with an (appropriately) clephun - tino ΠΕΡΙΠΟΥ for fers atkl nomos, who performs conjuring tricks for the ladies and sings zobust songs at stag parties,
fertal buildings. Many of the pay £35 a ticket."
stuff had never sven the chair- 10ươn
So he took a four in a modçəl
That was my introduction to "My Fair Lady" Mice building on laid it out as the staggeringly successful Une large open
where musical laptation of
And when, at the dose of the
little Bower girl with: "I've Krown accustomed to her face "there is hardly a dry eye
in the place.
Even long-time enemies like Hollywood columnists Hedda
have had to admit that his
Bermuda to rest his voke, who should chance
the to be on island too but-Kay Kendall.
"Reg" enthuses Kay (he was christened Reginald Carey), "is the most wonderful of men. Impossible, of course. but wonderful.
Having Anally seen the show --courtesy of a man who knew a man who know a man-I was
CAR NOC and get at "Pygmalion" and the Hopper and Louella Parsore determined to talk to Harrison.
everya. vel. He found he had He is massively buill, but like cut the adenlaistrative
Exps greatest hit in the history
of the American theatre.
| Ernen Bevki, of only medium in over 100,000 dolins a year,
height. With his horn-rimmed Revently the 48 Repubilene spectacles, receding hair and late chairmen - the national wide, onay mile, he looks the chairman's traditional bugbear- epitome
VI the inkddle-class voted, Hell the best national
QUEEN DINA OF
I
JORDAN SAYS 'I'M SO
HAPPY'
From STEPHEN HARPER
Nothing like it
was a show have
There never like it. Unless you powerful connections, you don't stand a chance of get ting a seat in under seven months. The backers any it will make over £2,000.- 000—and sales of records alone are soaring towards the £1,000,000 mürk.
performance is brilliant. Neither
But first I had to pass a test. of those writers has ever for- given him for having his name
Sald Richard Mancy, the coupled with that of Carole theatre's press agent:--
beautiful And who committed
Landis - the popular actress suicide eight years ago.
(Told that Hopper had called his
"brilliant," performance Harrison snapped: "I'd bave thought more of the lady if she hadn't....")
"Will you give your word that you will not ask one word about his personal life or about Miss Kendall?" "No."
"Then he won't see you."
I agreed
"You know.". sald Harrison,
REX HARRISON
She
* Have 70 U ever
man
met a of good character where women are
cerfód?"
"I can't help feeling that you gumming his toupes carefully are very much in sympathy with Imio place. "It's wonderful the character of Higgins," being in a hit on Broadway said. but what
looking I'm really forward to is the opening night at Drury Lane.”
"When will that be?"
(his
"About the summer of 1958," ́said · Harrison, "Julie Andrews
and Stanley Holloway fellow stars) both have two-year confractam50 we'l watt they're available. I
may drop out of this next year and make
That way a Alm. fresh for London," /
I shall be
Belag the toast of Broadway and the most talked about actor in America has made Harrison
This went on for two days, now earning £2,000 a week- Finally agreed to Harrison's virtually un-get-at-able.
Ho terms-and we arranged to meet refuses to see New York column at the theatre, ists. And the reason for bis
p18. All of which makes joyous reluctance to be interviewed is reading for the lean, lanky star the continued presence at of the show: 48-year-old Rex side of the slender, 25-year-old arriving from his home at West- into the Proteaser Higgins dulat
Harrison.
Harrison standa stride tremendous Colossus.
musical like
old
A dresser helped him off with He was as they had assured. his me he would bo-very late his trousers and assisted
him
of
n
"They must pack the Shipman's Medical Guide, twice as much baby food as they would need on land (in case becalming), paraffin fridge if possible, and a large supply of disinfectant as the main danger to Rupert will be food poisoning."
Water baby
Adrian Seligman's first daughter
was born and spent the first 18 months of her life on a world cruise, "and only once fell down a companion hatch, and wasn't even bruised. We put a spring door at the head of the hatch, laced the ship's guard; rails with light cord, and netted her cot in gimbals to prevent her from getting thrown about, and she was as happy as any- thing," he told me.
Like Rosamund Elverson who says Rupert is just as likely to meet death on the roads, Rosemary Seligman thinks there are greater domestic dangers than life on the ocean wave.
Dr Edmund: Pye, who- travelled with his wife to the South Seas between 1952-55 in a 29ft, boat, gave an equally optimistic medi- "As, there's cal opinion. sufficient steeraga to take plenty of fresh food and water in a 20-tonner, there's nothing against it," he told me from Mizzen Cottage in
"What makes you say that?" asked Harrison.
"Well the manages to be the wilds of Esser. rude and arrogant and remain charming. So, do you." No doubt
Horrison stroked his nose.
yet
:
"I can't agree with that. Though I do admit I've taken of Jill Bomford, 26-year-old There is no doubt in the mind
over a lot of Higgins and he's fiancee of 34-year-old Lieut- Commander Peter Hamilton, taken over a lot of me
who has just crossed the He made a Anal adjustment Atlantic alone in his 21ft, stoop, to this make-up as the orchestra Salmo. She looks forward with (dived for the door.
trip. across the Pacific,
struck up the overture, then confidence to her honeymon
"My love to everyone, See you and at The Lane,”.
British actress
I believe a family is a family, Kay Kendall. bury, Long Island. Ten minutes of tweed suit, fishing hat;
and like Mrs Elverson, would this Plus the fact that he, is now before curtain-time, hia long camel hair coat.
my legally separated from his wife black Cadillac convertible
As I walked back to the stage hate to be parted from *alid 2 Lill Palmer.
up to the stage door and he You can't tell. door, the orchestra was playing child, if I ever have one, t leapt out-cave-chested. round».
one of the best songs from the would take more than publie Cairo, home later this month."
As Professor Higgins, he loper
But wonderful shouldered, thin as rake,
show. "I'm An Ordinary Man" opinion to stop, me if I wanted "When
I first read the show," in which Harrison vigorously to," she said blodly egy TALKED with beautiful' Back in the palace at about the stage in an
The crowd around the slago said Harrison, "I had no idĉa it protesta his dislike of women. and Queen Dinn of Jordan Amman is seven-month-cardigan, rudo
insulting,
One can
· More people than ever, are complacent, elegant Miss Kendall has been grading door parted to allow the rake would be such a hit, for an hour of poetry, and old. Princess Aliya. Queen curt and
Come to think of it. I was preparing small ships - for this 1 had the Alm at private to make progress and I follow- never tell. and hectoring-yet dispoiling a Rex's arm--both
quite wrong,
sort of Journey than, over.. through, of run and in the bistros of ed him swiftly along the corri-Pygmalion politica, bulb growing, and Dina sometimes hears the brand, of, magle rarely seen parties
souvenir-littered course, to see how Lesile Howard this
before, though most of them bables. Everything except baby's chuckles when she before on any stage.
Broadway-over since My Fair dor to
How could Harrison ever be don't get much farther than the handled the part. That gave in sympathy with a character Land's End dressing-room. (Among the
Larly opened last March, rumours of a rit speaks on the telephone,
Ironically enough, Harrison is
souvenire, a signed oil painting me some pointers--though
theke that? between herself and King with King Hussein.
probably the most disliked actor. They are constantly together, of Shaw, whom Harrison met”, Interpretation, of course, - in my Hussein.
(CJFTRIGHT) In America. "Rude," "arro- When Rex took a week off from while making Major Barbara.") own." gant,ellish" are but a few Did she hope for, another of the many labole hung around
These she dismissed as
too absurd to discuss.
"Yout really, are a dresdful
her father's modern white very long? "I think it is a
The queen received me at child, a boy perhaps, before his neck In recent months; mansion in the
garden Httle soon yet," she replied. person," Noel Coward la reputed
to have told him. "Inext to finest
suburb of Maadi, on the Of her ille in Amman, me you were not the banks of the Nile.
the queen said: "I love it light comedy.actor in the world there. There is such a lot you'd be good for only
thing selling care in Great
First sho told me why she
came to Cairo three weeks
to do as a citizen in my Portland, Stroco, special position,” kata kong
How Is she spending her holl- go: "My father, broke his day? Very quietly, Talking hip some time ago. He has with father, Soning old friends.
abould like to go shopping and
He snapped
MANDRAKE' The magician
JONS: —FOR INSTRUCTIONS:
WATCH THIS ONE
one
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him and cheer him up... thomubject mom womens sides "It is my first holiday stop. Shu said: Yes, à ein real- away from Ammanfor ly 28-awful to do so nebra more than a year. I felt that a mach & Bedrock
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