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FLIGHT 146 TO CHRISTMAS ISLE
"Just as soon as I've had my test, that will be final-and everybody can relax..."
Cummings
Is the Queen fair to the
W
HEN you think of the Queen what is your personal picture of her?
What image is so sharply etched, so familiar, so typical that it clicks in
your aing faster than a camera shutter?
I give you a choier of two pictures.
The first is the Queen standing alert and unposed in a wooden grand- stand, wearing a sensible suit and holding to her eyes a pair of very heavy, business. like field-glasses.
It is the Queen at any race meeting in the country at any time of the year, in Want sunshine or in pouring rain, The Queen at next Friday's Grand Natio,E.
Her expression in the shadow of that white-prunter bux in half obscured, but her mood in easy to judge.
She gets exclted-and dances up and down, gesturing CX fravagantly with hands which are usually quiet and queenly. Slie Is disappointed? Her binoculary fall abruptly. swing idi: on their strap, as she Icana forwed to fliek the knob of her red portable radio and turn off the pointless fale of the race commentary.
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Now look for the other picture, Imagine the Queer. In this other kind of royal box, focuss- ing intently through a different pair of binorulurs.
She is at Covent Garden, and as the singers and orchestra bring the opera to is tremen- dous climax, the Queen drops her little ivory glasses to her
by
highbrows?
pen if she linked herself engerly with their activities.
The Highbrow contingent are casting wistful eyes not only at the Queen,
SYLVIA LAMOND Edinburgh.
top and closes her eyes in the the interests of the Queen are ecstasy of
the moment. No the interest of the people. doubt, of course, which is the familler pleture.
Queen at the races. Her 1997 average; one day every two weeks,
The
The second pleture is blurred
for this simple Chat: opera
But what about the fetings of those who are devoted to the pursuit of cultute?
schools report
They
see how this Queer's love of horses stimulates public and concert musle do not rank interest: riding
inong
Queen's the
personal spanking business...: White interests #d
She Cly packs its stadiuins for the hobbies. rarely uses her box at Covent Horse Show,...our Garden-has not been since the heroine is girl in Jodhpurs, Bulshof Bollet performatice Pat Smythe (which
was diplomatically Important) last October,
Now, few of us would com- phin because the Queen is not na opera fanatic.
national
Passed by
They see the Queen constantly passing them by and they are The wonderful thing is that well aware what would"hap-
NEWS FROM BRITAIN
FACTS,
of
How they would love some support trom the Duke
Consider two of his leisure activities:-
SAILING: Today four times more
suil people
their awn boats than 10 years ago,
There are 1,400 racing fixtures compared with 250 then.
Yet before the Duke mad boat.
designer Ufta Fox took Coweslip out into the salt-pewn caces of Cowes Regatta, only a handful of rich yachting men have known that the Fifteen" was a boat!
would "Flying
Look at the influence of Prin- abic sense of royal destiny is cess Margaret's personal prefte her strength. cnces: she goes twice or three times to an intimate revue like Drop of a Hat. Er Cranks and the show is made,
It
What a boost for artists out- sido the timid. chocolate-box
circle If the Queen, who has been to only one art exhibition in aine months, began a selec. live patronage of painting.
She expresses delight In A musical and this is the nearest thing in show business to a
of a long run. guarantee happened with Salod Days.
When a royal personality statos
the com" thing. a preference marcial wheels move round with formidable power,
The sporting ont theatrical rents, the fashion houses, shops and night-clubs where they are seen, prosper.
Her concert
POLO: Another exclusive sport seven years ago uddenly
Just imagine the same royal became a Sunday afternoon out ural
Influence sprending to the cul-
purtufis....great music, for thousands of Londoners. It the Duke had never played, avant-garde painting, sculpture,
and poetry.
never been photographed peel. ing off his sweat shirt. .would the spectator figures at Cowdray Park and Windsor have boomed the way they did?
BY LES ARMOUR
FIGURES, AND FINANCIAL GRAPHS
THIS is the open season have, of course,
T
for economists.
Facts, figures, graphs,
white papers, statements,
counter statements, and
ceeded.
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plous platitudes descend out THE MIRACLE
A bond
Let tis br clear about one
Nobody in their senses wantin pompous, pedantic family of
Their love
their of sport, intellectuals around the Throne attendance at the Cup Final, their desire to be pleasantly amused at the theatre and not
into #k worried
psychiatric clinic....all these things torge the common bonds between them and us,
But this is the passing show. without recognising a note of You and I can live happily some of the Beethoven or Berlioz, Of course, And look at
But we would be foolish to things that could happen. Covent
dery the Importance of o Garden Opera House could sit
vigorous cultural ikke. back with a big clear-paying Its own way as independently as the Palladium.
There would be a newly insti- tu.ed
Royal
Muste Command Concert to add to the Royal Va:lety Performance and the Royal Fibn Show,
It is important to our national prestige now important for the
heritage wo shall pass on.
facts The Couragement
prove that en- from the 'Royal in any field has a far- reaching effect.
More than anybody, ther The Queen, who made An-
set the singe....for a nigoni fashionable,
might be could painted by a Graham Suther- proad flowering of talent on the
highest level, not suc- National Debt up as a thoroughly very exciting. They are not in- land or a Ruskin Spear....not
bad job,
great Britiībı Renais- deed supposed to be.
Furthermore, the critics
of the sunny April sky Speaking of foots and Agurts like a great chilling blizzard, somebody worked out this week
that the National Debi
To upshot of them all comes to £680 a head seen to be that all is not duding children
But perhaps there is no need. The miracle proposed by the original £500,000 National Fund
may come off yet—if only the Chancellors of the Exchequer can hold out long enough.
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14 SILENT NIGHT:
to
as good as it should be, as whom it would be unfair
as a pretty pink-and-white gir}. say, but as a woman whose unshak- the puff produced for the Third Programme is not always very good. Who is going to produce back 20 years. The cigarette serious scholarship for a fi card disappeared with the war minute broadcast which will die and tobacco shortage
and the with the flick of a switch? manufacturers have resisted ita
The defenders
The
other return. hand say that the communion provided between the learned This week, however, it looked and the public breaks down as though the big tobacco com- barriers,
rs, Improves taste, and ponies were going to have
minds which would otherwise card be impossible,
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persons over saddle with this monster and There are already more tele- Permits a kind of meeting of admit defeat and return to
bad as it might be, or at all
86 who havu what we should like it to probably forgotten what it was be.
all about anyway).
gross
Wages and salaries rose by 9 percent last year and commercial trading profita increased by the same amount. Production, however, increased by less than one percent.
ها
vision. viewers than radio listeners in Britain and the
Take your pick. The BBC., subeldiary of the trend is likely to snowball on
to the accorapaniment et loud noikes, is taking its,
for some time set.
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This. of course,
very ecimplicated affair since it co- corns money which we owe one been pondering the redeployment As a result, the B.B.C. has another and nobody is very sure of its forces and the "rumoar Just where or what it is.
has been rito” (such rumours, it
Third Programmie is doomed. seems, are always rife) that the RETURN OF THE CARD:
Nevertheless, the calculations prompted this columb to in vestigato some of the magri- Bicent schemce to dispose of this
A Third Programme Defence Society has been formed and Sir Basil Blackwell has published a
pamphlet deploring the end of
the Third,
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**The Times Educational Supplement" appeared this week with a front page picture of two very grubby schoolboys swapping digarette cards.
Most of its renders probably thought they had been
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Last December Kensitas, 0 American Lucky Strike company. started putting gift
In its coupons packets. The cards, if colicated in large mumbers, are exchange- ablo for a wide array of prizes -walicis, knives. household goods and the like,
Their sales have increased tenfold in four months.
The glant Imperial Tobacco Company, which sells three out of every for British cigarettes, let it be quietly known that taken hed cigaretle cards on the way.
30,000 TROOPS HUNT Mr A. Z. Phizo
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Personal savings roso debt. nicely - of the wage and In 1927, an anonymous donor, Balary increases, about driven mad perhaps by the of the national debl forty percent was actually sight
The columns of "The Times saved.
figuras, left £500,000 to a fund und "The Manchester Guardian” which would eventually pay the have reflected the unense among debt off. The idea was that this the Intellectual classes. But, of course, the £500,000 was to be. Invested amount of real goods you and allowed to accumulate until The Third Programme is one could buy with your newly it amounted to enough to pay off of the B.B.C.'s personal earned and saved pounds the ictal. Then the nation could tributions to the concept of
start with a clean sheet.
broadcasting and, not long ago, went down as it must when
the Corporation was loudly costa rise faster than out-This week, It had run up lo celebrating its tenth anniversary. £2,220,192. In the meanwhilo, the national debt itself had in- 'It was deliberately created as creased-but not as fast, not..a plaything of the few, as a quite.
vehicle for the esoteric and the
SHORT, skinny, 57-year-old ex-schoolteacher is scholarly.
hunted today by 30,000 Indian troops because he It is a kind of learned journal refuses to call himself an Indian. and Lady
For more than a your AZ. immediate prize and freedom their
It has a listening audience of Phizo e ho calls himself has from the hated Indian daughter. The fund had £527, the size you might expect.. lod an armed revolt in the ministrators as the jackpot. 808 when it started in 1029 and
Jungle-covered Nota hills on the
put.
So there you are. We are not much richer after all: And we are not much
So there is hope. ".
poorer either though the Then there is the Elsie Mackay with sound effects. economists tell us that, in- Fund left by Lord
Inchape in memory of
flation being what it is,
getting rich on paper may niako you pooror, In fact, in the long run.
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From STEPHEN HARPER: NEW DELHI
Ad-
it was to accumulate for 50 years As on. Experiment, it was remoto Indu-Burma frontier, The naked Nagas have and then be applied to the debt; and is interesting and it bas | fighting against Premier Nehru's reverted to the old custom et It now stands at £1,480,404-- been coplod on the Continent. attempt to Indianise him and head-hunting. good going, too.
The
as the Kista Mackay Fund.
Ital
Justincation for it seems his people.
Ho haw a price of £370-
Indeed, that the British are now totals £13,240; small but produces axollo mule (will to None that the Premics is
moot Apart from *-
Once Phizo-he took the first |
It is all rather bewilder
* ·be: that it bring the ing and the economists Finally, there is the John personalities of blizzard has not really left Buchanan Fund left by Dr petoro a more general audience his head. His wife, daughter his initials Avher drot inter- on and last letter of the alphabet es us inuch wiser. It appears, Buchanan under the same terms Vian they would F
bocatura Oribektach addedt-law üre'in jall.
viewed by, a the embodiment ha lind none before-tried to see
Nehru In Delhi, in anyway available on records) trying to keep the Negn war of and information. nt a kind to be independence a secret by bann people right to freedom. But
Ho wanted to found in scholarly: books and ing porters from the aren,/
Regula hi
Journals,
Nehru would only agree to meet -What The Grillén are thorstore
him on. Indian Loyal to int now making lat. Is this Shatilah
Repubite
not working as hard as the no doubt helpful, economists think they
The interesting thing is that should and that assorted the
last of these fisiko Billy sorts tycoons and Buchanan Fund was left in trade unionists allko) have 1980,
been busy trying to get Since then, pubile spirited tion enought. The perrocalities
STEALTH
15 in a wad of jungle stealth Phizo zwused and went Back
something for nothing and citizena seem to have given the of the emped and tot alice and sundavad, with beads us the to the jungle so Agha
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