RECORD ROUND
POPPA
)by RAMSDEN GREIG
KM
—SHE WRITES A LOVE SONG OVER THE KITCHEN STOVE
OPPA SQUIRES is swinging out the blue-tinted savimming pool. Sister Rene is busy replenishing the bar. Cousin Bernard is getting the red and cream roadster down off the jacks. There is, in fact, every indication that Miss Dorothy Squires is on her way home from Los Angeles, California,
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1957,
After 14 years the whisper is shouted of the way in which the poet-pilot died Did this hero crash
his plane on purpose
MOR hundreds of thousands of men and women he was
FOR
just about the finest of the Few.
His name is part of September 1940. It means courage and youth and suffering,
It means brave, thin scrawls of vapour across the autumn skies.
That name is Richard Hillary.
Do you remember Hillary?
Ho was the bright-faced cynical young man from Oxford
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ROBERT PITMAN
Aftcy a few rounds of drinks tried to drown, when he found (at “a rather mordid little club himself burned and blind in the who was thot down off the coast Sackville Street") Hillary sen off Kent, of Kent. He was dreadfully finally left. Writes Hodgkin- [ could not get my face burned. But they dragged him son: from the cold sea. In hospital they gave him new hands, new sight, a new face,
And when it was over, with a thick pencil clutched upright in his withered left hand, Hillary began to write a book about It Foll
1 e-The Lart Enemy. destroyed," ("The last enemy that shall be St Paul had sald, "'ls Death.")
Fearful hour
a swimming pool, impressed show business there to such un Do you remember the effect extent that the Andrews Sisters of that book? naked her to join the act.
Nean to tears, we learned
Sister Rene says of one of my more afluent neighbours in Bexley, Kent: "Dorothy's bound to be holding one of her swim- ming pool cocktail partles, The kien was that she should ('These functions
find
by some of the biggest names following billing: The Andrews in show business
some- Sirters present Ms Dorothy times ought also to be attended Squires. by a lifeguard. As a newspaper- “We could sing in harmony," man and
I have Miss Squires says, Heighbour 17
"brit there Been asked along to several. was some dicord off-stage." Drink are generally served by two of Miss Squires's theatrical agent frloads who are rivels, The result that you invari-
with ably find yourself
two drinks.)
-
"Surprisingly be held out his
hand,
Goodbye, Colin, I don't think I'll see you again."
"Why? I asked, "We might run into each other."
with
"No." he said, smiling his twisted lips, I don't think I'm to last it out,"
He wanted to. die
under. I was so enmeshed in my parachute that I could not
move."
'
And, oven after the work of the plastic surgece, Hillary had
black moods of
despair. In to was REAL June 1941 he But at the last mement Roosevelt America cn a propaganda' tour.
vetood his mission.
At the sight of that once- handsome face--50 the mur-
I11 RAF messes and a muren had said American Cusion dinners the whisper has mothers might be horried at passed round before, There have the possibility of say kind of been little nods and knowing war. Hillary, angry cad grimaces,
humiliated, was put on Now, in Hodgkinson's, words, writing propaganda
aloud; instead.
articles
the
BILLARY-from the drawing by Eric Kennington,
A British Crossword Puzzle
The
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This week I talked to some of Hillary's old colleagues. I asked them: "Could he have crashed
are attended get £1,000 a week and the/about Hillary's fearful hour in the the whisper is shouted
North Sea. "The water tow, and boileve that the time hon seemed colder and I noticed come to ask:
Then should we accept How true is suicide theory? It is a with. with surprise that the sun had Did Richard Hillary
neally, gone in though my face was still commit suicide?
all the facts except one. burning. I looked down at my
Well, let us look back to the fact that Hillary was not alone hands, and, not seeing them,
when he disd. His sergant- and intimate friend realized that I had gone blind")ight of of that last crash.
The scene is an Air Force observer Amazingly, with his injur3 but in the Scottish border coun- was killed with him.. If it w eyes and his injured hands, he try. A young The plan was dropped And
man in heavy, muicide it was also something nushed his way back to flying dying kit gets Miss Squires decided to devote
up from his worse.
Thin sleet her time la looking after house duties. In January 1943 he was chair by the stove.
killed.
1 falling across the airfield. He fer husband Roger, who was
The papers printed page-long trudges across to his plane, making a name for himself as a
wrote verses and leaders. Forts actor
It was a simple training flight, aeven-year The R.A.F. breite its rules and They watched the Blenheim deliberately?" In every case the
The in the bleak sky. It began to held a memorial servlet.
answer was the same: "I know circle. Someone shouted: "He's the story but I don't believe it she whole nation mourned. did
losing height." Throbbing round for a moment. If he had wanted His age was 23 But how did Hillary die?
in wide aweeps it sankt lower to die Dick Hillary would have
""What's wrong?" chosen some other way." and lower. Fourteen years later one
control asked urgently. his friends answers the question. The name of this friend--Colin
own life Hodgkinson, whose story, Best Foot Forward, has fuel in published (Oahoma,
1Bs),
Hodgkinson tells us about remarkable encounter at end of 1942,
Miss Squires, you should know, is the girl from Linnelly, Wales, who first made her name singing to the plano
accom-
patiment of Billy Held, Mr Reid was also something of B. song writer, having made a reported
230.000 from The Gipsy,
Hollywood Alm furthermore, hind contract to prove it.
Only occasionally leave her kitchen för a jaunt to Britain to make a levision. appearance
gramophone
record.
or
a
However, Miss Squires does not come home this time as the wholly domesticated wife of a Hollywood actor,
of
D
When the act broke up after more years than either Miss Squires or Mr Reld would care in tell you, Miss Squires want the boat: "I've written another:
She cables me on her way to on the halls on her own until
the 1053, when she went to America song Precious Love, sold 4 to a "because there is so much more recording company, and flad to do in
that my on the Slateyou con
recording of my Quite by chance he met Dwn cong, Come, Hoipo to My Richard Hillary in Plecarlilly. even make money."
("His face, that Arms, to doing well
with his ironical Miss Squires, who by
"Aspiring song-writer, may care eyes watching Bime had altered her hair from:
from under red to a blue-rinsed blunde, to know that the inspiration for grafted, putty-like eyelids, had
actor Precious Loye came to the song-n sort of blasted married a young film
beauty, I the realised that he could be more called Roger Moore and had writer where she was in
alters up residence in a Holly Idtchen rustling up a spaghetti attractive to women, now than wood house that 'did not boast bolognaise,
he had been before."
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
There was no reply. Only a huge crashing and a fountain of
frame.
I am glad
25
1 Habit (5)."
+ Skljed (3).
? Stop (0).
ACHUBB
Take without right (3).
10 Retain ()-
11 Reparation (1).
15 Eadmoed (5),
Colin Finally, I spoke to Why did Hillary crash on Hodgkinson himself. I found such a straightforward flight?
His injured hands may have that, when it came to the point, commit been clumsy, but that would he is not prepared to not explain
that last, strange himself to the sensational Im-12 sience.
plication which people will read into his written words, So was it sulcide? It is ency to oca why people should suspect it.
Capable of it
Hillary was quite capable of killing himself. In The Last Enemy, he tells how he actually,
I em glad For Hodgkinson is
Afreth 14).
Releve (8).
2 Hellicks mendicant (3).
20 zina (1)..
warte hard (4)
21 14ateis, (8).
54 No hotina
appears (6).
thai
labourer 'st
15. Foros operi (1),
Demiros, 18), 210
a hère in his own right. It would be a pity if, after death hadi done its worst, he should be the rilib and means of turikig. shallow rumour inla Hillary's last enemy of all.
Thought Transmission
FRIDAYB
DOWN
1 Makes might ruiwes (8).
2 Cessation (8).
3 Hop-drying
kun (4).
Absent-minded (0).
B Head (0)
9 TYDO (1)
11 Glenden (8).
13 Allude to (B).
13 Existed (8).
14. Suffers from the beat (6)
10.come into view (9).
22 Jle up in a rocat (d),
CROSSWORD.—Acrom: 5 Selected, & Beldant, ↑ LibsTACE,
11: Iterates, 12 Tier 13 Nornit. 18 Snow, 19 Rook, 22 Graduate, My Com-
plete 23 Order 20 Simbeams. Down. 1 A2 Sleep, Bolades. Emil, & FANE: 6. Trogic, 7 Dreary, 10 Begk, 14 Mitre. Tenders, 10 Ptech, 17 Common, 20 Itaven, 21 Deals, Cloe, 21 Atom.
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