Cyril Staplets
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1957,
This girl may edge out the men
A
BEWITCHED 21-year-old Nancy Whiskey boarded
n London-bound plane the other night after a recep tion in New York, a dise-jockey convention in Chicago, and the full red-carpet treatment. All for a girl who Hiterally went hungry in London Inst year.
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that kept her in the American weeks, an all-time, all-comers' Hit Parade for 13 consecutive record. And it sold over 2,000,000.
In this hop-happy and sometimes daffy disc-land the usar," another number of male singer has had all the glamour,
Read at the double PHILIPS
and
save time
Last year she made "Faithful
German origin, It didn't cut much ice over here, but it hag In the sales charts the girls have proved a drab lot just been released in the Slater over the past few years, and rarely challenged the men, under the tle of "Don't Cry TOW fast do you read? by HAROLD M. HARRIS
H® My Love" and it's being greeted Can you keep up with over there as a natural.
the mass of reports, docu-
Gimmickers may
sinried to do 1.
Her singing of "Freight Train" on the Charles McDevitt recording matte US. Tin Pan Alley take notice,
They know what to do with potential ptors over there--and they don't waste any time, The ..record was only 55th in the Best Sellers in America-No. 10 hero-but the operators rushed
Two years ogo 3 recari Suprasad
DANNEXI poums
have
A
British Crossword Puzzle
2
4 15
B
酱
The results of each class are carefully noted as part of the research into quick reading which 7 being carried out by the North-Western Polytechale, For this work they get
μου. ernment grant from the Depart- ment of Scientife and Indusklai Research.
This unnatural state of affairs should bo changed-und I
ko-butments, and journals which to read to do their job were still trying to brush up our who incl believe that the girl with the
confidence, read the reading at the 12th lesson.
same passage twice; some read The instructor, Mr E. F. Hart, caen word semi-audibly. intoxicating name and style bas band-leader Jimmy Dorsey to Lynn has the stamina to go on most industrial executives elliciently?
and professional men make an instrumental record. for ever.
a fairly stift Instructor Hart points out Many big firms find that med us over Inte
extret from a Reith lecture by Dorsey-brother of the
the quantity
the faults and tries to cure them, of essential Bertrand Russell our first His
on Tommy Dorsey, and an old-
reading OWN
speed is papers cannot be reduced. evening. My speed experience didn't.
was 292 between 380 and 480 words A mor want to know, "I've had It,” hej
Yet their executives spend words per minute, 25 quicker minute. said. The kids aren't in-
so much time reading that than the average for the group. levested,”
1 was full of confidence. little is left for working.
Then he naked us some ques- The only solution is to in- tions on what we had just road. crease the speed of reading. My confidence disappeared. I But can this be done?
secured 2 out of 10 for compre- hension. This was so shattering to my self-esteem that I deliber- atoly cut my speed. My average over the Arst three lesson was I have just taken & 231 words per minute. For the course which set out to whole class it was 245. Over the prove that it can. My prob- last three sessions, my average lem was alightly different, was 323, which was one word a As literary editor, have to mute faster than the group rend large numbers of books and atories. Some can be skimmed; many have to be read thoroughly.
to the Transatlantic phono,
But the executive wouldn't give up. Finally, Dorney gave in. He recorded "So Rare," un old favourite of the thirties. It was released last January, and
eyed Dorsey
the returns
sy fold the startled Nancy nosically. In two weeks just "Come right over"
Before she went she sat in my TWE
TWENTY-FIVE recorda had office radiating bewilderment boen sold.
"When that call horse-laugh and delight,
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So Dorsey gave a and 1urned
his
110
same through. I remembered back on the flop, how hungry I'd been when I
first
to Landon, came
Then suddenly the <150 Jockeys gave the record a splu,
to be a and sales started to leap. Now
Sho
never planned
10
Charles
McDevitt hind
Parade singer. After "So Rore" is sixt! in the lists,
made with 750,000 coples sold. that trial recording of "Freight Tralis-the
Iron cully. Dorsey les gravely song be wrote ill in hospital after a
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throat
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himself-It was hawked around operation. He may never piny 1hte recording studios without
BUCCESS.
Now with a British recording of a British number featured by Euch
valuable property as Miss Whiskey, Oriole records must be dancing with glee at ila American impact,
the saxophone again,
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14
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VERA AGAIN
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ISTORY looks like repeating itself for Vera Lynn, er "Aur best-selling record was Wiedersehen"--a German song
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125
Tab Hunter
WAYS, (London)
(0).
THE TOP TEN
Andy 1 BUTTERFLY,
Williams (London) (2),
2 ROCK-A-BILLY,
Guy
Mitchell (Philips) (1).
3 YES. TONIGHT, JOSE-
PHINE, Johnnie KAY
(Philips) (7).
4 WHEN I
6 NINETY-NINE
7 I'LL TAKE YOU HOME
AGAIN
KATHLEEN, Silm Whitman (London) (-)
BABY,
Teen- 8 BABY
Agers (Columbia) (5).
9 700
MUCH, Elvis Presley (H.M.V.) (10),
FALL
IN
LOVE, Nat "King" Cole
(Capitol) (4).
GAP. 10 FREIGHT
Lonnie Donegan (Pye-
TRAIN, Chise. McDevitt Group (Oriole) (9),
CUMBERLAND
Nixa) (3).
ACROAS
Nolleed (0), Concur (0).
Churages 101. Bird (5}.
13 Solaen 4).
15 or less importance (3).
Encourage (4)
17 Part of the foot (4).
Uncanny (8).
0 Male certain of (7)
21 Christmas (4).
23 Courteous 100%
24 It shows seeing's not believing
(*).
Margin (0)
Disclose (0).
FRIDAY'S
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DOWN
Chief pain? (8).
2 Opporiie ends (0)..
3 Noblernan (4).
Collectka of explanations (8).
Fitur consumption (8).
9 Wearled (8).
11 Watering down 18).
13
(B).
14 Spirit-like (5).
18 Allure (0),
1 Heap of money? (4),
DIFFERENT I
I could double my speed (without spoiling my in compohension) I could theory read twice as much. Thn was what I hoped. So I paid a guinea and enrolled in the Reading Efficiency Class at the North-Western Poly- technic at Kentish Town.
S'milar classes have been held for years in America, but they have been slow in getting estab 11thed ITL England. Outside London there are quick reading courses in technical colleges at Salford and Birmingham, and at Edinburgh University. In addi- tion, at least four big fadustrial firms run classes for their own employees.
There used to be a privately man course in London. The fee was 60 guinens. Now the only elass Is the one at Kentish Town
For 12 consecutive Monday
Teaming how to read i way one of 15, would-be faster readers who oncviled. Only eight of us
evenings, I have been CROSSWORD Across: Suangle, & Ares, 9 Meditate, f Restored, 13 Kept. 18 Convened, 18 Surround, 19 fleets 21 Abartiter,
Tier Avid, despleed, 20 Blue, 27 Jirhes, Down: Fair, Meen Grace, 7 Event, D Modes, 10 Deter, 11 Fiope, 1 Fence. 10 Numbe Dried, 10 Rider. 20 Easel, 21 Alde, 23 Gere. 23 Till, 24 Ever.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
Seed Time
T
́nvérage..
The
course, is based on H
word or
system of training deviser by Harvard University. Research bas shown that we read in jerks. Our eyes lake in a phrase, and then move on to the next word or phrase. We do not read while our eyes are moving which takes up from six to 10 por cent of cur reading time.
LONGER PHRASE
The alm of the course is to teach us to widen the spair of the eye and also to reduce the period of ixation, so that we read a longer phrase in a thor- ter time,
FOR PLEASURE
of our
One member
TOUN,
Mr. J. Ellis, a methods engineer,
who wants to speed up his personal reading for pleasure, suld at the end of the course; "I think I've got through more reading recently," Mr V. J. Rosoux, an actuary, was more cautious. He has to read a large number of magazines, papers and articles on insurance. hope it's helped." was as far as he would commit himscit.
Д
civil Mr Rog Williams, service executive, was Oven more sceptical. "I still And my- sell reading the Sunday new papers on Wednesdaye," he said. "All the course has done is help me to keep up with the sub- titles on foreign films!”
Fims have been prepared at One thing still holds me back. Harvard as a mechanical ald. When I start trying to stop up Reading passages are shown on the words per minute, Ind the screen moving at arst by myself thinking about the speed une-fifth of line ot a time, and stop taking in what I am The span is widened during supposed to be reading. the course and the films speed. ed up.
FOOTNOTE.} At our last set- slen, wo read another, passage
the Reith There are 18 Alms, and the from
Lecture by first runs at 200 words a minute. Bertrand Russell. My speed (308 The last film flashed by at 510 words per minute) was not Avonds ʼn minute, and we were very high; but I scored 8 out of then reading half n line at a. 10 for comprehension (compar time.
ed with that opening 21⁄2), So Perhaps the Course
чуда wasted on me after all,
London Express Service,
Most bad reading habits are ingrained in us by the time we are in our teens," Some people,
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