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Interesting
stories
From AI
The Worlif
Now People Who Were Certified Tell Their Own Stories
MENTAL PATIENT RAN BUSINESS
BIGGLES (still going strong) shoots down SPACEMAN
London.
PACE FICTION is not
60 popular among children. The books that girly as well as boys like to read most are about crime, adventure, and war.
Eight thousand of them at 30 schools have just proved it in a survey of children's reading. The influence of television 19 amailer than might be expected.
The two top authors aro xtil W. E. Johns--writer at the Biggies books that have been thrilling boys for 20 years and Enid Blyton,
"
Agatha Christie and Paul Brick-hill are in the top twelve, but so are Charles Dickens, R, L
Charlotte Stevenson, Bronie, and Louisa M. Alcott
YOUR HOBBY?
The survey questioned 8,000 boys and girls at public and grammar schools, and 2,000 at secondary modern schools, Ages ranged from 11 to 18.
Other pofita disclosed:
CAREERS: Most popular ameng boys is engineering. Girls liked teaching CT secretarial work,
HOBBIES: Model-making and stamp-collecting silit keep most boys happy. Girls like reading, music, and needlework.
ATOMISED
CHICKEN
STOLEN
Paris,
Paris Police are looking for a gourmet with a tasto for the unusual, who stole the
"Atomised cooked Chicken" from The US Pavillion a1 the Parts International Fair.
Mass-circulation France Boir front-paged the thert of the "Hot Chicken" and suggested Parts Police run over all Parisian stomachs with a relger counter If they wanted to locate the culprit.
And since Its scepilcal reporter couldn't get tho American Exhibit (Atom
and Life) Hostess to admit anything but "The day will without danger to como man, food will be able to be conserved (by atom)"; be judged that therefore tho thlef could be in danger,
"Everything leads onė to believe that there is now in Parts a radioactive thief who would be great in-
terest for examination by a specialist... of Baclay, (French Atomie Centro)", the paper said. — United Press
ATMOSPHERE OF CONFIDENCE?
Carini. The Italian Government saya Girls apparently read more
tax relona has than boys82 per cent. In its recen! pubile and grammar schools established an atmosphere of and 70 per cent. In secondary confidence between the slate modern schools belong to and the taxpayer, but in Carint libraries, compared with 73 there appears to be still room per cení, and 57 per cent, of for some improvement. boys,
Was
·All Aboard The Sunbeam With.........
A NAZI LOVING BARONET
Trip Round
The Bay
London.
EARDED
BE
36-year-
old baronet Sir Richard Foley- Phillips selling the 23 - roomed
птсев -
trad home that has be- longed to his for family
600 years be- cause he is broke.
Ho has pi- ready moved out of the houso and is living inh Du three roomed the shack in holiday village of Saunders- foot, Pem- brokeshire.
And instead
of lounging in
SIR RICHARD: 'I NEED THE MONEY'
his great swastika-hung hall, he is taking mackerel-fishing trippers round the bay at Saundersfoot, at six shillings per trip.
Last week he was busy scraping and painting his ship, the Sunbeam, in readiness for the summer trippers.
A Juvenile Falstaff
Signed Cheques And Had Books Printed
Londen.
A MAN who was a certified mental patient ran his own business successfully from an asylum, was allowed to travel and stay in hotels, used his own cheques, and wrote books,
This is disclosed in an official report, now published, of evidence given by former patients to the Royal Commission on Mental Illness.
She complained of victiming-
The wiinesses and the hospitals they wero in-are tion and i-treatment. She said referred to by Initials,
her sister-in-law brought her a few things, but as soon as she "left the INTE "knocked mo for down and took them from mo.
Here is the case of "Mr "As he could do nothing me he asked me to behave my- self and not let him down,
'IN ON WARRANT
"I was what is termed 'in on
Warrant so the superlatendent could not, release më.
Sho added: "You do not go and complain about it because you have to put up with It; be- cause you have to live with it."
"Miss A" is now the matron of a school caring for 20 chlidren.
Here is the case of “Miss D. She said that BUveral years
go she spent a large part of a year in a mental hospital. Her chief complaint was “ho regime of fear to which wo were all
"I had my own room, My own radio, and my own type-subjected." writer, with which I wrote books on the subject which were later published.”
He was certified, he said, after threatening to sug tho commanding
vifcer of
RAF unit during the war.
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DIDN'T KNOW
"The so-called patients were ruled entirely by fear," she said. Asked "How would you "Mr B." recalled that at a eliminic fear?” she replied: court-martial the attitude to-That is easy-by kindness. wards his evidence was "once a "I was placed in a cell abso- lunatle always a lunatic."
lutely in solitary, confinement," Here is the case of “Mis# A': | she added. She told the Commission, that Lastly comes the evidence of after being a voluntary patient “Mr C.” Dressed in fisherman's oilskins and seabouts, he said,
for eight years sho said she He is the father of a young "It's no good pretending. I just need the money."
mo, who was taken from a Sixteen-stone Sir Richard, looking like a fuvenlie Falstaff, would like to go home,
She was given a place of hospital to a mental hospital. said: "I got this title from my cousin. That was all I got.
He left all his money to his sister. I wish it had been the paper to sign and found hetzelf He was not consulted about his In another hospital. This was son's removal, although he was hospital where other way around I believe money always matters.
she was in the hospital at the time. "I am hoping to get between £2,000 and £3,000 for the house certified.
"My family and I were able But "If I had known that in sign- to step in in this case, should be worth much more, but no one wants these big places
where a family Ing the paper I should be sent what happens these days,
"Anyway, it is 12 miles from the sea, and that is no good without advice from relatives or has not got the gumption, or to me. It is loo far to bicycle."
He added: "I am quite prepared to sell the sheepskin parch-hospital doctor to another bos- whatever you like to call it, to
pital for certification I would do so," he asked. ment showing the original grant to my family from the Bishop of certainly not have signed." St. David's in the 14th century."
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taxpayers
one tax office
broke
it
Unknown The survey
made by into the local W. H. Smith and Son, the news-night and burned all records agents, and George G. Harrap, and
reports-United the publishers,
incomo
Pros.
BALLIOL MEN FIGHT
IT OUT WITH.......... SILVER SCONCES
London.
IN the common rooms of Oxford last week they were talking of the feat each of two undergraduates who drank 172 pints of beer in 70 minutes.
It happened in the Hall at. Balliol College. A Canadian undergraduate dug hia Scottish neigh- bour in the ribs and the latter promptly "sconced" him-a traditional penalty for a breach of etiquette. A sconce is a silver drinking cup holding 211⁄2 pints. The ones at Balliol are 200 years old.
Full of Beer
When he announced the sconce, the cup full of beer was brought to the Canadian.
He could either; Sip from it and pass it round, paying for the beer;
Protest to the Senior Scholar in Latin, and if hls Latin was bad risk further penalties;
Or drain the sconce himself without taking
his lips from it.
The Canadian drained the sconce,
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The Duel Was On
This put the Scot on the spot. He had to do the „same or pay for the beer. He accepted the challenge
and the duel was on.
Seven sconces later the two undergraduates, full
of 35 pints of beer, called a truce.
The Canadian, as the original one challenged, paid for it and went to bed.
The Scot took part in a 'debato and next day denied a hangover.
A Light Dinner Ale
The college authorities infused to reveal. the names of the men in the beer duel, but' I was told that they drank a "light dinner ale" and not a strong bitter.
Tankard note: Monsieur Aimer Maffray, a Paris reciaura- teur, clainis the world's' beer-drinking record by shifting 24 'pinat în 52 minutes.
In Sheffield some years dgo John. Field was challenged to
'- drink a bucket of beer without taking his lips from it. He went out of the bar and returned some time later to: win the bet.
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"Why did you go out of the room before taking on-the bet?". he was- asked.
"To make sure I could do it i med it first with a bucker of water!" he said," "simply,
Field wouldn't have thought much of 'Oxford drinking.
What does be intend to do with the money? "I hope to buy another bost," he said.
I'm Not Repentant
Sir Richard was a member of the Hitler Youth Movement for two years before the war.
"I'm not reperiunt," he says. “I would do it again, I still like and respect the Nazis. I would have become a naturalised German but for the WILE"
RULE OF FEAR
Sho was
WAKI
eventually trans- ferred to the first hospital, where she worked in the fruit-felds and the ward without payment
When she came out she had "Miss A's" comment: "I had In the hall, the Nazi books, the portraits of Hillier and other Title to pay and I reckon I kept my things.
self there,"
The man whose fanlly motto is "Patriotism la my guide" said; } to pay £100 for her keep, "I shall take all my Nazi souvenirs with me, the owastike Bag
"I'm probably the only one who wants them now, anyway." Sir Richard, the fourth baronet, does not tell the trippers who he is: "Not quile the done thing, old boy, really," he said
TWO-HEADED CALF
A Jerawy calf was born with two heads Insi ́"wook in Haderslev, Jutland. The calf (above), only lived', for a few hours. Keystone Photo,
TELEPHONE TORTURE
Frankfurt,
Casanova Married For 90 Minutes.
Lomkomu.
CA. Fradictume citizens, is being sitwigs tortured by telephora.
An unknowIY Kocmy! . Erders Ahdogs Aloe tem liver pågi, a 100- Miles Pouline "Chaknova: -' got pound mack of coffed, and .. zariek, bob uniklos ben· COATHOUS westdeg, mochino and has thơm | namtwako her love like waanto a delivered to the men's house. He success-thai melaginga lobed juuk once called him out of state | 00 mkmates, in London Court wyna long with a tolephone message ['told.
khand had kao had blown up.
He orders, Ebola and wenda French bors, Mies Cons doctor to the man's bound to the fold the Cotank nho married Bri middle of the 'night.
tish dancer Frank Young
to Paris i 1938. An hour and a the palloo. They lasuod a worn-half later he left to catch a train Ang to his dommerce that be --and was never seen again.
faces auroit."" "Thay nhijo” de-," Bbw wna mwarded a divorcu o |cided to keep the men's name this grouch, " of her husband's
notrań majątknąć pristical jokery Cheminding: Potion (mách thwys: bad- silveon (jodra forces ewithy. • his] bodzi viktáble to tron-YoungAm
Tongue Twister
Watford.
spell bis
A 10-year-old doctor sighed when police, resignedly here investigating a traffe violation charge, asked him to name--slowly.
Nannayakkaragodekan- Don Julluus Da degraachchige
Wijesckcra Sliva
patiently obliged.--United Press.
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