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“THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1957.
AMEŘIGA after the Bleep
LOS ANGELES ISN'T WORRIED
After all... It's just got
the Brooklyn Dodgers
Los Angeles, California. 17HEN I arrived at my hotel here I found a crowd in
the foyer shouting their heads off. "What's up?" I asked Jonah Ruddy, the Daily Mail Hollywood correspondent. "Has America launched her own satellite, or maybe shot Atlas to the moon?"
("Nothing like that," said Ruddy. "It's the Dodgers." He meant, of course, the Brooklyn Dodgers, a famous baseball team known lovingly as "them Bums," who have deserted their native Brooklyn for Los Angeles and Californian gold.
The arrival of the Dodgers
Eas got this dizzy place even dizzler.
་
Joe E. Brown, the ex-como- dian, was the Master of Cere- monies for the welcome, and tears came into the guests' eyes when he said that Dodger own-
Walter O'Malley was "
by DON IDDON
very religious man, a real guy." volatile people, We are
Los Angeles, which many of the missiles which tested 3,000 miles away at Cocou Beach, Florida, does not seem in be worrying too much about Its fallures and Russia's tri- umphs. After all, it has got the Dodgers,
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MOUR· large whiskies, had numbed the 'butterflies' în Jim Dixon's stomach. And · two of Atkinson's pep pills hád reduced their flutterings to an 'occasional twitch.
The pills were part of "Atkinson's stock-in-trade. "Marvellous things," he as-. aured Dixon.
Dixon remained sceptical. He had sal- vaged the torn sheets of Merrie England from the wastepaper basket and pasted
Gramma-. them into some kind of order. tically, the lecture was sound enough. But, as for making any kind of sense!
Moodly he paced the washroom beneath the lec ture hall and scowled into the mirror. To relleve his feelings he made one of his faces. But it was not savage enough to express This full
Dixon fury. wrinkled his noso and looked at himself in profile. With his left eyo black and swollen he looked like a bad-tempered baby panda.
IR
HECTOR
GORTURQU-
HART was a busy man and
an important man; he was also a practical one. The evening pro- mised to be long and boring, and Sir Hector belleved in being prepares.
His pocket flask was slim, but round substantial, Clancing
new
his
the washroom and seeing only a solitary figure, back towards him, at the basins, the Chancellor tipped back hend and swallowed mouthful. of neat not brandy.
mercurial
the makes quite so
French..
The
the man $1 We but on occasion
basing turned, and have an inclination to pull out
all Sir Hector winced all the stops or push them
at sympathetically in."
the sight of Dixon's Volatile is one word; erratic black eye. ts another.
"You look 临器 if you could
This is it, I sald, Professor Hogeaus has done it for the old Stars and Stripes.
D
of
quick, but long. Journey that one American weakness is the tendency to overcell.
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Phoney baloney!
England was
NEVER Merrie...
Jim's felt hond sremed to be
podlocked to the
Jectern ...
The whisky, the pep-up pills and the brandy have
a remarkable effect on Jim's history lecture
a little of this," he said, offer ing the Black.
ed
was
paper.
sant...the
Dixon straightened hla shoulders and glared out into the audienco. Who wonders". ho demanded. "I don't wonder. Do you wonder?"
(x-
A breathless, tensely pectant hush gripped the hall. Welch darted an apprehensive glance nt tho Principal, and tugger at Dixon's gown.
"What do you think you're doing?" he hlased.
Dixon turned round to study Welch with gravé interest, as though the question deserved a considered reply.
"What do I think I'm doing?" he repeated. He turned back to the audience. "That's a good ane," he shouted, "What do f---·· think I'm doing?"
to the
He stepped forward edge of the platform and com- manded silence with one angry gesture.
Gold
"Henry Ford hlatory wad bunk," he declared. "If the stuff that I've just dished out was history-Henry Ford was righ"
Welch tried to interrupt but Dixon waved him back into his "Merrie England" he contemptuously, "Lutes
scut.
sald
and flutes and chase me round the maypole Phoney baloney, It was never Merrie. It was murder. Poverty! Starvation! Ignorance! Tyranny! Blood- shed! The lot!"
.
ho
are too
He felt the whisky, the pep brandy joln and the When the Stock Market share
on the page, and his throat felt precise. And, strangest of all, pills, values drop by $10,000,000,000
as dry as if it had been ruth his left hand seemed to be forces for a mass assault on his in two days and then, because
"Well,
equilibrium, and straightened thank you very lessly swabbed with blotting padlocked to the lecter,
Desperately, Dixon tried to himself for a final effort. GAIN I thought for a time one man announces that he will
much," Dixon said. He took n series
"The boys that feed you that a much speccies, Angeles had make Log
Hearing his own voice, Dixon work his finger free. His noles beaten Russia to the
punch they jump up $10,000,000,000, small sip and then when I saw a newspaper head something is-a-little unbalanced bigger one. The brandy collid realised that panle and alcohol slid to the floor, and he was soft-centred shop about
with the whisky and the had pitched-it-half-an-octave compelled to improvise good old days' can't take it," They don't want you #ine: "Ben Bogcaus wins from somewhere.
this pep pills, and Dixon staggered too high. To himself, and the was a time of song," he said he sold. I have discovered on
audience, lie sounded like Earth to Moon."
slightly.
a wildly. "Everyone sang...the to know. The facts harassed Six Hector's Indulgent smile
boy soprano.
Bcullions and the serving maids nasty for them." changed to a look of alarm.
Welch dug him in the back....and the lords and their Dixon, he realisel, al "Whatever is the matter Dixon" ladies." The Icelern creaked ominously beneath his assault.
children ready well, away. "Feeling bethe growled. "Do go on."
Dixon fluttered a molst hand. "The tex? ho asked, retrieving the
"Sorry, sir a bit nervous-áll yeomen sang..the bowmen MISTI
Hector was nodding in better, thank you, right in a minute,"
But Dixon was optimistic, Bald Dixon, rocking on bis
Dixon grasped the feetern amused agreements Suddenly catching sight of with his free hand, and cave up" he shouted. Sir Hector They haven't liked ; but
thoughtfully Christine, only four rows away a tremendous wrench. To his motio, But don't drained the few drops of an allting primly between horror, a large piece of carving it. Take a look at the facts their comeback is: "Every man here is as good as the next man. brandy, that remain There is no servant class, no
said. "You're lackeys, as in England, so you don't get the personalized ser- the star tonight." vice. But you do get efficiency."
*****• get. Certainly you
most efficient telephone service in and the cleanest I have visited the town six the world times
Unfortunately, Mr Bogeaus turns out to be
a Hollywood producer and he has just bought the film rights of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon!
The disappointments Southern California gives anet But not the weather this time. This is the real gilttering Cali- fornia of bright blue skies, bril liant sunshine, and not a trace of smog:
And that is the best thing that has happened Angeles for months.
10 Los
I have remarked to many Americans: "Why do you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on advertising your hotels, your flask, airlines, your motor-care, then often fail to offer mediocre service?"
and
sir Much
heels,
Even
ed, he
tog
THE STORY 50 FAR
Jim Bixan n an tela) as a junior history lecturer at a sud- brick university. But all his allots to imprats the head of
• his department, Professor Weich, and in trorbis. By mistake,
sang."
he sow that Sir
"COVET That's their let them do
J
around you
But
:
loose, all of them, all splintered and brokee Chiselled, fretted, and varnish They won't bite. ed, it girdles his anger, like a Juge ommate ring.
"They'll nibble a you bile them back!
bit
The
His message was incomplete. There was more to say, Dixo
a moment on tho collar was a wet rested for IXON'S re ights seemed rechts bedding the guil het trying to avald
He Walch's with quarrels. DE to be too bright: with the gif he fores. And he collects a black eye immediatair rag. his legs seemed to ctem to gather his strength.
But it was the last act of a the shadows, before plving the factors which might decide his corner... have turned to rubber. Grimly, in the past two years, washrooms in the world; but in
the wounded gladiator. Slowly, the With tho
he had plodded through
over, taking and every time choking, eye- underground trains, in the Post ark.
Profes- burning smog has enveloped the Office, and In airline service the principal,
Welch-inspired force of a le lectern keeled
Dixon with it. nearing Hector Bertrand and Mrs. Welch heure, But he was today British have it over the United
sor Welch, and Sir City of the Angels. So
The hall went wild. The behind him, and the rowe of gripped the lectern in a surge breaking point.
studente surged forward. the sun smiles and Los Angeles Stalps. It is this inability of many Americans to see almost
And is happy.
Sputnik? Oh, yes. Brought any shortcomings in themselves Expectant faces in front, Dixon of anger, The gesture was auto-
felt like carly Christian matic-and disastrous.
"Such were the simple joys Principal closed his eyes. and accus- up on bucksterismi
and to be obsessed with the idea hemmed in by culture-hungry The index finger of Dixon's of Merrie England," he said in the middle of the tumult
thing is American It
Jeft hand slid smoothly into Hions, tomed to the dreariest B pic that ir
wonders what Professor Welch sat heavily in wearily. is the best which is the root of ture being called "colossal" or
failures
Gratefully, he clung to the the most intricate section of the the good citizens of that happy his chair, his trembling hand current
lectern for support. It was lectern's carving,
stuck "the greatest," Los Angeles is her pretending
to itself that the troubles.
his Just heavy, solid, and hideous, with there, Senator Knowland
Slowly
the a surround of ornate carving.
It dawned on Russians haven't really passed
and audience that something was the US. in solentific achieve made an important speech here
in which he said:
Dixon shuffled his notes
wrong. Dixon's voice swoop- tried, to start.
from It is 11
the ed alarmingly
ment.
OMINOUS
Tthe bars of the Roosevelt A Hotel, the Beverly Hills and
the Beverly Hilton, the cigar-, chewing men and their women say: "So what? We could have done it easy. Why, we could have had our own moon back in 1947."
I have naked "Why didn't you?" but never have I re- ceived a convincing answer.
There are some ominous signs in the California skies.
Lockhet Aircraft Company, one of the biggest and best, laying of 12,000 men at Bur- bank, Palmdale, and Maywood Anil what Lockheed does today other alreraft companies often do tomorrow."
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Unless what? Unless Presl- dent Eisenhower pours out the millions for the missile pro gramme.
Behind all the bluster, how- ever, you will find that some Southern Californians are bit. the terly disappointed over United States being left at the post, or the launching pad, by. the Russians.
VOLATILE
FTER all, Atlas, the ultimate weapon about which I have written so much, was built in a Ban Diego factory of Convair not far from here.
Instead of saying openly "We have taken a licking many people here are playing down the, Russian 'BUDDENS, JO
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and
truism
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"Ona
near
era would have thought of the resting
of effusions
the radio, the heart. cinema, the television...."
somewhere
He stopped abruptly. The
TOMORBÓW: LUCKY JIM
RESIGNS
The peace of the world may be decided in the next few days" His speech got six lines in the newspapers character of an age can best nervous treble to a gruff bass astonishing nature of the words the Dodgers got olx pages, be defined in terms of its art," gabble. His cnunciation veered he had just spoken jerked him mused he crooked. The words danced
wonders?" from the drunken, to the over- to a state of sudden clarity.
"One with pictures.
1r.dignantly.
We get the war-head at this end
by arrangement with the sore-head ́at the other -- we hope
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