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ANA TURNER downed›
Le prairie store with
a convulsive shudder, press- ed the icebag more firmly on her pale forehead, and looked miserably across the room at Husband Number Five, Husband Number Five was & tuti, clean, American type named Lex Barker, and I could under- stand why Lana felt sour about him.
He shoud with the good health and vigour that only
1849
MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1958.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF CURGEONS
The
eight straight hours of SIDE GLANCES
dreamless sleep ean give you. No one would have guessed that, like his wife and me, he had been out all night at a particularly gay producer's parly.
"Come on. baby. Snap out of it," he said impatient- ly. "It's past
one o'clock and they're waiting for us at lunch,"
She whispered: "I'm not hungry. I don't want to go. I feel like dying. Why can't you just leave me here to curl up with a book?"
"Because
you never wok time out to learn to read," re- plied her husband acidly.
And Then he added. half in good humour, half savagely: "Why
do you always have to stay o little longer than anyone else? Why is you always seem be suffering from a permanent hangover?"
Epitaph
10
ANA TURNER looked at me. They should put that on my gravestone 15 ho epitaph when I die." she suld bitterly "LANA TURNER: THE GIRL WITH! THE PERMANENT HANGOVER "
You may begin to understand what she meant--and she wasn't merely meaning the hangover that comes from drink-when
you read the news from Holly- wood.
OF ENGLAND
SHEAFFERS
Skrip
House Of
Secrets
By Galbraith
4-2
© 1996 A Borsan, İra.
"What really kills me is when i go home at night and the missus asks 'What's now?'"*
by Leonard Mosley
Hollywood
hounds began
The agents.
by MERRICK WINN
From the Files
25
years -AGO-
ΤΗΣ
[HERE arrived in port yestar-
day (April 11) one of the most kilcresting and unique steamers that has ever touched at HK in the rhápe of the as Changklang, a train ferry which is being taken to Pukow and Nanking where it will be utilised to con- dect the Tientsin-Pukow | Rall- way with the Nanking-Shanghai Rallway. Built by Mesam Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richard son, Ltd of Newcastle-on-Tyne, the as Changklong, which has twin screws, has a length of 360 fest and a breadth of 80 feel. Her net tonhago is 1,347 and she is one of the biggest of her type. On her deck, she has açi commodation for about до coaches, having three sets of lines rimning the whole length of the ship.
A new rocket flight will be attempted at the scalde resort Duhnen nar Cuxhaven (Ger- The torpedo-shaped rocket is 16 feet long and con- aiderably longer than its pre- decessors in indiar experi mental flights. The object of the new experiment is not only to test the rock's carrying capa city in respect to a pozribis useful¬load, but also the povel- bily of steering it to a fixed destination.
HAVE just spent a week at the Royal College of Sur-many).
geons of England, among brilliant research doctors dedicated to the ideal that you and I or at least our children, shall die of nothing more serious than old ago, And if you, like me, tend to give an occasional second thought to cancer, coronary thrombosis, and other patrons of doom, then I bring you comfort.
He is studying thou-
It was the first time, so far or two. as anyone can remember, that a sanda day after day for mbay Journalist had been invited to months. the college with permission to write about it.
For him it is routine. For me it is comforting, even moving. Hore ip A man who toils and The college, founded in its
fails. and is bewildered, who present form in 1800, is in hows he may never make the Lincoln's Inn Fields, only 16 great discovery, but who knows minutes' walk from Fleet Street, too he may make it tomorrow. It has taken 158 years to get
Nearly all of the research at the
college is of life-or-death importance.
there.
Antidote
18 CL
There is research, for In- stance, which could lead to the discovery of the killer-factor in
ONDON-A faded chart, 14 stuck to the back cover of second hand fextbook, on`
the trigonometry, may supply missing clue to the whereabouts
A
of the famous treasure-bellaved to be hidden on Cocos Island in the Pacifle. Mr Arthur F. Hill, son of a Brighton coal merchant, bought the book oocidentally » some time ago and is leading as expedition to the Pucide, con- vinced that the chart, will clear up the mystery. Having con→
T has been a place of mystery, coronary thrombosis, the disease
a house of secrets (chiefly which carries off more men insulted experts on the subject, he because surgeons dread above their prime than any other. is assured that the -map--is-
all the charge of publicity- seeking). As a visiting VIP suld recently: "This is the best kept secret in Britain."
know
the
And the research going on in genuine. He has lodged it, in anaesthetics is so important safe keeping, and its instructions that an industrial firm has just are a gecret to himself,
Hix. given £150,000 to endow at the expedition, which is the latest first Chair nt of many simlar exterprises, So It was, un!) now. For the college the
Anaesthetica in London.
will leave England shortly. Sir college has decided it may do One of the newest things is to Malcolm Campbell went to more good then harm to let us freeze" just that
part of the Cocos Island in 1925, taking truth.
even about patient
where the Burgton
part in an exhaustive search for frightening things.
the tabulous forture believed to This has But 1 found nothing
operate. 19 wants
Like made possible operations which have been buried there, to frighten during my visit.
falled to his predecessors, he came tound plenty of comfort in the used to be thought impossible.
locate the treasure, new advances in surgery and In The Blitz anaesthesia; and, above all, I found hope for the future re- garding both cancer and coronary thrombosis-and even the H-bomb.
For if ever there was a big
has plenty of autograph Hollywood star who set out, octors and actress of groat pester her. with compulsive determination. talent who have had to work around and so did the sales- to get the most enjoyment out hard for their millions. They men-with dresses, jewels, and of life, It was Lana Turner.
may have a lot of money--but cora. they also have the satisfaction And if ever there was a girl of knowing that who ended up with a sick earned it. heart, a sore head, and ashes in
they
have
her hands, that was Land Turn- But can anyone truly say that er too. She once
sald to ine: Lana Turner is a rich woman "It looks 50 nice and shining joday because she has talent-- and enjoyable, doesn't it-this or is clever-or has slaved for
it? ilfe of mine?
you
"But do
know what? There have never been 24 whole hours of happiness for me so long as I can remember.
for
was
"She is the girl of the cen- tury," wrote the publicity men. "Gay, carefree, eager for fun."
I had always thought, 23 most people still think, that when the H-bomb drops, those who survive the direct bit will succumb to radiation damage. But now, after watching ex- toperiments going on at the col-
legè, i am less gloomy,
Sho was 10 years old, and she was so lacking in balance and sense of know-how that she belleved everything people wrote about her, and fried be the kind of girl they Gold
The only time in her ilfe when she slaved
a living when she was an eight-year- she was. old child. Her father, a bookie's runner in San Francisco, WBS
At the time when she should
have been in bed; she took to carousing around night clubs.
to
N addition to research the college given post-graduate courses to 1,000 doctors every year. Last year they came from 27 countries.
one.
not
The experiments were de- signed, basically, to find how radiation affects tho healing of wounds,
Now here ir un odd thing, The Royal College of Surgeons is a charity. ? And a hard-up
geta
#ponny from the Welfare State. It needs quarter of a million to compiste post-war building, pro- out gramme, then £150,000 a year to keep going. Nobody knows But recent where the money will come other centres has from.
shown that certain now
"Suddenly I am on the up murdered in a sordid back-alley and up, and someone
research in up there scuffle and her mother farmed really seems to like me. And her out to a family. then, thump! It always ends. the same way--with a row, or
o wrench-or a scandal,"
She scrubbed floors and got beaten when she left a cobweb In a corner. She worked until
Or with the sort of dreadful her hands bled, and it got her hangover she must be enduring nowhere. these days hangover for
I which no prairie oyster or bag
of ice will do anything at all
When it comes somegne
Ilke
sho damage.
drugs
too,
"They said I was the night- set as an antidote to radiation destroyed by bombing in the Most of the college was club queen and I was,"
last war. Most of the musmum sald. "I liked boys and the boys
Give them to mico exposed to Uked me. I liked fine and fancy a nemally fatal dose of radia-
with Its grim things in food, fast music, bright lights on and they recover com bottles. It was the world's staying up late, cocktails and pletely.
biggest, but 10,000 of the 68,000 champagne, and holding hands
Now the collego has just specimens were lost,
But to me the museum scorned
incredibly powder already
complete. For example,
Recont additions include "a" portion of skin from the lower tactile
What did get her somewhere under the table or perhaps received its first bottle of tho was the fact that she had a not under the table."
a plum pretty face, long legs,
to be
newest drug, a white Fac-called AET for short, and in
or two a group of long- weck producing cared brown rabbits, with un
to judging waist, and a couple of natural The Hollywood Dream Lana Turner protuberances which
became tory seemed who is, when all'a sald and even more noticeable when tho not only dreams for the masses done, one of the phenomena of took to covering them with
but dreams for her too, It look reproachful eyes, will decide surface of the snout of
how our time I wish I could take tight-fitting wweater.
could go cd as if nothing
good it is. The collega sturgeon, one of those lofty attitudes.
wrong. She met her nicat great would, of course, condemn out- barbela love or what she thought was right any suggestion that what a great love in the person of works with nice or rabbits 'will work with men caught up with Artle Shaw,
the H-bomb.
*I wish I could say, as plenty
of people will be saying ất thử moined:
L
deserved. A woman like thei-
The sweater.
She fell in love with him She only got what shoE day 4. diollywood pro-
ducer BBW the sweater, because, she said, "he has much up from the guller-living like and that, almost literally, was a nice smile and he plays the
the end of her struggles. that. She asked for It, and she's got it. I don't plty her at all
It didn't matter a damn that she find hardly a thought in her head beyond what she road in
saxophone to well."
Shocked
Including
Comfort
A
Agreed. But there is comfact YOU may winder, se I did, even in knowing these drugs I what anyone could want
with any
vort of a surgeon's exirt,
Then
cancer. It would not shout, even including inctile surprise me now if it were barbela. beaten in the next five years.
Well, it was the twitching of The determination, the effort, n food's legs which led Gaivant,
| the concentration going into
-century Its/lan comic books and true-love I was on such a basis that cancer research at the college
to discover animai L. Lana
Turner has always stories. With her sweater way
A banner, she made her first venture is enormous
electricity. So the surgeon is, Here is just one example. In after all, not comical.. seemed to me to be one of the ing before her like
to inlo, malrimony. It was most tragic
a mail room on the fourth floor. Instead, it reveals an Epi the she, soared dizzily upwards victims of
short and sickly spree, and it Hollywood system.
fame and fortune.
ended after only a few weeks a doctor working with what portant decret of this house of ite top end, secrets: the painstaking the And almost at once she dis- when Shaw threw her down, the lookalike, at Out there on the West Coast
i auhmarinele · periscope, s
thoroughness, of America is a gigantic face covered, like many an empty her after a party and told it the latest type of electron the
_and_so.perhaps"
the research tory turning out dreams for the headed girl before her, that too fier to get out,
microscope, Installed
afes that cores ork
gon there. too **much money earned, far millions.
Ahe was shocked and 2.000. It magmites sip to secret," and the biggest cont eally doesn't buy the things bittered. It was the first of a
ago at a cost of around But for me "the "biggest. But for plenty of the stars you used to dream about.
long line of hangovers the quarter of a million, times, are only horrid dreams there nightmares and growing Illusionment.
arp
who help to make, those preity Bhe suddenly found herectf hangovers that ended with the I watched the doctor use it to st, is this that our best men working, and workicis very orrid the sex symbol of the world, oh that happened recently study and photographer hard Indeed, to conquer the dip cells in order to try to discover things that almost sit qt is are that every frustrated adolescent covered that her mother's lover how they differ from normal.
*The brai rachio in Bigland
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He is wearching for, the vital #truló okupa
How to dream will happen":10, was a brutal gangster and 100k videisenes that: "may, yield tha? And this means one t6LTAA
up a carving knife.
him and her.
But there were to be plenty. nhat discovery of pause and there is now less reason for foar Pictures of the new "11" girl," of other hangovere in between. eufreyja
i
her forefront always tightly: And perhaps the worst, of them b«But here, là thể polat, Thía. faced in form-fitting wool, won aivan to her by Tyrdde doctor studies hot just no Tactile barbelä- railed off the, premes. T
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Shanghai The City Govern ment of Greater Shanghai have instructed the Bureau of Public Safety to stop the filming by a picture company here picture The Good
Peart Buck'a adopted from famese novel. The authoritieA, declare that the plotmis- represents Chinese life, giving a false impression of it to the world,
the
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