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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1959.- -|
HE DRESSED UP THE COWS!
Paraded Them In The Street And Created Havoc
HE'S AN ORDINARY BOY, OR IS HE?
THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD David
T
Butler
Hemel Hempstead, England, is going fearn to swim this year, and, he hoppe, to ride a bike,
?
.Net unusual ambitions for • strapping youngster. But David has lost both his legs and his left arm. Bome,
LITTLE army of police stopped an Italjon A
painter on horseback and four scared cows in fancy ladies' underwear from parading down the fashionable Via Veneto last week,
Awol Draftee
Turns Up At Camp With
His Daughter
London.
WHAT'S an Army
expected to do when an AWOL draftee re ports for duty with his 18-month-old daughter? |
Feed cert
Hundreds of curious onlookers a horde of co photo- and graphers, cinema and newsreel cameromen onurled traffe for kitobis around the Borgheso Gardens to Watch painter An lonia Privitera's vain attempt to Zulf a sports bt. 'Hundreda Via morg who had massed in Veneto o spring-lke Sunday in confident anticipation Ful- tered the tailan high-life equivalent
"Wo were robbed."
ان
Privitera complained bitterly that pollte showed "disregard for art by gemsing to let him perform his cu parade down tho tree-lined Via Veneto, equivalent Ronion
the Champs Elysees.
Sunday Noon
of
Herding the cows down the Via Veneto on a Sunday noc the traditional strolling hour of Romans was the price Priviter had to pay for backing the Food is the first priority" team in a league soccer Mejor A. F. E. Lucas ordered came between the rival Remo clubs of Lario and Roma,
when 20-year-old Private John Privitera bet with fashion de- Perker walked into an Ordnance signer Vincenzo Ferdinandi that Corps guardroom with daughter, Roma would win. Maureen, on one orm and a brown paper parcel of diapers in the other.
Wife Left
The camp cooks smartly provided a large tray of fried TERS canned meat and riço Dudding, Maureen happly tucked into it, while Parker, who had been missing for seven months, was paraded before the Major,
He explained that his wife bad gone away with a younger baby" and "I had nowhere else to take Maureen,"
for
7
two-ong, ind Lazlo wan Privitera dutifully showed up in the sunny Borghese Gardens, Ferdinandi, the four cows and hundreds
Romans of curious were walling for him.
Privitera saluted, mounted waiting horsè, donned a yellow- red scort-Roma's colours- with and grabbed spear
B Roma's pennant.
Ferdinand!
aiden and his dressed the four cows, specially brought from nearby Fregen. In truck, with oversize may undles.
some
Popping flashbulba and whir ring television cameras startled the cows out of their ruminating started impassiveness. They The Major arranged
shying back, and it took social worker to take care of time to get them moving.
At the exil of the Borghese the baby, and later the family trouble
Gordens-ane of Rome's busiest Maureen is back with her istersections-they found some police waiting for mother, and a reviewing officer two score
was
patched
up.
cut Parker's sentence frem 112 hem. And the police had only to 64 days detention United ene question: Did Priviter have Propi.
Curiosity Got These Boys Into Trouble
Sheffield,
a permit?
Non-Political
"Of course I haven't," Pri- "This indignanily. vitera said
In a nop-political, non-proft event born out of love for
When he walked for the first time into hla local grammar school the whole pohoo! ohwered him for his pluck."
During the Easter holiday David Jald out and planted his own garden, played badmin- tan with the boy next door-and swung on repes to strengthen his arm, as in picture.
David was injured two years ago by rusty mortar bomb on plenie alte just at the time he "Was "gold" he had won. 盒 grammar-school-scholarship." It has jakan. 17 operations to make David. fit to take up the
cholarship.
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London.
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THE tongue Band- SPECIAL SUNDAY MATINEE
wiches made for 18-year-old Lloyd Wig- gin, son of Lady Wig- gin, of, Malvern, last week, started a police hunt along roads, a search among the thou- sands at Oulton Park car races in Cheshire, and anxious loudspeaker appeals.
The
message
aver
ปร
Do
peakers said, "Attention, please. the son of Lady Wiggin, yol eat your sandwiches. There is loss in them."
'Two hours
home in. hlx
after Lloyd, left
car Lady Wiggin rushed to the phune at Clovelodie
House, Malvern, Worcester-
shite, to risk the police to And her son,
Spotted
Her Italon.
cook, she said. had packed his sandwiches for his day at the facts.
In September he want to school In a wheelchale But he practised at home on ter artificial fege. When school reopened, he strode into c
a polstarously sa, any of the boys.
Вауа Davidi "1've been Invited to a free camp, but I think it' for cripples. 30 I'm not going. I'm going to a real holiday Express
As she was spreading the but- a plece of glass was knocked the dish.
Some of the glass was later found in the butter. Particles may have got 'In the sandwich,
Radio messages were sent to pulica cars over a wide arca of the Midlands.
A search was started at Out- campton Park. The SOS went out
over the loudspeakers,
THE GREAT PAINT NUDES
ART WHODUNIT
By GRAHAM DARK .
London,
LONG-MISSING self-portrait of the French painter Gauguin, worth £20,000, went on show last week in London-a picture that has been lost Police were adamantno to the world because its owner knew too much
sports. How should I know needed a permit?"
permit, no parade. They re- fused to let Privitera ride down Via Veneto even without cows, Privitera eventually got down from the horse and walked
about art.
Mr Rex Nan Kivell, 59-year- The Gouguin portrait has no old director of the Redfern art signature. gallery in Cork Street, Mayfair,
Bota vya, borse or cows. But he insisted the, pleture for Bib in
of them proved.
Paris gallery 30 years ako.
CLUE TWO: The sun looked
at the portrait and said: "That Is not by my father."
on carrying his spear arid the scort with the Roma colours.
It was sold as the work of At Pareon Cross, Sheffield,
"I'm a free citizen and no one Gauguin's friend Emil Ber CLUE THREE: Research into thipe-year-old John Wiseman can prevent me from walking hard. a portrait of drooping documents and into correspon was cured of his curiosity about where I choose," Privitera mid moustached, aquiline-nosed Gou-daries between Gauguins and how the family's electric clothes Police after some hoxitation guin, with bis magnificent Bernard showed that Gauguin wrper work. Last week, agreed that he had a right to Yellow Christ in the back-phinted two self-portraits al he investigated, he rode on ine go.
Pont Aven. One was known. starling lever, caught his left Privitera walked through a
Fut the other?
Fund between the rubber rollers and hús, his Brm drogged through to the shoulder.
ROLLED FLAT
A
crowd-led Vis Ventlb to 1
art gallery where his painlings
cre on show, and ⠀ harangued
the onlookers from a window.
ground.
Cluo by clue
"I'm sorry I lost my bet," he Mr Nan Kivell knew the work said. But in Oven more of the lesser-known Bernard Porry that police did not jel me. He knew that Gauguin-who Firemen took 20 minutes to
keep my word. I'm sorry I tea more than 50 years ago— wreck the wings to fee the appointed you, gentlenen. and Bernard painted together at boy's an. It was relied out Long ve Bomy." United Bont Aven artists colony in fat bu returned to northal Press.
Brittany in the 1880s, and m shope ter
fluenced each other's style,
London.
FLUE FOUR: Experts, includ- lak' Die leading authority Pro- fessor Douglas Cooper, sold the portrait was 'Indeed by Guuguin,
A shy debut
Now the picture, which hung in Mr Nan Kivell's home for of Last year Mr. Nan Kivell so many years is on public show decided to arrange an exhibition in his gallery among works by of the Pont Aven group. From Graham Sutherland, Stanley that time the truth about, the Spencer, Georges Rovault, and picture came out clue by clue others, lllustrating he
Christian "Vision:**** Uke the best of whodunrills.
CLUE ONE: Mr Non Kiysil
It madoo shy debul, still met Bernard's son, who said his
always signed his catalogued "Emilo Bemard". The owner finde li ditult på pleurds.
accept his luck.
Curlosily alto led another young ninn into trouble. In The planning, committee Nelwich Eiht-year-old Richard (East Suffolk decided that it Lagyje, playing in a local bulid would be wrong to allow a £49 int alic, prored down the Its-a-week employee to spend chimney of a partly Antebied his time going round the county haug lost his balance and painting marks on trees due to tuled down the first floor be felled. Lord Crajbinok sald- opening Firemen had to math to follow committeeen: "We a in the chimney prickwork can't have a £2,000-a-year man father to bring him cut-United Press, doing this."
DUMB BLONDES AND BRUNETTES
·SCHOOL LEAVING GIRLS
London
The current crop of Urišists girls tekstil'school for toe Jofin le besoirobed by an overfoed dumb Blondes and britnefits, a Chambor
of Commerce report makli
· Lalon Chamber of Commerce mid-'450
din. 15. mod 16-yar-old typlats who went to Work for them frédit put of school.49 NEAFIY, SIT Bala (ha) today's stri: Botuoi-lenvers *** werd far below the standardf or even three
2009 MAGNETER Ki polna pomalelora Hoskins Bestas complained?" Japaning its
the grin grammar la bed:'," they can kapeli,, punctuate, de wille proper¶f? can'kadi, skon
amige Boorclary, Hedley H. Cena, badri 'the'
fine" plent verdicht wie that "their frures, BENTIUNE CAT UPENDE ALTO PONline 74/s. Khele wares fault. But thon - I can't apoll, Lace said the Marvey Droted that: “ton guuch 'EITAN' JE LEHTs and 'non-egnilala at
But, there'is "little" doubt that It is a Gauguin, one of the very few to have been found in: tho Inat 20 years.
Remember? Last year a Gauguin sull-life sold in Paris for £104,000:
Loridan
Mary: Maxwell, of Chaddes- den, Derby, found a good pince for biding her her while - the went out. Bis put it in the cral- house But she forgot san had ordered coal, and while job Veha out several fundredweights of conf" were dumped in the on top of the kuş,
DON'T YOU?
London,
I could paint you," the artist said. 2-thought-you- only painted nudes," re- piled actress Japa Baxter. -Ina TV play... it happen:
od at just that moment,
A strap broke, and har off-the-shoulder
evening gown was off much mars than the shoulder.
Jane, a famed brunette on the British Broadcast- network, Ing Corp. TV Auickly fooovered "Herself. But in the next' sceno sho was wearing an on-the- shoulder gown. - United Probl
Ate four
Thán t constable spotted. Lloyd's car and escorted him to
first ald fenf.
He had eaten four sandwiches. A doctor decided that any glasa he might have eaten musi have been so inely powdered that it would not harm hlm.
Sald a Red Cross nurse: "He seemed perfectly cheerful and cuite unconcerned.
He thanked us and went
| back to watch the racing,”
When I phoned the news to
|| ady" Vizn cho salát
"What a relier. You don't
how know
nnxious I have been"
"Terribly upset'
Lady Wiggin added: "I don't want to tell you my cook's she is terribly name because
upset by the whole business and anyway she is an Italian and can't speak a word of English."
The mald is aged 10 and married.
Lady Wiggin is the widow of Colonel Sir William Henry Wiggin, a Birmingham Indus- trialist who died in 1931.
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