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· TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1958.
Startling Setback for Space Age Optimists
MOMENTOUS massage from outer space bleeped back in code by the U.S. artificial satellites, was
First satellite
officially announced in Washington the other day. messages prove
It is a clear-cut warning that conditions for, human life 1,000 miles up are infinitely more dangerous thun space experts had imagined. At that level there is a continnal bombardment by cosmic rays no feree that it mukes H-bomb fall-out seem as harmless as confetti.
"In any ease if the barrier Only men protected in lead-lined cabins or thick is not too thick we might risk a quick thrust through without lead space suits could unfely protection. These rays are not endure more than five hours boo dangerous, provided you get of this invisible but highly though them qulekly." Jethai hammering.
mioon
that man
is still far
from the moon
by CHAPMAN
In spite of Mr Carter's optimist, the day when Russian space-dog manned rocket Arst takes The
the have for Little Lemon must endured this fearsome must be delayed bombardment for at least for years, pos- sikiy fur de- seven days with no protees tion before she died in Sputnik II.
may have
That enough to produce severe and possibly frtaj syraptons u radiation sickmo.
Lead or any other negirable material capable of catering these extremely penetrating rays which come in from an unknown, Burce in outer space, nust rently Increase Life all-up weight of any space ship.
This means bigger enpotes,
and fuel. greater inore
size much higher cost. Carler, secretary of the ish Interplanetary Society, said: "H to carry lead in our we have rockets the whole idea of suce Night will be impossible on present knowledge. But all hut lost,
"Later satellites may direuver Tay big
this Cenic Raps In
Itursins When L barrier. release their findings maybe we barrier shall learn that this does not exist over the Poles where the sintbiks lewe.
vndes, by this Arst discovery of which is likely to be the rout explorers.
plished by the U.S. or this year.
Intense
PINCHER
accom- 30 days of flight and suffered no
Russia serious damage.
معاج
The robots
have "reported" that it should be temperature eazy to keep the
Only living sucs are injured by the rays which pass harm- lessly through metal fins inside a space-ship at a tolerable
mich But it must level for men.
electronic valves. FFICTAL Bows of the And-
OFFICAL BAW by Be
van Allen, a cosmic my expert
in the satellite profeet,
"The commie radiation was so intense 1,000 miles
lo cul as Everwhelm the counters mounted in Bre
alth, Satellites," "Counts soared tu futes
ut
But these are smalt comforta
the space-travel enthusiasts had in face of UK devertaling pinned their immediate hopes cumle-my disclosure. the setting · up
manned
satellites orbiting the earth.
These big wheel-shaped struc-
'Bilge'
tures with many rooms were tHAT docs Dr Richard van have served as rocket-porle and der Riet Woolley, The hundreds of times greater ta reluelling points for space-ships. Astronomer Royal, who fale They could be put up only by
that "Space travel is had been expected.
men working in space-suits and bilge," think about it? more operating for hours at a stretch space in the vold which is now known to be under constant machine- gun fire with cormie bullets,
for a
"I would not he safe tran being to remain cut in an 180 miles for more than five hours unless adequately shielded with heart."
He said: * still -think the same. You get a very small selenülle reward for every £1,000,000 you put into space= travel.
Distance to the moon? About On the credit side for the 240,000 miles. Tume of light space-men the satellites Jiave An estimated revealed that the danger of through spice?
colliding with a meteorite is five days.
U.S. satele satellites en The mie barrier discovery negligibly small will not delay the first Aring of No. registered only eight hilty an unmanned rocket to the moon by minule meteorites in its first
It certainly fronie that the first message sent back to the men who pointed to the shining proof of the feasibility of space-travel should be a cosmle kick in the teeth.
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HERE was once a little girl who sang dreamily THERE
what ay "Somewhere Over The Rainbow." name was Judy Garland.
of someone works this metamor- phosis on you, the time comes Her when fact and fancy are all but
inextricable.
Today she still sings it to wind up her stage appearances.
But, now there is a real yearning in its day-dreaming lyries. A yearning that sits ill on the dumpy little matron who so many years ago followed "The Yellow-Brick Road"
to the Land of Oz.
"One
that
measure
of
our social revolution"
by
Her rise to fame could have
She
and Joves publicity only in Hollywood. adulation and applause. There's happened
It is Her name on a cinema marquee nothing wrong with that. was enough to guarantee the born into every entertainer. success of a film,
But he could never be cer- tain of herself. And then she made "The believe that you would have Wizard of Oz" which gone right on being the sweet, her from incompleated kid next door, if star Hollywood hadn't snatched you legend. up and stolen your childhood.
Later when the breaks seem all the wrong way, It's easy to
Into
turned
a precocious child- "Mirror Mirror
show-business
The title song even got itself Included in Sir Winston Chur-
chill's
on the wall.
DONALL EDGAR
The kid at the
mighty story. The Hollywood had cast her in the saved hundreds of lives. He Second World War." For the mould of a sweet young slip had escaped assassination grandest
Englishman of them a giri. The world had come 'D Cal Neva Lodge stiluppy rhythm evoked love her as such.
The
of version
that a
when
WOS
But what did three times while Governor the grim daya
A of Bengal. Britain she see now in the mirror? atood alone against the dictators. alump matron, three times mar- husband, producer ried (third In 1940, 1941 and 1945 Holly- Sid Luft),
chin, the a double wood proclaimri her the top beginnings of "crows feel moneymaker of the year.
around her eyes.
And 40, like all adolescents,
Once she broke down in the bad always been as unpredicl- middle of the song und sobbed. ably explosive as she is today. Happily, this took place in a
But she was a happy, ex; recording studio,
kid back in Grand trovert And this brings us to the Rapids, Michigan. where she essential question about Judy was torn on a hot June day in
varnished Garland: How real are the many 1923; even in Hollywood when storms of her
public she was teenage queen of the Judy's "discovery" is very
celluloid jungle.
taleni-scout from M.G.M. spal- ted her singing around a holiday Maybe if she hid never campfire and told her to report
In 1945, her marriage to com- changed her name she might to the studios. It was while she have kept her balance. You can was serenading a sceptical Cast- poser David Rose foundered he has shown her uncertainty countenanco Judy Garland ing Department that movie and she married film director in attention-grabbing outbursts baring her emotions in public. magnate Louis B. Mayer heard Vincent Minelli. 19 it the prima-donna tem- Could you take it from Frances her and snapped her up as a abc seemed to settle down, the of defance that can dissolve into feo in Westminster Abbey early.
Gumm?
- private Bre"
is it entirely fortuitous that the tantrums and the dare-ups Invariably find their way onto the tront pages?
perament?
Or is she just "a crafy mixed- Jup klar
Whatever the explanation, Judy Garland attracts headlines the way blue serge attracts fluff,
The Casy-to-accept pleture is of an artist, so fine- tempered, that her genius can
one
The city of
•
makesbelive
star.
A
For a while
be sustained only at appalling that she was reared in Grand at a gambling casino called the was having difficulty with her unnecessary.
The
It
He
G. director of four companies, and as chairman of -
Authority the Port of London
he had carned £7,600 a year.
The Order of Merit was given to him during his last days ́in' capital. At the memorial ser
this year the Archbishop of Canterbury was there,
So were most of the Cabinet,
do
self-pity. domestic bickering bolled over into divorce.
Yes, the tantrums and different version comes
Worried and rick she began flare-ups are real enough, from Hollywood impresario Al Rosen, who claims that be dis- to throw what looked like Ate they make the headlines, then MPs and peers flocked to
of temperament Twice die that's only because, as an enter-him homage. covered Judy and brought her studio suspended her; once for tainer Judy Garland is very Yet he let only £20,000. to Hollywood.
walking off the set, another much in the public gaze;
Judy But the tragedy of
In any other age his greatness She was already a profesional time cancelling a rehearsal.
Rosen found her The real trouble was that she Garland is that this is all 50 would have been reflected in his For it was as Frances Cumm singer when
For she has that fortune, Nevada. professional adolescence, the indefinable quality, that inner cort to her nerves,
Cal-Neva Lodge In
But Lady Waverley Bald tu Rapids,
frue star.
*EC left So little be.. After all, she isn't called on More than once, she has At thirteen, she was one-third testing time that so few child flame, that ghts a to do anything more than hun- bitterly accused Hollywood of of The Garland Sisters (songs prodigies survive the switch to Her audiences love her enough me
without her appealing to their cause he spent so much in hard on public service. I is dreds of other stage folk. She sterling her childhood. In fair at the piano) and working unill maturity
She had seen so many of the pity.
the dependants of such great sings and che ac She does ress to Hollywood it should be the small hours.
contemporaries of her. early The one person who can't
men. For £20,000 is not much. both well. But there are other remembered that it puid Judy
Cur- didn't think much of Hollywood days fade from the seem, to see this is Judy Josen who-technically, unyway-da Garland very handsomely for the sisters' act. But in the limelight, If she didn't sley kind. And
BO sho BONY
"It means," she said andly, them better.
her childhood. She was on thirteen-year-old be recognised right in there belting it out, it struggling, unhappy on the "that I must sell our Yet she can nume her prlee star-level sulaty before she was the stuff of stardom.
might happen to her,
wrong side of the rainbow, house." and managements are happy to sixteen
ray It, for they know she can
But in a much
pack a theatre or a night club. Yet, in a wry, Hollywood is They know, too, that she can to blame for the unhappiness of switch in the middle of a per- Judy Garland,
for dramatic, formance
more a sizzling, 109
out- dynamic entertainer to a stom- insidious way than her
bursts would leed one to nering, sobbing woman.
belleve.
from
The enigma of Judy Garland would be easy to solve if she
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Hollywood is the city of make-believe. But the make- belleve doesn't begin and end at the studio gatos,
Those who venture into this latter-day Babyloni-havə got to| conform to one or other of the stereotyped personalities pleas- ing to the great god, Publicity. What you cannot be is your plain self,
The Judy Garland Hollywood presented to the world was d familiar stereotype -- life sweet, unspotted kid from next door, "discovered" and magically transformed into the world's little sweetheart, -
Now, if you're sufficiently young and impressionable when)
ZANTES
·MADEGIEKS -
on
country
Then Lady Waverley, summed
up her feelings in this memor-
ble sentence.
"Memories," the. said, have not the power of money."
And now, by contrast, con- sider the enge of #
store manager named Thomas Filmer. who left ea,250. (The Treasury the other Solicitor advertised
day for his mother.)
The thing that caught iny eye was his address-the Pea- body Estate, Westminster,
ono
of the 20 Peabody Buildings.
built for poor people by an. American "benefactor.
In the old days you could not live in the buildings unless you earned less than 22 18s. n. week. Now a tenant lenYOS more than £3,000by ble star dards a small fortune.
T
And a Chancellor of the Exchequer leaves £20,000 - by his standards a tiny fortune. -- That is one mensurɑ of out social revolution.