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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1958. -
PEOPLE
in the news
Eileen, 6, THE ANGRY
drifts two
miles on her tyre
SIX-YEAR-OLD girl
A drifted ont to sea on a
car tyre and started a major rescue operation.
The H.A.F.
**
a helicopter, The cbout was launched. Shipping
WAR
A alerted.
pleasure-flying plane joined
the rearch.
A
POET'S HANGOVER
Man From The Park Is Fined For Pranks At A Varsity Party
By JAMES URE
PENNILESS young park-keeper's labourer stood in the dock at Oxford the other day. A And police appealed to theu-lock of dark hair fell carelessly across his pale, sunds of holidaymakers #bespectacled face. His dark grey suit was neatly help find the girl in the red pressed, his white nylon shirt spotless.
Humberstone, Lincolnshire, ta
swimming costume.
While, they searched, little Eileen Smalley was bobbing up and down on her tyre, heading for Cleethorpes, two miles along the const.
In tears
The hunt was still on when Elleen was carried ashare by the tide. A woman on holiday found her on the beach, lof Tears.
His name! Graham Wallace. These were the clothes he was
had been
o deserited himself us a poel, wearing when he heard that In a quiet voice, he answered Viscount Encombe "Guilly" to a charge of being-sent down from Trinity College farewell after and was throwing a drunk and Murderly Viscount Escombe's "Farewell party, in his rooms. ito Oxford" party",
Wallice dropped everything He was Aned £1-and was and headed fue Trinity.
presented with the promptly
money try a student of Trinity College.
Wallace Ex only 17, but already his poetry has attracted attention in this city of learn-
Neurly four hours had game by
and Elleen's parents had given | g. up hope when the woman brought the girl to their holiday caravan.
Mrs Mildred Smalley, of Ston- "My nington, Sheffield, said: -insband and haught we would never see Eleen alive again."
Peanuts For Slimming
Boise, Idaho, July 1. Alaska Attorney General J. Gerald Willians, overjoyed to
statehom bill, day with the said he would keep his vow to push a promul 120 miles from Bl Delin to Tok Jurction.
"I'll probably loses
weight." he said.--U.P.L.
little
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The key
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ITS-e key which has officially opened. for him the doors of the university colleges and given him a passport le the Eshemian life of the students.
IT IS the work of an angry young mazi—Cur Wallace Cul- fessed to me later that he IR vindictive in his outlook on life. Vindictive in his writing, vindle- tive against authority,
An hour before he was called into the dock, Wallace-son of EL London dental surgeon visited the rooms of a friend in Christchurch.
There, he slipped out of his shirt, worn blue jeans, soiled
Fold (sing-facket and sunduis, and borrowed the zombre outf he wore in court.
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sw an old man, altting before me in a cate. His Were the memories, and his sad eyes could now only be dim. No more
To light, no more the way- fame-rush of his
ward
youth,
Не гово, stumbling and Infirm, to ask me for a light, and I
Baw his hands, those old tool of many a trade. Youth in a garden, Then the Iron of wart and what- all too quick the tered time
Of after Flanders yaars, into quickly passing tumbling middle age. Unaure and groping, still quito ignorant of living, he free-wheeled
Into An Coed axistence, where his only relaxation was a sharp
Counting of his Lyons. priced meal and pence- rolled smokes. Destroyed By life, he was 26 1
him, and I made up my mind to be a 'destroyer.
¿
BRAY
"I've lost my job in the park and I still may have to uppeur before the magistrates at Guild- the ford.
lic
welcomed was.
eL party, drank his l of cham- pagne, lived and joined In the fun,
"The mistake I made, he said, "was when the party was
over.
and
A Weekly China Mail Feature
The Perfect housewife WRECKS
the Perfect
home
From COLIN LAWSON
Bonn.
OR 10 days attractive
FOR
Kiara Roth Was the perfect housewife in the perfect home.
For ten days, ten hours a day, she endured people starinit through the glass walls of the exhibition house at Dortmund.
More than 97,000 vlaltors turned up to watch 30-year-old Frau Roth, winner of a perfect home competition.
Baby Karin, one រី two children lent to, Frau Roth for the perfect home, was the first The faces frightened casualty, him. He cried all day - and back he went to mother.
Some visitors were unkind. When Frau Roth was making the bed somebody would yell, "The meat's burning."
'Not worth it'
When she was peeling the "The potatoes they would cry. telephone's ringing."
When she sat down to drink her coffee some woman would tup the glass and shout, “There's | somebody at the door."
And all the time they stared, wife stuck it. Once she told the For 10 days the perfect house- exhibition manager. "This job la not worth the prize money?
Then come the breaking point. "I was placed on probation At three o'clock she went into there last September for steal the dining-room. She picked up ing suine books I
not a vase to dust it. afford to buy,"
could
The grinning crowd looked in. She flung the vase across the John Howe, 10, an English room. She swept the best tea
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YOUNG REFUGEE WIFE FACES DEATH RATHER THAN LOSE BABY
WAS
at
A heartbreaking scene
witnessed Sydney, Austraila, recently when the migrant ship Flaminio left for Europe. Included in the passengers were Mr and who escaped from Mrs Ferene Nemeth Hungary two yeKIN REO when Mrs Nemeth was 10 and her husband 22. They married
In Vienna immediately after their escape and went to Australia a year ago when their baby son Otula WAN torn. Mir Nemeth worked as a polter and appeared to be very happy in Aus- Iralia unti recently-when he discussed going back to Hungary after talking to a couple of workmates--who had decided to return to Hungary,
Mrs Mary Nemeth does not want to re back to Hungary for she is convinord ai she faces death. She is prepared to let her husband return but she wants to keep her son. Australian law states that the
student, of Braschose "College--set to the floor, jumped on it. At 95 She Fell And
"We grabbed two workmen's his home is in Weston Road, then picked up on easy chair. bleycles
began riding Hath-was also fined £1 when It was marked "Perfect for seunte with the workmen. round the quad. There was a he pleaded guilty to being the perfect wife, Easy to clean
drunk and disorderly."
and light to handle." She flung It across the room where it He appeared in the dock with crashed into the glass woll. a black eye.
'The crowd jumped back. Luckily the Aluss was inforced and thick. It was the chair that broke.
"Eventually we were evicted by the pollee and Arally arrested In Broad Street.
"I'm frightened that this con- viction might mean that I will be barred from the colleges.
Overheads On Purdom's Party
* Viscont Encombe tras sent down from Trinity College for shooting a deer from Magdalen College herd,
My Wife Is A Good Talker
Melbourne,
ID=
She tried again with a straight-back chair. Same result. A mirror went. Into the kitchen she ran and smashed the newly- washed-up crockery.
Held off
A television set-"Just the thing for a married couple" went down the passage.
and
Found Time To
By GEORGE BISHOP
father is legal guardian of the chilld and Iserefore must travel with him. Mas Nemeih decided that rather than be parted from her baby she would returna Hungary. Leading members of the luncarian community in Australia sald that the Russians were læring migrants back to Hungary with false namnesty offers. It is said that the Communiata Are offering "forgiveness" "only for Ilegal erossing of the border. There was no amnesty for "political orirsen." Mrs Nemeth could take out an injung- tion to refrain her husband from taking the baby out of the country-but as legal cuardlat-it would be difficult to stop bim.
Mrs Mary Nemeth (18) with her son Otilia (8 months) and ker busband Fereno (22) are seen when they left Sydney lo return to Hungary.-Keystone.
Broke A Leg And
Write A First Novel
Edinburgh.
Sir Philip Gibbs, war pondent and author,
Corres-
Sir Philip, now 81, in hla
was surprised when he read the
am 100 years old.”
Miss Marion Jones sipped her tea in her tiny Surrey home 400 miles away terraced home here and wondered why on covering letter beginning "I earth a woman 100 years old cannot write a first novel without those people in London making such a fuss.
It was all simple enough, she' digging the garden; and saki, similing happily behind forced to take a rest, her thick lenses. In ber giri-
Inspiration
tell
Seemed A. Pity From that 30,000 words of Miss Jones, now physically
"What An Inspiration" ho commented to young novelista like myself." He wrote la Was Miss Jones that he had not yet London, July 1.
rend enough to deliver a firin Judge Geoffrey Howard said yesterday $* appeared actor
And how the crowid stared.
hood, she began to write down. While Min Jones waited for judgment, but found the work back charm and was "startlingly Edmund Purdom indulged
Oficials hurried lo. but sheher Isa South Australian Supreme
private thoughts about the broken finis to knit, she outspoken" In parts. "ouchelor freedom" when his Court Judne, Sir Herbert May, held them off with rolling-pin anything she thought worth distilled the essence of nearly "I shall write 110 more," wife was at town. He ar- aged 79, used to think that plastic, and the flour simply recording on a handy envelop, a century et wit and wisdom Miss Jones said amid her vic- dered the British actor to pay nina whe
married at his age does hot stick."
scrap of paper or in a notebook recorded in 30,000 words in torians here. "What happens to £60 for damages to an apart was an old fool. "But I don't
"I can't stand those nwful if he had one.
old-fashioned copper-plate the book depends entirely on ment,
handwriting. think to now," he sold in Mel- people staring, staring.
Sir Philip." Howard heard the claim by bourue, while on his honeymoon watching my every movement," landlady Norn Helen Tracy that with his second wife, aged 50.
she shouted. "I dare not make
On through her teens she ancient history and comment, frail but mentally alert, when Mrs Purdom, Polish-born "I think we should make the a mistake without some clever
Tecla for the and fur-lined boots, memory it aided by her kept the habit, and then abstract painter Alicia Darr; perfect combination because woman shouting eritielsins.“
book the cold even in summer, as sho Finally, when the left town Purdom had
perfect. seemed a pity to end the record Iraagination, she wrate a omewhat first attracted me about my
a 80,000 words long, and sent it potters about he what wild particu.
wife was that she is
home was a wreck, she was Ted when she began running a good
private school in Cumberland, off to a young man she had Comeley Bank Grove with the She naked £00 for damagos, talker, And Fin a good listener out weeping and taken home. Purdom, who was not at theIn my profession I get plenty Το visitors she wus out, If anyone wanted to know what heard was a promising writer, ald of two sticks. trial, said inter the whole thing or practice," Sir Herbert added. Snid A doctor: "Frau Roth she was doing she was "putting was "ridiculous. I was hardly Sir Herbert, who has been a
п had
nervous breakdown. something by far my old age." Australian but she will be oil right soon." ever in the flat. I almost lived | Judge of the South
For nearly 80 years she kept at the studio where I was dim- Supreme Court for 17 years, les And the organisers? Never her private diary, but there was ing. And when i did go home ave children by a previous mat- again will they hold such never time lordo much about it. I just sat quietly listening to ringe, and 15 grandchildren. competition. The cost is too Then, when she was 95, she fell records."--U.P.I.
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