THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1958.
DON IDDON'S DIARY
New York, Tuesday
LET ME TELL YOU.....
WHY
WHAT
YOU SHOULDN'T be ENVIOUS.
OF THE AMERICAN
WAY OF LIVING RIGHT NOW
MAKES A
ROCKEFELLER KISS BABIES
HOW
THIS STAR SEES HER
FUTURE
Intastique
by
D'ORSAY
PARIS
AM tempted to form a "Bundles for America" organisation. It would be the British counterpart of "Bundles for Britain" which the Americans formed during the war,
i think, perhaps, it is our turn now
cigarettes.
I told the attendent the of British petrol and British charge in England would have been about half a crown, but he wasn't interested.
The other day I had my hair cut: $2.80 with "Up-that's £1.
Taxation? Well, It is less iban Britain's, but not much. By the time you have paid city Federal tax, State *IX, sales tax, and all the hidden taxes, and the giant toll fees deep into your pocket here you ever did in Britain
to make this reciprocal gesture, and if See how it goes a highways you are digging as
we could include a couple of Comets in one of our bundles it might help to restore the nagging morale of our big brother.
Three weeks of the present Ameri- can way of life, after four weeks of the British way, have convinced me that the Americans are not getting value for money-in food, in housing, in clothes, in cars, in garaging, in hair- cuts. in drinks, in subway, railway, and bus transport, in just about every- thing.
I am prepared to make a case that millions of British people are living much better than millions of Americans, on half or one-third of the expenditure.
NELSON ROCKEFELLER His fortune, 100,000,000 dollars. His aim, Gov- ernorship of New York State--and, samo say, the
White House.
ROUND
UP
ARMY RESERVE
N Army organisation which embodies some of the ad- vantages of the Territorial Army is the Army Emergency Reserve, which recenlly held its annual comp at Ashchurch, Gloucester- shire. The AER. Is designed for those interested in Army training who cannot afford the time required by the T.A. In the
A.E.R. members are required
jattendu only one camp a year s
their sule training. During the
Food here, unless you choose your restaurant carefully, is Insteless compared to the steaks and chops and Ash I ate in Britain, have had one sleak since I came back, but it cost me $8.75 (about 22 10s.) with- out chips,
salad, rolls, and buiter.
Subway fares are going up to 20 cents-Is. 5d--for any journey. But farcs arc 15 cents, A Scolch and soda in reputable bar costa $1 with dime lip. A Martini costs the
same,
I had a snack luncheon the
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So you are still not disen- chanted? What about the dish- washers, the kitchen, the ma- dern appliances? You can have them if the net result is taste- less food,
What about the big, powerful other day-shrimp cocktail automobiles with automatic followed by
hamburger, change, a
power brakes, and followed by a coffee and
power steering? I have been packet of cigarettes. The cost, looking them over this week, and the Rolls-Royce must have sjo. me because I recoll from these American monsters.
£2.
is
Most of the 1959 models are
Jan Bronks leads the blusona in New York. Thli 21-year-old British blonde may, before long, ba nying, high once again in Broadway's thestraland
the
My monthly garage rent $50. The rent for my apart ment is 50 enormous that I dare not tell
you the figure. How in the showrooms, and Everything here is going up But since I got back I have they are as gaudy as a juke in price, and how long been looking at apartments box, vulgar, ostentatious, drip- generous Americans wil be vin new buildings overlooking ping with chrome trim, sprout- able to afford to pour out the East Tulver near the United ing rear rockets, glan! ramps, billions for Europe is problema- Nations.
crests, coats of arms, and litter- deal. Six rooms with three bathed with insignio. rooms in a co-operative build- The Cadillac has long been ing called
Cannon Point, 25, my favourite American car, but Sulton Place South, calls for hot this year's model. I will $42,000 down the price of stick to my '58 Eldorado, which What a relentless hold amal- the stock allocated — and total is comparatively restrained in tion must have on a man who, annual charges of $8,000. This design and is only one and a despite a personal fortune of is madness.
half feet longer than a Rolis.
more than $100,000,000, spendă
The United Nations puts the cost of living here at three I had left my car in an open times that in London. I used parking lot near the restaurant, to say it was double, but today and when I collected It the many Items cost four, five, and charge was $2 (149.), although six times as much as in Britain, it had been there less than Petrol and cigarottes alone are two hours.
cheaper about half the price
Cream-puff
The salesman looked at my his time ringing doorbells, kiss- black Eldorado and sald: "If ing babies, doing the hula-hoop, you want to turn that in we pumping the hands of tho will give you a generous allow sands of tollers, facing merciless ange." The allowance revealed microphones and television that my car had dropped almost cameras day after day,
value, £1,000 in
blthough bought it only lust February,
Why let a twinge
scare
you into a wheelchair?
W
VHEN I bent up from Mr Wilde's painful knee and murmured arthritis,
he looked scared. Arthritis is a word that frightens people. they think of wheelchairs. One might as well jump to the conclusion that it's Frankenstein every time someone rings the door bell, I told him.
I
Nelson
Rockefeller is doing Just that. He is running for Governor under the Republican banner ngainst the present Governor, Democrat Averell
Harriman,
MARLON BRANDO Broads alone.
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She says: "It was all a ghastly misunderstanding. 1 took month's holidny in England. Broke? Nonsense, although I was down to $2, which was stolen when I got back,
"I am under a seven-year contract to Mr Hartford and get a good salary. I have a pleasant apartment in the West Seventies, As soon as the Equity restric- tion is lifted by Christmas I will be on television and. In lims, and perhaps another Hartford production."
The other show-business news which interests me, and perhaps you, is the strange behaviour of Marlon Brando.
So right
At 33, Brando is Hollywood's His production com- My own up is that Harriman top star
pany has not turned up a script will beat Rockefeller (a pity because President Rockefeller last three flms as "ascos." His in two years, he describes his
has headline appeal) and that
I have been watching both Adinl Stevenson might decide maid was found drowned in his swimming-pool, and his wife, is a to run for President again and Anna Kashft, has walked out on men compaigning. It cream-puff contest without gat nudge out honest Ave.
or fire.
Contract
Harriman has stili got his eye on the Presidency. In fact, our boy from Wall Street got
Another multi-millionaire netlled at a Press conference in the news, Huntington Hart
him.
Night after night Brando sits in a hamburger joint called Chez Paulette's, brooding and drink- ing ginger-ale or coffee, never is alcohol.
Mostly he is alone, and the which I attended when one re- Wrongly
to the A and P. beat generation which frequent porter after another asked: "Do ford, helr
Supermarket millions. Mr the place stare but don't Intrude. you intend to complete your Hartford is not interested in Brando says: "I am sick to term as Governor? Aren't you anxious to be the Presidential politics but in the theatre. He death of being thought a blue- has plucked from obscurity. a jeaned slobber-mouth, Holly- 15-day camp the men did trade
candidate? Are you telling us training, weapon practice, Civil People should know
Sportsmen such as jockeys or that
"Losing weight. Heal, mass-
own 21-year-old British blonde, Jan wood is like one big cash register don't you
know your
Brooks, who one day may visited about one in ten of the popular footballers have to take con- age, and special exercises. It all mind?"
be ringing up money all day long. Defence exervises and local factories as well as tour-lon suffer from some form of tinual jars and jolts. The sounds mechanical," I said, "but.
Harriman went white, and
one of
Broadway's brightest think this country needs, in
addition to 薛 stars. log the Vale
good Ave-cent of Evesham, the arthritis, Common sense should continuel Jarring and straining such measures are effective, for then said stily: "That's all Malvern Hills and the Cots- then tell them that wheelchair
cigor, a Bitle five-cent invest- of one joint sometimes may lead leo-arthritis is a mechanical have to say on the subject. Miss Brocks dropped into $ ment in tolerance for the ex- wolds,
arthritics Bro the exception, to some roughening and
want you saying some party condition, not an Infection or an don't Otherwise it wouldn't be ordin- arthritis,
gave in my apartment pression of individuality. thing i didn't say." The Press the other night and wanted to ary cars that queue up in front
allergy, or anything like that."
"I feel I have every right in yawned.
set the record straight, Hartford the world to resist the insipid of the traffic lights.
Nelson Rockefeller, though a made her the overnight star of protocol of turning my privato Modern methods of treatment
also his production Jane Eyre, osteo-raw recruit to polliics, is
but life into COON
the kind of running "There are not only different why are there so many people have helped to make U.S.A.F.
Ilke Theumatoid being tipped as a possible Pre- the show flopped and Jun with osteo-arthritis when so few arthritis,
re- serial you flad on bubblegum Hospital at South Ruislip, degrees of arthritis, there are
a condition that no sidential candidate it he long, arthritis, Middlesex, the traditional sick different forms too," I said. play games as often, as
turned to London supposedly wrappers. Right, Iddon?" "Osteo-arthritis and rheumatoid and as strenuously as I did?" man or woman should fear, trounce Harriman.
broke and defeated.
Right, Brando. parade
replaced
arthritis arc
different very system.
SICK PARADE
THE PERFUME
In
of the
The 752th,
be will
117 appointment
future, pallcats of conditions,"
al ranks will phone for a specific
When explained to Mr time to see a doctor. Before the wilde that he huck osteo- pati arrives his recurds will arthritis he wanlod to know.
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"Osteo-arthritis," I said, the result of the roughening THE canary is being replaced that occurs between the internal surfaces of a joint, whereas
Normally the internal surfaces
In London homes by the rheumatoid nrthritis 11 д budgerigar and rivaling the dog generalised inflammation of the as a pet according to voterinary Joints." surgeons. They say there are now two budgerigars to every five dogs in the London area, The Peoples' Dispensary for Slek Animals says it treated more: thun 40,000 cage birds last year.] In 1953 the number was leas; than 10,000, "Almost all the cage birds brought to us aro budgerigars," said an official.
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All in a
doctor's
day: by
CEDRIC
CARNE
of a joint ride across coch other smoothly and sweetly. The joints most common- ly affected by
"Obviously one can overdo sport," Mr Wilde said, "but
Avoided
Not so long ago there were two bone discases of childhood that were relatively common. Bone tuberculosis and q bone inflammation called osico- myelitis.
not
AL that time they did have the modem antibiotics to combat such discuers, Treat- ment was a long and protracted business and the patient was left with Joint damage and, finally, esteg-arthritis.
"Now," I said, "children unlucky enough Lo contract such infections can be treated with drugs that really punch the bacteria. It doesn't taka so long and the sequel of osteo- arthritis is avoided."
I explained that overweight osteoarthritic, nggravates catoo-arthritis. And roughening are: this was an important point as those of tho far as Mr Wilde was concerned, Angers or hiper
for since he gave up games two or knees,
years ago he had become plump. Occasionally
the joints become a tile stin, sometimes they just swell a littlé without pain.
Osteo-arthritis of the fingers, for example, may at first be quite alarming. But when the swelling stopa the pain gradu- ally subsides and the Angora lose their stiftness.
"But I've been oa t," Mc Wilde saldi "Until two years ingu. I', used "to-play football | regularly—and wicket."
What to do
"Apart from losing weight, "what else should I do?"! Bir
Wilde asked.
The main ng is to prevent the joint suffering from further jolts and jarn. This can be done by strengthening the murcies around the joint. This is whene physiotherapy comes in. Exer- clees have been devised which strengthen the muacio cushionam..
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