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HEROIC ENGLISHWOMAN
TIE story of an Engilshwoman imprisoned 9 years in the Arctle under the Russians is told in the book "Miss May" just pub- lished. "Min May"-Baroness Miste-is an English woman who married a Hungarian diplomat. In 1946 the WEN arrested in Vienna by the tursians ord sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on a charge of espionage. The story of these years is told by Jerr:rd Tickell, author of "Odette" and "Appointment with Venus" in a book dedicated to the author's friend Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Dowler, one-time Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery. "Miss May" and General Dowler havo never met, but Mr Tickell remedied this by arranging o luncheon for three to celebrate the book's pubilrationi.
NEW LIFE
DAILWAYMEN #1 Horwich, Lancashire, have just completely cratered to its immer glory the first locomotive to be produced in their works. Bull 1889 it has been p:inted in its original La sfr and Yorkshire railway colours of black with white and red linings and hearing the "L" and "y" crest. The locomo- tive was rebeghuled for creservation by the British Transport Com- missy and its restoration was carried out by the B.T.C. Curator of Brie Rels and Works Manager R. Drown.
A
The road
T
that
led to No. 10
tered icily the mute
Roman Helmet
ROMAN zundal exmplete with htel but with one the mising was found in R Roman well unearthed by local archaeologists at Olney,
Buck inghanshire. In another well,
of three discovered, there was found a winged helmet and a shrine of the Pagan god Mecury made in focal limestone. The shrine is sold to date from the Second Century AD. The wells are about 12t, deep and 31. acros.
Exmoor Search
SEARCH for uranium i to be made at the end of this month, in the devellet iron and lend mines on Exmoor, Devon, by the Atomic Energy Division of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, They intend jromeentrating on the Flien
iron and lead mines near South Molian.
The
survey will be
ear:ied out by aircraft equipped with apparuis for measuring radio activity in the ground.
U.S. Memorial
A MAGNIFICENT 4.
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1958.
DON IDDON'S DIARY
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
IN FACT...EVEN THE
BANKERS ARE
CELEBRATING TODAY,
New York.
SI walked down Wall Street a sign outside a news stand read "The Moon's the Limit." It was not referring to the spectacular rocket shot from Canaveral, but to the American economy.
The boom is back. It is back with a bang. I walked into J. P. Morgans, the bankers with whom this office has done business for years, and the words were "progressive prosperity."
He is confident he will collect forecast: "A boom of gigantic the early '60's. a nest egg to give him security proportions" by
An Englishmmun, an
And this (rom a most con- Inches high silver-gilt nervative house. THE January wind blus-
Crusa with two attendant
I called at the Stock ́through ¦ candlesticks, each two feet three
Ex- of inches in height, will knots
be seen change, and the thembers were American trying to keep up with the for tife, people waiting outside the the altar of the
chapel at St Paul's Cathedral, ticker-tape tapping out the international Palace.
memorial to the U.S. war dead, latest surge upward in shares. when
Occasionally the crowd be
came excited, hurrying to watch the big black cars sweep through the Palace gates.
But most of the time they
just waited, quiet, expec- tant, an unspoken que tion in every mind.
It is dedicated next
month. The Queen, the Duke of During the past eight weeks Edinburgh and Vice-President there has been a record climb, Nixon of the United States will a dizzy ascent in stock values. be in the congregation. Mr Nixon
will be representing Not too late President Eisenhower,
Driving Lessons
to get in
teaching of cur driving Brokers who were advising In school was advocated by caution in the spring, and talk- drawn-but recession Major-General B. Young, Direc-ing of n Just before 2.30 p.8. black tor-General of the Royal Society and adjustment perlad, said:
ear swept through the Palace for the Preventien of Accidents,
"You should have
answered.
Hc
bought
financler
who Still fewer
are unemployed
HOSEMARY HARRIS
... NOW COMES HER BILDEST CHALLENGE
But there's more happening here
main
than people making £3,500 with
a couple of telephone calls.
And here are some of the
steni shows and
on expando Hollywood production.
11
This is good time to show
be in
business. At least 03 for
as earnings
ure con- cerned.
Me Harry Belafonte, back from Europe, has
more In
more earn- ings than he digest, LBA
and is interested Lolerance, The coloured entertainer, ofter being unable to find да apariment here, is now getting a few offers,
He says: "I found the doors slun- med shut, imagine, in
And how to explain the great Bonanza? Billions of Govern- ment spending provoked by the Russian sputniks, the Middle East, the Far East crises; a re- turn of consumer confidence, an New York, which I like urge to expand.
I left Wall Street wondering, lo call the It has been wrong before, but most Ilberni this time it is convinced, even centre of the obsessed, that it is right.
does not like his mme in print,
Que result of the new boom told me: "Everyone says the
has been a discernible leap in same. .. boom to beat all the
the confidence of the Republi- others. We can only hope they
morale. Vice-President are right. If I had heard a
fact What about the
that cans' single dissenting voice I should there are 4,100,000 unemployed Richard Nixon, the Administra
the tion's most effective campaigner, Where is tell you. The chorus is unani- in the U.S.?
is urging: "Keep the party that mous,"
boom for them? The answer; Unemployment dropped nearly gives you this prosperity in I dropped Into the Bankers 600,000 last month, is
silding power,"
And as for scandal in Govern- Clitb.the bankers were lower all the time, and the celebrating
If all the signs aro ment, such as the Sherman problem, right,
will be a possible labour Adams case: "The only way you ow could get people out of the shortage within the next
Government when Mr Truman was President was to put them In_gnol."
And then along Worth Street and Brond Street for a drink at 'n Childs Bar and Restaurant, similar to our Lyons cafes, and messengers eat and drink, where the clerks, typists,
and
It's
Sometimes they know than the big boys.
more
the Queen would be asking Me proper "off the road" ear delving automobiles, great year for
for
steel,
for
gates and vanished into the at the National Safety Congress weeks ago, but it's not too late courtyard. The crowd gaze at Bridlington, Yorkshire. at the men sitting beside the said that in Amerieu there was now. Get into the market now. chauffeur. Their question was large number of schouls where Buy General Motors, buy Fords,
buy American Molors.. In a few moments the young
teenager could get going to be a Maurice Harold Macman struction, American author-general dynamics," accept office as her First Lord ties were expanding this train- of the Treasury and her Prime ing, and Canada
I met a man who had made was urgently Minister....
pursuing a similar polley. " £3.500 that day with two tele- have had the offer of a car to phone calls. I met an executive this purpose from a
of a big radio and television motor agents, und um working network who had secured six was very hard to find a school nen months' leave of absence from them so that I can Introduce the his employers to devote lils time school to the car,"
'to buying on the grain market.
But what sori Macmillian?
of
מוגנת
To many of the crowd he was le more than a name.
What more is known of Muc- millan today, one year and nine months after the Queen sent for him?
Politically, his stature ja
Immense.
Popularly, he is as unknown as ever, a man known by the sympbols cartoonists Javo given him-Edwardian suits attia straggling moustache.
But now a weller has investi
Enter the life and background of Harold Macmillan.
firm
of
years.
United
Slates. The reason WB5 the colour of my skin
"The turn- downs
were systematic,
but since my protest look
things better. wife Julie
My
she's white),
my two-year-
faces that make news:
AVA
CARDNER
KARL WALDEN
SHARMAN DOOBLAS
HARRY BELAFONTE
old son
David, and
myself out- grew our
apartment in West 70's some time ago,
he
This is giving them the well- known Nixon thrust at the
Dr May and others foresee a populution here of over 200,- within a decade, bul 000,000 even that won't be enough to man the machines. The present jugular. It is getting the Vice-
headlines and, President population is 173,000,000.
hopes, votes. Fortune In the ofees of The bartender said: "Business magazine, the bible of big bust- his doubled since spring. There ness, the editors are saying the the not are going to bu some mighty front-page now's big
Christmon bonises. The stock market Ditie fellow is in the market but "the sensational rise again."
productivity"
is
sustained
Angels busy
In
spurt on Broadway
of gain
i
Another result of the financial over three per cent in the last Jump towards the moon is
Where boomlet on Broadway. And I got from one of this quarter, country's acknowledged experts, "Truly fabulous, old boy. backers ("angels") were re-
my dear luctant to Invest,
they Dr Alonzo May, the University Horizons unlimited, of Denver's
ort are throwing their dollars
economisi, this fellow, Phenomenal, my Irlend."
The parson who can't
forget Notting Hill
IT is reasonably quiet
in Notting Hill Gate
From these investigations there these nights," Men and
emerges a picture of a remark-women walk un- able man and a remarkable
molcsted. Milk bottles family. IT TELLS of Macmillan's grand are used more or less
-HE SAW IT COMING, BUT
NOBODY TOOK ANY NOTICE
father, in sober dark cloth, exclusively for carrying immigration shize, even when seen at a dis. milk.
awed by the Duke of Devon-i
tance.
problems which West Indian He saw violence smoulder, honest attempt to And a solution was causing. I Rows between coloured tenants for a problem new to Britain, pleaded with them to discourage and white landlords. Between and because Clifford' 1011 is one white tenants and coloured of the few clergymen who has It is almost as if Mr Justice Thousands of West Indians landlords, as the West Indians fuced up to that problem.
had snuffed out the were pouring into England and clubbed together to lnly rain- suke's fome of racial violence by send- 93 per cent of those I met were thackle houses.
ing nine guilty youths to gaol for completely ignorant of the con- four years last month. Almost as ditions they would face here,
business
IT TELLS of Macmillan's wed-Salmon
ding-to thai same grand-daughter
IT TELLS of one generation of if the whole sordid
Macmillans enduring lounger
and distress on a Scottish ivin
and another generation lunch
ing
champagne at the Turf Club.
had been forgotten.
Almosi, but not quite. In
+36
to riches, penury to power. It saw the scandal of Notting Hill
Is a romance of our times.
Hard way
the
fuw
דיי
now
the
"Mrs Roosevelt offered p buy a building with me, but I'm not looking for the easy way out. It was made me very angry. I want an apartment, a sultabla place to live, and I want it on the basis of me, Harry forte, negro, American."
Belafonte's iwo Mercedes cars are parked in a smart apartment
by ALAN BESTIC
Behaves
He believes that integration is inevitable. He feels that every- It was the prototype of Not- one in Britain-from the highest fing Gate,
and Wherever he authorities of the Church saw the sparks, he stepped in State down to the people who miscuous, or that the couple -quietly and tried to stamp them buy bus tickets from coloured will be unfaithful to each other
conductors must work to after marriage. "If only the Colonial Ofee out.
achieve it as quickly as possible. on oysters, steak, and quiet manse in Tottenham, I had set up on Information ser-
met a young man who has not vice in the West Indies to coun- British Council
Just 15 months ngo, the forgotten, a 30-year-old Con-
of Churches He wants training, schools teract lurid stories about glorious asked the Reverend Clifford Hill established
that social IT TELLS the fairy story of raggregationalist minister who fore-
apportunities here, would have eased considerably. uidance of other ministers with can learn how to work among great deal of respect for English am convinced that the to write a pamphlet for the workers-clergy among them-
average West Indian shows a Gote and did what he could to prevent it.
"But they did nothing. Now coloured people in their parishes, West Indians and help them. girls. Though he far from
understand. the home, ho behaves well. #rental, moral, educational and "I only wish, too, that British would realise that He is the Reverend Clifford The Rev. I learned-tho
The pamphlet overflowed Into seelal backgroend of these fine propte hard way. Ile Avo
the visited Hi, who ministered for
(Black and White in people," he said. "British social coloured people abhor mixed years in Willesden, North-West aqualid one-room homes that book
Kiance, that their attitude
The colour problem In Britain, London, a parish thronging with cost £2 108. a week and shelter Harmony; Hodder and Stough workers must accept for in- marriages." ton, 45. Od.)
to marrings differs from ours. he belleves, Is one which the West Indians. Now he has been several families, promoted to
"Many coloured girls I have Church has all the facilities to bigger He married West Indian It is grimly prophetic. It parish in Tottenham, but he is couples and baptised
married were obviously pregn➡ solve, their could be a best seller-because, ant, But that is not unusual in "We are the field workers," alli Aghting for coloured folk children. He helped them to Ironically, of the very scandal the West Indies and neither is he said, "It is only in the
fnd jobs. He ran special ser he battled to prevent.
it regarded as disgraceful. "As long ago as 1959," he said, vices for them, with a.steel band.
Starts in next
Saturday's
CHINA
Still fights
in Britain.
an Ever
the West Indians are here and we must learn them.
with to live
Prophetic
"We must
Bela-
The Roy. Clifford Hill -"The solu- tion does not tie in giving heavy sen- tences for violence,"
He does not believe that the problem is Insoluble, But he that there may be does fear new Notting Hills before it is solved.
Prejudice
"Tho solution does not He in giving heavy sentences to those Immediately responsible. for violence," he said. "The pre- judice that is at the root of these disorders still festers. Wo must rid ourselves of that pre- Judice, firmly, patiently.
Notting Hill Gate, as I sald,
quiet
Courageous now. padres, like Cufford, HH, can
ها
help to keep it that way,
building. There is no discrimina- Ulon in New York against motor- cars.
She won't
read reviews
The English girl Rosemary Harris, a fine actress is decorat- Ing the town, and she will play Zelda, the wife of Scott Filz- gerald, in the stage version of Budd Schulberg's The Dis- enchanted.
Miss Hurrls, who lives in and who Greenwich Village learnt her acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, saya: "It won't be easy but it will be done as well as I can do it. As for the 'Method' school neting I don't know anything about it. In England we learn most from experience and watching others.
อ
"In time, If you have any gift, you develop a style of your own. I've played here before, of course, but this is the biggest challenge.
"I won't read the reviews. I nuver
not have, and this is affectation. It is just a simple fact that if they are good I be come self-conscious and if they are bad I am absolutely desolate,
"I keep the reviews for about two weeks, and if the show's still running I take them out and look them over. By that time it doesn't matter!"
He likes to
be step-perfect
Fred Astolre, the veteran, opens in his own TV show -- An Evening with Fred Astaire and does not feel nervous about it. Why should he be?
He has been in show business
40 almost
la Wao ycars, vaudeville when D. W. Griffith was looking The Birth of a Nation. had spectacular success on
then a Broadway,
long series of Hollywood musicals.'
A man with English elegance and dress, although he was barn in Omaha in 1899, Astaire 15 an effortless lean, youthful, charmer.
"I try to be a perfectionist, to do everything to the best of my ability, rehearse, rehearse, and rehearse." He has rehearsed every day for the past six weeks.
"I must keep moving forward. What is dancing? I can't defino it. I like to get my feet into the air and move around. Every step must be perfect or nearly perfect."
Brando casts
a Western
Other show-business snippets. Regarding my Item on Marlon Brando, I am told now he Western, One-Eyed is casting Jacks, and has picked Karl Malden, the Academy Award winner who was in Baby Doll.
Brando and Molden are old friends and Marlon Bays: "My. getting Karl for One-Eyed Jacks is a guarantee that the film will have distinction." The title has not,
Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner. are both due in Hollywood this autumn and both have pro- nounced: "No interviews with the Press."
BCOM-
Hedda Hopper says fully: "It was the Press who made them."
Sharman Douglas, who last came to my place with Anthony Bartley as her escort, is going to London as Press agent for Hugh (Wyatt Earp) O'Brian,
Footnote: The Wall Fresh outburals of violence, of Street surge has revived the
course, would boost the sales of alogan
Church that men of all types "It is the custom and it does can worship, work and
that the girl is pro- recreation together."
find
his book. But for him that would spell failure, not success,
"1 wrote a report for the inziend of an organ and hymns It is depressing in parts. But Colonial Omen, outiining the that throbbed like calypsos. it is important because it is an not mean
"Everything is
booming but the guns,"