George II (look, no
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTO ER 30, 1055,
DON IDDON'S DIARY It could only happen in New York in the Autumn
hands) The Smiling Tiger
lands his plane
By PETER WOON
TX-FIGHTER PILOT LAURENCE STARK stroked his bushy moustache, beamed across at me, and folded his arms. At 110 miles an hour
our Varsity training plane sped down on to the
runway.
NE
turns on
the smear
New York.
TEW YORK in the autumn . . . and Fifth Avenue is bright with orange and white ban- ners, the "Salute to Autumn.”
Flight-Lieutenant Stark was in the pilot's seat. 1
I stroll the famous street slowly, looking at the was in the co-pilot's. But neither of us touched the con-
crowds surrounding huge pictures of the election per- trols: For this was Blind Landing, the completely auto-sonalities. Eisenhower. Nixon, Nehon Rockefeller of matic look-ne hands" system that will revolutionise the Republicans, and Truman, Stevenson, and Axerell flying.
It
НЛ neons
to the hara,de of fog and bad wer- ther. It
greater memis nuch cafety 30 per cent of all alt acelent: are at landing.
scientists have been
a system on such since the war. Now they have prochtend IL.
British working
L
In 3 years
At the Royal Aireraft Et shunt at Bedford the other day they cummenstanied to warid allines and British, American
along the edges of the runway, and projecting 5,000ft, beyond 11 was reerived in the aircrafta computers and acted upon.
It kein us heading for he centre of the runway. The ruli. altimeter hrought 115 down
at they correct rate desernt,
Another green "L.C."--that
Harriman of the Democrats.
truth. Pick yourself a whipping
Dempio know about a these thought of asking how
secret instructions, but there was poignancy when he men- toned the eyes. Always the eyes,
All are smiling. My distinguished visitor boy and flog away." who is atrolling with me says: "Tell me, why do American politicians always have to be smiling: grinning from ear to ear perpetual- light dashedly? Worse than Cheshire was the
lender cuts. over. AL 100. "A" for altitude came on, — sve were descending at a constant pitch.
cables Taking
At 451 * for Hare-On!
and internationd aviation nu automatically the engine throt thorities that it is nearly ready the back for military and evil use.
and the nose, came AL 12. " for land-drift
uit.
With a slight bump, we were
In three years, 1 prediet, aided by the wing was kicked British military aircraft wifi be whatever the Able lund weather the first V-bomber down.
10
few month.
The lender cables guld- ed us along the runway and goes to Bedford for tests in a Stark used the eat-in switch on In five years the commerclut lite stick to take over. We did It thaee times, Stark folded his be able to arms on all of them. It was so airliner pilot will toket back peatuirendy it fascinating I forgot to bite my is planned to put the system's fool-proof radio altimeter into
"This system is ns safe as it BEA's new DH.121 jo and
Is eimple," sale! Stark, B.O.A.C's now VCJJD.
The other equipment -- the whole thing weighs only 10011. und ersts about £5,000
be added at any time.
This is what happens in the cockpit:-
"Right," suid the Stark, we're off."
cheerful
The Varsity climbed into the dr and we banked steeply on
nails.
No accident
over
the half-blind eyes.
Then over to Mr Rockefoller "Desaplo is
the big political Ings อย Harriman is his puppet."
"Why is President Eisen- You will gather that the alee- hower
Ceriainly always grinning, tion is livening up. always showing that array in New York State, and the rest of the country now being toured of teeth? Are American by President Elsenhower. Vice- politicians the world's President Nixon, ex-Presiden? funniest men, telling the Harry Truman, and Presiden most hilarious jokes, rent il candidate in the past Adia!
Stevenson. side-splitters and rib- ticklers all the time? Tell me the reason."
I could not. The big grin started with the toothpaste smile of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his first term and has spread to all lenders und ranks.
Nixon is now
ROCKEFELLER.
"Go out and fight."
HARRIMAN.
"Why the big grin?"
well as à brillant actress. She
Democrat Desaplo
tries 'to boil'
Republican Rockefeller
in oil
LAUREN
BACALL,
"I'm trying to start
life ali over again."
to British charities
ta Alabama not long ago and Franets; The Pleasure of His £100,000 found some of my relatives still Company, starring Cyrli Fit- und was the only one of Bar- racist Dixiecrats, and I loathed chard Charlie Ruzzles, and bura Hutton's husbands flem too."
Make a Millión, murn any financial settlement--
Walter Abel;
to
As for the New York battle starring Sam Levine; and The "Not a red cent, Baba, dear),
billionaires: Golden Six, by Maxwell Ander-is haggard with dieting. between the think it will be terrible If Harrison, and starring Viveca Lind
A shining half-dozen man doesn't win, but I wish fors. Nelson Rockefeller weren't so which it is hoped will set a new
blaze on Broadway, damned attractive."
11's
from
on
impossible to get away the election, even Broadway, notoriously preoccu~ pled with self and sex.
A new blaze?
Haggard
on
He does not smoke or drink, cata enly one meal a day, Lately the set he has taken to munching
apples, sitting moodily alone. Miss Drake plans to resume acting.
Everyone who knew them, Elizabeth Taylor's latest both hero and in Hollywood, is statement is: "If Eddie Fisher upset by the break-up in the goes back to Debbie Reynolds marriage of Cary Crant
euch and they will only destroy
actress
Alley cat brawl
There are olx openings last Betsy Drake. After nine year other." compaigns for the Democrata week: The Family Reunion, by il looked like going on for ever, So Miss Taylor the fighting very every election and doesn't dodge T. S. Ellot, starring Lillian but long separations close to the belt, and perhaps the black versus white issue in Gish, Florence Reed, and Friz plagued the marriage, as they ringe
have becomes Miss Taylor the marg counsellor and below it,
He is kneeing and the Southern brawi which shows signs of des-
States, although Weaver: Marie Tudor, a revival did that of Deborah Kerr and paychiatrist. eye-gcuging in an alloy cat
she comes from Alabams peration.
of the Victor Hugo play; Once Anthony Bartley.
It could only happen in "I loathe Governor Orval Fou. More With Feeling, starring Grant, born Archie Leach in Hollywood or in New York bus of Arkansas. I went down Joseph Catten
Arleno England
has (he
given the autumn,
The young "Elder Statesnan" hap disappeared, and now we There is a smile even on the love the ruthless politician with face of the tiger-the tiger in the killer Instinct. We also have Landing this inslence being the shadowy a man in whom something is
palpably missing real and sometimes sinister Carmin Desaplo, head of the Demo--
viction. Tam- cratic polllical machine. inany Ital), and friend of
In fact, the Blind Experimental Unit has per- formed fundings in
winds and weathers, Including dense fog. and with planes including the R.A.F's Canberra jet bombers, And there has not been a single
2,000 automatic
to the cireult, George, the auto accident. anatic plot, which i an accept-
More than ever before, elvil
ed ald of all modern airliners, aviation must beat the weather.
out
was switched in and we flew at Diversions of big juts are very a fixed height of 1,100,
Stork turned the dial de manding a 25-degree bank and George obliged,
expensive, They throw schedules, annoy the passengers, eat the benefi of air spood And as aircraft get bigger and faster the bad weather strain on the pilot grows.
We now on to the Glide Path, a radio beam projected from the Instrument Landing System Britain leads the world, with brucon beside the runway. That this remarkable tnvention. Ita can take any aircraft down to only rival, an American system, 150ft. but from there it has to is ground-controlled and there be flown visually and manually. fore less exible. Not so ours.
Harriman.
Dark glasses?
con-
This Nixon is not of Presl- tenta stature.
New York in the autumn, and I walk the avenue thinking the new fashions are brutal to the cki, unkind to the middle-nges, only bountiful to the I have been calling on Mr Qu
the slim-hipped, the Desapio, and when I first saw young,
the graciously him I thought immedaitely of long-legged, Victor Reisel,
The bubble skin and the
Industrial curved, columnist whom union thugs box coat and Daniel Boone hai blinded. Desaple always wears are a quite impossible combina- dark-tinted glasses except when ton for these old dolls clanking heels into Saks and cn_high sleeping.
Tiffanys and the Pierre Hotel, He suffers from acute inflam- I should not worry.
ננס נה'?
and
Dawn doesn't behave
like a princess, says Massimo...
OME is among the
mution of the eyes, and after my way to 21 (he restaurant, ROM
a day of conferences or elec- not the age) to a private party.
world's capitals of toneering, in which he is now The place is crowded.
chic
the strenuously employed,
gossip, and the "Hi, Talls darling"--this to whites of the eyes are blood red. Miss Bankhead.
troubles which have Disaple is the most powerful "Oh, Baby, you look just fine, come to one of the city's political boss in the country but just fine" this lo Lauren utterly unlike the cartoon Bacall, passing through New best-publicised marri Stork primed the Auto Land aimed at achieving that. Second, pure, the bowler-fated, cigar. York on her way to Spain, ages have been getting
Green lights
Problems? First, to get inter- untional airport acceptance →→→
the the recent clisplay was beginning of a fively campaign
Indienter dial on the panel in to build in still more sufely.
The Bedford tinit working front him and a lighted green section showed it was ready to on a special "Televiewer" t Now things happened will give the pilot a picture of work.
the runway even in thick fox. fast.
received troni Information
George the Second is quite a cables buried boy. magnetic leader
Nestle Chocolate makes friends everywhere
DON'T FORGET!
"THESE FABULOUS ISLANDS" OCT. 30th, 31st & NOV, let
at the GOVERNMENT STADIUM
chumping, check walstcout Leuren, or Baby, now 34, ia
and Jean and glossy-like a tiger.
Unwise crack
Prince Vittorio whose marriage
to
Massimo, British
FROM J. W. M. THOMPSON
from him.
small
In
"He sleeps with me and some- rich and I am not rich. I was, fine food and wine where I times I get a kick on the jaw always the last person to read Duco used to practise gallantry.
P We are having her controls before she signed The white villa has not been cat time with an electric train, them in case I should see some greatly changed. There is the This is something I have waited diradvantage to her.
swimming pool, the for. When he sold to me the "As a matter
staircase, the free- of fact, if it grandioso other day he wanted an electric
comes to a legal separation
shaded garden, and in the dis- train. I thought 'At last!"
shall be betler aff, because tance the towering golden statue of the Madonna' which Mussolini The farm, with 220 acres
up according to her earnings. had built, We always kept our Anancial
of
under Italian law my taxes
*
bookie boss: Carmin is aleck quite frank about her life, the full treatment in Since her husband, Humphrey spite of other more his Boguti, died of cancer in January 1957, after a long and toric events. often agonising illness, she has been lonely, damnably lonely. He prowls the precincts and There ure others, such ns actress Dawn Addams is the one land, came to him from his mobiliser the votes for Harri- Barbara
tamily. It is Stanwyck since the in question, is also a Roman mather's men. He can get through to the break-up with Robert Taylor, aristocrat, which has Intensified picturesque, aleepy place. Governor on the Telephone and Nancy Sinatra since Frank | the Interest. inmediately, and some say went away, who are lonely. But Personally, he is an easy going Desapio tells the Governor Miss Bacall's man is dead. what to do, not the Governor "I hate ellches, but i am try Desaplo, or very rarely,
I to start life all over again. I am not hunting a husband. I found Desapio at the Hotel The world is full of huntresses, Astor. in Times Square, One What I am seeking is a kind or his aides whispered to me of leveller. But I'm not scout- "He's going to boil Rockefeller in uit." Which seemed an un- ing for a husband. wise wisecrack.
I
thought that's ទេ churge and a tall order.
All unknown
go
it la easy to imagine Mussolini Affairs separate,
gozing out and dreaming his "Our family's motte in Latin dreams of imperial glory. meins: "Take it easy." I tried to, But in the end his Claretta I asked my wife to came back. I was killed with him, and her offered to meet her in front at bedy was strung up alongside one lawyer or 10 lawyers to ask his. her. She would not agree.
"After two thousand years my family does not need publicity.
sort of man not disposed to make much of his noble ante- cedents, but there Was .some-
There is D rectangular thing of hauteur in his manner arrangement of buildings round when he spoke to me about Miss a courtyard, in the centre are Addams on one occasion,
toll trees and a well. You enter she does." He fidgeted with the gold an archway made to look per. wedding ring he wore, glanced metorily feudal by a few small at a big photograph of her and battlements. Chickena and then sighed reproachfully at it. ducks scratch lazily around,
"She has not behaved like a When I was there the walla
"See glowed in the sunt purple walles, busy time preparing for Princess," he said coolly. how she announced that there looking as though they had been Olimple Genes, which will be man. was to be a separation, dhe gave splashed with wine.
Mits Bacall will go on work- ■
'Great time'
Duce legacy
The Italians
are having
For gourmets
Good food is not hard to find In Rome, of course, But English visitors are surprised to Dad that one of the most celobraled resorts of Italian the curmets is run by an English-
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He tells me that he landed in August 25 and Rene during the war- as a on
afterwards with a job in dima.
The ideal man is the man you fall in love with. I find Desuplo, the son of poor im- altistic people artists, writers, respect migrants, with
burning musicians-impatico. a gridge against Rockfciler, did tulent or forgive a lot in people altempt the all-bolting precess. who have R."
Press conference-a cocktail A French nurse looks after planning and building, and
held in Rome in 1980. They are He told us:
He is called Vernon Jarratt; "Nelson Rocke
child, Prince Massimo
and he started his restaurant feller is the front for an inter- Ing, Bogart left her a sizable party with caviare for everyone. tho
all in bixak and drives home from Rome every have just been given a glossy just over two years ago. national oll cartel that seeks furtune, but if she wants to go She entered control of the State and on living in the luxury and weeping. It was a movie setress evening. He was preparing to Programme telling exactly what will be happening here at any splendour Bogey
open up a family place in the hour between accustomed performance. ution,"
her to, then she will have to
city when his marriage troubles September 11 of that year, signala officer and stayed bront continue to act.
bogari, No politics from Mies Bacall,
"For myself I do not need a One of Mussolini's legacies to He is married to an Italian. Desaplo ·went on: "Rocke- who once sat on top of a plano
palace," he said: "It was des· Rome, an athlofie track flanked feller's backers are turning the while Harry Truman playod,
Jarratt "I on the other hand, went to elded for my wife. But I shali by gigantle statues of
was always hoping athletes, smear on Desaple and Tam- but plenty from Miss Bankhead, a magistrate with no one at ali go ahead with it now.",
is to be used for some events, for a chance to apply his life- many. They told Rockefeller: When she is not issing Mr to see me and handed over a
Back in Romo, he led me up I do not row what effect long devotion to food and drink Rockefeller, We Truman, embracing Mr Steven-piece of paper, and that was a spiral stone staircase to show these marble supermen will in a business way. But when it
of soth the is harpooning Mrjall"
me the palace. We passed a have on the rantiors, but they came he was not too optimistic croftomic power by being Nixon
about his prospects. and tripping up r The first court steps towards large room filled with machinery would certainly put me off.
ia Jarratt gentlemen.
Elsenhower,
This is part at my business,
However, at this date I and la' legai separation will be taken "We didn't build a mighty Tallu says of Nixon: "Dirty in Rome next month. Mean he maid. "We make purilera for another place possessing
figuro with 10 Edwardian financial empire on a founda is a clean word for Nixon, He while, Prince Massimo is living swimming pools. My partner is ciations with Mussolini much moistachios and snuffbox. tion of good clean sport or fair is a dangerous man."
with their three-year-old son on a genius with water."
morg Interesting. This is the "The sort of customer I really play. Go out and fight. Go out As for Stevenson and Tru- his farm 40 minutes outside
Prince Massimo ilt a cigarette, villa, high up above: the city, don't like is the tourist who asks and fight to protect the welfare man: "I'm mad about Adla!, Rome,
He ran his hand through his in which his mistrem, Clareita as his hotel for the name of the of the Anapclors, the powerful and Just love Harry."
best restaurant, comes here, hus "I shall of course fight to keep cropped greying hele. "No ono Petaoci Ilved. Industrialists, and
Mas Bankhead is Пр
then It has now been turned into some dry Murtinie und fx-my san," he told me.. That is can say I ever interfered with my cational power politicians, perienced politician (her father natural. He does not speak of wife's corner," he said suddenly, a restaurant, and the rich and orders a steak with an order of Go out and 'squiet vil into and uncle wore both distinguish- his mother now. He simply saya. dechewan, unknown - when · 1-the expense-account rich drive French fried on the alde, I say? voters Byca, Blind them tead Jandors from the Soul) an1She has gone away?
paarriad her. Now she is very up there from Home to enjoy 'Why come here?!”-
'You're didn't rise to the pinnacle
the inter-
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expansive