Part 4
ROUND-UP
GRANDMOTHER AGAIN
M
ne.8. Johnson, 79, of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, hos become Mu groat-grandmother for the 50th time,' She has seven children, and 27 grandchildren. One of her children has 10 grand- children and another 18. Mrs Johnson says, "I ind it difcult to remember at the birthdays of my 14 descendants, but do the best I vau."
WISHING CHAIR
Anyone
PEOPLE travel miles to sit in un anelent iron-bound chair at
the 400-year-old Bull Inn, Otford, Kent to wish who sits in the chair, it is sald, and wishes hard enough, will hove is with granted. "Not day goes by without someone cuming to sit in "eld 80-year-old Mr A. T. Cassidy, the Legend has it that the suut was owned by Thunana n Becket, who once lived in a building on the site of the Bull.
ferntner.
ARMY CADETS
HISTORY of the rade muvement is beling planned by the Army Cadet Force Association for publication by 1960 is rundenary year. It will cover the growth of the movement from the time the Brst carps were formed In schools and by battalions of the RIße Volunteer Corps. Brigadier H. King-Lewis, secretary of Kent Territorial and Auxillary Forces' Association, Maldstone, says early records are lacking. He appeals for any original papers, pulations and photographs showing what Army cudets dit in
"Mary the pust particularly between the year 1600 and 1030. should be sent to the Army Cudet Force AssociUmm, Buckinghmin Polar Road, Westminster
NEW TOWN
THE London County Conacid is considering bulding a new town
in the vicinity of Hook on either side of the White Water Such a town within 30 miles Valley in North East Hampshire.
of London would relieve congestion in the County of London, the Council state. After Investigating some 70 sites, It has come to the tentative conclusion that a site at Hook probably presents the Inust favourable features.
TWO-YEAR TUNNEL
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TWO-YEAR tunnelling operation half a mile below the streets of Manchester to ink two collieries threy and a half miles aport hus been completed, the North West Coal Board announce. the city centre, with The tunel links Bradford Colitery Arlton Moss colliery, on the boundary between Audenshaw and Arhton-under-Lyne and is part of a large-scale development plan Gangs of to top coal reserves la the east of the efly ventre. tunelleis operated from opposite ends to deive the eleven-ft hugh
perfect meeting, said the Board. Tunnel at ended with u
One glass is enough says I
Mr. Krushchev-and lay off that moonshine vodka ONE, just one glass of ing
any: Well, what of it? If he
wine among friends is not served
"Some people may well in one restaurant
another gleas there.""
is all right. But not he will go to another and drink
more.
Who says this? than Russia's
None hard-tikiNK.
other
Krushchev:
Mr Isu དཿuld
If there Let him go. people who like ve tots, hard-drinking Mr Krushchev will have to go lo ve restau-
He has announced that Kremlin wi introduce spe-ful
drink
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restaurats will
be allowed {< serve customers with only one glase under
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new laws.
Krushchev
loophole here. He told n village meet-
SOBER
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are they
rants, They will sober up 115 they go from one to the other **
'BE STRICT.
And where was he speaking? At us trthplace, the hamlet of
where Kalinovka, youthful drinking exploits legendary.
own
30
He said the new "dry" laws will deal severely with
MOONSHINERS: "Makers vi moonshine vodka will have to be caught and punished in the most strict way." DRUNKS
Those who enuse trouble in the streets will be sent to special "subering up"
and stations
fired; **worse offenders' will face sterner
and there will measures;
br extra special punishment for drunk Communist Party mem- bers.
There is a personal reason for Krushchev's temperance drive-
at Western report hig Own
his angci
rbout
no:nents.
I don't care a devil but
he's got my Nestle Chocolate
Headache
Do not wall poliantly for your suffering to end Take
2 tablets of CAFASPIN dissolved in half a glass of water, and headache will
soon vanish
GIFASPIN
Jess
sober
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1958.
I Predict.
Cummings
JUST SUPPOSE
for defence
of my pensions [[guit from thei Tories
IT DID HAPPEN... JUST
SUPPOSE THE SOCIALISTS GOT IN NEXT TIME!
Tky mission to
the world
Save
who?
Firs
Callaghan
Palmerston Method Eden's was
How Pitt
Ernit
Bevit's way
|5000 NEW!
TAXES
1. On air
Lipper class Scheen
holidays 4.1 class
mil
Chanel
abolished
by order
Barbara Castle!
Minister
Health
"A mosk A
day ketpl the
by William
War office
ILLUSTRATION BY CUMMINGS
Barkley
With Morcover, this qualification, that I predict there will not be one. when I project our future rulers in the form of a Cabinet photograph, many electors on taking one look at it will vote Tory. Thus prediction stultifies itself in this case,
PREDICT today the membership of the next Socialist Cabinet.
A
There exists what is called Shadow Cabinet. The Opposition chooses Individuals to mark each Tory Minister and to question him on his department.
To remove a misapprehension these Shadow Ministers are not the Leader's choice. They are elected on a popularity vote of the parliamentary party. Mr Hugh Gaitskell as Prime Minister will make quite different choices.
For example, Dr Edith Sum- merskill will be the Minister of Health.. This wil be A nire revenge.
She will cock a snock at those who voted her off the Executive and the Shadow Cabinet too.
She is as able as any man and Despite her abler than most wayward words she has also a But is the brains large heart next experience Gaitskell wants,
the
Aneurin Bevan (61) will be
Foreign Secretary Bra Harold Wilson (42) the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer. Wilson is the baby of them all, the man of the future in the party.
These,
with
development in the Colonies, and he will be good at Dust.
Mr Patrick Gordon Waiker will be
Commonwealth the Minister with t scal in the Cabinel. A former history don, he is maturing at 51, a second, reasonable man.
The Minister of Labour will be Mr Alfred Robens (47), Some- times he makes a speech, somv-
mes he rends one.
His coltengles when he reads it.
He can flop and recover from the flop, making people think he is indolent unui he is stretched
Dre
At Home
happur
The Home Ofee is un im- than to portant post. it will go to Mr
is he
too Right-and, Cluse
he has visited terrible crime. the Coudillo's Spain.
He is res Strachey is out. peeted by sema and beloved by Galtskeli reluctantly will none. pick reluctant Brown.
Life Earl
Mr Herbert Morrison, shame fully turfed out of the executive, smoulders on a back bench and Lakes no part in the party.
Socialst month
He will be in the Government, Lost
ho ent on the steps of the
In throne taking interest the initiation of life burons anet I predict he will be baronessed. the Urst Life Earl.
the
horny-handed describe
him
who
#S
Lion he deserves.
Life Peer
need
a superman, and already we are scraping the barre).
I predict that Mr Gaitskell cannot do better than appoint Mr Denis Healey He is a foreign expers who rarely agrees with the new Foreign Secretary and must be anchored firmly st
home.
A
James Callaghan (40) is able, irascible fellow who conscious that he is getting no younger. Personally, I like hot temper, but some think he is too flashy.
Mr Gaitskel will find it wiser to have him inside rather then out, and I predict he will be First Lord of the Admiralty.
The Army
Is It Fred Pearty I don't think it looks like him, he is so
Gaitskell (52), quite other purposes
Anthony Greenwood, who is 47. He will be bord President of Now the eye grows dim with are men of first-class ronk, But replace aging ex-Ministers..
He is a good public performer the Counell and Deader of the peering: the glass darkens and uh the gap thereafteri
I predict that Mr John Mackie who positively shines with polish. House of Lords. This will give have not yet detected an army There were four big debates
be the Minister of This quality counts against him him the Influence and distine- chief. in four days at the Scarborough (48) will
He la a fine and with Mr Gait Agriculture, Socialist conference skel took the leading part in wealthy beef-breeding farmer, sometimes
If Earl Morrison bows to the found an obnoxious, never but he has Why" ench one of them.
Tas Ministry of Defence is a Woolsack predict he will bow handsome. Ik Wedgwood- Partly to enlarge h leader- ugriculturaj seat,
1 see Sir Frank Dena? No, he's too tall, He will unter Parliament for key post. ship.
The only man who to Lord Soaldice. But ask again why?
Boskice (56) as Lord Chancellor. wants it is no on ebe Enfeld Enst and go straight to
Emanuel Shinwell, Because there was
It could be Kenneth Younger If the Socialists regrettably the Front Bench with a atrong but he will be 75 when the time
John Edwards, belog of suficient culibre.
penchant
the experiment In
This is regarded as too make a change in the Commons er
I give it up. their Speaker will be smallish Agure nationalisation of Land 10 old by everyone except Mr Chair
68-year-old No I don't The vision clears. Shinwell and by those who hear Gilbert Mitchison. The dollar gap and the trade cheapen food production.
Mr larger in
Arthur Bottomley (3) him make a speech, when he bumbling agreeable barrister. He I should have been so clear
all
time. She knows the bulk do must
· has been shadow Housing and the will be the Colontai Secretary. is as bright as a blackbird,
troops. Advance, Baba! Secre Mr Gaitskell's mind than
Grotge Brown does not want Lecal Government Minister,
for WarMrs With 8,000,000 rented houses tary of State Cabinet gap, which is due large. He will tray that the Cyprus ty to the method of releeting problem will be solved first. His the job and many of his party
candidates fur strength is parliamentary
trade and welfare do not want him to have it be to be municipalised this post will Barbara Castle.
Kup
The Gap
comes.
I REPORT THAT THE MAN IN THE MASK IS STEPPING INTO THE STARRING ROLE...
A new heart-throb
“MOP... forceps..
-adrenalin....mop
And so on and so forth Mr Wilfrid Hyde White, playing the sur- geon, dipped his forceps with the cotton wool wad in the little bowl of dye placed just below camera range, where the pati- ent's heart presumably would be located if it was in the right place.
He handed the forceps with the now blood (dye) -atained swab to the theatre sister,
The eminent heart surgeon turned to the director and said: "He must gope more. Tell him to grope,"
goes after
the box office...
(WITH SCALPELS AT THE READY)
THOMAS WISEMAN'S LIMELIGHT
com-
committing suicide. "Just a new kind of oleavage," Dimcult to attribute blame,"
I said. "Could I grab you away A Mr Wilfrid Hyde White, foined moment," sald the director to us, removing his green gown
Burgeon. "We are just and rubber gloves. about ready to kill of Cooney." the
"Right," said the surgeon,
The spray showed up as beads show it in action-in close-up give you a sample piece of dia. olways of awent. Gweat on a surgeon's and, if possible, in Technicolour, lague from the script. trow la no good, Alm-wise,
Another Alm, already
#gister, ready for the Istrate," "You see, It's a very long, pleted, also preoccupled with Wilkki, you, must more," sald the director. "You're ducer, Mr Ted Lloyd, whose last Behind the Mask and start stop the heart beating.
You're tricky operation." said the pro the same theme. This one, called says the surgeon. "I shall now working on the heart. That's Alm was The Glant Behemoth, Mr Michael Redgrave, includes
"There, we are exactly as we Inside the body, you know."
of an actual heart sald Mr the story of a monster who eats 12 minutes
expected A high ventricular "Right you are,"
been dez- the character"-having defect. Reptal
Sister, Wilfrid Hyde While. # get
patched authentically and in mout, ted silk legatures..."
accordance with accepted Jou."
the surgeon "We won't actually show the medical practice, surgeon working on the heart," returned. sald the director. "It's so much
Not accurate
"Couldn't we," said the direc-
tor to the eminent heart ouṛ-
surgeon.
"It's not essential," said the
whe ip halt of London for breakfast, operation, Aim of which
"Come and have a look at the supplied by Guy's Hospital. heart-lung machine we've
mocked-up. Of COUTBC. you Technical
couldn't actually do an operaiton with it, but looks most, con- vincing."
director "unly it does look Real operation
good, tim-wise."
“It wouldn't really be recu-
Cooney-''n loyable I Dedicated
ono belter than more effective just Buggeating A myth
11"
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"Can you stand the sight of blood?" I asked him,
"Only if It's поста book- maker's," he said.
Chunky, thick fan't
limited
"The medical student who is Ervg gors
ar technical adviser neling throughout the Alm-when the With unerring appreciation of that and is, un two hours
bo cannot I spoke to the heart surgeon
surgeon "It's a cinema myth," he said, eminent geon, "take a licence with the Eros Films which
the public's current obsessions, operations, the mund one last
neting that. recently ing 10 minutes; and it really the real one-who is
Burgeons have long present-sald: "Of course "thế” breathing bag-show it working? gave us Blood
advleer
Mont operations of the Vampire is keeping up with the hena on technical
the delicate tepering fingers, Lock c'ialogue at to So dramatic, you know."
ds now making a film caffed lines by showing how a hole-in- operation scenes.
Mop... at my hande. "No, not really," sold the Emergency Ward 10.
the-heart operation la done with To Raid: I don't think it's a workman's hands."
forcepa... adrenalin. if it's the aid of a heart-lung machine. bad thing showing this sort of The producer, Mr Ted (The routine appendicitis operation This is the device which has thing on the screen. People are Giant Behemoth) Lloyd, old: they're probably talking about
Mr use, whose afrald of what they don't know. "Itas
Wiseman 'scen our what won the 3.30," recently come into
niembrane oxy- Mr Robert (Grip of che function is to Lake over the If we make operations familiar pulsating
Strangler) Vay said: "We nto. it is to them; they will be len genator The direction is in the trust- Frate," Anid the surgeon with what worthy hands of Mr Robert Day, work of the heart while
"Of course," said the surgeon, trying to show what dedleated frightened if they have to heve
"I don't want anybody to see peoplo these surgeotie aro. May- sidered Irritating pedantry, whom laat sim was Grip of the stopped and repaired.
In reply to my question, the one.
"Of course, the argument my insides there are some be stane of them. co. get 2000 "Whatever you way," said the. Strangler, with Dorla Karloff.
but everybody director,
Films like Energency Ward director Mr Robert
much thing on the scrten is see no objection to showing the works for miney, don't they?. An elatant, carrying poma 10 are opening all too the Birangler) Day raid: "No, 1 ngalak alowing operaliene and things that are private. But I an operation,
Don't you?" thing that looked like a emit iterally, i Afa afreld--new
• FOOTNOTE: That benting heart shown on
Bros* next Conscious. They' to say that Apray, moved among the actors vatns in cinema entertalainent, another kind of horror film. that it makes people too discese preliminaries of an operation,
KOMCOND committed kuloluo TV-ob, I don't think that was film will be about that notabla in the green surgical gowna utul No longer in it enough to sing not at all- green msake and green caps, and about the peculiar workings of Of course it all dependa after weine Your Life In Their too bad. You didn't see much, tothewhat unorthodoxes
1. Hands. But the human heart. Nowadays you what you mean by horror,
then people ste did you?"
surgeon, Jack the Upper," spray their foreheads.
A
the director must have con-
(Grip of
wouldn't may the wan junt
No,
on
A