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He Risks Death To See Mars
AT a little-used airfield on the outskirts of Paris
a slightly-built Frenchman is waiting to scientific most daring attempt
one of the experiments of the century—an experiment in which the slightest slip means death in any one of a dozen forms.
The experimenter, Audoi: Bollfus, 30-year-old internallon - what ly COUN astronomiut,
to ballcom
nearly aspend by B0,000 feet la unke observations which he hopes will prove otarı nt far whether tife can ext
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This will not be the first thing tint Dolitus has been aloft in a holloom
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Po his father. Dr Curirs poffus, in a plowwer aviator and
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A veteran of nearly
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Dolfuss irt the kapok- covered suit he will wear on his stratosphere flight.
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Kay And Rex Lose Savings
"I FEEL
IT'S ALL
MY FAULT,
-SOBS KAY
ACTRESS Kay Ken-
dall, wife of actor Rex Harrison, sat in her dressing-room at the Winter Garden Theatre and said: "Rex and I have lost all our savings -everything.'
With ters her
eyes she
adried: "The uwful thing ** that I feel it has all been my fault. I feel terrible,"
Miss Kendali was Jalking closing after only bout the
12 performances of the play in which she and Gladys Cooper sturring. The Bright
were One."
Mr Harrison, who is now appearing in "My Fair Lady," Was the play's director.
Said Miss Keniall; "Rex and put all our savings into this play. We had a half-interest in the productiosa.
A Disaster
£71
dirasterand "This financial Ubre
that is what is is to people our position-was my fault be- rauke it was who discovered the play and persuaded Rez to direct put up the
money and is."
The smally vivacious rod- headed Kay looked pale and dis spirited as she talked to me about the abrupt end of her first West End starring role.
there WILN 140 tines ng such water on the red estimated planet as had been hum graund observations
ut the 1054 asetul was not conclusive cough to convince the young scientist. He had to get higher yet to establish his Incis,
So in the living-room of their thodest Parts an
the
aviator father and his tronomer Sert settled down to plan a new Balloon.
Bun what has emerged after four years work is not one but
8 balloons.
String
She took occasional slps ot mineral water and as she spoke | played
withi absent-mindedly
Chinesa
doga. pug her two Higgins (named after Professur
husban Higgins, the part her
. BY .
THE . WAY.
by Beachcomber
of tish father
has Markover boy that plained
his son been unable to get the of a prefeel honoured
plays in "My Fair Lady"), and ¦ THE Woolseck, "after the Lord Chancellor (Lord Kilmuir, the Lord Chancellor, 19 Mr Harrison's brother-in-law).
Although I was not well reviewed, the decision to close everyone
the play surprised 10
connected with it.
The balloons vuch about
at sea level are feet across strung in threes on a long nylon line
And at the bottom of the Ine will be the tiny metal gondola constructed of alu- minium and magnesium for
and lightcas
covered white intex sponge for insu- lation against the bitter cold of the extreme altitudes.
When he wants to descend he will be able 10 SUV LT the balloons, one by one, from the bratiches that will stream above
im into the star-filled sky, until he starts to drift slowly earth- wards.
In the Hondola with young
Dollfus, will be uny radio
transceiver with which he will
"It's Rotten"
"It was the sole decision of the produce, Mr Jack Minster,"
"He Kendall Buis Miss
has given no reason and no one can understand it as everything was going well, with bookings picking up.
"Although It is terribly dis- appointing for or to tose this part, I feel much more sorry for the stagelande and people like that. It is awful for them to be
work like this.
thrown out of It's absolutely rotten,
the
"As an actress, accept fact that you can't succeed all the
have ame, and you musi
failurea two
That's
one DT
keep in touch with his father 15 show business,"
niles below.
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anything
TOCE wrong
There may be little that can
be done to help the astronomer hermetically sealed in his tiny swinging metal prison.
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16. Maki
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10 Wander. (41 Testerday's, unlulere
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(Sunday paper.)
101: A simple answer
MAN whose nerves were The profeet said that it won
affected by the perpetusi the boy claimed noise of an airfield near which a forgery,
AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER By H, King Wood
£1 MILLION NEWSPAPER
TAKE-OVER
For several weeks moves have been made for a takeover of the Sydney Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, and the national Sunday Truth in all States, by John Fairfax and Sons, owners of the Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Sun, the Sunday Sun-Herald and a host of other papers and periodicals,
The deal ended this week when it was announced that the majority shares in Truth and Sportsman held by that fiery newspaper proprietor, Ezra Norton, bad
been sold.
They were taken over by o lung, and sawyers who know the new subsidiary company of John art of operating it. Fairfax & Sons, who have an- A Kempsey sawmiller, Mr nounced
that the papers will W. H. Haydon, found and felled continue to be published under the tree, which was dying, in an almost inaccessible gorge on the upper reaches of the Mackay
an Independent authority.
-3t
No money has been tioned in the deal, but it is River.
bot much
understood thai
Its base was 70 feet in cir-
short ut Li million is in- cumference and 20 feet thick, volved
and the spread across Its heud was more than 200 feet.
and
This makes the Fairbax group one of the most powerful news- paper owners in Australia leaves only the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph as Lule- pendent newspapers in Sydney.
*
*
It contained 18,000 super real of ümber, compared with 3,000 super feet in a relative- ly large cedar true,
A special and was built into the gorge and powerful winches and one-inch steel ropas used to
There was considerable haut the logs out.
Mr Haydon mays ho found a surprise in 1956 when
pit-w after an exhaustive Sir Wilfrid Kent seach,
Then two brothers, Albert Bm (74) Kyle, of
Hughes was sacked (70)
from portfolio of Bellbrook, agreed to operate it. The log is placed over a pit, Minister for Interior one sawyer stands on top of it
by the Prime Minister, and the other stands in the pit Mr Menzies.
Sir Wilfrid Kent Hushes, chairman of the successful Mei- burne Olymple Gemes, an out- standing former Minister of the Victorian Government and soldier with more than an or-
an
dinary record, has always been
out recognised as having
well standing brain and a man ated for any Ministry.
For the last two years he has maintained strict alience regard- ing his sacking, but following the disappearance
from
the Cabinet of another Minister for the interior, Mr Fairhak, he has now publicly blamed "intriguing public servants" in Canberra for
his dismissal.
Reading between the lines of his statement, It is easy t
beneath.
By alternately piling and pushing the saw laboriously they qul the ing up into boards of any deatred width. Considerable skiĺ is required to make the saw rin Luc.
After cleaning and setting the old saw, the two old-timers set about their colossal task of cut- ting the huse log into planks.
Despite the fact that they had done po pit sawing for many years, they had lost akil). none of their former `and sjówly, buť"ítráighit and true, the long ple saw redacod the log to wide cedar planks. At une stage of their work, MF 30 Kyle commented; Thủ oid sow has gui a bit of a twist in it."
"Yes," said his brother Alberi, "I noticed the last time we used it,"
"When was that?" askod byatanier.
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"it was when we were cut- -
Long ting the bears for the Flat Bridge in 1904, wasn't 11, Albert?" said BIL
accond day of the Best Test | visualise the grent old bottle that must have gone on for some time com match.
han
between tog pubille servants who had their home and social orbit a determined in Canberra and
make Minister who wanted to Canberra a real capital and not
Such is the power of public however, servants these days, that Sir
working Wülfrld Kent Hughes Wharfles and his outstanding ability now inquish on the backbenchés.
"If you want more
planes, you
must
the amount owing to him fron he lived, made a complaint. Hea "bush town." the muster who administers the was sold. General Purposes Fund sub- and inore terihed by gullible parent at endure the noise." "But, you sold the man patiently, "I don't." shocked server.
the beginning of each term. Dr Smart-Allick explained that when a prefect loses money at ends to a new boy he resents the humiliation. In the present
the Litse
prefect
fool was enough to give an 100 Instead of using his superior skill and experience to gel is money back Saying of the year
NY clergyman In England who happens, while throw-
A*
TIMEE THOUGHT FOR, BODAY:
Oh, that I know where I ing together ermen, to be might find him!-Job 23:3. looking for examples of the He is nearer than hands Importance of refusing to dea- 'ur feet. Listen and you may pair, might do worse than draw the attention of hla cuntregation to England'ʼn performance on the
even hear His volte,
Press-Radio Bible Service, Ine Cincinnati, Ohio.
*
Two retired
Bawyers,
*
the
Italian ship Bellarix in Cairns threatened to walk off last week because it did not fy the Australian flag in port.
stoppage
when he hoisted
An
one aged 78 and the
The cargo ship's master, Cap- other 74, have had to win V. Di Rocco, prevented the be engaged to cut up Austrailon dag borrowed from a a huge 1,800-year-old shipping fun. cedar tree felled re- ahips in Australian ports usually cently on the North new the Australian flag 29 0 Coast.
The tree is far too large for modern machinary to cut up, and it is necessary to use an old- lime pamu】 pitsaw, 10 fect
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