Balmain Bites The Ladies
From
LOGAN GOURLAY
ESTORIL.
I WAS there and I saw how a leading Parisian
couturier like Pierre Balmain can alter the appearance of woman. He used only his teeth. Dns the foshion writers fut at the time. And it world say, he left the dramalie quile a mork." and unmistakable
of mark Betmen,
In uncle language,, Balmain Ult to chic ladies.
It was the last ball of the
nonstop carnival which has con- T1292 vulsed sedate Estril all wooks. The organisers called it the pink ball, but it may known for ever after LS black and, blue ball.
left
She rolled up her sleeve to show two black and blue marks below her elbow. One was about the size of a half-crown, er about 10 escudos. The other was smaller and cheaper.
"I want to make it clear though that there are so hard continue to feelings. I shall buy Balmain clothes.
be
the
pose
The crchestra was playing " Kiss Your Hand, Madame." Lame Which was altogether too
Balmain, for
most ebullient spirit of the carnival.
With a loud whoop he leaned across the table, seized the hand of retly; actress Nadia Gray.
Joyfully he bit her slim arm. She squealed like a puppy--and retired to the ladies' room.
A mark
Half an hour Inter Balmain the Bold was dancing with Mrs John Spencer Churchill, wife of Sir Winston's artat ne,bew.
The Balmain head, shaved in Yul Brynner style, bobbed up al down in cha-cha rhythm.
Without breaking the thythin te bowed on the half-beat.
Joyfully he b Mrs Churchill on her smooth exposed shoulder. danced squealed but She bravely on as though she were
a boni Churchill.
After the ball was over The bitten ladies spoke out. Sad Nadia Gray, who has playeri a variety of roles in Continental ilms: "I
Can't say I enjoy being bitten. It was very pain-
POCKET CARTOON by OSDERT-LANCASTER
קטע זיי
It you would call the carnivelor cannibal spirit: He only bites people he likes." An honour?
Salt Mrs. Churchill, wearing high-necked dress Lo cover the shoulder with the Balmain teethmarks: "I don't mind in the sightest. After all, it km'l every Woman who has been
Litten by Balmain.
"'1 consider something of in honour. He is a divine man. Simply divine. He can nibble again any time he likes."
I talked to Balmain as he sat in the hotel barber's chair for a dully face and head shave.
"I don't want to make any comment on what happened. It makes me look like a mon passion. And I am not."
-(London Express Service).
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PORTRAIT OF A CRISIS
Who? Why? When? Where?.
by Illingworth
How much? How many? How long? ... It is? It isn't?
It can't be? It could be?....... They have to answer but you can do it for fun
The ARMY GAME and YOU!
[ONLY asked. All
I wanted was the answer to one simple is tho question: Army too tough on the
young men it calls up for National Service?
I was only trying to point out that more than one in four of the young men called up for service were being rejected as
been invited to an evening of Jousting and revelry in the Ching- Queen Elizabeth Hotel,
But there is ford, soun.
one must weat proviso-everyone costume of the perios covering King Arthur to Robin Hood, unfit.
There will be pole-fighting, Then recently 1 produced atchery, and
drinking beer
some of the Army intelli-
competitions; also a tourney for the Indies. The incst successtuigence
and psychological
Table will be presented, with tests-and within twenty- shield.
Astrolabe On Show
THE
four hours I had well over 3,000 letters.
So I have spent another week THE 500-year-old forerunner
of the radio-telescope unÅ among the Army's schoolmasters other modern selenlife aids for ... going through a new sheaf
stars is being of less. studying the
the Through tha "Persona! on exhibition placed National Maritime Muscum, Questionnaires" with demand- Do you Greenwich. It is a small brassing problems such as:
and dull feel exceptionally #stre:be
In made
1462 by Jeh.anes Muller of Koenigsberg. stupid? The astrolabe is a circular star nap that can be rotated so as to calculate the positions of the Fun and the stars at any time en dry of Chu-year-all-cul also be used for simple observa- tons,The style of the Instru- atent and its special arrange- iment of star pointers Wag -London÷Express-Gervinhoopiei by later workers
"One does hope that. Balmain's not started a craze-just think of the embarrassment of going to the Pasteur Institute and
Saying Quick-Husheen bitten by. Normán Hartuc!!!!!
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Do people in general pet on your nerves?
Do you frequently get a sink- stomach? in the ing feeling
(Army Form MTQ 3)
I have worked through a deluge of "intelligence papers,"
And to help you ence again to discover the newest and least kpaxa Appy Game of them all, I present, in response to public demand, another set of khaki questions.
FATHER
The newest recruits have to answer them. What about you? 1. I em twice as eld now as I was three years before my 21st birthday. My father is 25 years older than I am. (a) How old was my father when I was born?
15 (b) How old
father now?
my
many
(0) In how years' time well his age be three times the difference between us?
issued to officers and not to privates. bectuse
2. Map-cares cre
(a) Privates would get
the map dirty.
(b) Offcers
ride in motor-cars,
privates don't.
usually
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(a) Privates have too much equipment already.
(d) Officers
are less
"kely to lose them,
(a) Privates don't have
to plan actions.
MURDER
3. The murdered man erade
the following statement just
before his death:
THOUSANDS OF YOU TANGLED WITH IT
Emmwood
DO YOU GET A SINKING FEELING IN THE STOMACH ?
evening; when do you think
the first shot was Bred?
4 o'clock: (a) about (b) quarter to four: (0) 4.15 p.m.;
(d) 5.16 p.m.; (*) 6:15 pm; (f) quarter- past four in the morning; Impossible to say without further details,
(0)
4. Put a line, under the small- ter the the
"I heard the clock strike you- terday, a quarter of an hour before the Arst shot was fired. I was too occupied to count
of the the strokes clock beil, but from the zhythm. I em sure it must have been an even number, "I had been out of doors for 10 hours continuously since the preceding midnight and hnd not long returned", The man's clock had stopped
atave to six, that, sammenh
(a) incLpple. apple. orange, strawberry, lemon. (b) Infant, man, adult, youth, malden,
P {C}="QTV5's, dozėTI,
several, many, couple,
(d) 1480, 7301, 4000, 1852, 1840.
6. All the trains from this plat- form step first at Ayton; but after that some go to Beaton Ind Seaton; and others branch off to Deeton and Eston.
and
There are no other stations. The fore to Eaton er Seaton is 1.; elsewhere 6d. Brown had a Gd, iicket,
Ithough in a hurry did not get in the first train, which was going towards Eaton. Where do you think he was travelling te?
(a) Ayton; (b) Beatan; (c) Seston; (4) Decton; (0) Eaton; (1) Either Ayton or Bea:on; (a). Either Beaton or Deeton; (h) it is impossible to say without further details,
, A Lieut-General
is marc Important than a Lieut.- Colonel becausei
()He has been in the Army much longer.
(a) Ho Jas much greater responsibilities.
(0) He always A member of the Army Council.
(d) ile only deals with the actual Aghting.
(o) Ho gained expert-.
ence in the Izst world.
War.
7. Whenever you sen a dot there is a letter 'or.number missed out. Mega (•). Submarino. 123456789, number 824390, name
(b) Steam water", Lje) Tops, spot, pols,
(d) 2-5, 8, 10, 4:17, 8
8. Kenneth Digby" va
· by RICHARD
CAREY
was born on December 29, 1630 1605. In the year Christmas was on a Friday.
die Browne's bith On what day of the
day fall in that year?
9. Underline the word, phrase,
or number that makes the =*wJESİ ETNse, wherever therein
are three printed one above the other.
(BEER
A man writing on Jon- uary 1, 1022, sold: sister.
My
who was born di Never-
was married,
per 13, 1858
1890 twenty-five will be thirty-three 1000, thirty-four
November.
years old next month.
year.
10. The trnk is most im- portant weapon in Mcdern Warfare breawe
(a) The Germans have built thousands of them.
(b) Soldiers feel safer in them.
(d) It gives en army greater mobility and, striking power."
nbly continuo the indiested on the left:
series
(a) 30, 50, 70, 90. 100, 120, 130, 140, 110.
(b) Z, A, Y, B. Z. Y. X, C, D.
(c), 6, 4, 1. 2, 3, 12, 13, 18- -
12. Words in each
sentence below are mixed up. Think how the sentence would rend if the words were at- ranged in the proper order. Then say whether the meaning of the sentence is true, false, or unknown. (a)
inquest coroner's at heid is as such on In- qulry demand to law by supposed deaths are sudden.
(b) some some come some all at nothing people pipes elgers cigarettes smoke.
re-
(c) bombs explosive
volvers all swords are gunpowder and,
(d) there it doctors hes◄ pitals no or were die would more far people young.
TRY IT
Well, there are the questions that the National Barvica boya and recruita
to answer.
have
How about having a go your. self?
Be fair and don't take longar than 20
anewor minutes to
them.
are no
I'm atrald there anoware available at the moment, cince the data from these ques- tionnaires are the exclusive and jealously güzeded property of the Army psychologists. You will have to be content with the Find inch set of five catisfaction of doing them for given on the right, two lel- Tanga and then, upplag tok the* ters or numbers that sult- best.
(e) It has a low petrol consumption.
NAVAL ESTIMATES
BY JAK
ave
''Era Za comes, weaving is way wiy unerring
racy towards the fa
No wonder they call 'im the snaslug-
London'Esprate'&srcios.
days, younger than "Bir' Thomas Browne; and Digby