THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 1959.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY "MAIL" FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
BUSINESSMEN DIE OF IGNORANCE -OF THEMSELVES
"Women Are Best Behind A Bar"
New York. Women make better bar- Lenders than men because "neater, more they are adept with their hands, have better memories and don't gossip."
The authority for this state- ment du John Buning, who has operated the Bartenders School in New York for more than 25
years.
and
London.
George Hackenschmidt belleves businessmen the world over, especially in the U.S., are dying far too young because they are trying to dictate to their bodies under the pressure of competition.
"These are the men who would resent any effort to dictate to them from the outside," said the 82-year-old paychologist who was once the greatest wrestler and the strongest man of his day.
"Yet," he added, "they' give their bodies implacable orders You can read the results in the obituary columns,"
Heckenschmidt's health then- rles deserve a respectful hearing,
He has lived by them since reilring from wrestiing in 1911 aud becoming a self-taught psychologist and lecturer with appearances at Yale, Columbla and other universities.
A few months age, wblie studying the American business- his native habitat, mun
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Hackenschmidt trotted along.
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at 82--with miler Herb Elliott, who sald later that the old More than. 12,000 students "Russian Lion's" guidance was have completed the school's worth following by one and all.
about Jivo-week course one-fourth of Ther were WOMICIL
Boning said; "Women make better bartenders, as a rute, be
They're
careful about their own appearance and the appearance of their bars.
"They are better with their hands than men and can make drinks with 21 minimum of shadow boxing.
calve
more
"Give a woman at drink re- cipe and she'll never forget it. And another thing they mind their own business."
At school, the students work with artifelal devices: coloured water for whisky and wine, rand Instead of sugar and mur bies for olives and cherries.
"Off campus," Boning added,
"the men students prefer scotch and martinis wtule the co- eda go in for 'something chic, such as counse and French champagne."U.NI.
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"Of course, I didn't run very for or very fast with that extru- ordinary young man," said the modest octogenarian.
"And despite what you may have heard I did not set any weight-lifting records for men of my age in Ray Van Cleef's famous Gymnasium at Son Jose in California."
(Van Cleef says otherwise).
"Elkoti is the greatest run- ner alive because he under. stands his own body and knows exactly what it can do," the husky veteran went on,
"Yet I met many businesamen who knew every tiny detall of their trade or profcasion und
nothing at all about the machine it all depends-their
on which own bodies."
'Hock's theory is complex, as might be expected from a man who writes books with titles like Man and Cosmic Antagoniam to Mind and Spirit.”
"Excrcise" for Hack these days means Jogging around the block und doing free hand swinging and some jumping over chairs,
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In his role of psychologist, Hackenschmidt is preparing to challenge philosopher Bertrand fusell to a series of debates on the best way of resolving the world crises,
Some years ago ho tangici with Georro Bernard Bhaw on man's place in the common and had the great playwright's shoulders figuratively pläned to the mat.
There were giants on the earth in those days,
Besides their intellectual at- Lainments, Slaw was swimming
at 84, Russell, now 80, was hill- climbing into his 80's.
And here is Hack, 83 in July, wundering whether to spend his next 10 years in California- "nearest place to paradise I've ever seen,"
He Crossed Piano And Guitar
Allanta.
THE 8FT GIANT SAW German To
THE LOOK IN THE SURGEON'S EYE
London.
For all his eight feet two inches of height Charles
Bryne, "The Irish Glant," cowered when he saw the grey-haired man in the throng of curious come to view him.
He recognised the celebrated surgeon, John Hunter, and he did not like the look of his eye-as he later told his friends.
That night he called for quili Side by side in a glass case,
and wrote and pen
B will in malevolent ovch in death, aro
An Atlanta man has crossed which he instructed that his two of the mort. notorious
a small plano with a sing.gigantic body, was to be buried criminals spewed up by ing guitar and come up at sea after death, with a "plectronie plano,"
Nut li comes down to learn- ing by experimentation whal food gives the individual the William B. Taylor In the in- greatest energy (If varies) and ventor of this instrument that to recognise the symptoms | looks
baby like a miniature that mean the body requires grand, but sounds like an elec- exercise.
tric guitar.
"In my own case, I sometimes exercise two or three times a day pre-sometimes not for a week,”
- pecunited culling pattern gald Hack. "I give my body whit
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the London underworld Jonathan read Ilo
Hunter's look Wild, "The Bow Street Runner" arighi, but underexilmated | anti Willam Corder whose his ingenuity. When Byrne murder of Marin Martch in the died the tugboat captain was Red Barn exactly 131 years ago this month is still reenacted on well-paid to carry his body to
But someone paid him theatre stages all over Britain.
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First gangster
better. Tho Royal Collego of plano Surgeons recently displayed the of the Irish ls played just like a regular mighty skeleton plano. *The big allierence Giant as one of the victims of
anatching to is that when the key is de- the body preaxed, the strings are even the most reputable plucked Instead of hammered, geons once and to resort.
It towers above a grisly 200 years ago, was the first real
Middle ages
which
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The account of Corder's crimes is in a book bound with leather made from kla own skin.
Wild, who operated more than
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Taylor's rel model used collection of the skeletons of ancestor of the modern gang- piano sirings, but the wire was some of the most notorious land overlord. Too heavy. giving the Instru- malefactors in British history.
real He was niso the arsi iment 100 much overtone grinning out of glace cases under ancestor of the private eye of
classification: Guitar string wire is used in the airy
"The present day detective fletion. his present model. An elee College Criminals."
Ho master-minded crime on ironle Hystem is bulit in fur
the one hand anti openied volume.
detective agency for restoring Tho college revealed the stolen goods on the other. skelotony in its closets na part i Ils had a payroll of rogues of the first campaign fur publicity in a history going back to the barbers and sur- The Inventor cut and fash-grons of the Middle Ages. loned his own wooden keys and It needs £3,000,000 to main- vovered them with ivory The taln itsci az a teaching must. "TRETPLATST~~ housed in Texamining body.
delicato, highly-polished birch
Desc.
Cut Own Keys
Taylor-commercial Betist, sayI homes the idea for the picotronio back
1920 when he was strumming
& gullar with a Dixieland
Jazz band. In Now Orleans.
In the quest for anatomical knowledge one, two and three
some of whom he betrayed to the hangman from ime to time so that he could main- tain his pose an a law-abiding special investigator, Naturally the records of the "Enca and Tis preceding “com~ pany of barber-surgeons studded with the unusual.
are
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Fight UK Council Election
Lance-Corporal Wolff Konrad Wahle fought for two years against Britain before bis capture #1 Arnhem in 1944.
But he never went back to Germany. In 1980 he married a British girl, got himself a job as a cost- ing clerk, and settled down at Evesham in Warwick- shire, where he and wife Elle now have a six- year-old daughter.
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Last wook his neighbouES were astonished that he had been
to
find
no-
minaled as a candidate for the borough pouncit in next
week's elections.
"I have spent nearly half my life in Britain" he said.
"I now feel completely identified with this coun- try. I feel I have f responsibility to the com- munity.... My mother
(his father died in Rusala) has visited us twice here in Evesham.. But I would never dream of going back there to live."
Ite I standing as an Independent; 20 iz opponent who says hope- fully: "He may be a nice man and a clover man; but there is bound to be pre- Judico against hlan especially from the older people who remember both warn against the Germania. I think I stand a very good chance indeed."
Picture shows Wahle- ho is 34-his wife Elsie and daughter Christina work out plans for a holiday la Germany this Summer- -Express. Photo...
or more centuries ago For- There is a note that feons sharuenod, their scainnt; and hewed which they might --asking no questions the bodies came from. Next to the Irish Glant is the
reprlove arrived for a man -15 ---TELS minutes after he was hanged in
iny skeleton of "The Sicilian Dwarf" who was
only 18
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He decided to build on in-inches high in life and weighed strument that combined the only nine pounds.
good points of the piano and
But criminaİS, after hang-
the guitar. Ho started work inr. wero Legitimate sub- on his first plotronle A Iow
years later.
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its siunto.
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