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This compulsive passion
that plagues
even Bacall..!
JOHN LAMBERT reporting from the East on an everyday but little-
understood aspect, of the social behaviour pattern of Western woman, ・・ especially when it comes to diamonds...
Jaipur, India, MUST go
shopping
tion," Bacall.
word.
said
on
sickest
butterfly. "That's the fan 1 ever saw." observed his. A customer. Still, I don't mind of such expedi- baking in the midst Lauren
the
"Is a beloved treasure to me In costing £600 for a beautiful lady."
"Ouch!" Bacall..
observed
Miss
But in spite of her protests the soon had one arm covered from wrist to elbow with # treasure load of bracelets.
confided. sun was '12
Rings
Scon the beauty."
smothered in Small rings. "Yes, please," ugreed old rings. But all Belcl Teeth. "Many most sive rings.
people appreciate fametas Expedition was the right beauty I am honoured to ofter. We have the Lady Mountbatten here Only Iwo weeks ago. The
o'clock Always, for 20 years, she come high, the temperature wan 106 to me and the big spender. in the studs. and
the even
"Also I inonlugs were drowsy on the
have Mr pink parapel
above the dusty Bogarde here last year and he streets of Jaipur.
is delighted to spend £2,000. Your Mr James Stewart also buy such much for Iovel) missus. Most honoured loo by visit from Sir Julian and Lady
Eprender."
But in compulsive shopper Lauren Bacall conditions #ke
Dirk
just don't count. With pucklrh prin she explained: Huxley, but he more modest
t
"It's an Incurable flch. used to say to my husband: 'I feel frustrated if I don't go shopping. But Bogey always had the perfect comeback. Baby, he would say, 'a little frustration is good for the soul,"
she
seriously, * Thyn, more added: "The point to being a compulsive shopper is not to collect a lot of things you don't really want anyway. As für I'm concerned it's the kick I the get from bargaining—and insight into other people's ways. m not a Alm actress when I'm in a shady bazaar trying to be a shrewd shopper. I'm just another woman that the sales- man is trying his tactics on."
more
Sandals
une
In India her shopping lich is intensive ibun ever. With only
spare hour between plane Bights she plunged into the prailgiaus bazaars of New Delhi, likely to test the prowess of any Sales Day veteran.
+
Emeralds
Lauren Bacall tried hard to not kely loof as if she was to be impressed by intes talk. Then she gave in with a busky at the sight squeak of delight of a chunky emerald bracelet.
"How....how much?" she asked tentatively,
"Is must beautiful at £250" came the reply.
"And that little sapphire plece there?"
zedmed Toble rings. Big rings Fal rings. They very, very expen-
Lauren Ignored my look of alurm, "You see, there's a tech- nique to buying jewellery, she The more you see, the longer you take, the belter the stuff that's shown to you. No
maller If it's' Paris,
or London, or New York, the real bargain is in the back of the shop. And you have to dig patiently to get it."
"Are you telling me," coun tered Miss Bacall sadly.
Reluctantly, she released the gema from her arma. Sadly, the sild the shimmering rings off her fingers." But she care- fully sorted out a selection from both piles.
"Please keep these by for. me," she instructed. "First, I will have to go away and think about buying them, I'm. In o at the moment bit of a whirl with seeing so much....but don't worry, I'm sure to back."
Be
Loter, as we sank gratefully into the cool car, the compui- sive hopper ruminated on her
"See expedition.
what sho sold. "Shopping mean?" can be a ball, but very enlight- don't ening too. I hope you think I'm too scatty about 1, though.
"I am a compulsive, shopper na far as going into places is concerned. But I would never buy anything expensiva without It over going home to think Ärst. Also I have a nollon that our diamond merchant friend down a may nudge his prices little with a little time to cool of."
Presents
But she seriously studied a collection of bracelets, jauntily
She gave
a laugh with a mixing strands
different o! slones into a striking thick louch of mint in it. "Further-
the band. "Katie Kendall wants
moro,"
went on, "Buch bracelet of mixed riones," she things as I buy will
treasure load. They sald, "And she is the lucky sort who can wear a very individuni presents for friends. style,"
B
not be a
will be
come
"I would not buy diamonds Suddenly a sorrowful note of for myself. Such 'rocks' as this
woman gets are going caution crept inte her volte.
a nice, kind man, So "What du
I doing," she sold from half-jokingly. "It I buy any of maybe I haven't met many men and so nles. these it would only add a few who are so kind
But that's the principle I'm items for the robbers to takel"
sticking to."
Thinking
Shr sailed wanly at old Betel Teeth, who was bliss- "Is most reasonable at £400 fully unaware that she because Memsahibs sometimes recently had
£10,000 Jewel regard tupphire as not. most robbery from her London flat, fortunate stone?"
Unconsciously underlining her "Well, now," sighed the com- thought he remarked proudly:
"How-about- "All pulsive shopper.
these jewels are most that-ruby-set-there?"
sought-after."
she
more
She rubbed her aching feet 1*Like most
women," observed, "I'm a little logical than most men think."
TOMORROW:
'Mad dogs and
Englishmen
==(London Express Service.),
JOHN
LAMBERT
BIG-NAME
HUNTING IN
INDIA
She even buys two of these...
Super-Queens under way
PLANS FOR BRITAIN'S £25,000,000 PRESTIGE SHIPS
This is the only way to go shopping,"
declared slic reassuringly. "When you're walking you really see things properly, and anyway it gives the satesinen wrong Ideas I
you sull up in a car."
Which was probably a sound
and elever thought. Except that
NEXT MONTH-WITH A NUCLEAR LOOK AHEAD
she had not chosen to wear a|7wo great ships
aro to
bo
pair of sound, clever shoes for bullt-and the work will be the trekking HerJong lega
ode resonitely uongo shaky, wooden sidewalks of the stiletto- shanty buildings In beled, Italien shoes.
But by tie tie the "hau bought two sarls her smile had
a slight wince le it. "Oh, well, 1 need some sandals anyway," she conceded;
Outside
Gems
again
with her
-spread nationwide,
*
There is hardly, a big town in
Britain that will not making something for them when the work begins
The various Lems needed - run
into thousands,
In Cunard Building, Liverpool,
Yast rooms filled with : samples of products that may be needed.
They come from the 54 towns
Itsted. In
John Bodie this
diagram.
By MONTAGUE LACEY
sandals she spotted the signTHE plans for the build-
that
said
· Palace.” "Gem
Sprinting up the steps she said
ing of two "Queen"
Awryly: "Here Hoes Sucker super-liners will be placed Lady No. 1, but I just never before the Government
can resist diamonds,"
The portly proprietor of the early next month.
Gem Palace tilted his hands to They will show that two the kind bluo heavens, and linera of 55,000 to 60,000 With a smile full of toath tons-at an estimated cost stained with betel juice, which somewhat spoiled his Liberace of around £25,000,000 each approach, he sald: "Yes,will be needed to main- please, I have walled for you to tain Britain's prestige on come to me a long time.”
the North Atlantic run. "U-m-m, I bet you have, I Cunard and the shipbuilders sometimes feel I was born to beJohn Brown of Clydebank the answer to a salesman'a
will recommend to the Govern Prayer."
ment that the first super-liner With low, majestle bows he should have the latest oil-fired tishtred us behind the Good
boilers and steam turbines, glance his curtuin. · At l
"The other expeeled to be emporium looked more like an
ready for service in the late oplum den than a Gem Palaco. 1900 as likely to be a nuclear
Fat Buddhas glowed in the
advance has dark corners. And a thousand ship if sufficient eyes seem to wink in the semi-been made by them. darkness. The winks came from The trays of gems slacked in Uor upon tier all around the room.
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All of these saliling schedules held the prestige of the British are planned a full your ahend, Red Ensign. “Ds. the North even to the hours of sailing and Atlantic passenger trade against arrival flinos.
*** #llcomers" without “aby-chargo This would be impossible with on the nation's economy.OR "In considering a replacement mostly towards giving savings This is the reason why it is tho present knowledge of * *But looking ahead and faced Loday," says Chional Denis -in weight in the construction of to 'be, recommended that the nuclear aliips now, only in the with; the overwhelming, un-. Bates, chairman of Cunard, in accommodation, and all with first super-liner ahotia · have drawing-board stage... **economic · odds (offi øvers his minial report, "naval sechi, view to increasing our know- conventionat bollera and the After all, the first new Queen Increasing · Governmental:"sub" leets and marize engineers are ledge against a replacement in istos: In cam turbines, al is expected to be at pea by sidles to our competitors on the forever sharpening their pen- the express service of the though at the agine. time full 19060,
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TORY, LABOUR OR LIBERAL?
The Question Many Try To Answer
By GORDON HUNGS
London.
What will the next government be in the United Kingdom
--Tory, Labour or Liberal?
That is the question the Journalistic pundits are trying to answer nearly every day in the British papers, but the answer is just as elusive as the date for the next elections.
In the latest Gallup Poll the Conservative and Labour are now running level in popularity (88 per cent). Both have gained support since March from the "Don't Know" category, but ag have the Liberals,
that.
the
The uncommitted are making Government's was up their minds rapidly, Mean Socialists were "more concern- white, the source of Liberal ed at ending the cold war than support seems to hove shifted winning it."
in a significant direction, for ex- Tory and ex-Labour voters are now intending to vote Liberal In almost equal proportions. Up till recently the Liberals were drawing twice as much support from
the Conservative, sup- porters as from Labour.
What do the parties have to offer to their electorate when they go to the polls this timo?
Talking to Mr Peter Smithers (MP for Winchester) at the | Conservative.
Party Central Offee (headquarters) in London, I came to the conclusion that al- though the Tories had basic party principles, their policy wis flexible.
In the words of Mr Smithers, | "We are a burly of compromise." "We believe in a sound social policy dependent on a pros perous society."
Speaking about Socialism, Mr Smithers said that it was the view of the Tories that this ideology was going the same way is berillsm-""Out_the door."
"The public docan't respond to nationalisation any
and
thus the
main
On China he said that a Labour Government would see to it that China became a mem ber of the United Nations.
The Hitla party which both Government and Opposition apenk about in undertones, the Liberal Party or "new" Liberal Party will be a "pain in the neck" for botli major parties.
"The Liberal Party," said Mr Derycke Abel, Chairman of the Liberal hierarchy, "atands for liberty in all spheres of fo Arst,"
The porty was determined to offer the electors something differení.
"We are free traders and the consumer must always come first."
"We are opponents of protec« Ulonist trade policies liko those now protecting Lancashire," he edded,
Which party is likely to winA the elections ↑
mors, to
As one man-in-the-street sald me: Britain is a funny policy nation in that the people never
let one party rule the country too long.
of the Opposition has gone oul of date."
"It's very hard for them to formulate a new policy."
Commenting on China, this Harrow and Oxford man, who li 110w Parliamentary Private Secretary to Colonial Secret ary, said that in England there wag a strong feeling that the Chinese people were bigger than government they would ever have and that the people would "impose their stamp on the government and not the government on the people."
Эду
The Labour Party's policy was outlined by a broadminded party official at their beadquarters in Transport House. Miss Elaine Windrich listed the four main alms of the Party:
Social Justice at home;
Equal political rights in a multi-racial society;
One per cent of the national Income for economis pid to all underdeveloped countries; and
All small territories to get self determination 豐 wished.
they
Mr Ian Campbell of their International Department sahi that the difference between thels foreign policy and that of the
Are the eight years that the Tories have been in. power too long?
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POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Now that's what I like about the Field-Marshal. he never drops a' brick' when he can throw it."
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