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THE CHINA' · MAIL-
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1959**
LG
Gourlay
IT was not what the hostesses call a blended party. The guests were not carefully selected to merge in the warmth of compatibility and the safety of social equality. Take a look at the names round the big round dinner table.
Mr Mrs Bane David Willman, host and hosters (whose property company recently made them a profit of £510,000 in four stoys.)
Princess Viordjadze, formerly Lady Ashley, formerly, Mrs Douglas Fairbanks sen., furmer ly Lady Stanley, formerly Mrs Clock Gable,
formerly Sylvia ILwkes.
The Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur,
Felix Fenstan, prince of pro- perty deals, escorting Countess Ahlefeldt-Laurig.
The Earl of Kimberley who
Who knows and
tells in his own unmistakable way
sli
As
Why hush up the
atom-sub fiasco?
S the noon hooters echoed round the streets of Barrow-in-Furness
recently, the noise of the riveters was suddenly hushed,
At the Vickers-Armstrongs shipyard Prince Philip walked on to a flag-hung platform.
After a few deft words he touched a button and a huge steel hoop swung into a cradle in front of him.
A QUESTION TO SILENCE
While the bandsmen solemnly boomed and the proud admirats Etood to
first attention, the section of the hull the sub- marine Dreadnought was laid.
Who can blame the admirals for being proud?
Their Dreadnought will be no ordinary vessel. She will be atomic-powered. More effective- ly thun an entire army, cho could help to win or lose my future war.
T'd been able to stay another When the brooch was found You know I'd rather three weeks I would have got on the floor. the Earl of home and watch television, them. But I had to cut the trip Kimberley said there must be
What could be better than short. So I didn't even sight a something wrong with the safety brown bear,"
catch. Mr Fenston examined relaxing in comfort at home Bearded Mr Fenston, who it with a keen cyc.
He dis with a nice bottle of wine on looks a little like a domestleated covered there
safety ice, watching a good programme was no baby bear, added:-
rutch.
on television, if you can find | strategic "Sul. I'm determined to
a good programme. back. I'm sure it will be most exciting hunting I've ever done."
The
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the
NO CATCH Countess Ahlefeldt- who it something of u stol, said that she too was determined to hag a bear. She said it with the fervour
is now in the publicity busines
I was there 100. However, although we were a
we Laurig. group of diverse elements, hud at least one shared experi- crack ence, We had all been to the first night nt the Fortune Theatre uf "Detour Anter Dark."
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I can best describe the play
"Who-Cares-Whodunit."
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It obviously wouldn't provide The mon subject of conversa tion.
Nelther would money, which -with the exception of myself was the one thing everyone bud tri comIGU.
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The subject turned out to be hunting. Various varieties hunting.
NO BEARS
fir
Mr Feaston, who hunts all kinds of animals when his not dealing in property, fired the
volley. Arst conversational
trip to talked about his recent Gunda
"Unfortunately I went at the wrong time. Ten early in the
brown seuson for
bears. Ir
A PILOT'S
HAZARD
reserve
The maharajah put the brooch la the pocket of his dinner suit. The maborand shrugged.
Mr Hillman, the host, who has never bern on a big game talked about hunt- expedition,
another
"I'm ing of
kitd. in Interested
hunting beauty."
for
He shot a glance at his wife, to whom he looks for advice in furbines, and to whom he gives
credil for his success.
THE SEARCH He went on:
the search for beauty in music and art. Of course Ike to see beautiful women tou, but ry interest is aesthetic."
that most women the pursult of mink.
But the Maharajah of Jalpur, who had been listening with the extreme attentiveness of the peilte Indian, was unconvinced. opinion nothing can "In my be more exciting and challeng- fog than tiger-hunting in India." The meliarani nodded her beautiful hend in wifely agree- ment.
"I mean
of
Not a word, notice, about the turmal mathematical beauty a balance sheet.
The Princeal Djordjadze, At this moment the hunt looking like a youngish, alirge- started for her diamond und live woman who hasn't lived amethyst brooch which had long enough to marry five times, fallen off her tar) twice before suld to me- during the evening. It was missing again. And it was very valuable, said the maharajah.
The maharan herself showed the caneven. But then it is said her enflection, is so large that if she changed her jewellery every day for a year she wouldn't wear the same set twice.
"When I Was married 10
Gable Clark
he was always golig off on hunting trips, Ducks and things." I tried show some interest, but I never cared much for 1.
to
"Now days I don't care much for the social swim either. And all that celebrity hunting.
be quité a hunt.
That
For consider
the fantastic single power of a can atom-powered submarine today.
IT CAN cruise almost end-
"I've turned down on Invita-lessly on the enemy's door- tion for tomorrow night so I step without need to refuel or can look in. I'm a taxi of some
of the regular shows." I tried
come up for air,
10 visualise her gazing raptly at IT CAN operate at a speed "Double Your Money" and 1 and a depth which will make it almost undetectable and ccr- just succeeded.
tainly indestructible.
She added: "Pity it's too inte tonight to go home and switch
on
The charming, and bloodless. party of hunters and huntresses was over. My only regret was that we hadn't been Joined by In two ladies who were dining the same West End club..
They were Linda Christian are of and Eva Bartok, who course experienced huntresses,
in
⚫ IT CAN, unlike the misalie bases on land, thus be immune attack designed to against any put it cut of action in advance.
Imagine...
THE BOASTERS AT THE
RECENT ROYAL SEND-OFF
-by ROBERT PITMAN
Unfortunately not,
So far I have shown the flags and the bunting. Now I Investi- gute the shadows.
me
Let
relate the extra- ordinary history of the British atom-submarine,
It begins in 1952 when the groject was first Dreadnought publicly mooted-monly a year ufter the Americans had placed the contract for their ntom- submarine Nautilus.
What a milliary advaninge that could represent,
Imagine the beginning of mother war.
Somewhere
the just above
sub- | THOUGHT the
deep bed of the cecan, a man
marine will act on orders. frock coat and striped
That submarine could be sub- Nati TiQuc forward three hrousers standing at the merged in the seas of New pears to October 1955. Already
Archangel. One v
the coffee and hot-dog stall in York or off
American waiting this Nautiles had been Curzon Street was a custom-
in service months. What of or, who had missed the food moment at the bottom of the for six
sen beyond the holiday-mokers lain's Submarine? at the wedding reception. at Torquay.
quite ready, He wasn't. He was stall owner.
the
London Express Service).
KNOCK-OUT BLOW
IN THE SUN TO NOSE-BLOWING?
A
MAN sunbathing on Brough, Yorks, air- field was nearly run over by taxi-ing Chipmunk aeroplane. lle WIN worker at the Blackburn aircraft factory.
The pilot saw him Just in time.
HA
JAVE doctors finally chalked up their first significant score in the campaign against a malady which excites little sympathy but causes great discomfort to practically all of us at one time or another-the malady whose faney-pants' name of Acute Coryza is translatable, as the Common Cold?
Trivial aliment It may seem to believe they have devised a pro- but do not necessarily contract b. Yet statistically it is one cess that will be seventy per a cold.
Com- of the most important infections cent effective as a preventative The mystery of the
mon Cold is only one riddle known to mankind because of a process based on a new the ferride economic penalties vaccine extracted from monkey which is tied up with many
others, however, which most countries suffer on cells. account of It, in the form of lost
than in the USA and Bel- tain-all over the world. in fact solentists are probing
working-days und reduced pro-
Blackburns have NOW told their workers: "It seems hardly ductivity, as a result of the fair on the plot that he should
high incidence
und the com-
be expected to watch out for plications that frequently follow
it.
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prostrate bodies in the grass...... pupils have enough minds without that.
"The solution is simple: Up- right or horizontal-keep off the airfeld."
-(London Express Service).
That is why American re- searchers are exelted over the possibility that they may at last be on the verge of conquering The Common Cold least, of combating it to a de- gree never before reached. They
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Meanwhile, on the east
aculo
could even be
that time
But Lord
The submarine will have its electronic brain, store! with bearings on targets in the First Sco
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All that is undoubledly Bri- tish about It is the name.
In
As for the date when the Navy can expect to rezolve this submarine, which was first an- nounced in 1952, note the pro- letion of Lord Knollys, chair- man of Vickers. January this year he promised that Dread- hought will certainly be launched before 1964.
What a melancholy story.
It
might be that we
sold
cannot be
expected to
match
America's fantastical- .ly
defence Ananced achievements. Yel in the of atom-power application on land we are well in advance of America.
More delays?
Who then has been respousi- Ele for the delays? Who above for been all bas
responsible
NO Bri- decelving the publie for It was not many years with soothing ruz- mutazz about the Dreadnought?
Until the Mountbatten, then
Lord--the
man found the
Government answer to
has those
Country on whose doorstep it nursing the project-announced: questions, who can be sure that delays will not con- walts.
"We are going ahead with plans the same
Who can be sure that,
It will also have a battery of fur atomic-powered submarines, slantly recur? missiles which ore constantly It is only a matter of time be fed with those bearings.
Now picture the terrible portant additions to the British moment of war.
the
fore we zuake these very
Navy."
After those reassuring words 14 months went by. Then, in
January 1957, Lord Mount baiten. revealed the progress that had been made,
At the click of a switch, the covering parts in the submarine will swing open and the missiles will surge upwards through
surface of the sea. in hurricane of spray,
Above the Ashermen or the
He declared: "We are not bathers they will.twist unerring trying to think of an imagine- ly towords Pittsburgh or Mos- tive and dramatle name for this cow or London.
revolutionary vessel.”
Instantly, aubmarine will unleash more fancy of the nation destructive power than Alf
15 caught. Оп the bombs and
shells television an appeal detonated over
whola wac made. to world during the last war.
One broadside from a single
deterrent
A Elsewhere
which
the
viewers to suggest name for Lord Mountbatten's sub- marine,
The project went
shcad su promising- ly that en February
17, 1957, Lord Mountbatten
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Yet let us not shudder too much at the thought of those into the whole question of death-laden submarines lurking
diseases, respiratory some of which produce symp beyond the beaches. toms and conditions
in self appeared Let us remember that they be mistaken for are designed not so
full uniform on can easily
much to
Tilting television, the Common Cold
win another war as to prevent his handsome pro- Already it is known that there It.
file thoughtfully is a big group of viruses which
That policy is side behave in the laboratory rather
supported by from port to star the vast majority of the people bourd ho like influenza virus but do not
whe know, in their heart of show a actually cause ordinary influenza.
the hearts, that it is
mutual sorting through the deterrent of the missiles that letters containing has kept the peace throughout names. the cold war,
But what of the submarine itself?
of the Atlantic, British medical men are also employing numbers of volunteers in all-out efforts to pin the Common Cold in a corner and deal knock-out blow to the virus that causes su many nose-blows;
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A virus
Recently a virus was isolated At Havard Hospital, Salis- from some children who were bury, these volunteers get free ill with colds and bronchitis bourd and lodging for ten days, The question is whether this will with three shillings day turn out to be one of the keys pocket-money. In return they to the puzzling origin` of colds, agree to abide by certain rules It may prove important but Imposed by bacteriologists in an maybe not. undertaking known as the Bri- The Beld of medical research tisti Common Cold Research has become positively intered with false clues, and the Com- The volunteers may elect to mon Cold is but one of a large of Infections of the live in pairs, or slagly, None of number them is very young or very old, upper air passages.
Unit.
was
even
in 1064, the only alom-powered British submarine might not be the one which is now appearing in the Royal Tournament?
Thut submarine, I should explain, is now fighting a battle of 4,500 before an audience every night at Earls Court.
To sombre Bound-effects, relayed from loud-speakers, i routs an enemy attack,
Impressively it gives the audience an iden of the kind of
Cummings
suggested Navy they have paid so mutek
for.
The submarine at. Earls Court
And it is not merely the deterrent policy that the people also believe. support. They rightly, In the policy of the clal Secretary to the Admiralty CANVAS.
Mounted
Colvin
London Express Service
THIS FUNNY
is entirely British made. IT IS IN MARCH 1957 the Finan- MADE FROM PLYWOOD AND independent deterrent.
stated: "The project, is well on They do not want Britain to the drawing board,"
saving mercies of rely on the
And so throughout 1957 ex- American generals.
They think it wiser for Bel- eltement over the revolutionary in to have her own deterrent, submarine slowly mounted. It That is why we each help to got its imaginative and drama- nay out so many millions on the tie name-Dreadnought; a name H-bomb, That is why the flags Neptune was even given 10 will be lying next Friday when the British reactor which Prince Philip lays the keel of designed to power it.
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for there is an age limitation. If and when they do conquer the Dreadnought. Parsons under eighteen or over the Common Cold however, Can the rest of us, therefore, IN JUNE 1987 the Admiraliy forty-tive are not acceptable. scientists will remove a disease put out the lugs? Can we mur“ AnnounceAy"TIN 17oject will
Morried couples are welcome which is the cause of more lost mur with relief because Britain be aperded (though it would hardly seem to working days than any other at st hos D major deterrent talks with American experis.” be the place for a honeymoon). illness.
All Walks
People from all walks of life go to Havard Hospital to help the bacteriologists by exposing themselves to the possiblity of contracting & lesi-tube cold. They live in converted wartime kutiments which are reasonably comfortable and adequately furnished, and some of them like it well enough to repeal the experience, though they have lo wait at least six months before they may do mo. One volunteer is sold to have, put in twelve lencores."
The average number of volun- teers at any one time is about twenty, but the Unit could copo (with jakomány na” thirty, every ||fortnight. " Six "thousand chave Pawed 'through it since it was Instituted. In 1914. E
The voluntesia' pre', 'divided bitti "gulasa-piga" and controls. The guinea-pigs are inoculated,
of her own?
Mid Week Selection
by Friell
"Remember, one long blast-kidsing time; "two short blasts Billy Graham's on his way."
up a result of
IN NOVEMBER 1957 we were told that Neptune, the reactor, BUTES actually working. But Dreadnought? We were well into 1958 before much more was heard about her.
By now the American Nautilus had throbbed its way beneath, the North Pole.
came
THEN IN JULY 1958 the dramatic now bulletin about the Dreadnought, It WOD announced that negotiations had started to buy un American reactor for her.
An Amerleon reactor in Britain's Independent deterrent?
"Well"you might have said at least the rest of it will be
But
you would have been wrong.The-hull will now be American designed, 100 Tho missiles will be American. Even the uranium fuel will hovo! 1p/; be aupplied from America.
WORLD!
Ray Helle
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