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THE CHINA MAIL,
It costs twice as much to be a nudist now
London.
NUDISM is booming-not surprisingly, in this hottest summer. for
years,
Entrance charges to Spielplatz, near St Albans (10s. for men, 5a, for ladies to encourage them), the only public nudist camp, have doubled
this season.
Mid Week Ration by Friell
BMA
POBLICATIONS COMMITTEF |
"Come now, gentlemen, 50,000 copies of that naughty sex book Getting Married must be destroyed. So far I can only find 49,994 copies !"
"Quick dear, your pen! I think you'll have to give him a written promise not to make Prunelle a Word in Chancery."
BOROUGH EQUNKİL Drains, Sewers and Daving
Sub Committer
Enrolments in The British Sunbathing Ansociation increase cack year and this year by at least 10 per cent.
Nudist ma are part of the boom, I with told by S. Tony Tenser, who writes them.
Why nudism, apart from the weather? "You get rid of your everyday worries when you get rid of your clothes." ME: 0. Spencer, editor of Sunbathing Review £1111 Health and Ellicleney, told me.
She went on: "It's very good for children to get used to seeing The human body. Problems of adolescence are solved.
DISGUSTING?
Lady Lewisham took quite the ather view, when she was in-
vestigating shower anangements et Bonus Pastor Roman Catholle
secondary school for girls
think it is absolutely disgusting
that all the girls have to un- dress In the IT FOOM"
At Dartington Hall, a long- established progressive school, they now go along with Lady Lewisham's view Once, nude mixed bathing was Now, bathing costumes must be wurn. The headmaster's view is that children who have not grown up with nudism can be upset by
the rule,
I was not exactly brought up
with nudism inyself. In adoles
'cence I never thought of such a thing. But my one nervous visit, as an adult, to a nudist camp. I found remarkably unexciting.
People didn't seem to think ¦ hote nasty thoughts about sex.. Of course, those who "believe"
nudism clways put it poles | apnit from sex.
The
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1959..
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"Pater-what price Mamma's Anglo-Soviet relationship if the Russians walk away with it?"
Paris Newsletter from J.W. M. Thompson
Paris. DE EPENDING on your viewpoint in these matters, that famous book Lolita is either a shocker or a work of high literary merit.
There is perhaps only one thing about it that is not arguable; that it is the centre of one of the oddest bits of publishing history of recent times.
There was an improbable new twist to the story in Paris recently when # restaurant und right club
When a
THES
London Exnessa Service
man
gets of a
40 per
per cent
book like Lolita
It is a situation which gives
wna opened on of all that Lolita has meant
What is especially gulling, of him อ blissful solisfaction, course, is that his 49 per cent the profits Lolita has made to him.
although Mr Nabokov, the cut does not apply to the French for her original backer.
It first came this way, he author, finds it less satisfactory, version.
I somehow can't imagine Mr Nigel Nicolson ful- lowing his example, how. ever profitable
Lolita
proves when he publishes it in England later this year.
Shrewd
explained, as a munuscript which the author, Valdimir Nabokov, had had rejected by several publishers in the United States.
Girodlas agreed to publish an English language edition, nol expeeling, he said: to sell more than a few thousand copies.
He did, however, make shrewd and highly
New francs
Officially the new frane (worthi
Author and publisher have in He will collect his 40 per cent 100 of the old onea) come into fact, quarrelled. Mr Nabokov of the British cdition, when it ?e the other week. So far the
an eye on progress detect are bas tried to end his associations comics cul, so he is naturally only results I have been able to with Me Girodias's frm, but keeping
there.
1-Shop window displays of purses and wallets to hold the new money,
without success.
"it was, after all, a deal," said I cannot say how much Mr Girodlas has made out of Lolita Mr Girodias loftily.
2-Delight on the part of the so far, but he assured me that The odd thing is that his own
ensh rextster manufacturers; edition of Lolita has brought in the cost of selling up his new
overy register in the country will very little money. The French restaurant venture was "only a
have to be altered. This will authorities, acting it is believed, small part" of it,
Rather sadly be confessed that cost a fortune and take a couple unusual on a British offefal request, tank This Paris publisher is arrangement with the author, the unusual step of banning its he
no finger h the n of years.
3-Countless "Who would
announcements I think they are right.
France along with a right of Lolita. den of naked human flesh may an astute character named that in the event of any further sale in
us how the new money syalċm be exciting, but the actuality is Maurice Girodias, a dark publication elsewhere, Girodias couple of dezen other effecal have over thought of film rights in the Press and on TV telling not.
haired, crew-cut indivi- would receive 40 per cent of all works in English published by for Lalita!" he said.
"After all," he sold tranquilly, will work. royufties earned. The joke about what the peep-dualist who takes some ing boy sald, expresses #1: "Gosh, I'd like to see her in pride in being the most un- sweater!"
conventional of publishers in a city where that title is not easily won.
When 1 came oul into the world of clothes again I tell blt the same. Low-cut dresses showing cleavage and tight trousers looked a bit immodest to me though I was glad of my
Quarrel
his firm.
A new French language edition one cannot have everything." of Lolita on sale here now, without official complaint. This
Is produced by an entirely differ-
The actual money, it seems, has been delayed in the minting, and we are not likely to see
much before the end of the
J'eur.
However, existing notes are to overprinted with their value in new franes, and shops are being asked to quote their prices in both values. So far, few have responded.
Reported dialogue during Slace then, boosted by tremen- ni publishes, Girodins finds the the recent heat wave
rather Paris: Tourist to foxi driver: be“ has,svalion piquant and dous controversy Lolita He showed me round his scared to world-wide fame, both galling.
“I thought you drove on the Taxi driver: suing the right here." new restaurant and bur- in America and other countries; quite a lavish place, only a and from all the success.
"Today,
drive in the few yards from the Giredlas has been duly collect- teeming existentialista and Dorotheen Allan tourists of Saint-Germain- des-Pres-and spoke fondly
own sweater.
-(London Express Service),
ing his 40 p.c.
He told me he is Mr French Government for abou £15,000 because of his alloyed losses over this ban.
shade.'
1
-(Lomonk Kaprass Servico).
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Just Tancy That !
JAZZ fans are having their brains tested.
Edinburgh. And the texts are showing that the powerful rhythms send a jazz-lover TO Oxford experiments at his realising it. In SLEEP without University. Dr Jan Oswald, of the Institute of Experimental Psycholery, has proved that some fans are asleep nearly half the time they are listening.
Dr Oswald uses eight volunteers. Two were jazz fanatics, four liked, one was Indifferent and one hated it.
He "wired up" their scalps and nerve centres to an electronic brain-wave recorder.
Then, tu sessions totalling nearly three hours, he played records of the university Jazz band and the world's top swing muslclank. The volunteers had to beat time will their feet and bands.
'seat.'"
Some, he reports, "came near to whai jazz lovers call being All their brains went to sleep, for periods of up to a minute. The six who liked jazz spent between a third and a half of the lime unconscious, although their feet and hands tipped on. Two began beallar in time with the jazz beat, Clarinet solos "produced the nearest approach to ecstacy,"
Ottawa.
JUDSON BAY was made inlillons of years ago by a massive HU
meteorite 10 miles in diameter, weighing 29 million tons and travelling at 12 miles per second, Canadian selentists believe.
The theory has been put forward by, astronomer Dr C. S. Beals in a report to the International Union of Gueriesy and Geophysics.
The castern border of this inland sea." he says, "Is an arc which forms an almost perfect eircle. The Belcher Islands group in this bay show a uniform sharp slope of 10 to 15 degrees, rising from the centre of Hudson Bay to highlands fucing the rim.
"This may very well indicate the impact point of a meteorite several hundred miles out in the bay."
оп
Dr Beals, one of the world's leading authorities
series of ground surveys -meteorite craters, is now planning along the shore to determine magnetism, variations in gravity and seismile formallon of the bay to support his theory.
A
London.
SUMMERHOUSE collided with a railway bridge, and hold up - trafic on the main Kingston rond at Ewell, Surrey; for an tractor, was hour. The summerhouse, pulled on a trailer by a
too high to go under a bridge on the Wimbledon-Epsom line.
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Tokyo.
Scamen, speaking in defence of nimilor in a Yokohama court! He must have been drunk, because, no British naval rating carries an umbrella unless he is druněk.""
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