THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1959.
1
The day an H-bomb What really_‘sent'
Washington. THE H-bomb struck
somewhere near Chicago in a blinding flash that obliterated
fell....
everyone and everything make their, way to an ing contaminated water of a
for miles around,
Out in the suburbs, in a little place called Red- field,
families managed to live and
some
He even gives offence by re- ferring to civilians us “refugees," They protesi they're not foreigners.
Slowly, over the weeks into the summer, the spark of yearn. ing develops. The civilians want to break away from the military domination to try to make a life of their own and the film clanes
muddy puddle-much of the army post, to which error of the servival is convey with a sew corn erop glistening other survivors hobbled by Implication. and crawled.
What happens in the next few mauties is the drama of "Strike," 10-minute TV colour alm whi: it 1 raw the other day In Washington's Waiter
Reed
This is the first official picture re- leased of the first British H-bomb test The explosion off Christmas Island.
mushroom is well developed but the gap between the base of the column and the sca is not apparent.-(AP
Photo./
Army Medical Centre.
The elvillens, for instance, de-. manding of the colonel that he sel up an extermination bal- talion to get rid of the rats which people are eating....enting the tals and the ents and the birds they can catch.
seve
NO WATER
Then there is the total luck It is a
int of medical facilities-antibiotics. you
Te not vaccines, bandages event and the likely to seg, colonel wondering how he can mrcl there s
the children with tuber- culosis, meningitis and polla,
And there is to drinking water.
"What about the the CONICA
Yri wolluted,"
no present in
▾
tention of puri-
f t on TV.
It was made river?" Starkly
by the Centre's answer:
"It's
control, jump lu
TV division the civilians, rebelling against mainly 10 be the military
hown to mili- the river
tary doctors.
Tall,
Hee.
to get rid of their
Crew- There are sickening, heart-
eu Dr Paul tending moments when the
in the sunabios,
WILL TO LIVE
As Dr Schafer auid luter, even The will to live is triumphant. it 90 per cent of the population dies, this spark burns brightly. so intensely thi the remaining 10 per cent will go on.
This is not a pleture for the squeamish. It's the best kind of propaganda against nuclear war. What pity 1 can't be shown all over the world.
Who, after seeing "Strike," would have the heart to press the bulton?
Why was "Blrike" made? Beld Dr Schafer: "We hope to spur doctors and civil defence officiala out of their apathy. Too many of them haven't bothered to learn what to do if this be-
reallly instead of comes fantasy,"
A
the girls
into mass
NAN
hysteria
AȚANCY with the laughing face. She became known to millions through the song that Frank Sinatra sang from his heart. A song that inevitably became associated with her —although it was, in fact, written for their daughter.
It had the fans squealing with delight. "Nancy With The
Face" sold a million records. Laughing
But this was in the boom years. Sinatra has told of the In the lean Umes before then. Inspiration of his wife Nancy
Nancy Barbate. The girl he met at a school dance, and who gave up her job is a secretary to marry him in 1930.
"Nancy was really the first spid Sinotra. Air I knew," "Sho set to listen to mo by the heur when I talked of my dreams and hopes.
of
*Those days I was sort Jonely, frustrated and tlix- couraged. I had wangled in- troductions to officials of three radio stations and I had offered to sing free, if they would lot
Schafer, the staree blankets are withheld from Henry Lowrie me
producer, warn- these too, radio-activated to have
l
we ny hope of living. L 145
went fr: This After getting a check with u him with poli selger counter, an ominous X is VATERT weekend. chalked on a ches! or slapped on with a label and they altura wrist
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something are helped tway shivering in might the cold (the bomb fell on A Christmas Eve), helped away to dtc. for nurses kitew better than to waste what drops of medicine Such pathetically that they had on opening awe-less cases.
that happen. let us pray rver does."
After
rome blast the
cameras
focus
on life in the
121)
post
where hprussed colo- el is trying to control his soltkers Cate
and
NURSES DIE
In turn, the nurses collapse over the bodies of thele patients, All the time, tension is building
as the military controls cone stricter and stricter. There is now news from the "outside world," for all over America the scene In this post is presumably hatch of elv being duplicated as a hundred elties had come under H-bomb
lints.
for
It is not as attack herrilying
pleture
J
#s
Night have teen made, fee, from a Apart
Women ere separated from the men by wire fences and kept under bayoneted military guard. Children are taken away from their mathers...."they never smile any more....a generation of orphans,
few glimpses of
ark
realism the hollow.
Family life has disappeared. cred woman There is only chaos
as the furtively, drink- entenel has now become the all-
y the stink power bureauerncy.
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
promise you, Elmer darling, that If Mr. Nixon makes friends and in fluences people on this trip, I'll never laugh at Dalė Carnegie again }"
London Expiero Service.
"To my surprise, they did. And I sang my heart out twenty times a week.
She "Nancy encouraged me. was warm und kind, a lovely, understanding person. Being with her was an ercape and an Inspiration,"
The Sinatras began their family in 1040, when Nancy Sandra arrived on June R.
Exactly a year before this
In June, 1939, came the sign Aenal break for both Sinatra and Harry James.
*
Having formed his own hand when he left Benny Goodman's orchestra, James chose Sinatra as his vocalist.
From that lime
on, Harry James was in the big time and was just the beginning that Sinatra needed.
He next toured from coast to fur count with Tommy Dorsey three years,
And whenever she could, Nancy went with him-
When Dorsey asked Sinatra to icin his band, he was singing in Chicago.
He hurried to the cinema in Milwaukee, where Dorsey was playing shyly and nervously went through three songs for a
packed house and delanted with the applause.
was visibly On tour, beadsmen become ac- customful to colled shirts. You "You know, that guy looked camat always get your stuff Into a mirror backstage and undered, or you couldn't in Dorsey's band rocalls.
But Frank Sina- pinched himself," a member of those days.
"I was wonderful to see, and remember asking Tommy what the guy's name was,
"Sinatra," said Tommy. Well, I've never forgolten.
"I think it was one of the few times that Sinatra was ever sur- prised by applause.
1rn...
"Every day he used to change his shirt," one of his
panions has said.
com-
"Sumetimes he would shower or bathe two or three lines a day -- and he was always wash- ing his hands.
-MICHAEL RUDDY-
continues part three of the story of -FRANK SINATRA-
"But I've got to say this for him, he deserved it. He could ring!"
Taking more than a kindly in- terest in his vocalist, Dorsey
guided Sinatra in the mechanos
of mass-enthusiasm.
le instructed him in the techniques of handling teentgers, who were then revealing their power in creating pop-singers,
Though doing recordings with Tuminy Dorsey and the group, he was heard on the nation's juke-boxes, and his salary was again doubled.
In the chips, he began to spend on harper suits and ordered theyrand's port-card-sized photographs of himself to give
his fans.
of
He lived it up. spending like the proverbial sailor. No ligs for him when on tour.
He stayed at the, better hotels, dhed at the best restaurants and invariably picked up the bill for his friends and bunself.
Sina-
com)-
What most astonished tra's companions was his pation be well-groomed and immaculate at all times,
Frank Sinatra today is the Putne fastidious, well-groomed singer as he was in 1942, getting Into the big time with Tommy Dorsey and his chestra.
mildly indifferent to his appear- The only occasions witen he is
ance when he is recording,
He will shove his hat on the back of his bond, loosen his tie and unbutton the first two but tous of his shirt and. on warm which is immediately put on a days and nights, lake off his coat
anger by his valet,
so many people, that, I om told, he had sold 110 per cent. of himself and, practically, it just couldn't be done.
As the cash came rolling in, ro it went out and he was vir tually broke.
But before Sinatra became "The Volce," he lived through many sad and bitter months.
The break came in the person of Impresario Manade Sacks who got him a spot on the Columbla Broadcasting System.
He made some records and then was booked at the Mosque Theatre in Newark, New Jersey. It Was the home-town-boy-
and making-good story, press played It up.
the
te made good all right. Extremely good. By chance, Robert Wellman, manager of the enormous Paramount Cinema on Broadway, was in. Newark that bleak winter after- noon. He decided to take a quick look at Binotra and họ signed him to do a solo turn at the Paramount, as an added at- traction to Benny Goodman's orchestra, headlining the bill.
Sinatra was n giddy sensation. A few days after he come to the Paramount, Sinatra engaged Evans. Noung gleefully on ostute press-agent, George how Mr Sinatra affected the young, wad Evans felt that applause nol To
enough. He decided that the youth of America, fempio section, could sigh or shout, or better-scream and swoon.
They ek. They crearned for Sinatra and they swooned for Sinatra,
In the summer of 1942, Sinira deelded to leave Dorey. obtain his release, he signed in agreement whereby he would pay Dorsey and Dorsey's per- sonal manager, a third of his earnings for the next 10 years, Learning a very u84.2nsive ler ron, he later had to pay $60,000
settle this litte
agree
n
ment.
Like many singers who were zooming Into Che big-time Sinatra give several interested parties a piece of himelf.
And nt the Pract
was owned by
1942,
ban
Although sat first these phenomena were carefully engineered by George Evans, it
became 3000
a spontaneous reaction to "The Voice,"
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