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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY MAIL FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
Renting Out Suits Is $Million Business For Ben And Bill Gingiss
By MARGUERITE DAVIS
Chicago,
The man delivering the Gingiss Brothers sült to a fashionable hotel was stopped by a couple of burly fellows, who made him stand with hands against the wall while they frisked him,
Then they permitted him to deliver the rented tuxedo to his customer, the
late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy.
Most Gingles customers are more trusting. In fact, they, de- pend on the firm, the largest rental agency for men's evening dress in the country, for every- thing from tips on etiquette to studs for their dress shirts,
Turkey Lays
Pink Eggs
Oporto, Portugal, Aug. 28. A turkey at nearby. Ceto: that lays pink eggs for its owner is the latest marvel in this neighbour- hood.
The eggs are not
Just plutn pink but enhanced by faint though distinctly decorative white stripes.
TEAR HOLES IN STEEL
Small Birds Threaten
Aviation Research
U.S.
Washington, Aug. 28.
Pigeons on the track, alack, aré tearing holes in the Air Force's hyper-
sonic research programme at Holloman, N. M.
So are quails on the rails, not to mention doves, meadow larks, and other
"light weight birds."
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#bird
The avian threat to aviation have just started this method Į parallel between what goes on at and space progrem was disclos-
bird of trying to scare the birds | Lotween
and ted ed the other day in a repari
Away. And the results have Holloman and the "high velocity television Portuguese
from the Air Research "Dul
not yet been proven”
Impact" effets frequently noted viewers last night were Development Command Head-
ptter tornadoes or hurrlennies. You might not think shown an egg which the quarters at Andrews Air Force
How ounces could do | weighing announcer described RB Base, MD,
much harm to a 212-pound; slexi "the smallest in the
Selentists at Holloman Al But such a zlod ended world."
Force Base have been firing down the 35,000-foot track at sleds down a seven-mile track 3,000 miles an hour with a jag- at 3,000 miles an hour and ged 10-Inch hole in belter to find out what happens quarter-inch steel of Ity to things and people moving cone where FOT
pigoon made contact," faster than sound.
at
The three Gingiss brothers, the next outward-bound plane
It was produced, as his nudi- all six-footers or over; carried the requested items.
ence had already guessed, Gingia sulis are found every- founded the firm in 1936
where, the firm say-even Entroncamento, a town whose when they tried In vain under water. At a fashionable many and fabulous claims to to rent cutaways and wedding last summer one of the fame are a byword in Portugal. striped trousers for their ushers went oprowling Into the This egg, the size of a big Mus- entel prope, wal an Entron- sister's after-swimming pool. younger
to As he bobbed to the surface, camento hen's riposte noon wedding. The wet tike bubbles in the champagne feathered friend In the yard ding was changed to an he had drunk, his first words next door who recently boasted of laying the largest exs In the were, "Gingits won't like this," affair, evening Guesio
creation.-UPI. brothers borrowed $500,-uri. and went into the bus1.
include
Regular customers bank and rallroad presidents, Congressmen and entertainers DS well as bridegrooms and prom-bound toen-agers caught unprepared for attending full-dress events have appeated to Ginglas with only a couple (of hours to spare, and have been outled in Ault, shirt, collar, tie, jewellery, gloves, fat and shers,
President Benjamin Ginglss said that when the errand boy was sent to pick up the rented vutt from one such customer, the day after its use, he found the following note:
пеня
of renting formal They All Have The Same Old English Name
dress to men,
War broke out just as the firm showed a proši, und the business was shut down for the duration. At war's end, Ben- jamin and Bill Gingits laid in a supply of new merchandise and tried agairi,
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"Marriages sky-rocketed and waiting in "Dear Glogiss Brothers, I was we had customers delighted with all of the formal line." Benjamin recalled. attire you rented to me and would
The company now does an like to keep same. Please bill
jannual business bf more than me at my Washington address one million dollars, operates six for the entire outil. It was stores in the Chleage prea and signed: "James Roosevelt."
bas franchised retail clothing outlets in more than 500 citles. On a busy week in June, Bens Jami said, moro than 0,000 persons will rent Gingiss uils.
UNDER WATER
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It is Ginglas' boast that any malc, regardless of size or shape, can rent from them whatever formal wear he needs. The more than 30,000 suits in stock range Customers have cabled from from size 3 to 60, and the 6,000 Liberin and Alaska asking re- their Ginuiss pairs of evening shoes remplacements for 4-A to 109-EE.
outfits, and the firm claims that
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HE FOUNDED A NATION
ON A PACIFIC ISLAND
LO
London.
ORD COBHAM, Governor-General of New Zealand, has just visited the remote mid-Pacific island of Palmerston, where 62 of the 87 inhabitants are named Marsters-direct descendants of an Englishman who settled there in 1862.
The islanders all claim Mur- aters' blood. And they all speak English,
They are brown-skinned but their features are Anglo-Saxon. And they all wear European- style summer clothing.
FARM BOY
The Best of the Palmerston Marsters was Willon,
faren
Marsters tribe, whom they had brought from the mainland.
Doubts about navigating the pinnace through the ship's
the teet were narrow gap in
Bub. dispelled when Ned's son the island
pilot, turned "Bob was as calm as a London cab driver weaving through Piccadilly Circus," sald Lieutenant Durdin-Smith.
"We were taken 10 The boy from Gloucestershire. He spacious hurricane-proof,bunga- arrived on the island with his low built by Will Marsters." It Maori wife Esther and her is still in perfect order and well, sister Adeline.
kept.
her
Adeline became unhappy so The marks of Will's rough William Marsters with Esther's chisels and adzes are all still permisslon-married
too, there. And just as he built Then Esther became pregnant them, we saw the bedrooms of and her dece Naomi came to equal size for his. wives.". the Island to act as midwile. She stayed-and became wife! Bumber three.
All three wives had equal slatus and Marsters started raising a large family. After 18 yente he had 60 children. He ran, a school and a church and kept. two strict rules: Only Engllall must be apoken алеб full brothers must not many
full slaters.
Were
GRAND TOTAL
.
The Islanders were full ör questions about. the Queen, sald Leutenant Durdin- Smilk, "They asked the Governor If he had met her and they seened hugely im- pressed when he said that he hail.
THEY PRAY
"One of them asked Lord Cobhams to tell Her Majesty that although they would prob- ably never see her and she would never see them, they thought of her very much and prayed for her.
"They thought of themselves not as New Zealanders but as the Marsters, descendants of man of Gloucestershire."
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In 1046 the New Zealand Government found evidence that William Marsters had been responsible for a grand total of 2,508 chlidren and grandchildren. And there
3,000
treal grand- children, soatiered all over
Before the party left it visited the Pacific islands.
the tidy, hibiscus-planted grave 1 spoke to Lord Cobham's of William Marsters, the first. A.D.C., Leuterant N. Durdin-i And Lord. Cobliam fold the Smith, R.N., shortly after the people: "Your preat-grand- Governor-General had left the father would be proud of your fidy island and proud of your They had been persuaded to good looks, your_physique," and land on Palmerston by Ned your good name." Marsters-the oldest
the
-{London Express Service).
island.
of
Unhappily, the seven miles of fine perching opportunity was too much for the birds to resist. "unbellovable damage" to the The result on occasion has been sleda plus quite bellevable damage to the birds.
INNOCENT VICTIMS The birds are innocent both aa vandals and victims. They can't hear sleds approaching faster than sound and so can't get out of the way in time,
The scientists, therefore, have wired the track with recordings
4-INCH DENT
run
the
nose luckless
A quail tore open the bolted seams of the half-inch sheeting on a heavier, aled making pa 850-mile-hour dash over the
Straws in such winds may pierce the franks of trees. This and the havoo wrought by the binda at Holloman point up an expected hazard of the forthcoming aga space travel
"Grain-sized
of
meteorites moving through space at near- ultierinte, velocitler" Vleck mild, Bolid "could, tear apart the steel of a missile Or A space ernft."----(UPI).
course. The sleet prow of a For Great Brainpower. sled speeding at 2,850 miles an
New York. hour suffered a four-inch rup fure ucon collision with a dove
Many corporations are feeling or some other bird.
more and more responsible for Impact with another percher ald to higher education-the parted an experiment-spoll- main reason being the need for trained brainpower" pro- ing twist to a 375-pound sled the
on hour.
survey showed that several hundred of the largest corpora-
of machine-gun blasts, thun-cketing along at 1,500 miles duced by universities. A recent derclaps, and the cries of hungry hawks, all amplified by loud- speakers spaced along the rails, According to test super- visor E.C. Rethmel:
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Lt. Col. Donald H. Vieck, tions now carmark 84 per cent Chief of the Test Truck Division of their total giving for educa- of the Air Force
Misalle on, against 21 për cent in 1950.
"We Development Centre, drew a"-UPI,"
CIRCLE OF EARTHQUAKES
KRAKATOA
DESTROY
FEARIDES
DECENTLY an earthquake spread havoc in Montana. It cracked the Hebgen Dam, Elited ankow the 35-mile laks behind it and toppled mountain Into the Madison River. At the same time, sarth tremors ware folt elsewhere in North-West America, and also In the Bouthern Pacific Disturbances were measured In Bydney, San Francisco, Italy, France and Britain.
How is it that an earth tremor can be felt over so wide an area? Earthquakeə ara
bolow due to sudden displacements
thu surface of the earth, if the disturbancs 1s close to the surface, great damage can be caused in a small area. If it is deep down the shook may be felt over a very larga uron. of the There are two particular bands earth's frequently
surface where earthquakes most occur. One la, the mountainous
ZEALAND
1958 MONTANA:
1 circle around the Paciño, de Nöwemap shows. The other follows mountainous Fogions along the northern coasts of the Mediterranead, through Turkey and Perals and into India. Only about ten per cent of earthquakes ocour outfide these two particular bands.
BON.
The largest loss of life ever cauled by an In India. In 1787, when earthquake WRE nearly
one-third of A mlition people were killed. But the most complete destrub- tion was at Krakatos. In 1883. Almost an entire island disappeared under the About 30,000 people were killed, At Batavia - hundred miles, away—it grów so dark during the day that people had to, light. lamps to and thele, way around. But in Britain there has never been any tese of öárthquakë disasters.
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