THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1959.
Lonely island sent the
L
Scotland.
ETTERS arrived in their hundreds, photographa
of girls by the dozen, the one telephone link with the outside world was jammed with calls and some determined young women even managed to make landing.
A
girls crazy
By LIAM REGAN
with the county dentist on rounds.
It was made abundantly clear that with the shop went a croft
Her mother, in Lerwick, told That's what happened the and cottage, and it was obvious last time it was reported a married couple would be me: "The boat can only take 15 or twenty guests at the that young bachelors on required to run the place.
"It was almost embarrassing most. The recepilon will be 'n Fair Isle a lump of rock both for the girls who wrote the island ball, and the guesia Jutting out of the Waves and for the young men who will be put up in the light midway between the Orkney received the letters," middle- house, in and the Shetland islands off "ed Miss Margaret Cairns, the friends" Crofts."
urse on the island, tok me. the north const of Scotland - had no girl friends.
The Scottish newspaper which announced that Fair Isle re quired "nige brides to save an land" frem depopulation was ported to friends overscas.
As a resuli. still mere letters arrived from America and Canada months later.
Gradually the mail from eager
to
yun women dwindled irkle and finally stopped.
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The bundles of letters were hunk up pubilely in the day island post office as an AWFUL WARNING about similar up-
peals in the future.
Lately, therefore, when 1 couple who have run the Fair Isle's only shop prepared Jeave Scutland and migrate to England, and new tenants were wanted, no such appeal W29 repeated,
QUOTE
coroner
30.
-by Nottingham recording an gerident verdict on a boy of 13 who fell when a tree branch broke:- IT would be an unhappy day
If one discouraged from climbing irres. I hope
u ever does.
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CAN AMERICA OR AMERICANS EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN?
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The aftermath of Mr K...
IT
NOT A POLICEMAN NOR
A PLACARD IN SIGHT
DON IDDON'S
NEW YORK, MONDAY
DIARY
TT is October 12 in the year 1959 A.K. (A.K. stands for After Khrushchev). And it is back to normality, or normalcy, as Cal Coolidge used to say. Back to the Broadway boom, the Wall Street dilemma, the 1960 model cars just coming into the showrooms, the Autumn fashions-very daring-the teenage terror, Mrs Khrushchev, and the Mae West best-seller.
Will America ever be the same again? Well, it is making a good
Janice Drakes, ex-beauty queen, they are not competing against Intry. And so am 1; but after 65,000 miles of travel this year, including ex-Mia New Jersey had their the MG, the Austin Henley and.
heads pumped full of bullets as Triumph.
Cadillac they drove in a 1955 were Hero's Award for saving a man three round trips of the North American continent with Mikoyan in
near La Guardia Airport. Motor shares have been lag- Wall Street has who fell over a 400-foot stift.
January, with the Queen in June and July, with Khrushchev last month,
Angin, who had been a Deuten- ging and all One hundred years ago the
somersaults. For been turning ant of Al Capone, had $3,000 on three trips to England, one to Russia and back, and some short forays to
weeks there was a monotonous population of the Island
decilne, to, but in bered 300. Now it is down to Jamaica, Bermuda, Florida, and Canada it is going to take me some time. him when the police found him.
and on orie black day in armed camp, when the lug york sensation, because Little smoke on paper.
This case has caused a New six billion dollars went up in about 50. But with the encour-
The children are saying: policeman or a soldier
Lately, how- agement of the internationally
Only Isle weaving-"Who is that man in the sight.
red-capped gage room was an arsenal Angle was a big-time operator ever, there has been a series of famous Fair
porters, conventioneers of artillery and a small, and Janice was known as the climbs and advances. erders are now sent to all parts living-room, Mummy?"
I got off the train at wearing funny caps with chunky man had said his girl with the perfect figure, of the world-and the growing importance of the island as a
several thou- piece and been sneaked into there every Pennsylvania Station, tassels, and
to and Manhattan under bird sanctuary, confidence that the little Com-
commuters where a big new De Soto in sand
brella of guns? on display, slowly circling from Long Island. mundly won't disappear, as was the case in two other
on a moving platform before Was it only a few weeks of Scotland; off the coast
the ticket booths. Not a ago that the place was Kilda and Soay.
"Many of these letters quite fantastic when you con- sider that the writers had not only never met the young men they were writing many cases had no idea where Fair Isle was."
Letters and cables arrived, not only from all over Britain, but from the U.S.A. and Canada As well.
One islander-ing shy to be named-fold me: "All Types of women wrote.
Many of them sent photographs. Some of the women seemed good enough but some were not so good.
"It was really astonishing the way these women went Crazy In their attempts to be intro- duced to our young men."
on
Some of the young men the island were embarrassed, others had a good laugh,
but
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all became slightly worried when some letter-writers salu they would actually arrive Fair Isle, which is about 200 miles and 10 days' journey from London.
Things looked really serious when a few particularly cater prising young women who had never been to Scotland before.
--by Captain Edille Ricken-published, backer, U.S. air nee and airline chairman, in a London lecture:
I'
num-
islands
St
LESSONS-By Television
Toronto.
an
um- AT
'Don't get it'
On Broadway it's John Gel- gud and Margaret Leighton es In Much The brightest stars Ado About Nothing. Radiant, uproarious. not to be missed, The police explain away the brilliantly done, bells should be cutside here double murder as one result of rang, zest, clarity, merely mog- that the plekets had demon- their intensive drive on the nlicent are a few of the words strated and the police, un teen gangs. I don't get it. If used by the critics. motor-cycles and horses had Mayor, Wagner had assigned to
Was
just
penned them back? Not £ the crime jobs even one-tenth sign of 1 plckel or a placard of the police he had enveloping today, not even cutside the the Khrushchevs, children might U.S.S.R.'s United Nations walk safely in Central Park, and headquarters on Park Avenue,
Harlem, Spanish Harlem, and
On
Best-seller
the bookstalls is Mac We are going to get back to Little Puerto Rico might be West's sexy beat-seller, Goodness
sale inste d of Had Nothing To Do With It.
Mae, multi-millionaire, is tion points have changed dras. asphalt jungles. lically.
TEACHING by television, an idea often discussed but seldom tested, is normal ir it kills us. Conversa- reasonably
getting its biggest boost in Newfoundland, where a polio epidemic has shut the schools. When the province's education minister, Dr Allan Frecker, announced recently that the schools could not reopen after the summer holiday because of the disease, station CJON-TV in the city of St John's at once offered full broadcasting facilities free of charge from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
Dr Frecker jumped at the opportunity and organised the province's best teachers for the TV school.
Mc
But school supply shops report teachers and the Mayor of St his police cannot big sales of educational equip- John's and a fireman, ment such as books and penells.
Discussions
re
control the
I living in splendour in Holly- Other film multi- according to what
But about the new cars. don't
the think
Big Three, wood. General
Ford. Motors,
and millionaires, Chrysler, with their new entries, I was told in Hollywood, are Norma Shearer, are going to take much business Harold Lloyd, from the British small cursor Gene Autry, trene Dunne, Mary Bob at least our sports cars or the Pickford, Bing Crosby,
Hope, Loretta Young, Corinne Europeans.
Grith, and, of course, Charles I like the Ford Falcon and the Chaplin,
the
Cooper,
Bumbling
Robert Wagner, Mayor of New York, painstak Ing, bumbling. and placid, and
crime wave. Stree I went away Dodge Dart. The Nash Ramb- It has become worse. There 1er is, of course, established; Mere millionaires are Cary Clark have been 25 teenage kings but Only when the childreTI
Gary of some
so erlied Grant, and nowadays few
Ginger school turn to
will ciner July
Bill Holden, regular
Detroit conceived American- Gabic,
Dick Fowell, Greta For several hours each day,
teachers be able to assess how women or children venture in born babies are still too big for Rogers,
Gurbo. Fred MacMurray, John Re-Central Park after 5 p.m., and the small-car buyers. teachers are giving Instruction
much they have learned.
Wayne and James Stewart. never afler dark. in arithmetic, spelling, geome
A ports suggest the overall result
I have
of the Runners One five- The first headline I saw was
up are Alan Ladd, lesson was flu should be excellent, try, composition, history, science, Shakespeare
Garson, Joel McCrea, and strated with a scale model of year-old boy, fascinated by an "Top hood and blende stain." American entries already on the Greer French, literature, civics
called Hood means gunman and gang- road, and they are refreshingly and Ava Gardner. programme the original Globe Theatre and arithmetic rending.
ster, and you know what blonde free of chrome trim and razzic- a Russian film production of Figare It Out, learnt to count
dazzle; but they will have a But none of them in the act- Night.
in and write from one to 19 in two means. Courses
can touch department Twelfth
"Little fight against the Hillman, the ing The couple the man, been given extra days. civics hove
British Ford, and Mr K. I was there and I know. Angle" Pisano, and the woman, Auslin, the by island
discussions between
-(London Express Service).
and had no idea of the condi
Britain's tions prevailing In loneliest island, actually arrived on Fair Isle,
When the report about Fair Isle's lonely bachelors Was nine there were young men of single status the island. Now there are only having emi- six-the others itme grated. is tragedy of our
bright And soon there will only be with all the
aircraft offered at five, because one of the young Alexander Stout, will have concentrated men,
the marry pretty 21-year-old dental Margaret 1sbister of Lerwick, who visits the
promise the Jirtis, almost all
Wa
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1 destructive nurse
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