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THE CHINA 'MAIL, 、 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1939.
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PRIVATE LIFE IN PEKING
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
Now it's goodbye to the Mustang
A
IT TRIED TO KEEP UP WITH JET AGE
By OUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT
VETERAN fighter aeroplane of the war-and one of the best-has only just been withdrawn from service. The aeroplane? The Mustang. I can think of no other piston-engined fighter which has sur- vived so long into the jet age.
'The RAF and the American most successful aeroplanes of the
air force gave up their Mustangs years ago for let:.
But i!- Boynd Australian Air Force as kept some
cf
then going since the end of The them up.
Veur
America upon the
immediately seized
Some Independent operators want to keep the airport going
Mustang and bullt A winner
mumbers it in huge U.S. orny air force.
for the
The Australian Mustangs were WHAT
war and has just given home-built.
The Mustang was dreamed A reprieve?
up by the RAF and, built in the United States by the North American Aviation con- vers. At first it had an Ameri- can engine and was not highly
egarded.
MR
Duncan Bandys, the new M Minister of Aviation, who has taken over responsibility for Britain's elvit airports from the Transport Ministry, can But re-equipping it with peel to be asked to reprieve built-in-America Rolls-Royce Blackbushe which his predeces Merkin (basically the engine of
sor. Mr Harold Watkinson, had Spitfire
Hurricane) ordered to The
close down at and it into one of the end of next year. transformed
a
the
J winner Vickers- Armstrongs produced with ) the Viscount turbo-trop zir-" Unert
The latest sale of this record-
airliner selling British
WAG marited up last week, and wan
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tell.
that me
DON IDDON'S DIARY
TODAY I WRITE IN ANGER ABOUT THE SCANDAL THAT IS SHOCKING AMERICA
New York.
HAVE never known Americans in a blacker mood. It is not just a disenchantment with the television industry, a temporary malaise; it is almost B mornl revulsion.
"Are there any honest men left at the top?" the public asks. There are, of course, thousands. The United States has no bigger share of crooks, cheats, grafters, hypocrites, fixers, and con men than any other nation.
It is just that here they operate on a bigger scale, are more blatant,
and more stupid.
The television scandal has deeply abaken and shocked the country a8
it becomes apparent that the industry. with
ita
60,000,000 TV sets, its G61 stations, its yearly profits of HK$1,032 million, is graft-ridden.
The public confessions have not helped much and we are now promised more and fuller re- velations,
What is ex-Professor Charles Van Doren, the biggest brain of all, thinking today in his downtown house?
No sign
Has he decided to return the bright-red Mercedes car, the expensive furniture, the pictures. and the clothes he bought with his "winnings So far there is no sign,
I rate Van Doren's per- formance before the Congress- ional Committee one of the most nauseating ever. given by un adult. It recked of hypocrisy.
entiro
New Yorkers and He TUZLA unctuons, mervile, generally. whining.
talk about good and evil, seeing the tight, a let- ler from a Nilla old Isdy, and a blessing from God, was Iarded with claptrap.
He was even moze phoney than he was on television, when he pretended to be in an agony of concentration before he forced the answers to the multi-thou sand-dollar questions from clenched teeth.
Amazing
tils
There's a lot
more TV dirt to come...
Charles Van Doren, the quiz man who confessed, meets the Press
Americans
What the pubile wants to sen le a roof to basement house. cleaning of TV-of networkers, sponsors, producers, directors, agents and middlemen as well as artists and participants.
jockeys, tune pluggers, and song We now know that many dise
boosters are deeply involved in the racket.
I marvel at the ignorance of the top men, Robert Kintner, President of the National Broadcasting Company, and Frank Stanton,
head of the Columbia Broadcasting System,
CARDINAL SPELLMAN
Good out of this evil
and have the taxes sprved over seven yea*5.
Some Inmous newspapermen do not emerge loo well in this surface scratching Congres- rional Inquiry. To accept म HK$8,000 ree to make o public appearance for a store Owner and subsequently to marition the store in o nowspaper column is a bit weird. It is not Fleet Street practice anyway.
Won't talk
NELSON
GROCKEFELLER the manX
who says he is not running for President (ht practising for the Olympics, perhaps) bired the best ghost-writer the business to draft ᏂᎬ . specches. Rockefeller who has IK1.200 million, does not want Any more money; be wante power; he wante the White House, but he won't talk.
I have heard him over and We thought that the high- over again, and he is a “pül”...... minded Sherman Adams, "the sleeping pill. He put on assistant President,” whom Mr audience to sleep in the Wal- Elsenhower needed much, dorf in New York the other day was just one rotten apple in the and another audience Into a barrel when he was exposed as coma in Chicago the day after. accepting vicinia coats, Persian
80
ruge, and hotel bills in exchange
for favours extended.
Accepted
4:
His advisers said: "Mr Cover-
We let that one go as just toa bud, just a glaring exception to the rules of integrity, and nor, Rocky, old friend, you've settled down to business again. rut to give it the old fire and pep a bit of humour, maybe a And what a dirty business the wisecrack."" So Rocky, who is biggest medium of Information not running. only jumping End entertainment 42,000,000 hurdles, has hired Hugh Mor- American homes with their tele- row, a HK$90,000-a-year Press vision sets tuned in five to six secretary to Senator Kenneth
hira, coin the jokes, and provide the music. Morrow is getting a big increase.
of the expose articles in Time, News Week, and the US. News coached to win HK$90,000, but
saying she might have been ness has turned out to be. and World Report magazines she is very vague, months ago.
The first
•
length because this is going
Is it moral
to have your
petches written for you? Well,
is practics here.
Rockefeller's rival, writes his own speeches, and some of them
Vice-President Richard Nixon,
He sold out first for HK$8,000, who had never heard or read ments, is angry with Cugat for hours a day-the television busi. Keating, to spin the words for and was lying for three years right up to the lime they found the swag on him. Yet here is District Attorney Frank Hogan, who should be prosecuting hun- the 408th Viscount to be ordered.dreds of people
And a girl of 12, Patty Duke. Who is telling the truth? perjury and Bandleader Xavier Cugat smirks theft, saying:
right-she is way stage every AM writing in anger and at "I have received before the cameras and admits night she is the child stor of Vickers
the hundreds of letters about value
Van he didnt tell the truth the first New York-wondering whether to be a continaing sexindal on of all Viscothts and Doren. runnington to
she will be applauded or boord mammoth one time. Actress Lillan Roth, the
scale. spares sold to date is just on against him and demanding pro- ex-alcoholic
This is Just HK$11,200 million of which more secution. It amazes me."
who has just
now that her agent has revealed the first shocking chapter. than HK$2,084 million has come
written, or had ghost-written, that the TV questions asked of
The
led churchmen, another book called Beyond My the child were fixed.
by Hogan's reluctance to admini- Worth, and full of faith, hope, from overseas sales.
Simator Jack Kennedy, backed Cardinal Spellman, are saying by his It makes me sick. ster the law amazes
DWT: It makes
and his father's and charity, and God-fearing sent millions of Americans sick. me
and praying that good may millions, writes most of his own cone out of this evil, that this stuff, though he is not averse to insane pursuit of the dollar will accepting help. They do say end. The 150,000,000 Americans that his best-seller Profiles in who pay their taxes, raise their Courage was not all his OW children and who have never work. accepted a bribe or been in- volved in graft in their lives, sincerely hope so.
-(London Express Service).
are good.
Perhaps Congressmen and Senators should Investigate their Yet I have always thought own conduct. Is it worse to be that President Eisenhower, coached for a television quiz should have paid full thoes or than to make a televizion speech. hio book Crusade in Europe, which is not your own work? instead of having his agent Footnote: Better to clean represent hima 83 071 "author" house than clean up.
SAM WHITE REPORTS FROM THE WINE COUNTRY
Bordeaux. IIS is a THIS corner of France which brings out the Chauvinist in me. When I consider a generation of Englishmen who have been through the rack of gout because of their addiction to claret I can only regard the wine- coloured soil of Bordeaux as consecrated ground.
If ever General de Gaulle decides the Channci Isturkis are French, the only fitting re- prisal would be a Royal Marines loading party on the mouth of the Gironde.
We made this wine of Bordeaux with our cultivated palates; if it had been left to the uncouth French the whole aru would now be devoted to grow ing sweet Sauternes.
Best clients
Of course, it took us many
centuries to teach them what to
Forecast: Some
great stuff to be drunk in 1970
Others are of Dutch, German who owns Petrus Vineyards, and and Scumtinavian origin.
who is, in dress, a completely There are some splendid Victorian Agure, but has A figures among them.........
rental sgility which is the des Take for example the 67 pair of Bordeaux's wihe brokers,
Baron Phillp de
pioneer in the I had some of her wine at modernisation of cellars, who kanch ut Bordieux's most This year's Bordeaux will be tanks as the acknowledged leader famous gastronomie haunt, the
Chapon Flr. and bottled by the end of 1961, but of the community. Chlef reuon for the expected in fact it will be, fortunate they will not come into her
"We have the impresion that As in quality, so in quantity, are determined to compensate year-old 1959 will be a very good year. this year's Crop has failed to themselves for the disastrous Rothschild, a Maybe us good as '40 or 53 or live up to earlier expectations.
years of 1980 and 1957, even 47.
But it will not have the same character 69 29 or it was expected to yield
4,000,000 hectolitres,
evet
*28.**
the
ex-
if the final yield is
do with their
It all disappointment after grapes, goes back to the Black Prince, travagant hopes of earlier in than half.
to 300 years of British occupa the year lies precisely in
this
tion, and to haidreds of deser year'e astonishing summer wilch The rush
ters from Wellington's armies first gave rise to these hopes. who seitied here.
We remain easily Bordeaux 'A
The summer was so remark-
best clients and it is we who ably dry that it falled to provide decide whether a Bordeaux your the necessary hunkity for the is great, good, indifferent or bad. grapes.
All this is by way of a prélude
report an
⇓
10
this year's
Bordeaux vintage,
According to experts here IL
Torrid days
of
more.
Reports that 1959 would pro- duce the wine of the century have inevitably
prime for another 10 years.
The beat Bordeaux of this year will probably be drunk around 1909 or 1970.
Meanwhile, there is little cise to do but syait and sto,
to
In the
Victorian
The hunch began with oysters and sausage on the side (an excollant idea incidentally), fol- It was Baron
a Bordeaux tenk, de Rothschild towed by who presented General de Gaulle washed down (I believe that is with two bottles of 100-year-old the phrase) with her excellent Bordeaux to take with him on wine.
a State visit to Italy recently.
Jast Fang F
ŢUGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD David Lee, of Hinckley, Leicestershire, imagined himself = "knight errant resoning a daswel in distress” when ke saw a man "accost" a girl, it was, sild at Hinckley, the other day,
He knocked out the man with a blow on the head, theb found that the man was the girl's father who had been telling hér to go home because it was late.
Lee was fined £25 for assault.
*
PAXCUSE of bandmaster Robert Davies, of Oswestry, Salop, fined
£3 at West Hartlepool for speeding in his lorry:—
"I was humming one of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies. During. one of the quickening passages I must have unconsciously pressed the accelerator, thereby increasing the tempo of the engine to the tempo of the music,"
*
USTRALIA'B Regular Army has one officer for every two A
the army bună privates, Official figures just roleased abow 5,003 generals,
majors, brigadiers, colonels,
captains,
and leutenants, spá 9,997 privates. Sergeants, corporals, and fance- corporale total 7,118.
7
of A POLICE constable became a bus driver for one minute the
other duymd prevented serious traffe, jačńs. ---
I cannot Imagine a pleasanter part of the world in which When I made inquiries at the Here the proprietress speaks do just that—walt and ace.
and personally time whether 1850 was a great as lovingly. resulted in n speculative rush to buy.
This chateau country has a year, I was told that the records her wines as racehorse ownerg
A No. 12 collided with a taxi in the middle of Piccadilly of their horseY. Georgian elegance and style of did not go that for back.
Circus, blocking the Haymarket and Coventry Street. The driver, Bellad
kaldbakabila,'' a living reminiscent of the life of Now I can reveal that T cautious breed, heva hot so for plantation
FOOTNOTE: I never come to sufferedt shock. Owners
misled. Bordeaux without recalling an into a side street, deliberately
So the policeman, after passengers had got off, drove the bus Joined wholeheartedly in this Bouthem Slates
of America was 2.
before the Civil Wốc,
Eighteen fifty-nine was one advertisement familiar to me in
And the traffic rolled on. a great year but not one of the Bordeaux wine academy, M. do Berbe of tho Bun tlus The Bordeatic wine scistoercy of the worst years in Bor. my. Awtralian childhood, greatest for Bordeaux' wides, Fonroc-Mereler, puts it; "While alcoholle content will be con is largely Protestant and largely desun's history, buž · the
It us for a They olmalder it will not the vine is a plant which sup- siderably above the
particularly average, of foreign extraelide.
red replace 1020 as the greatest ports heat it must be recognised which Twill be bad for whit English names of the desabates did not think that this "fruity” Australian vintage year of the omstury. that the succession of torrk win, giving them
who Haye Tved fact shouïd be mida known and ti bore the slogan: "Bot CORTSO anta". forviker #
dedux But Without thất At Zendarz Cruse, one of says this mummer were not om- trate and good for sweet winw, here for two and then hiked in view of the presentation. Bordeaux Taste," the great ordenis merchant ducive to the bartónious -Prisés will be high brukowski' years mie Uberilly" sjá foiled A leading woman proprietress prinosi, put it to me this way: development of the game," apart from anything cas, awtisti- among the loosi ukirtową trwners, is the 99-yuzbeft Miqr. Kaitlent,
will be a very good year, possibly As the President
sigkandau Haprono serviską,
*
BIRTHDAY cards posted in Richtioned, Surrey, le year-old twins,
Julle and Stephanie Hughes were delivered 63 minuten later mà their home, four miles away; Kald the twing father: "Wonder- Taubat the Fael. Office ovardid it a bit.” The twine, bieghday. Is net til Søday,