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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1960,
What's this a Kinsey
London,
I'M looking at the men in my life with new, wide- open eyes. I'm summing up their snazzy suits, their slick ties, their latest line in leisure wear with a new knowledge.
For I've just read the Kinsey Report of the man's clothing trade.
Dit you know when t 2734452 buys a new bat he gets the same Bort of thrill as a women—but hia molives are for less pure?
Did you know when he is un- certain about life it is reflected in badly matched colour schemes?
report on clothes?
men's
by A CORRESPONDENT
gins, states the here the psychologist'a
Did you know 1 man's are
emotional ups and downs can be measured by what he buys and how he buys it?
There plas to prick the bubble ot every man's self-esteem are contained in a survey published! recently by the Wholesale Cloth ing Manufacturers Federation,
The hunter
figures.
Saye
report, And
the psychologist: reached or passed their physical
26 clairis "Between
AND 35 his peaks." backed by statistician's standned of dress is very low. A I asked 30-year-old TERRY-
ready to uncrifice him- THOMAS how, with 10 month man la self in order to ensure that his left before he passed Thin wife and children have the "physical peak," he felt aboul better things of life.
his approaching decline.
I thought it was just beenuse п young man was heady with the taste of his first real money that he spent an average of HK$24 a week on clothes (the average adult male spends only HK57). But not a bit of it. He's on the hunt.
The psychologist states: "This mon is the ime when young hove selected their mote and are doing their serious wooing. His clothes are quieter in style colour. He buys more of and age them and keeps them in better
condition,"
Working in conjunction with a lending psychologist the report
main places men in five Hтoups.
AT 10, the survey sinles a boy first begins to take his clothes seriously and his interest in stirl grows correspondingly. This is the time when mas- culinity beging to assert itself. For
the Brst hunter."
time he
The flagger
I
"Rubbish!" he reared. "When you get older you have so meny more advantages over the young bloods anyway. You achieve maturity which puts the boot on the other foot. There's nothing 3 envy in the teenager-cariela- love ly nothing in his wardrobe."
"But that does not explain he allows his own why standards to drop. The reason
this is that he no for
longer fears competition. There is no longer any need to put on what he might teri his clothes","
TONY WALTON, 25-year-old
of Julle Androws husband hully ugreed with me that this in a lot of hot air and said: "The whole thing really works
The ebb-tide
Last lash to subdue the OVER
in reverse. I've only become 50's is the statement: "After a clothes-conscious since 1 got man has reached his 50th birth- married. Why? Perhaps because day he begins to boast how old I now feel mire secure, probably his topcoat is. This is the ebb- because my wife has encouraged tide of his physical awareness. He calls his wife Mother' and me."
likes to be called 'Dad. "'
The decline
I asked one of the mapplest dressers know-22- a young
photographer year-ok fushion I asked 18-year-old DUFTY ADRIAN OLINS-t he needed POWER. up-and-coming rock the support of a new suit before roller, if he thought there he went about his wooing.
connection between "Yes," he said, "I agree with sex and clothes conseloumess. the psychologist. Men dress for It starts long before 16," he girls as much as girls dress for sold, "I know i was Interestet men, and I know I personally in the fashion consciousness of In clothes when I was 13-girls spend both money und time too I guess.
Was any
"And let's face it, you get a completely different type of girl But when you're well-dresse you don't have to walt until you're sixteen."
It's between 20 AND 25 that
But the psychologist hasn't finished with the poor man yet. He explains the sudden upsurge
1 asked the best-dressed man I know what he thought about the whole business,
"When you get over a cerialo age you don't go in for the he said. "I Intest gimmless, think the most important thing is 10 be clean and Ildy,"
the MIDDLE-AGED MALE Last year he was elected one doing it. But there's more to (what I'd always thought of as of the world's best-dressed men. getting a girl than being * anlee healthy sign of bon- And he's decidedly one of the faire dummy."
homie) an "upprehensive RICHEST. Ferhaps the most
surprising
move." comment In the survey is the
The statement that once the girl
ду
AGED S4. Last year he was His name is NUBAR GULBEN-
don't men of 40 "see around KIAN, I
think his awareness has ebbed physical aware that they
have very for.
is wel, the husband's sirtorial them young bloode and became
acutely the real age of the peacock be- ambition fings.
Sally's
fashion salon
"Now, don't be such a stranger."
JURY ROOM
"We'd like another look at the defendant's legs."
Now this in what I call “Employer- Employee Cooperation," I have an umbrella,
and you have a pair of rubbers.”
STRANGE
DEATH
OF THE
FOX
London.
THE crafty fox, most persistent of all Britain's wild creatures, is threatened by a new enemy.
After being chased for cen- turies by huntsmen, trapped, gassed, and shot by farmers, he is going down to a mysterious disonse.
Like myxomatosis, which almost wiped out the fox's own quarry, the rabbit, appears to have come from abroad.
Foxes are dying in hundreds
By ALEXANDER KENWORTHY
CHIP ON THE
DE GAULLE'S, SHOULDER
Cummings
Now
A
VIVE LE FALL-QUTI
London Bratose Berrion. ›
let's talk about Marilyn
HOMEBIRD,
MR MILLER
(WHO MARRIED HER) TELLS MR HUSTON
P
By OUR REPORTER LAYWRIGHT Arthur Miller talked the other night of life as the husband of Marilyn Monroe. And he said that, at heart, they were just a couple of home- birds.
I sat in on a fascinating
conversation
be- piece tween Miller and film director John Huston, They met in the elegant
picture-lined library Huston's
home
of
at
Loughrea in Co. Galway, Milter black-shirted, shrouded in pipe smoke; Huston in canary waist- coat, still using crutches after a broken leg in the hunting field.
from encephalitis, a virus disease against which wild foxes have They talked, with Miller f which causes blindness and no resistance.
derth in a maller of hours, Nobody knows where it hus come from, but it is known to exist on fur farms in America.
Spreading
Since December the disease has appeared in at least nine counties, ranging from Lincoln- shire to Kent. There are now rumours that it has appeared in Cheshire and Northumberland,
It could have originaled in food refuse, Since rabbits be- came scarce foxes have been eating mice, rots, poultry, birds, and even beetles. Many, it is now believed, have been driven to scavenge in dustbins outside houses and camps.
Some could have pleked it up from dogs in this way. But why is it so widespread? And why has it not appeared before?
the
Hunting men are also worried This rapid spread is astonish- by the possibility that ing, because the fox does not disease might affect hounds and live in colonies as the rabbit even huntsmen, Que hunt master does.
has already suffered from Nobody knows how many complaint closely resembling foxes there are normally in hepatitis after being bitten by a Britain, but the number must be hound. very high,
There is come comfort, hunt- Ministry of Agriculture experts Ing men believe, in reports that estimate that up to 40,000 are the latest outbreaks are not as kitted by fox destruction deadly as the first in East societies, hunts, and farmers Anglia, but the best hope for every year. One hunt can kill the survival of hunting is the 300 faxes in a good season, and fox himself. there are more than 200 packs in Britain.
New virus
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More than 20 hunts have re- ported the disease, and it is still spreading Comunities were heavy in the Fitzwilllon coun- try, near Peterborough, that hunting has been abaritonat.
Many other famous packs, such as the Pytchley, the Wheddon Chaie, the Oakley, the Burghiey, and the Epst Essex, Jdve been affected,
More than 300 deaths have
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So far he has dung to le more successfully than any other hunted enemy of man. I belleve he will do it 'again.
TALKING
POINTS
pas com Example is the greatest been reported to the Animal of all the seducers,
--COLLIN D'HARLEVILLE,
Health Trust, which is carrying| out an investigation for the Masters of Foxhounds' Associa- tlon,
Scientists say that the disease
has never before been discover- ed in foxes here. It is closely When you are down in related to virus hepatitis, which the mouth, remember Jonah,
cornmon ““but rarely fatali Among dogs. The present discope He got out all right, appears to be due to.a.na viriui
-THOMAS EDISON.,
soft-valced inquisitor - doing most of the prompting.
Of Marilyn Monroe. Of the Bim "The Misits." Miller is writing the script, Huston will direct, and Marilyn will star.
OWN MIND co-starring with Marilyn will be Montgomery Curt; El Wallach, and Clark Gable. Work begins les the summer in Nevada. What, I asked him, is it like having a wife na famous as Marilyn Monroe?,
MILLER: "We live 90 per cent the same life as other people, Yes, sometimes when wo go out people make sills remarks. But we don't go out much, only occasionally to
theatre. Marilyn and I both like stay. ing at home.” What did it feel like to have his
a
wife slating in his own work? MILLER: "Marilyn tits a mind
of her own. She is a brilliant octress. If she wants to inter- pret something a particular way, she will. I won't stop her. "Beskitys Mr Huston is the director. I'll be around in Nevada during shooting, but I'm not interfering," Then MILLER, who had flown Into Shannon Airport from
The author and the director-Arthur Miller and
a rough MILLER, peering at a painting New York and had
over the mantelpiece: "Who car ride lo Husten's house,
to pointed that?" changed the subject Ireland:
"On the way up I saw a fellow coming down the road in a pink wagon shaped like a barrel. I was told they were tinkers and they beg. We have bums and hobos in America. but no tinkers.” HUSTON: "They are a apart. Only the women children beg.". MILLER: "I'm told if offered a job they would not take it?" HUSTON "Quite right."
Tasc and
It's a
HÚSTON: "Colombolto Rosso" MILLER: "That means a red
plźcon doesn't it? helluva picture." HUSTON: "It's the head of a mad woman, The painter studied her in ari Institution."
NEXT PLAY
MILLER
touched his horn-
admitted rimmed glasses, hidden fear: "When I'm not. writing, I'm worrying about my
John Huston,
writing. I'm here for a week on a purely social visit, but I'm still thinking about my rhet piny which will take in the human situation at present."
And last of his cerpeless ques- tioning: "Of course a play- wright must ask why about everything. I like. jo" get be- kind a subject.”
Some people call Miller The Man Who Married Marilyn Monroe. I shall remember, him ea The Man Who Wanted to Know Why.
Comets nearing point of profit
Almost on the point of being clinched is another order,, prob THERE is now every prospect that sales of Britain's £1,000,000
Comet jet airliners will reach the "breakeven guro of Co. ably for four Comets, from Middle East Airlines of the Lekanon. This was the number set when the production line was first laid De Havilland saleomen bellove that in the Middle East there down de being the point where profile would begin. Comets now le a potential market for another 25 to 30 Comets built or on order total 42.
They glen haileva many other airlines want high performanc The British Overtone' Airways Corporation has had all its 10 Jata amalior than the gigantle American Boeing 707's and Douglas British European Airwaya jhan' racoivad tour of ile, ordered seven. 00 8's. In the de Havilland factory I saw the others, wall-advamad.,
The Argentine Btate Airline has had three of the six Comets It ordered and one more is now ready to go.
Middle East market ----
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Also finished and doing ita fosts is the second of the three ordared by Maxica Other Comet ordaca nều two:15r Xast African Airways, two for Olymplo Always, 'the Gresk airline, owned, by Mr. Aristotle Onamin and three for the Kaypuan Alfling Migrair.
Already many countries- buying the American airtipers are finding it necesary to sink millions of pounds in runway recanatruation to take the blp American aircraft.
The British Comets take off and land on normal elaod sunways. De Havillande are preparing for saveral, more Comets without spealne ordare to be ready when the orders.come.
On the existing Comet programme there le more than a year's work in the de Havlitand feeterteng)
--(London Express Bergiei),