Paul
Getty
BY THE GIRL
AT HIS ELBOW
66DAUL GETTY," said Robina Lund. Inhaling deeply on a French cigarette, "has a split per- sonality. That's why understand him. You see, a split personality I have 100.
Land, personni Miss Assistant-cum-legal adviser- cum-hostess to the world's richest man, blinked in- nocently through the hazar of smoke which enveloped her girlish, 24-year-old face as she exhale.
a f
referring to her illustrious hoss as a schizophrenic was the most natural thing in the world.
"I wasn't prepared for such a simple explanation to this work- ing partnership elween The Oil Tycoon
Lawyrr's and The Doughter.
A partnership which leaves
a pretty young girl in control of business deals amounting to millions when Mr Getty is out of town.
blinked back.
"Now don't misunderstand," said Miss Latal. looking worriesi.. When I say Mr G. hus a split personality. I mean that he is, 119 1 klow him, two separate people. A business man.
And afelend. It is never both at
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"When
working, We are together, we forget that we have known each other since I was a little girl, and that he is a close friend of my father.
Essential
"He has
e methodical mind. you see. And an enormous Ile capacity for concer.tration, will stick with a job until it is Anished, no matter how long it takes.
"Fortunately, I work that way too. And not until a job is com- pleted will we relax and hecrane. -friends-nguis4 -
by KITTY
DIXON
THE CHINA - MAIL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,
.
1960.
When a man insists on taking a controversial hand
in the nation's affairs it is the little-known pressures
from his background that give a clue to his thinking...
MR. FRANK COU-
SINS is a positive man. This gains him many supporters, but it also makes him many enemies.
It also makes him the greatest threat to Mr Galtskell's con- tinuing in office sa tender of the Labour Party, and that in tum could mean. keeping the Labour Party out of office for at least 10 years.
Not that Mr Crusins accepts that reasoning. Indeed, he the oppo- unges in exactly
sile
believes way. He
that Labour want 10 be- come the Government of this country, after the next General Election it will have to Socialist: And if Mr Gaitskell does not accept this, then he will have to make way for a leader who will.
And on this issue Mr Cousins will null no punches when the Labour Party conference meets at Scarborough on October 3.
High stakes
11 Air Cousins wins handsome- ly at Scarborough. the leader will have to be a Cousing man foo if unity is to be restored to the party. Otherwise the leader would be a puppet, leading a group of M.P.s loyal to him but deflant of the party outside Parliament dominated by Cousins line.
in their constituencies.
the
DOES COUSINS
WANT GAITSKELL'S
JOB? HE SAYS 'NO'—BUT EVENTS
COULD SO EASILY CHANGE HIS MIND
counsels of the Labour Move- ment. He is well worth detailed Fitidy.
Is only forms) education was 31 an elementary schoc) in Don- enster, supplemented by a few years at night school. His Arst Fix working years were spent underground in the mines, and his first cantnet with industrial disputes was when he and his mates tried to get a 20-minute meal break underground from He left the the coalowners. mines to drive lorries delivering and from 1824 to house coal, 1937 he was u long-distance lorry driver.
3
TREVOR EVANS
BRITAIN'S TOP INDUSTRIAL RE FORTER, WHO WILL BE COVERING THE LABOUR "PARTY CONFERENCE AT SCARBOROUGH Prom October 3.
Beyin Initiated a drive imong road men and needed more
U
ance to the notion that not." or "He's only interested in publle-school and university his own point of view, and he's theorists should have the intolerant of others," or "He's a fil word in deciding a rogue elephant, playing the Com- party's policy and Pre- munist game, whether he knows
Evammt.
or bet."
But it was after he was No compromise
entapulted into nationa;
kalership of his unlop four
years ago succeeding Jock
Frank Cousins is not unaware
convinced, too, that he will win over the majority of Labour and supporters.
then the minority will not be able to accuse him of "splitting the party." He thinks, too, that his greatest appeal will be to youngsters.
And as for the three major controversies at Scarborough defence, publie ownership, and the authority of conference over Labour M.Ps-he gives priorliy to none of them, believing them to be nil of a plece, and if the leadership really believed in a Fociclistic democracy they would all be accepted with Ittle Argument.
Obviously, no such thing will happen. Hos he any idea of becoming the Leader of the He continues party himself? to deny. tils strenuously. He has always turned down invita- lions to stand for Parliament He wants to remain at the head of the biggest union in Britain.
Mr Cousins really this. But his great · preče- Ernest Bevin, moant fi ocasor too, until he was called to offies in a time of cristala 1940 by Winston Churchill.
moans
And If a "acuum" took place in the leadership of the Left, Tinin, who held the job tor of all this. But he thinks some Mr Cousins is the sort of man who would respond to a call only about a year after of them are woolly compro-
his policies Arthur
Deakin's death misers. He has quarrelted with rather than det that Frank Cousins really them on major issues like parti- lapse. For he belloves deeply in came up against the trade cipation in the Cohen Committee these principles, deeply enough investigation. the extension of lo scrap his own personal plans. union "establishment."
That is what makes him both and felghtening. Almost from his first ap- the Lindon bus strike, con- pearance as a member of siderallon of wage restraint, the formidable
unofllelal strikes, Which depends on your point of the T.U.C. General Coun- inquiry into
view.
-London Express Service). can' produce guard" by what consider-
that evidence
some of bia fed dig impetuous brashness.
colleagues are relating pro- Here was Frank, wielding the posals le makes simply because biggest blocks vote of all, calmly he makes them. withdrawing
cll be irritated the "old and now, on defence,
Indeed, he
from .the old But as for the Communist
TALKING
POINTS
There seems itle in this background 10 explain the bulburity and the conndence This might well huppen, for with which he now expounds his the leader is elected by the M.P.s views on international affairs when Ernest
and not by the units or the and economics with grew. love recruiting
ever ready haulage parly conference and the vast and clarity, antl is
organisers,
triple Alliance" of transport tot he denie, it, He says he majority of M.Ps refer Gait to dispute with recognised ex-
men, miners, and railwaymen will continue to support the cx- 121 these But a Cousin perts
netds. But skell to Cousins.
Cousins kTH his wide created by Ernest Bevin and lusion of Communists from triumph at Scarborough could Cousins can explain it.
reading, but what Was even consolidated by Arthur Deakin, holding office in his union, but more important to him as it He no longer regarded himself he rejects the old Deakin al- SHE paints in her spare time, make life dimeult for the 31.P.s
by the Deakin lies titude that every Communist Is was to his old chief Ernest Bevin as bound Is planning an exhibition of her
with Sir Thomas Williamson, Sir a wrong 'un.” ---he learned from people, and as
Lawther, MT work.
Bill He has told me. "I prefer politics. be, was promoted within the William
his range of contacts Carros and Me Harry Douglass Social Democracy, where I can union
had always ensured say to Gaitskell. what I think. widened.. People forget that for which
me what he To be able to fill leisure continuity jot and he can say to 14 years he has been closely stability and
thinks. I cannot accept that intelligently is the associated with the International polley.
Time has not heated this ritt, the end justißes the means." Transpert Workers Federation,
III meeting leaders
leaders many Indeed, some
It was possible for Cousins to product of civilisation. find it distasteful to compromise and cccept majority countries.
Frank Cousins by decisions within the T.U.C. and Tuls conviction that experl- name. They refer to him as Labour Party reluctantly but quletly. He has deliberately 11 was largely the admiration enced people are the best tutors the.
They say "He doesn't care rejected that, convinced that to Cousins had for Harry Blyther has undoubtedly planted in the which evoked a quick response mind of Frank Cousins a resist whether he wrecks the party or say what you mean pays. He is i
It is, of course, ridiculous understatement to observe that Mr Getty is a go-getter,
But so is his assistant, who Anished school at 18 and quali- Bed as a lawyer at 21. At 18 her coming-oul she gave UD party to get on with her legal studies.
Apart from knowing her boss and having the necessary legal training. what other tow quirements must a piri have to became a loyal adviser-personali assistant to a business man?
"A sunsu af humour an adaptable mind....und un
Land without hesitation.
But, despite the fact that interest in people," replied Miss
are
Mise Lund and "Mr G.
Torget they are able to friends, Miss Land assures me that it is most essential that a personal assistant to any busy business man be a friend of ling standing.
Why?
"Breanso a personal assistant must be able to take over when the boss is not around, and try to deal with matters in the same way he or she knows the boss would.
"You have to know a man for a long time. before you are able to judge how he will react to things,"
In common
Just what is il about Miss Lund. 43 years junior to her employer, that makes her able to judge Mr Getty's reactions so accurately and net necbrdingly in his absence?
Begging
F
hope
that
"Goodness. doesn't sound as though I am brugging."
No general office training?
type with two Angers.... slowly," said Miss Lund. "Des that answer your question?"
In the eyes of his personal salsiant. Mr Gelty is a "qute, modest man, who works on.... and on....and on. And thrives
on worry.
"You know, he seldom takes a holiday; and when he does, it is usually combined with il business trip."
.man's
A busy day in the life of rich
legal adviser- personol assistant, would, se- cording to Miss Lund, include meeting all sorts of people, to handle If you compare them, you find sometimes having
dimeult situations tactfully.... that, despite -the disparity in ages, Mr Gelty and his pretly giving legal advice to the boss assistant have much in comoon.
....answering Press querios.... One of Getty's five ex-wives sometimes acting as hostess for
sorting described
boss...and
enil him us "Brillant, the simple and sweet.
begging welters, selecting the Missy she knows will interest her
employer.
The description fits Lund, perfectly,
HE studled music, would practise the visne for hours. SIE had hoped to become concert pianist,
a
begging letters every day.
Mc Gaitskell knows 11 though he has kept a poker face
up to now. We are in for the of most intensive three weeks secret lobbying and manoeuvri ing in history. The stakes are loo high for apathy.
One of the gamblers, Frank Cousins, is determined, unyield ing, and uncompromising.
Either way, whether he wins or loses, Mr Cousins must rank is a Very Important Man in the
His contacts
socint His Arst interest in questions was
roused by Ady Wired Paling. then M.P. for Doncaster, the ale Mr Arthur Greenwood, and a little
known man of exemplary character named Harry Blyther, the local branch sveretary of the Transport Workers' Union.
T.U.C. mention
of the
There is no gambling like
-DISRAELI.
Jast
-DERTRAND russell.. Success has ruined many man.
-BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, --[London Express Service).
LAST OF THE POWERFUL ECCENTRICS
A1
New York. T 7.10 one morning re- cently in a hospital bed in Alexandria, Louisiana. Earl Kemp Long coughed twice and then turned over on his side and died.
by
Peter
Chambers
consort: The
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And Earl Long. pinlowed by the mental wing of Mondeville of a Renaissance court, but he 1933 in the grandlose State Capitol he built in Baton Rouge, was a shoddy magnifico. hospital attendants, raged against Stale Hospital. his wife Blanche who had signed
A horse player, a gargler of Earl Long passed away quietly By a Machiavellian stroke the bourbon and branch water, he if not in peace, the papers schding him to hospi tal. "My wife is trying to kill Governar engineered his own
trailed round the strip Joints
That vast colonnaded building "She wants release. He simply fired the two me." he screamed.
and the garish all-night bars of State medical ofdats who were
Orleans to be Governor."
and the boom 4 stands as a memoring to the responsible for his detention and New Long had
battery of appointed two political cronies. towns of Texas. His favourite jong dynasty of Huey and Earl, Queen of the the kings of rant, the masters of
oratory who
ruled lawyers and the trickiest poli- in their place.
Louisions for
30 more than "The Governor is enne," pro- Bourbon-street Strippers, Blaze mob tical brains in Louisiana at his
years. That tradition has gone command. Released from Gal- clalined his two friends, signing Starr.
certificates. "I have experience to be but the name remains with appropriate his undertaking be 1121
Kovernor," Long once said.
new aura, Huey's son, Russell B. would enter n mental hospital "Long live Ol' Earl!"
lo play craps. know how In his home State, the Governor
Long, has represented Loufalana know how to play poker, And Earl," the fist fighting, mob the fading blue eyes spent weeks made a clash for the State capital,
in the US Senate for 10 years. if anything harpened to close
He Is a quiet self-effacing rousing former Governor or in asylums last year. In one of
A motorcade of sheriff's men
this big mouth, God help or intercepted him. Raving abuse
(x-navy officer, Louisiana, died without a the must amazing episodes in
the whole raucous history of until the needle quietened him.
As it turned out Earl Lon! Earl." murmur. Without uttering Louisiana
Governor
And just over a year to live. The mouth cloned the other And Earl Long cursed him as a word.
Long KGL to his feet in the Of Eart found himself once
ogain forcibly detained behind And he lived it to the hilt, morning. Unlike his brother, he cursed his wife, They said Baton Rouge legislature one barred windows. This time in He spent money, like a prince Huey, who was assassinated i that Of Earl wae mad, He was 85. Like his brother, day last June and began * Huey Long, he rose to power sumnambulistic speech of ob-
An era came to an end with that last exhalation of breath. And the thing that amazed America is that "UI
on a great tide of words. He scene abuse. orating, abusing his |never stopped talking, shouting,
His
politics
eyes glazed, swigging enemies,
from a Cuke bottle. and promising the world to bourbon anybody who would give him Ol Eari swore, told dirty stories, rackled insults of his political A vote.
opponents.
Raucous
Mexican of part A senator origin burst into tears when the mighty Earl dismissed him with single hideous word:
Three times Governor of a Louisiana. Earl Long died ten "Dago!”
in Congress next January,
days after making his great comeback in polities. He woo Looking 10 years older than Democratic primary election his age, the sick and rambung of Louisiana was Paul Getty receives 40 or 50 which guaranteed him a seat Governor
rushed across the State-line Into Texas and committed to Calves- "My opponent talked
hospital. "Ol' Earl about ton mental
said the people of my being crazy," he told when is nuts," news of his triumph came In, Louisiana, "I think that hurt him.”
"I and it quite easy lo pick In out the letters from people who. HE in keenly interested art, has E Tast
sald collection of really in need money," paintings.
Miss Lund.
ARTIE
"My Getty is gendingly interested in them nid We answer every one. But, of course, he can't help everybody,
"Some £re quite amusing. There are cranks who want girls of £2.000.000.
"And there are housewives who want to borrow £15 for the electricity bill."
Romance?
There have been hints of romance between ule much- married Mr Geity and his charming. intelligent nazistant, who recently BO graciously acted as hostess when he opened his home to the public,'' asid who has often appeared at the theatre and parties with him.
"Good lord," said Wim Laine, pulling on her gloves. Pit's nothing like that".
“And now for the thousand Doud-question--who te in: charge of the Conge at the Peuscht momENE 2”
And as she walked confidently the World of Paul London Jxpress Bersion--| Geita,- 3-hallared-ber;
"The Governor is suffering
Was Earl Long crazy? This from paranoic schizophrenia," pouchy-cheeked politician with mild the doctors.
THE
Just Fancy That fa
THE MANAGER of the Royal Hotel at Bideford in Devon, has received a letter enclosing compenza- tion for £1 worth of six-pences which the writer says he stole from, the gas or electric meter in a room he occupied at the hotel somé years ago.
CELL at Southwold police station in Suffolk is
A hall porty loot on the beach by holiday.
makers. It includes a bottle of wine as well as Jewellery, money and clothes.
The losers are usually glow to reclaim their stuff but one woman wasted no time in getting back her handbag. It contained 1800'ini "nitos.
vestan
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