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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1960.
NT I BEL
RESTAURANT
NOTICED ALREADY HOW MANY OF YOUR FRIENDS ARE TAKING THE ODD DAY OFF ?
FOR COMMON
COLDS I
REPORT A
BRIGHT SPOT
BRIGHTEST SPOT on the winter borizon in medicine: human trials of Interferon have started at the Common Cold Research Unlt. Salisbury,
Interferon is a protein that doctors hope will eventually protect families against colds and many other virus infections,
I interferes with their sprend
In the body-exactly how is not yet known. It may prove be the actual substance which healthy cells produce to ward off attack.
Interferon is a British discovery. Verdiction animal trials? "Most encouraging."
ARE you going to mollycoddle yourself this winter?-Wrap up, slam the windows, hug the fire and fill yourself with patent medicines? -Or-do you believe a large whisky and a day in bed is the panacea for all ills, and a brazen dis- regard the best protection?
Each of us has his own formula for winter fitness. It is a personal, individual business: what is right for one man may be utterly wrong and useless for another. Bu quite a bit is mumbo jumbo.
Four basic needs
Today, when some 300 million lost each winter through sickness,
Common place for superstition. knowledge, should be the only guide.
The rst fuel to remember is that your body has four basic needs--food and water, oxygen, exercise and rest. The golden rules GET PLENTY OF EACH
So
working days are
there can be no sense, and new
FRANCE AGAIN
London Express Service.
Young
Paris
The Marquis-and
remarkable
his
Rockefeller wife
Paris.
THE grim illness which has gripped the Marquis to the grim satriarch of the
de Cuevas for the past two months has not prevented him from journeying to Paris from the South of France to watch what may well be the last gala performance of his ballet company.
It has also focused atten- philosopher friend of Henry tion 011
remarkable, Junes and the American phito- sopher Santayana she WAIA though in the past scarcely well on the way to becoming a perceptible, murringe.
blue-stocking when, at the age of 27, she met Cuevas in Paris, Cuevas's wife, Margaret,
grand-daughter of the for her.
The experience was too much and he Bulelenity late John D. Rockefeller, is forgo: herself to fall in love.
a woman who resembles her. flamboyant husband in only one respect-she is a con- siderable eccentric in her own right.
Brought up in an atmosphore of ity Intellectual dedientina - her other was a distinguished
THOMAS
WISEMAN
The fortune
The intellectual objections to marrying
pleasure-loving extrovert having been over come there came the frighton ing. prospect of presenting Bina
man searches
Keeping fit for a personality
this winter:
Four rules
BY PETER FAIRLEY
a cold, but they are not true tailing the tiny air sacs in the Cures
jungs wiwere Waste carton dioxide is exchange for fresh
Flu is a different mation. Flu Viruses of several strains have been isolated, reduced in potency. and made into a vaccine. One injection, or regular doses of tablets, will give protection for the season. It is generally ar- cepted that they will safeguard ubout 80 out of every 100 whe is the
take them. And now
Tung to be injected.
Sweat
1
Oxygen.
But penicillin, or the broad- sprotrum antibiotics which ean be taken by mouth, now get to
T
THERE can be little doubt, I think, that Mr Lionel Bart is today the most successful com- poser never to have written a note of music; morcover, as he is incapable of reading what he hasn't written, can't play the piano or any other musical instrument, and can't sing, his achieve- ment in having two smash-hit musicals currently running in the West End of London must be con- sidered somewhat phenomenal,
The other day the young maestro welcomed me to his mews residence in Kensington wearing an embroidered dress shirt, although it was after- noon, narrow trousers, and sporting a brand new profile, the result of having had his nose straigh- tened by plastic surgery. He seemed admirably equipped to cope with the success which has over- taken him.
Now, at the age of 30. his
the root of the trouble quickly.features despite the plastic
ment
Bronchitis, un the other
family. Jelm D. Rockefelles
met.
She need not have worried: John D., who, like Queen Vic-
torin, had not been amused ram
CITI-
ananya long year, was motely espivated by Cuevus; fo
much so that he did a very r markable thing.
The Rockefeller fortune had by that time already been dis tributed among sors and grand- sons, and there was nothing left for Margaret
John D., then his soventies, thereupon decided to nacs a cennd fortune, and It is thi second fortune"which he willed to the Cuevased,
It is also on the preceds of this fortune that the Cuevas Balle! Compeny a non-profit and tax-exempt organisation - has been touting so gracefully for the past 20 years.
The Cuevases have seen littl of each other suce the war, shu preferring her home in New the York and he hig flat on Quid Voltaire.
Hates Voltaire
Normally, when in Parts, she never stays in his Aut. claims this
despices Vollalt
She beenuse shu
and
would stay in the fat if the name of the street were changed,
Jut for the last two months se nas been in Paris nursing iser husband during his illness.
A
auburn-hatred plump, wman, with resting Orienta! eyes, she is immonely cultured and desperately shy.
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deal for her to be in large evonpany, while he, of course, a the most gregarious of men; as is uten the care with opposites eceply devoted to each other.
Very coy
With whom does Princ Axunda toy when she comes to Paris? The authorities both here nnd in Londoni Seem .pointlessly coy on the rubject,
In net, she s with her Grst
the cousin,
Countess Kyour way, Greck hardelf.” is married 10 n German Count who represents
German Import-export firm In Poris
These plans include writing "3 sort of French bedroom
Incidental intelligence- farce musical" about Napoleon and Josephine for Anthony Jean Marais has ordered and Shirley Bassey: from a Paris furrier à coat Newley
a play, Why The made from Brazilian otter directing Chicken, for a new company he
-cost £650 -- and a black has formed; preparing a musicnt
bout the London blitz: launch leather jacket, lined with
cost £165,
Particular'
"You'd have thought
I tell you, man, it wouldn't be all that
difficult
mink
www
A guide
Here is a vest-pocicąt
guldo
to alleged plotters in Poria
alming at de Gaulle's Over-
throw.
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was inspiring. Positively.
He showed me the first net of £40,000," he mutters into his siderable Jealousies between his new musical, and I told him cup of tea, but those agents thom I let them in alphabetical about my plans. I think he puts haven't come up with anything order: me on a level with himseit.
In Ret something nlee for So as not to inflame the con-
that's right.
surgery-have not yet solidified to tell you." he says eagerly, in the mould of celebrity, though but Noel said I was the greatest hand, does not respond to treat- as he talks cre ten perceive that English composer since himself.
by modern drugs 20
Which is encouraging. he is cultivating his mannerisms. readily. The only way to avoid polishing his affectations. Soon
"He'd sent me a fan telegram
music publishing com- I completely is to go and live in they will be absorbed into his after seeing “Ollvert, and then g agst the "winter diseases,
But they will not protect Upper Egypt.
personniity and will be indis-
I'd gone on
this trip to Paris pany; and searching for "n new such as
with Judy Garland, and these house in the centre of London, the common cold. Since few relish that idea, the inguishable from the real man.
mutual friends of ours, Terry pneumonia or a rough. And if next best thing is to live in the
But at this moment sus- Rettigan and Maggie Leighton, the flu virus, pops up in an south of England, and away franpended between anonymity and told him I was there, and so he entirely new gulse, as it did in towns. Too much humidity, fame-the new celebrity is still asked me to come and spend the deadly Astan form in 1937, the and dirty air arc the cause. trying on a selection of ready- weekend with him. chances of immunity are cut. Dirty air. You might remem-to-wear publie faces.
"50 ber that next time you are considering a coal fire."
Perhaps the rough, angry one with the high colour? No. A The germs that couse bran-bit out of fashion this year. chitis are normally resident int
Something a 1tle richer?
BIDAULT, Georges-France's side you all the time. If they
sophisti- were not roused,
"Mind you, I couldn't condone. "Course my needs are a bit post-war Foreign no inflamma-One of those smooth.
Excellent ones?
with that. caled resufl. Jon
seeing how I've always particular. Today,
I need a big place many years, bec inspired by him.
with a triple garage, large Ernie Bevin once described as most the best advice a doctor after-shave lotion.
Perhaps just # touch
room for parties and a private "nice little man." Ive has can offer is still to drink a glass
sun-terrace see, I like to sun-
rever forgiven his exclusion bathe in the nude,
frown power for the last 10 "One
don't "W
feel years, and his bitterness has frustrated when the sum dom steadily driven him towards the more lunatic fringes of the ex- "Do not let this aid to come out, de one?"
Money is apparently no object, treme Right. Thyming,
"I lost count of how much I'm Bitch pour talent and your making." he confides.
I do not propose to be funny athis. expense. A brave und timing."
At any rate he is making great man during the war, his Bar took the oppor enough to be able to turn down present plight Alla me
Noel an oiler for the film rights of
with compassion, future, of Oliveri which would have meant
LE PEN-A. youthful MP. entirely
a down payment of a quarter, of a million dollars and an aggres
and ex-paratrooper, capable of gate prodi, over a period of
head-strong acty. years, amounting to 2,000,000 'dollars.
If you get du there nothing to beat the Aweat in bed.
would
still 48-hour
Chilblains are another winter ailment which is quite easy to of very hot water on getting up, egotism to add colour, and a bit prevent but slow to clear in which is dissolved a pinch of of Chilblains are simply caused by salt and another of bicarbonate individuality. · cold and poor circulation,
of soda.
Remedy-keep warm and mobile. Then the fresh blood
your body.
Winter's diseases are far from can reach the extremities of beaten. The old proverb is as chest .complainis. Providing the
good as ever: Prevention is bet- afr
from tlac rest of comes in
Once, pneumonia was known 1er than Cure. the house, it will be brough,
as "Captain of Your feeling of hest and cold Death." depends very much
paratively enom of blood flowing through Gorms and viruses
On
the
Today it is
minor
the Men
a comTM Scourge. of several
of
In winter, four-Atls of the energy crented by taking in food goes in keeping you warm.
your surfaen blood-vessels. That types can be responsible, In- forget about your Sgure. If you
is where the mollyrodidler is eat to lile, you will have no deceived, often with disastrous reserves for both warmth
and results
skin reacting work.
mechanism is paralyzed from
disuse. of massns
Your cells need oxygen. That is their second fuel. Obylously a tightly sealed rum, with: a fire burning. j not the best place to get it. But a word about open windows in the slek-room.
Cold air can do a great deal of harm, particularly to some
QUOTE
Tiny viruses
Oxygen
And you follow the basle golden rule you stand the best possible chance.
-(London Express Sérules),
Petticoat-lane
Elated
to
add
of "Gave ine à present of a Rhyming Dictionary, he did. Never use one myself, but he Laid he always did and so did Cole Porter, Wrote a dedica- tion in it.
Mr
Ile tells me about his week- after end with Noel Coward,
maestro - which the young
for the known as Li to his friends is tunity of discussing with underslandably clated. The old his plans
the Master master, apparently, was divine. which
"I don't know that it's ethlesi approved,
Scientists find wealth in waste
(OVERNMENT scientists are urging British industry: "Watch your dustbins.
One man's waste may be another's raw material."
The scientists believe
Exercise keeps the pumping round to all your cells, And everyone should know the value of regular sleep). But if everyone were conscious of the vital need for these four lanie Britain thousands of pounds paita, and used again.
to the each year, if directed right quarter.
the IB
commodies, the sick total would fall rapidly.
4
halt
ns
The World of Science
try
Priu
to
that the drain. But scientists have struments or glass. The much of the refuse now dump proved, that it can be
rezen om n plg's ears is as good ed by industrial Brms con save stituted,
with fresh camet hair for a paint brush. mixed
Even 800T is proving WOOD SHAVINGS are now havo hidden attractions. Most a useful turned into chipboard, or made British coal cerantz
of gormanium-widely pas!
briqurties surprisingly Inlo
for burning, amount things have
comic The gas produced can bo use used by the electronics industry,
ful too-nbout 28 pounds et a semi-conducting metal- shavinus will do the work of a and it has been found that the dustrial Salvage monthly bul-
most practical way of extract- letin. gallon of petrol..
Ing it is to filter the soot do COFFEE GROUNDS posited when coke is turned good compost, when Into producer gas.
with chilic or straw.
Even so, vence can' strike Al the fittest. What can be done? valuable
Despite years of research there from dustbins. is still no answer to the common cold, except to keep itway from much someone who has unc. There is
-by actor Robert Morley, in London Airport yesterday, be- tore firing to Parit-
I
ENJOY my work so my whole life'ls a holiday.
Africa's Economics -by Bouth Minister Nicholes Diederichs on
no evidence that extrá Vitamin C will ward It oft, unices your normal diet is deficient in I.
4
Down the drain
make DUST BE! ASU from mix jolectricity gowraling. stations One manufacturer even had How many other wastes have his arrival at London Airport But recently scientists have is now being used to reclaim the bright files of using them subtle applications? There Just night:-
in isolating tiny and for industrial
succeeded
Britain may well benefit,
The turnip trial
10
Minister for
whom the late
only
FOUJADE, Pierre A rip- roaring demagogue, who has Meanwhile, one of the out-bon Iri eclipse for the past two standing problems is how to years, but has now re-emerged utilise his mowbelling Income, in alliance with General Sajam "Seeing Noel and the way he and Bidault, has a sinoll artny, lives," says Mr Barl, "give me of toughs behind ́him,' arai tie- a taste jo gracious living. I up with Hight-wing want to live a villa. In the servicemen's organisation. South of France
SALAN, General,--A mind as and a pent- house in New York — in addi-nimble es a 20-lon tanks. Pro- tion to my place in London,
Fourth Re moted by various
Governments, because was considered "sato." De
Living the lush, gorgeous Bfepublle
of the successful young writer he
ex-
| of musicals. Is there anything Gaulle lost no time in getting Incking? Does the fulfilment rid of him. s C-in-C. In come up the expectations?
**It's DUOCOAS UR R human
Algeria
BOUSTELLE, Jacques-He being what matters," he decides despises the
tho
Salang and aftor due consideration, Mark Poulades and has no links with
I don't feel I'm 4. BLOCESS that,
them. He controls a highly Why not?
machine but Well, it'e ke Ifficient politient feel like. I'm missing out on
has little personal following in." the country something.
"On what? Well, it's like I don't know qulle, like security, I guess. Emotional security.
"Emotional security of one person depends on another por
on and, let'e nay, I haven't found that other perION,
Quote of the Week-A Paris motoring_correspon- dent: "The difference “be- F you see red or green tumips It as a filer for re-surfacing a must be hundrede. I suggest floating off the couste of
tween English and French f) that any manufacturer in doubt" Dritain, they are Nor wasto
drivers in that English beer For a brief moment, the public drivers slow down when OAT HUSKS, rod with should read Warle or Wealth? The Vegetables have
now booklet mund by the De specially dyed by scientists to face-Ro suitable for weekends they see a pedestrian and elay, mako good bricks to partment of Scientific and in- show them where tides will with Noel-has been discarded, French drivers automati of gallons Arst the murke of several typos, dustrial, Research, and then ad- carry the radio-active wasto market today will help to altire wanted in spraying pro- od sood can be used as a clear, verting the contents of fuls duals from alomid bower stations, Javiato the unpleasant effects of coace. Most of it goes down pucking for, my fragile" in- bin-free of charge in the In-
*****(London Represă Eervice),
E intend to stay in the viruses from people with cold, teda no top not, Or mixed tennis court. WCommonwealth as a re-recognising Cand. propagating with suitable clay, it forms
ab thefa. So both profection, and first-close building brick. pabile. Even if that
we hope to retain real, cure, appear to be fns- possible Imperial Preferenco our minent. Catil cures. on the trade.
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on
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cally accelerate.”
----(Londen Express Berotás),