Page G
WHY THERE'LL
NEVER BE
ANOTHER
LIKE HIM
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1960.
"I'M
TM going to get me that croc,”
said Clark
Gable, sighting the rifle to his eye as we stood next to one another by a river in Tanganyika.
On a mud fat in the middle stance a crocodile was sun- ning itself Jazily, "Yep," sald Gable, "I'm going to get me that Check the wind, some“ body."
proc.
We wetted our fingers and held them up to the slight African brecze ind Gable pointed his. gun. Ile fired. There was a moment's silence and the eroe did not move. "Get 11." sald Gable. That troc sure deader than hell. I can tell you that."
by
David
Lewin
flat in the picture who has any- thing to do with a dame."
In a rowing boat little men pulled across to the mud ist in the Flyer, And Gable urned to his co-star. Grace Kelly. who was standing with 1. They were making a film together called "Mogambe **
Time
"Kelly," he sand He always called her by her suzuane, 1 "Kelly, tha eroe is sure deader then bell, and You can have yourself a handbag and a pair of shoes.
The men in the boat returned and reported that the crocodile was dead shot, it appeared, througli the head. They would arrange to have it brought back The that night to his test in jungle clearing,
Off-screen he lived a king- sized life In a large Hollywood house and a variety of wives, but few close friends. He did not make friends easily and was embarrassed by open sentiment, Judy Garland' sing the song You Made Me Love You" to n Teened portrait of Gable in un
ply ihn. It was it enormous i, summing up the era of the thirties when the sight of Gable people wall to really made love him,
Later, at a birthday party - for Gable, Judy Garland sang it to him again in front of the other Gable took her side uests. shyly and said: "Thanks, Judy. aut please don't do that again."
To forget
Gable looked pleased and we all went off to celebrate, It was
His marriages to dean coach not until much later that night.
Dillon. 10 Theu fter the skin had been removed, Josephine
heiress, and to that the property department of Langham, on the film company mentioned Lady Sylvin Ashley, were not
i success. croc had in that Mr Gables fact been dead before he shot il.
It was in place on the mud flat as a background for a scená which was to be filmed the next day, But to one I think lot Clark Gable.
That was Clark Gable, a huge, chunk man of action side of hans. He was a star for 30 years and I christened hlm "Old Indestructible"- description he did not object to in the least.
whore fist was as large na a
That dog
Gable had lived through
It
all. He survived the Lalkies and
the studio, revolutions, and he
Baw
lice
00
"Winston Churchill's doctor lets him smoke cigars while he's poorly."
Riddle of Baltika's ballroom
AFTER months of searching inquiry British and U.S. Intelligence au- thorities are now satisfied that the Russians did try to put a man into orbit round the earth while Mr. Khrushcher was on his way to the United Nations meeting in New York-and failed.
They believe that a high-
ly trained astronaut WALK rocketed to
a height of about 200 miles and then fell ick to earth.
Evidectee
bia
10
But he was passion
which has cfinched ately devoted to his third wife Carole Lombard and after her their suspicions has been sup the plied by Victor Jamimés. denth in an alaplane accident in
20-year-old tussiin sailor who 1942 he collapsed. He closed up
bedroom. benving it as a deserted from the Baltike, the her shrine with the spilled wwership, in which Mr Khrushchev
10-day journey made sit on the dressing table.
of grief he New York. In this moment did what his scriptwriters would have suggested in a film story. and He joined the Air Force went overseas To light and for
He came to Britain and gel. served without fuss at an Air Force station near Peterborough, In all be few around 30 mis- slons and when sumvong naked
Full-sized
-by-
CHAPMAN PINCHER
the reket men time to set up a which could be used for. recover-
ing the capsule from the votul space-missile shot.
descent final
Irritable
During interrogation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jaanimois said that Mr K was nartlearly irritable as the ship
has
U.S. neared New York, especially told
with the radio offteers. men that the cult- carried full-size
a manned replicas of
Jaanimels Intelligence Baltika
him "Were you servì your way
Frst time in autton?" he correct-space-capsule and other demon- vigris, from Moscow--presum
d them gently, and sudd was scared every me."
."
"Istration equipment, 子
He behaved as though he
ጊ፡ነ were expeeling important that ably announcing the successful Mr K could hold a full-reale launching of a Soviet astronaut After the war he returned to Press conference in the ship's into orbit-which never enme, Hollywood, is a new star Gaver Garson
and they halled him with the slogan "Gable's back
and Garson's got him."
his leading ladies Crawford, Shearer, Garbo, Har- low, and Lombard disappear or die. He remained. Now he is
But it was a new era, The dead and no one-but no one- gloss was slightly off. Audience will ever take his place.
reactions have changed. He went "What I had was time." he hunting or shing alone. "I told me. Time to get this liked to sleep
rough on the ugly mug of mine known on the ground." be said, 'despite all screen. In the first year I was this money 1 make. under contract to M.G.M. I "P've got the time to relax
No big now appeared in 14 ms.
and I never had thut parte, sure. But I was getting before. Sure, some of my films known. And the1 was the
now may not be smash hits but important thing. Screen time. what the hell! There is an- The youngsters today just other life. I want to have starting can't get screen time kids and the time to enjoy like that. There aren't enough them." pictures being made and the He is dead now and he was men who bulli stars are dead, never given that time. anyway."
Clark Coble became a star because of women. When he
made his first screen test with
a flower stack behind his ear
for some South Sea Island epic
the girls who worked at the studio were invited see K. They laughed.
they
"Who is that dog?" said. "What's wrong with him? Why, everything, and his wors are too big." The studio pinteed back his cars with an operation and tried again. He was put Inte picture with Norma Shearer and La one seene slumined her into a chalr 50 violently thal the audience su up with a joll.
Clinched
Gable had arrived. He wan virile. His voice was husky. And his omile, as it stole across his moustache. had a sinister sexinbas.
It was true that he wasn't the world's best actor. But as he grow older he took trouble to surround himself with some of the best people, "I never woITY "I talte about acfing." he said. the script and I listen to advice. and I learn the now and I get on with it."
Ile didn't know the word. introspective and he had no urge to look. It up.
He also wow his judgment was.not infallible. He wanted lo turn down the part in "Maliny on the Bounty" (e of a biggest successo), lenew that Captain Bilds purred by Charles Laughlon with a limer accent had the best pati, be said.
What finally elinched the angiament Чупя whair Eddie Mannix
aludio hood t M.GM.. Tokel him: "Don'
#
-(London Express Service).
ballroom.
The conference was Never nek, and To foreign reporters were allowed aboard the ship.
after its parachute.
sea
by
These ships headed back for hone, seemingly without achiev- Ing anything, two days after Mr Khrushchey returned to Moscow on October 13.
Just before the United Nations meeting U.S. Satellite-watchers object eported spotting an which seemed to be #missile Aired to a great height without getting into orbit, '
Prestige
COMING TO LIGHT AT LAST: Mounting evidence they tried --and failed-to put a man up
May
Nobody knows
four-ion Russian space- fight without further research; last month is connected in any ship carrying a dummy man was they have missiles big enough way with a big space-missile orbiting the earth. Anything plus the special knowledge of fallure.
orbli space-niedleine. less than a live man in would have been an anti-climax at the UNO meeting, at which My Inquiries have previously established that Russian astro- Mr K's main purpose was to
have made successful boost Communist prestige with nauts
Assuming that a manned flight the uncommitted African nations straight up and down rocket flights such as the Americans
made and failed. what at the expense of the West.
propuse for early next year-in was
happened to the Russian, pilot? The Russians had already preparation, for orbital travel.
Nobody in the West kngys for, notched
their Arknik
This finding is supported by cerinin "Whether he crashed to achievement of putting up a
his death or managed to · esenpe satellite landed with animal pas- U.S. rocket chiefs who obtained sengers and bringing
them their information from a dif- by parachute. But Intelligence stated that th reports have ferent soured back to earth without injury.
recent weeks there has been a fall in mornle men do catastrophic Western Intelligence British and US. Intelligence
the volunteer Soviet authorities are completely satis- not belleve suggestions that the among fice that the
death of the Soviet astronauts. Russians ure sudden
-London Express Service). capable
manned rocket chlet Marshal Nedelin
קנר.
of achieving
Fruits were confirmed Anna measures The World
radio concern
These reports by a big U.S. which operates an experimental radar station connected with the, ballistle missile carly warning system,
What other evidence is there to support this theory?
The US Navy reported that at the time Mr Khrushchiev
the The Intelligence men suspect was paring
U.S. five that this explains why Me K Russian ships' used for monitor cuma by ship instead of by the ing missile flights were steaming Russian jet-plane which he to positions in the Pacific
The object could not have long trip Atlantic,
been a US, or British missile. normally uses. Tho would also. elve the tussian
Intelligence men. lay The rocket men faunching,
which .. tight be
redio command uppututus for reign visits by Russian leaders delayed by bad weather
Bringing about the release of have so often been necompanied technical troubles.
and
Those in the Atlantic were
up the earth
more time for the believed to be equipped with great stress on the fact that And the results may startle the experts
,'
a maumed capsule from an orbit by
that it could be intended in rocket so
i spotlight Soylet brought back to earth.
technical skill.
Thus as Mr K arrived for the
space
"spectueulur"
Jaunimels's evidence may also Mr Khrushchev explain why stretched his stay 'h the U.S. to The Pacific ships curled
AMERICAN scientists want to launch a satellite
to measure the Earth. Afterwards they be-
of Science
by Poler
Fairley
24 days. Perhaps he was giving tracking radars, and helicopters Summit conference in Paris last lieve they will be in a position to land a missile based on the way Hight travels
Keep our SCHOOLS WHITE '
-NO INTEGRation
SAVE OUR WHite E.
"HEY, BUD, HOW D'YER SPELL" EDUCATION
NEW ORLEANS SCHOOL
from polit A to B. The wave-
within 50 feet of a target anywhere in Russia. length of light NEVER varies.
This latest US space rocket project is called Anna. It in- volves putting a sphere into a very precise arbit, loaded with clocks, cameras and radio equip- ment.
Scout--the rocket which will lift the first British satellite next year-may be used.
Measurements will probably bu made by simple triangulation- observing the angle of the stel ilte simultaneously from two aginary "base lines" hundreds of miles apart on the ground.
The need for Anna is grent. No one knows precisely how far The it is "round the world." Equator, for instance, is thought
Half a million
thermometers
are tested each year, In these FIRE PROBE
days of "deep freeze" operations, an error of half a degree could be fatal:
TUNDREDS of depart- And the "master acts" of every HUMME stores all over
ship gauge manufacturer in
Britain go back to Teddington Britain have agreed to co- regularly,
tho Govern- operate with ment's Fire Researth They need to. Slip gauges are
in an effort to. the engineer's ruler. He always Station carries a set of 81 of the little answer the problem:: Why flat-ended steel cylindera which do big stare -blaxen hop At mugly side by side.
Without them, he could not design or build a single piece of machinery.
Being steel, silp gauges do no!
Pentr
A
of detailed investigation every fire, however small, wEI be made by scientists.
Mr R.
G. Silverside, the to measure 24,800 miles. But the vary in length by one millionth figure may be slightly out, of an inch in 10 years. But fre- station's deputy director, tells me: "Even a blazing matchbox quent checks are necessary if For a missile-man, approxi- the oogs are to keep turning is a potential disaster mi a store,
·mations eve down to a few smoothly in British industry, 1 and will be looked at with equal
hundred yards, are not enough. He will not have the chance to
to correction shout a
gunner.
10
his
It was not until earth salel
begun circling three years
go that selentiete found
the
world was not perfectly round, but pear-shaped.
So Anna may disclose Bonic surprising facts.
BIG CHECK
Consider what could happen. Britain's traditional standards of length
l the Ineasurement Imperial Yard a bronze bar kept by the Board of Trade.
It was made in 1854.. But be-. cause bronze is a slightly
"TEN
thoroughness."
Factory Dres are also being given top priority.
.
Cut it off
Noval methods of dealing wit them are, now being tried out.
stable metal, the bar is slowly One Idea is to Install verris in shrinking.
THE work of the National integrating.
the factory, roof. These would be opened near the source of the Today It is sin good enoud blaze, to let but heat and for the draper. But for the smoke. scientistsbless. If he na rellod on h thomin
Although they, makethe: Bré madhon and fratrumhente would burn more fiercely, they oppmer now be wobbling, vibrating, dias | to restrict its spread... {/
Another Idoxok or move- The platinum-Iridium Inter able asbestos curtains, which unational Metre or atored to be hung from factory Teddington is often
Parke was a kito better but will roof and dropped indhengency spectacular. Its least, época not accurate enough for the pre- tur seal off umffertett bärte, But tacular part is perhaps the cine mesurements that have to both horn, yate will have to checking of all Britain's be made today and be tailor-made, la suil scellvidaga standard of meniurement. That is why at nations debajo „Húmdrum, › but, vital.
T. Physical Laboratory at