How Much Do You Know?
(Answers on Page 10)
How long has archery been practized?
2. What is the date of the first recorded use of an
anaesthetic in surgery?
3. How long do salmon live?
4. Name the English poet who was called "The
Poet's Poet."
5. Name the second largest continent,
6. What was the ancient name of Palestine?
7. Love birds are members of what bird. family? 8. Which will float in water, a stale egg or a fresh one? 9. Who was the "Beloved Disciple"?
10. How many times has France been invaded in the
last five centuries?
11. Name two islands in the English Channel that are famous for breeds of cattle bearing their
12.
names.
What country is supported entirely from taxes on
gaming tables?
13. Who conceived the idea of using mercury in
thermometers instead of alcohol?
14. How does a cat wash its face, by rubbing its paws
against its face or its face against its powe? -
15. Where is the Luxembourg Palace?
Luftwaffe Planned To Fly To United States
Once top-secret, the activities of the Royal Air Force Special Duties squadrons are now common knowledge, but interesting reports have now come to light which show that the Luftwaffe also had its special duties units.
5th
These units were all controlled which had previously been carrying And a suicide by Kampf-Geschwader 200 out agent-dropping. (K. G. 200) and the more ambi- squad was immediately formed for
operations
glider-bombs and tious schemes prepared included rocket-propelled missiles an attempt on the life of Mar- ahal Stalin, the planning of fight to the United States and the dropping of saboteurs in Arab countries.
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But there were also unita con- nected with the operation of radio- controlled
rocket-propelled and missiles; in fact, during its short existence K.G. 200 carried out many unorthodox operations in which air- craft could be used,
It was desi formed early in 1944 under Colonel Heigl and was later communded by Colonel Baumbach. prewar stunt flyer from which full' details of the netivities of these units became available.
First move of Colonel Heigl was the incorporation in K.G. 200 of the Gartenfeld Gruppe, un 'organisation
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1947.
New Technique In Candid Photography
PARIS. One impact of the recent Peace Conference which has left a lasting mark on Paris is the work of a photographer, Gjon MIII. Considered by far to have produced, the most out- standing pictures of the Con- ference, M. Mili's technique had long fascinated the visitora, including the principals, before many people had seen his work.
Behind that technique and there- fore present in the Idea he con- ceived and developed
Prof. WUS Harold Edgerton of the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology.
M. Mili is a native of Albania, was brought up in Rumania, went
to the United States and eatered M. 1. T. in 1923 to train as an electrical engineer. Professor Edgerton was year ahead of him and they (Edgar Snow) (Living China) be- came friends.
ane
LIGHTING EXPERT.
"Why docan't the fel low ever take a pic- ture?" asked delegates to the peace conference. They didn't know till later that Gjon Mili, Albanian-born, U.S.- trained photographer, had been snapping all the time, using a new method.
Working with high speed photo fundamental of photography through Kraplıy
and seeing what the the subject of reflected light really
means M. Mili soon evolved into photography itself. As he anys. IL
is
not a departure from lighting engineering. Far from it.
"Why doesn't the fellow ever, fake A picture?" reporters would! 1. For M. Mill would move around. with four sets of lights, setting them up and sighting through his camera but with no flash being apparent.
The result seemed to be one long series of rehearsals without actual "shooting." Yet M. Mill, at such an event us, the Evait press conference took some 30 exposures.
"INVISIBLE" FLASHES
to
He set up one act of lights illuminate the door to "get" people ¦ going in and coming out, one on Australian Minister for External Affairs Herbert V. Evati himself and two set to pick up the audience. he could move about and study for With control switch on la camera, the expected moment and photo- graph --and all without anyone
Think being conscious complished his endeavour,
PORTRAIT OF
A WOND’INA
A Native art show
comes to London
By WILLIAM GAUNT
aubconscious.
the Australian are the magical shadows of super- he had ac-How does
does in to aborigine rank as an artist? natural beings. All he
restore them from time to time wit! The question arises after see» fresh conts of pipeclny and ochre, The camern Is merely an I- Soon the onlookers began to learning the exhibition of native The motive, therefore, is different strument for recording reflected of what had been going on about rock paintings at
from that the modern artist who Australia. tries to be primitive. light. Its basic techniques and them, And when the pictures ap House." Aro they, let បទ To the psycho-analyst mechanics are easily learned
this Upon graduating In 1927, M. Mill standard. Obviously. as M.
and peared, there was no question but say, as good in their own weird primitive art in squeezed from the M that the lighting Engineering up- went to the Westinghouse plant in saw
If we get a thrill It, photography actually
is prouch to photography had scored. way as those of Picasso-or from the Australians' rock pictures Pittsburgh as a graduate student, based on lighting techniques instead M. Milli was asked to set up a wide-Paul Klee?
it is that of one subconsciouR then transferred to the company's of cameras. In appreciating
responding to another, a message In this y velaimed exhibition of his work Such moderns Ash often in the which the intellect has no part lighting laboratories in Bloomfield, and developing it, M. Mili became in Paris, which he did under spon-
deep waters of primitive art. They Freud made a nent equation be- N. J., as an electrical engheer, the outstanding photographer
cannot reproduce the that sorship of Jean Paul Sartre, founder
original tween the savage and the child (who specialising in lighting. In that he is to-day.
conditions and outlook. To the of the cult of Existentialism. fact lies the main key to his work.
Austration Stone Age man paloting paints in the same instinctive way). think the Wond'Ina Illustrated was not an art. It wag matter of here, with its surruund of cockatoo Professor Edgerlun, meanwhile,
Mos! Interesting outgrowth life and death.
feathers and its quaint animal become fascinated
working with this technique by
Before Captain Cook and the appendage (n rock wallaby) is posalhitities of high-speed photo
speed is that M. Mi now
chronometer arrived, the aborigine, nearer to the pictures turned graphy for research
wrapped in a timeless dream. tried in photography as essentially mental,
classrooms, where the chil- purposes, re-
to come to an arrangement with the dren "express themselves," than gistering myriad kinds of action so
ns something one senses and which mysterious powers which governed is to Pleasso. or Klee. MERE "INKLING OF LIGHT" that it could be studied, He found
instruments merely record for the bis being. In his dream world there It is a link between
the that arlileially lighted photography
II's work at the Conference operator. He anticipates the
kind was a wonderful ancestral glory, a berley blackfellow and little London- mythien hero, the Wond'inn. He born Tommy Smith or Alice Brown Eoes as far back as photography aroused much interest because of of expressions a man might. itself
this very high speed light
painted the Wond'Ins with a halo, (aged 8-10), giving as it does an Idea, and sets his lights accordingly. foremost Ordinary flush bulbs which, dicking
with eyes and nose. Reverently (or insight into the fantasy of which, at for some reason or another) he all times, man is capable. omitted the mouth. Useful purpose
hod
with Fox Talbot,
the
High speed lighting ms developed by
this Professor Edgerton, plus appreciation of lighting, became the
tools which M. Mil! used,
to spectators
of
and
secs
have
Faces are not held
to be im-
and English pioneer, experimenting steadily, annoy both principals and
average about fteenth of a second in light dura-portant except for the thoughts they tlon, M. Mili's gas flash, now using express, and 'his work is to catch xenon instead of argon because its thoughts. He often suggests ideas colour is more like daylight, lasts which will produce the thought only one ten-thousandth of a second. wishes to record.
silhouettes
By far the most important most interesting section was around 1840 with spark gaps the unit which carried out
the produce back light for photography agent-dropping behind many war fronts. There were tour Hights used, each one specialising in dif- ferent ranges and different areas and each with its separate code name. The peak month for Ger-
inan agent-dropping was July 1944, when inore than 280 persons were planted behind Allied Ifries, ntid over an eight-month period alto- gether more than 600 Inen
and
women were Junded.
SWITCH TO PHOTOGRAPHY
or what
In the depths of his hallucination
he had still a useful
he
you
In-
out
it
Kim-
TRAINING FOR
OLYMPICS
So keen are athletes at Cambridge
purpose in view. Wond'inas turned into "train- bow serpents,' supreme symbol of the aborigine's myth. The rainbow serpent stood for fertility and creuse. It cnused food and chil-University to get places in Britain's dren to exist.
Olympic teams when the Olymple To-day the native
the Games are held in London in 1948 paintings in the hope that rain will that, when their ground was snow- come, that the serpent's spirit oft-bound recently, they swept part of the it clear and continued practice runs billabongs (or water-holes), that his and jumps. efon in consequence will be fruitiful and multiply.
As M. Mill puts it,, it is not really
"Inkling of "Call It intuition Professor Edgerton started with flash but only an
It is practically invisible to will," he says, "but there it is.". the spark gap, with progress being the human eye.
light. slow until finally, In 1937, he deve-
"Furthermore, since I have learn- loper the argon low pressure tube Combine this with M. Mill him- ed to operate that way, all sorts of which, with its ability to produce self, who is a tall, thin, bird-faced things happen of which I have won tremendous light in such time
person, looking as though he was later show themselves to be part of spring 45
continually scenting a new picture, ten-thousandth one
the harmonious whole of the action of serand, his •houd covered with
heavy, in my life." of opened up the new fteld he had gray-ond M. Mili in operation be-
been trying to explore.
Je coin cumes something which attracts This is what is behind M. Mili's muniented this information
New pictures, making it easy to realise to M. attention. Steinberg Mill at Westinghouse, who took up emphasizing these features, which is such recognition, and yet it'
Yorker did e cartoon of him, why his work already has received only work on it with great zeal.
one of M. MI's principal delights. starting.
One of the last assignments given to the units was the evacuation VIP from burning Berlin. After this they tried to find 1,000 radlo operators for underground work with the Werewolves, but this plan failed miserably.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
of the
will
touches
from emerge
Many men have been building up their physique by physical training exercises in the snow, and have The blackfellow now has no urge been studying the secrets of athletic paint more auch pictures. He success at a series of lectures given does not believe they
were by former Olympic competitors and painted by man. He thinks
they athers.
to
ever
"Lunch Time"
BY KEMP STARRETT
Спакой тра
TIME TO GET BACK TO THE OFFICE... AND SLEEP OFF THE MEAL....
Ledger Syndicate
THOSE TIN LITTLE GUYS, WHO LOOK BALF STARVED, EAT THEIR OWN VEIGAT EVERY DAY: IT MAKES 'EM TUDI TO CARRY IT AROUND.
THE ONES WHO PUT ON OR TAKE OFF THEIR COATS IN THE MOST CROWDED SPOT IN THE RESTAURANT.
THAT LOST FEELING. VIEN YOU FIND YOUR FAVORITE SPOT OCCUPIED BY A FLOCK OF STRANGERS... AND NOT A VACANT TABLE IN THE PLACE.
ZIFIGGER I'M IN ABOUT TVEN'Y BUCKS A
YEAR ON TIPS ́ÁLOVE.....ESTIN":
THIS WAY. BESIDES, I DON'T LIKE TOO MUCH
GRUB AT NOON,
"ME TOO? AY·
REAL
MEAL 15
DINNER.
"AT" NIGHT?"
MAKES
ME
DOPEY
"NO MATTER HOW COLD THE WEATHER. SOME OF THE GALS STICK TO THEIR "LIGHT LUNCH REGIMEN .TO KEEP THE HIPS UNDER CONTROL.
DID YOU EVER HAVE LUNCA IN ONE OF TROSE DAINTY TEA CROPPES DAINTY DOILIES „DAINTY SERVICE (AFTER FORTY MINUTES WATT) AND FOOD SO DAINTY YOU WONDER. YOU REALLY HAD ANY
THE SERVICE IN THE STOCK ROOM ICHT VERY RITZY, BUT MOSE CATCH-XS- CATCA-CAM LUNCHES ARE FILLUG. AND ECONOMICAL.