Women
This Space Evory Day
BEAUTY ARTS By LOIS LEEDS
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1947.
Another Epic Of The DUMBBELLS
Back Room Boys
Behind the presentation of a portrait in oils to Colonel Samuel Bassett, CBE, Royal Marincs, which took place at the Royal College of Art on July 10, lies one of the most colourful war stories of Britain's "back room boys,”
The portrait, painted by Mr Edmond Nelson, who is exhibiting in this year's Royal Academy, was presented to Colonel Bassett by Major-General C. R. W. Lamplough, C.B.E.,.D.S.C., wartime Deputy Director of Naval Intelli- gence, who now commands the Royal Marines at Plymouth, deputising for Viscount. Mountbatten, former Chief of Combined Operations.
85 BLOOD
Colonel Bassett joined forces. with a hydrographie surveyor and an Oxford don in 1940 to set up, on instructions from the Chlofs of Staff, a central inter-
DONORS SAVED services organisation within the
HER LIFE
A 36-year-old woman, Mrs Georgina Naylor, of Liverpool, has been kept alive for two years through receiving the blood of 86 voluntary donors. Today she is fit and well.
in May. 1944. Mrs Nayler, who was suffering from aplastic annemia, was given a month to live, and her husband received special leave from his Army unit, then in Holland so as to be with her.
Admiralty to collect and collate topographical information about enemy-held territory, needed to plan combined operations ralds, and later, the major operations of the war.
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I DID!
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THE KITCHEN
IT'S MAKING
SO MUCH
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SHORTAGES
HIT JUNGLE
MEDICINE
Johannesburg-Elephant hearts are short, in supply. One must deal in the black The organisation got to work by market to get locust legs. answering spot requests,
such 03 information for supplying
the However, cuttlefish powder and Dortmund-Ems seal blubber, considered excel- of the bombing canal or for the evacuation of troops lent remedica for bleeding nosea, Port of Teralia, subsequently
the France, or searching for
dis- are plentiful. covered to be a corruption. of the term "inter alia",
from
Photos From Public
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when grated, Elephant hearts. burnt and inhaled before retiring. are reputed to assure sleepers that they will
have no nightmares. Locust legs considered essential in the brewing of the best native beer once sold for fuurpence a tin, but today they are sold only on black market at much above
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TO-DAY
the TO-MORROW the
Posed by Joan Caulfield for Lois Leeds.
a report by wholesalc in South Africa's native Make of your hair a Beauty Headline!
It was not long before this nucleus dealers
to in- medicines. Their average business HAIR CARE
change your hair style, reach for
But a doctor in Broadgreen Hos-organisation was expanded your hair brush instead of the scis
found accommodation was
outside £300--but they say they now uro Now that you are going hatless Bors. Give your scalp the glory or pital, Liverpool, where she lay dy- clude Army and RAF officers, and day yields them each amounts up to ofing, refused to surrender her life. the Admirally-in the North of faced by postwar shortages in many your hair must be beautiful. Hore good brushing to stir up circulation.
To replace the vital red blood cells London, where it was promptly Ingredients. Like elephant hearts, are some simple hair rules. I Condition your hair by frequent which her own bone marrow could bombed out, Oxford wos
thenotter hairs are also hard to get to- have told you how to style your натрова. A soapless shampoo com- not produce, repeated blood trana-selected as headquarters.
day. hair-but it must be healthy hair.bined with a hair conditioner saves
fusions were given and kept her Comb and brush your hair to free time and cleans and brightens your
alive.
After each transfusion the it of tangles and particles of dirt, hur And, too, before you reach for
felt renewed life in her veins, but a Place a little ointment on your the scissors, look at your profile,
fresh supply of blood quickly became The Department, which had thes fingertips. Place the thumbs at the look over, your hats, plan carefully.
been styled the Inter-Services Topo- back of the head, and with the
Department, Fortunately suficient donors re-graphical
produced think that you should accent necessary to prolong her life. Angertips, "dig" deep into the scalp your personality--always! A good sponded to the calls made on them books which were called the Inter lift and musste. Keep up this deep
ten, Permanent for hair which just has and ample blood was made avail-Service Intelligence Summaries and massage for at least five then rest. Now place thumbs. bestyle but this of pretty hair able during these two years by the is, work grew unill, just before
pe
Its staff was well over 1,000 hind the ear and mossarte the sealstyles, But insist uponnent, and fusion Centre at Liverpool. If there and consisted of Navy, Army, RAF. | controlled price,
before, for five minutes. Your before you have a permanent, and Ministry of Health's Regional Trans-Day,
ATS, WAAF American will tingle with increased cir- insist upon a skilled operator. Do
your purt by conditioning your hair had been a break in the transfusions WRNS
Dutch, Belgian and alive today,
officers, other ranks and Repeated examinations of Naylor's blood after the inst trans- civilians. It had branches in Wash- different kinds of wild animal fat fusion have shown that her bone Ington, SEAC and Austraila.
A large proportion of the civilian marrow has recovered its function
staff
were specialist geographiers, of turning out red blood cells.
treatment for Geologists, soil scientists, etc., In Britain, this
the department was severe cases of anaemia is one of
several Colleges in Oxford. the new uses of blood transfusion, of
The public will recall broadcast and instances where the blood 20 to 30 donors is needed are becom- appeals for photographs which it can now be disclosed were for the ing increasingly frequent. It is one
use of this Inter-Services Topo of many reasons why as much blood graphical Department. Over 5,000,- is being used by Britain's hospitals 000 photographs were offered and a today as in wartime.
very large proportion of these were accepted and copied.
a library of From this collection a
culation. Follow this massage, with for the permanent. A two weeks'ra Naylor would' certainly not be WAC, Norwegian WRNS, American,
good brushing. After each stroke with the brush wipe it on a rough towel so that each brush stroke is a clean stroke,
Λ centre-part demands a dawlessly clean scalp, If you wear a hairdo that features a centre-part,
Con-
centrate on scalp cleanliness. Τα keep hair and scalp shiningly clean, try shampooing with a liquid sham- pos,
Your Kenlp
part will be not only clean but.. healthy and full of justrous beauty.
Your hair is your chlef aid in changing your appearance, You may sult your own whimsies as well those of fushion. Before you
Us
Minule Makerges
GABRIELLE
Got ready now to find your place in the sun! Here is the formula for a homemade protective lotion, Onu cup of Olive Oil, one cup of vinegar, one teaspoonful of iodine. Blend well. You can, If you like, ase black tea instead of the fodine. Use this lotion at frequent Intervals while out in the sun.
SIDE GLANCES
programme of masanging the scalp and deep up-and-out brushing will result in a better permanent."
JUBILEE
OF TATE
GALLERY
The Tate Gallery, the great national art collection in Lon- don, celebrated its 50th anni- versary on July 21.
It was in 1800 that Mr Henry Tate, offered his collection of Eng- leh paintings to the nation. After
negotiations which lasted for years Tato provided the funds as well as his pictures for the building of a gallery.
Opened on July 21, 1897 by the Prince of Wales--later King Edward
VII-the gallery instantly aroused cnormous public Interest. Ever since its opening, In fact, the history of the Tale has been one of continu- ing expansion, both of the Gallery itself and of the collections:
Mrs
Norwegian,
housed
Bishop Does His ground photographs, aussibly
Rounds
and in
the
largest in the world, was built up. and there was not a single operation which took place which did not in copies of Its intelligence include some of these glits from the British public:
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Local Knowledge
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Herbal Remedies.
However, one still can buy
at two shillings incpence a, battle. Some BUD. herbal remedies also or: available. Hippopotamus' fat is the most popular, followed by the fats of the crocodile, python, Uzard and whale,
Powdered snake bones are Coll- slderes a sure cure for backaches. but there are no native remedies for tuberculosis and diabetes. They are considered while men's diseases.
All wholesale houses hire qualif- ed analytical chemists to make sure that none of the medicines sold are poisonous-Associated Press.
War-deafened
Veterans
War-deafened veterans
the of Royal Air Force lead an almost because of a normal life again. highly-developed programme of the Service'a medical rehabilitation pra- gramme.
Dr John William Charles Wand. the Bishop of London, has revived the old custom of a
In the period immediately prior to clergyman visiting the pari- 'D' Day the protographle reproduc- shioners-with this difference, tion unit of the Department was he is calling not on individual producing over 20,000 photographs
every 24 hours, church members but upon his
One item alone, in connection with 600 parishes. It will take some the Normandy landings required months for him to get around. million and a quarter photographs or
Cost of irenting. cx-pilots and He started out recently in a pro-720-miles of photographic paper....
One Large section of the Depart-crewmen who lost their hearing by ccasion by the Coldstream Guards,
ment dealt with the collection and exposure to noise; by weather con- whose trumpeters rounded fanfares
of local altions, Injuries to their ears as a persons to attract crowds to the sunny front classification
Many people gave in- rasult of flying and by disease or knowledge. of St Bolton's Church in Bishops formation and may have wondered infection, is being borne by the gate,
Air. Ministry or the Ministry Standing on the church steps, the what it was all about,
Pensions. Bishop chatted with all who came along, asiting the vicar, aliar boy and bellringer about their problems. Some of the wealthier
of
lip-
Today, the Tate's collection of British paintings numbers about 3,000 works, while there are more than 500 works of modern painting and sculpture from other countries.
One lady who considered her time In its 30 years the Tate Gallery has evolved a tradition of encourag
had been completely wasted because
саве Every
fels 1 thorough all she was asked was information lug the most serious living artists
for children's examination that includes complete however young and obscure-by the
St Bolton about the facilities
bathing at a certain beach, would hearing tests and individual purchase of their works. It is now members gave him £2,000 to re- be surprised to know that her in- reading Instruction Hearing bot the national gallery of British paint-build bombed churches.
formation about her children's bath- are supplied after tests ing and of modern foreign art, and Expressing regret that there were possesses unique collections not only
too few clergymen In Britain today, to wear rope soled shoes at teries are supplied at Intervals, free.
certain states of the tide because of of cost. of: Turner, but of Blake, the Pre-
to keep In touch
with
each the oozing mud, made a success of Raphaelites, Stevens, and contem- parishioner, he said he hoped the
which Commandos raid
might porary British painting.
At the condition would be corrected in the easily have been a complete failure. same time, its collection of late 19th future. Associated Press
The man who remembered that he. and early 20th century French paint-
had as a boy dug peat for fires on inga is the most representative in
little beaches of the British Commonwealth.
that a problem he gave to
JOER, 1947 KÝSTA SERVICE, IND, 7, M. FIG. 1B)
By Galbraith
instead of spending so much fixing this old oar, we ought to buy a new che then we could save enough to buy
Marsome now clothes and jook like somebody!
TO TEST ORIGIN
OF ATOLLS
One outcome of the Bikini atomic bomb test may be to prove whether the Charles Darwin theory of the origin of an atoll. Is right.
Despatches reezived by the U.S. Navy from a scientiße party malting ព one-year-later survey told of drilling operations by the Geological Survey and the Navy, designed to establish definitely how the atolls develop,
U.S.
Darwin advanced the theory that coral atolls are formed by coral growing upon reefs around a slowly. sinking laland. .Since his time geologists have arituted on the pros and cons Associated Press.
CHESS PROBLEM
"White"
By A. WEBLE
Black, 15 pieces.
Walic, 8' pleces,
to play and mate in two. Solution "to" yesterday's problem." 1,897, and:2, Q, R (dis ch); B. or Rt mates, "
our geologiats and eventually to our planners.
the
Many treated veterans join "hearing clubs," where lip-reading einsses are held, where they enn fellow suf- practise the art with
scheme firera. The rehabilitation" hus operated for about eight months with marked Guccess.--Associated Press.
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Come and let's
ru over there."
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more specimens of the rare evel- ncanth fish, caught off South Africa In 1938 and now exhibited "in", the East London Museum, in
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