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QUHAN
PATENT OFFICE
"Are you actually trying to claim that that sills little
box-thing can make people invisible...
LONDON
boing a portrait of one more of the many faces of London, to remind hor vialtora-and tho Londonors, too-that thoro lo still no more fascinating city.
James
Hamilton's. Most of it is gone under the ponderous avalanche of Victorian Fancy and Anglo- Saxon Fifth Avenue.
Nevertheless we are in May- fair, the heart of the Michael Arlen country, where, dress- making is Couture and even a laundry is a Blanchisserie, where no business brass-plates permitted, where your shops
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1972
PRESSMEN'S OUTING
FOUR PEOPLE SPEND A DAY
AT GOODWOOD... BUT DON'T
SEE QUITE THE SAME THING
PAUL HOLT
AS I left Goodwood, I mwi A family, burdened with profit, walk into a wood and climb into the car they had parked
there
CHAPMAN
Two shillings in pocket necretly. The mother (with gold PINCHER
...and out again
GOODWOOD.
earrings) wore a tallerod coat and nkirt. Hor little girl carolled over the grass singing "Open the door. Richard."
T the end of a long, dusty
On the way home the contented in conflict with the deduction of the bookies and gipales, bookies, a young woman under the tipsters and the horses, foll my observation had won two among some felly thloves sent out shillings.
by the local hospitals, who held out their old tennis rackets in the road who had gave, begging for
Those
A and laborious afternoon, amateurs, freed at last from the
She boasted about it all the way back from the course to the car, whore a grubby little gipsy girl with red hair sold her a sprig of heatherfor two shillings.
Honours were thus even. The professionals had the last word and the last coin.
This sense of fair play is a great thing among the holiday There is no doubt racegoers.
that all the boasting about win- nings you hear buzzing in your ears is no more than social good manners. It is not real.
There was an old lady with a man's, stick to help her poor feet in this hot weather, and she came back from the booldo she had picked swinging her stick complacently.
"Get your money, mom?" called out her adoring family,
"Of course I did. Him and
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may by no means announce me is pala," she called back. themselves "maric de vere" or "mollie maloney"-in anything but the chic-est of lower-case letters above
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Cameron the window-dis IT lan't right to suggest that
STORY about London-ond and a Sunday, if you please, a holiday every where but London!
play: one hat, one glove, and a flower.
Here, it is fair to say, things are not entirely what they It is still possible to scom. walk from Park-lane to the Bond-street frontier without being trampled underfoot by peers of the realm."
It is one of the cherished fancies of those of us who sot doggedly out, regular as the cuckoo, to wrest a homely word or two from the tale of London That young woman waiting that on such a day as this so observantly at the Charles- nothing can possibly happen. street corner for a bus, no doubt is not, as she appears to Why,
is everyone away be, a countess in her own right. Everyone has left Town. Every- one, that is, but the seven Mayfair has done what it million odd who have stayed could do to obliterate the traces
and the ten thousand odd who
have arrived.
a Goodwood crowd is a holi- day crowd. There is no air of sunburn and brassleres, no swagger. These gentle drifting folk have the air of an after-
noon off.
This great dusty heather bowl with the mist of the Sussex downs in the distance malding a blue saucer for an afternoon of, Cat's Pleasure has a green strip of purpose down the gay, jockeyed which streaked like marionettes.
horses
It is of unreal and very old-world. No harm comes to the visitor as though he had entered a fairy ring.
ROBB
half-crowns.
Now hero's the one
for my money. PLACED first among the things
Pandemonium doas 37 mph... . Not bad!
H
AVE
ever noticed, you that horse in a raco never
L1ook round to see if they are. being followed as their jockeys do?
They do not need to turn their heads to see what goes on bohind. When a horse holds its head up it has all-round vision and cannot be ap proached unawares. That is the Best-thing a horse does when illu startled is to hold its head high. At least one did it each time the starting gate went up.
why
If you approuch a horse head-on it looks at you with both eyes until you get within three feet of it, then always turns its head away and watches you with one eye.
becaus
It forced to do this although it would rather watch you with two eyce, It has a bind zone for double-eyed virion just in front ok the nose.
re-
I had fun proving this to my friends in the Goodwood paddock. Scoing a racehorse always minds me how much bigger its head Is in proportion to the body pared with the heads of horses shown in old paintings and
prints.
com-
Those big horses with tiny heads. like the one Charles I. Is riding in Van Dyck's famous picture, arose in the 17th century.
The
old war-horses which the armoured knights used to ride were crossed then with much smaller horses imported from Arabla.. The Hybrids
HOW'S YOUR
HORSE ?
SENSE
The numbers of the questiona correspond with the. nambers on the picture above
Answers below Column Two.
1. How many eyelids has a horse ?
2. Has the horse a bigger or smaller brain than a man?
3. Has the horse more or fewer bones in its neck than a giraffe ?
4. To what bone In the human arm does this correspond?
5. To which does this correspond: knee, ankle, or some other joint ?
6. What is the average weight of a thorough- bred racehorse?
had the Arab hend on a war. CLIVE GRAHAM Gordon's mount accelerated, leaving
horse body.
Speed,
endurance and courage were what the old Arab breeders wanted in a horse. Some measure of their success was to be seen at Goodwood, for there is Arab horse blood in every English thorough- bred.
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You noticed Gordon shake his head
Admiral's Yari behind, and Edward Tudor now had only the 20-1 chance Avignon to beat.
There was a furlong to go and Edward "Tudor had the race at his UC horse of the day was mercy. So it seemned. But be either Edward Tudor, which started wouldn't or couldn't exert himself odds-on favourite for the
GORDON RICHARDS was brown-
£1,500 Chesterfeld Cup. It. any more, and Avignon plunged on hard to believe that was his last race in England, after at the same pace to win by n length. Pandemonium, the English-look- which he was to be shipped to the Ing chestnut colt which won the first Argentine, where a rich cattle race, is descended from a horse no rancher has paid £25,000 for him. bigger than a fox terrier. But it is true. I can even tell
Mrs Macdonald Buchagan's colt its name. you It was called Eohippus, and it ran in has earned the reputation of being brilliant, but erratie. In last year's America about 50 million years ago. Derby he went to the front a quarter
It had separate toes, each with a of a mile from hoof,
home and looked fool. But every
the modern horse has only one toe left
certain to win Then, Gulf on each foot-the middle one.
Stream and Airborne came at him, All the carly ancestors of the horse he quit and finished in the ruck. Ilved in America, and it is an odd
At Goodwood this time this chest weigh in. thing that after colonising the rest of nut horse carried the sheen and
out
for
on
the
hair was
and in the
ing, as he rode the beaten fav- ourite into the unseddling enclosure. He doesn't like losing a race that he expects to win. He tugged the girth loose quickly, put the saddin in the crook of his arm and walked off to
It was therefore a shock and a of its delicate past, and what it horses fell, one was killed and two
the world the original stock died bloom for which trainer Fred Dar- surprise when in the last race two failed to do the blitz did for it. jockeys were hurt. August Festival
Halfway up the weighing-room that caught my eye: this outfit, You will find no trace now lay dead on the course and her four-starred as a sinner because
There were no horses in America famous. Not a
ling's horses have always been steps he paused, took a quick look Very good: we shall have just for instance of Keith's jockey wes taken away in an it has.
out of thousands of years until the
Dack at Baward Tudor over room (Excuse me, is there a Chapel, where that fashionable ambulance.
Spanish
place,
#unshine his conquistadores took .Gibson Gird hat, black beneath back in the 19th century. place on this bus?)-we shall marriage-broker the Rev. Alex-
some bright chestnut cont shone as it it shoulder and shook his head. A hush spread like rain over the the brim, swathed with grey and
A horse is not
had been polished. have (Do you mind not crushing ander Keith did irregular wed. crowd, and I heard nine people say: and pink tulle above....
fastest
It was an eloquent kitle gesture and thing on four-legs. A cheetah, He looked beautiful-and-full-of-it plainly meant that "Never"agalit so?) room to move. To take n
"Poor horse, what a shamol" staring
The neckline 16 new daytime clocking 70 m.ph.. turn, perhaps, since it is spring dings for the nobility and foarfully up the course at the small style, inspired by the
off-shoulder faster. So do lions and many an-
gocs much power and he walked round the
will we be partners and there's no Inot of tragedy on the green strip line....
ring with a cocky haif-resentful air. telopes.
regrets, on my part." Edward Tu- far away. unti one volce said:
.Rounded hip line accentuated But 37
He gave a few bucks when Gor- dor lashed cut with his off hind at "Poor Jockey, you mean. You can by umbrella pocketa.....
m.p.h--Pandemonium's figure for three-quarters of a mile- don Richards mounted-often a sign get another horse. These jockeys New full skirt at new length, is not bad for an animal which runs of a horse's well-being. Yet there "The same goes for me too."
the wooden partition as if to say are hard to come by."
on the tips. of four toe-nails.
might have been more, in it than.... that. Horse' mid rider have been at variance before.
round that slice of Town be gentry. tween Piccadilly and Oxford- street, Bond-street and Park-
lane, known for. 200 years,
winter and summer 48 May Fair.
Miss Gunning
was excommunicated, cer- tainly, but not before ho had married the Duke of What is it? It is not a Hamilton in 1762 to the lovely borough, nor a ward, nor even Miss Gunning, with the ring of a postal district, nor a
the bed-curtain, at half-past stituency; it has not even got a midnight-the enchanting Miss police station. You might call it Gunning, who became swiftly
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con-
a clique, or a cult, or a way of the wife of two dukes and the of four more. Mr life, good address (good mother enough, anyhow, for a furnish- Arlen himself could have de ed mews flat to cost you 5 vised no better. guineas a week, with £5.000 premium for the lease, if you are lucky). It is, they say, most
ray.
Mr Shepherd THERE was once a man called
Now the characteristica ard standardised; the quiet streets, the backs of monstrous hotels, the clubs, the opulent shops, the off-duty dress- model, the Oxford Grouper off to Hay's Mews, all with a suggestion curiously feminine.
The thing could go on for ever, since Mayfair Is, Bull only before you look into it. What a history
fangled
Shepherd in the hoopla and pink lemonade business, the
Grosvenor squire now — the Billy Butlin of his day, who ran lasi, in London to accept that new- a Merrymaking on those lush'
Pighting—which surren- fields around Hay Hill Farm, dered without a shot to the Great Elsenhower's HQ Invasion of '42. just above St James's, as Eng appeared en Chesterfield Hill; the land turned the corner of the day came when one was startled to 18th century.
hour An Englishman Speak in
· Grosvrnor-square."
بسم
THE
five inches below the knee.
John Deane Potter On Rigged News
BURNING OF BEVIN' WAS A FRAME-UP
HAMBURG.
HOPE Ben Hecht slept well in his Park-avenue penthouse, because I did not. I had nightmares,
JESTS AND JEERS
Kwangtung may be short of rice. but at least it has Soong.
Gordon never stirred in the sad- dle, and soon be had Edward con- tering, quiddy, plast the standa` to the distant staring post. None of the jockeys wanted to set the pace when the tapes went up.
Gordon Richards and Edward Tudor lay last of the Deld of six as they went up the hill and turn ed into the straight. Cassock, the leader, was shouted. Then Avignon wckled him. The other four run- scencers were clustered together,
Defeated, defected men, dull-eyed was the thickest I have ever women carrying waiting babies, on any assignment in 15 years of 'teen-aged girls in shorts. walicing journalism. trains, kept dancing endlessly before down gongways, trudging wearily off
my eyes.
Take the burning of Bevin's eligy in Belsen camp the day the ships arrived. I am assured by the harass- The Jewish propagandists have cd, hard-worked British comman- done a great job helped, I regret to dant that this
was organised by report, by a large section of the American photographers, who per American Press. But while
the suaded the Jews to procure a Union black-and-red headlines shriek the Jack and daub swastikas on.it for news to America it might be useful pictures
to get things into better perspective. Of 4,500 people in the ships only a
Another American reporter tried few hundred fought the British hard to organise a strike or demon- troops when they were told to get stration in Poppendorf Camp. Rea- But. Do you know what the othere son: "To make a good story." "Schmeling, Returns," says a head-did? Most of thiem anised the line. His opponent certainly got a British paratroops who had been:
one asked German with them on the voyage to come Journalists to sign a petition protest- down into the holds and tell them to log against the treatment of the re- fugees, They signed joyfully-but they must also have bien laughing pretty hard, too.
noseful,
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Or Berkeley-square, of the fabulous plane-trees, where
an end to
Fair-was The fair-May closed after
some scandalised protests from the neighbours
ago Lad Clive of India character, says a child psychologist. A 'pat on the back develope over a matter of Dancing, An- ticks, and worse, but Shepherd troublesome life with a penkite, Yes, it administered 'often enough left his mark. Shepherd Marat No. 45. When it was a noble and low enough. ket, that village square, is not sque. Today the clifts of now got wholly elbowed out by the simple beauty of the firecourt to
bullding have given it concrete.
Sing Sing fall, ***, 10 He also left bill:
There is just one final-compensa- ground rent of Eaire and-unelen. Here is the square, the forlorn
Today," 287 trees.
and: barren earth; you house-1 18."
need only ito the corner .of years after, a house in Hill. crass
Fitzmaurice-place and Berkeley.
all the
go.
Another
LUNATIC FRINGE
THEY did this as a loken of resis Someone else, disguised as a COT- tauce so that the organisation respondent bribed a German with which sent them on their unhappy 14,000 marks to try to put a loud- Some women believe the only way exodus could be informed. Key were speaker in the docks to shout to the to hold a man is down..
ordered out by the brutal British, beople in Yiddish not to leave the [But a lot of them also shook hands ships. This attempt failed. It with the troops who had guarded saved a few hundred more unhappy. Hot air zaves moet people cold.them on the voyage.]
Jowe bring hurt resisting the aldiers.
Fashion forecasts that the woo
street, bought during the war square and here is the sign, the waist is coming back this season for £17.000. In selling for almplo rewarding nameplate: Husbands will be slung again.
£40,000.
NIGHTINGALE.
HORSE SENSE
Hero, now, la what everyone tells us is Smart London. No. part of Town has no climbed Bocially, so fallen aesthetically. There are still fragments, obsti-
1. Three in each eye. The third nato corners, that belong to the daya whom Sheridan lived in eyelid Is Inside The upper and Hartford-stroot, and Nelson's lower lids. 2. Smaller, both in chatso 'watted long hours in number oven. The elbow, Clargos-street outside his “Lady The ankle. 6. About half 'n ton.
same
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Bore is too mild a word for some of our club types they're pneumatic drills,
For Whom The Bello Peela- The girl who incandracent, glows Where sun and wind have dosed
Is er alluring to her beaux
When she begins to blister."
There were others, of course: 'I do
head or dragged off with perhaps Some of them were smacked over the not want to misrepresent the case:
umecessary violence.
A. TRAP
DMITTEDLY. Brish offoluis walked into a trap by organising
I am not excusing that, but I the arrival of the ships in semi- would like to say that soldiers are secrecy. not angels, and on this occasion zodat they had almost inhuman provoca- But in their miatakan way tha clats did it to protect the lives
Jon
And here a lot of American news of the Jewish people and our own paper men
the played
Ben soldiers. You can get badly hurt in Hecht gama well. I am not talk- this sort of fight.
ing now of the solid cors of Ameri- It was a pity they went the wrong can reporters, whose messages were way about it, ne it gave the "lunatic enviable for their accuracy and calm- fringe" a joyful chance to ignore the 1904, 1am talking of what you truth and dream up horrors. They migirt call the "Iumatic fringe." It dreamed up. plenty,
Then an official came out of the weghing room and called out "All right." It was the signal for Edward Tudor's lad to lead him away through the crowd to be roubed down and cheeted before. zeluming in his maler, horsebox to his stable.
foibles, Edwad Tudor may
And yet, despite his obvious prove
a big success as a stud horse in the
Argent ne. He has the blood of great Brita racers-Hyperion - and Pharts in his veins. Anyway he will pay for about 450,000 workly
Gordon and Douglas Smith (on Admiral's Yarn) made their efforts, meat, rations.
DAVID LANGDON CARTOON
When you're all quite finished greeting each other like
long-lost brothers, we might start the game