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STORY OF ANDREW CARNEGIE
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years they were glad to sell out. their heads together to buy Carnegie reorganised the plant and recouped his purchase with profits entned in two years.
labour,
Car-
to
nexle out and join his planta into a great nation-wide steel monopoly, the United States Steel Corporation. Friction with some of his senior partners predisposed Carnegie sell. He was,
moreover, 05. and had a new interest in his new Scot- tish home, the Castle Skibo, Just cummeted at a cost of £200,000.
After attempts had failed to sur- round the Carneale plants and cut them off from markets by the or-
anisation of cartels and and by the raising of railway freights against him, a deal was
combines.
THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY ~ 17, 1948.
PHOTOSTRIP SERIAL--No. 12
SYNOPSIS:
Having mis- takenly arriv- ̈ ̈ ed on the set of Cecil B. DeMille's "Un conquer- ed," Cather ine secks a way to sneak out without being seen, as Producer- Director D c. Mille prepares to shoot a
scene.
HOW A HOLLYWOOD STAR IS BORN ✰
Director George Marshall wants Catherine to sneak around the back of the Debillo art, so he shows her where to go before the cameras photo- graph her enactment of the setne. Suddenly dis- covering Catherine on the set with his actors De-
Mita calls "Cut" and shouts to Catherine to zet off the stage. She runs off-stage and plunges headlong into Mr O'Connell, knocking him into a pool of water on the DoMillo set. When O'Connell recognises Catherine as the girl who did the samO thing to him the night before he goes into a ragel
At the studio gymnasium, where John Lund is hav- ing a rub-dawn, Director George Marshall" has a good laugh.on O'Connell and his affinity for poola of water when near Catherine. (To be continued tomorrow)
Linklater brings two books
SEALSKIN TROUSERS,
by Eric Linklater.
(Rupert Hart-Davis, 8s. td.)
THE ART (ADVENTURE,
H
by Eri Linklater.
(Macmillan, 10s. Gd.)
out at once
by JOHN PUDNEY
new stories,
for
teristic energy, raising recruits the splendidly named Orkney For- tress Engineers. Later he was one of those attached to the War Office to wield a pen.
Hanoily this and file to do with the Whitehall craft of pen-pushing. His official writings took him over
ever-widening fields of
wor.
• McKENNEY
ON BRIDGE
Reverse Bidding Indicates Power
E has Viking blood. He darkness. These-new books of
Much has happened to Linitlater the
By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY lives in the Orkneys when his are illuminated with a keen and to the world in which he lives. He wrote "The Northern Garrisons" not roaming the world. northern light.
(Sceand in a series of six special He has more capacity than most and a history of the Highland Divi- In literature he is a he-man, tonic.
They are
writers for retalning it and of well- Elhe Art of Adventure" is no by-
slon.
Lesson "Hanis). but never a tough. People say
ing it down. He describes, with all
TODAY'S Lesson Hund deals with of him that he looks liko
Linklater was born in the the tenderties of a love scene, his product. It
not just a war book. reverse bidding. We hear a lot Botticelli painting. though it is lavish with people and about reverse bidding this year, and severe schoolmaster.-
Inst year of the last century, being alone with
with war-Field-it can become a That is the only thing about Not many pages before, he is rollick- places associated
confusing subject. cold, him which dates. He has writ
ing away even sea-horses.
Marshal Alexander in his campaign My suggestion is, do not pay too His Ave ten some 25 books, a dozen of Trousers," are more temperate than in Rome: Sir Ralph Richardson
"Sealskin Mess; Evelyn Waugh recuperating much attention to its complications, on However, today's hand gives you a them fiction, since he startled most of his work. Their sublecta a mission in Gibraltar. himself, and readers on both are diverse, but they share that The book is the plcture of, good
simple rule to follow. sides of the Atlantic, with his Linklater's images are
With the South cards you have atmospheric character in which life in our times in which was just a biddable spade suit and a biddable
as clear as happens to be ingrained. Linklater's heart suit. The best-selling "Juan in America." frost at sunrise and in which people astute judgments are mingled with rule is as follows: If you bid the reverse bidding His vigour, the broadness of his move with the exactness of deer.
reminiscence.
lower-ranking sult, and on the second Far interest, his persuasiveness, his
He offers us a haunting thing about Take his essay about Richard Hil-round
you have Boldier returning from war to marry lary, that young man with the tor- order to show the second suit, that to bid two in of restlessness belong to our times.
a goose girl. There is a model of tured face who created one of the brevity about Finland. The cold war's abiding monuments in "The
threads through it. Last Enemy,"
Certainly there is a fishy stare about his writing, but after a few pages you dis- cover that it is a warm heart. Later on you find out that it can make the most placid blood tingle.
Linklater lurks in the North, but he is no man
From Here and There:
The Devil Promised
To Call-And Did!
Florence. At a seance in Florence a voice claiming to be the Devil answered the summons of the table tap- ing. The voice was accompanied by a greenish cloud and an overpowering smell of sulphur. A Florentine doctor, a lawyer and a young woman who were gathered round the table implored him to go away, and switched on the lights. Satan, however, once invoked refused to be turned down, and said he would call on them each in- dividually one hour later at their homes.
a
dearth of wor
but there is a fine warmth in the Hillary forced himself, partly suggestive got a hero's temper wholly against that of his friends, of the great com- against kis Gwn judgment and
poser Sibelius, and a hero's appetite.""
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a training field in Scotland driven by a a drunken driver
to Dublin. passengers are a married couple amassed all the wealth
gauche, cloquent, during character. who aro not married to each other. The unaccustomed pairing of the two cities in the fugitive, hesitant, and Innocent kisses of the two people ta
The
forgotten.
an episode not to
be
Typical of Linklater that he takes
TRY AND STOP ME, by Bennett Cerf.
(Dennis Dobson, Is. 6d.)
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hand.
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And so the Carnegie interests spread and multiplied year by year as rival enterprises were bought out, squeezed out, or absorbed by the Napoleon of Steel,
The late eighties and early nine- ties wer
"Food, food and drink, marked by bloody strikes and lockouts in the Carnegie steri-
English tople in the first year of the radio all night. You won't be works, as the workmen struggled to
their victory--the world had rarely able to stop it fizzing till morning means you have a very powerful
hungrier triumph-and And then what a hang-over! scen u shake off the slavery of a 12-hour-
their laurelled heads were childish Highly recommended, therefore, Therefore, with a biddable spade day seven-day-week of unbroken
dreams of sugaredi cakes. They for chapter-at-a-time reading Is. Mr and heart suit, you must bid
the The promise was strictly that cosmic rays have an effect in spoke of steaks with reverence, at Cerf's treasury of funny stories and spade sult first unless you do have anecdotes. There is a whole chapter a powerful hand. If you have four the Homestead works developed into suck and a price settled. £80,000,- kept. It was reported that at the production of cancer. The test cheese with sober Joy......
That, I think, is the slap of a of shaggy-dog stories, defined each of the three homes on the is to be carried out by University of
8 spades to the ace-jack-ten, and five special soldier, one who knows and under "the kind of tales in which animals hearts to the acc-queen, you should workers and armed "watchmen" of It was one deal in which Carne-stroke of 3 a.m., preceded by electroscope on loan from the Car-stands war. Linklater went through talk, humans do inexplicable things, open the bidding with the the Pinkerton Detective Agency em- met Morgan and said: "I made one wails of anguish and shrill negic Institute in Washington. The the Brst world war in the infantry, and the punch lines make no sense Then, if your partner bids no trump.
gic was bested. Two years later ክር played by the company.
Yet Carnegie's millions continued to you. I should have asked
mistake, Pierpont, when I sold out whistles, with the furniture be- laboratory mice, some with cancer He began the second with charne- at all."- to accumulate and his interests to £20,000.000 more than I did."
strains, will later be compared with spread. By now he owned a 425-***
He Devil calle, By the following control groups above ground. WANTS VENGEANCE mile railway and a
fleet of lake was visibly annoyed when Morgan morning the young girl's hair stearnships in addition to his
grin: replied with
"Well, you
had turned white. steel and coal-companies,
would have got it if you had."
The remaining 19 years of his life
One Ave-months shut-down
a murderous civil war
to
of
between
000
vast
shoot
the
estate nt
you ing hurled round the rooms, the
of
WELL, WELL! Johannesburg—During o
heavy
GRUB TROUBLE Wellington A quarter of New Zealand's homes were plunged into darkness when tiny grub fell across the terminals at the power slation and short-circuited the elec tricity supply system.
ย
BOAR, HUNT
The Inte nineties was the period Carnegie devoted to improving his of Carnegie's mort
amazing growth bik na steel skyscrapers began to
at Skibo, travelling the world up all over the country and America and supervising the incumerable rainstorm at Naboomspruit, a fish,
devoted 18 inches long, fell in C. Lieben began the rebuilding of her Navy. benefactions to which he
At the close of the century
berg's garden. He ate it for break- the bulk of his fortune. annual steel output of the Carnegle
Today these endowments marshal fast next morning.
£60,000,000 And works (four millon tons) amounted assets of between
nearly half the total American
£100,000,000 sterling, comprising
university depart production and almost equalled that mainly schools, of all producers combined in Great ments, libraries and research inbora- Britain.
tories
to the number scattered Annual profits of the Carnegie thousands all over the globe. Company shot up from £1,200,000 All of Carnegie's benefactions in 1890 to £4,200,000 in 1899, and
were designed to provide the means to £8,000,000 in 1900.
for the Individual to better himself. Competition of the little Scotsman Almsgiving to relieve the miseries was rolling altogether too stiff. The of poverty and vice had but sccon- Pierpont Morgans, the Mellons of dary part of his plans. Pittsburgh, and others with
Ho aimed at bettering the funda- millions in rival steel concerns
got mental status of society by provide ing establishments that would help to eliminate poverty and vice-and the greatest Instrument to that end, he considered, was education.
Carnegle hnd
the concluded Just disposition of all his wealth in bene- factions, excepting fained for his wif £3,000,000 re-
their
Glostora
FOR NEAT, WELL-GROOMED HAIR!
His hair's -no problem, now!.
Glastora keeps
it neat and well combod all day.
and
Warsaw”—Mass hunts for
Toronto scientists with 21
а
New York-Miss Mary Mingla, a middle-aged woman who goes to church every Sunday, has offered her services to Washington as hiangman, She
execute wants to the Japanese criminals con- wax demned for atrocities in the Philip- pines. Her reason: "I want to help even the score for what they did to
half-brother" my
(Major General Hoffman, who died from lack of medical care),
the
PLAYED SAIZ Cape Town.--A midnight home- going reveller suddenly heard unmistakable roar of a lion on dark rood close at hand. Ho lept a wild wire fence and swarmed up a tree. boar are to be organised by the The next morning a zoo
attendant Polish Ministry of Forestry because, found him asleep in a tree near the owing to the cold weather, large, lons' cages. numbers of the beasts are coming from the woods and destroying the stores of potatoes.
**** DOG" ALARM Amsterdam--In Amsterdam'n dog saved the lives of a mother and five children. An oil-heater in a down- stairs room fell
tho over, setting fire. The family living room on
ilaughter who were upstairs sleeping were Margaret's future support when he awakened by the dog barking in the caught a chill necessitating his com- plete relirement. Four years later, living room..
SEE, GIRLS!
on August 11, 1919, at the age of 64. hodled at Lennox, Massachu Vienna-Three hundred prettily- seits. He was buried in the Sleepy dressed Hungarian girls all wearing Hollow Cemetery, near Tarrytown, short skirts-gathered in New York.
taneous
£1 spon- demonstration on one of
fashionable Budapest's main streets down and cried, "No long skirts,
girl with long skirts." Reason: a
The disclosure that Carnegie had given away more than 80 percent of his colossal fortune caused amaze- ment. But among his possessions wearing the new ankle-length style was a diary note written 31 years had just tripped up on her own long before, when he was 33 and his
skirt"
as she alighted from a income round £10,000 a year. de-The skirt caught in the wheels and claring then that that was what he she was dragged along the road and intended eventually to do,
severely injured.
ARE YOU SURE?.
ANSWERS
Questions on Page 9
1. Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 1300. 2. Kittyhawk, N. Caro-
trom.
TEST MICE Ollawa-Several. cages of white) mice art to be taken a mile' under- ground in a mine in Northern On- Carlo to prove or disprove a theory
lina, where the Wright brothers NANCY made their early experiments
Bight. Breastplate of n a Household Cavalry- man. 6. Land a dangerous enter-
3. Reformed drunkards. 4.
prise. 6. J. L. Motley, Edward Gib- bon, Charles Darwin. 7. Four times. The rhymo which says 'thrice is wrong. a. Chow the cud.
0. Fanny Burney. 10. Great wealth.
CROSSWORD SOLUTION Solution of yesterday's puzzle- Across: 1 Pronounce; 4, Real- dency; 8, Gälkwar; 10, Filtrate; 12, Establish; 16, Sten; 16, Serge;' 18, Dled; 10, Omate; 20, Rectify.
Down: 1, Professor; 2, Register; 3. Eyro; 5, Saltern; 6, Nativity; 7, Crescent, Walk; 11, Tan; 18, Dest; |M, Hides;-17, Gat.
Waste of Timo
WHY DON'T YOU TAKE UP A HOBBY---
LIKE STAMP. COLLECTING?
CHESS PROBLEM
By W. MARTINDALE
Black. 3 pieces.
White, 7 pieces. White to play and mate in three,
Solution to yesterday's. problem:
1, E QKti, any; 2, Q, K (dis ch), K, or Kt (dbi ch) mates.
NEVER HOID OF IT
SURE--PEOPLE COLLECT ALL SORTS OF THINGS AS A HOBBY
REALLY
Rupert and the Big Bang-19
----While-the - bright-light:is-in-the---------
sky the little pala have no difficulty in making their way toward it, but all at once it fades and goes right out," leaving them in pitch darkness. They gaze round nervously to return to their own small fire, but that has gone out too. There is no speck of light anywhere. I wish we had done as Rupert said." quavera Res the rabbit. Next minute they are tumbling one after another into a rough hallow nobody had seen.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,
Skeleton
CLUES ACROSS
1. Black Jack (three words) D. Am nice, for
a change, in the pictures. 11. Might
found
be
the forehead and in hind head, ta, aire the non- amateurA trinf We ublect
13. Inedible rail. 15. should one poot *
crop from
ita playing helds 7
10. Real 1onic,
this instru- icent,
you
insy ind
17. Hero one should take one of two letters to heart. 15 sentius. 19. Let's start to work together on
tho hanbatuse
21. Resounding result of having
#in in the mous
23. Revolutionary wayA
between
Asia and Affles (two words).
. This one's not so dimcult.
55. in seo, a Dark Stranger" con
of her favourite, films?
CLUES DOWN
♣. The company which has one
over the algat.
3. Virginin, seier elected to Par- jamank, becomes an adven- turean.
4. Very small beer, one would
imagine.
י,
spade.
or two diamonds, or two clubs, you can bid two hearts.
However, in today's hand South's
heart.
Justifies opening with one
Do not make the mistake of bid ding two diamonds with the North hand. To go into the two zone, North should have at least one and a half tricks. He is better off to bid
trump. Then when South nmkes the reverse bid of two spades, North knows he has a good hand and is justified in bidding three
one no
spades. South of
of course properly
takes it to four.
In the play of the hand declarer must be careful to establish diamond trick before he picks up- the trumps.
Crosswor
3. na should, nave some weight
about her la Bomerset.
B. To achieve notoriety cat about
160.
T. AB,0, record a broken as
Lord's, maybe.
0. Wine pute an end to ecstasy,
10. Pastoral scens of song and
dance.
11. Who's idiotic? Annie 1. DOM
witty.
14. This an nonour,
16. In brief, you'il and Ike others
in the Scarlet Cow."
18 Bet to insert a short pubila
20.
notice in fuo,
he's quick duck i
21. R.LP. ln a word.
22. It sounds as if Old Franco
might cause annoyance.
By Ernie Bushmiller
SURE---COINS, |ART, ANTIQUES, VASES, STAMPS, ANYTHING
GARBAGE COLLECTOR
NOW THERE'S
A SILLY
HOBBY
the Skeleton Crossword the black squares and clue nom bera have to be tied in, as well as the words. Four black squares and four clue number have been inserted to give you a start,
The black squares forbi asymé metrical pattern; the top falf matches the bottom tjait, and the two sides correspond. Bo you can All in 12 more »quares at once te correspond with those given.
Since there is no No. 1 Down. the second square from the fert in the second line down cho the blacked in. Note that there is a 1 Downs, well na = 21 Across: stiereldra the gunze Immediately Above that Contatalog, the Ugure si in niso & black one
In this way you can build up the puzzle as you solce the clues words of two letters, except in phrases, are not used,"
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