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What The Well-dressed Moon-man Will Wear
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
"SPACE-SUIT" in which rocket-borne ex- plorers may one day scramble over the moon's deeply cratered crust has been de- signed by technicians of the British Interplanetary Society.
Ito four-layered fabric forms a rigid pressurised skin in which the wearer couli breathe and feed. Lunar finds could be ment into the suit through an air lock The silvered for close-up examination. cape gives A means of regulating heat- loss from the matt-black chest pinte.
The suit weighs more than ten stones but, because of the moon's small gravita- tional pull, it would seem no heavier than 25lb.
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Forgetting nothing, the designers- I. E. ROSS and R. A. SMITH-have pro- vided electrically heated shooting stick. This would save the tired explorer from sitting on the moon's jagged rocks which in daytime are baked to oven heat and at night are colder than Antarctic ice.
The Night-life Of A Thrush
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HOW
does
R
SOUNDLY
:
font-si-partiy cut away
Soon after gandown the bird's mental activity dropped below the "waking threshold"--the level above which it remains conscious The bird then fell
Ithe night.
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Now scientista, using the new tools provided by atomic re- search, have found that minute
metal. of another supplies
the essential for Lincare health of the white blood cor- which destroy in- puscles, vading gerTTIA,
Eol-Aged 56
"HE LONGEST-LIVED cel in the world has just Ross- died, aged 56, at Tain, shire. It was caught in 1895 match-sized two-year-old, wriggling
the local river up Transaltantie swim after from ita Sargasso Sea birth- place.
two dict of On " daily worms 1089ed into its glass tank
SITTING ON THE FENCE
By
Nathaniel Gubbins
REPORT I have been Liverpool, Bradford, Glasgow, reading Indicates and all the big cities and large. towns too numerouв to men- that, as the Argen- tion. tinos are now cating more In our double comedy act, and more of their own with diure and palter, my wife- timally got more ment, their dance numbers and I have
laughs than the £400 a week are getting hotter and hot- fa
comedians, and I think I can ter.
nay without fear of contradle- tion that ours has always been a cican net, which is more than you can say of most comedy stuff.
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Argentína Argentina, Argen:
Επα Where the senors are a little
less refina Where they do a hotter num-
ber Than the janghvor the rumbs Cos they fat a lot of meat in Argentina.
Portobello, Portabello, Porto-
bella
Where every girl can meet a
decent fellow There dancing is refina
their bread parino
Он
and m7-
One evening, at Scunthorpe, we had six encores. which so annoyed the juggler, who got the berry (raspberry), that he stole some of our herrings for his supper. When one is } success one always has to put up with jealousy.
So, although I wish good luck to Sammy and hope he cashca in on the publicity, I can't help thinking it a pity that an Ameri- can seal with American backing should do it frat,
What's the matter with Bay- There's not a lot of meat in tish scals? My wife and 1
Portobello.
would be pleased to contact any agent interested in a husband- and-wife Channel swim, Dover to Catals and back--
Argentina, Argentina, Arpen
tina
Your hotcha hotcha
could be cleaner
hotcha
You could dance a cooler
number
On a sandwich of cucumber But you eat a lot of meat In
Argentina,
Argentina, Argentina, Argen-
fina
are The men of Portobello
much leaner They don't get nasty habil. On a diet of boiled rabbits But they're leaner and they're keener and they're cleaner.
Argentine, Argentina, Argen-
tina
Enery day in Every way you're getting meaner You can dance your hot fan-
dangos
You can tango on your man-
pot..... You can keep your
meat in Argentina.
lousy
Yours faithfully,
A Beal.
Dialling T.U.M. "Hatouch?"
ULLO. In that
my
doing
"Your stomach speaking,” "What is my ilver now? Standing at ease?”
"Lying at case, I think," . "You're the sergeant.
him on parade, will' you?"
"I'll try."
Got
"That's an order. And wake yourself up, too."
"Yes, sir." "Is Liver standing up now? Properly at coset Hend buck, shoulders back, hands clasped
behind the back, feet 18 inches
apart?"
"Not quite as good as that, sir."
"Call him to attention." "Yes, sir."
"Let the hear you shout 'Liver
Liver
it grew to be a foot long and Letter from a seal Laver
an inch thick.
might havo It double this size but its life would much shorter.
what is the natural alarm clock which wakes them up before midnight on migration night? fore Palmgren's explanation:→→
reached DEAR
your
watt for it, Liver SHUN. Sharply and smartly, now,"
Ever SHUN.A "What's happened?"
"Liver
"Ie's fallen down, sir." "Drunk on parado?"
YEAR SIR, in the river, As a performing seal of have been many years' experience, may I valunblo through Probably to offer, It reached 15 it would | paper.
to my congratulations
Sent for his wi have obeyed a sudden urge to Sammy the
back to the Sargasso neross the Channel?
You will realise, of course, that almost any seat could swim name, sergeant."
After the nesting mason the swim depth of a bird's sleep gradually deeps, to spawn there, and in- decreuses day by day until the evitably die. 11 o'clock peak of mental netivi- ty rises above the waking thres- hold,
✩
Accountancy!
and back before
the Channel
breakfast.
Even though
I am quite an
old trouper now, done it
I could have
rapidly into the deepest deep of that the Instinctive urge to And examined by scientists recently, backing myself if I'd had the
It
Then it
So one early autumn night a bird finds itselt so wide awake
new feeding grounds is triggered sets out southwards with any others equally restless.
The Last Drop
of a THE STOMACH well-fed blue whale was
contained 5,000,000 small shrimps.
--(London Express Servier)
I have been on the stage from the age of six months, and have been at the top (or nearly the top) of the tilt in Manchester,
"Too carly, str.
BIT."
"Idle on parade?
"Yes, sir."
Just idle,
Take his
"The sentence is to deal with
two doubles in ten minutes,"
"But your gout, sir." "Mind your Own business. Stand by for the first double."
"Yes, sir."
-(London Rxpress Service)
C.V.R. Thompson Reports
thrush and dually pulled out of this off, and it
woke up at 11 p.m. sleep through the night? But before its mental activity waking strength the Scientists have worked reached
bird nodded of into deep slum- for months to settle ber again. It was fast asleep an
THE LATEST discovery this question. Now, as hour before sunrise.
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of the dairy scientists--- often happens when trivial woke up suddenly and started
that to even the most skilful points are investigated, they the day.
muker the average cow yields Tesis with more thrushes, have made
of her discovery
Than lesa
80 percent spotted flycatchers, whitethroale, available stock of milk at any which throws new light on
other and garden warblers on
shock fall con- n major mystery-bird-
days gave similar results. Then one time--will
scientious cowmen. migration.
the whole series was confirmed
Sadder still will be the news with another by experiments
friend, Mr NEW YORK
Bernard Baruch, which the cow The chart below-based device which recorded the na- that the milk
a greater NO MANY dollar passengers wearing a black siren suit. the scientists'
to Britain report, tural restlessness of birds in withholds contains
fat than all want to come
The next summer that "Walting-list only signs have gone up in most steamship offices
on
on
research in Helsinki, cowman's did the
The American Scene
Trying to book a tourist for
friend next June,
Was
is considering ending his retire- ment by running for the South Carolina Governorship. His nim POLICE in the peaceful Con- this time in a cold war against necticut town of Enfield Truman and bla "Welfare State," refuses Mra Paul Robeson a gun permit Said they: "In this OR SALE notices for Bleak
Broadstairs, will seek yen-House,
the...
COM-just published--records the sleep. So Dr Pontus Palmgren, weight of butler
Finnish scientist who the milk in the bucket. slumber of a missel-thrush the
only consolation is " northern winter's believes the chart is typical for the fact that the most efficient night.
most of the smaller British milking machines do no better. birds.
The scientists at Reading's told nothing could be guaranteed country no one
geance an you for your hus-, home of Charles Dickens, ap- The significant discovery is the Dairy Research Institute, who in either tourist or cabin class band's political views." But Mrs poured recently In the New fact that in the normal rhythm put these claims forward, have 1411 August. Everything east- Robeson is now tickle the roasting bird's feet of their sicep, birds nearly found a foolproof way of con- bound, except first-class. were possed through the perch wake up an hour or two before vincing any sceptics. By in booked up for May, June, and sleeping with a knife under her
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The thrush was kept in a cage fitted with a metal perch. Elec- tric shocks just strong enough to
a
July.
pillow.
reported to be York newspapers.
dry!" cow a "milked while scientists watched through midnight. This may at last ex- jecting
peephole. The strength of the plain why many birds set of on with a gland-extract they can shocks needed to make the the'r long migration at
that immediately get all the cream living in Europe will be dirt THE POSTMAN brought me a Albert Batchelor, the 50-year-
thrush open its eyes at succes- time. sive hours of the night was Flying by night leaves measure of the depth of its sleep, the daylight for feeding.
the expert milker missed.
them But
DEPTH OF SLEEP
HEAVIEST GLEEP
LIGHTEST SLEEP
10 11 12
2 3, 4
A.N.
P.M.
The thrash becomes less sleepy at midnight
the next
CHOW BUSINESS: Broadway).
[Bleak House, on the cHT overlooking the bay, is to be auctioned on November 10. Mr Devaluation and talk that cheap for Americans have caused catalogue as big as a phone ald owner, has lived there for book, designed to make Christ- 30 years. He said: "I am going
to Rhodesia because this is not. This injection, called oxyto- the boom.
But shipping men expect some mas shopping easier. It lesepi by the England I knew before the cin,, may eventually be used on farms. The milk missed by cancellations. Said one: "We sus- Sears Roebuck and Company,
war."] the cowman reduces
pect people are making as many the Chicago mall onder house. day's production. research as four bookings on different Every item of the 15,000 listed shows. So, over a year, a dates. When they finally choose is down in price.
was warned by the Lugue cow's output should be increas the date they want they will ed if she could be milked dry cancel the others".
PACKGROUND of the resigna- of New York Theatres that in. Air travel to Britain is boom- Bon every day.
of Dr Edwin Nourse, ten years there will not be any ing. Since the winter cut-rates chairman of President Truman's more "live shows," If costs do started recently planes Germ Killer
come down soon....Sip Council of Economic Advisers, not are usually half-cmply at this
Ralph Richardson is getting rave time of the year have been is that Dr Nourse is a Free
Entcroriser. He has constantly reviews from New York critics DOCTORS have long | booked colld.
fought other Truman advisers for his performance. In the alm
ᎨᏒᎢ known that without a
"It can't keep up this way “
who want more controls and version of "The regular supply of iron the body an airline official told me. "At
more Government spending. Ronald Colman soon begins a produce cannot.
enough red the moment it's fantastic."
now career-as D radio... blood corpuscles to Tomnin
expert, Mr James comedian....Hollywood is u This has
Churchill's best American Arst Secretary of State, says he Barrymore jun.
which
Heiress."
beert vital in the treatment of SEEN in Central Park: MrC Byrnes, President Truman's pecting to make a mar, of Joan
anamla.
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