The
WHITE CLIFFS
of
DOVER
by BERNARD WICKSTEED
bave been thr CAME down here with Britalu would KYX2, the comet-blue Dirty Cliffs of Dover.
car named Desire, to see the White Cliffs of Dover, They're one of the institu- tion of Britain, these cliffs.
Shakespeare, Dickens, and
Besides fish, the ren was full of sponges, but
that isn't
so clean.
to the
the water was was due hardly ever land around
why That climate, It Dic ralped. So was desert, with out there busy rivers that make
day.
Eventually the innd closed
dozens of others wrote about our coastal waters so dirty to them, Napoleon and Julius Caesar eurned them, exiles have wept for them, Channel swimmers swum to them.
Potins and hotels are named They've been a after them. symbol of villainy (Peridious Albion"), of allantry Cell fire Corner) and of from the miseries of
Cavemen
chalke sea, and again, covering with silt. The kettle rose up and took of
10
in round the the rivers ran the deposita bottom of the from the water the rough shape of Europe.
There still weren't any white cliffa at Dover, because the
Stretched across release
France like a bridge. Over it artekness.
flons, Farrowed through cante elephants, hippos
inners for a man. for Atuts,
The cliffs formed when the theen
for their cate
broke down in coal, Normans
free butune
end of the Ice at the floods line. hunnels,
builders
Britain was cut off from solliers for billots, and civilinns Age.
the rest of the world and the for bombproof shellers,
rough Island story began.
clurgeons,
Failwaymen
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IN view of all
for
then,
the
Just how rough it was you can learn for 2d., which is the ext of admission to the tunnels below the castle al Dover.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE
1950.
RUTH'S SUN-TAN BABY-THE FIRST PICTURES What about
William Hickey
THE NEXT CLASS
this infurme
This network of dark pass-
THE general query in travagance must recognize that thy have had on our race,
be fun ites and booby traps, some of #th it mit
the-
a thousand years old, la
the minds of leisured the Festival people have au- Thority to spend over £11,000.- finding ant apre about then,
Londoners who stand con, and nothing van stop them basked in the the direct ancestor of the Ghest While Deire
Train type of sideshow at coun- and gawp at the clawing, the now. e sun at the foot of the
ry fairs. cliffs I climbed up
slawn
There are trapdoors brouch erecting, and the smoke- thm and even inside them.
which people fell on to bed of making on London's South So what cio
Want to
which chutes through
young woman of 22 spilters,
Bank is: will it be ready in
FRANCES HYLAND, heard know? How they got there in
a lund of
time? and
RENEE first plac? All right, F you once received
to replace she was Boiling lead on your head, seret doors in the chalk that
I am glad I saw the ASHERSON in the London cast by klen men
idealised model of It--the of "A Streetcar Named Desire" trap In the last war the Army and Festival of Britain-before in July.
Let
you.
I was tuld at cheal, and thal were, ton, yun
it ta Gita nad
were fenders in the dark,
to
downs of England was formed the Navy staffs dus miles more I went to the site itself.
lived white funnels, with little peep.
from the shells
minute
creatures
of billions of
that
holes in the side of the cliff su
lu a vanished sea, and fell to that they could not out to see
The bottom when they dieri,
Well. that's what petentists arett to think, but they've changed their minds. Now they say that 10 percent
of the chalk was furred them!.
How the battle was going with- fatt getting hurt themselves.
aily as much the same way as THESE galleries
HTK!
not generally shown to visitors, fellow with a fur Is deposited on the bottom but I fell in of the kitchen lette
who had spent two years in When your
kettle gets the one of them during the war, furred you throw it away, but nd under his quittance we
round 100 million years go there were able to
ercep
in
was no one to earth.
throw away the the dark.
chalk went on 5 ste
The sentries probably wouldn't buskling up at
the bottom of have poured boiling letud on us,
might have UIT in places it was but they
awkward questions,
asked
All is entered confusion. unlandly, confused order.
or,
The river wall-an L.C.C. re. psibilty is doing well, with 400 feet to anly about another go. But the symbolical Dome of Discovery will have no secrets to reveal this time next year-when the Festival will have opened- if they do not inake huste.
At the moment a gaunt but optimistic framework looks sky- Wards with uninterrupted view. And only a miracle of trans- convert planting is going to stretches of brick-laden ground into the tree-spangled, flowering ardens of the Festival model.
Only two months ago 1 w "school"the this girl leave loyal Academy of Dramatic Art-with the coveted second prize, the Silver Medal.
Her jump into a leading West End part is rare for a student not hesh from R.A.D.A., but without precedent.
Sir
BARNES. KENNETH
of the Academy, principal agrees. I know, when I say that all but the excepitonal pupils are better for roughing it In looking for repertiny before neon-lighted parts.
THANKS, AS WELL EWARD for outstanding work has come to another, Captain IAN RICHARD HARVEY was on the George Medal for his dall and gallantry in bringing bis Paris-bound Viking plane A beinb all Chairman of Airen Council safely back, after
Its tail on April LORD ISMAY, Director-Gentral but blew off GERALD HARRY, at their 13. Gate-minions say the Festival will be Railwayready in time, of course,
the sea 2,000 feet thik.
Dover Is There's
Y the Another tunnet at
they were Boag to Bahamas Islands where exactly the fie the same thin is happening buld under the Channel. They today. So if ever the a bed stated it in 1882, and got about should rise there, Amerien will a mile. The man who dust the elifs of her first sod ("Me and my brother have some while
still fellow") is returning and another
looking after it.
11 called Charlie home, and he is 87.
to Greet the Own traveller.
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HE water in this prekistone entraure
THE
JIHIN tuzt over the
Beside the Concert Hall stands one free, as lonely as a ire growing in Brooklyn.
to thr tunnel, and They say the buildings will be kellie of rh covered most there is no other way in. But ready before
the end of this
And what were the reactions of the 27 passengers,
One, Mr HALPH STRAUSS,
rane ministrator. American Marshall Ald no
2147
LORD
of Britain and Europe and was Charlie in till the caretakeryear, leaving the display wallahs
blue 5 the Mediterranean. He gets 50%. week for the job. abmit five months in which to OEGLAS, chairman of British hustle in their stuff and organise European Airways, to thank him Tust is the reason why chuik as The other day he had a rise.
Charlie says he's good for a for the opening. so white.
yenes af caretuiging If the water had been dirty lot more
Let us hope sh the good old the silt would have been mixed set-and so are
those who consider the and coloured chiffs of Dover, with the chalk
project an untimely wight of the et
it. Then
-London Express Service)
Man's best friend...
HEY pretty
They say it's prown hard by Billy Rose
get to know his neighbours
"My name's Johnson,"
New York where, as he put it, bours I thought it might be "A man can send out for turkey Food Iden If-"
sandwiches at midnight."
"Pardon me,"
Mi
A
said the man, "but in late for the theatre."
A few weeks later the building
"I hear it's a hard place to make friends," said his wife.
"That's just talk," said Sam. "People are the same all over was thrown into something of a the world."
panie by a succession of neatly
for the pilot's bravery,
Miss BRONWEN Anather. For even
whole LLOYD-WILLIAMS, of Oswest
ex-
con-
ry, Shropshire, sent is cheque for ten gulneas to the company's benevolent fund-"purely nom- Inl
sora kiminutes cannot
be repaid."
The other 25 just continued
their journey to Paris.
THE WAY TO WIN
CO TWO more magazines-the Leader and News Review- are dying, only two months after the Strand went out of business. But new magazines are planned. even though it is legal to start;
executed robberies. One evening - the grace," he told his wife while the other four Los Angeles!
on
"I'll look into it," said the de- a new newspaper in Britain. in New York, and, generally The neared thing to a rebuff
tective.
In London is a man from the speaking, I guess it's true was at the apartment of a
A week later, thus police picked lanul of freedom. He has started A the sixth floor.
LOR new newspaper-the enough. But on the other Swuzey on
Sara was about to ring the bell up Albert Cushing, alias a lon
now a Ity, hand.
the door opened and a shortish of other names, in a Brooklyn Angeles Mirror, When Sato Johnson, of Foment in evening: clothes walked pawn shop, together with enough saicy news-sheet.
stolen property to make
VIRGIL PINKLEY, editor and eroy, Ohio, relived after a quar- out.
And when
Icft the Mirror. Sam viction automatic. ter century of work, he decided to spend the rest of the life began, "and see we're neigh. word got around that the John-publisher of
crucial London, where he was the Euro- supplied the Bons had tip, their door-bell Bnally got a pean chief of the United Press, workout. Neighbours crowded and started his paper in October
1940. a in to thank Sam and holst
Circulation of the Mirror fell friendly glass-
the to as low as $5,000 after initial curiosity sales Now the day. OOKS like we finally made sale is around 200,000 a
none established newspapers the detective in charge called
int night.
less than 40 years-lost 100,000 the Johnsons.
Weil, obviously the way for me between them in the last year. month. the
"I understand you've been
What does Pinkley think is the Johnson; were in residence ringing bells and getting yourself to finish this story would be to - in a snazzy apartment on Cent into a lot of apartments," he said. tell you that a wave of friend-reason for this steep decline in tenants are allness swept the apartment house the circulations of his compell- tral Park South, and were being "The other looked after by a doorman, meeting me in the superin- But New Yorkers would know it tors? The phenomenal growth of
television. Apartment nt nine was a phony ending.
vole elevater boy, a cook and a maid, tendent's
wo go back to In 15 months the number of And, a few weeks later they had tonight, and I'd like tor you to
more be there." When the Johnsons Pomeroy."nald Sam's wife one TV seta in Los Angeles has suveeded in striking up
"We've 635,000. than-nodding acquaintance with showed up, the detective intro- night after a long two-handed lumped from 07,000 to
Ther eare seven TV exactly four ew Yorkers the duced them around, and a tall, session of gin rummy.
this town almost six gentleman named been in doorman, the elevator boy, the white haired
Swazey was especially nice to months without getting to know stations in the city,
How did the freshman of cook and the maid.
n coul."
newspaper publishing overcome "Looks like the only way them.
"Anyway, you want it," cold the TV threat? Finkley saturated Bald "I don't get it, sald Sam to
"but I can't say that wo'll ever incet anybody,"
I his paper with TV and radio Sam one night, "is to do what the detective a minute laler. "Sam, wo do back home-go right up never forget a face, and the man regret a minute of the time I coverngo-and claims he now has I met coming out of Swazey's spent here. At least I've gotten a correr in TV readers in Los And ring their doorbells."
apartment last week was a little to know one person a lot better Angeles. fellow. There he is the one than I ever did. sitting in the corner,"
THE
following
The bell across the hall bo longed to a couple named Mor- rison, and when Sam Introduced himself they invited him in for a drink, after which he never fbard from them again.
And
the reception was equally cordial at: other apartments--and the ›ensuing silence just as silent.
the
over
He expected to lose money for As I was saying in the opening his first three years in publish- He lost more money than "That's Albert Crushing." sald paragraph, it's pretty hard foring.
But he will be an out-of-towner to get to know he anticipated. detective. "He's got an
That is, the more quickly out of the red apartment on the second floor." folks in New York.
"All the same," said Sam, " unless one of the folks. happens on that account.. saw him coming out of Swazey's to be his wife.
-London Express. Bervice) apartment."
-(London: Expresi Service),
SIX-DAY-OLD JACQUELINE ('PRINCESS GOLD")
"Just a little crinkle-faced baby-wonderful," says Seretse Khama, Bamongwato chief-designate, pictured below with his white wife, Ruth, at their home, giving Cameraman George Stroud took Jacqueline a fatherly pat with one finger... these pictures, They were flown from Scrowe to Johannesburg; transmitted by land-line to Cape Town, and radioed from there direct to London, then airmailed to
Hongkong. (London Express Service).
R=16
"
a roast spider! MOST people
would them.
have
horror of spiders and not fancy cating
But 10th century epicureans, particularly women, thought them a great delicacy.
Dishes of spiders-which they sald had a nutty flavour--wero all the rage in the salons of Lon don and Paris of that time.
Today, if you wanted a plate of spiders well cooked. you would probably have to go, to Africa for 11.
Spiders pro stl a favourite food with the Matabele tribe, who roast them.
What other uses have spiderst An arachnologist-the proper title for a student of spiders- of the spider made a survey population in a field in Sussex. He calculated it held 0,000,000
each spiders, and
killed at least 100 inscels a year.
They're cannibals
Beethoven was inspired on his violin by watching a dangling splder. Experts By a spider'a silic has a much finer sheen und is stronger than that of a silk- worm.
But those could
who
It to turn
think they commercial
advantage face a snag. Spiders are c
cunnibals.
This fact is stressed by Air John Crompton in his fascinat- ing bank "The Spider" (Collins, 10%. Gd.).
Spiders are good for trade for the tattooist. number of young
Increasing wonck. Tre
tells us, are having spiders inltooed on their backs. They believe It brings them luck.
Her boy friend
The courtship of Shows
to the human race.
spiders
a remarkable similarity
tells of the Mr Crompton wooing ol ກ female spider eniled Agelena Labyrinthica
"Agelena's boy friend, drum- ming continually on her web, advances towards his lady who has come out of her tunnel and waiting, showing every sign of subdued excitement.
"Her
friend's approach is gradual, and his drummings on the web might be compared to The guitar playing of a trouba→ ·
dour.
"The vibrations surround her, and as they continue and the male gets closer she appears to be falling into a trance.
'Box of chocolates* "At last he gets within louch- and very gently g distance strokes
his forelegs. her with The advance grows more in- timate and soon he is tickling '
her."
The
lover's "box of choco-
ilates" has not been forgotten.
Invariably a courting male brings
" parcel beautifully wrapped in silk and containing -n dead fy.
devoted
There is no more mother than a spider. She car ring anything up to 200 young back for six spiders
on her
Bernard Drew
months.
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