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CHENA" MATE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1950.

America puts the clock and

+

on,

goes in for a marathon Christmas

DON IDDON'S

NEW YORK,

TUESDAY

DIARY

the military aid programme, and have been on the Transatlantic against Polat Four. Any and phone secretly in the past few every move to axe and chop wocks. help to Europe was supported by Taft.

I hope the man who calls Isolationism idiocy does apt.bow practice flocy.

Am

Anyway, I prefer lens violent entertainments the theatre and the flima

All in favour

ATHER Christmas and Sonator Robert Taft, who are not to be con- fused, are the outstanding celebrities here just now.

worry that Hollwood has gained the occasion dot T is now no contest as far Both havo made rather Thanksgiving to release a fea- as British talents are con- premature appearances. tumetto film with a script which owned. Our Christopher Try is Father Christmas is in all the goca something Ho this being told he is "a genlus, a New York store windows, "Thank you for runking Ameri- colossus, a cow Shaw." His "The beaming rosily. He is on3 the ema oo wonderful, po strong, so Lady'a Not. For

Burning has Now York critics and audiences such posters and in the magudiggs rich, such. world lecientists, blazing with such bright an- poldiers, jete., „jete." Thanks for thusiasm that Fry is embar- rnased. Fry is Time magazino's

and newspapers, obviously do termined to play a long exigage- ment.

Canola are being piped through the Juko-bores and sound- amplifera, so that the day and night ape anything" but silent,

Pop talk needed

TT could be that Americans are

T.

so imbued with peace and good will that they want four

weeks of Christmas instead of the usual few days, but the best Information is that big business

pushed Father on to the stage to drum up sales. A pep talk to shoppers is plainly needed.

the

Since I got back from Bahamas I have been surprised to hear the word "stump" and see evidence of a falling-off in trade.

Business is down, way down. The loud demand for new cars, furniture, refrigerators, radios,

engineers, farmers,

everything, but not this.

Of color, this sol-appro- · Anont-cover man. batlon de aided and abetted by a Margot Fontern genees News- whole stream of arcophantic week's cover Overa caption visitors.

"Britannia Rules the Raves."" Here is Lord Bertrand Russell, Her salary is £100 a work, a Nobel Prize winner in literature, benth of want Americans would and what does he say?

pay her.

are today only two

sovereign States the US and Russia each with its embellibes, Britain is one of the United because the Stater satellites,

British depend heavily on the 1.5. nancialty and protective

Why does he do it? And who was the satellite when the world depended on Britain in the first two years of the war?

Joe's comoback

cort of toadying makes Troof

|«Box| Harrison and wife Lilli | Palmer are rated howitching in John Van Drum'a "Bell, Book, and Candle," but the play Hack is only fair.

Clive Brook is welcome back on Broadway, and be starts re- for The Second Threshold," Brook has been away too long.

Sarah Churchill has been asked by John Gielgud to co- star with him in "Princess Eliza beth" in London next spring. He is deluged with offers, and will probably also play in "King

with Louis Calbern

and television sets has changed The Kremlin's gremlin is still New Sitwell rang up to

into mere request. There is a here, but not giving thanks and minor recession throughout the not singing carols, country (except in Texas, of course),

So the

Dr

ask why I wasn't at her reading of "Macbeth" Unfortunately, was at Nassau. The critics said Miss Sitwell was sensational.

He announces that Trygve Lie Christmas shopping is "timid, cowardly, ono-alded,

buse blased, season has been put forward.

pro American,

The eulogy of Jean Simmons I have no complaint. New nothing but a loudspeaker and in getting out of hand. The New York is at its best at Christmas. mouthpiece." A loudspeaker! York Daily News calla "Bri-

her the world's tain's miracle actress I like that from If we are to have a marathon

a com- bination of Vivien Leigh, Hedy holiday season, a non-stop shop- loudest and biggest mouth. ping spree, a perpetual celebra-

Lamarr, and Elizabeth Taylor New York's new mayor, the Her fance, Stewart Granger, tion, I will join in.

People's Choice, the impudent Florida's sunshine. While he Mr Impellitteri, is on holiday in says he's even botter. Iolis. defeated and dis- credited political to stage a

Thanksgiving time

THE big post-election per-

the

sonality, Robert Taft, does many Hall, tries not seem so eager. It is not that comeback. he doesn't like Christmas-he This is a favourite American Just doesn't want the U.S. to play Father Christmas to all the pastime. Joe Louis is trying it

again. world.

He is in training for a fight Mr Taft is in the headlines, in with Cesur Brion in Chicago. Joc the newsreels, in the thick of says: "I can Cho it. I want to, things, the is being prosented as meet Ezzard Charles again. I'm

a great statesman.

This man from Obio dominates the cautious Conservatives, but anys: "No one but an idiot would be an Isolationist today." The record, however says that al- though Taft voted for the Mar- shall Plan he voted against the Atlantic Pact, he voted against

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not through yet.”

It is a mistake. It is a tragic thing. The great champion went out honourably and should stay out.

A much better idea, if Louis must fight, would be for him to

meet Tommy Faw. I know the managers of Farr and Louis

A British Crossword

ACROSS

1 Competitive séries

4 Cook

7 Colorsni

8 Wind instruments

9 Diminish

11. Referees

13 Afternoon performance

18 Endured

18 Sovereign

19 Odd

20 Sum

21 Unmask

13

1 Royal

2 Alloy

3 Train

Indemnity 5 Despot

6 Essay

10 Paying up

12 Mixturo

Puzzle

DOWN

13 Assassination

14 Tended

16 Stub

17 Mournful refrain'

WEDENBDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: 1 Chic, 4 Rambled, 8 Hied, & Alto, 10 Boredom, 11 Open, 12 Boss, 14 Lighter, 17 Owned, 10 Usurp, 22 Deplete, 26 Eros, 27 Aver, 20.Promote, 20 Myth, 30 Undo, 31 Protest, 32 Nudo. 'Down: 2 Hollow, 3 Choose, 4 Rebol, 5 Adonis, 0 Booch, 7 Elope, 12 Bond, 13 Erap, 15 Tour, 16 Raps, 18 Status, 20 Sermon, 21 Routed, 23 Error, 24 Limit, 25 Event,

FERDINAND

A New Leash on Life

All the Command Perfor- the graciousness of the Royal mance stars are glowing over Family, Hollywood has become

London's satellite.

Festival star?

THE LADY MAYORESS

The Lady Mayoress, Mra Denys Lowson, at the Mansion House before she loft for Buckingham Palace for The State Banquet to Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard after their arrival for a three-day visit to London. Her duchesa satin gown is of palest mauve with a draped neckline. Earrings and necklace match a diamond tiara. (London Express Service)

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Million Held Camps

In Soviet

PARIS.

MORE ROOMS

AT NATIONAL GALLERY

Three more rooms have been opened at the National Gallery In London. They are thoso on the ground floor which were used for apecial exhibitions during and immediately after the war.

con-

After being used since then for the storage of delicato plc- tures requiring observation and special atmospheric dition, they have been rode- corated,

with together

the staircase conpouting them with the main exhibition flour.

The 140 pictures which ther now contain the first polec tion from 300 which the Trustees hevo Dut ando for lending no other galleries They are being exhibited these rooms until the end of 1980, so that the directors of the other gal- lerios can make their choice. and so that London's public visitera can poo them be- foro

their departure for the provinces.

And

the

The reopened rooms inchide

oak

panelled "Dutch Co

binet," and the majority of this first oclection are pioaren by Dutch artists of the 17m Century. Pictures of other schools

lator

be pvailable.

Christmas Fare For

The Army

Christmas, fare for the Army at home and abroad -including Korea-will in- clude turkey, pork, mince pies, plum pudding, choco- lates, fruit and beer.

Tins of mincemeat,

turkey and harn, chocolates, cigars and cigarettes are being flown out to Korea by NAAFI, are also catering for troops at home and

who

Units

In rest

abroad will also

mental Christmas cards by air.

WC start

preparing for the

following Christmas every Jana nid a NAAFI official it takes every day of 11 months to

obtain supplies. Extra Christmas food Korea is being sent

the troops in in nirtight uns. The man will also get whisky, gin and other spirita"

A Swiss woman, Mme. Elinor Lipper, 36, who spent 11 years in Soviet concentration camps

for is still con-in Siberia, said in Paris: "The inhabitants of DANNY KAYE million dollar offer to appear these camps cease to be human beings. They are for 12 weeks at the Festival of just animals, thinking only of the next piece of Britain. His manager insists the bread."

sidering that quarter-of-a-

offer was made.

women tant

Tho

of 12 million in Russian munist"

work

A War Office official said that the Ministry of Food would re- lease enough eggs to allow one Why not hire a British star She estimated that, with Francaises, Paris Communist

for every 1030 an Christmas for a British festival?

Day. allowance made for the weekly journal. They say about

Pork will be issued in- A fragile Agure in black, stead of beef this year. To mest the only thing they won't wear heavy mortality rate, there Mme. Lipper sald she went to cost of extras,

the authorities on a hat is the price ticket. was a constant population Russia “as a convinced Com-have made a special grant of 9d.

Heard around town:

fa 1987,

obtaining per man. This is in addition to United Nationg are now between

publisher's office. money provided by regimental the Devil and the bright Red concentration camps.

Within six montha sho was Kunds. Chinese. Benjamka Franklin sald

Mme. Lipper was speaking arrested and sentenced to dive first Beware the little ex- at a meeting of the Anglo-

imprisonment Years

for pengesa small leak will sink American

Press Association. counter-revolutionary activi She is to bo a great ship.

one of the chief fles." the forthcoming Footnote: The new Congress witnesses in means the end of "Ours not to libel action which M. David ask the why's, ours but to sub-Rousset, the French author, is bringing against Len Lettres

sidise."

Opinions Differ On 'Missing

Link'

Two South African sciontiste insist that bono frag ments and other remains prove that the "missing link” between man and the apes lived in the Transvaal somo 1,000,000 years ago.

After discussing the evidence of teeth, skulls and pelvic bones, the writers conclude:

in

in

Dr Robert Broom and J. T. Robinson, of the Trans- vaal Museum in Pretoria, discussed the controversy "Possibly we are correct

in over their finds. the assuming that there lived

South Africa scientific magazine Nature. haps two million years ago

million or per They titled the article family of higher primates not "Ape or Man?”.

closely related

They said that in the last two ropakdis, but the living en-

a

"I had done nothing nor said where anything," she said.

was no question of a trini. I was condemned administrative- by,"

WAR STOPPED RELEASE

During the next 11 years Mme. Lipper passed through

New Tanker Fleet

The City of London arms will bo curied on the bridge of each chip of a new £8,000,000 feet of British tankers.

First of the tankers, London 14 sampa and 10 prisons, Pride, is already

. The chiefly in the Kolyma region, London Enterprise is due to sail Northeast Siberia. The wat

in a fortnight.

prevented her release after Eight more ships, to be com- five years

Describing working

tions

zipper said: "If you did work well enough

in the camps.

plated by the end of 1952, wili cond-have London in their name.

Mme, Each of the 6231t. long not tankers can carry 15,620 tons of you were oll. When they call from this beaten ups it you went on country they may not make hunger strike, you were shot. homeward voyage

Makro than The food allowance was 21ez.once a year,

bread daily, but it was Mr Sedgwick, of London md

Freighters, withheld from those unable to Oversons

of

LAC

work a full 12-hour day. More owners of the fleet, ·said that often than not, women marched the tankers, for charter to the five miles to their work.

big oil companies, might curry

in oll anywhere in the world"nis the Norwegians have done for years,”

They had to chop wood the forests, work in the fields, а and clear sno wfrom the roads.

perhaps evolved

anthropoid, or SIDE GLANCES complete feront le, that tais line early pre-anthropoid by a dif-

even a

mumber of nearly akulls "which give us 11 new picture of the origin of man. the fands for tools and weapons, became bipedal and soon uised We seem to be dealing with beings that have some claim to

be called human.

BA

considerable number of mon of science from America, and Europe have visited South Africa to examine our speci mens," they said, "and we think all who have taken this trouble have gone back convinced that

and that one branch of this family about Upper Pliocene times, gave riso: tô, man.”

Another Drill.

at least we have. the remains of The Regimental magazine of boings that were much клого

varo 200 HAA Regiment, Bristol, human in structure than any contains a bright satire on dis- known living or fossil apes. cipline headed: "Dying (the drill "Opinions still differ considor- for)" which includes the instruc- ably. Some have argued that all tion: "There will be no our epe-men are true human taking en route to Heaven. Any beings. Some a very few, we officers passed, who are on their belleve consider they are an-way to subterranean depths, will thropoid apes."

be paid the usual compliments."

By Mik

over.

By Galbraith