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"Ah, Mao-my

dear pupil!

Af my dear old master

The 'Naked

Sitting

by

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G

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(The clock strikes ten in the hall) He's tired of scratching his

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And thinks of nothing at

all;

Soon he will knock out his old,

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I

LEWIS

HAVE been given the first full ac- count of the disaster that overtook three Englishmen climbing the Hima- the layan mountain Nanga Parbat - "Naked Goddess."

The three young men, brought to- gether while soldiering in India, resolved after the war to go back to explore one of the least-known regions in the world.

They planned to spend a year Bur- veying an area nearly as large as Wales that lies among the Karakoram mountains in the most northerly corner of Pakistan. From this barren region, sparsely inhabited by nomads and their flocks of sheep and goats, only one has returned.

lost either in an were His companions avalanche or by falling into a crevasse on the slopes of Nanga Parbat. Its height is 20,020(1

Mr Richard Michael Waring Marsh, whose home is in Hertfordshire, is the sole survivor, He is 24.

His companions were William Henry Crace, the same age, of Blakeney, Holt, Norfolk, and James Whittaker Thornley, of Southport, Lan- cashire, who was 27.

It had not originally been irtended to climb the "Naked Goddess." But other plans had to be abandoned when permission to remain in the the Karakoram territory was withdrawn by Pakistan Government,

The three men decided that rather than re- turn home at once they would explore the mountain, which is the seventh highest in the

world.

No man has yet succeeded in climbing to its summit. It has claimed the lives of more climbers than any other Himalayan peak,

The three explorers and four Sherpa porters established their Base Campa hut and tents at an altitude of 12;500 feet-by-Novern-- ber"11"last.

They were at this height or above it for the next six weeks, enduring bliz- zards, avalan- ches, and in tense cold.

The portere refused to go beyond Camp 1, which

established

was on

a glacier at 14,050ft.

THE MAN WHO CAME BACK RICHARD MAESet

friends explore the moonquered Naked Goddess mountain

(top ploture), He was forced His frienda to turn back. went on. They died. The *Naked Goddess " countain remained unconquered.

They spoke of their relatives who had died, on the mountain and of its terrible reputation,

moving strongly. He saw them stop and pitch a fent.

THE 'HAKED GODDESS' MOUNTAIN

THE SPOT WHERE

TWO MEN DIED

On Fence

NATHANIEL

When an old, old man could rest

his bones

All day on his old, old bed

When grey dawn breaks on the

old, old world

The

GUBBINS

The old, old man will rise To rub the pains from his old,

-old legs

And sleep from his old, old His old, old wife in her old, old

cycs;

shawl,

Her nose red, red with cold, Will brew hot ten in the old

cracked pot The bell at the works' has

tolled.

Clock in¡ clock in, clock in, old

unan

Old man, don't loiter there; Hard work is good for old, old

men;

Old man, don't stand and

stare.

We can't afford to keep old men On pensions all thele lives; Old men

must icarn to keep themselves

And keep their did, old wives.

pub habits, party manners, and history before being let loose on the populace.

..

Here are a few points on history probably not included in the lectures:---

Known English history, as dis- net from Briksh history, began when Julius Caesar landed in

35 B.C. at Walmer, Kent. As I live within a mile of the land- ing beach and know what it's like when an cast wind's blow- ing I have often wondered why he didn't pack up at once and go right back to Rome.

The local Home Guard op- posing him (known as Ancient Britons) were half-naked Welsh- men, who would have sent him packing anyway if they had not been obliged to Aght trained men in armour with fint axes,

Clock out, clock out, clock out into

old man,

,

their

Caesar drove the Welshmen Wales, Two thousand years Inter they had Take this, your weekly wage; revenge by sending a lot of

say you're more than Welsh politicians into England. eighty-four?

You

Why

bless you, that's no age. There's no old fool like an old,

old fool,

There's one born every day; The more you earn you old, old

fool

The less the State will pay.

Hundreds of years later the Norsemen arrived. They had

the silly names like Egghead

Egg. Baid, and Baldhead the wore silly hats with wings at cach side, to hide their egg hends, and were usually drunk.

Still later William the Con-

How to keep slim querer arrived, knocked the egg

heads for six while they were wassailing (lossing back В

COMETHING the cager public quart), divided up the country

has been awaiting a long

It among his court crawlers, who time can now be published.

began the fine old English family Gubbins, Is the advice of Dr

onsense, and were the first notorious Fleet-street quack, on

English snobs. how to keep slim.

The most obvious and cheapest way to keep slim is to starve yourself to death.

If this method does not appeal,

eut out of your

cheest.

diet bread,

muk, potatoes, eggs,

Prominent Ogures in English

baces, butter, rice pudding, and history after that were King was forced to sign anything else you fancy. Assum John, who

housewife who the Magna Carta and started the ng you are a does not eat out you will then House of Lords; Richard Lion be left with nothing but your Heart, who knew a lot of chaps weekly meat ration, which will who were tired of their wives, on crusader be much the same as starving too, and led them

to Palestine; Henry the Eighth, to death.

who was a lady killer in more РСПБЗ than one;

ueen Eliza

both.

who

gave us an

early government by

Ditver

Don't gulp this eight penny. bou worth of meat in one day. Re- warning on member there are seven days women by chopping off the heads in a week. Cut the meat into of personable chaps who didn't

make a pais at tier. seven tiny pieces and, as variety ma

the Is the spice of life, roast a little Cromwell, who chopped off blt in a slow oven one day, put head of Charles I, because he another bit in a casserole the had no respect for the Parlia One. Soft snow reduced, pra.next, and make a miniature mont we udmire so much today; day clutch of Georges (1st, 2nd and 3rd), who made remarks

gress to 150ft. an hour,

to amuse a BBC

stew in an CIK

cup the after. The struggle was continuer

Busy women could roast two silly enough

and Queen the following day in 40 degrees portions together, cating one half studio audience;

remembered for of frost and then with the hol on Monday and the rest Victoria, best weather worsening, they realised cold on Tuesday, being careful a tough social outlook and say- they could not hope to reach to resist a temptation to swallow ing "We are not amused." the spot where Crace and the lot on Monday.

Considering she was expected Thornley had last been seen, for By the end of the month you to read Gludstone's speeches, another four or five days. will have lost two or three stones which sometimes___ insted six House of Com- and 100% pretty rupey. You will hours in the also be half-mad with bunger mons; she hadn't much-to laugh....

Frostbite would have crippled then by then.

Reluctantly Marsh decided to return to Base Camp.

He then sent his head porter back to an Army unit 85 miles

History lesson

MERICAN

in England

At..

Next week, boys, watch out for some valuable advice on troops stationed British pub habits

and party have been manners,

away with news of what had lectured for six days on British

happened.

1

Crace and Thornley would by then be without food according to his calculations.

picked An officer and ten

arrived a few Just when preparations had volunteers who been completed it was discovered days later gald conditions mode that the only remaining Primus a search Impossible and that it The next three days were fine, stove would not work. As it would probably not be feasible but Marah could see only the would have been impossible to to attempt it until May or June. tent with no signs of movement. have gone without It Marsh had

But they had also tinned Marsh feared it had been tongue, biscuits, chocolate, and swept away by an avalanche.. shortbread. They drank tea and He spent the next day preparing

for a search.

cocoa,

.

During the long nights they" huddled over + volume of Shakespeare's plays, and amid howling wind and the occasional thunder of an avalanche per- formed "Macbeth." Sometimea

Thomley sang operatie airs,

Every day Marsh read portion of the Bible.

INSIDE

ECRET ten-nation talks

SEC

Aircraft were called in, and

INFORMATION

By MERCURY

munoeuvres In the ranean.

-London Express Service)

Mr Grim Cheated

Of Gloom

From Newell · Rogers

And pirendy the partners have £15,000,000 worth of business, It's fun climbing back.

HALF AN HOUR. of Misa

So the three men were left

New York. Before that he was an honours alone living in two tents in There was a day-long blizzard to walk 100 miles to and from though Marsh, flying at 19,000 feet, was able to guide the pilot which they cooked on a Primus and on the following day which a village for another.

architecture again, hired stove. Their staple diet was was fine nothing could be seen

last seen hit mot where he had AMERICA'S Mr Grim has student in architecture. So be

a tutor. got a nasty shock.

and got a licence to lost through seen his companions no sign Five days were pemmican, a kind of dried meat, of the tent.

a partnership this mishap.

of life or tent could be seen.

For months he has groused practise. He got Marsh did not finally leave over expected shortages because offer from an old classmate. Then Marsh and two porters the mountain until he had made of Korea and rearmament. He For 12 of the high-pressure set out from Base Camp. They two more fights.

would not get his now car, the years in the soap business, Luck- took six hours to reach Camp

-London Express Service)

enlarged man says, he had to take sleeping new TV with the screen, or all the white shirts he pulls regularly. Now architect Luckman enjoys pill-less natural wants,

Now, he learns that he can sleep. And he can say: "I re- have them all--and rearmament, cognise my three sons when I

get home." too.

In January, Detroit turned out Mediter-620,000 cars

and lorries-four percent above January 1950.

A Chicago manufacturer

Mahas Pasha,

Egyptian turned out four times as many.

worth £3,148 For that price a islams at a 1,000- Premier, is expected to a TV sets Last months as in Janu Tallulah Bankhead's time is now

London soon for talks on theory a year ago,

Shops bulge with white shirts national radio network will sell 1936 Anglo-Egyptian treaty.

and you can buy them for one an advertiser the right to have his wares mentioned during one third less.

shortages half-bear of In anticipation of Government

broadcast. its plane for and

black markets, xotallers. Bunday night base Bankhead's The network calls her "Every- general mobilisation and civil went on the greatest buying

everyone on her Sales of tinned

defence in the event of emer-ree in history. The shops are body's Darling, because millions Argentine

full

of stock. And the Govert. hear har call meat to the United Staten Kency.

ment has

slapped controls on programme "darling" coch. Sun- atmount to 24,000 bons monthly,

credit, so they cannot sell so day. She is radio's First Lady Fuller convertibility of ster ling has been discured at the In Britain, a retum to points Sydney conference of overscan 7y as on the never-never today,

THE FIRST BRITON," a 20- in banks with Mr G. F. Cobbold

year-old Liverpool girl, is down with New York, dus. So are 558 camps until they had reached a Partner." Strikers force him to Boods Is considered by produ= Governor of the Bank of

Gls at nearby Fort Dix. It is beginning to be an epidemi

Five days were spent seeking a route to take them higher up the mountain to set up Camp 2.

On November 18 Marsh had back to Base Camp-be-

to

go

cause frost-bitten feet made him

on rubber production, now being held in London, may break down.

•

Ceylon and Indonesia are.

American resisting

proposals

for lower rubber prices. -

•

British estimates are still

that submarine fleet.

The

Turkish

Preliminary talks on lease- lend of US, arms for Spain

reviewed Mr Anthony Eden is con- have taken place in Madrid. has a hindrance. He expected bla vinced after his recent visit to two friends would join him with-Germany that the need to arm in a few days. But they went Germo

on un.

their move- Marsh followed ments through field glasses, He

urgent.

units is overdue and

•

Mr Bevin is shown taking saw them day by day carrying orders from America in a new

called "Junior rationing food and equipment to new Moscow play

height of 18,0002t.

On December & Marsh, had .: Britain and America have

change his mind.

•

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NKIANG

what was to

his last prove alimpse of them. They were acted to buy more

Greces to help her recovery.

***truit Móra

and tobacco from Greece will be in British shops, this year.

from

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for

vera to be likely.

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BOLLO

England.

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•

TV

Saying The We have got

seliling job. a to get out and hustled

Free-enterprise, industry, with ita expanding productive power has cheated, dr Grim out of IT'S. TOUGH at the top, but

to fall from tougher £107,000-a-year job at the top. bas What does a men do them? Worty-one-year-old

Production of Services demands and in- plate shortage are forcing can being restricted in the US tousterity. ning firms to turn down big make way for defence produc orders from the grocery trade. tion.

•

Dandelion cultivation

1%

...

FIRE CHIEF Edvin Barber took the fire to, his brigade at Watch Hill, Rhode Island. I ́under the bonnet of Els car. a was

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