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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1951.

EVE PERRICK

TRACKS DOWN A NEW TREND IN MALE PIN-UPB

AVIBELL, HYPE

Nightmare among the

dream men

or

Whether he will succeed not I don't clin lo know. (Sinatra did, remember?)

But anyway, multiplication of the Nype Type means one thing-the passing of the Era of Great Lovers Which began with Garrick and ended with Boyer, And possibly, 20 help us the heralding of the Half. Baked Beo,

Flippant flight

"

ANNE PIPER, 30 years oil, mother of two, daughter of a profer sur and wife of a mutselen ofleint, had a fire; novel pub- Bished gently,

book, "Earty of Bed," Is

a flippant, Anita Lousich gecount

of the rise and falls of a shop- who had rix lovers

bu bands.

four of Bem

10

It is an innovud lii tale. reely, but it is written in the fest person. So there was Mrs. Hiper rest of home at one

"Meet-the-Auther parties with her wholesome, impainted fee and mart Jumper fobbing off her St Heart gonations with: "No, it isn't Autobiographical. I wrole it as 5.21 escape from chink the housework."

TTERE, ladies, is The black H KA Portrait Throb. Yes, this young man with the glasses, conviet- crop semi stupid expres- sion, and (if the picture were a full-length one you'd see it! skinny fram which goes nicely with his starved look!

L

The name is Russell Nype, enrrent No. 1 gabimur buy of New York's gay vily.

Oh, so silly!

HOW y de women writers think western resurfers aret QUOTE 1 (from a stagin article about Maylair dress timer) : - -------—-ATE--thei, clothes.. even their town sui's are drama.. tie; their clients must have ers cellent posture and a good sense of humour

The 28-year-old singer fam QUOTE 2. Hrom a band-out This has been in successful jesued

Fingiance since he applared on a lute. Bureau): "And when mm wear Torn cofleste boy in the Teving grey ant flaunt brilliant getha Berlia natal "alt Meimusa on pyour mod tile ha Mads that there is now a then punt DO wear a perfume msh anong young American eith 4 sect

10 breonie known

base,

'They'll want to send Cambridge an American admiral now ...

"1

London Express Servico

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD THE STRANGEST STORY OF THE WAR

"NCE during the war an

Inventor brought for- ward the novel idea of . a searchlight that would itself bring down any air- craft caught in its beam. The iden was to provide the searchlight with 4 button, which when pressed don't ? "Nope!

would solidify the beam. High-caloried By rapidly turning the- is the Duchess of Wind- favourite night elub IF mise be the foot of love searchlight downwards, one

Che

... It is obviously al o in the| could "wang" the aircraft on said he re-

liste After her of Harvey, the high-caloned!

allthe ground. rabbit). Naturally, grefore he those sad stories about the way

been taken up in a big pri donnas will get so fai, way by the socialites, Restaura». teurs have dubbed him the "Deb Dram-Mau,” and Pom- petition to get him to their than amire

Nype TYS.

Sur's

entertainer minded

show

:een.

places

Women sigh aver

his "hy.

alno-t awkward, tomminent Adam's appleti approach'

which is how Variety sums un the Nype quality), while their esrorts sit prizzler at The

chorus feminine

of "Isn't he

Inevitably he is going

to

1931

STOKOWSKI

1951

cven

make a flin, which means that the

latest picture of Leopold year now this new style Stokowski suggests that any

bespectacled leading men conducting an orchestra brings will be here on celluloid to try its quota of weight worries.. his charms on us.

-Lamiton Express Service.)

A FRIEND SPEAKS

FOR BRITAIN

By R. M. McCOLL

NEW YORK ter of a million dollars. THE shrewd voice of a

staunch friend of Bri tain was raised again to night-at a time when there is much criticism of Britain in America.

The incidental details as to how to solidify the beamn were according to the inven- tor, "merely inatters of re- search angl. development easily solvable by anyone who really believed in the iden."

Many inventions of vary ing degree of absurdity, as well as some useful ones were put forward during

The Ice Island

FIASCO

by Sir Charles GOODEVE

Sk Charter Goodeve. FRȘ, was the Navy's principal scientific adviser during the war when ne was Aliment Controller for Research, and Develonment at the Admiralty. He was associated with many of the original scientifle devices developed during the warmincluding those that overcame the mashetic mime and the U-boat.

He is a Canadian, 47 years old, who become a Fellow of the Royal Society at the age of 26. Before the war he was Reader in Physical Chernistry at brænden University. To-day he la director of the British tron and Steal Research Association, teve At Hampstead Carden Suburb with Jay wite and 1we children. His recreation ice-skalin

""Pyktele," they said, "is not only unsinkable, but it is self- healing against bullets, bombs and torpedoes! Never mind !! we have to reduce all the allied newspapers to letter size. We've proved that research will solve all our problems if the obstruc- tors can only be got out of the ways"

Designs-ond-plans-for-con- struction were rushed ahead. Each Habakkuk required 40,000 tons of cork Insulation, some thousands of miles of steel tubing for brine circulation and reinforcement, four power stations, and endless additional complications, especially in the building stage, even before you an air- started making it into craft carrier:

At that, maximum speed would only be six knots.

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swayed by the magnetic per where the winter might cool its leaving the lee out and convert- conality of the inventor.

Here was no ordinary

man;

ardour. The Canadians were ing the tubing to ship's plates sensible people; they would get the whole would have been able

the war but none produced this was no ordinary way to win this monstrous fantasy under to go four times as fast.)

wurd

NEW 'WEAPON!

war.

control. But ahead of the team went this message: "This was Canada's opportunity to play a part in history!"

AT QUEBEC BUT

to

and

a dislocation of the Allied effort to a fraction of the One scientist showed that the

DUT there was

one obstacle extent achieved by "Habak wave-functions of the hydrogen

that even research and faith kuk," a proposal put for atoms in ice bore a close rela-

tion to those in concrete, and Far up in the Rocky Moun- could not overcome: Great Brl- Pyke. therefore it should be possible to, tains by Geoffrey

a Jake was chosen. In tain hadn't the resources He himself named this make ice as strong as concrete great secrecy a camp was bullt build even one Habakkuk.

and an experimental model was grandiose_scheme after the forgetting, of course, that con- prophet who said: "I will crete has little streng-other-constructed. Tundreds of sil! However, armed_with_blocks_

a revolver work a work in your days ment).

than that of its steel reinforces ed designers were put to work of Pykrete,

An engineer who had all over the country designing plenty of rounds of ammunition,

plant, which ye will not believe, already built an air-raid shelter refrigerating

remotely and wave-mechanical equations build

team uffered tu

the first operated elect:le propulsion of hydrogen atoms, the though it be told you.”

Habakkuk.

biolors, etc., they knew not for descended on the Quebec Con- What. Came e, spring and ference, held to deolde on the AMERICA laughing at the waggish G.1. who mindful of

Pyke put it to Lord Mount, with it one conclusion from the plan of attack on the European batten, Chlef of Combined trials; ice melts.

continent. army unxiety about being sent home, stuck up the following

Operations, on whose staff he doggerel on a Korean telegraph WARS, had for long been was; Mounballen passed it to pole:

fought with steel and ex- the Chiefs of Staff who passed "Disagree with

Hurry if you plosives, and more recently with it to the War Cabinet, the War wanna get back,

aluminium and electrons, To Cabinet to Churchill, "You don't think it's true? Then these was now to be added n

ONCE again the voices of rea. Winston, an inventor of no son could be heard, "ice has ask Ole Mae!"

new element of war, ICE,

menn repute himself, wrote: no strength, ice melts, ice is ARTHUR WIEKEL, » conl and iron boss

told the annual con- "Ice," it was pointed out, "was "Let us cut a large chunk of ice cold, the steel required to hold The attitude of caution which vention of United States Whole-

Let from the Arctic ice-cap and tow the ice together, to build the re- Britain has revealed towards le Grocers that the "tin can

us build large unsinkuble air it down past Cornwall, fly on

machinery was far more than has caused certain number of of modern civilisation. It is so

provide air cover for an attack point of attack." Pyke's fol- would be required to build con- people to raise their eyebrows. typically American that we on 11 remote and unprotected lowers were triumphant. "Chur- ventional aircraft carriers

more effective fighting are various reasons jose the meaning of it."

part of France. Steel limits the chill approves! The war will be mttels for what has appeared to be Bri-

IN LOS ANGELES' poilceman size of our curriers to tens of won by ice! All that is left are an attitude common to several

through a keyhole to see deten-can throw off our shackles and development easily solvable by members of the Commonwealth. dant Art Morris laying bets un build carriers of millions of tons anyone who really believes," including Canuda and Austra de mees. Dramatically attorney each.

Low Douglas, ex-ambis- sador to London, told 1,100 people gathered in the Waldorf- Astoria's Grand Ballroom:

plentiful and didn't sink.

JUST 6 KNOTS

Fortunately, a decision was made not to walt for Habak- kuk, but 10 reply on the daring, but 'sound, scheme known ng the which became Mulberry Harbour. Nevertheless. this conference of the heads of the three great States, U.K., U.S.A and Canada, together

cided that a Habakkuk shoulā be built under the supervision of of an Anglo-American-Canadian committee with a secretariat in the U.S. Navy Omces In Washington.

certain proposals in the For East is the most underrated servant eraft carriers of ice and thus our alreraft, and tow it to the rigerating plant, the propulsion with their Chiefs of Staff, de-

There

fish caution. It parily reflects B. Harsha testifled he peeped thousands of tons; with lee we merely matters of research and

lla,"

and

major

between the Iron Curtain and our own shures."

Philip

the 1950 figures,

DICK POWELL has

Ice is THIS FANTASY

The dislocation-of-effort,

power.".

"Conventional?" you say. Have you no imagination? Ice is the new element of war,

וג

DISCOVERY!

it

And Douging added: "Bri- into the courtroom.

Erbsen lugged a door

All would have been well if it RUT at such high altitudes

D "eo is plentiful! It had no

hadn't happened that at tlila came a new discovery, Not tain and the United States keyhole: Case dismissed.

unsinkable! lce is hard! The

melt, but moment one of the many parties only docs lee need each other for more to- day than at any time in their mon stocks listed by the New

DIVIDEND payments on com- enemy will never suspect !

Ire will wh the war!"

ORDERS few thick and fast detailed off for research into the evaporates and so did Habak-

committees were set up. The problems of Habakkuk dis kuk. history.

York Stock Exchange have

The great three-power com- "In between the two

scientisty and voices of reason were shouted covered that Ice could be given At first the

down by cries of "obstruction."

some strength by incorporating mittee never was convened. seats of power--the U.S.S.R.. broken all records. Cash pay-

working on their the un ments the United States in the

year's first engineers

Those in control of important a large amount of paper-making The followers became dispersed 1.180.228.000 radar, their jet-propulsion, their

the water before or else cooked in the heat of West Britain represents the quarter totalled

Lank-landing craft and the war programmes had the Hob- pulp

freezing,

Washington. last rellable bastion of strength dollars-15 percent. up over ousand and one other develop-son's Choice of either fighting

ments which were to be put in this absurdity or of ignoring it The frozen block did not yield

Pyke had another Idea just as been the hands of our fighting men, as far as possible, the objective

fantastic as the first. The in-. THE-big-circulation New-York-Blected National Champion of laughed, Ice may be hard, but in either ease boing to confine call to the hatchet, and e bullet fired at it went in 60 Daily News does not often com- "Be Kind to Animals it had no strength.

smoothly, that the lee reformed vasion was only a sear away Week." Reason: Dick, in his pliment Britain. But its main

The followers were and much work remained to be Their laughier turned to alam Their success was indifferent, behind it us for being lew film, plays the part of a editorial, admires

reincornated sheep dog which when they learned of the long At one stage they thought clated and called this material done. "far wiser and more realistic

(World Copyright Reserved,~ the returns to earth to track down haired scientists, the admirals it would be a good idea to send Pykrete in honour of their lead-

London Expreak Service.) about gambling" then

Its killer. Americans.

11. and generals who had been the whole party to Canada, er gives

Britain unstinted praise for the way we do it, and enda: "How long do you sup- pose it will be before we get as smart as the British on this?"

BUT the Hearst newspapers "Why are British pro- say: pagandists falling on'us just now like a plague of locus:s? Wher ever you go there is an English- man to make a speech as though we needed Instruction. The point is do we have to listen to them?500

IN MICHIGAN there is a complete town up for sale. Its namo in Natuina and lla, poplila- allon 750. Reason: After. 70 years' operation, the town's only Industry) a lumber company, In closing Price eluding an. airport and golf courtesa quaE”

NANCY

Hooked!

AUNT FRITZI PROMISED TO TAKE ME TO THE. AQUARIUM

SOME DAY

I'LL HANG UP THIS. FISH PICTURE-- MAYBE IT WILL REMIND HER

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