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NUMBER ONE PIN-UP

DRIGHT new star 071

American television is 23-year-old Dagmar, once a typist. She has been picked by ILS. paratroopers 21:1 "the girl we'd most like to bale out with," by the navy as "the ident desert island companion." She's No. 1 pin- up girl in the army.

Dagmar has raised the "think blonde" role to a fine urt. In a soft Virginia

DAGMAR

'What do my people really think of me

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"Nar here-still you really here- too many too many people.

people about...

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"Can't tell you

think of Geneal

Franco

about..."

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'No-still took many people.

around

Why the doctors are discussing

Mrs

Franklin'

TRIPLETS

WOMAN who

just become a mother is the cause of a grow- ing controversy among

British doctors.

Well-actually, I don't think he's done as badly

as

they say..

In 1948 figures the graph showed © peak for married women up to 20 years of age

has Mrs Franklin, after ten ly in that year the general

married childless years, has birth rate was lower. given birth to triplets.

But those figures have who had children in the first underlines the given Britain's gynaecolo- eight months of their marriage.

face the gists something to think

about.

For many years gynae cologists have been trying some puzzling to answer

This case problems that gynaecologists.

Take

the Registrar

drawl, she slaughters the King's English, recites her own-sometimes startling questions. Now they have General's latest figures.

versions of dramatic master-

to decide:-

piocess Bul chiefly she Why do wives, after triumphs just by keeping years of fruitless marriage, within range of the cameras. suddenly conceive?

Dagmar's real name is Jenny Lewis. She is fl. Bin. tall, weighs Rst., has strawberry binde hair, an is unmarried. She has not had a day's unemployment since she had her fet audition. For tmo: the she was with Olsen and Johnson, is now appearing with Frank Sinatra.

Thundreds

posals

Are such conceptions in- crensing?

Why are such births, In later life, so often those of twins or even triplets?

Do some

women become fertile only in their thirties and their forties?

Out of the 783,926 births in this country in 1948, 118,128 were the first born

to women who had been married ten years or more.

That is just under one in seven.

Of this total 30,687 were born after 15 years of mar- riage and

"The situation is very in- teresting," Professor James Young, one of Britain's

·leading gynaecologists, told

me.

"The trouble is we have so little real knowledge. We are learning all the time."

-By- ROBERT GLENTON

mkd

It soared to thousands in the "twenties--generally ac- cepted as the most prolife years hundreds in the following years -and dwindled away to up to the late thirties, when it rose to thousands again.

The other theory, always clung to by laymen but often scorned by specialists, is that conception is only possible one day each month.

"More of us are inclined 10 nccept this idea now," a famous gynnerologist told me. "It would Profes- account for these puzzling Jate i

births." sor Young was having Many attempts have been made to explain why a woman childless for many years should suddenly produce twins.

9,087 after 20 to 80 years.

80 man-y cases of de- Inyed births that he set one of his assis-. tants on to the task of

ONE FACTOR

of marriage pro- Dagmar every

The woman who has rench week. She lives with her sister, created this controversy is

But ten years before, wo- checking up and finding out MR Amram Scheinfeld, one of who is also her secretary, in Mrs Lilian Franklin, of men married ten years or if there was an increase.

verleaking New York's Canton-street, Poplar, Lon- more gave birth to only 53,- 689 first children. Admitted-

1at

Central Park,

dori.

IS RUDOLF HESS

REALLY MAD?

BERLIN.

no

"We had to admit after his work there was no statistical evidence," he said. "But I must confess there is a lot we don't

спок."

A Harley Street specialist con- tradicted him. "I think move and more women org having children long after they have given up all hope.

"Many of my colleagues and I think it is due to the fact that the disappointed would-be- mothers are seeking professional advice. We are able to help great many of them."

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he had brought a message for lights out at 10 p.m., meals in SULKY prisoner in the Duke of Hamilton, whom he the cells. talking, church had anst at the Olympic Games service every Saturday. No

There is a strong school of # grim old

red in Berin in 1936.

newspapers or radio, but a good thought that children are born brick prison in Ber-

selection of books from theto previously disappointed wives lin's British sector.. And it has been largely as a prison lending library, a thous-just because they have given up turned on his Polish guards, that living conditions for the month, a hot bath once a week,

"result"— of Belfish intervention, and word letter to home once a hope. recently, when they came seven top Nazis in Spandau two ounces of tobacco to fetch him from his cell. have been so greatly improved fortnight.

**Tell the visitors if they want to see me. they can come to my cell,"

he screamed. "How many times have I got to tell you that I am the Fuehrer's deputy and that I will not be push- ed around by anyone-not even by American VIP's."

The man was Rudolph Hess, born on April 26, 1894, in Cairo, Egypt, and later second only to Hitler in the Nazi. empire.

Beetle-browed Hess, parachu- ted from his Messerschmidt 110 Bghter into Scotland ten years L with peace offers" for Britain. Today he is one of the criminals seven top Nazi war serving long sentences in Spant dau prison in the Beltish sector

of Berlin.

never and suieldo-proof gaol, In Spandau, this escape-me- the windows are made of Pers- pex instead of glass.

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during the past four years.

Against the opposition of the Russians, whose attitude is "The sooner they die the better," the

By Antony Terry

British have succeeded in im- proving the prisoners' diet to Wastern European standards.

once a

NO FAULT

Hess never

attends church, TN an article in Medical Illus- butt he, like the others, is a model prisoner. There has never been any trouble with the seven Spandau men.

trated Mr Michael Hemans, consultant gynaecologist to the Hertfordshire County Council, discussing the case of women who cannot bear children, sald:

Hess's life sentence Is a real life sentence. There is no good "After routine examination 45 conduct remission for, Nureen women out of 50 will show no Rus-positive findings: there is no ap- beng criminals, and the sians are unikely to agree to parent fault. any reduction in their terms,

seven

Meanwhile, the Germans who saunter past the prison walls in 1951 scarcely give the men a thought Hess

today arouses not the slightest in- terest in the average German. Least of all do the young people

"It is to these 45 we address our exhortations to persevere, or, if we feel in a pessimistic mood we advise them to adopt children.. "Curiously a number of those who follow this latter advice do conceive and bear children of their own, once their maternal

Hess, like the other six-Rae- know or care about the mon instinct is stimulated by mother. der, Funk, von Schirsch, Speer, who once sent millions to their ing the adopted child." Doniiz and Von Nourath is death.. getling more moody and apathe.

e as time goes on, although the wives, who are allowed to visit

The only Interest in Hess and

This theory is borne out by ex- perts at the great London hos- pitals,

them for a quarter of an hour other Nuremberg prisoners in

But two other theories, long every three months, bring news Spandau comes from neo-Nazi since dismissed 03 outmoded controversial by modern аго being

of the outside world-news

which tells of growing interns- Broups and the newspapers they or

control. One of them appealed gynaecologials,

tional tension.

a week or so ago for the release examined again, of the seven prisoners in these words:

Years ago a belief was widely held that many women did not achieve their ferille year until their late thirties or early forties.

Hess, like the others, wOT- ries a lot about whether he will be got out bofore the Russians "The old world has changed Barbed wire, electrified cables overrun Berlin, and he posters since these men avere sentenced. and sentry towers with search his guards for an assurance Former enemies have become Although Professor Young Hghts guard the

soven men that his "personal safely" will friends,, one-time friends are and

his colleagues whose "upkeap" costs the city be guaranteed by the Western now enemies, But the turn of still dispute this theory many of Beriin £3,000 a year each,

events has passed unnoticed Hess, who

life sen- has a

over Spandau Prison. Is it not specialists are wondering if it tance, is still a puzzle to his Meanwhile, e in Spandau time these men who have suf- may not be right, after all.

They doctors, who cannot make out never varies rise at. 7 am, an fered enough were released be-

have the birth-rate, certain whether he is mad hour's exercise during the day, for it is too late?"

graphs to support them.

for ser

or not. After the Nuremberg

trinis he confessed to having simulated madness in order to get a lighter sentence.

on

Today his behaviour is some- times so odd that prison officials are sure he is not putting it any longer. Recently he re- fused polot-blank to feich some water for the flowers in the prison garden.

"That's Ractér's Job-He was Hitler's admiral," he answered, and nothing would budge him,

A man who knows mere about Hess than' any person living is by a queer cöineldenco today one of the four persona tesportalo for his welfare as a prisoner. Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, now British- High Commissioner in Germany, Interrogated `Hess after, his landing near Glasgow on May 10, 1941, when he said.

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the World's experts on heredity, has written: "There are many curious and as yet not

fully explained aspects of twin production.

"The age of the parents is one of the factors, tor older mothers those In their late thirties

carly forlles-are more than twice have twins as are much younger as likely to

women.

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"There is the possibilty that the older. or more experienced woman 19 beat adjusted multiple pregnancies.

to

"Bul it is odd that where fathers are older too-regardless of the age of their wives-the likewise increased." chances of there being twins are

Harley Street specialists-have told me: "We simply do not know and cannot explain." -

There is no reason why a child of such a late birth should not be like any other child in health and temper.-

"It will be just the same-it the parents are healthy-as the offspring of a young man and a girl," one specialist said.

AN IDEA

S the experts argue, a woman

who

has seen more babies

born than almost anyone in the world was walking in the sun at South Wales seaside resort. She is Migs, Edith Dare, for many years matron of Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London, She said with a smile-

"You can't account for these births nor can the doctors. You can't make rules for nature.

"But I have an idea. I think a good change of air might have something to do with it,

"A woman who is unhappy in a smoky city might move to the seaside....she feels 90 much healthier, and happier and then there's a child,

"Or else her enemies night move from next door. Shc might like the new neighbours.

"Her nerves are better and the strain has gone. Before she knows where she is she has a baby too. There are so many reasons."

-[London Express Service.)

By Ernie Bushmiller

London Express Service

Lifelike-but who are they?

FOR

effigies

NOR sixpence you may see 'in Westminster Abbey wax of the rulers, states- men, and nobility of England. They have not been on view since 1930. Most of them are authentic life or death masks and are dressed in their own clothes.

Here are four of them-with clues to their identity. Can you guess who they are? (Answers below).

ile was a great statesman— and so was his son, who bore the same names.

She-is dead.

He was a king-and his crown changed hands in battle.

She

was a king's favourite and, it said, the model for Britannia on an early coin.

ANSWERS stop to bottom): William Pitt the Elder. Earl of Chatham; Queen Anna; Henry VII, he put on the crown when Richard III. was stain at Bosworth: France's Tereza. Stuart, Duchess of Richmond- admired by Charles 11,

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