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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1951.

"AHY SIGN OF OIL YET, LADS ?* *NIK, JUST TEARS AND ROCK SO FAR"

DRILLING IN PERSIA

A

Mr. DRAKE

Now

LONGER IN RESIDENCE AT HIS LAVISH HOME,

OUR OIL MANAGER LEAVES 'BEHIND A·LÀVISH LEGEND

ABADAN..

SMALL personal

notice in the typewrit

ten news sheet which

has superseded the Daily

by

JAMES LEASOR

News, banned by the Per believed he was arranging Blans, had Abadan Britons means of evacuation.

by the ears. It said: Mr A. All evening powerful E. C. Drake is at home." launches purred across the

across

And it brought the shining river, and fairy Britons in white duck suits lights glittered star-like in the trees in Drake's walled the river that

garden. separates Khorramshahr, where Drake lives, from Abadan, where live most of the staff.

Actually the notice erred, as Drake was not at home but in Basra, where it was officially stated he had gone to "ensure the oil flow to Iraq if Abadan shut down,"

Ward Copyright. Ha arronzement with Debut where it was generally

Sitting on the

S the publicity cam-

Apaign to keep pen-

sioners at the grind stone long after retiring age becomes more intense, the time now seems ripe to folk offer advice to old

being prodded back to office and factory.

come

Infallible signs of old

mainly

under headings-loss of memory, tendency to live in the

age threa В

past,

and the shedding of inhibitions acquired in youth,

LOSS OF MEMORY

Assuming you

Fence....by

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

Looking at the Bish. After

all, what do you do at the club?

At the club? Oh, we tail:. If you're not talking I sup pose you just look at each other?

for

to

are D5 years old, it is quite possible you to be engaged by an em- ployer on Monday and forget all about it by Tuesday morn- ing.

of

Therefore, it is advisable to make a note of the name your employer, hls business address, and date of engage- ment:

and

if this is not done at once the chances are that you will switch back to the past write down the name former employer now dead,

I suppose so, What's wrong with taking me and looking at the sh

Nothing. -

I don't suppose there's much differencet.

Not much. Look at that fat, red dish.

day He eats and drinks all

Remind you

of and night. anybody at the club?

Old Georget

little

Of course. And that the address of a factory pull- black one, Always biting the ed down 50 years ago, and a others and looking for trouble. date that has passed into his Ring a bell? tory.

Why, yes. Little Charile,

In any case, you will prob- ably lose your notes. If so, And that pale, pompous one

will let us hope you

sleep swimming

if he round peacefully Umidday -on-owned-the-tank.- Tuesday and enjoy your lunch

In bed.

LIVING IN THE PAST

On the other hand, you may

fime arrive at the right

on

the right Tuesday morning,

even at the right factory,

If so, I warn you that at 95

new tricks' are not

new

learned coslly; nor are

idras welcome to R mind fult of memories of a happier past..

So, if your factory is make.

I bet he's on the mittee.

con-

now.

I'll bet he is. Look See them ali darting away goggle-eyed one from that with his jaws always moving?

The club bore?

That's him. Didn't you tell me once about a member who never bought a drink at your club?

Yer.

Well, there he is following the others round with hiy mouth open.

Walling for another fisli to pup something to it?

That's right. So you've got your club at home without paying a subscription.

I'll resign tomorrow,

Food news

of coffee,

cup

NOTHER dear? No, thanks, dear. It's time I--prepared-his-lunch. ———.

Many of the guests were disappointed, as they came. out of curiosity, eager to see Drake, still only a name to many of his staff. And that fact is a pointer to his character.

Work, his play

HE is a big, burly, blond

man

fellow who grips a pipe 1- often unlit between

strong teeth. Not a who seeks party popularity, the bonhomie of the back- alap and the gin-and-lime.

His work is his play, and

What's he having today, out of ten people I asked at the party only one knew

dear?

He's very fond of crab, but what his initials stand for as we can't afford real crab (Arthur Eric Courtenay),

poisonous and the

Russian though it

suggested tinned crab is nothing but a that, in view of the fact Bolshevist plot to kill us all,

WES

I'm making him a mock crab. that most of his waking energies are devoted to the Mock crab, dear?

Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, I read about it in a mag- they should be A.1.0.C. in-

zine. You crurible up some

stale brown bread in a basin, stead of A.E.C. Yes, dear.

. Drake at 40, can look of back on few minutes in his Then you grate a heel stale cheese in it and add the life in which he has not yolk of one hard-boiled codone his best to cram 60 with a spoonful of Worcester sauce to make thie Inside,

browny seconds' worth of distance-

run.

Mr Drake arriving in

London from Iran

Sald a close friend: "He has At Pembroke, Cambridge, a brain like a knife and is one

.

Browny inside, dear?

Crabs always have browny he read law, rowed in a of the few men here who could

London or New York." insides, dear. For the white crack crew and was a mem- easily fill a similar post in meat you flake in the rest of ber of the exclusive Hawks

As manager in Bagdad in 1947 the egg; then add

vinegar Club, which, like Oxford's he had to make an unpopular and chopped tomato skina,

Vincents Club, is for blues decision to push up the price Tomato skins, deart

A soft petrol a penny a gallon only.

against opposition. He pushed it Dressed crab always has

without His favourite tie, which up

a' quaver, dnd it, red, indigestible bils in dear. Then you squeeze it all he wears every day, is the carried the day in triumph. up in your fingers and serve maroon and gold Hawks tie, with sprigs of parsley.

Sounds delicious, dear.

and

The magazine says:if You can beg an emply crab shell from your fishmonger math the mixture in hubby will never know the difference.

Really, dear?

that,

(London Express Service.)

He lived like a Cheyney hero, and his name was----

PETER CHEYNEY

an age seeking its... I violence vicariously, the

by. Milton SHULMAN

seriously wounded Somme.

on the

ing nylons, or women's under- successful thriller-writer is wear, it will do you no good almost a High Priest. His to interrupt a conference production managers to

of

Icc name alone guarantees nc..

fure them on the advantages tion, excitement and escape. of red flannel in a treacherous from the believable. He climate, or, ask to be. trans- ferred to the bloomers depart numbers his disciples in the millions. Such was Peter Cheyney, who died last month.

meni.

SHEDDING INHIBITIONS This often takes the form of offering outspoken criticizm of people's character, and personal appearance.

habits

Recognising a need, Cheyney The became rich satisfying i formula of his novels there were about 35 varled only in

Although tolerance towards time and space. Their mood re- the old is one of the graces of mained remarkably consistent. elvilised youth, I advise you

him

who

of his every

and he is delighted if it is the 18-month recognised.

A

Triumph

4

His was the main brain behind Mid-East pipe- line negotiations in Damascus.

Then he moved to Teheran,. where he got the Anglo-Iranian plum job now held by Richard Seddon, cbiof representative- law career was what he de- liaison man between the com- cided he did not want. So he pany and the Government. became a chartered accountant. He also did a bit of domestic He passed out top of his year good in that he married Mar- with a gold medal.

garet, cousin of the man whose Between times he went to Job he took over. He has two Australia on a rowing tour, and daughters by a previous matw it is said that of the bootdeck riage. during the homeward voyage he mot a director of Anglo-Iranian who took a liking on this blond brain-boy and suggeried he came Into the company.

Walks alone

AST Deteber he came

Abadan as general manager, He did a stint in the London office in 1935 and then came out musicians gallery, floodlit gar

house with

about 25. ·

40 0

a big riverside

to the Abadan works as 'a re-

in den, and hosts of servants finery cost accountant when only while monkey jackets, a grey car to take him 200 yards to his From then on he only looked office, and a white motor launch. |back to see how far behind he

Drake is shrewd and deter The Immediate post-war years was leaving his rivals

mined; a man who walked alone were spent writing songs, poems,

Drake shuttled between and liked it that way. and

His hobbles-bee-keeping and sketches for musle-hall London and Abadan, mana.

ger of the subsidiary Khanaquin Photography-are those of a man does not need constant In 1920 he began to take him-Oil Company of Iraq and also who

the Kermanshah field, now company. self seriously as an expert on

au- seized by the Persians, crime and wrote brisk, thoritative articles on murder and mayhem for newspapers and magazines,

artists.

In 1936, when he was 40, his first novel "This Man Is Dan-

IB appeared.

hie gerous," character was an American de teative and iis dialogue and ac- tion owed much to the conception of American gangsterdom, then

current in Hollywood films. Al-

-(London Express Servici.)

GOLD WENT DOWN

WITH KITCHENER

JUST 85 years ago

a' were

never Arbd. They had shocked Britain heard not deserted their stations.... though Cheyney wrote dozens that Lord Kitchener had What of the gold rail to be aboard? The Admiralty "flatly dented" there was any,

of novels with an American background, it was not until gone down in the cruiser 1940 that ho visited the Ualled Hampshire on the way to States with his American-born Russia.

wife.

colms."

not to iry the patience of In a hard, urgent atmosphero younger colleagues, too far, it of mystery and sudden death you wish to remain popular. Cheyney's whisky drinking

women conscious heroes

MAN WITH A FORMULA' Young men can grow weary Lemmy Caution, Siim Callaghan

But, says Courtney, there was of being called spineless Aloysius

Peter Chayney O'Mara outwitted,

gold gold which ended up in namby-pambles because they outfought and outdrank the bost

'Courtney Germany! What was Kitchener's mission? Hitler's will not bear comparison with that the Gestapo or the Black

year. He probably never

two divers. TWO BOOKS YEAR Was it true that there was went down with the legendary stalwarts

reached it. prime when Market could pit against them.

22,000,000 in bullion aboard "to Costello and Mansfield. were in their

A luxuriously-furnished flat Cheyney used to dictate this bolster up the Czar's armlos"? They found in a little ante- Queen Victoria was, a bride. The merit of his novels was

in Belgravia, silk shirts, an readability and their alm $U3-

The man who unlocked the room six enormous boxes. High-spirited typists and pense. How successfully Cheyney elegant cigarette holder and a books at a steady pace of about

a day und he set Hampshire's secreta tells the It took Courtney three days secretaries will resent belag exploited these virtues can be monocle were the outward sym- 3,000 words reminded of their resemblance Judged by his claim that one bols of his popularity. He liked himself a target of two novels a whole story in a book which to open the smallest of them-- to the ladies of the town be- person in every 30 in the British to identify himself with the year. These streamlined methods has just been published, "Un- and the "light fell on rows of gold disgorging cause they wear lipstick. Isles, excluding lunatics, children physical prowess of his charac- tended to produce books that locking Adventure (Robert splintered boxes

and people over 80, ters

wers remarkably alike in lone Hale, Lad; 15#,):

After a week they brought As for the managing diree-under 14

an bought a book

He is Charles Courtney, the up the first £60,000 • in 'gold, call tor, you can

He was proud of his ability at and content. But it was obvious- fencing, pistol shooting and jus ly just what his public wanted "world's highest-paid legal safe which was taken to Berlin and Ignorant, upstart Jack-in-offer year.

Jitsu, - He used to smoke 70. onces The next time you will

Although some orities have breaker."

lodged in the Reichsbank, h be but on your, ear, if you are SOLD IN MILLIONS elgarettes a day, and claimed he

It was Sir, Basil Zaharoff, the Then, one morning, they got Es of 195.

bullion room again, could drink as much whisky, as compared him to such writers as Such statistics nowed casily any of his heroes no incon- Edgar Wallece and Robert Louis armaments king who told into the

Cheyney.professed

"chest afters chest of gold from a man who realised that alderable feat, le concern your pressed Courtney a syndicate had located They opened the boxes of fold

Kitchener's ship

coins, 20-rouble pleces." Asst. to write a book was one thing, Potor Cheyney, was born in thought of him. One of his pas

Ko was offered a "staggering: Buddenly, the men were to sell it, another.

London in 1000 and his early hates was any review containing Here was no simple, artistic education, davoled chiefs to the words The Last of Mr fee for his servicos,

trapped when a current shut soul, self conscious and retleent shorthand and bookkeeping. Cherner Courtney says there were two the bulkhead door. They wore shut in for an hour,nearly about the selling power of his equipped blm for commerce

Now that that line has come large holes in the Hampshire soort, down, "waiting to dia rather than A short wall

one obviously made by a mine;

The miracle happened, the a repertory actor was interrupted true, many tedious fall and is smaller one which might current shifted, and they forced He used to published by sur - 1914-10 was when he journer and many legs have been made by al torpedo the door open Costello gets statements by accountants to prove the sales magic of his applied for. Regular comhis night will beom the touror

hout now Feler, Cheyney - On the port aide of the gun. cukhed chaste 2hey rated Hon. He once, wald that ghe name. There showed that in though soldiering was his twal rowerze while away, the suit dockerosta, gun wed loaded a British port, where Sir Bash one year her sold 1,750,000

profession. copies of his, book and in an

Club at home

"My husband never stays out ists, ka is too interested in our tank.. full of fish at home."-- —Mra Zrens Katferne,' wife of the vita-president, of ", the...- National "Aquariata godisty::

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