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Airport the Immi-

Inspector stared hard at me and harder at "You can't

my passport. become an American citizen with this vian," he said. I said: "That's all right. I'm happy being British. I intend to stay British."

The

grey-coloured spectacles

NEW YORK,

TUESDAY

this

an

A

HISTORY OF THE KING'S STAMP COLLECTION:

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MAMMOTH TASK COMPLETED

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By E. R. YARHAM

There OR nearly five years Confederation of 1869.

Sir John Wilkon, were several mindreds, prepared and arranged by the Philatelic Bt, Keeper of the pivision of the Post Office De King's Stamps, and partment of the Dominion; and Mr. Clarence Winchester, presented personally the King

George by thePostmaster the well-known author, General of Canada, Senat have. been engaged on an unprecedented task. This is à compilation of the most issues of both World Wars. The important volume on stamp Army and Navy were well collecting ever received aware of King George' V's the complete official history hobby, and between 101 and of his Majesty's collection; 1918, when provisional issues of which consists of nearly stamps were made by our. Farces 250,000 stamp. In: 380:large la occupation of German albums in the Royal stamp territory, it became a loyal and room in Buckingham Palace, pleasurable practice 40 see that although during the war the most perfect set was sent they were removed to safe for, his Majesty's gracious, de- storage.

***Included," In the Royal col- Jection are many rare war

There are other great.collee Alons of stamps in the world, but none can compare with this. When his Majesty's father died It was reckoned to be worth £500,000, and our present monarch is constantly adding to

ceptance. In the same way, in recent years, King George VI's collection has been added to by many special issues, t

Keen Interest

AB has been suggested,""; "tho Dominions and Colonies have delichted to send new,&amps for the Royal" collection, " and

It is difficult to single out or they sometimes add", unusual

Items in

in the way origing particular mention any one por-sketches and proof impressions. My tion of the King's collection, This last aspect is one which which covers the whole gamut of makes the Kings collection

Οι His from unique.

stamps, the Imperial stamp issues

Great

Britain section is probably to Zanzibar, Antigua

for,

the most completo because it in- although it is planned on more cludes so many items in the or less general lines, it is highly way of original drawings, specialised as regards a number

proofs, of Colonies and Protectorates.

time he will be killer. pound notes are on Turpin.

There is a strenuous attempt to build up Jersey Joe Walcott, the new heavyweight cham plon, as a great ring personality But it not very convincing.

I think there are too much saw-dust and tinsel in Ameri- 'can entertainment. A man can tire of superlatives,

! FILMLAND

First Ranking

essays, and similar necessities for they, Inguo ant stamps, that cannot possibly ba duplicated. Jenny

Because he himself is such a

the

happenedal

in

We haven't had a new out-

the Mauritius section ranks takes much more than a per- the

functory Interest in the new Still years.

same old was only trying to help there by driving

Inspector, was hurt. "I ful tale. We have been whipped Cormick, the heirs of Capinin standing screen personally for ROM the point of value alone keen philatelist; in the King rainstorms, Wild Patterson: Greetings to all of names-Gable, Calman, Grant, possibly frat with its pair of issues of all Erilish stamps. isn't

among the males, "Post Office" rarities (id and Those have a reputation for a much In England any winds, and hall. We have been

but

is not world and Cooper you,

of the high and Crawford, Davis and Gar-28.), the unused copy

standard of production floods which more, is, there?"

Like struck by flash

leadership..

collectors in would although swamped underground

Well, twonenny value being the nest rali-

son among the ferpales.

to see more variety and some There isn't much in England,

It streets, and cellars, and

is also a puzzle and the good ones certainly last. ways,

known, example of this classic times he has vetoed a design I have heard that ever since marooned some

houses in the

to Americans enigma

that

by stamp, which is a relle of the already got back to New York and I suburbs. We have been saturat-

Britain should apparently

days when an old watch-maker even heard it frequently

ed by Turkish-bath tempera- Canada.

tures and plagued by mos- have handed the negotiation

ball to Averell Hurriman, in the ILLIAN and Dorothy Gish-struck the stamps of the land the case of Pitcairn, the of the King Bounty routineers. It was given quitoes.

present oil crisis Are there no remember them?are both singly with a hand-die.

Its first postage. alamps in

1940 plays and George V puld. £1,450 for this but his Majesty was not satis Britishnegollators? Are we decorating stage

writing their out of his own private purse, fled with the design of the six- really so feeble that we cannot considering

The Gishes could but its value.

showing the valub, today may be pty". Itself. The handle our own business in our memoirs.

make readers gasp. bwn way?

said, to lie anywhere between

himself was trained as a saflor, Burt Lancaster will probably £5,000 and £7,000.

of

Sutland. and was at the Battle co-star in the Rita Hayworth come-back. The

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We have built big aigns on on Long Island export during the highways Obst few years

has which say: "This pathway will be closed in the event of been misery. We have shipped

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a.Cargo of complaints.

De and Civil abroad and emphasised, austerity except Army

have considered 50 much that the North fence." We

using same of the air-raid Americans, below and above the Border,

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at breakfast said: "It's it is obvious

TURPIN

*King

Aly and the Mention of this rarity is and he declared the ship could Aga have no influence with interesting because it illustrates not all as the artist had de- her. So the design:ros Hollywood spinsters.

the way in which the Royal

wood.

op-

exchange.

1:

On Exhibit

MERICANS psic these but really they questions, are more interested in the visit of Randolph Turpin. Mr Turpla Claudette Colbert has return-stomp collection has been bullf cannot get here too soon as for ed to the stage in triumph up in the, main. Some people as the vast American boxing after all those years in Holly-imagine that his Majesty, and his

She adoros In Canada the atlitude Is WWE have all got into a fine publie is concerned....

the new father before him acquired thelet sympathetic. On the train from flurry about Spain and

play, "Island

Fling by Noel, stamps chilefly through gifts. HE Royal collection, contains I am worried about the fuss Coward a fire comedy. Winnipeg

Montreal to

The Spanish the General Franco.

This is not so, for both have a very fine Plicairn porles, and over this

when a few years back! ardent travelling salesman Opposite question is a big question, and that will be made.

that

Some good British. President fine lad.

Stewart Granger Insists he is insisted on working through the stamp collectors in the Royal 1 Philarelle wonderful how the people in Truman's Government is deter boxers have come here and going back to Africs to shoot usual channels of purchase and Navy formed

been, ruined by recep- lions, not ims. His studio,

iety, his Majesty lent them the Old Country have kept their mined to press on where the have

.of his collection (including spirits up not enough to eat, is late Admiral Sherman left off. tions, celebrations, and general, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,

him the

ve Fitcalfré stamps) fo on ex- there? No good times any more This is no doubt sound defence good times organised by good-parently considers

Unique Error hottest box-office property since

This is typical His like there used to be."

strategy and mast necessary, but Lime Charleys.

Robert Taylor.

esty's desire to share the surely there is no need to tell

NOTHER incident, on this pleasure of his shames with King George VI others. For although the Stamp occasion. being the keen philatelist, sypl- Room at Buckingham Palace fes this, A stamp booklet, of open to the public, parts of are frequently the collection offices, the kind sold by post

sent to

to exhibillots to was discovered

have two 12d, stamps. printed

upside Sometimes they have gone

to known down, an error

to ́world. collectors as a "tele-boche" pair. The King was very keen to add

autumn when he sent 60 sheets truce this; unique error to his colier of stamps to

on , exhibition' at

to com

I said: "There is a meat Americans to dance to shortage, but there is enough to Spanish fandango. ent, and there are plenty of

I hope Turpin will turn down a

Optimistic note in show busi- all invitations and go into strict training and stay there until he nesmusement stocks are up good times. You have heard of The way some of the Press enters the ring against Sugar 75 percent since 1949. However, I hope he will you still risk your neck when the Festival of Britain,

In Bim you would Ray. Robinson.

risk your money" of here are behaving course. Well, I tell you London think

that the Spanish are melt Sugar again, although the you

Is on stock.. smart money today is goyer and handsomer

more desirable allies than the alleged

those who Hollywood says Sometimes and more dressed-up than any British or French.

Robinson to win.

suffer most from inflation are place I've visited recently, I feel I would be treated belter

alibl The

concerning the often the people who cause it a Franco- elther in Canada or the United here if I were States."

from London fight is that Sugar Ray follower,

ex-Nazl an

Footnote: In Korea Germany, or a

Japanese hot had gone soft playing the social The millstone of mythical misery has to be carried around shot. Mr Hearst, Colonel Me- round in Europe, but that next looks stranger than fiction.

the New World by any traveller returning from" England, and it is a dead weight and a dead loss, I am tired of it. It is time we threw it away.

REALLY HOME?

THENEVER

WH

newspaper

I pick up

of listen to al

broadcast I am told about the

grimness and

Teyness of the

Prof.

comes

Higgins

to life

CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUM N

may be moulded by it. Faces for, Hlagins's address STOCKHOLM,

and voices seem to match,

if our snap

British way of life. There a find out

Voice is probably a better arfother financial crisis, there judgments of strangers guide to social standing In are to be further hardships and

generally are.

accurate Britain than in any other coun- greater racrificea,

because differences

део "closa dialect". Sometimes. I wonder if I ever psychologists have devised really spent those ten weeks at an intriguing guessing nounced, says

professor. home. That was London I anw

game.

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Collars ond eliminated from

能

he re ferred her to Professor Porr.

POPTIMISTIC SEX

tion, and he paid £135 for the booklet.

other side of the the Idea This was the dust

Melbourne,

the

The

centenary of memorate the cente Brat issue in Victoria It is on record that a former stamps included a dozen, sheets owner of the world's rarest of 1 The arst New *South Wales stamp, the 1 cent British Guiana, issues, known as theBydney 1858, once sought permission to view," and another dozen sheets present it to the Royal collec of the first Victorian issue. Hon. The offer was firmly but

dously

are

not private collectors

say that the

because One of the most extraordinary ted from stories about Royal stamps goes This is not to back to 1864, when some 80- Royal, philatelic called "Royal Reprints" saw the

of light

in accordance with day in

treasures have not been enrich-

from ed

2

Lime

from time to

of other are request. The Prince of Wales (atterwards Edward VII), the thoughtfulness

his brother, the Duke of Con- collectors and by

presenta stamps WOMEN are generally more tions of

made by naught, and his nephew, the late optimistle than men, and Dominion and Colonial Govern German Kaiser, were all seized 80 pro have a stronger desire to live ments and Native princes in the with the stamp collecting fever, the 64-year-old dangerously, according to a form of souvenirs of some of the and very naturally wanted the

scientide quiz carried out here. Royal tourange

world's first stamp, the famous "Penny Black""with which to decorate the opening pages their; albums,/

the

wasn't (17 Floodlit at night,

tles were Mont

their rate women with great crowds thronging

pictures chances of surviving operations tho Embankment and the Professor Tom Hatherley Pear streets full of fine cars.

(pronounced Peer), of Man Used in the test to avoid giving much higher than men And .clucs, but Pear has found that a they usually expect to llva chester University, has just man's hair style often betrays longer. Those were Brilish shops, weren't they packed with tied out the game at a mass his job. goods and lammed with shop meeting of 450 psychologists pers? The tour of the Provinces, here in: Stockholm.

As

Valuable Gifts

"Reprints"

a request was sent to the Post Office to supply needed specimen. But there. W-Wrent reserves there n keon were none.

Kibe were had been exhaused. But fetler,

WayThat

The quiz showed that people hues on the request:had to be met some

tseemed not;

As an example of the kindnes A of a fellow-collector, when Ave the day and night sle mail Two women in every tested think that danger is service across the United States the spice of life. But only one was inaugurated the head of where every hotel was booked close-ups of men's, nices

Norfolk-born Fear, whose man in every five enjoys take the Post Office division of the up and overy, other man was a

Customs House, home-town booster, did take flashed on to a screen, we own voice has acquired a re- ing risks.

and sent cognisable Mancunian quality, If My friends asked to fudge, their occupa place, didn't

the railway who...arrive, at

mall for his Majesty Ameult, bacoure pal. ARIANA berg.

doubt it, and I'm even and social status, then we tries theg delayed, experiments with beginning to wonder

station long before their train And many years before (1893), to wonder myself. Judging rush botground women's voices and faces..

la due to leave are usually the occasion of his marriage, nenedary, was o clean a plate of Everyone living here is auto- from a record of his voice, Women are harder to map pessimistle in other ways, an album of valimbles stamps the red stamga hon in usor and wedding gifts, reprint them in hack and that matically the target for pets Finally we tried to up re judge than men, because, most

The fact that women so wake among tent propaganda,glorifying the corded voices with -- the tik

of then falsify their real features American way of life and de- racon....

with cosmetics, he says. And, often catch trains of the last the token of the good wishes of, wat sotually done and doubtin bunking all others. We are all

for inore women than men de moment or just miss them may the members of the London the young collectors were pare

recessively: ferntoly bequire a "cultured" be further evidence of their Philatelle Bodley, of which the factly trafine W

optimism, the de

dent and patron

But moderntal presiden accent.

Arter studying human vocer for 26 yours sehr in;m Skying- pri of Bernard Shaw as Profesor Higgins, the actionat

so industrineled with megazine Artis

monstruo advertisements that the dream Results of this demonstration world of swimming pools, look plus six months of money convertible motor care, country tally controlled experimetra cruiser labour paringi kitchens, Manchester, strongly supp and batiroomm 88:17 (13) tamil- Loomis has le entradas Ameri: instinctive belief that a man dancethacious her boy face and voice gre tall, guides, in

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