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CHINA-MAIL MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1951.
THE GILES FAMILY HOLIDAY:
"Mum! We've caught a lovely fish and Dad's still on the other end of the line."
London Express Service
GEORGE DAWSON
The Eiffel Tower: Skylon Of 1889
By HENRY THODY.
would not be shut up for six months.
PARIS. elephant reached the first plat-Fi THOUGH 62 years old. form, while birdmen and para-
that grand old lady of always len successfully.
chutists have leapt from not
Paris, the Eiffel Tower,
One French aviator might is still the biggest hit and
have Jived to become a money-coiner of the French grand-talhes if he had not tried capital's 2,000 anniversary to dy under the main arch celebrations,
although s:veral Allled airmen tried after the Liberation and lived to drink the champagne bets they won,
Tourists queue at the rate of 10,000 a day to take the three lifts or climb the 2,710 stairs to the tower's 985-foot-high top platform.
British visitors among them wonder which-If any of their own Festival at- tractions will still be popular In the year 2018, remember ing that Eiffel Tower was the "Skylon" of the 1889 Paris Exhibition. "
Besides one of the finest views in the world the Tower offers two excellent cestaurants, two bars and a post offce with its own special Tower stamp.
It is also a ready-made tele- vision actial with a range of no miles.
And several times a year a leid? makes the front page with a death leap.
Making Money
M Tower, which paid for itself MEANWHILE, the Eifel two years after it was built, continues to make millions of rahes for the Paris municipality.
Parisians have recently been willing leitors to the newspapers, citiesing the British quarantine law for dogs.
"It is cruel for the British to' keep dogs entering Britain in quarantine dor six months," say
A story is told of the wife of A French diplomat recently inoved to Britain who
was that her pet dog
these Frenchmen,
The Eiffel Tower attracts cranks and stuntmen, as well as tourists. A cyclist once rode down. Its staircase, a creus determined
MY SECRETS
by Britain's
most-
amazing millionaire
containing accusations
that he worth millions.
1.
She had a small parachute light plane, and pilot to drop made for the doff, then hired Fl over a lonely meadow in Brilain at dusk.
.
The Frenchwoman was wait- ing below in a fast diplomalle car, snatched up Fifi (who had
cafe innding) and ronted away.
A contrasting item Is the public proles Just made by :.Three Paris, prevention of cruelly to animals zocieties about the Parisians' custom of leaving their pols unattended while they go away for their annual holidays.
Paris public gardens are full of cats and dogs left homeless by their holidaymaking owners.
Vivisectionists and manu- facturers of cheap fur coats are having their hey-day, say the animal societies.
Holiday jam
:
STAGGERED holidays are un- known in France-every Parisian takes hid holiday during the month of August. The result Is that every holiday resort la unbearably crammed.
Prices rocket and service be- contes non-existent. But. the Frenchman seems to Uke it that way!
compara-
Paris has become tively deserted; as millions have swarmed to the coast,
more
The famed sunhy: Riviera is crowded and expensive than ever with kings, million- nires, movie-stars-and 30 per cent.. morg Brilish holiday- makers than last year.
Whon
of the "Grand manner." Savile Row to fit Dawson sonal press-cutting book and who later was to control more
CANNES with several suits at a time, throw open before guests pages than 20 companies, ship goods over, Dawson returned to London quarrel
"to lock for a bit of business." American UT on the sun-sonked the hand-made shirts for is a racketeer, a trickster, that, ut used to get up at four o'clock of an American Liberly ship fanchored off. Cannes.
Boulevarde de la which Dawson pays £10 he has made money by sharp Croisette at Cannes, each, and the ties at £50 for practice. Dawson does not at
tempt to hide these a selected few...
tions, but he dismisses contemptuously.
10
where the inter- nationally loved and envied gather, there is a stir now and then as an open silver grey Cadillac whispers past.
Villa guests at Dawson's get the choicest champagne served in quantity in bal loon glasses. When Dawson wants to celebrate he orders Film stars in Bikinis, financiers in flannels, the Simon, the French butler: "Let's have a drink. Fil
FROM
STEPHEN
said
burst of anger the woman tore on all the jewellery her husband had given her about £7,000 worth-and tossed it overboard into the sea. Local fishermen have temporarily giveri up fishing to look for the treasure,
Special Place
not gossiping about King Farouk's casino wins (and Inpres) the holidaymakers" about the In September 1945, the war favourite story is
between A wealthy...
blonde and her!
yacht With a friend he bought the cargo husband aboard their
says Dawson, Funk in Whitstable Bay.
When
In accusa "drive the lorry alone to the Kent the vissel was raised It was full
in the morning,"
waterlogged stores, them hepfelds, take a load for delivery, of
drive across London for another Dawson. jond, then without stopping to eat drive to Aldershot with a land of asphalt unload the stuff myself and drive back. I used to get heme at midnight and fall into
"You wouldn't believe what bed dead beat."
that ship held. Uniforms, lovely Dawson, who has an all-in-hospital equipment, refrigerators, wrestler's ches! and bleeps, watches, typewriters, beds, soup, measurement said: "It was tough, tobacco, dustbins any amount of I tell you." Little by little be stuff. We had trains of It brought built up his business, using his away and still it kept coming." spare time in 1933 to learn to fly. He still hads a plio's "A" licence, Dawson's blt of business turned
handsomely. Then In When bather in difficulties "There goes George Daw
"I am charged with all sorts can fly a twin-engined aircraft For Dawson gets a laugh
the son," they say. And the talk
drivers in Europe.
batteries he became associated words, "Drink. Во and 90 goes to the latest Dawson from his own "big boy" of things, none of which I say best car dit, and he is one of the pechange for a stock of old forch grabs the belt heredi
with his first postwar surplus aperitifs, so much better than called a the Dawson big legend, and plays up to it. I have been legend
company, the London and Oxford water." spending,
Steel Company, with premises at his business One of his "gags" is to pro- munist. I have been charged -
Brixion. From here he launched Snails, of course, have. deals, his almost reckless duce after lunch liqueurs in with having Hitler's gold. All
Into big scale surplus buying special place in a Frenchman's generosity, his supersti- giant show-window bottles sorts of fantastle rubbish has By 1915, with his knowledge with a new colleague..
heart, so perhaps it is no suT» two feet tall, which are as been fabricated against mic. I of molars, forces and heavy rond
|prise" that France's brand new much as the butler can lift. am a successful business man, transport, he set up recondition-
sport is snall-racing.c Streatham and Certain ing butes in My hands are clean, business rivals, of course, want Clapham. Business associates who knew him then ray he could take to ruin me, but I have nothing a 30-second look at a lorry and
estimate is worth,
glamorous and the hangers that thing that "thing" COULTER
on look up at the big man with the boyish eyes beside the driver.
tion and toughness.
Dawson Watching the legend-spinning
close at quarters in his villa' and on
can
being a foot-high
German
atone. jar, which holds about two quarts of champagne.
375,000 worth of
:
and
have a thred of truth in them...
to fear.
Com-
"It's been said I started as a
nover.
out
First they bought surplus sek- sealing afréraft petrol tanks, ·
dealer. My mother is still alive Dawson. "I cornered thein all
and commercial lorries sald left by the Germans.
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THEY are also laughing about
the new
beach lifebelts provided by a large manu- facturer of aperitifs,
plates of highly: garliced, snails "a la Bourguingnonne.”
Third Dimension TRENCH cinemagoers will in
Contests are held in cafes on "There were a great number of these tanks at Hoylake," Henry glas tracks about a yard long, Wallers explained. "Wo put a amidst animated betting: board his £50,000 yacht is The Jewellery of Dawson's
gang of men on them cutting Champions have already an uncommon experience wife, Olga, is worth a big busi-
Soon, said Dawson, he was them open and ripping out the been trained and the record for for big spender Dawson, ness man's turnover, for a good barrow boy. Well, I never had paying cus £1,000 wages to rubber lining. Rubber at that time the three-foot course is alx
raise a gaap
even on year. She showed me come of
my life and I staff and on the way to his first was extremely scarce and we
Rules W minutes..
have been this millionaire-studded strip with a single square-cut stone have
it-ope 20-carat cncrald ring a barrow in
sold
big money. Already he owned a made a comfortable profit." fruit.
established which forbiā on- Bentley and was a figure in West Dawson then shified,opera-couraging the rubners with of coast.
was born, the third youngest End clubs. the size of a postage stamp.
tions to the Channel Islands, lettuce leaves. diamond-ruby-emerald brooch of a large family, in Bermond- At one Cannes hotel as big as a pocket watch, art sey, where my father
"I started buying up big trucks buying up the scrap and surplus was a
One owner has already. where he sometimes meets other square-cut diamond ring
accused a rival of drugging his over 10. Recently I went to over England. Competitors trying bought up a camp of surplus powder.
Back. at home Dawson next favourite anall with a' sleeping business friends he settles and a pair of diamond
emerald earrings, his bill by the year.
England for iwo days to sea to cut me out used to queue up
fer the first published coples of a cleaned up similarly in the Isle
vehicles In Gloucester. He And what do the racegoers "Emeralds are my favourites.". her. "The French tax people says Mrs Dawson."
trade magazine which carried the
đó. Dor a bed o evening's "I remember when I was 12 advertisements of big trucks for of Man buying surplus vehicles. betting? They sit down to hot Bold I had spent £13,000
Said one of Dawson's business having my first bike, I was nie. there," said Dawson. "And associates: "I was with George very proud of it. But I saw the on the strength of that they, one day when he bought Olga possibilites in it, so i used to "These people used to have made me pay £11,000 tax, Said somebody, 'You mean the saved the money, and pre- to the seller and close the deal "Wa must have had 24 com-
Jewellery, hire it out to my small friends, racing cars stand by to rush them and they won't even give Baroda Jewels, Dawson waved me an identity card. That a hand negligently. 'No, no. he ently. I had three bicycles for before I could arrive. But I was, panies going at that time, sald
smerter. didn't get fustered" Wallers. English tax claim I paid in said, 'that, was another day
and I used to beat them every full-£10,000.
Dawson looked across to a time. S:on I was turning over at Norway' was much the same I asked Mrs Dawson how many dresses the had. She landscape by French master million pounds worth of busly story. Dawson bought a big
Through new - French in- dump of idle - material laughed, and shrugged her Guillaumin. "I wanted to be negd.
and vanilon, ordinary, dims can be shoulders "I don't know." Independent, to work for myself,
shipped the goods to Britain given a lifelike depth in any not for somebody olic. One
and the Continent, Belgium cinema. Filmgoers need not Sitting back in a red silk. Friends, however, say that day, unknown, to my family. I
took a lot of it.
wear any special spectacles or dressing gown, a hand with her fortune in Jewellery went to a second-hand, auction
"But I was made a poor man Among the Norwegian surplus:
gadgets. rumpling his curly brown Ges a simple but carefully sale.
again overnight when the Trafic was a complete hospital for chosen, wardrobe. hair, Dawson will tell you,
Act limited tho combined larry 10,000 beds with medical stores. specially made coloured scréatis,
The secret is a series «and load weight to 12 tons.” That "I like the best." The bost Most of the time in Cannes
Dawson bought this along takes in the French masters in a blouse and a pale of shurts, Mra Dawson deossus informally
meant that if a lorrer: wAB. BIYON İ tons it could only carry a five-ton with the rest and made a gif which hang on the Villa
"When one lot came up for cad and often that didn't pay. of it to Norweglan hospitals. Saugete walls, the five red and white or black ribbons malo could not resist Ihol hed And I had all these big lorries. But the bligest money time on the noy vereensely and boxes of cigars he produces borrowed from her daughter to bid. Hink how my father. When the Northern Ireland spinner came when Dawson 20 Pariclistas after meals” (though he
Tanya N
Why could turn, over money with 1 Transport Board took over road, hurned to Germany, "und in one equipped by October.
bough it up. mtrouble transport and, told what it con- operation bought up. 420,000 20 gm Andther secret of Dawson's was, I hadn't enough money, but aldered unsuitable vehicles vehicios, plus 3,000 motor Experts form Hollywood,
-#pinning the story be
the auction people: let me taka Dawson bought them up and sold cycles parked in "dumps along flew to Palis tune of
away one loads of the stuff at proat. Some Cf theag the autobahn of the British tests, wald the Then I went back and bald for vehicles, Dawson explained, were Zone
give the cinema
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doesn't smoke himself), the
costly Buhl furniture, the man sik damask tablecloth, the Frojd-edged dinner servico, and the crystal, windglasso8 worth ult
two months time be enjoying. third dimension films.
x is all, cach placed in: front
Lof the other.
pigtails tied
the reale They's how I remedie later ward: af auxillary de fire
oginen in BritainThen came The vehicles were mapped 20-ho and the war and requisitioning, and 10. by British buyers as flat ba
andikadt, bought Time In Devonniliye Hurt could beg Alope
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