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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1952.

"Everyman to his job" and some

some of them are very unusual indeed as shown in this symposium

Spotlight On ODD JOBS

of Stockholm-apparently have yards of the homes of Brussels watch back to its starting point the patience for the job,

long before dawn to collect on the factory bench.

In Britain, men are employed by the council to sweep the surects after

a heavy snow of

storm. Much the same thing happens in Sweden, except that here the sweepers go one

further. bep

They climb on the roofs of the uses and stores and start *weeping off the crow from there. An odd job, but it looks impressive and is all quite off

MAN with one the oddest jobs in New York works in the highest building in the world-the Empire State.

He has to turn on every tap in every basin in every washroom in the building-- every Sunday and Bank | Holiday to ensure that the whole washroom system of the Empire State is kept in plumbing

order, with 110 faults or "choking.`

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He has to visit nure Dan thousand washrooms durË DIS round and turn thousands upon 1. usands 61 wash basins. Hug wages £25

wik Then, there is ty Pan in far Lexington, Virginia, who away

a week merely receives £12 to see that no une d'images any way the preserved Lad

called Traveller, the horse that once belonged to tieners Hobert E. Lee, confederal even- mander the civil war

-Rodney Campbell

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You could do the job any-

where-hear

river, lake, or by the sea. It is an jub merely unusual

because few people do it-for few

ever think people would spending their nights crawling on hands 1.14 louces Ju the parks looking for worms to sell lu would-be anglers the follow- ng moming.

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the

all manner of garbage-rags, To enable the experts to listen bones, metal and bottles-from to

tick-tocking watches, Hicks microphones amplify the the dustbins.

However unofficial the job, it so that they burst out of a loud w. nevertheless, an quite a big speaker like the detonations of scale." The old woman who Big Ben.

steves your ash from the dust- bin in the still hours of the morning is not doing it because she is poor and needs a

a fire. She

because ncpr by ahe and her colleagues are buliding up a major refuse dump which, in a few hours when A

Offcial, too, is the job of the "Luspector" who visits res- aurant after restaurant behalf of

authorities, Local weg to it that no diner drinks more than a quarter of a plat

f spirit at one meal.

---Cyril Marshall

DRITONS visiting France are Dofter

surprised by coal merchants who also run well- suxked

which bars

remain

ba

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grown big enough) they will transfer into sacks and cart it of to be sold at an amazingly good price. By the

end of it all, there isn't much left for the official

st

Nut that the dust- man in Brussels, beginning his sounds of the day, worries nih about thei

-Gavin Gordon

Haken your

OW many times have you watch into a watch repairers and stood back

all day. This trade of coalman cum

is not L

popular with

bandling your Jose change wives. French

Too often wonderingly, while the

watch husband has said, "Jus. going order some coal, my cherie,“ and has not been seen again for hours.

One of the most morbid jobs in France, awever, is dit of 1.12 [?] who continuously watch

the platforms of the Eiffel Tower to prevent suicides from jumping.

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repuster puts your timepiece to hisar, and in a moment con- demns the whole thing as hardly worth repairing?

Perhaps you were surprised that the tick which sounded all right to you should spell doom

fur a watch to the ear of D

watch repairer.

The answer is that a watch is -Henry Thody known to be healthy, or other-

Belgium:**

wise, by its flekas any watch repairer will tell you.

This is so much the case that in Switzerland there are people whose odd jub 11 is merely to

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NE of the most unusual jobs listen to the steady, or other

in Belgium--even if it is wise,

woffelal"

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The men

But, the worm-hankers Sweden-or more particularly

who

---Victor Sankey

RANZ Sprichal, a grey-haired

wizened little man, has one

of the strangest jobs in Vienria. Under the glare of a primitive carbide lamp, he pans fo

ewars

oid

the tortuous sinister "Third Man" sewers far helow the busy rtreets of the Blur Danube city

Six days a week for 18 years, oki Franz has searched the

for gold tooth

fillings

sewers

treasure

old coins and other f Love. With the proceeds keeps his wife and fandy five children in comfort

le

Now and again he gets a real find. Fifteen years ago it was a tiara studded with precious

Stud stones; another time it was a fine diamond ring.

In another odd job, a Vien- nese girl is kept busy compiling cooking recipes with a careful eye to the shops. By dialling given number, harassed house- wives who are at their wits end to know what to cook for lunch can hear her golden voice ex- plaining how to cook the meal of the day.

-Ritchie McEwen

jobs

QHREWD Germans have creat-

ed dozens of unusual from the war's aftermath, and the East-West tension.

tick-tock of the

her

wrong,

job-concerns timepiece.

If the heartbeat is (and women) tour the basements and back- then this in itself condemns the

The price is £2,600,000 for the use of a name

HOPALONG FOR SALE

New York.

TOPALONG CASSIDY. from FREDERICK COOK Hoe carboy of St. tele-

vision, is a hero to millions home and the local papers by

wood--n star whose career was ver But although Boyd had no money he had one asset: for years he had been using his savings to buy all rights to his and 10 the oharacter of

him

of American juveniles--not mistake used the wrong Boyd's Cassidy. And he remembered

ail of them of school age. picture. It finished the survivor, He is also the creator of a explain as he could. fortune for the man who plays him-a

man named Bill Boyd.

belts, neckerchiefs, spurs, guns, watches, bread, toffee. mink bottles and a host of other things.

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Plodding along in Hollywood

kad ne were two other men who though they did not know it were soon to be rich Hemselves thanks to the white-

those two words in the contract

"and television."

He arri

arrived in New York (with

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and

In Bavaria, a worna epras

living removing exploded

aerial bombs arullery shells, and at Helmstedt a man is employed by a war prisoners search service to post pictures of Germans stil m.s- sing in Russia where they can be canned by

by returning prisoners who might have in- formation about them.

war

Along the 700 miles of the German Iron Curtain hundreds of wiry, furtive eyed men and some women — make i

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the mortgaged car). TV snap-IN Britain, with its weath of ped him up. In a year he was a millionaire again.

feature

ture strips that THE PARTNER

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s about a handsome hero

He is making

tradition and ceremony, it is only natural that some very Today 40 TV stations carry | peruliar and out-of-the-way jobs - The size of the fortune haired ex-star with the worried him regularly. Seventy news- should exist. is revealed by this: that lock.

papers print the gaudy adven- Closely linked with the bis- Boyd now

him:tory of British government are to sell wants

14 million "comic books" sell some of the unusual practices in William Boyd Enterprises

every year! and 73 manufac- the Houses of Parliament. Ever Inc., the firm that deals in

One of them was a former turera shower dollars on him for since the Gunpowder Plot of the the right to use the magic erk

Brooklyn named the use of the name.

year 1005 when Guy Fawkes was on holsters, Chorence Mulford, who made a

Businesses Cassidy name

using his name arrested just as he was about t modest west stanes to cheap magazines your.

living peddling Wild grossed 100 million dollars last blow up the Houses of Parlia- ment, the vaults have been a whole new searched every time Parliament called Buck Feters. Peters had series of high-cost Cassidy pic-opens.

profunt,

The search tobacco-chewing. tures in coldur and coining so

is carried out by ugh-but-heart-of-gold partner much money stat he says, "By the Yeomen of the Guard, called Hopalong Cassidy.

dressed in picturesque crimson and gold uniforms—unchanged in style since Stuart days-and carrying tasselled pikes. They arrive early, before the King, What about Mulford? When and search especially carefully he saw the well-scrubbed Cas the vault immediately beneath dy that Bayd had made out of the throne on which the King his tough

character he will sit. walked out of Hollywood and Another "odd job" is that of never went back. He lives in the "Black Rod" or "Gentleman a remote Maine village.

Usher of the Black Rod." He

Royd's price is eight million dollars £2,600,000

or 50. And the chances are that he will get his price.

It is a fantastic climax to a fantastic story.

Boyd is a labourer's son. arrived in Hollywood in 1919 after a restless youth spent in

He

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Mulford sold some of imse stories to Harry Sherman, a film producer, who wanted to make some cheap Westerns. On an Impulse someone wrote the words "and television" into the contract. Mulford laughed, but didn't object. Sherman got Boyd to play the part of Cassidy.

Boyd could hardly stay on a horse he was scared of horses.

golly, it would frighten me

1 weren't so darned old."

MR MULFORD

old

wandering through the mining Also he proved hard to direct.

All down the years the Holly bears messages from the House camps in the American West. Instead of the shiftless,

in to of Lords, or from the King un- wood money has flowed During his wanderings he work shaven cowboy of the story, him, of course. But few people when be is present, to the House Cassidy as Boyd played knew it until last summer, when of Commons. The door of the

him An

in Lower House is traditionally came out a

one day Hopalong Cassily, well-spoken, chival- rous character ou 10

full cowboy, kit, rode out of the slammed in his face, and he has the life of the community. He baggage car of a train at the then to knock three times upon used a gun with reluctance but, village station and trotted odr it with his black staff. The of course, with two-handed skill down the street to see old Mr Serjeant at Arms then inspects

and for drink took nothing Mulford.

ed for a while as a driving in structor, and married (after their second drive together), one of his boss's richest customers. The marriagt failed. But it left Boyd with a taste for the high

hile.

WHITE AT 19

improve

stronger than sarsaparilla.

hys-

The village kids were For 16 years Boyd played tenical with disbelief and joy. Cassidy Blm parts. By 1949 he They besieged the place all day That was his chief asset when was broke again. People said "As for me," said Mulford, “my he got to Hollywood-that and that of Ceasidy pictures was 60. grandson looked at me with new a handsome shock of hair that or so too many.

respect. He told me he never had been snow white since he Now 50 years old, Boyd was knew I had ever met anybody apparently finished in Holly- as famous as Hopalong Cassidy." was 19.

In Hollywood the climbed to stardom.

Ho married four times. He ived as most film stars lived in those days.

For instance, at a party one night, someone said a moonlight cruise would be fun. Boyd own- ed no yacht. He telephoned to B. yacht club, bought one on the spot for 12,500 dollars, and the guests got their cruise..

What finally laid him low was noolricklence no grotesque ikut not even Hollywood would dare put it in theifior, More' was the Wiiam Boyd then In Hollywood he is dead now!

The poliom one nádně spadded si #WA, NEED A H

Bayd's

JOHNNY HAZARD

LETS CAGE THAT WOMBED-

OT SECTION. DAIKITZ MAY

NO ANGWEELMHAT COLUP HAVE HAPPENED

TO BE YOUNNY 7

·HAVE FALLEN IN THERE AND

+ KNOCKED HERZCHF OUT/

him to make sure that he is un--

armed, and after humble bows

the message is delivered. This procedure dates from the times when it was necessary to prevent unwanted "strangots"-particu- larly the King from entering the Commons.

-Pat Henry |

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