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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1952.

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Everything Stops For Fun

From R. M, MacCOLL

IN

WASHINGTON. Greenwood, Florida, R. A. Willis, president of the local bank, which started 45 years ago, an- nounces that the bank is going out of business be. cause "we are old and tired: we've got the money to pay everyone off 100 percent., so we're darn well going to do it while we can, and then rest and have some fun."

Over

J. V. Telinhassee. in Chapman, Felda's chief war examint reports that the bank is perfectly solvent--they just decided to liquidate and quit?”

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Adds the retiring Mr Willis, most of whose customers well-to-do groundnut and live- stock farmers: "Guess we were born 30 years too soon. We can fight the battle like it is. Con ditions are too fast for me."

He has 400,000 dollars to hand back to the depositors.

For the

PANIC in Hollywood. Some Joker started a rumour that it's going to rain non-stop next

the 25 days and quoted

bureau kcal weather

the as source. So the studios rushed indoor plans to concentrate on shooting only.

POOR Michael DiSalle, Gov erument price buss, in new

trouble. Strong language from the caterers greats his proposal that restaurant proces be "ed"

the

index wholesale food

Statistics

issued by the Labour Bureau. Prices would rise and fall with the index, is the theory.

SILVER-TONGUED orator is an American phrase applied to an American type-classic exam- ple: the lave Wiam Jennings Bryan, a tremendous oratur, who never won the presidency, much though he coveted

Both phrase and type are fast dying out. One of the last has Just died, 90-year-old ex-Sena-

of tar Sam Shortridge,

Culi- tomia the silver-tongued on- tor of the Pacific."

His political credo back in 1920 cm nationalist,

vot

an internationalist. I ar against the League of Nations. am a protective tariff man, first, last, and always, I am opposed to Asiatic Immigration into Cali- fornia, meaning the Hindus, the Chinese, and the Japs."

SKERS

Of the few genuine

COGNACS

ONE

IS

COGNAC

OUTSTANDING

"You there!

Never mind about

the

how many bicycles it would have made-stick thing in and let it go."

London Express Service

Sola Aganter

Nancy May Be America's

N

EL

Next First Lady

WASHINGTON. ANCY PIGOTT, who moved from neat red sandstone house in a fashionable backwater of Glasgow to an equally unpretentious white brick English-type cottage in Washington, is wondering with

than hormal feminine interest about her next address,

more

lī could be the

big White House

remodelled being

In Pennsylvania Avenue. For it is tust possible that Nancy Pigott, as the wife of Senator Estes may be America's

Kefauver.

First Lady after the Presidential election in November.

By HENRY LOWRIE

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graph of her husband in the largest Arst-floor

of Washington's Willard Hole!, hired as headquarters of the "Kefauver for President" Club.

A while feather skull dented the

cap

and so were my three sisters and brother,

I

"I heard a int, of course, about America, so in 1934 came out to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to visit my mother's relatives. halo of her short was introduced to a rising cuburn hair and, with white

young lawyer Estes Kefauver (he is now 48). gloves, provided the only con- trast to the thort Persian Jamb which she wore over a coat black frock.

"Mm." said Mrs Kefauver appreciatively. "I haven't seen that picture before."

Rising lawyer

The

Nancy,

chic, good-looking (the four children mother of oldest ten, the youngest one), is

TOW did the woman frym slightly overwhelmed at the Glasgow become embroiled

But Hike all the HANDSOME Agnes de Mille- | prospect.

of her developing she's dancur - choreographer features whose success story started blaz- American life, it will be just

although ing with the "Oklahoma" ballet another,

bigger, says: "Dancing is the mother challenge. of all the arts, and the people who dance will keep close to the root forces and the spontaneous admiration from her green eyes strengths of life."

I found her gazing with

at a blown-up, six-foot photo-

in America's top politics? route is not so circuitous ag Mrs Kefauver explained it.

"My

Clyde father (that is, shipbuilder Sir Stephen Pigott) is American. My mother came fum Tennessee. But they lived in Glasgow. 1 born there

was

Loch Ness Monster Insured

THE Loch

Ness Monster has puzzle it all out, not quite cer~ been insured. It came to tain who was having his leg pull- light in this way. A showman ed-himself, the Loch Ness re- offered a large reward to anyone

sidents of the showman. Certain who could produce the Monster, it was that the me party who dead or alive. Later his repre-

knew just what they were doing sentative visited the Loch Ness were the insurance people. area and was surprised to find that "Nessie" was taken serious- ly in that part

most

life are against the risk of having twins or triplets.

Whilst caterers and the ilke insure against bad weather risks, there are raincoat makers and

entertainments proprietors who insure against losses from bad weather. Even sports organisers

known to visiting

Lloyds, the greatest under writers in the world, are con- have been

the world. He cerned in this "risk," just as against therefore promptly increased the ultimately they are holders of being poisoned from the interval

stakes on showman's offered reward by the

others refreshments, and there are fat several thousands of pounds. covered by insurance, and it men who have insured against The showman, however, did would appear that the "Nessie" abdominal injury when passing

was the stroke of risk is not not think it

the only bizarre through the turnstile.

Popular policy with Lloyds is good business his representative example of many queer policies.

the insurance against bad holl- day weather. A normal summer- One actress had an insurance time policy will pay out £8 for against losing her famous dim- £1 premium if there are 1% ples, and Mistinguett had a policy inches of rain in the holiday for £10,000 to protect her legs, week or if 0.2 inches of rain fall Most stage and film people are on three days out of the seven, insured for risks whilst at work, For a premium of £2 a year including innumerable married Lloyds will ray up to £1,000

polley-holder actresses who have financial if the

did, and sald so in no measured terms. He explosively pointed out to his agent that as a matter of fact the original offer of the "dead or alive" reward had been covered by insuring against the

capture of the monster. This was

for £2,000. Did not the agent realise that now they stood to lose every perny over that

unwount?

It was a somewhat bewildere

showman who sat down to

費

"I suppose I must have 'made an impression on him, for next

she drives him round his Tennessee constituency, meeting the voters and boosting film at every chance, But she dnes Lot make speeches.

"In the South women aren't too prominent," she explained,

She makes her home in Washington. Originally a three bedroom affair, it had to be ex- tended as the family grew in numbers, Two months of the year she spends on Tennessee farm-"for the sake of the children.

ย

She has a governess to look

year he followed me back to after them. so she manages to Glasgow and we were married, help her husband get through It igas simple as that, We pamal bi vost pile of letters.

to live in America. He gradually broke into politics and then was elected Senstor."

Mrs Kefauver, who occasionally lapses

inito

only the

Open house

CHE is a member of the Wo- Southern draw of her husband,men's National Democratie does not like to talk about 112

possibilities of moving into the Club and the Congressional White House-daughter Eleanor Club, "but I am not a born club-

is much chance of having a house with a swimming pool.

more excited at the

After all, the Senator has not dennitely said yet that he will be a candidate, but everyone is sure he will run, and supporter clubs are mushrooming all over the place.

Biggest lift

THE Senator got his biggest lift up last year when millions of people watched him on TV 28 he headed the Congres sional Committee which investi- gated crime.

of, a

ke

woman." Some of her time goes to working for the Red Cross, and only infrequently now she gels in a round of golf.

Modestly: "I am not very good. I score in the late eighties." At that she is as good as her husband,

Enviously: "He hits a tremendous ball." Little wonder. He is 6 ft. 2 in., built in pro- portion, and used to be star of Tennessee University football team-and football in America is really rugged.

Her entertaining is almost continuous.

"It is open. House all the time. Visitors from all over the country drop in to see my husband. Everything is very informal and hectic all the time with, the children and our two cocker spaniels,"

More

.msn

Quietly, competently cover handled the racketeers as they referce appeared before him and tried to wriggle out of answering his penetrating questions.

room at the. White He thought it was a straw in House? "Well, let's not go into the wind when the lawyer who that just now," she remarked. helped the Committee, Rudolph

"Hey, Popsy," she called, and Hailey, cashed in On the the

tall,white-haired popularity

clean-up gazing fondly at the big picture campaign and was swept in the of Estes Kefauver turned and New York municipal elections as walked over. president of the Council.

"Come on, I'll drive you home. When Nancy could she went You've got to get

some rest along, to the Committee bearings before the party tonight." And and still gets a thrill from the she walked out with the 81- memory that she just sat behind year-old father of Senator racketeer Frank Costello, the Kefauver. catches man who would allow only his cover against loss of work whilst amallpox or Infantile paralysis, hands to be televised, having a child. Common policies amongst women in all walks of

For

our

He was chuckling to himself. "Looks as if they're planning She helps Estes in his political to run Estes for something," he W. Taylor work. In a green sports car, Southern-drawind.

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