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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1952.
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1
IDDON'S DIARY
New York, Tuesday. How
VERYBODY seems to
have money trouble' this week particu- larly President Truman.
The ballooning
scares 'even
Rockefeller.
the
Every hour during
Budget richest
the
long can America keep spending 10 million dollars every
hour?
4
ex - President
Yes, a thousand Why, almost
times
yes.
all the sniplag
and sneering at Britain have vanished since Mr Churchill has been and gone.
The
news- Scripps-Howard paper chain, which was Baying the most unkind things about Britain, is now one of the most vocal cheer-leaders.
The bloodshed in Egypt, which red rag to a Herbert could have been
ot American public
WHAT'S GOING ON
'KON-TIKI' leader makes a fortune
London. His sons Shane and Belar 'want to setile in Canada. TH EN THOR
"I don't blame them,” anya HEYERDAHL father,
WH
Bailed with five companions 4,300 miles on. a raft across the Pacifle he had one object: to test a scientific theory.
His raft, built on legendary principles, seemed to modern designers.to be suicidal. But he succeeded.
Cripps tapestry
N Zurich
Clinic LADY car is reading to her husband from TOM 'JONES' life of LLOYD GEORGE.
Meanwhile, BIR STAFFORD has started tapestry work. Hu is making a stool cover.
HE is also writing many let- lerg tomething he has nat Now, at 36, he finds he done for a long time. Amony has made a fortune in three the New Year messages he re- years. "If it were not for celved was one from Mr Chur- income tax I should be a millionaire," he says.
His book, "The Kon-Tiki Expedition," has sold more than 60,000 copies, bring. ing him about £70,000 in royalties so far.
He is likely to earn
chili.
Lady Cripps said: «Ele Stafford who is suffering from s spinal infection] is very much better, but he has a long way still to go. We need patience."
Sailing two ways
CHURCHILL, once First Admiralty,
M Lord of the
flower to PRESIDENT.
TRU-
another large sum from the presented a model of the May- film of the journey, which MAN. It had certain distinctive
he
photographed with small cinecamera.
The film, in
岬
A features.
the
the
The sails Alled out agalhst an imaginary wind. But which ensigns were being blown
opposite way.
Heyerdahl has a percentage share, is expected to "earn £300,000 in America alone. be shown In It will BOON Britain.
No-Khan-do
born on
Was Tulough he November
2. 1877, the AGA KHAN chooses his own
fo!-
due
BUT fame and fortune have special birthdays for his made little difference to Heyer- lowers.
For some
The first this year was dahl's way of life.
It was postponed. "He time he has fived in seclusion but
rooms doesn't 'wan) birthday just in two boarding-house
an now," said a secretary. writing near Stockholm 800-page cientific book.
He works 14 hours a day. Soon be will motor to Spato
On his
SOAPY WATER next fiscal year the United
My garage man doesn't has States will spend 10,000,000 dollars under the new Bud think they can, anyway. His Hoover, The Senator, who will section get. This is a bit too much. back is already aching. He apparently capture the Republi- opinion is not being criticised. for a hollday.
Chower stays on the sidelines in for British action in Egypt. A sent me a letter yesterda's can nomination if General Elsen- We have firm American support back he will visit London, If I were an American would be asking: "Will the
Paris, has been to town, and has pity we don't have some Amer!- United States go broke try.
talked pounds, shillings, and can troops too. ing to remake the world?"
pence, and dollars and cents.
IS GOOD FOR
PLANTS: USE BATH SURPLUS
IN THE
GARDEN.
WATER IS PRECIOUS
Progress
Half-wave diagnostic X-ray apparatus for radiography and fluoroscopy, easy to handle.. Other models of diagnostic and therapeutic. X-ray equipment ma
ELEKTROIMPEX
Hungarian Trading Company
for electrical goods and, precision instruments BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
Letters Budapest 61, 2,0,0,.4
Telegrams: ELEKTRO BUDAPEST 12
It said: "Dear Customer. A strike is extremely prob- able. The Garage Workers, 'Union demands 72 dollars
A lot of Americans are (about £25) per week for This floor-men, 78 dollars (about already asking that.
Their victim
-WENT to the Circus Saints and Sinners luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria
Senator Taft in aution.
to
We
Unfortunately the new No. 1 World Power hasn't yet got it into its head that the Suez Canal is an international waterway, an international and therefore responsibility, not just Britain's is a big country, but it is £27 10s.) per week for car-
watch headache and heartache. only a small part of the wide washers, and 105 dollars
must
be world. There are 150,000,000 (about £36) per week for
demands The Circus Saints and Sinners United States people here, but they cannot
foremen. These carry hundreds of other
are made despite a seven are a business men's and news- And it has plenty to think about, who invite what with people going around paper men's group millions
bucks on their
percent increase given in the public figures as their guests of wearing buttons marked "I Like
with Stassen, indefinitely.
spring of 1951. Please bear honour, and then lampoon them re," "Stand with us in this emergency, in a riotous burlesque to see if "Elect Kefauver President," and
of humour, "Bob's Your Uncle, Vote Sincerely, Your Garage they have a sense
and are "regular guys." Mun."
J
All going up
At this luncheon there were men made up to look like Senator Taft at his · worst-
balding, bumbling and goggle- eyed. In one skit there was a "dead body" of Thomas Dewey lying on the White House threshold.
House over
his dead
Taft."
patient-the is moving fast.
Women's hour
Lor
I AM writing back: "Dear
PRITISH women dominate this Garage Man,-I will try
week's new plays--Glynis to bear with you, but I can-
Johns appearing for the first time on the American stage In not bear to pay more than
Enid Bagnold's "Gertie"; and the £4 per week you are
Taft, who is accused of not Edna Best due to open in S, N. to already charging me
"Jane." I defer a car which is being "human" enough, took it Behrman's garage my
very well, He said: "Governor verdict until I have seen them. very necessary in my work. Dewey said I would get into the
Hollywood is interested in Sir Sincerely, Your Customer." White
body." He called out: "Similar Alan Herbert's new book, "Num
and sinners in Russia ber Nine or the Mindsweepers." Exchanges like this are satis
This Is A. P. Herbert hilarious going on, all over the coun- would ment with dire fate." try. The working bloke He wasn't at all bad and in and delightfully screwball. My Alan, that it tops doesn't particularly want to the foyer young Tatt supporters best wishes. ask for bigger wages, but chanted: "Bob, Bob, the Presi- the best sellers,
run the. Sir Cedric Hardwicks, Charles what is he to do when the dent's son, he will
should be run,"
Foughton. Charles Boyar, and price of everything goes up Not inspired poetry or deathless Agnes Moorehead will do an- while he is putting on his prose, but the mob liked it. other dramatic reading on the overalls?
And after all the fun and stage and before the television camerṇa-probably of "The Pany following the Many of the visiting Bri- games were over Senator Talt Cocktail tish are convinced that this warned that the country faced success of their scenery-less spiral cannot go on soaring ruin under President Truman's, "Don Juan in Hell" foreign and fiscal policy. for ever and ever. They say: "There's bound to be
+
country as it
Well, I don't know about that,
И
an end to it a shattering but watch Tast carefully--he has
explosion or n. ruimous crash."
,
a lot of very powerful support.
Lush, and lavish
town.
Audrey's choico.
UDREY HEPBURN, doing so well'in "Gigi," says: "I Want to get married. I think
נטרת
way
DY
As of old
family ser custom the
In the frent vante sat pews of the Russian Church at Cannes when PB.1NCL NICOLAS ROMAN OFF.
Italian And what of his five dom-descendant of CZAR NICOLAS
II. married" panions in adventure? I am DELLA GHERARDESCA.
has been told Heyerdahl generous to all of them."
Title for sale Do you want to buy a 300- year-old Spanish title? In Madrid 21-year-old MARCHIONESS LAS SALINAS has been given authority sell her file to "any well-to- do man or woman of genteel birth."
have She
"I says: secretary's job and "I feel title isn't proper,"
They like Alox.
IN Ave
to
MARYA
Behind sat some of Europe's old royalty. The bride, walked times round the church three'
her and, then gave pieces of vell ip relatives according the tradition of centuries.
Mighty feasting
turned home from the hos OUR Britons have just re- pitable Lebanon,
They are M.P.S. DR REGI- NALD BENNETT, MONT and GEORGE FOLLICH, a BROWN, along with RICHARD CX- the WILLIAMS-THOMPSON.
Goverment public relations officer.
THEIR host, Lebanese 011 millionaire. EMILE BUSTANI, has eight planes and 100 Bri- FIELD- tlsh cars. years MARSTIAL VISCOUNT With his red-helred wife ALEXANDER has become the LAURA and 12-year-old most popular Governor-General daughter he lives in a modern Canada con remember.
palace near Beirut.
He has ploughed furrows at
The four were also entertain- gild farm festivals,
down ed by the SHEIK OF KUWAIT, fre stations, who fas อก Income of brass poles at driven trains through the Rec £60,000,000 a year from all on kles and fought fres in Nova the Persian Gulf. Scotin,
They attended four cere- Cenctiona recall
200 the way monial feasts at which made hu own maple sheep and 400 chickens were
and drove around eaten,
he UNGEN, in an old car, a gift from GENERAL EISENHOWER.
Ephraim Hardcastle
GERMANY MAY RUN AIRLINES
VERMANY
By James Stuart
Always, Air may' be Pan-American! Bellove, me there will be
Goperating her own air France are and toms, of the also operate air services nothing to be satisfied about. Ti preoccupation with money it's a great waste of lime not to
has even spread to New York be married to Jamies." if the burst ever comes city, a lush and lavish
James is James Hanson, son services by the summor. The larger Gotman, offles York's budget director,
question of here. There won't be a thin-New
allowing
European and Americanate penny or even a counterfeit. Thomas Paterson, his resigned of Robert Hanson, of London. afer announcing that the city. They'll be married when the run
Western Germany to come
operators expect that when the of "Gigi", enda, but if the play cent for Europe or Asia. or was broke,
teo long they'll get back into aviation is being Germans, are allowed to
win not anywhere If depression ever | Mayor-Impellittert vehemently married, anyway.
considered as part of the again they eri
fly on German Internal roptes, hits the Republic.
denied this. "The city is not groke. The city's naancial con-
general treaty now being but will operate to other, Euro
between the
pean capitals; including London dition and credit are in excellent
negotiated
When, after the war Italy. shape." Both men cannot be
Allied High. Commission- and the Bonn Government.
was allowed to resume airling
can girtines held a considerable operation British and Amerl Interer in the Italia lines and undertook a good deal of the spentional work toget
Big Issue WHAT single sentence of Might
Churchill's throughout his en-
Audrey Hepburn no relation to Katharine is assured of star dom in Hollywood. I hope she will not desert London com- pletely,
l
tiro visit provoked the greatest Later, budget director Paterson
Two Englishmen, Ronald Col. One report from Frankfurt epplause? The sentence which said he hadn't, meant "broke" in
their air services on April 1. read: t have not come here the literal sense. "We use that man and Claude Rains. plan says that the Germans may start
American colleges, to ask for money.
Word to indicate only that the tours of.
Heir Adenauer's Government city's finances are not too pleati making dramatic readings of the
have hid the drit of the Allied oma similar Frangement proposals for about a month, may be used to help Germany. And if Mr Churchill cannot if, and that we are near the classics. It seems that every- stead of curling up in a comer
Whether or not the new Cler attract credit, certainly no one borderline that calls for caution body here has to be read to, in-
One thing is certain Germany an air releen will be allowed olna can
Despite the nearly empty kitty and reading for themselves.
will not be allowed to build her to fendero Berlin is believed to This mystery of the disappear New Yorkers are still talking
Many actresses are said to own peroplaner, and her aldines depend on the Russian attitude! ing dollar is going to be one of about Mr Churchill. In fact, have photographic minds not will usur foreign aircraft, prob towards Westonary: Gerbay.. the biggest issues, if not the they cannot stop, talking
talking about
very developed,
ably British or American or both. civil aviation revival." The air bigger of the Presidential elec id yet some fatheads in Footnotes. Let's hope the new At prosent the German Intercorridors / Boron the 4 Eastern. tonela desk And
tax America's ral air services are operated by Zone Into: Berlin, are open only Budget, doesn't strength.
British European Airways and to the Allies:
·
Senator Robert Alphonso Taft England areaking it the has kirendy seized this truth. So. Churchill trip was a success.
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