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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 27, 1952.

Coronation Radio

;

By ROBERT CANNELL

London.

ALL-EMPIRE Coronation

broadcasts will be discussed

by radio chiefs from zoven Com- monwealth countries. It will be the first radio conferenet seven years.

for

The B.B.C. will act no host, and officials from South Africa,

DIAMOND

New York.

HARRY

The map who sedur tho

World for

gems would

Buvor 'waar: One la his tis-pla

stuff that gave his friends their

Na second floor office by Frederick Cook Hving Ho worshipped Bigness.

on. New York's East

51st Street, sand-

the romantic and-in-a-million gens ho read about but seldom

It was the depressiori ydura

wiched between a ham. Winston of East Glat Street saw. India, Pakistan, Australia burger restaurant and the to secure the Angola gems. that got his feet on the ladder. Canado, New Zealand, and headquarters of g Left- Ceylon will take part. Plans

already being made for wing trade union, there sits zelf, and for most of the core in London or Amsterdam, Coronation sometimes when he is not monies which will follow.

are

broadens of the

Angola's last report, lesu. Many private collections were

friends know. Winston bought, ed in Lisbon, reiterated that coming on the market, though

through the Oppenheimer which has Portuguese diamonds would the owners would not let their continus to be marketed and learned the art of secrecy

The Empiro will share in Kimberley or. Rloi, man interests. And yet Mr Hy since rounded every

many of the special programmes marking Coronation year, And it is likely that Britain will also hear broadcasts from the E- pire countries.

TV s preparing for its biggest-ever programme

schedule. Orders have been placed for micro-wave relay phite so umat mobile TT teams may televise royal tours of the provinces and important celebra- ions.

to

the trade they say now, ""It' with a face so valuable that winston apparently believes you put down the money for a it is never photographed.

His insurers Lloyd's of he stands a chance. It is not 30-carat diamond, sure, I can denied that negotiations are get it for you. But in this London like it. that way.

country. I have to go Winston." They do not want the inter going un.

In the New York diamond- He 15 the specialist in the big national jewel thieves to get market, it is widely believed stones and big customers. Ho too familiar with the fea that the trump card in the will concede that his collection'

behind the electrically-locked tures of Harry Winston, din secret game now being play- burred dopra of his place on East mond denler,

ed out is that Winston is 51st Street is only the world's Winston has been the offering Portugal payment the glittering display in the second best, that it ranks below ee Post Office has been ask-nwner at one time or an- in dollars instead of sterling Tower, which he never falla to ed to make arrangements for other of a collection of gems and hopes thus to capture study when he is in London and Joining programmes to the TV surpassed in value only by some or all of the Angola has a spare hour between aero- network at any point.

the British Crown Jewels.

planes. But in a rare talkative To extend the range of the New he is embarked on the

moment he once said. "The mobile cameras, receiving

Kings and Queens of England "bowls" will be mounted on the biggest campaign of a-life-

have been: collecting for -500 glant aerial masts of TV time filled with dramatic THERE is widespread be years and I've been at it only ctations.

lief, too, that he is asking 34. And I'm entirely, on Pictures "flung over inter-coups. He is waging pay- vening hills will be picked up chological warfare with the the Portuguese Government own. No loyal subjects to pre by the bowls for brontlcasting. De Beers diamond syn- direct to override the Angola sent me with gems"

Special TV Aims will also bodicate hended by his old company's arrangement with made, either by newsreel cameras or from the TV screen, friend 72-year-old Sir Ernest De Beers..

to all TV

tion.

production.

AT THE TOP

competitive

SILENCE IN oplic

my

of this handicap Winston owns--or did until These will be made available Oppenheimer, whose place It would not be the first

especial- organisations,

baubles as the Jonker diamond ly to Canada where TV is ex- he wants one day to occupy tinie this thick-set, dark- recently such celebrated pected to begin later this year as Number One man in the haired man of Gft. 9in. has 1027 carats in the rough state); and Australia, which may have world's most selective luxury started the trade. He is at the Vargas (728 carata), largest TV by June 1953.

trade.

the pinnacle or almost found in the world since the Cullinan in 1905; the 442-carat The films WB1 go into the

It is a bitter, if oficially of one of the world's most

diamond, the "unlucky" B.B.C.'s archives as a complete

alquely-coloured sapphire-blue picto.ial record of the Corona-undeclared, gentlemen's war. under cover

bently once worn by Marle The prize is the diamond businesses.

Antoinette. output of Portugal's rich At 15 Harry Winston

Who buys such trifles in this veins in her West African started work in the shop of age? Neither Winston nor his colony of Angola, which pro. his father, a small retail trained to silenco atoff will Buy duce eight per cent of the jeweller. At 18 he launch answer such questions. total world supply.

ed out for himself in the s safe for life. But, they say, from Winston and your secret. wholesale trade, on the New "there most definitely 逗 York diamond exchange. market. In fact, Ane gem This was and still is stones sell rather quickly the

days, and at quite satisfactory

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DOLLAR BAIT FOR years now. De Beers

have controlled the quan rough-and-tumble; sort. of prinston goes on buying

these

By the

nt

tity and price of diamonds place, where a dealer armed, that reach the markets of with a small wad of cash rate of many millions of dollars and a banker's good opinion, over the world watching for every year. He has scouts all the world,

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer may buy a atone in the stones that he come on the has an agreement (it still morning for four or five market Hos factorie for. has four years to go) with thousand dollars often 90 cutting and polishing: he tuppilas top Jewellers in a scoru the Angola producers where percent on credit and find of countries. by Portugal's diamonds are a buyer that afternoon, net- sold only through De Beers. ting 40 or 50 dollars for him

Sir Ernest is on the board self. The man with poor of the Angola company, and judgment is soon ploughed

under controls many shares, all of which seems to suggest that From the start, Winston was

not much laterested in the run it will prove hard for Harry of-the-mill brooch and ring

-HOW FIT ARE YOU?

ADOLPHE DEBUNKS SOME HEALTH FADS

\(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

667OU'RE looking very to carry

YOU'RE

**

be

In

Gir

the

.

Winston hardly ever stays more than a day or two in any he received a transatlantic tele- phone call at three o'clock, left the office at 3.18 without saying where he was going. He walk- ed in again at nine o'clock on Wednesday

morning, having

one place. On a recent Monday-

been to, London to see "an Indian gentleman. In his pocket was a packet of stones whose value and whose source are his secret still.

BRAZIL FIND COME years ago a two-line Ditem in a New York paper caught his cyn—a report of u tremendous find In Brazil, He

did. nat. wait for confrmation, but was Rio-bound by air with in the hour. When he got there the stone had already been sold to a dealer in Holland and was on the way to Amsterdam by ship.

Winston flew there and paced An hour his room for days, after the diamond arrived he had it, and the buyer had his cheque for a reputed 700,000 That was dollars (£250,000).

how he became the owner of the Vargas, since cut up into an undisclosed number of jewel- lery-size gems.

on his occupation to though he admits that as a re I fit," is the usual greet the best of his ability and with creation dancing is not to ing friends and colleagues the greatest happiness, Fitness despised.

means satisfactory adjustment It is commonly believed that offer to us when we return to one's environment."

short a

spell of strenuous from holiday. It helps us to The last sentence is impor- exercise Arst thing in the morn

tant, because there are soma ing induces a feeling of vigour. get over our feeling of hor- ror at the thought that 11 people who choose for them- People who have dificulty

selves very, unusual environ- dragging themselves out of bed months so of work ments--the upper ice slopes of will

or

warmly support

Is there a lucky Mrs Winston? the lowest Adolphe's contention that it separates us from the moun- Mount Everest,

Indeed there is, and two sons. likely to do exactly of caves, the cookpils of more

the But she does not wear the Hope Fitness, depths tains or the sea.

guntested acroplanes flying at vast opposite.

diamond when she goes out to we feel; may carry heights and

and fantastic speeds,

The

theory that cold baths dine. She has some

·Jowel- through, if anything can, For these specialists, as well improve stress also comes in lery" is all that Mr Winston has

So with teeth set we decide

for

serious athletes, the dor some questioning, Si authorised his staff to admit, to keep fit from now on-to achievement of fitness racans Adolphe admits that though he just the ordinary sort of thing watch our diet, to smoke less, hard training and great mental himself is an addict, he catches normal for A women in her Nothing to take more exercise, to cul- application. For

bracket. the average cold no loss often than those financial ilvate equanimity.

the way is much easier.

who ha

have never had a cold bath special." While the holiday mood still

in their lives

As for Harry Winston him- lingers

DAILY DOZEN we may make Bome

Nobody can keep it without self-he wears no jowellery, not a diamond ile-pin or a progress. But by the middle of

The average man will, for in enough sleep, and fortunately even be

Not that he disapproves next month most of us will

“just, living the same old unhygienic stance, be relieved to learn that most of us know quite well the ring. life that we are used to and Sir. Adolphe is no great sup- amount of sleep which sults us of bejewelled men, He

so porter of the "dally

blame that seems to suit us not

even

If we regularly cut down himself, that's all." badly.

on of sleep, people the absolute neglect

exercise socms of uny form

The main reason why athletes consistent with

with perfect well in training have to go early to from being: and he quotes, without bed is to keep them away fro

un- tempting but unhygienic ways violent disapproval,

of amusing themselves,

The

author'a advice

HIS ADVICE

man

admits that He best. We have only ourselves to doesn't, happen to care for it

an

Come

about

It would be hard to find a subject about which more non- named celebrity as saying that sense has been written than the whenever he felt like diet strikes me as full of sound Biness, exercise he was accustomed sense. There is nothing in the cultivation of physical Let me therefore draw your at-.lle tention to pomcope who does

AD

to

on until the feeling pais idea that special foods confer|

opinion special benefits on athletes. Cer not write nonsense Sir Adolphe In Sir Adolphe's

(Once he Abrahams,

the cuused walking 15

fundamental anty a well-balanced diet is be all-important to health, but horrified astonishment by me- exercise, because it Con

no need to be too Resting that

Decasional graduated to suil the physical there is

about our present cigarette, might help, rather than capacity of the individual, from pealmistic

rations, hinder an athlete.)

the feeble and elderly to the Sir Adolphe, who has been full-blooded athlete,

COMMON SENSE honorary medical adviser to A great many of us who think

Bir Adolphe's opinion, and i British Olymple athletic teams going for a walk is an insipid

absorbed is authoritative, is that British aince 1012 and is the best known form of exercise are

golf ball. athletes are at no disadvantage athletes' doctor in Britain, bas by walking after now brought together bis Ideas The concentration requiret for in International competition

takos the mind All in all, Ariens is a matter

mind because of about physical fitness in a book every stroke take

of food restrictions. called "tines for the Average of the worrice which so odien common

it.

schso, Most of ui Man' (Christopher Johnson,

svoll who like to exercled are perfectly wel

of those *People, who

aware 10. 04.).

Fitness,

Ess, broadly speaking, by modern dancing will be dis- aspects of our vos mental as ancans feeling well. Sir Adolphe appointed to learn that as well as physical which are profers a more elaborate defini- form of musnular movement: is insatisfactory. Only tow can tion, Fitness be writes, har little value.urthermore, e contented and it without that state of mental and physicals Sir Adolphe canyw, with; truth some coerciad in, the frealsit well-belog which enabica a man, tint little tack theshabitual and willout-apperumilles

relax to take bir place as a citizen and, sociations are myslenie

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