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Typical watch of the 1660′s, this English calendar watch told the time, the date, the months, and the phase of the moon but its accuracy was a matter of chance. (Reproduced by . kind permission of the Worshipful Company of Clocks makers. The original forma part of the collection housed In the Guildhall Museum, London)

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1952. *7

A NEW CLUE

WHAT

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may prove to be vital clue in the search for a treatment for poliomyell- t's (infantile paralysis) has been picked up by London scientists at the National stitute for Medical Research.

Doctors have long belloved that it la caused by one parti- ultra cutar kind of virus-an microncople germ somehow passed from patient to patient.

I now seems possibla that a paralysing attack can be caused only when two different viruses "hunt" together. Either virus alone may cause no more in- convenience than catarrh or a headache. Together they may be fatal.

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If this theory turns out to be

explain why. true it will effective single drug treatment for infantile paralysis hap yet been found-lt may be neces-.. sary to use two druga at once.

DISCOVERY

A page of ideas and exploration

edited by CHAPMAN PINCHER

MR CROOKED

THE most penetrating portrait yet made of Mr Crooked, the average young British criminal, is unveiled today. It is built up from an analysis of the minde and the motives of more than 200 criminals known personally to Mr Joseph Trenaman, the psychologist who presents it."

YOU

-AND YOUR HEART.

THERE is good news to- The drug, called heparin, is Mr Crooked, the man who appears in the dock, shows up as a type far removed

ment of coronary thrombosis. from the burly hoodlums of fiction. He stands about 5 ft. G ins, in his showy socks, day for heart sufferers. already in use for the treat- he is under average height. And he is something of a lightweight, scaling only 9 st covered that minute injec- cases, Dr. E. Donzolot French doctors have dis- After trying it on 50

angina reports His slight build may be due to an excessive share of sickness during childhood. tions of an already well- good results in 48 of them. In any case he is almost certain to be perpetually worrying about his health

known drug can prevent "Heparin given every day for he is n hypochondriac and fearful by nature...

much of the pain caused by reduced both the frequency and anginn- weakness due to intensy of anginal pain," he eports. "No I effects were cramp of the heart muscle. noted."

Rogues' Gallery Portrait

Three hundred years for

an idea to flower

H year it was mado was ayar of change

Tan years with favor of change years before, in 1658, had robbed the seventeenth century of its greatest and moit controversial figure, and in the Spring the second Charles returned to the throne amid scenes of wild rjoking. A man who was to inspire a great nation was quietly studying: and in October, William Penn was entered as 3 gentleman'commoner at Christ Church. That was the pattern of the year 1660- when this calendar watch was made

A cumbersome, heavy instrument, inaccu rate and unwieldy--but it was the best they -had, and its owner undoubtedly thought a lot

of it. For it did so many things. It told the time and the date, the months and the phase of the moan-a matter for pride indeed.

In time, nearly three hundred years lie between it and the Rolex Datejust; threa hundred years for that calendar watch to Teach perfection, Most modem of the modern, the Datejust combines, in its beauti. fully hand-finished case, the result of fifty years' work and research by Rolex. Perfectly waterproofed by the Oyster case, infallibly self-winding (alx hours' daily wear, and the Rolex Perpetual Rotor sees to it that the watch goes for over), the Datejusi adds ta' these famous Rolet "firsts" the intricate mech- anism which contrives that the date is shown automatically and clearly through a discreet window on the dial. A floer watch, in fact, is just not made. Its accuracy la the highest that erpo Roken can reach. -

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A landmark in the history'

of ime measurement

Perfectly waterproof, Inflllbly alf-winding, musOM. matically and clouty showing thì đạo, the Moles Dažojani takon šis place as the most modern of modira, most accurate of the accárats.

Bar Bolt Datafoot boars the Balm Rai Bes Dí than the witch to which it là attached his passed the grieva basis of the Tulon CharverzameIN THRINE FLAGAOS 'BAS INS awarded in own Dekici Tivning Cheddwy KRE

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THE REALIST in action

MOST BIRD

·BOOKS are- de- dicated, rather pro- clously, to the birds themselves,

**which

have given the Author' 80 much pleasure."

London Zoo chief Dr Leo Harrison Matthews has a more mundane approach. He dedientes his book, Wandering Albatross, "to bird- lovers,

especially those who love them well piping hot, browned."

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Though Mr Crooked probably thing as a criminal head, Mr suffers from a slight stutter or. Trenaman reports, only Rome other speech defect, it is crim-nal mind Inside ft. odds on that he is a glib talker, But it will not take you long

he to realise that

talks big mainly to hide his ignorance.

He to likely to bo above average in native Intelligence but he has always made such scunt use of his brules that he it hopelessly backward,

The immaturity of his mind displays itself in the loudness of his mouth and of his clothes,

No hobbies

What then makes a criminal mind? What peculiarities of tempérament will make it easy for 11 out of every 100 boys born today to commit at least one deliberato crime able by prison?

punish-

Mr Trenaman has tried answer these questions too.

to

be

He found no reliable evidence that a criminal mind can inherited. But it is undoubted- ly formed during early child- hood.

Mr Crooked rarely. comes from a happy home. His father and mother were forever guar-

rell ng when hoe was young, one of his parents may have been en invalid.

As a result he was either neglected, spoiled,...or dis- ciplined too severely.

TN contrast to fiction, the real- life Mr Crooked is not un- duly interested in girls. In fact he probably feels more his sentimental attachment to mother than a normal man. though his home is poor and overcrowded. Crooks usually come from large families.

Lacking

any

constructive hobby and unable to read any- thing more advanced than comics, he spends much of his spare 'me at tho cinema, which he visits about three " times a week.

No 'average'

TAULTY

upbringing 1uros out to be the commonest cause of crooked minda. And He never keeps an honest the fact that crime in increas jub for long because his rest- ing k 'direct reflection on , less nature rebels uncontrollably 20th century family life.

gainst a normal nine-to-five

ilfe of security. He chooses a This p'cture of Mr Crooked Mr life of hazard which rarely is admittedly artificial." pays off because he lacks fore- Trenamun repeatedly stresses sight,

that there is no such thing as Could

you recognise Mr "the average, crook."- Crooked in the street by 'his face? No. There is no such

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-AND YOUR EYES

WHICH the taller woman? Both are the same helplit. The celling of this room in the Optical Illusions Laboratory, Princeton University, slopes ticeply upwarda from right to left and the floor stopes downwards fuote position of women's feet). So the door and window on the teft are actually much bigger than those on the rights ac- centuating the smaliness of the "midget," who is only five feet further from the camera than the "plant."

-AND YOUR TASTE

THE

salt,

hours

HUMAN SENSE cf their 'react'ons to sweet, taste does not get keener and bifter every three But much of the core of Mr when you aro hungry, Nine He found no differences in the Cranked's nature as portrayed men have fasted for 34 hours sensitivity of their tongues and in this careful and cautious

analysis Is present in mest af so that a scientist could test palutes.. "Out of Step" '(Methuen, 2la.)

the young men who appear as - martes made by Joseph Trena

criminal special prisoners in Britain's mon while working in a

training unit for delinquent soldiers, courts.

Those homing

puppies get there by luck

DUPPIES are not only blind and denf until they are about three weeks old but they have no sense of smell either, a scientist claims.

How, then, does a new-born puppy which has strayed from its bed find its way back to the comforting warmth of its mother and its litter-mates?

The answer is: purely by accident, ac- cording to Dr W. T. James, a U.S. animal psychologist who has been making a full-

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REVOLUTIONARY Déw type of engine has been built by a team of techniciana working in a laboratory d'sused airfeld at Heston, Mid- olesex.

on a

It is co simple to make and

so cheap to operate that the inventors believe it could slash the cost of every kind of pub- lle transport.

UP goes

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FIGHTER planes which will

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With little further develop- be launched vertically at ment it could be used to drive super-high speed are under de- buses, lorries, locomotives, velopment by the Supply: ships, and possibly aircraft, the Ministry.

If successful they would help technicians claim. If it can be miniaturised for cars it will to solve Britain's most press- provide motorists with an en- ing air defence problem-the gine practically immune from interception of the high-flying breakdowns, they believe.. jet bomber.

It is little more than a dumb-« A vertical take-off plane tell shaped tube, six fact long could be thrust up several thou

which sand feet by an und two feet wide, in

expendabl Then normal two pistons slide back and rocket-booster. forth. There are no shafts con- jet engines could take over. nected to the pistons. There is The device would also enable the fastest types of fighters to operate from aircraft-carriers.

FURTHER SUPPORT my, claim that high blood

time study of dog behaviour for more WITHOUT.

than 20 years.

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His findings:--

The only way a straying new-born pup can walk is by turning the front part of its body in a curve with its rear end acting as a pivot,

in

It continues shakily this way on an S-shaped course until it touches one of the family, when immediately snuggles up.

it

Because of this peculiar galt a pup finds its way back soonest when placed with its Tho head away from home. first movements of, a pup placed facing its mother turns it round in the wrong direction.

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New-born

are pups

touch. specially sensitive to Even the news that mother is about to offer a meal is passed from pup to pup by contact. "As one puppy is touched by the mother it becomes very ac-

JOHNNY HAZARD

tive, then these lying near this activated puppy become, ective themselves, and so on.

• Squeals are meaningless, because the puppy's cars plugged until about the day after birth.

İLET

10th

Dr James also satisfied him- self that new-born pups. get no how-to-get-home help from vibrations.

ed

When he reared a litter on a -spring mattress the pups seem-

unable

their to sense

when mother's position

the Etirred.

A pup's eyes open when it is about 10 days old, but it con- not really see until about fortnight later, Dr James be. lleves,

It cannot recognise another puppy by sight and it will not. follow a ball bobbing before its eyes.

WELL, I'LL BE.....

A ZIVOTED RIVET SETTING

THE HANDS OF THAT RIGGED CLOCK SYUNG IT OVER/

RIGHT! THERE'S OUR "KEYHOLE? HOW TO OPEN UP THAT CONTRAPTION!

SLOW DOWN, PARADISE.

A HAIKPIN VEN'T WORK ON

THIS LOCK!

NO, BUT A KEY WILL...AND I THINK

I'VE GOT IT!

SAY...I

for

no electrical ignition syalem. pressure need not be bad news— Yet the engine produces, comes from US-

After a special study of 100

300 usable horse power.

The principle of this "dumb cases of between ten and 34 standing, Dr James -bell engine was first worked years'

study essential hyper-

out by an Argentinian engineer, O'Hare reports; "This Pateras Pescara, who was de- shows that veloping it in France when war tension (high blood pressure) started. It has now been per- may be compatible with a rela- fected by British engineers led fively long and effective life." by 53-year-old Mr Alan Muntz, working in conjunction with a French Arm.

BUSINESS REGULATION ORDINANCE

So far, the research at Hes- ton has been financed through Government defence, contracts. But British Railways and In- dustrial arms are now actively interested in the engine.

vo driven

by A locomotive "dumb-bell" engines is running Coples of the prescribed

in France. An experimental

1952

power station in which "dumb- Forms 1(a) 1(b) and 1 (c); balls drive dynamosṛia fooding electricity into the French grid.

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