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1952

"A very remarkable impersonation, Wilmot-now if you'll kindly put my hat back where you

found it, and bring the cane over here

London Express Service

NIGHTLIFE CRUISE

Now York,

FOR a British Christmas at sea, with

Broadway trimmings, wealthy Ameri- - cans are going to pay a top price of £70 a day.

That is the cost of cruising In the best buites on the main deck of the liner Caronia to the West Indies and South America for 12 days during the holidays.

Prices acale' down' to £6 a day on B deck for a lower or upper borth with no bath.

And the ship is already "a sell-out," The cruise promises gay night- life "puced by a talented array of Broad- way entertainers."

IT WAS an Engineers' occasion. Major- General George Tuck, Engineer-in- -Chief-of-the

British War Office, called on Lieut- General. Lewis Pick, U.S. chief of·

AMERICA COLUMN.

from:

NEWELL ROGERS.

army engineers, and presented him with n plaque "for bringing about closer relation- ship and exchange of information" be- tween, the two armies.

The plaque lists outstanding British military engineers up to the American Declaration of Independence in 1776. AT an official investigation into what is A good and bad taste on TV, Congress- man Joseph O'Hara,, one of the investi-

'This discovery of secret agreements with the Whips alarms me...

NE of the biggest jobs in Britain is waiting for someone when Sir William Haley's successor is chosen for Broadcasting House.

B.B.C.'S

The

Director- General is one of the least publicised yet most power- ful figures in Britain. In theory the servant of the board of governors, in prae- tice he gives tone and direc- tion to the whole policy of British broadcasting.

The B.B.C. is among the most powerful voices in the world. None of the com- mercial chains in the United States speaks with the same authority and purpose. None

of the Government-dominat-·

We want

a man

at the B.B.C.

who can

stand up to Whitehall

ed broadcasting systems of sound broadcasting, which often that the B.B.C

by VISCOUNT HAILSHAM

Inade

ofciais are groups within the parties who the dictatorships has the leads to quite chaotic situations, subjected to constant pressures considered themselves

quately represented. same note of independence. as when a good show put on by at all levels,

one is suddenly seen to be Here too the B.B.C. wants Whoever the now cholce is, snapped up and taken over by a Director - General who that the best radio personalities

knows his own mind and

ts

gators, announced that he has stopped drinking a cer- Lain brand of beer. He said he watches prizefights on - My advice to the new D.-G. TV, and these are inter- would be to bring all such rupted many times to sing agreements to an end and trust the praises of this beer. the publle to Support him in That irritated O'Hara, and elaiming full éditorial respon- he switched to a rival brew, sibility free of all political pres-

VOLUMNIST' Robert Ruark sure. The noise of switches

says of Chuplin: "Unleas being turned off is too gentle a

they found him setting fire to sound to penetrate the Palace of the White House or heading the of Westminster. But it is death to cell which handles the theft

of a broadcasting network.

an atom bomb, persecution him at this late date does us The ultimate truth which the more harm than good with our littlo friends across the Iron new director must never be Curtain, Little Peter Pan

tired of proclaiming, is that isn't worthy of putting us all in broadcasting is a distinct art, an uproar. He's a gly little different from, public speaking, man. Let him so continue." different from writing in

thePOLICE in Greenville, South newspapers,

It has its faults

Carolina, wondered why- drunks took so long to saber up. in the town gaol. The mystery was explained whon. Janitor Jesse James McKinney was found guilty of selling bootleg liquor to the prisoners, DRESIDENT TRUMAN called or an art dealer the other paintings, day, looked at 180 and bought one for his home in Independence, Missouri. It was picture of an old Dutch castle. The dealer did not know the ' artist's

nome. Said the Pre- have too many

PRE

POLITICIANS who seek to draw the analogy of the Press or the platform have fall ed to study the basle technique It was very soon discovered and the basic economies of their

subject. were not necessarily those most

We all know that the B.B.c. aldent: "You for the willing to fight against, or favoured by the party Whips, or

But no other has its faults. It will be necessary

the new chief to take both sides by ganised pressure for the inter- even those most prominent In

broadcasting network has cor- public life.

prestige or authority of our the post at the very moment-the-scruff of the nock and teli ests of the public and the

long It was not very

be own. when

of them they have simply got to poration as he sees them.---- the whole future

from both deputations in which fore in work together, combining and broodensting

This was a sphere correctly the channelling

Sir William Haley was particu- parties were complaining to Sir

he will find a tough assignment the other. walting for him when he slips Into the D.-G.'s chair at Broad- casting House, for he comes to

British

delicate balance.

is

he will have to tackle is rivalry between television

the

Politicians and others who

tamper with

plotures here."

THE

ISSUE

"allowing,

OIL

British actors to work Broadway-will be put-to-a-vote. by the US. actors' union -

the truce Equity. Meanwhile,

ONE YEAR

A

Its integrity are continues until New Year's Eve. potential capacities of both and, try successful, fighting man- William Haley that the Tublic seck to dismantle this edifice or } between Brish and U.S. Equity One of the very first things assembling and canalising the fully for what he conceived to were gaining erroneous views bent on dissipating a priceless

and personal talent available,

be right, and ready, if need be, about the House of Commons national asset. to withstand pressure from the and official policies. Prime Minister himself.

For a long time he stood fast and, at This is an especially valuable against this pressure, asset. A D.-G. who gives in to least saved the existence of the ference. official or unofficial blandish- programmes, which was threat- ment or Intimidation would encd.

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Pressure of politics

LATE, New Yorkers at last are getting of peek at The Festival The freedom and independ-

you remember, starred Robert cnce of the Press depends upon Britain film. "The Magic Box," its private ownership, untram- melled by censorship or inter-inventor of an early camera Donat as William Friese-Greene,

profector.

The freedom and Independ- Critics say the picture is D the cace of British broadcasting de- beauty. But they warn BUT more important still will soon find the corporation right More recently, however, secret pends upon the maintenance of customers not to be fooled into Friese-Greene was o be the relations between in the cockpit of party politics,

agreements, with the Whips the power and authority of the thinking the corporation and the Gov- crnment, more especially as the

an Edison..» Friese-Greene's work, As it is, he constantly has to have considerably curtailed the B.B.C, under a fearless Direc- reat rival of America's Thomas

tor-General-supported by proposal to establish sponsored contend with the ignorance and freedom of the, B.B.C. to choose, unprejudiced board of gover says the New York Times, "was

earnest but vain."- television is likely to lead to a suspicion of the men in control its own broadcasting talent. parliamentary dispute more ΟΙ of the party machines. less on party lines.

The new D.-G. is certain to be subjected to almost con- tinuous pressure from different political quarters.

SO AN

A valuable

asset

stance, to begin operations be

THE B.B.C. is one of the few

HE

Are the new stations, for ip-

fare the B.B.C. itself is allowed means whereby an indepen

the

1

nors.

AN EXTRA BLANKET

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

A

coldest night of in the last atom bomb test at into the airstream before touch-

ing down. Each soldier held a cloth tog How does it detect the direc to offer the same degree of dent politician can still speak his every month almost al- Nevada. variety as was contained in its own mind even if it does not ways occurs at the time of containing crystals of a chemical ten of the wind? By the feet exactly correspond with the the full moon, a British called cobalt chloride, which is, of the breeze on its feathers? Or prewar programmes? What official party line, and both

the watches en airport windsock? action is the B.B.C. to take if parties maintain more or less weather-man has discovered blue when dry and pink when by eyesight, as a pilot does when

and nobody can explain damp..

After watching plecons and sponsored station steals secret organisations and pressura why.

The extent to which the blue sparrows fly blindfold, scientists crystalz went, pink was claim that the eyes have it away its most promising talent, groups to prevent this happen- ing it possible, as well as to

The thermometer falls, when measure of the clamminess of Blindfold birds, soem to be and programmes?.

ensure that the party view is If the corporation should find, not swamped by that of the the moon is full-faced irrespec- the soldier's hand as the minutes, unable to detect wind direction

Licked Birds watch the ground enfo», explosion tive of cloud or climate, and it before the, other side.

happens throughout the world,' away. as it believes it will, that epon- pored television lowers the

PROGRESS standards of public taste, is it,An Interesting example of this to make concessions in order to is the history of the political

DEATIIS from rheumate: maintain its viewing figures, or forums. Sir William Haley only is it to stand out for the ideals just managed to save these from night during the last five years.

fever, the ecmoneet cause the party bosses, who would in North Wales, Henstock found of valvular heart disease. în have liked to destroy then or at an astonishingly constant con children, have been halved 10★ DO NOT give puppies sully. least render them harmless from nection between temperature tho, last ten years, doctors an- faid, a vet warns. Pups their own point of view and and the moon's phases. therefore flat and, unlateresting from everyone else

which it has hitherto sei itself?

cisc's....

Mr Herbert Honstock claims.

By charting the lowest - thermometer records for every

Belleving this might be a local effoet, he obtained temperaturo, records from observatories 1 in

:

fully as they alight, If the earth seems to move towards them too

rapidly they realise the wind is behind, and make a sharp turn,

PUPPIES

USE Which

One advantage the B.B.C, will possess, which, at least at first,

once. And there is hope for can be almost paralysed by mit further reduction of the scourges Mr George T. Wilkinson, of will be denied to its competitor,

MADAN CANTON Many Ak Norwich, was called to attend to will be the monopoly of re

A “test-fube" || test for theu two litters of puppies Alsations ligious and political broadcast- When the BBC was at last America, India, Australia matic fever, which has been and

wore both of them extremely able to break through the sound Africa, and Canada. In all these developed by Dr Alan Hat! grogity on t

Items in a balanced barrier imposed by the complete recortis the mercury plummeted Edinburgh University, should The Almatians had been adven ban on all political controversy, round about the time of full help in the curly diagnosis of some meat scraps pickled in it muccoedo"In organising unmoon.

doubtful caso, brine. The Samoyeds had boon Quito apart from the vexed scripted political discussions of So an extra blanket on the

which it had been bolledo. question of sponsored brood different kinds which have bed during the work when the 11 detects a substance called alven meal mixed with water in casting, the relations between become one of the most popular moon is full may be a worth- C-protein which is always Pro All the pups recovered after

sont in the bloodstream during treatment, espe the corporation and the Govern- features not only of the Third while, winter precaution.

in theumatic attack K ment, and between the corpora- and Home but also of the Light tion and the two political parties and Television programmes, aro, never eas

cany, a dieta ES

FEARS

* A COLOUR, tant to meamiro na

REQ AND A. 2, 6OLENCE. TROFESSOR: WedWhat happens when 'a, body

No sooner, however, were they olsa soldier's four in the, fico in NiMEBIRTYHANGSENNE

So enormous aro the reper started than there was a chorus of danger has been devised by WIN bird flos towards interred in watery eye cumions of broadcasting on of disapproval from party head- U.B. pulentisis. It yao umed on Louthe ground in a wind of ten. GIRL: STUDENT: The tele every aspect of polition, life quarters, and even from smaller the combat troops who took part miles an hour or more, it turns phone rings,