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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1953.

NOT ME! I'D

HAVE TORN UP THAT CHEQUE

London, As it was we won

our

OR · my part you can life-saving 1,000 feet by keep your £109,000, chucking out Government and I went and said stores (ha ha!) instead of to Mr Jack Coulton, money we hadn't got. the Battersea insurance elerk who has fabulous Hun ball pools,

now

So I expect you see this won in the foot..why the firm of Mr and Mrs Wicksteed and Sons and Daughter and Co. is feeling its stock stands high this week. The simplest things

You see, I am alive and well with both feet on the ground, and that for the moment is enough for me, seem good.

He was rather astonished

Consider this diary of

at first, this man whom everyday happenings that everyone envies. But after now have a new set of

I had put my case he agreed values. that there had been times in his life when he, too, would have cheerfully torn up his cheque in return for the things that I have.

The reason

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am going

about like a

dog with two

tails ELTKI 21

scorn

for

money is that

SUNDAY: The whole family drives into the coun try to see our eldest.boy at -school. It is the same

by BERNARD.

WICKSTEED

school that Dad went to and Dad's great ambi- tion is to keep him there. But he would

one afternoon last week I have had to leave if that thought 1 had only a few plane had gone down in the minutes more to live.

Our plane, as you may have read, was down to 400 ft. over the Atlantic, with two engines gone and the other two giving insufficient power to keep us up.

PREPARE FOR DITCHING!

yea.

on

We had

11 hilarious afternoon tobogganing the South Downs, and the schoolboy son said: "Gosh, Dad, I'm glad you thought of bringing the sledge." He didn't know how nearly there had been no Dad to bring it.

See what I mean? What's

THE captain had given a miserable £109,000 to

orders to loosen collars that? and ties and prepare for ditching, but Wicksteed, who had ditched before and knew the form, looked at the 40 ft. waves on the sen

and the flurries of snow sweeping across at 35 knots, and did not think much of

his chances.

At that moment, and for many more after, he would have jettisoned cheques for a million pounds-let alone a paltry £109,000-in ex- change for another engine or 1,000 feet of height.

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THAT OVERDRAFT DIDN'T MATTER

MONDAY: By the same

post came a reminder

that we still owed money to the income tax people, and another that we were over- drawn at the bank,

The sums were not huge, but to a widow of less than a week they would have spelled calamity. Yet now they seemed like tuppence ha'penny.

We looked at each other across the breakfast Lable, and grinned "Ike apes." Those things will sort themselves out, but a drowned husband floating in the sea off the Selllles would never come back.

TUESDAY: The spotless wonder got measles.

Do you remember her? She is our daughter who cried because she couldn't get measles when her brother did, Well, now she's got them just when we thought we were clear of winter allments --- and father will have to be a night nurse again.

But the thing is that he is there to be a night nurse.

I EVEN LIKE THE WORN COVERS

WEDNESDAY: Mother

goes

out for the evening to see n friend and father the night nuric sprawls in front of the fre with a bottle of beer and a book.

The children are asleep and everything is quiet. The place is full of household goods--the alabaster cigarette box from the Taj Mahal, the

wooden the rhinoceros from Nairobi, candlesticks from Portugal and the red curtains my wife bought when I was abroad and was afraid I would not like.

But I do. I like everything in sight. I even like the worn chair covers and the hole in the floor, where the mice live.

It's good to be alive when you know how nearly you aren't.

It may be only a coincidence, but the day after I went to see him Mr Coulton started to give

his money away.

-{London Express Service)

JOHNNY HAZARD

WHEW THAT WAS JUST IN TIMB! THIS BUGGY CAN'T TREAD

WATER/

"The question is: Would

The Team please give one solid reason why they should not all go and jump in the river

TRIBUNE BRAINS TRUST

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World Copyright Reserved." London Express Service.

What

every

EVE PERRICK thinks up a Groom Course for husbands

MAN should know

JUST BEFORE I was stricken with flu, t wrote a small paragraph which implied: "Where was the fun in women keeping up appearances when he men they did it for never bothered how they looked themselves?

It caused a medium-sized commotion. The correspondence, highly partisan, consisted of "hear-hears" from the women; rather ruder noises from the men,

But, queried some of the fairer-minded wives, what could their husbands do about it? No one ever issues a grooming-quide for men....

W

7ELL, here's one. Complete in this issue the true life stories of men who made the grade in good grooming; fashion-notes; tips on hair styles -and all specially prepared for men,

[Better read it, too, ladies, I suspect it will be your efforts-nagging-that will get the men to follow the

plan.]

WITH BOWLER

EXAMPLE 1. From dufic-couted Cambridge under- grad. to bowler-hatted "Something in the City" in six months, and a lot of painstaking HERO: Jonathan Balcon, aged 21.

·MY- SARTORIAL TOP TEN

★ The Bake of Devonshire -For all round good taste.

Bi Viyan Naylor. Leyland-For knowing just where to sup on the border ino between Individual styles and too-fancy dres. ★Charles Sweeny Por the best. English tailoring allied to just á teeny Amori- can tinge of abandonment.

★ Bir Maloshi Bargenti For bringing to the world of music

sartorial

splendour that

Iris colleagues try to excuse their www appalling

Laste (running to home-spun, suits and hand-kemisnod cardigans) Dy unfairly alox. naming hij |_Flash_Harry.” Noël Coward-Naturally, (Thoad are his calocs.]

* Vie Oliver and Richard Murdoch-Por bringing bo the lower levels of enter talement, the music halis. the high too of their beautifully cut clothes.

★ Jack Buchanan-As I explain in the next columnCLE.

* Siegl Besler-The Mayfair restaurateur for wearing a blue comflower Instead of the usual red carnation on 1 well- mannered sulta,

And, of courÁS * Douglas Fairbanks.

And cov sartorial sinaime

-Matching tio' and hand- Kerchief; black suede shoes for evening wear ; pullovers wotn under Jackets o! lounge suits: braons wor tinder swoaters and braces and belts worn together: shoes with buckies ; die-pins with soft collars: leather patches on jacket elbowS before the original material has worn

CALL IT SIXTH5- SENSE IF YOU LIKE *EXIT THAT HUNCH", SAVED OUR NECKS,

PUNCH?

perseverance.

The saga from shaggy student to young swell took this

From turn-about: tweed jackets and corduroy pants to sporty suits and suede shoes....to darker suits and soft collars....to very dark suits with slits in the jacket, bowler hat and rigidly rolled umbrella.

The painful part of the process was entirely due to the bowler.

"When I went to get it," said Jonathan, "I found that the things are not fitted-they're moulded.

"Then takes quite a time At to get the hang of them, first they fit right over wisdom iceth

and

your give you

-WITH A TWO-PICTURE LESSON FROM ONE MAN.......

Mr. Balcon in howler,

Before the transformation - Mr. Balcon in dune coat

semi-tone lighter; shirt of pris- tine whiteness, with collar and cuffs shiny but not starchy; red earnation..AN

And the Buchanan hat

pearly grey snap-brim which is

Darrentis errnot war, te same 伊r not-ith my the attent butir de

really incorrect for town-wear

but which Mr Buchanan has made his own hallmark.

Neither has Mr B. any re

youthful cipe for retaining a nguro. Just like some of those fortunate but maddening women, he can cat what he likes, take little exercise, and never add an Inch to his waist-- line,

discovered one thing. though, which may have some- thing to do with his spright- There are five fights

So when he reached London, liness.

pains. "But once you get used and success, he took himself off of stairs to his office and ric

to Savile-row and ordered an lift. to them, they're all right ex- expensive salt. He made cept that they are awkward for mistake. "I was wearing да Enack-bar lunching.

onc

Australian hat-quite a small-

· affair brimmed

by

DUCAL STYLE

Sydney standards. The taller looked at NOW for Charles Topper, the. me and said: 'Mr P., you will

He makes the same com- that bowlers plaint about

Elsonbower President

mado about topper--they wiggle. "And it's impossible to

not wear that hat with my

cat

Bull,

sandwiches standing up in a From there, Mr Piddington

bowler. The darn thing moves has never looked back.

In rhythm to the munching.'

FASCINATION

EXAMPLE 2. From Australian

radio-actor to. Saulie-row-

WHO ME?

^XAMPLE 3, From "one of the best-dressed men there" executive, in to "always the best-dressed man aulted business three years and the right ap- there," HERO: Jack Buchanan, proach, HERO: Sydney Pid, age, omelally, 60 (but I don't

believe it). dington, aged 34.

Mr Piddington, who was un- Mr Buchanan, it seemed, has til recently one half of "The no set formula for good groom Piddingtons" (that telepathy ing. When I asked him how it

youal barber, on "Hair"

Mr Topper: "It is important to wear it long at the sides. It. you do this you can brush it back and give an upward. 11ft to the face.

"Don't use too much grense. on your hair lotion made of spirit and glycerine la best-

Utan and don't wash it more once a week."

Among those who follow Mr Topper's advice is the Duke of Edinburgh. "Ho has a special lotion made up without perfurde he doesn't like those smelly ones.

When he first came here his

him

act), and is now Mr Sydney was he always looked so sleek, hair was cut very short liko Fiddington, publisher and con- smooth, and smart, he said; any sailor's. I persuaded

the "Who mo7": cert agency manager, got

So I can urgo to be a well-dressed man-

only report the about-town when he WOE a evidence of my own observa-

tlons and list the details. Japanese prleoner of war.

"After wearing a lop-lip - * Sorgo sult in the right thado sort of loincloth arrangement of navy blue (which is for four years, you become ab- true blue without a green solutely fascinated by clothes," purple sheen); salin the

-CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT... ALL OF A SUDDEN THE TAIL LIGHTO WE WERB FOLLOWING JUST DISAPPEARED! WHERE..?.

JOHNNY... LOOK!

By Frank Robbina

that this was all wrong and ho must grow it at the sides, and well, his hair always looks neat, now, doesn't 117

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