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THE HAPPIEST SIGHT OF

YOUR LIFE

CYRIL AYNSLEY acts on the words

of George Isaacs, M.P., who said: 'Go to Stoke Mandeville and see a miracle!!

VILLIAM JENKINS, a young Welsh coalminer who fought in Korea, practised water polo in a swimming bath. And no stranger watching him could possibly have realised that he was totally paralysed from the chest down.

This 20-year-old William Jenkins, with a healthy sunburned face, was one of the people Mr George: Isaacs, SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST MP, had in mind when he told the House of Commons:

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Where is Stoke Man- deville? And what is a miracle?

Stoke Mandeville fa # quiet Buckingham- shire village where the

Ministry has

Pensions one of the Anest

for the

treat-

of spinal paraly- sis in The British Commonwealth.

It was here that they

brought young Jenkins after he had suffered The mental apprehen- sion of a night patrol

enemy

In

OA

B4009

WORLDS END

signpost not far from Stoke Mandeville... But to the men there this is far from 'world's end.

It is a -new-beginning,

behind Korea, the shattering blow of a "Merely logical and systematic Chinese bullet in his back, and development." six long hours alone in no man's land before his comrades rescued him in the dawn.

It was here that he met the man in charge,

Jenkins been given the comfort The fact is that not only has

of knowing he can lve

and work again, but 940 others have. a diminutive been given the same

comfort little doctor with rimless spec- since Dr Guttmann opened the tacles called Ludwig Guttmann centre by Government invita- ----a German brain specialist tion in 1044. when he started who fled from Hitler in 1939. with one soldier patient, two

assistants and elght Army or deriles.

Slowly, patiently

Many, in wheel chairs, ከድሮ It is permissible for the or- at work in factories. Many re- dinary person like you or me turn to Stoke Mandevillo osch to think that Jenkins, as a man, year to join in sports day was Anished. The Chinese bui- where, sull their wheel let severed his spinal cord.

chairs, they take part In No

below movement

archery, basketball, and javelin chest, no sensation, no control, throwing. no balance. He had been like when he that for six months

the

William Jenkins practising waterpolo, Months ago a Chinese bullet in Korea paralyzed him.

ago would have been consider back society for the assistance the odd name of Worlds End, a But the great triumph of the as hopeless and helpless crip-

ed by society-including doctors society has given them." mile and a half away.

To them, Stoke met the doctor at Stoke Man-to German doctor is that his pies, unemployable

Mandevillo and people can work again.

Uh- As they return to Stoke Man- has been the beginning of a'new deville last January.

wanted. But now they are do- deville for their reunions Listen to him: "These are the ing work alongside other

the world, a strange world no or people who cannot walk pass doubt, but none the less, a bo-

The doctor went to work,

painstakingly, slowly, never im- same people who a few years dinary people. They are paying through the little village with ginning. patiently,

all The to Jenkins's | muscles affloping

knew, and Jenkins pelvis. He kne knows too, that he could never rive him back the power walk. Jenkins knew that nover walk would again

be play inatio right

for his little native South Wales village of Tumble in the Carmarthenshire League.

But what Dr Guttmann knew

Sitting on the Fence

LTHOUGH not quite so anti regards Syngman Rhee ns

cricket-crazy

As the "a flightful blore." father of a friend who

that he would give him the always ended his prayers hope to live, the ability to work during a Test match with: and, unbelievably, the power to "And please let England swim.

And there it Is. Jenkins win," I am, nevertheless, splashed joyfully around in cricket-crazy.

the

the

swimming bata at hospital. The only time he

At times like this I read

had tried swimming before every word written about. tindbeenTMTMTM

n a few occasional pad- cricket, hear every word dies off the beach at Swansea. spoken in cricket commen- Now, on his back, he can ne

taries, and find it hard to complish two lengthe of

the think of anything else but 42 foot-long bath.

Two fellow palients, u cricket... coalminer from Scotland and a trea-feller from Kent, he threw the bolo

in

You are therefore for- ball Sround. The tunate that, by sheer, de- bathing cos-termination, I have been were in the water with able to switch my mind to

the the following".

murses, tumes, them,

on There was nothing surface to draw any distinction between six healthy younge people enjoying an afternoon's, sport. Only a alight wear show- od where the bullet had enter-. ed Jenkins's back.

Slingman Rhee

CCORDING to one corres

pondent in Korea, most of the natives speak, pidgin Eng- In nino years

lish when they speak it at all. According to another, ? his A miracle?

hourtboy Bohr, already wound- "Yes," anys Mr Imace, MP. od at the age of 15, is gradual- Dr. Gutfman, ly acquiring English - phrases,

Slingman Rhee him fightful

blore,

Him wantce muchee muchee

war.

But Slingman Rhee he no go

there,

Him velly old man with not

much hair,

Him blavest man In all

Klorca,

Him only fireside flusler, Him only light with talkee

talk,

AMERICA COLUMN

NEWELL ROGERS

QUEEN CRAZY WOMEN

WRITER

New York. John Kord

Wakemann ska paych

logists why the Coronation has made American women what he calls "Queen crazy.

They answer: "For the frat time in their lives they have a heroine who makes them, feel. superior to men: Philip knalt at Elizabeth's feet and swore to be faithful and true.

"What wife doesn't secretly wish she had the authority?"

WILLIAM · CARROLL,

Government morstial

SAMC

that

charge of executing Jullus and Elhel Rosenberg he

been asked to resign.

This in not for the way the clectrocutions of the two close- bomb spies were conducted, but for being a member of the Do- mocratle Party

He

expected to be replaced eventually by a Republican, as a result of President Elsen hower's election.

But he said: "I didn't think they would let me finish a nasty job for them then try to sacke me_without even a holiday.”

He says he was asked to get out five days after the execution. Ile

says he will not do It voluntarily.

If ha continues to refuse to step out, the Elecrihower Ad- ministration will have to sack him,

ÞARNARD

COLLEGE for Women will teach "per- sonal financo"

It next year. feels the trend is towards feminine control of the family funds.

I seemed to 4,000 ilbrarians

in congress at Chicago that a message to them from Pro- aldent Eisenhower was really meant for Senator ("book-

burning") McCarthy.

For the President picked on those zealots "with more wrath than wisdom" who would stop "freedom's friends" from read- ing all about Communism.

"Knowledge," he said, "is the free people's surest strength."

AESAR PETRILLO, head of the American Federation of Musicians, had sailed for Europe and a heart-to-heart talk with King Frederick IX of Denmark.

Sald Caesar (first name James): "From time to time he conducts longhair recordings which find their way into US. radio stations. I want him to say that at no time--will-ho permit use of his recordings for commercial purposes."

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

anthropology

Ducey has

scholarship

won

student Paul ·

Fulbright TC-

for a year's

sidence on the Isle of Skye, to study what happened to the clan system.

TELEVISION

producers

searching for more

studio

space in the heart of Kansas City opened a back-alley door marked "Suitable for storage" and found a theatre no knew existed.

one

Complete except for seats, it belonged to an age before the days of electricity.

MICKEY ROONEY has been conching his fourth wife, red-haired Elaine

In Davis, dramatic lessons, and now sho has made a triumphant TV do- but in "My Wife, Poor Wretch."

• by Nathaniel Gubbins

Him belly full of chop chop ing digging and sniffing at a might

chop,

hole under some concrete pay- becile, Him fight um war till war ing in the garden. Suspicions

him won,

were aroused, but nobody liked Hin flight um war with slip- to accuse Lottie of murder,

pers on.

But now it is officially con-

Old Slingman Rhee him full Armed that crimes can be com-

of hate,

mitted under the Influence of Though him 80 near big the moon by olliervise normal

Golden Gate,

people, the case will have to be Him wantoe wantee muchee reviewed.

war

Old Slingman Rhee

flightful blore.

When colders march, bim no Moon Murder?

can walk,

Slingman Old

Rhee him sloventy-eight, Hum mighty near blig Golden

Gate But" "soldiers young," like

houseboy Song, Him, muchee wantee" livee

Old Slingman Rheo bim far

along. From big blang, blangand

whizz.blang-blong,

Him flight um war flom blig

ann, chair, But Bilagman Rhce he no go

thero

"Him" dight /um war; like blg

man top.

him Three Little Fools

ENGLAND'S lost the toss, but

turn out to be an im-

If it does, I suppose they change the name to "First Fool," and name any other off spring "Second Fool,” | “Third Fool." and so on.

Good thorning, First Fool? What is your, position in class.

now.

—Third- "from": Lid":"bottan,"

· Honourable Porent,

Then you are getting on, First Foot. Give me the names of the boys below you.

Your other cons, Second Fool your and Third Fool, Honourable

Parent.

WAY from the cricket com-

Amentary traite

-beneft. blast you.

Then you are the best of fools. How many in the

* - four,

I suppose I have to carry: op,... All right..........

The name of the Japanese The published statement that Ambassador in London means "many doctors with vast ex First Brilliant Child, and Parent, perience believe moon madness the name of Miss Shizuo Masu- exists may expisin the strange si a Joanese vi

be vkitor, means behaviour or Lottle the Dovil Quiet Cedar Cat when the moon is full;

'Although 'my admiration far the Japanese is strictly limited to the charming descriptive

Honourable.

none of you is likely to gomoted to a higher class? No. We are all too foolish.

Parent. Honourable

It has always been my

·myam. bition to have one of my child- ren at the top of the class. It was at the full moon one names they give their children, The only

way to do it to summer night that a stray-kit-- I shall never know, “how have 21 more sona and fill the len visiting The Son Nest for woman can look like a quiet class with fools. Then even you, a few days, disappeared in cedar tree, particularis when First Fool, may be at the top.. strange, clrcumstances,

she's an infant. Or how even a Then somebody notleed that doling parent can call his, baby Lottle spent hours each oven- "First Brilliant Chim”: When

You may go now's

(London Express méreter)