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Fast... Faster.....

The New Battle Of Britain

By DAVID DIVINE

of

London. the 'speed limit for fierce short

speed limit the THE Battle of Britain in bursts,

the nud

Dieterle

German

The plane was built in 1838. was the beginning of the when greatest of all races-lhe speed the fighting began. It was race for the

TWorld War Two was Pure Be 112.

fought for weeks on end until exhausted pilots no ft longer remembered

Britain won

fought at heights that beusly. gan with

sately of Britain.

TCCR.

h. Won it. curl- through actent wave-skimming Through the Schneider Trophy and ended six miles up in a races, even if indirectly. sky so blue.

Endurance, valour, skill--those

#

SPITFIRE

p

more

were the three great human In 1830 the British Air Staff factor of the Battle of Britain, drew

a specification for a the to answer There was a fourth factor, only fighter aircraft

[acto hordes human

of fant bombern that Indirectly

Germany had niready in pro- speed.

are In the very duction or in centemplation, Today we

RAF of the heart of a new battle of Britain.

An emissary The battle of speeds beyond the

went to Vickers Supermarine

works

Lhat with aviation imagination even of the genera

for 01 It called tion that preceded ours.

specification. Squadron-Lender Duke's thee

eight-gun fighter with speed over Faro of 350 miles an hour- nighter supersonle cracks

powerful borough were a skirmish in the

Incomparably

yel linch battle,

the The design, the trials, testing and the production of t

aircraft are a matter

RAF

wanted new y:ars, The #ghter with desperate urgency, It got it. Vickers and designed

private and built as a

venture. arising out of its early compett tion in the Schneider Trophy, ulrcraft or four Runs and on

lower speed. Its de slightly

Mitchell. Th

What does it all mean? Just very look back a little-only u little. Less. In fact, than half a century.

Santos Dumont was astonish- with a world then Ing the

of 25 miles 1172 That was in 1000, LINDBERGH

masterpiece hour,

In 1914, at the outbreak of

the First World War, mon had

than

anything that been thought of.

++

it

11 WI

just notched 200 miles an hour, signer? R. J. but average speeds throughout plane? The Spitfire. the war period for working pur- adapted rapidly, and as rupidly poses burely topped the hundre mark.

Twenty-six years ago Charles Lindbergh set out to ly the Atlantic from West to East In monoplane that could, and did, average for 33 hours much about the same level speed,

2

The other day John Murray

It

seems

put Into production

the

the

Simultaneously, and in much same circumstances,

into being! Hurricane came They were ready for the Battle of Britain.

is something of the same sort happening now?

took the. world's al Britain

published his book "The Spirit speed record back in 1945 when in the forcing house of war gave that Lindbergh, her the Meteor Mark IV, the jet Bie established that lonely fighter the staggering ocross

of St Louis." conceivable

emptiness of the Atlantle, only first world's jet record at 606

his courage

full in

measure, miles an hour.

shout out:

could sight a fishing fleet, glide

down to them

and

"Which ways Ireland?"

By the time Duke got to the

end

QUESTION

Britain lost it to America in

of a quick-shouted "Which 1947 at 623. America took it up

.." he would be a mile and a to 715; Duke won it back for

Britain with 772.

away.

Britain has won an air battle Fifteen years ago-memory is

that perhaps the

process getling nearer--the speed limit in had shot up above the 400 mark, more than any other single thing won the war-or made its win- ning possible.

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same

When aircraft went above 200 milica an hour the philosophers déclaration. made the Abine passengers fly in comfor at 400 m.p.. not

Assisted by science, inan will stand higher speeds yet. Only for the question is left jone

philosopher to ask.

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• so different!

The days of the drab dresses are over. Now Nora con wear the bright, pretty accessories she missed so much. Here sho matches a cravat with her new costume.

0.11

CURTAIN DANCERS

THE IRON FIND FREEDOM

S

now

London.

not

by Louise Reid

and those wonderful kippers!

) IN LONDON

But, although gay' and excited of about her new life, Nore is not

frivolous,

Gradually they are peeling service fat in, Curzon Bireet and off cast-of-Curtain tricks and want with her to a top dress mannerisma: O his 'first designer round the corner. Sho night at the Festival Hall, was fitted for her first houte which was also his first' singe couture sull, a gray" worsted

In the appearance

Wesh classic, und we all, helped, Rabovsky look his curtains choose accessory colours, with arms stiffly to his sides

made and

three deferential bows as if to boxes full. commissars and their wives.

That was how he was taught

Sometimes a shadow comes to bow with the State Ballet in across her face, That means Budapest. That was how he she is bowed after partnering

"My only unhappi- Ulanova with the nesa," she says, "is that I was company in Moscow t highly and at the Marlinsky, Lenin- not able to tell my mother wo'

I und were leaving. grad, where he and his wife mentioned to her my hopes, of, did a season's guest dancing. geiting away to The Western

world."

WETO

ETTLING down west of the Iron Curtain after growing up and carning your living east of

Her salary as prima ballerina It is like settling down on of the Budapest State Opera

amiablo

planet, was £44 a week-big money behind the Curtain, though Nora Kovach, 22, and her

here. 23-year-old husband, Istvan The cowl of living was high. Rabovsky, the two escuped but their joint salaries Hungarian ballet dancers sufficient to buy rich food and comfortable apartment. whose sensational pas de a deux are making the most Adulation was theirs in plenty fabulous

"In Nursia, ballet audiences the are enthusiastle and expert eyes pop at

When they Festival Hall, have been in crities. free

for three pleased they show 11. Europe

"They sent me great baskets months.

of flowers DS big

as myself. show crowds of all 19 the station for

ал

arc

Botshol

fe in Hungary, about her ma.her

never

The sharp line. To lance like the Robovskys

HIT once had not spoilt is of his partner, Boon he will be won the breakfast kipper,

Leaving all their luggage After tho behind them, they made their people used to follow Relaway from East Berlin on the way to fcurpenny tube train tickets to autographs." the American side

hour before they were to have secret

Wa had been taken part In

Hungarian . It only

allowed to come and go with- dance festival.

out being watched and reported on. I couldn't stand the snoop- ing any longer."

Everything But

Since their breakaway

they in have been busy in Munich for the U.S. making a fim

"Dancing Department, Nora. State

into Freedom."

Now at last they are getting used to the lock, feel and taste of freedom and marvelling al the friendliness of the natives.

In Budapest, in Moscow. Leningrad, "we had everything

says except freedom," "Bul money, position, are nothing without freedom to go where you like, when you like, to do what you please and wear what you please."

For

,

Ten a day

you have to cat, The Raboyrkys He now takes curtains with laugh at lettuce, egg flips and

fruit juice. One of their first. groce and Ouidity, making

London says Nora, "the gallant gestures in the direction happy discoveries in

moro Western than the West, They have had two each every

Another minor

with tea, least' was morning since WOITY make-up. An Hungarians, and Jam Rabovsky and his wife were strictly subject to Soviet make- up styles, which tend to be harder and sharper than oura....

his first performances

For lunch they like a largo here Rabovsky had, his faco grease-painted and lined by a beefsteak and they enjoy it best those West'. End one of master of all the ballette arts, in. Anton Dulin, his artistle diree restaurants with plenty of

Then clothes,

scenery, where the women wear Nora

a cane silly hats and

cloth-capped in A away

black skirt and commissar would never get past sweater, as unglamorous as most the head walter. Iron Curtain styles. Istvan was Istvan Is non-smoker. Nora Wearing "Just clothes," In edmits that in this respect shee Munich, at an American forces a bad girl. She has to be

Istvan bought himself a rationed to ten cigarettes a day.. srady-made blue suit, Nora an- They promise to come back other sweater.

next year in full length works." They decided to wait unt! But will 'America's Jure keep they reached London or Parls them longer? The dollar is a before buying clothes in a serious powerful argument and freedom,

other way. The

morning I is not less, attractive when It' collected Nora at their modest comes with mink edges.,

THE JUNGLE GIRL

AFTER THREE

T

a

Bergen-Op-Zoom

(Holland).

on

By JOHN

CLARKE

YEARS

TODAY a name that rang round the world comes out from the shadows that have hidden it for more than two years. The name is Bortha Hertogh~~the child bride of a Malay school-teacher who was restored to her parents in Holland by court order.

The

HE house was one of

a row built since the. war round a grassy the out- square skirts of this small town, a red-brick four bedroomed

with house

2 steeply

• BUT WHAT HAPPENED aftor the restoration? pitched roof of red tiles.

world's memory is short. The Jungle Girl slipped from My hand had hardly left the

How John Clarke has been to Holland bell-push before the door was public view. opened by a pretty teenaged to see Bertha Hertoghand to find the answer to a girl Ix dove-grey dress, who question that two years ago made her a subject of discussion demurely showed me into the for mothers and fathers overywhore. sitting-room where her mother was. and then withdrew, riccly-mannered children do when their elders want to talk

That,"

said the mother. gesturing towards the door the girl had closed behind her, "is Bertha." Saying she sounded proud-understandably.

For the girl

wus Bertha Hertogh who, three years ago, around the world headlines proclaimed as "the jungle girl." the 13-year-old who, married to

Malayan, furiously resisted. the efforts of her family, from whom the wag had separated her, to bring her back to them.

Riots flared up

firmly. "People prayed for us, we know the help it was."

Her marks

marks out of ten,

me.

for

tor.

you see," she WILLIAM HAMSHER meets a woman.

was long then, said. "She had it cut short to be like her sisters."

Tant, perhaps, spoke best for the children's part in bringing Bertha back into the family. It was not easy for them..

Bertha

when

the came back from Malaya grudgingly ceded victory to her mother but the turned her back when

the

brothers

con-

one of

others spoke to her; and

and sisters were nol in the limelight as Bertha was. But they found a place for her In the nursery-democracy, and gradually she became them.

you want to be "What do when you grow up?" I asked Bertha.

"To be at home, and make dresses," she said.

Happy laugh

the.deep

SHE HAS FOUND

A LOST

CITY

Bonn. metres east of Heligoland and TARAU KATHE FRIES, Herr Fries went overboard.

38 year old blonde; Frau Kathe excitedly con- blue-eyed wife of a West tinued the story. "Less than an business man hour later he was on board German told me how she walked again and excited. "We've found it he sald, and soon be was with her husband In the lugging up to the surface build- ruins of a city that the ing stones which were carved North Sea swallowed 8,000 into regular squares. 'Obviously

hewn by man. years ago.

When the sea was smooth a

Bertha, when she came back, was imperious, aloof, suspicious

She Bertha fervently agreed. and afraid; for a child of 13 she was most dieult to live with, has become devoutly religious. While we talked, her father Patiently the mother went work; so did the nuns at the sent her upstairs to get her convent where Bertha was sent school reports to show

She hates sports, explosively,

Frau Kathe is convinced that school; 50 did to

father, Shyly she handed them over, is not interested in dancing or the ruins into which she dived glass, and the sun overhead tu brothers, sisters. There was and

blushed when I read the

the cinema. She has friends of are those of Atlantis, the sunk is helped Frau Kathe' over give the maximum fight Herr too, influence,

that verdicts of her teachers on her her own age (neighbours' child- en land which historians another

and made itself felt.

first schooling in Holland.

ren accepted her

as one of archaeologists have been looking the side-and with their frog....

them Threats

themselves from the start), but for since the Greek philosopher through the swift currents, they

men nippere Mrs Hertogh's

getting sgalast life had been made by irrespon-

only girls, and preters to bring Plato wrote of it in the fifth walked over a stone wall. sible Mosiem elements when she

them to her house rather than century before Christ. went to Singapore to claim her doughter. When Bertha came For Scripture she had won visit theirs,

Leaving the house, I saw in homo there wag whispering seven

a framed photo- that attempts, would be mado behaviour, nine: for reading, the hallway

Dutch language, graph of Bertha's arrival home. Born, like most here kidnap her or do her other eight; for the

of

She stood at a window eight.

of the banner brothers and sisters, in the East, harm.

From that primary school, floodlit house, above where her father hatt been a

Bertha has moved on now to which said, in Malayan for her sergeant in the Dutch Army,

une where she can specialise in

"Welcome Home." and are Bertha had become a Moslem, word of Dutch, spoke not one

dress malding.

In the sliting-room of the crowd gathered to greet her,

The pastor says one derman an all- Now she looked up at the Lutheran pastor from Schles Hertogh home, hangs

laughed at her wig-Holstein, Jurgen Spanuth, professor is attacking this theory, of Bartha done by # photograph and painting young Indian when she was in old self. The happy laugh of a in the last stages of his 20-year saying the wall formation is the

with hunt for Atlantis.

result of the regular rhythm of shows sultry 10-year-old confronted Malaya, It

the sea waves"over milliong' of young woman whose long black absurdity. "Like someone else," Dutch, She no

years. 2 hair falls over the shoulders of she said-in a scarlet dress.

longer speaks Malayan, is for getting it, as she is learning to forget Malaya and the past,

A child again

A police-officer was assigned and answered only to the name to escort Bertha to and from Nadra Adabi. that had been school, and to stand guard over given her by the Malayans who her at home. On police orders, had brought her up from the

telephone way installed in the age of Ave.

Hertogh home FO that any "After the war, when she dis- suspicious. stranger might be covered where her daughter immediately reported. was,

Mrs Hertogh fought in the

The policeman appointed as rourts of Singapore to

Mrs Hertogh saw me looking have

shadow was Bertha restored to her and to Bertha's

a tall, at the pictures "Bertha's hair common Bense Lough,

man child's marriage the have

named Frank Borremans, the whom children She was successful to the type of man accompaniment of rlots Instinctively adore.

Gently, by bonier, he played that dared up in the colony as

Bertie's the case was heard. Seventeen his part in deflating

were killed

ego, and trans- before exaggerated people

from a haughty Bertha, at the case's conclusion, forming her

woman Late E happy was slipped aboard an alrera young

a scowling, sulky child again. and flown, girl with

chip on an outsize

Borremans

quashed.

race

to Sowered at the galety, mands her back.

Bertha the messages

of welcome

(in

sent

Bertha agreed

.

STONE WALL ·

Frau Kathe said: "Wo 'could not see much, but, my husband had showed me where he found openings in the wall entrances which Pastor Spanuth Frau Katho and her husband thought led to the courtyard of deep-sea divers, members the palace of the King of

beked crossly down on the of the French Alpine Underseas Allantis,"

she

Club, and they joined

U

The pastor was in command of the Cuxhaven fishing cutler Mara, Salling by dead reckoning. they let the anchor go 9.2 kilo-

LIVING HIGH ON THE HOG

New York.

TAXPAYERS have had

by to provide mechanical ham slicers for U.S. civil servants living in Bonn.

AMERICA COLUMN

from

NEWELL ROGERS

art

Yet by Fifth Avenue dards Miss Ay fashioned girl."-

-Hal:dressers

[

"All I can say is "I wish he would come and see for himself the stones we have in my sludy," ssid the pastor.

ROYAL CITY..

..

2

Spanuth is convinced that on stan- land near Heligoland was a royal old- and 'prlently, city, engulfed by the sea.in the disasters, described. would look in

the carly chapters of the askanco at the ash-blonde locks Bibl. failing from her shoulders, Model agencies might hesitate "Calculations mado after por over her Bft. 8in. height,

Ing over Greek manuscripts and For the rest, Evelyn Ay is 20 Egyptian wall writings showed MARIUS SPADA, soap factory years old, weighs 8st. 11ib.; has me that Atlantis palace must be foreman made his wife 37-inch bust, a 24-inch waist, looked for exactly 9.2 kilometros

30-Inch withdraw from a beauty conter and

hips, Sht is from a certain Helgoland elit.

And so it turned out, studying medical technology.

T719KER from moustached

"A German selentille research

found. These accurate with modern measurements equipment proved that Plato

motrea out: was exactly two wheri he said that the Atlantis: wall was 927, metres long."

her shoulder, back to Holland, Bergen-op-Zoom's police chief

to accompany

me on my visit Royal welcome

to the Hertoghs, Without him, I should not have been admitted,

And that Congress informed Bergan-op-Zoom, a prosper for. understandably, reporters the State Department, is "living ous town of 30,000 Inhabitants come within the category of too high on the hog," which is an

near the Bel- on the seacoast

*uspicious strangers.

old American expression for He translated for me when I doing yourself well. gian frontier, whose Industries Include asparagus growing, an- asked Mrx Hertogh her viewa These slicers are part of the at Asbury Park, New Jersey, to chovy fishing, the distillation of

Elena Sebsentoya, the equipment in 485, flats built in choose Mrs America. Industrial alcohol, and the manu- pon

girl, 13 years old, as Russlan

He said he did not want the West German capital at facture of iron stoves, Have Bertha was three years ago, American

скрепа. Somehow pictures of his wife and nine K men may bring on violent ship measured for us the length Bertha royal welcome home.

ert Berthu Hertoga Committon who, for eight years like Bertha, costs crept up and up until each children in all the parto, 20- allergie reactions, says a pro- of the Atlantis embankment, we

So pletures of blonde,

of paediatrics help was cared for by foreigners Adt for ale clerka hnd four-bed-

(child had funds to

year-old Mrs Spada and the fossor had provided

foster parents and rooms and cost 28,000 dollars, night the case and pay air fares English

The Treasury also gave cach children are in all the papers, medicine) at New York Univer for her mother. whose Russian mother now de-

of her noble, elty. civil servant two Bower boxes, with stories a wall clock, and a dozen renunciation.

THE Bible is the book moet ginstics.

VOLCANOLOGIST Werner frequently stolen from the n Juble is lost in the Valley of Tulsa, Oklahoma, publia library When TUIE POSTMAN: brought in no two

Pastor the eight in one year. "It must have been very dim-

speaking Frat Katha said: "It is with her!" I said minds about the problem when letter of congratulations to Ten Thousand Smokes on

as it Cologne Cathedral had been, cult dogh.

it was explained to her. Sha Mr Stephen Krawczyk, in Cleve Alaskan peninsula, Ho left his

camp 13 days ago to watch DROADWAY may miss T. S. inundated by the sea for at

BRO difficult at all, she jumped up from her chair and land, Ohio. not

Also a tile box-containing the Mount Kalmol (7,000ft.).

Aircraft sald. She is a alightly built, cried: "But the girl must go

Silver Star, third highest U.S.

are dodging the Eliot's The Confidential least 3,000 years." smoking cratera to, ibok for determined-looking woman of back, to her mother."

"Theoretically" Ja," Bertha agreed. |award for gallantry,

Actor Equity may 60 percent 35, whoon maiden name

good the foster

Place: Montdidier,

on the him,

of the cast must bo. American said, "It is possible to bring all

the ruined a masonry-to Hunter her grandfather was parents, have been, whatever Somme. Date: June 1, 1018. a Scot who married a Dutch

ported saying: unloses he can woman in Java, her mother was they have done for the child, Corporal Krawczyk was twice MISS AY is 50,000 dollars Producer Henry Berck le re-wrface. We also to

they must send her back now, wounded in rescuing comration silencing German Mira Hertogh makes light of even to Russia. It is very heavy and

must "bo," machine-gun neet. tho tuske of indoctrinating on the heart, but it Bertha into the ways of the

"Tomorrow morning, Bertha TN aix yours the number of U.S. West and integrating her with bu

Instruments has in close to the family! know how mother may have back. her musical great the tank'WAR,

wald Mrs. Hertogh crossed 180 percent.

Dutch and Malayan) festooned

across her home.

to Mry

No,

half Indonesian.

musakase

Mrs Herlogh was

ja,

:

yes, must be, Bertha mid."

Clark."

the

her

finished

husband

the

richer than the was. For that is the worth of the bring his whole British cast the next summer and we shall have: prizes, including a one that go play will not crom the Atlantic, new apparatus that will coriach

PREKY Any metal beneath the wuzie." to Evelyn Margaret Ay of gui

"Motel?" Ephrata, Pennsylvania, a win-

Washington, aman, cut a 44 the title of Miles tooth on his 100th birthday "Gold, her six other children. Those, and I will say prayers that thai,' youngsters taking lessons on nor of the Attentio. City beauty (SCAR" ASSMAN, à MARANG BA

child,”

confort and America of 1954

...

''the fifth in his fouuriki" not.