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On the Stock Exchange, on the boards of the big banks, women are still cold-shouldered. WHY? Today a London City Editor inquires whether women can combine glamour with a business sense. He finds they can. By Alexander Thorison

London.

She took over as head of the HE silk-hatted Old Die- family business two years #29 по але Clas hard standing on the when there was around to do 50. kerb-aide by the Stock

Since then a £14,000 bank Exchange blustered; "The overdraft has been paid off. A trouble with women is that trading Jo$3 has been turned BO many have 80 littlo Into yearly profit.

Miss Joan has three other And that is directors to help her. All are men. They say: "She controls the firm's inoney as well as any business mani -

money sense." how we came to be dis- cussing in the City's Sep- tember sunshine whether, in business, you can trust woman with your money,

The Stock Exchange still seems very doubtful about

1953.

trust your

a

woman?

At the office Miss Hethering In business are many others Ion usually wears smartly cut just Os capable of climbing suits which set off her dark. high. But without such help hair.

the way ahead for most of them She helps in poro thah is sill much too tough. ,000,000 of selling each year.

For always there is-the soles are going up, Then there is Mrs MARJORIE. (200DWIN.

She does a full- time jobs in an £800,000 soup

Arm.

exquib

old

customers and share- holders wouldn't like it,"

Old fashioned. nonsense....If women match up to top jobs in It is a director's job, too business they should be in the shared with dve men. Selling running for them. and advertising is her ling. They should be trusted with And to put forward the womon's our money... point of Vlow on such Im-

things portant

Wrappings end scent.

How well does she do it? Judge for yourself. Propte rosa £10,000 to £280,000 last year.

Her fitm's shares were is, 6d. a year ago. Now: as, 64.

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Slim, trim and vivacious MRS EVADNE LLOYD deservEB O mention.

So it seems. For in a year her shares have risen from 18. She has three main interests. 6 to 11. 6d. the Stock Her home and young children. Exchange.

her grey-green sports Bentley

оп

It is also "Yes, madam," and the brewery of which she

is a director.

*

it. None of its 4,000 mem- Instead of "Yes, sir," in one of bers is a woman. So are Nottingham's big lace and lex-

tite companies. the banks. Each year 150 to 200 women take the bankers', exams. Often they beat the

men at prize- winning

For its chairman and manag-

ing director is a woman, 100 smart and business-like MBB

But they never get anywhere ESTELLA PHILLIPS-HARDER. near, the top. Being secretaries

With a liking for brightly to head-office chiefs seems about

her

ARTIE'S HEADLINE

み

What makes you think that I, too, intend to flee to America, Comrade?"

A HUMAN DOCUMENTARY

THE AGONY OF A KOREA PRISON

By CORPORAL FRANK UPJOHN

in an interview with A. V. Sallwood- ORBIDDEN to read, shops, the crowds at Raynes

forbidden to write. Park Station,

I would conduct imaginary Forbidden to exercise, walks, almost seeing the tele forbidden to doze....

Unable to stand upright when phone boxes, the blossom on the awake. Unable to stretch out

would And sometimes, 1 when asleep. Prodded by the think of the first time I'd met bayonets

last of the guards. Kick Rone. But never of our by the boots of the guards. parting. I tried to forget Slapped on the face by the everything about the war... guards. And forbidden,

to answer back

panic and

trees.

of unddenly I'd

Mrs Lloyd is a part-timer In the boardroom. She is there old because the brewery is an family

Arm. But speak to

of its problems. She will discuss them with a business-Ulice crispness that will surprise you.

In the early forties is MRS DIARY HOPE. And her boss's is surely the strangeat of as far as they can go. A bank coloured frocks--but not yet of manager's chair is not for them: the new Dior length Mrs

"For not only is she a director I say this is all wrong. The Phillips-Morder is another nine-

I would imagino: "It ta-sixer. Often stays much later, of a Newcastle engineering of a hardened reactionary," a won't be long. It hondful of women who have

CAN'T be She was in the middle of a business. She is also its foundry capitalist criminal," in fact, of long. And then they'll shovel had the chance to rise to the

of conferences with manager.

mp Frank Upjohn, crouched in YOU boss level in business are show. round

into one of those cross- from South Africa Mary Hope, who has a young ave-foot long three-foot wido less holes on the hill where the

son at home, supervises making

rest. The chape Her dividend record should steel castings tu to love tons to punishment "coffin" of the Con- others

Chinare. They are showing a

died from malnutrition My crime? Assisting prisoners the death march." sunce all right. And that they be enough to satisfy any doubt weight.

She combines a money sense to attempt escape and refusing Ing male. For 14 years steady can be happy as wives and

JUST her firm has been paying it's with the arm'a. profils have penalty? Well, I never thought

foundry skill. in

STANDING fiye to confess when caught out. The mothers, too.

Yet I was "lucky." For some

Ing that they can do their jobs customers

when I called her office.

us well as men,

"money

Take the case of MRS JOAN SCARFE. who lives near St Albans with her four-year-old daughter Rosalind,

From nine to six on five days each week she is Miss Joan

shareholders 25 percent.

years

Such was the fate, in Korea, sweat.

munist

who

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In the elegaritly panelled office nearly doubled-from £22,000 live to write this story. reason they didn't handcuff me.

of a Scots custard and milk to £41,000. pudding Drm sits sparkling-cyed Miss ELIZABETH HETHER- INGTON.

She is 31 cng a director. She come In four years ago when Ryder, chairman end managing her father died. Now she says

director of a seeds firm.

she loves the business life.

I came back from Hitler's Other "reactionaries" still carry

Nearly all the busy women

make good in top jobs.

They had family links with the firms they work for to help son Barry was only three, thrashed with bamboo poles for push aalde the usual sppasilione "baby" Kelli was just one wall-topping to the chop next NOT EASY

were lucky to get up chance to War in 1940. I planned to the marks of their fetters.

seltip down, to make a home. Neither did they beat me. When they called me for Korea Other "reactionaries" were

to women among the bossen.

These Peekaboo Men

EILEEN ASCROFT studies the optical behaviour

of the English male and gives him a low score

PLUNGED this week

into a question about men that has puzzled me for a long time..

Why does the Englishman lose to Americans and Continentals when it comes to wearing glasses?

Americans spend hours choos- ing the right shapes, frequently helped by their wives, Conti- nental meri think of their op- appeal when pearance of sex they select spectacles.

HILL

... over the tap,

HARDING.

ÄTYLKO

month.

Taken

door.

I was merely forced to stand to attention for hours on end. *Yot, since the ceiling was only prisoners at Chong four feet six from the floor, I chon, I became interested in the often wondered which trept Army instruction that says the ment was the worst. frst duty of, a prisoner 1s to escape.

Baler said than done

For four and a half months I put up with it. Then I decided

to "confess" — humulation or

r

We were more than 200 milles nol. from the U.N. lnes. The camp By a pre-arranged plan two of was surrounded by mow-covered my comrades did the same thing hills. Even the most jaundiced at the same time.

mistaken for a "native." Even

among us couldn't hope to be To the delight of the Chinese Wo Incriminated each other, our brightest couldn't cope with we confessed that we were the language. We had no com- members of un escape com- pass, po maps, and, worst of all, mitter. we

the.. ro training in escape technique. inconvenience we had caused!

apologised for

our camp. None

..

like

We know that

Our senior N.C.O.s—about to We were duly tried? — and be spirited away to another found guilty in 90 seconds. vamp — hurriedly advised mo Would wa

to appeal? nat to "order" escape bids: But they asked.: they approved of que establish an appeal would resan, another ing, a committed to help those, six months' wait in solitary, we who were determined to go. declined their generous offer.

Sixteen attempts were made

NO FUEL from

www successful.

So they mared us to tho To find out which route was punishment camp

of Sminal, But the Englishman spends eyeing dress; high, stender side low! and fleshy neck. This is a the best we gave each man. A where they Elocked 22 of us

to provide good style for middle-aged bual-message to deliver to our Air into two diz moms: neither time nor thought on his and larger lenses

clear vision when driving. ness-men losing their necklines. Force if he got through Would eyewear. His wife

Frost an eighth of an inch or girl

Herbert Morrison is one of the they come over and drop a rod thick formad on the inner- friend rarely bothers to advise. They even have special spec- nattlest spectacle wearers. He

walls: We low into? Haying bought

allowed no OTID pair of tacles for reading in bed. scores on three

three points. Shallow, No flares

ever dropped fuel, no extra clothing. frames, he clings to them for

Who are the worst spectacle widmed lenses help to counter- Several men managed to play. seven or eight years, Ignoring

Using charcoal and a bit of act the almost-rund face. Smart free for a few days. Aide smuggled soap we made one of altered fashions or the chang- offenders among British males?

bi-focals Sive Cumbling and Ing contours of his faco.

cur number look as it be of double pneumonia. Then doctors panicked-and fuel was ·

Round the corner.

I nominale Mr Clament Attlee, glass changing for reading and kept on hoping-ul: the com-

is the only mittee was arrested. Loader of the Opposition. His distance. And hé

Politely the commandant fold round frames have not changed Englishmen who

kisses grace me he won my

to move; without tipping bla

accommodation;

life 'In' E does not even seek comfort for 20 years; when they blink at fully

you today they being back, spectacles over his nose.

"solitary" had begin. his spectacles. Fre- memories of Harold Lloyd.

LONELINESS Parkerism quently he prefers to peer over

H from

the tops, round the corners or Author: J. B. Priestley

trouble.

hal

and"

101

This was the drill'

WCT

the

the Anal Panmunjom- talks

began life became easier. But I shall never forget Corong- tion Day. Four of us-fore our white shirts- and: our: issuo underneath hiz one-purpose radio doctor Chostès Hill'are two | [EN have bèen laughing for

MEN

For 18 hours a day you were. Chinese "blues" into strips. Then frames, when bi-focul, or oven pee 8-over-the-top. Bi-focal year at American writer supposed to out of the floor, we dyed some white rag red: irl-focal lenses would save him lep are the answer to this Dorothy Parker's cruel SDA arms folded, meditating он We made axeftes, and wo

untrue remark that "nen seldom your "misdeeds."

lucked them in qur: caps: and, If you cloned your sins of perhaps Coollably, we refused to This week I have been talking Must out-of-fashion are the make passes at girls who wear

started to drowse they shouted, to opticians about Englishmen pince-nez perchera. “This ugly

Burrender them to the 10,000,000 spectacle kicked, or bayonoted, you into them as our flag. But

We regarded and their glasses. And there is style went out years ago, thaigh plenty of criticism.

Mr Molotov and a few school wearing miles in this country, wakefulness.

I held on to mine until, dazed, me give this warning... For

eight hours you slept, bruised, and bewildered, I found English opticians' ideas such masters still cling to them.

"Girls won't autimit, if your with kmoes drawn up, urms someone trying the sumi-rimiess lens rein-

to priso open Monocles, too, have not been glasses don1t At,"

above blanket, forced by an almost invisible

and affiloted my hand with an iron bar, nightmarca following Then someone else dug their nylon are eagerly worn much since the war.

for from America tummen who moal of beals and walor adopted

but almost

claws into kickles. When they ignored

the ropelle The only walk was to the pulled the English clients. by

them. Old monocles are exported Wear contact lenses, cut change

away it was Smart American businese men to West Africa, where they are by cor of the eye at willtrine and back

ripped to shreds complete spectacle ward- wom for prestige, not ald

having, a different calmstred All through this loneliness I For this "political demonstra- robes. Metal special-grip frames eyesight.

Iris imposed on the lens.

thought of Irene (my wife) or tion" they sent me to Obull for for sportswear very light, in Who are the Englishmen who Contact lenses. bayu" provid Barry and Keith, of the familiar "corrective treatment," And. It weight; elegant black plastic know how to wear, spectacles? - most efficient on television. They things,

was from Obull that' trayplied half-frames, with gold-covered Gilbert' Harding is one, Els are invisible and asid a pleasing I would imagine myself hackle freedom, the Astuxign, and

and sides, to go with wide lenses offset the heavy sparkle to the E

home Picture the road to the home.)

40

bridge

JOHNNY HAZARD

“METHAZARDUGAR. HAZAROA THIEF JUST. “STOLE 'MY CAMERA?

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