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THE DUKE WILL FLOODLIGHT A NEW WORLD

By LES ARMOUR

London. Canada's Northwest Territories, to regard

HE maps call it Dismal The work has come

Lake. It lies deep in. them as a vast aren of Ice and

side the Arctic Circle, its dark waters surrounded by bare rock.

habita, snow, unit for human

only with and blessed on, scattered deposits of minerals,

Few people know that wheat Along a shore there can be grown inside the Arctic 14 11

Government health Circle; that summers

un the Arctic Ocean are often warmer

station, a trading post and than suminers in London; that A few huts. The settlement the territories could eventually support a population as big as is called Coppermine.

The

optimistic. Australia's, Mining copper there is about us profitable as collecting

shells.

1 Dame

Yel Coppermine

a Royal visit. The

sen

is to have

Duke

Awe-inspiring

Already there of

are cows

In

Edinburgh has chosen it us one Aklavic on the Arctic shore, an of the tive stops he will make

on his tour of Canada's parth- Jard.

all rednery hear

Alberta

a1 Norman Wells the Arelle Circle, farm- steads north of the

thriving mining ac- border, and Coppermine communities at Yellowknife, of lies one of the world's richest Great Slave Lake, and at Puri deposits of copper. There is so Radium, on Great Bear Lake. much copper

that ice, farerd Churchill, out Hudson's Bay, is

The cident.

choice is

Aroutal

not an

down the rivers, often contains probably Canada's fastest grow blocks of nearly pure metal,

ing port,

The two Last lukes--Cirent Right now there are only two

out by Hear And Great Slave-re ways of getting

Miand

Their The virtually olors! shi

500 reles

seas,

Jire an

awe-

Arctic sen to the matth of the sombre waters, whipped by the Mackenzie,

river prevailing winds, then down 1,600 miles by barge to the inspiring sight.

end of the railways and

un-

On the easier end of Great

other 800 miles to "eivilisation" Dear-1,700 mes free the end of the Bering the railway- a place which ar out through

tc eniles Elleruda. The first would raise used to Straits,

foun: Prospecto,

pitchblon the price of copper to something nearer the price of gold: the there in 1930. For 14 years tacy benuse struggled against all thę postacids Is impossible

second

of the

same

season.

and

no ship could get in and out to build a new ectretinny and '

Bering Straits in the market their product. Then the

Gove:rmer" took it over called iPod Radian.

Now is a read Eidurach-ore of the world's richest sources of uratuan.

Possibilities

the

Duke of

The Duke will be one of the few outsiders allowed inside its ninos and refineries, for has bear closed to the world since the coming of the atom bomt.

Fabulous

Yellowknife, a thriving town of 500, lies on the eastern end of Great Slave, on top of a fabulously rich vein of gold.

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-DREAMS ARE OUT

AMONG THE SPIRES

XFORD they call this the Home of Lost Causes. It is also The Lair of the Well Turned Phrase.

modern

Describing the "dons," the men who do the teaching and who set the trend and tone of the whole place,

most of the one brilliant scientists now at Oxford said to me: "There dendwood little very is

the Senior nowadays in

Room of Common

my college. But when I frat came here-it was a Petri- fied Forest!"

That ls where Edinburgh comes in..

Canada's "settled country" is a marrow strip, 3,000 miles long 200 miten wide and less than along the American border,

The rest of the country has limitless

pesantes; untu

inillions of agres of good farmland, untold minerals, lakes deposits

miner teeming with marketable fish.

But the land is too far from the market, the minerals too far from cheap transportation, the fish marketable only if it is flown to dinner tables 1500 or 9,000 miles away.

made Beginnings, have been

The rest of the territories- on its development. But it will take men, money and courage to 1,300,000 square mlies are almost deserted. About 16,000 men. do the job properly,

The

Take of Edinburgh will women and children live there. Now it is strictly the City

Most of them are hunters and publicity on the trappers European settlers potentialities of the region. operating from the tiny trading is why he has decided posts, and Indians Burl Eskimos That to 0. Πιο den was als otul who lead П nomadic (though not the Canadian Government's, nowadays, secure) life, covering a but the Government is willy thousand miles and more

year

a blaze

of

It is forging head. But 11, too. must fly its products out and have its machinery in by barge in summer and by tractor train over the ice in winter.

enthusiastic about it.

Probably

the place. in 110

But they have faith far their World is as badly in need of future. They will welcome the _some_publle_relations work as Duke of Edinburgh as an ally.

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Life

Just 30 years ago this month`Rene MacColl "went up to Oxford" for the first time as an undergraduate. Now, as the first term of the new academic year starts, he takes his notebook back there again to re- new acquaintance with the 1953 version of his old university.

money

By RENE MacCOLL

sober, is

រ៉ន

scarce,

Here, for example, are Parks where

the

the university plays its cricket matches. The forlorn rather pavilion looks

this October bleak in and

forlorn .Almost as wind. and bicak as MacColl himself did, as he faced the long, long trail back to that self-some pavilion from the pitch in 1924. Lancashire, t Playing against was caught at the wicket first: ball off Parkin for a duck.

And

the premises of the Dramatic Oxford University Society.

I was once a member and played of the O.U.D.S..

WITHOUT

MARY

66

The man who became a millionaire. says: "It would have been . SO

different.".

ITHOUT my wife," says Bernard Sunley, who sounds faintly American and looks like one of the nicer Roman emperors, "I should not have got far."

What he means is that with- out Mary Sunley's help and, rpurring he would not be the. happy, dynamic millionaire he is today, with 35 trading posts dotted all over the free world, and El Greco painting with fortune in his St John's Wood vesilbule, and 3,000 acres of hobby farmland in Northamp- Lonchire.

Botween eight and 13 Sunley saved £50 in odd shillings and half-crowns as e-orer and run- about boy at Ealing Dean cricket club.

On leaving elementary school he bought a horse and cart and delivered turf for gardeners At and layers of sports greens Ave shillings a iced.

Today in his 43rd year, head

MARY SUNLEY,

She said: No partners.

of Blackword Hodge (North- his own boss.still. He has re- ampton), he sells new-type. ex- nhuined his own boss, abjuring cavating and earth-removing business partnerships, ever since. machines to the world at large, shares are owned by himself, Most of the Blackwood Hodgo

** ་

am a muck shifter." and other members of the cays modestly.

cost family. (There are three young Some of his three-quarters of a million each. Sunteys-Joon, 20, who

machines

was a

To call Sunley a millionaire is 1051 debutonie, John, 17, who understatement. Taking into went straight from Harrow to account his London real estate national cervice with the Royal and other holdings he must be Marines, and 15 year old well on the way to being a Annabello.) millionaire twice over.

Mary decided

first home was an office- which they built for

themselves on the Great West Rond at Brentford.

Here Mary Sunley had her To sort out how much of this is

Mary Sunley's doing. or first insight into the tactics of Late one sharp go back entertaining. Lal inspiration, we must

party of to 1928, the year they met. winter afternoon a

Mary Goddard was a fair potential customers dropped 'In haired, blue-eyed 17-year-old, out of the blue from Highbury,

in the reception-office- youngest among nine brothers and sisters.

cum-private lounge ahe built blazing fire, Her father farmed at a thousand peres

Southall, Middlesex. Mary helped on the farm.

One of her jobs was

to hitch 6 trailer 20 car and

family

200 gallons

No. 3 in the series, The Woman in His Lita - MRS.. BERNARD SUNLEY.

of

by FRANCIS

MARTIN

milk to the depot

the

haul

Goddard dairyman's

every morning.

Father was

11

served the highest of high teas, and talked to her guests as if they were all friends of the family.

As an outcome of hospitable

cosines

coupled with business palaver, Sunley got a contract to *plummy

the returt

Arschal

quite a success. feetball ground. This led to n Her three farmer brothers yurdimifar contract for the Whito eeeded likewise. Watch success City,

a couple of minor roles in a production of "Peer Gynt."... Scarcely a success. I played Boon in the shipwreck tho

performones but my scene, time

to please and St Giles, where in my carnest,

notably failed some unkind things were writ- and daring spirits were wont to climb the Martyr's Memorial on

ten about it, And the undergraduates? frivolity hardly the thing.

Guy Fawken night and

place.

It was a case of the cruel

at elcse quarters, Mary Goddard Outside the offices of the household utensils atop it!

as well as the cruel pea. critics as Oxford has been called The

conerived much respect for it. 1 never even heard of

also drod heavily on the foot

"I decided," she, recalls, "that into sue Ta-Tec. There's evidence of Robert Sponight, who was when the time came to mars, borrowed huit a millen to, set City of Dreaming Spires. British Council in St Giles Street But today dreams are out, they have a notice which says: Tsue

"Furly ceriturica of. Chinese of misspent

for youth you!

playing Gynt himself. Spealght I'd marry a man who was going up as a dealer, in bulldozers and plant, Ho I'm Illustrated in the

stundirg in

other new-fangled calligraphy.

the porteress's

noliceably for the rest to get somewhere." limped

was "getting somewhere" nt a College of the show. Te-Tee and lodge Aspirants. works

at Somerville of Tsue

Arst Her

encounter with

which the 17-year-old course they have

furthermore played one of

the lunatic-Bernard Sunley was at

Goddard hod never Everyone works very hard. Chang Ming-Tse."

ress and not a porter there, the keepers Iri porteres being the ritziest of asylum scene.

A fellow-keeper well tennis club. He talked dreamt of

of Striving

Newell Rogers' America Column

TAX COLLECTORS

DON'T

PAY

J. BRING

(for

of

the

ព

I

about

his

A year or two later he burst elvil engineering ard

pace

a Han- Mary

turf-

They talk first

Oxford women's institutions, was none other than latter-day with relish about and women themselves stili colleague Sefton Delmer. I have shifting, how he meant to be a being regarded as something of son.etimes wondered if there gardening contractor next and after that. a Lost Cause by the rest of the way anything symbolle

something bigger university) when the telephone fils edd coincidence.

Here was the drive, the self- TER entertainment technique

HER confidence she had been looking a much the same today as rings.

on Sunjcy's for. To clinch matters they fell twenty years ago In "láve

Island, as their Brentford-pro- perty came to be called.

FAMILIAR

Was

The porteress_answers and

-The old-frumps- says no, Miss So-and-so in't here any more. Yes, she's left. PERHAPS It has changed--or

The youngster's business drive The caller apparently asks why has it? It all looks awfully "Oxford

noted and admired by She has her husband's cus- familiar

to me. No she's gone, because the porteress

mon-others in the Goddard home.

tomers and high-power associates then says in meral explanation. bags" these days (those

strosities which had an almost

telling her in next to no time Mother lent him £100 to down at the New York. Merchants feel the less of sales."Oh, she'd done her time here."

all about their gardens, golf The Nations! Association of What an odd remark! But sidrt-ilke fulness

wives, AX collectors are among Real Estate Boards is going to even with the present austerity trouser-ends). And undergradu-finance an early landscape gar handicaps, car troubies,

the children and the children's littlo T25 col tursaucrats, re- try to stop the rot,"

and hard work and so forth, it ates can drink in bars without denlug contract. One of

will. Goddard brothers let him use ailments. "I never talk about bad,59 all wondering if the proctor fusing to pay income tax,

THE BOYS HOME can't be quite as

politely ine them a couple of his farm larry on turf-moving high-falutin," she explains. that, surely?

Jobs and was in no hurry about: Senator John

was a world-war slogan.

pounds for it next day. Williams.

Lots of little things like that sending in hire bills. Now the cry Is-Send the

ONE DUCK Representative

That was me

of course. But by and large the "Shocking and disgraceful" is Mothers Over his comment.

W. Sterling Cole has taken it up. to send over the

the same. He means

ND talking of odd remarks, place looks the same and "feels" How do they do

And from North Oxford-the senator says they found a loop methers of the 23 P.o. Ws who there was a lulu made by

diatrici It enables went over to the Korea Reds,

one of this year's freshman crop favourite residential hole in the tax law. them to comply with the law They would tell the boys to of undergraduettes. She had won there still emerges the battalion

by

nonsense Aling returns stop the

and come an exhibition, which is a form of genial old frumps who could technically

Margaret several Miss given home.

of scholarship, at her college. have then refusing to pay tax debts.

This law prohibits salaries of Government cmployees

says

being seized..

? The

NDREI VISHINSKY hon

Senator Willams thinks there Pandit, president may be millions of dollars un- General Assembly. collected from bureaucrats,

"What do you inquired Sunity.

1 word

When busincas is talked che does not flounder. As

and part-owner

director of The prodigy

Blackwood Hodge, she attends all the monthly board meetings, WITHIN a year Sunley was distens to progress reports not but known as a business prodigy. only from the home front, at 18% he received the first of also from 35 selling subsidiaries

offers

shrewd oversca, often puts in from And

men who wanted him to enter during discussiong. she caused a certain amount Rutherford viff competition in

into partnerships of one sort or from A made peace with Madame for consternation by approaching any Alm...

it Anyway,

was at Lady

Sunley has been known to another.

This first approach the principal and asking In- UNO'S nocently: of

Hall that E ro "Please, what is the Margaret

had scmething to do with spring new projects upon his eight codiroctors without he correct gown for an exhibitionist ceived a brusque reminder that

grocery shops. They had o row when

three whole decades have in-

warning or prepartion. Usually, say, Mary?" however, he first talks things insisted on speaking after she to wear?"

So From Somerville let's amble deed slipped past on the calcn-

over with his wife by the fire- ¿XCEPT for prayer, fislung is had ruied him out of order. EX

Lady Margaret dar.

official smilingly

con- time that she pushed a button and cut off over about the only

"What I say is Don't. Stay tide, scunding her views, prptaur the loudspeakers.

Hall, another women's

any objections or President's people respect o

as you are. It's better to build sidering

sho may raise. privacy-Herbert Hoover, U,S. But Mr Vishinsky gallantly (they have 100 of the girls, who slipped the college

up from something small of counter-ideas prospcelive

**] [ we agree," sho President,

Eays, "ho 1929-33,

Bachelor of taken talking accepted an invitation to a small pay £255 a year in the strug into my hand, She had m

iho your own than to muddle your- round about Angier Eisenhower.

dinner party given by Madamegle to achieve a

Eend 10

his solt by sharing something bigger profect goes forward to bad Arts degree). But before I tell parent onc She had Pandit.

next board meeting with somebody cle." Lewis L. Strauss, ** A DMIRAL

ruinen-pig that happened to me daughter.....

Two years later they married. I'm not one of these chairman of the Atomie moment: another garst proposed you of the rather disconcerting somewhere

ma toel two Mado toast to Madame Tingfu- thing a Energy Commission, hopes for siang, wife of the delegate from there, there are me or

podrás of nostalgie Interest to abached as Parkin did that day Sunley was worth £20,000 and, directors. I don't say I could true to his wife's pescription, go cut and sell a walking-drog-. great things, all peaceful, from Nationalist China.

long ago.

fine (they're horribly costly and show you.

bite-80 tons of earth at A his "atom empire."

time). Again galiantry got the better He likes to tell of Bishop

off my own bat. But I do keep Wright, who made resounding of ideology. Russia's Gospodin lifted his

myself up to the minute as to after-dinner speeches rather (citizen) Vishinsky

what goes on.. I do take a real more than half, a century ago.

part in the business."

glass.

The bishop auld: "All Inventions DRITISH, riders "should take that con be made have been everything except the ad- made, Flight is reserved for

birds ond angels."

At home the bishop had two

mission tickets" at the Madison Square Garden horse show next

little boys, named Orville and

was they who warns its readas.

month, the New York Telegram

Wilbur, and it

It praises Pat Smythe, Harry

later invented the ant dying Llewellyn, Bül Hanson, and machine to lift man off the their "magnificent mounts." ground (December 17, 1903).

TUMBLEDOWN

*

to

college

For

an

me for a

joking

for

almoct as

DANGER TO A

AS THE

SNOW

MOTHER MELTED

By EDWARD CLARK

N. "Englishwoman bo- them

She was raved by the return

lorry.

She

again

No

A mink? No

ASKED Bernard Sunley. to sum up.

Mary,

ho caid, "is: very Scon she was sensible, a pretty good judge of human character, She has a great carrying her

TIST John Marang, fins TN years ago director Frank Alderman stood ha. Nazi soldiers, one of him a

Lan't for over rushing out to Lloyd retired from Holly- roadside. Inside the coffin were When will that lowry comer A

ing a portrait of President wood after making such prize (pliyo), a Jewish woman and a Helen Astrup sensed that some cargo on the route to Sweden.sense of the value of money.

thing was wrong and suddenly

Later Helen Astrup and her buy herself a new mink coat. the child. "Mutiny - on. Elsenhower, says: "Eisenhower winners as

she realised what it was. The is es good an artist as Sir Bounty."

The Englishwoman, doing a was white everywhere eight-year-old daughter Kirsti (Now. I come to think of it; she a mink, coat at all. (nyt Shuwd) were smuggled hasn't got snow Winston Churchill.

Now he has emerged from job for the Norvegian Resist except on the coffin.

smugglo The heat of the live bodies to safely, themselves. She never wanted one.) And rotirement. What do you think

she's so wonderfully calm, Bha daughter districts

has such a a tranquil tempera- surprises him moet? Why, to ance, was helping to

Soon it would be im share a flat in Sloane Street, ment On the brink of a new werry America's great and the, same old boys, are the the two away from the Nazis. Insite was betraying, their pre- Now mother and

Kistl's two- ellies. They are forme middle-big store. Very fow now stars But on a dark, now-swept possible for the Nazis not to London, with

Tony, And Mraventure I have always talked roadside German soldier had notice.

your-old.BOTI class areas. The familles move have been developed.""""

Astrup has written her adven-things over with her, I value out to the green-belt suburbs.

obory*

In collaboration her judgments. She has helped stumbled

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wartime immensely. I can only repeat the coffin was put out in the

the coffin Ud. The young der with B L. Jacot,

what I told you" to begin with, Helen Astrup, widow of a man sat down bealde herlook Becret Service men,

I've come a long way. But

· • NIGHT HAS THOUSAND Without Mary I shouldn't havo She said: "I didn't do any Norwegian on captain, was her walet. "It is not always

got far thing wrong he is just iny walling for the lorry to return, pollte to refuse a well-meant

Keeda Andahe had for company theen invitatiòn," he told her, husband.”dan v

Poorer tenants mavo in, re

gence.

CARAH SE TROUTMAN was commandocred their lorry, arid 27 Mrs Asirup and sat on tuzo - venue alldes, repairs aro not arrested in Wheeling Wet made, and suddenly 'n slum has Virginia, for shooting Aubrey been create, ma

Troutman in the leg. New York fears it will soon be inhabited by only the very Tick and the

poor

EYES,Mabdonald, itt, ed.),