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Italy's volcanic vamp.......

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MAY 22, 181.

LOLLOBRIGIDA

MORE EXPLOSIVE THAN VESUVIUS

SJ surveyed the wondrous Ginn Lollobrigida, just before she went off to the Cames em festival, I knew I was in the presence of a phenomenca. In Italy, they called her "Lollo Her car is dented Nazionale." She rates £10,000 a picture,

by bet trenzied fans, She is the new-style vamp--Pola Negri up to dad.

And the signora kauwi at. Her eyes transfix you; she's an export at holding a plance, unlinking, until you feel like crumbling.

It was a sly when a quietly protective young man appeared from That reatised that Girm's explosive look is just part barlow

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She turns on her autorul radinner for her husband, Mirko Shofic, the Yugoslav ductor who has given up medicine to take care of his wife's mounting bank aerugi

That marriage could have done her untold harm in her native

But land, where it is and very popular to be born in Yugoslavia. Gina said to me quite simply: "I loved him. So we got marriel," Her curver, that she so cheerfully risked for love, is preuitar never in to Italy, where they find their stars in street corners,

ramni ule mies.

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* was what you call a terrible enfant at school," she says. "The bega they used to fight over me. Ooh, those brawls. They But she held her head proudly. frightenest me."

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story of THREE FABULOUS STARS

six years later, he was clothing right

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much "We want to make as money as we eat, and then go 2. and hve in a house surrounded by pine trees. There alde ftome. must be the serán on

full- and the mountains on the other

It must be in Italy."

marriage that has This is 15 Crae is wise abmust her beauty,

wenthered success and stayed Hollyword wanted to transforin mental and litigius. She is

involved in ten law- senworthy. her into a cathun capy of Jane currently

* for 100 Russell, under 1Exc appraise sulls including eve of Howard Hughes, the old million tire, a producer's claim CLINING brunette against her for breach of com-

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11's a practical, view of celebrity-free ilusions.

met

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a team.

Mirko When Gina and at a party. she was still student. They still live in way that is comfortable without being ostentatious.

One beating is enough, said Mills

REDDIE MILLS.

that cheerful, wise. cracking personality who promote; box- ing, runs 11 restaurant, writes books and illuminates our TV SET BONA,

WOD

the cruiserweight champion- ship of the world against Leanevich America's Gus

by GEORGE WHITING

Let me try to recapture that epic come-back roade by Milia dix- after those second round asters. He may have forgulten

who saw 41. Thone of us never will.

the

Milis was terrific. He few at Leanevich, swept the champion a defence astele and pakt no T- Hard whatever to his oppon- ent's right-hand counters, Men cheered, women shricked. aint champagne for lunch, prob-

Gradually, Lesnevich let sit on July 26, 1948.

his Initiative

shrewelly So how can say he ably looked a lot better thun he fell as he marched in he-

placed and correctly applied ""Butched" against the hind a Royal Air Force sergeant punches had mined him in the Was

Har bearing it

the huge Union Jack, second round. By opponent at

time the amplifiers pam ringay more than two years what carlier? We cannot, in a Bured alt 10,080 of us that there

wodd always be an England conscience, claim anything of the kind.

same

We

as hav

For the entry of the mouentul looking Lesnevich they borrow. ed a GI, an American flug and a record of "The Start and Stripes For Ever."

But talk to Mills, clone a dozen times on this sub ject, and you will hear that be himself considers that tira irst terrific battle with made serious luroads stock of ability, venturesome Lesnevich performance was ness and condence on which he re bright-lights relled for a strenuous living in the dark nights of war. the professional ring.

We have become accustomed, these days, to the slick pre- Lesnevich santolion methods of

Jack 010 the s mons.

ter' Mr Mills-

after

when

tonic

10 The

Milla hnd broken Lesnevich's nose, pulped his left eye,

polnis. gone ahead on cruiserweight championship the world looked to be in Bri. tain's bag.

UPPER-CUT

Round 10-and I ask Mills 1. take up the story again.

"I was in the middle of the ring, still throwing lefts to the tage, with Lesnevich retreating slightly. Half the round had I thought I saw gone by when I

but as I tor an opening. 13

In Lesnevich threw a left into my stoninch, Down came my guard but all 1 could see was an ete and a left cross cracked my jaw,

mous right-hand glove coming

One might have supposed that Mills, out of the ring for "Only #ghter know-

to him, wel you month, never really had much Al happens

[ a chance against the 3 never want a second triplug,

"In that year-old Lashevich, who, tra said Mills. "Losevich. Brst fight, put paid to the kind ing over a Brighton pub, of form τ used

to show before i impressed us all ng a reat world

brain, RAP campion---with went to India with the

ems and legs working as during the war.

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"Your confidence mine went. Up til then i nevre bothered about a stack on the chin. Afterwards I found myseit watching points

[00 Dimost closely-half afraid to dive in and take a chance."

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But Mills, at 27. was tot without championshilp quailties, Even years of lighting, from the booth upwards, had given him the heart and stamina of i

gameruck, a splendid scorn for

the opposition, ami a left hook that hurt.

Thes

Lien, were our warriors. Now let Mills himself and

recall some of the thrills spills they offered us.

the

"My arms and legs felt heavy, and, as I sat waiting for

THE FIGHT THAT FINISHED

THE CHAMPION

bail, I felt as though I had al- ready boxed several rounds. At

the

at me.

must have bren on upper- cut, for I was looking down slightly and it fascinated me as In the split recond I watched travelling, with me helpless, "I did not feel it, but I knew I was

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way.

on my knees, and, as 1 pulled myself up on The rope, could see another right-hander on the way

"I believe I got up for yet another right, but I really don't remember. When Eugene Hen- derson, the referee, had taken me back to my corner, I stil didn't know what had happen- ed."

What had happened gave rise to one of the biggen contro- versies in the whole history of British

the boxing, and to resignation of referee Hender- son--now happily back.

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APT SIMILES

Nor is Mills short of apt and of ready similes.

can aircraf "You feel like pilot who wants to fly and keep On the set of her latest flim, his feet on the ground at the

on Moravia's

some time, Or a car driver who Vme" basert selling novel, "Woman of

has had a mush. I used to belt I watched her joking with the along until I got involved in

technicians. making mement

ront accident. Now I go slowly, fun of the constitutional in-

especially past that particular ability of Italians to stop talk-bit of road. Ing when shooting was in pro- gress, treating herself as one of "It is the sume with boxing. Money, fume, and all the rest of Only once did she catch fire, don't seem half so important your health after you've and released a

spate of dis-4

And

end of the first round, sausfled Itulinn, Someone wanted taken a beating.

Lesnevich, I should think, was One

that renson

frightens to publish a pin-up picture that enough, believe me.

Having seen and admired you Holly she had not approved. "I must them both away from

a shade ahead on points, but I in action, Mr Mills both before wood is that so ttle sacred see all

she my pictures,"

went back to my corner with and after

Lemevich the two

some

of there-least of all a wedding.

my tenseness forgotten. stamped. "It's in my contract."

affairs-I believe you.

"The sccund round started, Lesnevich, now working a3 and I was still feciing him out car sulesman On New York's when Gus throw a lightning Broadway, has a special signin- right-band punch straight 10 cance In postwar British box- my jaw, followed by an amaz- ing. He was the first American ing left.

to the bur- She knows that her face is boxer to succumb

"I thought Harringay's Toof called the night Anished. and the her fortune,

of promoter had fallen in on me, and, as I Isn't gaining powers

Solomons, and built him-

came to my senses,

found OLD allowing it to be disseminated in infertur samples.

self 飯

with the latial house in Cliff myself on my knees side Tork, New Jersey, on the referee counting. She shrugs when you mention proceeds of his three visits not her two rivals, those large-scale | Britain.

Pam- Just charmers, Mangano and

panini.

Anant in her fut not for feet away from her she Inaked "I drew a carlenture of

Says Gina: "My husband tried Her husband so beautiful I could hardly be-

to dissuade me from guing into ugly foreign indy.

Yet behind

films. He did not belive I picture beve she was real

shrewd "Anut the ex-doctor chines in: would be a

Now he SUCCESS. This gorgeous faende is Lori

Freal for cashing in on it

"My wife is now nallenai pro-

sighs when we go to the theatre Gina Lollobrigida knows her perty. She belonge [

of pairs and have a hundred assets innatel,, preboje. thant

He treats her people."

with opera-glasses focused on us." the

thot Indulgence Humphrey Bogart,

reverent why

But they take the fan-mania 12 Beat the might become the Elgin Marbles. avfed

Gina Devil.

a part of the business.

who She believes her marriage to his it Swedish admirer

star piles her with love letters and one for n Jeans bo the ideal

does chocolates, "Micko fus personality. that heavily on the advice of

Rays Gina. "He Mirko, always on hand,

cats the chocolates."

She hit him so hard at he

fell flat on his faen.

The director

thought

with thre

playfully

Loltofrigiduire."

who

culled her

And this super-vaunt>

Wis very Rood, very much like band life, explants Gra

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"He gave guiding

"Mirko cun devote himself to mind," the me. interview' 25 Preas

ON THE TRAIL OF THE

WHISKY

COTCH whisky earned

for Britain £37,002,464 in foreign

"SPIVS"

By J. W. Taylor

the whole

were heavily

F

There has been work for the Association to do even in Bri- tain, and last year a British

Wis fined for marketing "Old Wilkie Sentch-type Whisky" which hnd been mado In

Headache for the Association

Her fortune

ume for exercise.

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"I could not hear

be sald, so I stumbled to my feet,

only got although he had 'aix' when I rosc. That,

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canvas

sum-

desperate, mashed-up, but still ice-coki Lesnevich moned his ebbing respurces into a jaw-cracking right upper-cut that sent Mills Bagging on the A following right cross roper put him down for eight seconds, third right-hander had him the floor for "four"; and yet another similar punch

toppled him over once and for all,

With Mills in a heap and his head at rest under the bottom rope, the referes rushed across Lite timekeeper counted, waved Lesnevich back,

and

ARGUMENTS

another jour

Later, it was disclosed that seconds would have brought the end of the round, with the recumber:t Mills "saved by the bell," and back in his corner for an in- valuable minute of wit-gather- Ing.

Milla? I think he was,

Would

"Ab, that Pampanini," sht:

In return, he boosted British course, was where I made my says in liquid, stumbling Eng-

mistake, Smash came # right and lich, she is ruining herself with hospitality sky-high

and I was back on the to begin the stx Blms a year. She has no helped

Was Henderson right to AS, I make East flow that brought us Ray for ‘nine,

Lee Savold.

but interrupt the count and "rescue" Joe

SKEL think, two fims a year, That is just Robinson,

Bakel, Lee Oma, Ike Williams, hardly well enough to protect right for my rigure."

Jory Maxim. Manuel Ortiz, myself,

the half blinded, and the next thing I At home in the evening, she Sandy Sadler, etc.

know was the referee counting broken-nosed Lesnevich have cooks she claims to be able Lesnevich versug

over me for a third time. Again lasted another Av: rounds? 1 I beat the count somehow and Pink not. again there came a smasher on the jaw, with the referee start- ing on his fourth count.

"Tell them I will pursue my career as long as it does interfere with my domestic life," she said as I left.

Mills,

tho to prepare potatoes In 182 Arst Anglo-American world different ways or listens to

after the championship fight Mirko strumming on the plane,

war, was a smash hit from the or pinys canarta.

start. They called Lesnevich

"I don't really know how I the Russian Lion, showed him At the moment the Associa- Scotch

I heard whisky with loculty Arm

not off at Brighton, publicised his lasted out the round, currency last year-a - tion is investigating the sudden produced neutral spirits and

afterwards that I made for the manager's request to keep doc- cord-of which more than appearance in

leading the claim that some

when the bell tors out of the ring in the event wrong corner half was in United States Australian hotels and restaurants blended Scotch whisky, Two Holland.

but, as I sat there, I of injuries, hart Paulette Godd went, dollars, Over

thought Argentine firms 13,200,000 of a spurious whisky

"I do not want the hysteria, ard watching the fight in white gradually began to take note of to emanate from Russia. fined for this practice last year. proof gallons of Scotch were imitating a well-known Scot-

has been opposing applications and publicity. I want to do my mink, ran a running comment what my manager, Ted Broad

auto an overdow crowd on the the next six rounds & cars register work and have my home."

ribb, was shouting in my car. all over the world to The Association also success- sent abroad, to make the fish brand, it has 'abels on

with 4

heighbouring Harringay grey- onpored the application Jiquor trade marks

to me I nodded Britain's which the word "black" is spell

And Mirko industry one of

which may Brazilian company

Scottish flavour,

side

away at biggest

Prople into belleving approvingly... and went back hound track-and turned ring- remember little. I must have 20 fought in a complete and utter decrive foreign currency "Wak."

register a label worded Escoces

daze. But it seems, from the und showing a Scottish piper that certain carnerà.

is genuine to totting up the number of fan drink Scotch whisky

I papers

Les highly publicised which have published guineas a time.

was reports, only. and intended for bottied brandy.

forina's picture. the applicants

the fact that Mills went down the Aght and, surprisingly and in Venezuela It similarly Venezuela

with a recurrence of malaria enough, to use my left hand of Scotland and "Tar succeeded against a firm wish-

during training. Nor did tan" agreed to the Association's

we much more ing to register the name "Sandy

In Japan

fully

of

D

to

of several MasTavish" for general bottling limitations; so did Argentinians

on of alcoholics.

BERGMAN!

#

The real truth about the

mystery woman,

But wherever it is sold

Other investigations are being there are imitalors of it, and a great deal of money has conducted by the Association

ngalist the "splvs" to be spent in protecting continents out to cash in

In the case of "Auld Nicholas," the product's quality, namo the valuable and lucrative

and eight Uruguay applicants Venezuela is one of the very concerning

#uch names and

the demand the world over for the reputation by

#rid

avergeas markets for "Scottish Terrier," "Clan, Hay," prosecu- best Scotch Whisky Association, genuine Scotch,

of Montrose," and 2760,000 worth was sold there. "Albany," They employ many slouths tong are pending in many parts Scotch whisky, and last year "Pride

with the additional to track down the fraudu→

So bad did the position of device of a killed man. The Association's of lent imitators, many

Investiga counterfeit bottles and labels tors are finding Japan a happy become ous there that pho whose depredations are in- hunting ground. Although many Venezuelan Government brought genious and

to of the tricks are moet Ingenious in new labelling regulations detect.

difficult

Convictions

of the world.

One Fraud

And most difficult to defect, if and other safeguards which, it was easy to spot the Japanese is hoped, will check the frauds, faloe. "Bottled at Buckingham Palace under the personal supervision of HM. The King." have been ob. Another if these frauds had he Convictions tained in the courts of Argen- bottle labelled

."

They helped the Association in As served in tina, Venezuela, Mexico, France, the House of Commons from 1963 to stamp out one fraud in which unlabelled bottles .ot oven in the United 1000,"

immature Brotch-whisky had

and

Association was egainat

Kingdom. Latest success of the One Japanese village was been shipped from the United renamed Craigellachic after Kingdom to Hamburg, there Frenchman who was Peddling the famous whisky distilling elven counterfeit Inbois of well- edhoobilon ho town in Scotland at ono known Scotel brands and ro "whisky" exported either direct or through

Fradce with

called "Halson Blended Whisky, with the word Scotland am- -bossed on the bottles and the

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time produced labelled "Queen James."

+

Antwerp to Venezuela. Promot legal action stopped all ship- monts from Hamburg, and 4,000

pounded by the Venezuelan

Arvolcom marked "Scotch Most damaging of fraudulent Whipley." He had to pay 4 £500 practices the Association, is casos in warohouses were sae, and - R200 damages to the always guarding ngalist con-

JOHNNY HAZARD

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to

customers

then, that Mills wanted

the whole thing

that I began to carry

All I can remember is the oft crowd shouting in my car, as it when his father died three seemed, and the face of Lesne weeks before the Aght.

But

everkets The names

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But these are old arguments, The point of this yarn is that although Mills was back in the ring fighting Bruce Woodcock three weeks later, and although he went on to win and lose

he very world championship, definitely left some part of his bobind abounding confidence when they led him away after those Lesnevich right-handers, "No fighter can take such and punishment on the chie hope to be quite the same after- wards" Mills has told us He can say that again.

WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED.

NEXT SATURDAY:

The end of the lagond of Jimmy Wilde

vich-always in front was "all gradually changing As his left

eye began to clden 400

of me.....

Milla

there

Years"

recalled, the fight, in words in his book Tenty (Ivor

Bon),

right on the of the boxers blazed in alextric bruisce starting to take apo lights. Mills, replote with atoak under try puncher 24

VIHY, SHORE / STEP AUDE, HOTELLENE SVE YOU A HANDY

By Frank Robbins

FILA-SECURELY PACKEDA NUID.

- THÊTÉ OKAY GOW-NOBAJTEET

Nicholson and Wat

...this situation alls for

San

Miguel