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AMERICA COLUMN

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HEWELL ROGERS

WILLIE WORM

IS IN

New York. (INGING TV commercials

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advertising вопр or cigarettes have replaced nursery rbymes as the favourites of American kindergarten children.

This is one of the results disclosed by a Temple Univer- sily survey of 260 children from three to 12 in the Oak Lane Day School, of Pennsylvania,

Öther discoverica:-

1 saw it on TV" is a state- ment of authority

ainong children, ranking just After "Mother told me," 42 [ur ahead of "I read 1 In a book."

Smull children Ilve yours BRO played house in the dolls corner or drove trains. Today they

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ปาด Worm, cowboys, Indians, Super- mun. robots [" other TV charnetern

The teachers believe TV kills Imagination Only five of the children's homes do nyl bave TV. Some have two sets, DOO; for adults one fur children.

Three Ohto clites, TV sets in ALSO outnumber bothlubs 700,000 to 40.000 New York now has 2,289,000 TV sets to 2,400,000 bathtubs and showers.

turnist

A

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into America's biggest daily double in his,ory the other day. By backing outsiders Rocklite and Slick Trick la the fourth and neth races at Agua Caliente, Mrs - Quilin Alexander, middle- aged Ban Diogo (California) widow, won $12,724 $2 Investment,

fon her

She held the only daily double ticket on them.

W✪ grandmothers are among the 95 alrwothen competing

in the annual "Powder Puft Derby" for anal! planes from Long Beach, California, 1,043 miles to Knoxville, Tennessco.

Men are barred.

TUB New York Daily Mirror demanda that New York City shut off water supplies and police protection for the UNO embassies of 12 nationa abd refuse to empty their dustbina.

The 12 owe $418,988 in dty real estate taxes, and show no Bigta of eagerness to pay up. Russin bends the list. France is also on I. But not Britain.

to

and

Says the Mirror neidly. The Russians do not like

pay luxes 10 capitalist countries although they were willing to take 11,000 million dollars in Lease-Lend. These free riders are chiselling."

JANDA LANDOWSKA, whom

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R WuWu Tsal- colours prepared from the artist which Sir Gerald has this era have survived. It was уел.

revived a British sub roots of plants which grow opened.

between 1872-1784 ject of Chinese only in China. His "can-

A.D. in the Ching dynasty, but descent from Singapore-is vases" are about

Mr Malcolm MacDonald, the art lapsed after the death ॥ yurd

the present Commissioner- of Kao Chi-pel, one many people call the world' giving London its first de wide and from 4 ft. to 6 ft. No. 1 harpsichordist, celebrated

about that length. His

General for South-East leading exponents, favourite her 75th birthday by preparing monstration of the ancient in

chrysanthe Asia, and a keen art collee- 30 Chinese art of "Tse-hua," or subjects of

Mr Wu "rediscovered" finger finger painting. He is pay. mums, birds and animals, tor, has also attended a painting while studying Western

bumboos

number of Mr Wu's demon- styles of art in and

Shanghai 23 INDA HETTY EVANS, 20- ing a visit to Britain, and foliage,

portrayed

But there were no strations. with

The artist has year-old invalid in Bridg an exhibition of his dellente cicadas,

given considerable suma of skilled teachers, and He had north, Shropshire, was made an work is being held at the lovely delicacy. honorary member of the police Imperial Institute in South Mr Wu's techniques have money raised at his exhibi- to experiment alone. In

tions to charitable purposes, conventional methods of paint- also the force

Russell, Kansas Kensington.

aroused considerable interest including £400 to the 1953 ing (population 6,409).

Probably the only artist in Malaya, and he has British food relief fund.

with brushes In typical Бис wrote telling Police

Oriental style. Chief Clinton Smith that her in the world today who toured the country giving

In the left-hand picture above, hobby is collecting information Paints exclusively by this demonstrations at the main on police the world over.

method. Mr Wu uses his centres. Sir Gerald Templer, anger paintings on scrolls and Mr Wu is demonstrating his artally wound. Not only does this save the trouble of A Russell giri, 16-year-old right forefinger, and his until recently High Com- wall hangings decorated man- at the Imperial Institute in Sara Arin Shaffer, is vialling an pictures, in

The London. Right: Mr and Mrs Wu the

darins' palaces during classic missioner in Malaya, opence Tang dynasty.1,400 years ago, with some of the most delicate. aunt in England this summer Oriental style, are done and will deliver

on one of his exhibitions at and the art may well be 2,000 exhibits at the London show. police_badge and a picture of the Russell scrolls of special rice paper Kuala Lumpur the only or more years older. No cx- police force to Miss Evans, with permanent

of water exhibition

finger painting of

SECRECY

Chinese legends

Chinese amples of 11

Stephen Coulter's Paris Diary

OVER

meantime, he learned

that Bay

J. W. Taylor

FAROUK'S FLAT

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She has just coinè, out of the incubator where she has been ant is being cared for by From the stills I've seen this since Isabelle's death in May

The open

English nurse, Mis Deborah Cockbilli, who brought up tho King and Queen of Denmark's children.

Sex-King Farouk's per- and a look into fantastic One thing most British dant, where the day tempera

sonal treasure salted almost Dickensian world, I visitors hotice

almost at ture is 120. away in Paris? Paris police recommend an afternoon at ance is the large number is going to be the film of the have put a day and night the Palais de Justice, across of women counsel; there year,, watch on a small 5th floor the road from Notre are hundreds, each of nequences, where a whole rock- luxury flat on the Boulevard Dame. This vast place them prettier than the Suchet, opposite the Bois de seems to generate a bizarre next. Boulogne not far from atmosphere where the Duke of Windsor anywhere else in the world I asked a friend what

quite unlike

and is full of strange and so attracted Frenchwomen

characters that to the law.

have been sealed by order side its walls.

you

face opone to All, are. tremen dous.

the

Jimmy goes to see the baby used to live.

every day at his family's home The doors of the flat unlikely

"Oh,

eight miles outside. Paris. She JONCONFORMISM In which is rented in the name one never sports but know," he said, "most of N

like her already strikingly soculer senso has always mother. of Farouk's half-brother

these girls como here to find been a strong pains with the

French. a husband,"

I noticed a postman delivering letters today who

was wearok Pair of liiki trbusers, andals, * bilo sports shirt" with openi cyllar and brand white belt that looked like his wife's, bam

he did have ch. tiás 20-

of the Surete. Fürouk übed · The vialtor can ・ wah-

to stay there from time to der about freely, taking time before the war. Police samples of the various are being particularly shere- court proceedings, watching tive about why they are the French advocates with REMEMBER Sam mounting guard but there

their curiously theatrichtl

Gamal, the black haired Lyptan gulation girl who wait #Paroul's-Enddjar-

are hot tips that Farouk hds manners and costume, Ite dance for my money the dedicated most of his for catching scraps of con- niways lood full of future. ullon pounds Varsation that open up Sure enough shea boon filling

Vistas of pura fantasy with Fresh optation Teinil "Zih guarantees hilarious... lạr in Morocho, in the Depot ful

sisyo Morgian" in. * Bath French version of kit Bübar The. Joban wwwmade in the

COUPLE of men in a cream-painted car have. rolling through the, Paris sizeets for the last month keep- ing an eye of fellow-driversi

they

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