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NATHANIEL

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father

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* THE CHINA MAIL," WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1954.

GUBBINS

"And with all is money he ing the Royal example and

It must be a nice change from postmen who won't stand still! while they're being bitten.

"After her wedding to a jet

Gft. 'as to travel third clays," mid biting sentries, pilot, petite, ash-blonde, 3in.. 21-year-old, vivaciou, the man, "the big fat miser." Viet Minh party, aniling, resolute Ivy Whistl

"You'd only ate Im more if Uncle graRE, known

whose

and whose he travelled first," said the wo Ilo, and Vo Nguyen Giap, shrimp-dresser

said, man.

I often wonder why the Post his Recond-in-command, mother works in a laundry, said,

Arst met my husband after "Where do you think he'll be office Workers' Union doesn't when Minister of Foreign

he had seen my name written

goes up?" stop ita members delivering Jetters to houses where they Affairs, was known as Mr in the sands at South Shields when the balloon

"Where will anybody when he was flying over at 500 asked the man. Vo."From an article

be?" keep savage dogs. an hour. At that speed he Indo-China.

of cocktail biscuits 'Instead sold the could only read IVF, but when asked the woman. I rang up his station and impro- duced myself he took me out to

Margaret's father cats French As he had also read

queure packed in Ittle choco- lato bottles. dinner, another name, MABEL, and as this shameless girl had been ringing his station every half- hour, shought we'd better be engaged at once, especially as it was love at first sight."

ENG

They

probably were known at Ho and Vo for short, which must have enused some confusion when they were in- troduced.

Oh, er, Smlib. Who?

Ho.

Yes. Ho

Ho what"

Just le

Tho. Hi mee

No

This is Ho

Not See

What he, to

Don't say

In The Train

what ho, Ho, Say, "LOOK at im. laughin' in

"How do ya do 10" How do yo do 15a7 And his is Vo.

Vo

Το

You

Vo what"

Just Yo

VD

Ve and Hu?

No

IN

Ho ond Vo

Why not Vo and Ho

Ho's above Vo.

Ha, his he"

Vo's Ho's Two-l-C.

Hi sec

No, not Hi-C

Thin wh's 116"

He is just H

Two-1-C

Ho Ho amd Vols Ho's Two-Hi-C

110

Yes Va helping llo to be

Hall right

Hive got it

Tally Ho

THE pursuit of the males

bv

Tiet

Es gri he

began m Erlen སྙ8:}htejt Eve Garden of tempted Adam with to apply

Since then it has gon coustioss centuries, beaut form Varmas

netlog in a kill

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never been

Drevore

on for fang usally

history there has desperate and hopeless chase thun that Kiris 1 South organised by Shields, who have been wulin

for names in letters

their yards long in the ones to catc the ey of jet pilot.

Or is it at [one"

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day:

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sleep. utd the man the train.

"["Tapa he's 'aria' dreams," said the woman,

"He won't be 'cre," man, not in the front line like #. He'll be on 'is island in the

West Indies.

Ar lie pot an island, too?" asked the woman,

won't

'im

no But it good." rak! the man, "the Wrath shall and him wherever he is and the meck shall in herit the earth."

I opened my eyes when the Train stopped at a station. As the man and women got out the man shouted:

"On the Day of Judgment is the devil thall claim his own!.

in The sheep shall be divided from

the goats, and goals incan the likes of 'im, the big 'eaded, pot bellied, war mongerin' profl

'appy

-

"+1 bel he is," said the man, he Thirules the Geneva tetenee is a washout and we're the lust blow step acaret

"T wouldn't call that oppu." said the woman,

TOTU

"But he would," said the man. "Ik at the money he's going to make out of a bill of trouble."

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"Wha money asked the

"All the money he's invested

in armaments." said the man.

Ow do you think he pays for

is flat in Park Lane.'

"I didn't k

said the woman.

head one,"

"To say thank of his villa in the South of France and the country one he's going to now." sand the man.

"If he's all that money why don't go to Ti tưh powered car instead of a train asked the woman.

"Because one of 'is chauffeurs the week onf." said the man, "and the 'her's been drivin' s wife to Azot every day."

"It seems u akame he couldn't pimself," said the spaman.

"Shame my font," sad the man. He's much 'appier in the Caly blin' the wikows

phana"

and

"What's he want to do that for" asked the wond A.

Leer."

Cocktail Hour

SUPPOSE all the Bnobbish London dogs will be follow-

my

As it's so hot in Russia husband thinks our cold weather in pari of the cold war. He says discovered the Russians have the secret of transferring their Arctic weather to us,

Or, as they're so clever, per- haps they've diverted the Gulf Stream and are going to wail until we freeze to death.

As we never have proper heating in any British home a cold-weather war would prob nbly be the easiest way of de- feating us.

Instead of looking at the eclipse through smoked spec- tacles Margarel's father saw two inoong through a dark glass of black velvet.

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BADER MARRIES

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WHAT HAS

HAPPENED SO FAR - - -

£7 10s. a week

RAF instructors of the Central Flying School are perfectly satisfied with the flying ability, of Flying Officer Douglas Bader, the legless pilot. In spite al their favourable reports he is retired from the RAF. Flying is his lite, and only his friendship with Thelma Edwards keeps him from despoir. Still determined that his artificial legs must not interfere with a normal life, de takes a furnished room in St. John's Wood, and finds an office job with a petroleum company,

E drove immediately that though her parents liked

H

to tell Thelma hen they would justifiably worry about the idea of her marrying was now employed,

him. Thelm knew Douging and they went on did not have a bean to buy an to the Ace of Spades, where engagement ring with. "Every time he makes mition on the Stock Exchange," he said with unromantic and said the man, "omebody's girritating masculine direct-

And I's usually the

"1 suppose start thinking about get start. widows and ting married now." orphan, ad so much," said the She looked at him in the tolerant Trekon they ought to on the odd, half-smiling

way that

coming was naturally to her. "How

to use it. widow and orphans.

"I never lenete

woman. "and

braidrs I don't

Stock Exchange.”

"When he ain don'

ness:

We Can

One September week-end he drove Thelma up to Sprot- borough and was delighted that its mother liked her from the The young man and the xiri begun thinking about getting married in a few months if he got his Christmas rise in pay.

They could just marry on hla present Income of a little over week, but there were £7 10s.

sid the mun, he's prayin' for much do you think we'll two barriers. First, he had to

another war."

that,"

need?" she asked.

"Oh, I don't know,"

suppose at £500 a year."

That seemed reasonable

run a car and use

he

lessst

"Only the devil "imself would said. "I do that," said the woman.

"I daresay you've got some- thing there," said the man.

you'd see orns underneath."

"Don't do anything silly," raid the woman.

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he

101

X

PART

REACH

FOR

THE

SKY

By PAUL

He dropped the ball on the grass and took a swing at it, but the club missed the ball by inches and he overbalanced and fell flat on his back. He got up and tried again and the same thing happened. The same thing happened the third time and the fourth time. He tried changing his stance and his

the same thing swing, and

He

got a stubborn feeling that he must hit the ball and kep his

it balance before he

gavo up. About the twelfth attempt club hit the ball with a

CHAMOURY

to concentrate on

the sweet

click and, lying on his freeing him back a moment later, he could hitting the ball. still

see it in parabolic fight. A couple of week-ends later stage He tried again, missed and fell Tinny Dean took him over to the and handed him a and golf course He

kept

falling over and three-wood on the Arst tee. missing every

time until, on

of the concen- about the 25th shot, he hit it for Acutely aware

over.

... lying on his back a

About the twelfth attempt the club hit the balt

moment later he could still sen it in flight,

he improved had developed mare Next week-end

since he Then again. stili mare, his brain absorbing had lost his legs. the instinctive reflexes needed he had the born athlete's co- mind and to keep his belance and thus ordination of eye,

muscle and fanalleal tenacity.

After a month he got to the of doing three or (our holes every Saturday and Sun- day,

feeling stronger and hitting the ball longer cach new week- On anything except very even ground he still had to worry about keeping his balance and therefore often miss-hit, now and then he did a hofe in four or five, and one day coming off the course with Theims after practice he said: "You know, this could bo a game I might play on level terms with any

In early September he played nine holes for the first time, and did following week he

the second time (or rather, trated eyes of the usual first- he desperately and fell over again, ite onlookers, topped it) After he had fallen about 40 wanted to hit the bell, stay on times Thalma sald persuasively: his feet and not let them know "Now come on. I think you've he had no legs. "Don't worry," Dean assured him. "Everyone had enough."

misses on the first teo."

SUCCESS MAY PROLONG LIFE BUT NOT OVER-EATING

'It's a fluke.

1

end.

WITH taut con- the

W centration

braced his

but

he twelve holes. The legs did not

www feet ache or chate so much now and wide apart, took a be found himself less tired. His

swing and

Blow

connected. drives now were reaching out Stumbling, ha still

nearly 200 yards (though not

It

reckou if I knocked is 'at ort enough. They were only 28, his seat to any woman, young

and with his job and pen- or old. sion he now had £300 10s. In that latter habit by the BRICKHILL

year. "I'll make damn clue to the second barrier. He lived determined to make no sure the pay from the job ve

Next day he tried the seven concessions to the loss of his wedding. Xt took place in

Iron again on the Stoops' lawn, he said. legs but to carry on with touchy October 1934 at Hempstead re- *hough I'd rather knock is goes up smartly," bi dy ead ort," said the man. rather cockily, and they pride on the same basis as any gistry office.

pre else.

After their honey this time with Stoop coaching. Several times he hit the ball but "Or cheke the bliddy life out | settled down to an en- one

No one must help him moon in Cornwall, Thelma re still he kept falling over, cim."

declined to admit turned to her parents' flat and about because grossing discussion

Ho had fallen about 20 times and even to himself that he ever Bader went back to St John's

tried a shorter again

ho neoded "Aren't you spiteful?" said the cost of flats and food

It help.

when was the hard wood. They saw each other and slower swing, hit the ball engagement rings.

way and the only way not just the evenings and spent occasionat and just kept his balance. As to overcome the handleap but to week-ends together, especially he looked with a trium-

up rub it off the slate

with Bader's friends, the Adrian phant grin Thelma said: "Good, Associated with this principle

Stoops,] was a resolve, growing Into an

now you'll be satisfled."

"Not on your life," he said, kept his feet and saw the ball always in the right direction), and he got Bome satisfaction he would THELMA suggest obsession that

On a spring Saturday, Adrian

Harle got the ball back and kept on flight about 100 yards, fading from the astonishment and ad- cd with exqui- drop

On hi Stoop and Tinny Dean, his standards.

miration of the first-tee site tact that he present income he felt he could quins and England scrum-hall, trying. Shortly he hit without with a little slice.

"That was a hell of a good spectators. should forget about not support Thelma in marriage were going to play golf and eug- failing again, and did it several

shot," said Dean, should.

at the beginning of WOS an engagement ring as he

Therefore, he gested that Douglas and Thelma times mote after that,

The following week-end he "It was a hell of a fluke,"

the first.. go and see them hit off. Stoop # while and would wait till he could.

ho have a sceret en- Owing to financial difficulties, handed Douglas a seven iron and tried again at the Stoops, until muttered Bader, vastly satisfied. October nearly gagement to preserve domesile the wedding was continually put a bill and suggested he potter nine times out of ten he was He hit cff the next toe without wedding anniversary that

and played his first straight e bitting the ball and not falling any strange prying eyes, content at her home. Bader knew off, and they decided on a sceret about with them.

Later he returned to the club holes and at the end of

ber he broke 100 for the Arst house, stumps chafed and Der aching, and glowing with satis- time. One would have thought

te had won the Irish Sweep, faction and perspiration.

All that week Bader found he Holes in one day, and then In Next week-end ho played 27 wce Icoking forward with long- December he ing to the week-end's golf prac holes one morning and eighteen played eighteen tice, Already the muscles in the afternoon, returning to the stumps were developing and in he learned, the trick of maaring with the chafed slumps

the clubhouse utterly exhausted, spots that were him, There is no dobut that over zhe ointment on

sweat, pouring of speeds

aging-maybe likely to chate, then powdering trinning all over his face.

and taping them. food robs because

excessive

self-ting drives the cells of oxygen. Bo

fairly

of certain way If doctors could find a way increasing your life-span.

Over-eating not only increases effort "cosmeeting the loss of this-

fat, old people susceptibility to heart ailments

He felt now that he would never look as aged and but makes people prone the sometimes miss-hit, his good was a golf slave for life and that would be far botter protected growths and aging diseases. shote sailed dead straight, prob-

I think that women may ou ably for the simple reason that delighted Thelma, who was no of old people ho found: When do the aging processes their longer average life-span where normal men tried to golf widow but carried his clubs

partly to the fact that they eat

with wild and Boppy for him on every round. Almost every organ in the in the body cells begin?

The modern,) wings, Bader had to keep WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED · the occasional Scientists have found that long than men. dile way it can also probably be exception of the heart, steadily serious aging begins soon as habit of slimming for fashion perfect balance and control-or "fleach for the Sky" by Paul

Josce weight with advancing". tow stops. So the longer the reasons may make them live fall over years.

growing porlod the greater the even longer.

Where other men overbulan- dink

"could" grab at the ground So when they know more about ❤ Muscio streng h,

Keep happy what causes aging they may at

with toes or steady, themselves a peak in the twenties, Victorian times children unser declines, in the sixties--but only seemed to go on growing to HERE seems to be no doubt Bader had to keep his head all with ankle muscles of two knees, bo able to keep, us longer so that active foto by 20 percent, so that there is past! 21, but they

stature. In their that a disturbance of the

and down, without exonsive well beyond 100 may be no reason why old people should reaching full

which the body deals body sway. It made his strokes not

with quite teens do it seems posible that way in The effected of aging which

the battre, forcing of children with fatty food 14 one of the Look a Liuia indo, but they mero of coronary chan cut and gras and had be- bory today may do increase their main ❤. In the mixiled the have boudied in great disually beside to 'love' Its agility chances of inviving to middle Thrombosis, the most dangerous rod than the BAFORMUA detail by Dr Nathan Blocks of to ware Calceserver

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photographs of a boy

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caling By Chapman Pincher

was hit-

but

that he looked as old and lending part in the international responsible for giving old people denial over second helpings landred yardly over a on cold days the sweat eos off

decrepit as any centenarian conference of old-age specialista a frail appearance. by the time he was 12 have la London reached me from an Ameri- can doctor.

Life-span

of

cousco this rare condition AFTER examining thousands from chills.

Doctors do not know

what

(called "progeria"), but they

aging can be spceded in in body, wh

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argue that if the proots. of

retarded.

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which

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him, evidence of the tremendous sending them effort that he had to exert in and and farther

he getting round. That was the only and could put more outward sign that told prople how hard he had to work at the swing Into the

process of

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