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HOME ON THE RANGE

By MARY HEWAT

ROM the almost all-male world at Bisley Cutres This hil to wise women: You should marry a man with a gutt.

Who gives il? A latter- day Annie Oakley of Eng- land Miss Marjorie Foster, crack

the

rifle shot and

only woman ever to win the King's Prize at Bisley.

Says she "You'll never find a

Knocking

ht

good fle-ahot

wife about during the week losing hos |

The advice is just as good for

You won't find a

tren

who

WODLAN

good vifte-shut throw-

in the yong pans, or getting hysterical when baby swallows.

Suara

t

Miss Feder. who has been Bisoling for $4 years txiner shie was sever) and competing at Bising for 30 years, thinks the greatest asset fra alle shootout o

itar bability

"And that," she silys actquared! characteristic YOHUY not born with it. You have de learn. Hifle shooling requires i good nye. an alert mand, and strong self-dumpline

11 you

OTT abunda bude me while I'm sighting on

target wouldn't nother it

Miss Foster, a compact woman with love-cropped grey ALIT. steady grey eyes. slm-fangered muscula hunde, is ns well known at Bisley as S Gondon Richards

is at Ascot,

She is there almost every day in the shooting season, turned out

Krby slacks,

<la khuki Army jacket, a Navy beret or a dilapidated felt hat.

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She started shooting in com- plete defiance of her parenta wishes.

"When I was geven. she said, "I was supposed to be weakly. My father was an Arms offeer. He sent me out to de physical training with an Army sergeant

"After a while I got bored. So did the sergeant. He suggested he should take me up to the range and teuch me to shoot. When my parents found out, they were furious. But it was too late thress"

Mas Poster has never shot Dnything.

The range. couldn't shoot anything living?"

she says.

But on The range, since she first roirred fur Bisley 30 years age, she has shot at almost everything successfully

SILES

THE CHINA-- MAIL,- SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1954.

**O.K. lads Sour Angle-American Study Grip went home hours ago,"

OUT OF THE BLUE

M

The

EMBERS

Caterpillar Club SILY that Bilyen ran join--by just

There is dropping in. other formality. However, no one vet has ever want d

This is because to join.

Cilt

it

new member "dropping in" must do so by parachute in

1. He staked his life on a wisp of silk

by GERALD BOWMAN

the course of saving his life parachute out

Could inflate. from a doomed aircraft.

Once a man has done flus

NO that it everyone was certain that he had fainted, a man with The danger here was that a pair of binoculars gave a

would lines

become yell.

ile had seen Irvin's arm move-there was a glint as he jerked his release-ring. Then the white silk canopy burst out of its folded pick and billowed in the sunshine A few minutes above him.

and later he landed, safe cheerful.

he is enrolled automatically the and receives the club badge entangled with an aircraft tiny gold caterpillar that Nits gyrating or with his name engraved on spinning out of control the buck. This symbolises which is the usual state a the silk from which para damaged machine gets into chutes were originally made before the pilot gives up the (nowadays they are spun struggle and decides to bale from nylon).

out.

therefore

There are now over 40,000

Young Irvin

was the first to

crew

members, by far the greatest designed the first parachute Other designs and types number of whom "joined" which was attached to the there have been and still are during the Second World pilot and nothing elsea in Air Force use, but Irvin's War. Curiously enough, how boki and original idea at a ever, the founder of the club time when it was generally give the is not a member although he thought then that a human invented the parachute being would lose conscious which saved all those 40,000 mess on Calling from a great lives, and although he has height. mude more than 300 jump from ajreruft while testing This is his own invention. because he didn't deny to do

THE TEST

of any burning and spinning aircraft a last -chance of life.

The first Ser- vices member of the Caterpillar "joined"

a life-long amateur Club IRVIN,

high-diver, reasoned that if just

when, at about 2,500 feet, he spoited another aircraft which he knew was being flown by L. Fairchild, IK comrade, he decided on A spot of light rolief.

As spirited young pilots have always done and will always do-Harris dived on his friends. inviting him to a "fight."

uge.

The air speeds of those days sound faintly comic to the 600-plus-mile-an-hour jet

our H-bomb boys of

MELW that he was Harris doing 150, which was as fast as most fighter pilots had travelled at the time.

Sul, 150 miles an hour, In any age and time, is fast enough when on aircraft decides tu come apart. Harris, in a light. climbing turn after nis for suddenly felt a terrifle vibration Instinctively from the wings.

he levelled DIT. the machine swering

over two after

Leslie Irvin

an-

slug-

gishly and

terally to the

Then,

control.

.be throttled back, he shw large arcas of fabric, splitting and

flying back

off the port wing Out of the tall of his

eye

he

noticed that

the

left aileron was

Only four women have ever 10.

years This man is Los Angeles he didn't lose consciousness qualified for the King's tun- dred-inals of the King's Prize born Leslie Irvin." He it was

at right stuck upright, almost has done it eight She

to the won the prize in who realised that the earlier 70ft, plunge into water Irvin's demon-

there was no reason why he monstrationt.

disintegrating R. angles Lieutenant Harold

wing. Meanwhile the control of long stick was battering at his knees should do so in a deeper dive. And on April 28, 1919, at Harris, a pilot

Miss Fuster times. 1930, came third once.

second once, and pull-out" type of paru- chutes would never be safe She has regularly been the only woman member of Britain's for use with aeroplanes. This

International rife teams.

test.

and type was held in a container Dayton Airfield, U.S.A., he experience, was testing a while the aircraft lurched over put his ideas to personal Loening aircraft with a new to the left and plunged earth. has coached almost all of them. attached to an airship or

type of balanced ailerons. wards in a screaming 200 m.p.h.

never bully

she kite-balloon and attached to them,"

Before an anxious crowd For a while he practised dive. "If you have a nervous the pilot's harness by the of military officials he was turns, dives, and climbs and team

you don't get results. rigging lines. When he When they get too tense 1 tell them a funny story and make jumped the lines pulled the

"I

Guys.

them relax.

"My

15-Ксер motko Hoppy."

And that isn't bad advice for husbands and wives. with or without a gun.

THE

*

them

Irvin inted

the "truth"

· parachute-li "H" crept Blertcol ATTHE (which wedo NARE Corrected in the Quruments trawn 1 for the incorporations company in Britain.

BIG

Two years ago a pair of

Negro

had

women were

ind

been living skeletons in- fected with tuberculosis in both

cures.

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flown across the airfield at

was

to the + The Arat man admitted Caterpiller Club was in fact a Mr 2,000 feet. There

O'Connor who, on August 24, 1920, horrified silence as his tiny at Dayton, Ohio, war demonstrat- ing a new type of parachute. The inmated that figure was seen to drop away authorities however. from the machine and drop he wore an Irving as well. As 3.000 O'Connor pulled for all get the new parachute refused to ... and drop...

the rotease-ring of his Irving, which of 700 feet. Then, when brought hun down safely.

MEDICAL

CLAIMS

acclimatised to that the After streptomycin.

useless. than. drug was wÓTSE

With bits of the port wing

head Harris flicked undone his safety-belt and heaved himself, up out of the cockpit.

He found himself apparently

while

the floating in mid-air

downwards plunged aircraft

rush of air had lifted him clear beneath. The fleree 200-m.p.h. before he knew i

the

collapsing and flying off past his

Harris

grabbed for parachute-release and gave D hearty wrench. He waited for the canopy to open and won- dered what the Jerk would like. Nothing happened,

SAVED HIM

be

Couault in a flying.

INTO A SHABBY-FRONTED Georgian house, a stone's' soon become

throw from Westminster, flow reports on all the new pictured jitterbugging in a "wonder drugs." The reports often claim miracle Indeed, it was actually harmful. ARRIS wrenched again

the uncomfortable ward at Sea View Hospital,

Delicate laboratory tests were with. The accompanying publicity gives thousands of sufferers new hope.

invented, to find exactly when feeling that his heart had got near New York. A group

he felt no movement of others Blood

Domycin. Th

This point is now because

that would indicate that the around But the men who work behind the black painted doors of ten bocume resilient to strep-wodged between his back tooth clapping time. They all

No. 38 Old Queen Street make no comment. They signal for treatment to stop. pack behind him had opened. looked plump, happy —

are the heads of Britain's Medical Research Council,

When Swedish scientiste intro-He pulled a third time with all

of thei healthy.

his body to spin Yet, six months before, they The reports are studied dispassionately." Samples of the duced the next anti-tuberculosis his might, the force

as well as Council new drugs are tested. And after months or even agent chemical called PAS-action cou

the Mohical Research

whirl.of arm and legs. years-of patient clinical research, the Council issues sifted and probod claims for it

It was this contortion which its own report. Only too often the carefully worded And their policy of prudence verdicts show that it pays to think again on "wonder of beaded thoughts as actually saved him. He caught: ressalted in a positive achieve sight of his own hand and saw ment in the fight against tu- that he had been pulling use-

lessly

of the harndes webs Instead of the parachute With understand- release-ring. For, during their investiga

able briskem fre corrected the Bone, the Britan selenBsts

finding to found that PAS used with little mistake, streptomycin could stop germa Vast refer that the ring needed boooming

to the only a light pull to make the PRCK map open. Still turning d. Head over hear he saw the that Jince stream, nway and the Big, in all duopy breaks, out and morodd in the sunshine,

listla

lungs. They had had fuo appetite, nio ambition hope - of - recovery.

plit for belts of a Behle tuberculosis

anti-

With BD other patients they had volunteered to be guinea

drug then called. Rimiron, now known as INH.

Within days the results of the

treatment became parent. Temperatures dropped

men's

to

who had toyed with their food

DEGVIDUSTU People

droga."

Take, for instance, the latest sure-to-cure answer to tuber- berculosis,

culosis.

By A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT

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