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CRICKET DOWN GHOST F

CIVIL

Success

Story

Of A Chimp

By SYDNEY SMITH

ROM the jungle

television atardom

Paris. Buddy and Roy say now: "So to we found ourselves wet nursing an ape, but within two weeks- at boy, that ape wasn't for sale for $1,000 a week in

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succeeded."

Mr Muggs rocketed to his Buddy's warm Latin heart pope 110 Boys, peak of fame when he right out here when

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THE GREEN SENTRY BOXES

OVIET propagandists

Rever

tire of ex- plaining to the rest

the world

of

how

OF

RUSSIA

By Hugo Dewar

much superior their land is sulation

This sort of down."

to any other.

thing has gone on long that some citizens

for

RO in

the ad to ruin:

cups

kinet

drinks

are upsidio them down-only change the they uld--le rephod "But what will Bap- pen to the sales takings?

He-

Not wishing to appear a milk- the West have developed a So, young Semyon took a drink. marked inferiority complex. This was the first step on the

of Under the spell

he acquired a laste Soviel publicity experts, for vodka. And temptation was they alternate between everywhere in his path. hanging their heads in tween his hostel dormitory and shame and gazing with the factory gates there were six dewy-eyed wonder at this liquor shops; there were nine on land of their dreams, a land the way to the team stop, and en three on the way to the cinema. rendered all the more

It low could young Semyon avoid chanting by distance. seems to them-so well in these pitfalls strewn so liberally Reproached by everything arranged in the in his path?

he merely Soviet Union --that even his companyons,

phrase "Only when it snows there, it is pouted the

telegraph pole....." with government permis- Hion.

When their

addressed to

remarks are

the home

Mushroom Growth

re-

population. however, the Of course Semyon ended up Soviet propagandists are not in the police station on a charge quite so sure that the "new of being drunk and disorderly. Soviet man is u

paragon The deputy police chief said be acquainted with many of all the virtues. To judge was

machinery plant, from the present campaign young workers from the Rostov

and agriculturai against drunkenness hooliganism, a large number but none of

then was ever when first introduced to of the rising generation in sover

him. the Soviet Union find Com- munist society less agree- able than they should.

Semyon's Fall

The

This reply directly contradlels the explanation given earlier But the spread of drunkenness is due to the increase in the

of refresh number of places ment: for the chief of the elty suggests that trade department

resuit is the

Offer this increase

demond.

terramade public Soviet public ginger pop and the rales graph

Dupr. would plunge IT the

l the

vr

TL would 1 impossible inj achieve the aunts ofheilly laid down. And if anyone Dunks no "target" for thut there 14 vodka. he should be reminded that the manufacture and sale of vodka as a State monopoly: it was reti dured as such by Stalin in 1925

vadku

اود

Since then Mr Muggs has

went on to audience of

until

said: "He looks as though hla name is Muggs."

never looked back. Neither MUGGS hadn't a name

he was six months old. A has Mr Gore-Booth, who child's competition to name him hurried away to the Far was won by a nine-year-old boy East ny an ambassador, (first prize a bird cage), who while Muggs win

TV # 8,000,000, become the well- So Muggs grew up, eating at paid symbol of 75 commer- the table, brushing hla own

like cial products and is now teeth, dressed

a child: as Buddy and in Paris

on a round-the- understanding.

Roy swear be does, "every world tour at V..P. level,

How did Mr Muggs reach these dizzy heights, and anyway who is he?

HIS BOTTLE

MR MUGGS,

is

In

Arst of all, British. He was born West Afrien int the British Cameroons, and captured in 11 net. Purchase price: $800,

a thought to the mastion of whether all is well with the living conditions

working youth? Many dormilaries in A rady are duty and uncom- Married and single tectable.. people often live together in the every two hours all the way to Statie

101

Be arrived in the United Sules, aged 13 weeks, in a tiny box, und the air hostess fed him

milk formula

from a bottle

New York,

rather

He had been bought, It is merely a hunt. But who

the appeal of hesitantly and with much mis- con doubt that vodka lies in its power to offer giving by his present owners, emporary escape from such con- two New Jersey pet-shop pro- ditions, from the deabreas and prietors, 32-year-old Brooklyn- the frustrations of the workaday Italian Buddy Menella, and 30-

year-old Roy Waldron. Soviet work?

Newell Rogers Reports America

FASHIONS FROM

A

THE

New York. LREADY the discover

at the 5000 B.C. ies

tomb of King

Before the Revolution yielded in annual revenue of almost a milliard gold roubles to

State. It is Pyramid the Tsarist

to assume that the Cheops in faraway Egypt Soviet State. In taking over this cause a sensation in

world reasonable business in 1925, had an eye to fashion business.

the

Avenue.

the of Fifth

the

GRAVE

In 1950 Miss Coker went back to Plymouth, where she learne

that John had single.

Also remained

And In 1953. when John visited Plymouth, he was told by Miss Coker's brother; "Anna is waiting."

charities

word."

From my own observations in the past three days I would say

Muggs understands most things that are sald to him. Ho doesn't understand the words Paul Gore-Booth.

But when he is told, like any child of four his equivalent human Age: "Pick up your "Smile Muggay," apron, Muggsy," "Kiss the pretty lady, Muggay." or "Sit up properly, Murray,

y," and take your foot off the table"-Muggs understanda immediately.

Sometimes, Ilke a child, he of doesnt obey. A dark veli rebellion is apt to fali across his brilliant little brown eyes,

under and there is a danger that he on the carpet. night dive rapidly table and roll He's terribly human.

HIS DOLLARS

the

HOW did he get into TV? A

Helevision talent scout spot-

for hour

ted him and he was offered. $20 two-minute show. An later he had u five-year contract which will bring him $1,100 a week by next year, from tens of thousands apart

Muggs

more for Muggs toys,

records,

gramophone children's books.

Munge

Muggs has all the most lovable well as the human failings, as monkey quality of intelligence that tells him just how far he can afford to tease these humans without getting slapped

He knows that if he were entirely human he wouldn't be

Like the interesting.

great actor he is, he gives us a bit of monkey business just at the moment when his intelligence gets boring.

It should

CONGRESS carries on so many In this connection

that in the early Dressmakers, modistes, hair-

investigations that members jewellery designers, have run out of rooms to in- years of the Russian Revolution dreaSITS, be reculled

In the vestigate

Now, very much in the money, strenuous efforts were made to and cloth manufacturers see an

committee has Roy

and

are Buddy

a bit money-making investigating new combat alcoholism. Up to 1925 exciting

mot everywhere except in the bewildered. Says Roy: "Some refused to trend in Cheops' solar ship, bufli "Our youngsters in the settle-

Soviet State

boiler room.

people think Muggs is just a ment are good follows," he said. follow the Tsarist policy, scorn- to carry hils soul to eternity.

dollar sign to us. But when "The trouble is that they meeting to make a preft out of the

dis- Yat women taxpayers demand Muggs got 111 last winter with They remember beer halls at every step.

sale of this "deadly enemy of

They bronchial Tutankhamen's one more investigation.

trouble, there were liquor shops are ruining the

the working man." and imposing coveries

sicker no three want to know why nylons tear women

guys in the in 1922-How its manufacture tomb 'quick-drink' youngsters. The

restrictions on

world than Muggs and us." "fell" hotbeds

for

Egyptian and run so easily. ancient shops

and sale by private concerns.

styles, buying print dresses to make them look like Queens in- of the Nile, The fashion

happen dustry hopes it will again,

Bre

of

No Scruples

In

Of course, adolescence booliganism," also has its problems in

It would appear that the ex- other countries, and some planation for this degeneration times these problems as of the Soviet youth is the in-

the number

Stalin, however, did not have sume serious forms. Soviet crease

selling hard establishments

scruples, and did not They will help by trying to look moro propagandists have patient-

females Jiquor. But how is this possible, such

rad sultry than ly explained that juvenile in a country where everything hesitate, when it was clear that make delinquancy in the capitalist is controlled by the State?

in

of

the popular thirst for vedka had mysterious In no degree abated, to brush Cleopatra. West is largely due to the

The Komsomolskaya Pravda eside the objections raised by A possible blessing-hardo's bad influence of American

article went on 65 point out that

Lenin's widow and others who in the style of the Sphinx. This the

for gangster films and comics.

where "the Bottlement

the vogue had not forgotten the accusation may end the But neither of these in- Rostov agriculture! machinery

formerly raised against Tsarism, shaggy Italian or mermaid hair- live does not that it deliberately fostered cute, popularised by Audrey fluences is at work in the plant workers

drunkenness among the working Hepburn in her Broadway hit USSR., What explanation have a restaurant, a good snack- do the Soviet authorities bar cafe or tea shop. Instead, people.

the city trade rgencies have give, then, for the admitted created a mushroom growth of prevalence of drunkenness liquor stands, kiosks, pavilions and corner bars without signs and hooliganism among

or name. People here call Soviet youth?

them 'green sentry boxes"

An explanation has been attempted by the organ

the

-Young Communist

Firm Directive

of

the

| League, Komsomolskaya After protests from

Pravda, Επ a' Berles of Komsomal commitee, drinking

on

irr

"Ondine."

for

to

Whether or not Stalinism de- 3!berntely followed in

the STARTLED by the negotiations of Taarism in this of Cpital Airlines footsteps matter, excessive drinking has Vickers Viscount prop-jet air- Convair company, remained to this day a marked liners, the

Vickers chief American rival, denture of Soviet society,

into has rushed its "answer" The present campaign against the air.

par drunkenness directed ticular at the youth, but alo It the YC-131 C, with two aimed to some extent at certain turbo-prop engines that give it architects of the human soul" a top speed of about 380 miles articles this problem. shops round the gates of the

worlds thus an in. the literary

hour, Convair hopes One such article (May:7, plant were closed down, only to by no means the first of its persuade owners of 380 of their And kind. But unless the root cause old piston-engined airliners to 1954) told the story of reappear in side streets.

to turbo-props. [convert them fall behind the counters of these of the trouble is struck at it is B'a young Semyon

tablishments "many thieves and no more likely to be successiul Conversion would cost $300,000 from grace.

polby racketeers, have found re- than the others..

(£128,000) a plane, Juge....

The State may well have a

In the sale of CHINING When tackled about this state vested interest one morning, and decided of affairs, the chief of the city vodka, bet Marxists themselves Cokit, aged 72, is leaving trade department, greed that would be the first to admit that to breakfast out in order there was room for improve when drunkenness. to save time, Unfortunate- ment; but he exphined that all remains, ly the snack-bar he entered there "green sentry boxes" are

classed as

public estering es WIB more interested in

tablishments. "And we have n serving hard liquor than arm directive not to close down food. When he said that he a single publie catering inter- did not drink, the barman prise without permission of the replied that "Only a tele Ministry of Trade." graph pole doesn't drink, when it was put to him that and that's because its in- it was not

It

that this appears youth was lato in rising

+

EYES..................Ann¤

Philadelphia to becames or.

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marry. John ว widespread social Edgecombe, 70, whom he arrives phenomenon, then it is, broidly et Vancouver from Auckland, speaking, dal conditions them- New Zealand. solves that are to blame.

It was 1906 in the England of Indeed, Komsomolskaya Pravda dusty roads and blackberry of April 3, 1954, gave a hint hedges and alient sicles where that it recognises this as the Father forbade Anna tó son true causo when it commented: Patable-boy John any more. "Have the Young Communist mot ber to America" to break decessery, to close League officiale in Saratov given up the romanc

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