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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1954.
Like To Live On
Live On A Desert
Island? Then Let Miss Tandy Disillusion You
New York.
Keeping up with the Joneses is hard in a place like Manhattan where you run into people who own unexpected things like tropical
islands.
*
But a tropical island, like an instalment-plan deep freeze, demands certain things of its owners. If you've been dreaming of escaping to an island paradise, away from jangling telephones, monthly bills and neigh- bours who can look right into your picture window, it would be wise to
peak first to a woman who owns one.
Jessica Tandy is the mistrees; deranged Blanche Dubois in "A of a Scrubby strip of sond, soll Streetcar Named Desire." She is and lava-like rock formation in married to Hume Cronyn, with th Caribbean. She is Que en vi whom she frequently co-stars all she surveys, including seven on the stage. They appeared on "The mandy beaches and 3,000 coconut stage together ins
Fourpuster," now are co-starring In a homely weekly TV series
trees
Miss Tandy
the Fugitte-
the
born actress who starred as the over NBS called "The Marriage,"
Mousetrap Cost £45-10-0
Plus Court Costs
And Trouble
London.
The formula for succes. it has been said, in 13 "Build a better mousetrap, ' and the world will beat path to your door **
Anchant tried it,
wishes he hadn't.
11
He told court that the m thing that has beaten a paths his door since he dressest
grand-plazaras size mousetrap 14 tronalaže.
a super-deluxe,
'six fan't 11)' Anchant's trup ta six seven feet in size with
and in the autumn will go
en-
the road to do a crus-country reading tour, reading and neting roles from their favourite books and plays.
Together, also, they own the island called Children's Bay Cuy (pronounced key), one-half mile wide, one and one-half miles long, 120 miles South of Nassau and two miles from anything at all
Miss Tondy 11 E1
fashion. "I can take things apart
together and get them back
but
I won't guarantee they'l if the every time work again, refrigerator benke down, and we don't have a refrigerator yet, we have to fly someone would there in a plane to fix it. Can you imagine the cost?"
SHARKS ALL
AROUND And Baracudas Too
Last summer they took their two children, Christopher, 11. and Tundy, 8. and Mus Tandy's daughter by a previous marri age, Suman, 20, down with them. They all stayed on a bont off- gentle-shore and explored their irland. mannered, agreeable actress "It's a nice place for children, who feels now about tropical but you don't islands like most visitors about New York elly. Nice place to visit, but no place to live. IMPORT DUTY TOO And No Labourers
turn them
feel one," she ex. "We have
YIN
"We haven't built a house on it yet," she apologised—they be- **** sole owners three years upo. "it isn't
no simple. know. We have had two sets of plans drawn up, but it would
much as building house on Long island."
CONT
20
They discovered they would
a rule that no one goes swim- ming alone.
sharks There are and baracudas all around."
It is almost impossible to get any kind of household help to stay in such a remote place, as many a rural dweller knows, so the housekeeping chores are squarely up to the woman of the house,
"MY
the mind boggles at housekeeping
plans," MISS Tandy sald,
looking slightly "hurried. Which brings up the
question, why
they ever
live to Import much of tlu building materiai,
import
Whily
a duty, get an old landing cruit to take it to their island, and then try to get some natives to build the house.
"Стопул 15 010 good with tools," bis wife said, wifely
of zinc-lined tunnels, Lapdan a powerful ball which Taree mice and rats and a big tank of water into which the and mice are supposed to fall Eall nid drown
when they sten
factories Professors' Threat
ne of the concealed trap door.
He envisaged it, he said, an the ideal trap for warcheuses and similar plavca where the size of the problem is comparable to the size LE the trup.
Bald Use price was no object.
Byford took him of he word, When he presented his bill of £45-10-0 Anchant balked at paying
Press
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SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
7.7
T. M. B. PES OF
"I don't see why you get so worked up at these games when you say the championship won't be decided for months yet!"
How To Stay Young:
Hard Work And
Plenty
Of Exercise
London.
Start running and old age will have buy an island in the first place? harder job catching up with you.
"It was Cronyn's idea," Min Tandy said.-United Press.
Fewer Car
Bargains For
Americans
of one
Detroit.
of the
a
This is the advice contained in a paper presented to the International Association of Gerontology by Dr Edward Bajusz of Budapest. He claims he has established that exercise and hard work can stave off old
ago.
"equilibrium"
Scientists of 50 nations
was a period of Bre meeting in their third congress on problems raised by the fact that an even larger proportion the world's population attaining long life.
in youth in which the process of régeneration" held the pro- ress of decay" in cheek.
of
18
con-
About the age of 40, he said, there was a first decrcaso muscle tone. He has found this decline "la always less definite man's in sportsmen and cerned with
In physical life span toward the generally-workers."
RETARDED
Hall the delegates are
extending
years. CONSIDERABLY
Dr Bajusz elted worried
a
problem." sald anc nore years to life, but to add more life to years to extend
"is not only to add
contribute to nociety
these con-
clusions from his exhaustive re- search:
"The degenerative muscular changes proper to oid
age are considerably retarded by inten- είνα
or sports. physical work The muscics and the joints are kept in a good functional state. Chronie articular colds
are less
The heavy sales were a direct delegate,
hardest history. compaigns in
dealer
the period in which a man conquent in such persons. con- | RU
Physical Work and sports bonus
have beneficial effect also on the organs of circulation and respira- tion and they generally con- tribute to good conditions health."United Press.
and
sults
plans
con-
Mexico City PRICE NO OBJECT
Virtually the entire faculty of Motor car buyers might He hired Claude
National Byford to the
University
not find the bargain hunting Mexico
envisioned goal of 100 Law School, 150 pro as good as build a full-scale inodel. Bylord
this Kalumn
half The other
arc threatened Lob the
that A bi
when the time for new
about how these "senior citizens" their
students
are to be fitted into 23 social models approaches. step cutting elmas
47- scheme that is placing
con- Automobile sales hit o The professors said university
the But stantly heavier burden on udents should be required to month high during June
of the high sales weren't a alga | productive young. fixed percentagre The court ruled that
recently for the ludustry to start turning trap bubler Auchant will have with the faculties of other out more cars, to pay over the honey plus
colleges in the university to cla- court costa for Byford's taliour, cuss the probfem, but no agree result
Byford made no charge for Het was reached.
selling professional opinion cheerless
Various student groups have Factory-sponsored that, "I don't think
salt they will strike, if a limit tests trap
Dr Bajusz, In offering sports will
Imposed.--United were almed, to big extent, at reducing the
the all-time high stock or hard work, steady and of new cars the industry has unuous, as his recipe for longer and more active lives, sald he piled up this year.
"absolute June sales cul into that held his views with stockpile, which had reached as conviction." hinh as 000,000 units in April. There were 517,511 cars siti on hand on July 1, nearly 60,000 He supported his thesis with less than at this time a year diagrams based on 10,000
mascular measurements Automobile dealers goton 5,000 subjects. caught with more than 600,000 "The causeS and nature of ents on hand inst November in the midst of the 1853 model growing old are actually not yet
understood," Dr Bajusz sold. clean-up.
industry The
While pointing out that the anxious to keep that fron
process could be said to begin happening again,
NO INCREASE
at birth, he added that Most Israelis would like the tall, coffee-
the June nies As a result, skinned nomads to be given a basic education. The aren't bringing an increase in production and production will Bedouin themselves? They aren't too interested.be kept closely in hand for the But when legitimate advantages are there for the rest of the your. taking, they take.
Ration Books Puzzle
Bedouin Tribesmen
Berrsheba, Israel.
Should the Bedouin he left, as they are, picturesque and primitive?
| ngo.
Bargain hunters had a Weld
NOT UNDERSTOOD
Muggs
inken
thoro
Lost On
of
The Bottom
Halle,
A sweating citizen complained to the Postal Superintendent that whilo attaching stamps to his envelopes an entire shoot of He disappeared.
them had
blustrat when the superintendent calmly pointed to the missing stamps firmly stuck to the spat of the complainant's trouBOTE.......... United Prem.
Never TIRED
day last autumn with the big Knew Luxury stock of 1963 models that was
A Ministry of Health doctor | lective allocation. That waa on hand. A big stockpile of who visita the tribes In his natural · arrangement because cars is hard to hide. Automo- buttered jeep has a huddle of the Sheikhs may buy need and bile buyers, aware of the stock- squatting Bedouin eager to get sell crops for their tribe accord-pile, were quick to take advan- Injections or have the "seeinging to Immemorial custom. lage of the situation. tube" uppited to what-
bargains which The hard On the busin of the census,
autumn cut drove last ever part of their body is hurt-Ministry of Interior derks gave buyers
They
imagine
that out ration-books, per capite into dealer profits and helped stethoscope can see and die The Sheikh or his hired "buyer, put some dealers on the ropes. cover polna in the leg or the conte to sway camel-back The industry is hoping for a
this time ae more orderly tent and coutred with the clan's food- 1954 models-United Press.
ing
hend.
Go into n Bodottin
into Beershebat
you will SCC Д couple of i cards,
The innovation will perhaps
aluminium pans, pride of the elan, Bought in Beersheba W decorate the murky interior of luce the Sheikh's share. Ho Robert
Like This!
EYES [mean "
trouble
Don't rub your gyes when they Indianapolis, Indiana.
are tired from reading, cinemas, or Four hundred and 50 monkeys closs work. Bathe them brought here from India by an with Optrex Eys Lotion for air and truck lift to aid in the instant veller and lasting production of polio vaccine, good eye health. Doctors
In installed
luxury approve it. were |quarters,
FREB toy both with bottle Eli Lilly & Co., a pharmacou- firm, imported the monkeys from halfway around the world Montgomery to help them in turning
pollo
change-over
to
out vaccine which may give
tho camel-hair homestead, Not 15 entitled to 800 grainmes at all! Still Ike's TV Expert | immunity to millions of children
a month, no more than luis most
woman servant.
for cooking.. the old copper humble
tion or two.
As
stewpot will last another genera-women hold an inferior rung in
the Bedouin doubt
The tribesmen aren't too sure whether the latest encroachment have altered of civilisation in a blessing or
an inexplicable device to make
simple life complicated.
cor
Each
an identity card and ration black book.
First Census.
seen
Latin Carpona House for a number of weeks, tiled quarters where the air in
нег
on
at
next year. Washington. The animals were reported in Robert Montgomery has not good condition after the 12,000- you may bean
around the White whether
milo trip. They were lodged in the
Hom
rumours in some will still get the lion's share. ceding to
Doctions of Washington that the changed every two minutes. con-nelor and The Diet wholesala
The monkeys drink from in- television producer in I rack-Hamashbir-rung Taken the recent facise to each
had been eased out of his role dividual water dispensers and
their cages Bro cleaned tribetmen, women and child of delivery service for the tribes, as radio and television consultant
well-muffled in matron,
appearances by the President, regular intervals, with steam and black vell and robes, Bils her
water. is not true. Tile, however, pilvo-el from a Montgomery
been hai
During their trip they rested the Hamashbir trick.
ick extended visit to Europe, super- for two weeks in "conditioning" It' totlowed the first census The general populatio
population receivOS VİSİTE the stooling of film pens at Spring Valley, Now since Mandate times of all 19 less oll, more margarine. The material for his own TV show, York, on the trucic leg of the tribes comped pinay Israel's Bedouin can't bear importait He'll be back on White House purney. Two Lilly employoce southern desert. The registra... | U.S. surplus butter And duty when President Elonhower checked each animal three. Limes tion revealed that 15,463 Bedouin choose. They shake goat's milk starte making delevision appear along the way. T lived on them tawny barrett hiile inain amt it becomes but ances on a national scale again, "Our monkeys; are --not the 13,800 woula esilmated for with on acrid, powerful probably in the early Autumn, high said: Chester C. Har- by oneille n
flavinar, O the font foot, ukiza in connection with the pon- dreeves, head of illy's animal Up uit this month, been sheikh of salty soat chome sto lett to ERR! campaigne: --United supply departments and United obtained, food-rations on a cot-/
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Jerricón. WH
United Frea
norw
on
Optrex
PROTECT
Against
TOUR NAT
skin disease and itching
Mitigal
TURTO IN
PIGEON HEROINE
TO BE
HONOURED
New York.
Scientists Hope
Page
Electronic Brain' Will Save Lifetime's Work
Champaign, Illinois.
The University of Illinois scientists are attempting to solve by machine a 26-year-old Leaping Lens, a German problem which would take more than a lifetime. carrier pigeon who ovaded to solve by hand. Soviet consors and flow &TI The machine is the university's, said the answer will have no anti - Communist message massive electronie "brain". "Immediate" benoit for man- through the Iron Curtain, called the "Diline". The solution kind, but will be important to arrived in America to take of the problem "will be of physicists.
Importance for The gadget being used is so a job us a model in the 1965 fundamental
atomic physics," the scientists | speedy that it is put into opera- Crusade for Freedom.
said.
tlun anly one hour t night. But Professor James H. Bartlett,
she
Pigeon fanciers planned to The problem is the "bellum bullder of the "Illiac", and release more than 1,000 pigeons wave
equation." In Gimple several nssialania spent a year honour when in Lena'
terms, scientists said, this means preparing data to be fed into it. arrived at Idlewild Airport,
the theoretical equation of the The scientists said the "Illise" Four hero pigeons of World movements of atomic particles will give them a working equ
11, one of which some day in the hellum atom. Wer 11.
tion, not an exact solution. What may be Lena's mate, will also A similor problem already has they are after in a "Law of
hering wro now to bren
worked out for hydrogen, Probability" for finding the dis- fame one month ago when she lowest in the scale of elements tance of the electrons from the
off course it Pilsen with one
election. Hollum is hellum pucicus at any time. - Czechoslovaktin, ‹
next with two, The scientists | United Press.
meel
lauratched
owes
fame to 4 which began in a race Nurburg to her home loft
from Nu
in Katzenbach, Germany, Lenn KOL off course and landed ex- hausted in
in Pilzen where she was found by a a Czech pigeon rolæer,
6.xing hat German lex- }
he addressed a message to Radto Free Europe headquar- Lern in Munich which was de- livered after Lone reached homo two days later.
The message said: "We plead with you not to slow down in the fight against Communist aggression because Ommunism must be destroyed. We beg for a speedy liberalton from the power of the Kremiin und the establishment of a United Slater af Europe.
hind
TRUE PICTURE
"We listen always to your broodcasts, They present a com- pletely true picture of life bo- the Iron Curtain. буда would like you to tell us how we can combat Bolshevism and the tyrannical dictatorship bere.
"We are taking every oppor tunity
to work against the regime and do everything in our power to rabotage it."
The message was signed "Un bowed Plisen."
the
Copies of the message will be relayed by carrier pigeon to Pre-
one of sident Ebenhower, sponsors of the Crusade for Free- dom, and Henry Ford 11, Chair- man of the Cruzado's Board of. Trøsters-United Press.
'Please, Put Me In Gaol'
Jerusalem.
The
Minister of received a letter from
Finance
gruntled taxpayer
who
plained: "I've
been
with
exaggerated
Having neither
the
стот
ComTM flooded demanda,
time to of correct The
your clerks, nor the energy to argue I respectfully re- with them, quest that you put me in guol."
United Press.
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