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MRS DEWEY HAS

THE LAST WORD

From Evelyn Irons

New York. thorough and even painful con- wife, sitting HY does brash, sideration," his

in the television

W bouncing Governor Tom cao, was all smiles.

Dewey make a dramatic exit from political life at, the age of 527 Why doesn't he do as President Eisenhower

Asked if she was responsible for the move, she said diplo- matically, "It was his decision. But the rest of the family con

Our curred.

boys

are

very

wants and run for the happynty-four years in publie

fourth time as Republican Governor of New State?

York

Frienda of the family are anying that the key to the situa- 1lon les with 'he woman in this

саве

And the woman in this case la the girl Tom Dewey met in the 1920s, when they were both music students and as poor as the mice in the church where Tom played the orgun to pay his tuition fees. They later mar rledi.

Mrs Frances Dewey, small, well-groomed, slightly greying. has taken a back seat all the 24 years of her husband's stormy political life. She has obliging ly performed such career-building chores handshakes & iniuule at a recep- Don for Republicat women 1) New York City. She has made the best of

in the hideous

life

45

us

offcial manston in Albany,

where, during the 12 years of walis replaced crimson damask

1150

have cost Tom Dewey a Four deal of money. great усага ago, during a telovised. campaign programme, ha de-: clared that he did not single shore of stock and had no savings.

own

He added that his material assets consisted of his farm at State Pawling in New York

hours' drive from (some two Manhattan) and a life insurance "which isn't enough, I'm sorry to say."

NOT MILLIONAIRES

Dewey bought Dapplemare Farm-488 acres of rolling New England pasture land at the bargain price of £10,000 during a short period he spent aa a lawyer in private practice in New York in the 19309. Its dairy herd is Dewey's pride, and both he and his wife know and love every inch of the land

Dewey's governorship, she has By prudent management they

and navy blue gold-fringed cur- tains with dowired wallpapers and feminine chintzes.

RACKET-BUSTING

have made it self-supporting. but now they want to expand it and also set aside funds for their own old age and the future of their two sons,

Dewey and Al Smith are the York of New only Governors State in recent years who have

Back 11 his racket-busting not been millionaires. And, us clays in the thirues, when in the case of the Lord Mayor Dewey, a special

prucecutor of Landen, the job is expensive.

sent to goot such powerful thugs Dewey's current salary is close ns Lucky Luciano and Tammany

£0,000 a year. When he Hall boss James Hines, Mra

of December

to pension of

Dowey did not complain that quits at the end their two sons had to be guarded he is entitled and the telephone number fre- Just over £3,200. quently changed for fear of re- venke.

ย be

If he were re-elected Governor his salary would doubled and his pension would be more than £8,000.

But now that Dewey is 52 and she is 51, sho has been urging But this hardly compares with him to retum to private law the estimated probable varnings practice. Her sons, 21-year-old of Thomas

Dewey.

015 Tom Dewey

B jawyer. Jur.. With h reputation and ex-

the army.

GS

£70,000 a year.

THE CHINA MA

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER

LIFE RED

RUSSIA is a country rich

"SH!

HERE. COMES THE DICKIE BIRD."

Repartine natha ineldent in the Dias Family's cour al testtano.

SEEN

London Express Bervice

WE ARE A LITTLE WORRIED

66

By Les Armour

ANIMALS," reports an advertise

ment currently enticing Britons to buy an American magazine, can teach us not to worry. «

"What bird could raise a family if it frotted over the endless feeding trips? An article in the August.

--- shows how the simple philosophy of animals can onrich our livos."..

Always prepared to enrich our life, we are glad to give sympathetic con- sideration to the matter. But we aro slightly unsettled by this idea..

The simple philosophy of the sloth, no doubt, has a certain affinity to ours, and who have had the misfortune to breakfast with us report that we behave with all the sweet reasonableness of a tiger which has just stepped into hornet's nest.

But these things hardly come into the "enrich your life" category..

More Subtle.

As to that matter about the birds, we should possibly not worry either were we in the habit of feeding upon worms. No doubt this learned journal has something rather more subtle in mind,

And that is where we be- gin to get worried. For it seems to us that simple philosophy of animals is simple for the not very obscure reason that the ani mals are quite incapable of figuring out any other,

THROUGH GLASSES... BY DENNIS

art incans,

propaganda pur.

By

Tigers display tigerish- ness and piga, not unreason- ably, tend to pigness. (The

these unhappy words.)

DENNIS reader, we hope, will pardon BARDENS

among others, by the the results are sometimes Paul Robeson to visit the coun-

And it would look a trifle in fairy tales. Genera- hand picked

silly if a dog were to adopt delegations extremely funny. I have try. "Progressive"

of course, art subordinated to Princeton University graduate pertence he

could make about tions of children have thrill- which visit non-Communist just been reading a moving Communist

the philosophy of the hip- Just about to enter

statement was read in Russian popotamus. (It is not so Jed to stories of fairy prin countries and return to tell plece entitled "Soviet poses. and John, who is 18 and still at Dewey just the

about the "unanimous conclu- much that the international presidential Princetan, agree.

election to Rousevel 10 years cesses, wicked ogres and of the poverty, fear, in- Artists' Successful Tour in

The funniest item in this sion" of the group (e statement Brotherhood of Hippotomi It was family conclave with ago and to Truman four years miraculous adventures. Such efficiency and shortages they Canada" by Sophia Golov somewhat laboured attempt to obviously prepared and vetted all four as long ago

kina, "Honoured Artist of dister the Canadian scene is a beforehand) in which, whlist would object to this intru- fast later, but the door is still open stories have, of course, been claim to have geen. Christmas thi Dewey decided and he could run for President altered or abridged to it Invariably the accounts the RSFSR." She was one description of this miners club. grudgingly admitting that their sion as that the ally dog.

When he agal-petkops in 1900-should to pull out of politics.

Stratford would probably drown). finally unnounced his decision, he and retirement from politics Communist theories, but the published in the USSR echo of a number of Soviet artists at Sudbury "The concert was visits to

entry, Birming- arrived

with the miners' tradition is still carried on the current Party line, and who visited Canada recently. Even in the miners club, built upon-Avon,

Own contribu- hom and the Universities of tions from their Details of the tour were holl was packed, but the miners had Impressed them to some wages... Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol -arranged by the pro-Russian were not anxious whether the extent, they found much to

"Canadian Soviet Friend- galleries would collapse, The

grumble at ship Society," which, like club had been built by the

"after at

the

most intolerable.

MURDER MYSTERY

SPOTLIGHTS

NEW PLEASURE CRAZE

London.

A LOVELY young woman

- is found strangled in a quiet London suburban stroet and Britain learns about the craziest fad to hit the capital's pleasure-geeking West End for years.

By

Clement

Curtis

"cover

the thecry, collects

Now all London Is tolking In about-and nightlifers are play- cumulated ing at this craze which started amounting usually in America where cynics dubbed £ 128.

it "the fast buck game."

ac

charges" to about

The new game is a variation of the old chain-letter racket which has been ruled illegal in

In brief, this is how it works. You join a pyramid club, and

most of its kind, is the had made a good job of it.""**

workers themselves and they

spearhead of Soviet pro- paganda In Canada. Some people must, of course, have

attended the concerts given

by the Soviet delegation,

Miners' Hall

It is therefore to be inferred that what this journal proposes is that human beings ought to behave according to whatever instincts anímáte human beings. One grouse was about "mis- And it does not follow that representation in the British human beings would then bo- press. Asked for a specific have with humanity-for that is

example, they mentioned ел

article which had alleged there a very special idea cooked up was an agricultural crisis in by philosophers.... Russia, Since, as they admitted, the article had appeared

In a frantic effort to keep it simply to. hear songs sungus is characteriátic of the line in May, when, they were not in

Inhibitions

which Soviet citizens have Britain, it was scarcely an going thousands of people have and see dances danced; but, to take on any favourable pro- Impression "of their visit." been charging from party to in the main, the audiences nouncements they may make party, marking up names, scor- were drawn, as one would about their visits to a

non- And as that issue of the paper Now what would human ing off names, looking for new

Communist country. Note the had not been on sale for 12 beings behave like upon taking names,

expect, from Communists Implication that only the fact weeks, they had obviously been this advice? and fellow-travellers.

that the miners

had built primed on this point before the hall themselves could arriving. Moreover, Khushery, be a guarantee of good work- one of their own top leaders, has manship. The inference is that officially admitted that there is most places are shoddily built, such a crisis, and has spoken and hot galleries frequently feelingly about it, collapsel

Business men and debutantes, barrow boys and barristers often And themselves at the same are cashing in, party. Splys offering list of "agreeable" names and telephone numbers at 25 d

a time.

Basically the idea is that the Scotland Yard men in pyramid party-goer spends a vestigating the death

of hectic twelve nights racing from

parly to party with fellow Britain. 28-year-old Jean Mary Town guests he or she doesn't know, send discovered that two und entertained by hosts they

How and where did it all heard of. At the days before her death she have never had joined a Pyramid Party end of the period-if everyone on the first of the twelve days start? In the dressing-rooms of sticks by the rules-the party- you go to a party with a friend West End theatres. It swept

Seven through the and pay the host 2s Odi.

"Anne LucasiaTM other guests do the same.

and "Guys and Dolls" caste.

On Day 2 you and the other

Two lonely "Amtrlean visitors, seven guests split up and go to different parties taking two new not known by name but friends time only the of stage stars, are credited with

Club.

The NEW

goer in turn becomes a host and,

RUPERT

guests. This newcomers pay.

Day 3: You ensure that your friends each go with two more friends to a party and pay thele 25 d entrance fees.

originating the pyramid plague,

Never The Top

Sald

host:

one. "Pyramid" Day 4: You become host to

"I expect to get £26, but that eight guests who each pay 23 may be optimistic, na the men Bd. You send this money on to ahead of me who was paid off the person heading the party last night got only £12.

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Unconvincing

was

Contrast

If we are to believe the prychologists, the results would ba exceedingly. nasty and of a kind not ordinarily describable in a family newspaper.

We' survive, one gathors, simply because we have loadă "and" "loads of inhibitions, "and

plenty of maladjustments,

OLOVKINA'S article, of

One of the most amusing course, implies that the

canards put about by a Soviet welcome everywhere Was tourist on his return

the from representative Cana- statement by M. Georgi Alexan- dians, and an unconvincing drov, the Soviet film director, on THE Russian students thought,

We run this little planet bou too, that there was too great a cause we have not accepted the attempt is made to paint a his impressions of life in Britain,

which he visited in 1853. These contrast between Piccadilly and simple philosophy of animals. picture of Canadians longing appeared, appropriately enough, the East End of London. But that is to take up residence in the in the satirical journal Krokodil,

where the whole Soviet paradise but unable in February 1954. Of the effect Piccadilly being one of the richest matter becomes obscure,

and mest elegant quarters, would be surprising' if there' to do so. Actually, if they of television he said: tried, they would find the "The ordinary English are were no contrast, since no city Canadian Government would

poor and are getting poorer

in the world to like Piccadilly every year. To go to the breadth. Were there no slams in throughout its length and not stop them; their dim-

cinema and the theatre is now Moscow? the delegation was culty would lle in obtaining beyond their means." visas from the Soviet Em- bassy.

At Fort William and Fort Arthur "we learned that the local mayors had refused to let

Pep-talker

*

asked. Grudgingly a member admitted that there were but, of course, they "were not so bad as in London."

For it would seem that human beings were not designed to bo- have on instinct" and that what corresponds, in human

the beings, to

"simple philosophy of animals" is just the complex way in which wo do live.

But then, perhaps we would An outstanding example of all be better off playing at THINK I must be dreaming, making the facts

At the argu- being lions? because the other day I queued ment was given in 1853 by "I think it is rather fun, All consert premises for the pero outside a efnema for 30 minutes Moscow Radio; it set the In-1 Then you cross

his or her sorts of most eccentric people inances of the Soviet artists," name from the top of the arrive at the house. My plice The mayors, unfortunately, pyramid and put your own suddenly became full of colour- knew very well that such parties name and address at the bottom. ed men, chorus girls, and busi-are sent abroad, only for a

Day 12, you are at the head peas, men whom I had never speelfie propaganda purpose. of the Bat and-theoretically- should gel £1 from each of the 128 hosts holding parties.

Never Does

niet."

A blonde who works in D publishing firm, found three parties going on at the same

Ant. time in her Chelsea

The telephone had not stopped ring-

because so many people were habitants of at least one Eng- waiting to see the show; and at lish town laughing heartily. innumerable theatres, where the 'show is a good one, one must In a broadcast Margale was book weeks in advance,

compared with the / Transtar- pathian mountain. village of Did Alexandrav know the Delovol belove Delavol: got so Indoctrinated with Com station ''Before = "this munist teaching that he saw ordinary blissing was conferred automatically whatever he ex- on Dolovol the only Illumina= ing for hours. About 30 people.URING the artials visit to Pectod to see? The latter is, not tlon was by oil lamp,'"jtist. like :

Sudbury, a mining town, the dialcult as it sounds,

the light in the ancient town of That is how It should work debutantes included, mostly un- Canadians usiced "about the

A party of Sovlot citizens is Margate," known to each other, WETO out. But it never does. It only dancing, singing and record play mechanisations in the mines of Street and Bond Street, whose wages of Soviet miners, about shepherded, say, through Oxford needs a 'few people to mins a fow parties and the foundations

the Donbas and Kuzbas...they shop windows, are gronning with were amazed when we told goods of every description, The

Pyramid game swept them about the big Palaces of from luxuries

to necessities. Bofore even the first person States, from California in 1941.

asswords over the United Culture that have been built How do they reconcile this with TN fact, Margate to it balf by In the pyramid can.collect

In all, the big Soviet mining the stories they have been told gas and half by electricity, The £128, half-crowns must havo

This

paragraph be- in Russia about poverty In modern installations include the boen contributed by 1,024 By 1949 the game was at comes a straightforward boost capitalist countries Quite latest sodling and me

** tracing all types of players, for. Soviet mining

many of them professional commands O

Funniest Item daets, and twist them, or won he its now hydro-electric power

of the pyramid collapse,

people.

ing.

} areas, 200

Fantastic

a simple. Every parly has a vapotır. systems, while f By the time, the first eight fidance tricksters. When the Next comes a suzestion that fully trained agitator with it, mer the town: le decorated

whose job

is that of spy and thousands of electric people on the list have each craze til New York the "culture" is almost non-existent pep-talker: "There you are he lights, collected, the promised amount, wince our reste ve dollars in Canada and that longing for any triumphantly shops i

within 8,192 people must be involved. 10240 dolaranteed pay-off of it can be racisted only at great rowded with goodal. They can't

gure, can be

breakdown weight of num

„önly?

But the)

"Speaking get rid of them! Nobody can felün Joey their longing

tire and attord to buy, themius arty; the Canadian told us of the obstacl

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER