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"Amazing mild for December-we'll dress to suit the weather,' he says. It's raining cats and dogs out here."

The Clan MacThomas

By J. W. TAYLOR

THERE

of

HERE was a lot of far- tan and weed at the Liverpool exhibition Highinni Industries, but neither kt this exhibl tion nor anywhere else in

world outalde his family could you And a tartan ke that un tho kit of Mr Robert Thoms, an Edinburgh business-

man. it is the tartan of the Clan MacThomas. Never heard of it? Why. reckoned to be 100 it la

most old and one of the ancient clans in all Scot- land's history.

If your name happens to Do Thom,

Thoms, ΟΙ Mine Thomas; McComble or

(Gaelic varia tions mearing "son UI Thomas")

Just

McCamle

plain Jock

even OT

Thomson (50

long as it is not spelt with

a foreign "p" in it), you might be eligible for mem- bership of the MacThomas

the Clan. At

moment, the only other MacThomas klit in existence besides the one belonging to Mr Thoms is in possession of his con Mr Patrick Thoms, who lives in England and is heir of the 20th chler- tain of the clan, Mr Alfred Thoms, now wall over RO and living in Edinburgh.

Examination of The the the clan "Pedigrea"

shows that the first chieftain was Thomas,

of Angus VI, chief of the Clan Macintosh. Thomas broke away and formed his own clan in 1345.

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It's a GIRLS' WORLD in the hotel for women

EVE PERRICK buys her working clothes

opens her

Skyscraper Scrapbook

A Marquis And His Mushrooms

-

From Robin Stafford

Paris.

THE Marquis who grew

mushrooms. is a peace. ful man of ancient lineage. But he has one thing on his mind.

or,

For fourteen years he has worried about bombs rather, how to get rid of. them.

Last week the problem of the Marquis Marc de Vives reached a climax. He was accused of stealing bomba before a court at Vendome, a little town near Orleans,

The' bombs, the court was told, once belonged to the RAF, who had dumped them in the Marquis' mush- room-growing caves when they hurriedly quit France In 1940. The caves, In the Valley of Loire, provided. only a temporary hiding place. But even the Ger-. mans did not want them, and they walled up the caves rather than waste time disposing of them..

STILL THERE

to headquarters. Headquarters

on to the Ministry

sweater neck) earns from hotel receptionist towards the fashion artist who also lives at |

end of the week,

the hotel.

At the end of the war, the £25 to £50 a week"; takes a

Nancy MacLachlan, 20, who bombs were still there, safe and dress size between 10 She talks about men, movies, worked in TV in Detroit and is spurid. *

The Marquin, anxious to (84ins.) and 14 (38ins.); and modes, and her favourite now trying to do the same thing

to poł adjective to describe all three in the big city.

on with his mushroom-growing- subjects is "darling."

his sole means of support, abou Betty Thomas, 30, a refugee £2,000 a year-asked the local, (skirts, jerseys, shirts and

Which, apart from that vid from the family restaurant in plain, dark dresses made of

Tibe to take them away.. and oft established fact that shy Grasonville, Maryland, trying to wool-like synthetic fabrics) is better-groomed, mare polsed, break into modelling, "and get

police directed off the peg at about £7 an and much more Independent, It out of my system before I go passed him outfit, but usually has her from hos British counterparts. back to the restaurant.”

of National Defence. The Every afternoon in the hotei- date-dresses made for her

for-women tea is served to

of National Defence It's a dream world, really, the Ministry or gets them wholesale light organ music and girlish Barbizo11. In their rooms sent him to the Air Ministry.

Ak Ministry fairly amall, almost Spar.on,

a job for the but each containing a print in ruled: "It is

jnizat act," nätd the radio loudspeaker working

discovered from a master not the girls police. And remember that once

that some, wartime Resistance upon time, when they, too, were men had broken down one of young unknown, Grace Kelly, the cave walls to seek a hiding. Gene Tierney,

and Dorothy place. So the police promptly built it up again, separating the McGuire Aved there.

Marquis from his mushrooms altogether.

the French Impressionist style, local police." But here's an odd one out

CAN YOU SPOT THE GIVE-AWAY IN THE GIRLS-ONLY: TEA QUEUE ?

"I

and

Pushing up

FOR those young ladies not

abovà giving their dreams

music

polemnly

The Marquis quod' the Stato for £15,000 damages. He was, after all, losing. £3,000 a year

ho couldn't

Brow because mushrooms.

of glory a push upwards, by waymun from the Ministry camo down to count the bombs. of a little practical preparation, Horried, he found some were. studios with plenos can missing. "Athlet has been be hired for £2 10s, and hang- here" he cried. And the Irig space in the art gallery is Marquta was accused. free for all potential painters In count, the Marquis". and sculptors.

Inwyer admitted that his moble client had indeed sold a few bombs for scrap.

Naturally, all those girls to gether make the place popular with the younger men about town.

UNANSWERED

he

One of their favourite, "O'hers have been stolen, by T'S A Woman's through a friend in the chatter. It seemed the, right

added pas- Oertainly most inexpensive, scavengera,” -World," coineiden- trade... }

time and place in which to ob pastimes is to sit in the lobby sienately, "actually my ellent serve the American carces Firi

the pubile, and tally and carrent Sha eats at drugstores

of to find out how she dresses, amid the feminine flurry and has done ly the title of one automats when, alone (a ham where she cats, what she talles flow and try to guess their particularly the scavengers, a "occupations as the girls O good service by getting rid of of the hit songs there, is burger and coffee repost costs about, and where she comes rushing by.

scme of these dangerous the label that automatically her about 5), occasionally from..

devices," No man-unices he is father, The S'ato, Ignoring this legie, follows that other catch treats herself to a two-dollar Sample sextet under survey,

(149.) dinner, phrase, "The American Way

starting on the left with the door, or clergyman to one of maintained that it would cost of Life."

Her boy friend is inclined to obvious add girl out (that hair- the inmates and armed with a £8,000 to take the bombs away and print dress special house-pas-can get on to and dispose of them. And Is werk things so that he calls for do cardigan, For, as we all know by her after dinner or epoks her a give you away every time): bedroom floor. Boyfriends declined responsibility because

in his apart- Jane Dunphic, 22, from Lon- pass, which as them as for De British and therefore belonged.

marely qualify for an elevator- they were abandoned by the now, "America is the one spaghetti meal and

(No cooking is allowed don, England, job-hunting round the tea-lounge on the first floor. to one only country which ment,

New In the Barbizon rooms against the diplomatic belt of really caters for women fro regulations).

"But then how can my client York.

But that hanging about in the And New York is the city She goes to the cinema about

Jeal Fellier, 20, from New lobby is not without its dangers be accused of stealing them if which

belonged to no one?". caters for them once a week, a theatre half Bedford, Mass, secretary to a to the girls who keep their beats they

wilting too long. charity organisation.

As ons of cracked back the best.

Marquis a dozen times a yet (when she's rudy Wien, 24, from Jack them pointed out with all those lawyer. taken), uses the free tickets to

That was a question that the So in New York: there is a TV show she gets from the sonville, Florida, fan mail secre- warnen wafting by it's ender o

dress at the double and get down court could not answer. So the tary to film star Grace Kelly.

for a a not-so-small-hotel : which

Rosalee Bhay, 24, from Bal- there quickly just in case he sees magistrates adjourned timore, Maryland, a model who someone else he rather likes the month to ponder the case of the got har start posing for a girl look of...

Marquis and the mushrooms”“”,

is exclusively a woman's

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NO BLARNEY, MR MACCOLL?

sight above the mezzanine YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD!

floor.

Six hundred and

eighty-six home-from-homes WHAT, no blarney! :Fic,

(at $7 to £12 a week per Mr MacColl. You room) for the girls who should

have heard the

pour into New York from creamy barefaced blarney

BY

JILL DOGGETT

morning, I let them out, and away they go to the Botanic Gardens and they do rightly. "Now I know He swiftly pocketed the you are codding The Pouced his cronies and Botanic Gardens, do not Joined his cronies for a bit open, until eight o'clock, in of a crack at the bar- the morning.

Harsber accents, with "Och, you're away behind

all over America to seek we lapped up one cold De pint of porter and a nip of fame, fortune, or just a job, unbolt an old Irish John Jamieson welchem pub. Oodles of it, chose to drink in the verna But whatever they seek, My husband and I spent a cular. if they are going to do the short leave in the Emerald Could you be telling me even more subtle wity of the the time, during the war hunting from the Barbizon, Isle Just before Christmas they need three references several years ago.

the time," cajoled a thirsty Belfast business men, were they took the gaten away. two character and one As we tramped in the old scrounger, sidling up to heard from the centro As we left the pub, we social to get in.

cotton knew that the Belfa twillt countryside, chilled by us. What a wonderful table. Lancashire the piercing winds and the thing it is now, to be Having brokers were being enter brokers would bel melancholy beauty of the education, and a knowledge tained with a story of the men to the Min sombre landscape,, we were of the world. While a poor shipyards, but ke attracted By the glow and creature like myself, never

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