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Even Actors Are Learning Their Lines This Way

Adam & Eve Had A

A Word For It, Too

By J. W. TAYLOR

ȚEWLY-CREATED barons in the Now

NEWLY fanours have been busy choos-

ing their new titles in readiness for the first of the six-weekly Investitures at the Palace, commencing on February 8.

From way back in the days of Solo- mon men have been peculiarly preoccupied with names, some having lent theirs to Increase and enrich the English vocabu- lary. Certainly the carliest suggested man-word association of all applies to the "Adam's apple," a term used by most people to describe the projection of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx.

It is said to have arisen during the fateful moment when Adam accepted the forbidden apple in the Garden of Eden. A piece of it stuck in Adam's throat, It is, of course, beside the point if more than one much-married man has since been heard fervently to observe: "It should have choked him!”

Certain aspects of men's and women's fashions have been named from a variety of sources. There was San Pantaleone, Venetian saint, who gave his name to pantaloons and. of course,

THEY LEARN

LEARN WHILE

NEW method

A learning while

and

man

of

yon sleep is being mor more widely

a company

used in

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THEY SLEEP

By Dal Stivens

with

a sults came

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after a

to Vinay

It was suggested that he have a recording of his role, sung in italian, pinyed to him while dropping off sleep and while asleep. Vinns

It •

Mrs Amelia Bloomer, of 19th century fame, his fe- male counterpart,

Black Maria

The United States provides one of the most picturesque Lites • through Mark Lee, a regress of Arcanas atrength and pro- partions, whe ran a stlers' home

Boston, Philadelphia. No refractory seaman ever go the better of the mighty Morin, who mone then once pitched a trouble-maker out into the street t right on his neck. She ruled the places with an from hand, but a warm and generous heart.

In

Maria always closely observ.

ed the law and

and so often helped the police trace and

capture a ow Inw-breaker who might

have been a transient at her home that she was eternally glorified the famous official polico mode of transport the "Black Maria"

Founded In 1927, the Oscar,

coveted filmland's

trophy awarded for best performanoca and productions by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts in his

and Sciences, was but a nome.

One less trophy until 1931. because bis con-1".

day a newly-appointed librarian Adence had been shattered and to the Academy picked up the

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ho expected to fall. Every

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can

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and

remarked:

me

of my The name stuck.

"It Unclo

As for that sandwich you had other day, it found from John

fourth

Earl

of

Clymological fame Montague, Sandwich that what led to the Earl thus giving his name was a marathon of 24 hours at the gaming tabje, His only sustenance were thick between shoes of ment placed alabs of toast.

A historian tells us

America today. It is, som‹. Young Charles learnt hi taught in their sleep were 600 times every night. Re- thought the idea fantastic but

month was persuaded to give scientists believe, a

together blue- poems faster than he had tested,

trial. Within a week he could had print for the future when before, so Sherover put his group which had not been when

boy had

sing his role without a trace of school for our grandchildren idea up to the University of taught in this fashion. enough and stopped. Two a Spanish accent.

Another

use of the technique will not be school in the Carolina.

weeks later two other join- Impressed, the

The two Kroups were classroom but school in the University decided to test a

ed him, and a week later was applied in the case of

brillant student who asked to memorise the list Ave more stopped. inner spring mattress!

When pcruly failed group of students.

of fifteen words while The idea is a brain-child

the camp closed, eight had aminations The students were told scientists stood by with of

MIK! a New Yorker,

lust the habit entirely. Those who chair. they were being tested with flop-watches, Sherover, who was

while he trophy the

of night for a month use that the electro-encephalograph had been chanted to in

practical ex

recording implanted reminds

att nude positive

in the Oscar," the waves night memorised the list in Sherover's discovery of learning stept taught people foreign which measures

was made by a time than through sleep.

student's mind with carefully That Sandwich by languages

recordings. of the brain, and they went a quarter less

Hi know 10 Hollywood director. the machine those who had not,

selected phrases such as, "You Always interested in the to sleep with

ut many actors and actresses, problem of learning, he was electrodes attached to the

Other experiments

also being very busy people, could have nothing to fear. You have learned your subjects well and to read much statement skulls. Nothing was said to

know them thoroughly. showed the impressed by a

sume satisfac- not find time

this examination of a doctor friend that we them about the experiment

tory results. The inner more than their own parts In

knew film play. He learnt beat when in a relax- of learning during sleep.

mattress school method may that for

directed easily." a periretly

The student passed his next wanter actors he

and When were ed state.

examination brilliantly, Actually the encephalo- mean a general speeding up film

part actresses who knew every more relaxed than when

graph was an essential part in all learning.

so they would feel the drama asleep. we were

reasoned

property. of the test. Our brains give

without Not off different tiny electricai

trouble he persuaded them tu have a recording of the whole waves when we are awake

Alm story of a forthcoming and when we are asleep. waves when we uru with his small son, Charles, awake are short, sharp and In the small hours of the fast. In sleep the waves are and lacking in night

while his son slept, slower Father Sherover read over pattern.

When the encephalograph the verses the boy had been set to learn in school. It recorded that a student was seemed to promise resulta asleep, a muted phonograph but Father Sherover began which had been concealed to get rather concentrated in the pillow began to circles under his eyes, He recite a list of fifteen short them recited It diverted his attentions, words. therefore, to perfecting a monotonously over and over phonograph to stand-in for again, thirty times.

The next morning the him at certain hours of the

students who had night.

Sherover.

SON CHARLES experimented

Ile

first The

BAD HABITS

pome

be loaded down into the water.

THE TRICK

Among those who have been

Everyone knows of the ship's won to the new inner spring plimsoll line to mark the point The system has possibili ties, too, in getting rid of played to them each night for mattress method of learning

the brilliant Russian-born air- beyond which a vessel may not bad habits such ILY nail a week while they slept.

plane

designer, Alexander P. de

The name comes from Samuel chewing. At the College of The result of the experiment Seversky. He wanted to acquire Filmsoll, the "sailor's friend", William and Mary, Dr

was a vastly superior perfor en American accent in keeping m

long agliatod for of the with his newly acquired Ameri-Who Lawrence Leshan made 22.11 mance by all members

can citizenship. Each night on introduction of this load safe's experiment to see if

he cast.

retiring and while he slept he mark on ships.

The term "boycott", imply- could cure 20 boys of

bad recording of speeches by

including ing social or other ostracism, Franklin

from D. Roosevelt, played dates

the 19th century leading Americans,

to him. It did the trick. Captain Boycott. He was the The possible long-term detri-victim of conspiracy by the Irish

the

Ramon Vinay,

habit of nail chewing. While operu star, was a very worried the boys chewed their nails man.

In

the

over

the Chilean

With less than a week in their alcen the doctor's to go, he had to sing a role in

in Italien "My "Carmen" yoice draned away:

a person learning while he is him from making any social Angernails taste very bitter famous opern house of La Scala, mental effects on the health of Land League, which prevented

and his Italian was poor.

accent, asleep is still an open question, contacts in his district, My fingernails taste very had a heavy Spanish he

Vinay feared bitter."

The voice said the been sentence over and over

one

and Senor

Не

would be boord off the stage

by the hard-to-please and ex- for citable audience.

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THREE

ARGUMENTS

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DEFINE

THE RIGHT TO

TO HOLD FORMOSA

WHO

18 the rightful owner of Formosa? This vital legal question

By JAMES

will decids the right of the The Ryukyus were ceded to United States to protect the United States trusteeship but no was granted rule over island and possible United State

Formosa and the Kuriles. Nations action to end the

This meant that at that time Formosa did not automatically dispute.

bocomo Chinese territory. It belonged to no-one,

Top British internationa! lawyers who advise the International Court

T

The that

at

Legally it might have become

NO AUTHORITY

WICKENDEN

This menns that no

re-

cognised authority has ever laid dinim to Formosa since the Japanese peace treaty,

2. Classical international law recognises that, an

un- island becomes

the occupied property of the first to land on it and declaro possession,

This might make Chiang the

Πανα

claim to the Utlo

Formosa.

ΟΙ

In law the 48 powers have consent for given unwritten Chiang Kai-shek's government to run the island until the ques tion of its final rule has been settled,

title to the Therefore, Formosa still rests with the 48 powers.

SOUNDEST VIEW

the property of Ching if a rightful owner. But Chlang

The precedent for this case Hague point out ccgnised Chinese emissary had has never declared that he was

of it Formosa wore formally, accepted the island on

Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Palestine, has boen to reprosent China legally Chinese territory the behalf of his government. The healer of Formosa. His claim Turkey's renunciation

would have fulfilled the Cali

and that Formosa is part of Byria and Lebanon after World bo United States would

L War and Potsdam declaration this Chian. intervening in a civil war. Formosa should

go back to

Aled, he has never been re- At that peace conference the of- Turkish But they explain that China.

cognised by any power to be abandonment Formosa is neither. Chinéso

the ruler of the bland. His covereignty over those territorica international #labur has been resulted in mandated, rule by territory nor the property of

only that of head of the Na- Britain This has subsequently Chiang Kai-shek

handed over

focal to tional Government of China, Boers recognised by the United States governmente,

Tho third view In but not by Erilaine

3. At the peace tronly, the soundest according to the titis to the land became vested lawyers, It means that, in the 48 powers who accepted. Foroca can, be ruled only

*murrender. of comment of most of the states In Japan's

the United Nations, excluding sovereignty.

These powers, including such India, Yugoslavia, Buring and diverse states as Cambodia and Chios, which did not sign the Halil, but excluding China, still peson freely with Japane

the

The lawyaw my there are But the Chinesa Communist three posible arguments to regime has never taken this step. define

legal statum of. They could not because Chlang

Kai-shek was already thera, Formora

Formowa Was Japanese until the 1951 San Francisco Since the signatory powers to Japanowe peace treaty do peace treaty. In the treaty, the Mariod by 48 states, Japan not recognise Chiang Kai-shek roagunced ovaredanty over as the representative of China, Forno ha Karles, and the he was locally incapable of see Ryukyu. Zalarali,

cepting Formons for China,

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