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every so often one woman's face sets the pattern

THE PEKINESE

HERE is always" a prevailing fashion in when you wear your

waist; the angle of your hat; the height or your heel; the colour of your lipstick. Frivolous, quickly changed, but fundamental details of the contemporary feminine look, to which most women (all except the

LOOK

by:

Amanda Marshall

FIRST came

Garbe

THEN Came

Hepburn

remote,

mysterious

Leslie Caron, the eternal

nymph-like,

exotic

Attle

This 19

Britain Goes Ahead with the Salk Vaccine

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

London, and with the U.S, public health FTER & most thorough authorities. He was strongly impressed by the new "US. inquiry the Medical safety methods for testing the Research Council 18 väetine.

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in

VINDICATED

WETS

going to recommend that

His report showa 'that almost the American vaccine all the US. children who This is the way that new of the none so pretty so oddly and charmingly against poliomyelitis the developed pollo after being in-

which includes that she instantly qualifies Salk strong-minded, the saintly, plumpish London dancer- are perky, snub-nosed, wide- heroine looks. She is odd brigade,

vaccine shall be Jerted with the vaccine the raging beauty or the Audrey Hepburn.

given doses from a faulty butch. mouthed,

with appealing rather than pretty. And blonde Jill Bennett, who as the New Contemporary tested on British children.

which still contained some live added a curious charm to Face.. xenuine English aristocrat)

little pushed-in faces and a above all she is young.

almost germs. The rest were The Hepburn looks are by-

Mothers need not be alarmed certainly developing pollo as the James Agate used to delight whaling in Hell Below Zero' approximate, no matter how

touch of the Little Orphan now, of course, more family

and looked so like the Manet in remembering how the great Super stringent safety pre- slightly.

result of natural infection before a kind heart Annie with

actress Rajone's face was once cautions are to be imposed to .sayings than household

bar-girl in Moulin Rouge. and a bouncy courage in the

described as a wide-awake ensure that none of the vaccine they were given the vaccine. There is an even" more words. Winged eyebrows,

the can. accidentally transmit the And Andree Melly, who Pekinese Girl's look exactly. fundamental fashion

disease for in vast eyes, generous mouth teeth of a grown-up world.

happened evidence all around you. and jaw, cropped head, the Garbo and Hepburn have Cinderella, is her prototype: played the outspoken but Hopeful, urching, cheerful walls, America.

British manufacturery water the timeless mystery and Her hair is straight and innocent heroine in the tour they are a thousand miles away The Fashion in Faces. Every look of

will a puzzled

have to send samples of every once in a way an extraordin- nymph in cold weather'

Her of The Moon is Blue, whose from the well-groomed strangeness of Leonado da often soup-bowl cut.

hound handsomeness of the batch of the vaccine for Gov- nry woman stamps the pat variations on The Hepburn Vinci's angels and maden far-from-rosebud mouth eyes are as big as saucers, great fashion models.

ernment examination at the tern of her face across the Look sell us a cup of tea or nas; the new little pretties spreads over a good many And Anna Massey, the new

National Institute for Medical Research. Ingenue in The Reluctant reflecting female faces of a bus ticket and adorn the have the smudged, blurred, over-prominent teeth.

No batch will be released hemisphere. Imitation, social hours of the Espresso half-fledged tender charm of She has the adolescent Debutante, whose features

until it has been proved to be make-up, and the laws of bar and the Launderette, those girls in punts and charm of a baby ballerina, conform to no known classic natural selection get busy on Even the plaster faces of ballet-classes that the im thin-limbed and boy-figured, standards of prettiness, but making thousands of friend- window-dressers models in pressionists loved to paint. She is the most delectable whose face is proportioned ly domestic imitations, just New York have been cast in

FOUR OUT OF FIVE ARE IN THE '55 FASHION ✩

"the way that quick, efficient her image.

wholesale dress houses in-

stantly adapt 1 great

couturier's inspiration for

the mass market.

Garbo was such a cosmic

What are the newest

I see it as the Pekinese

disturbance. Her face, epic manifestations of that look, and remote as the Himala- domesticated and tamed into yas, made the future possi. familiarity? ble for all those big-boned. craggy but friendlier, less Look, embodied in Brigitte awe-inspiring girls, Katha Bardot, bright-eyed little rine Hepburn, Joan Craw French actress in the forth- ford and Ingrid Bergman. coming film, Doctor at Sea Garbo's type swept the the girl the French call world-until a noticeably the Gorgeous Peke. skinny, long-legged girl

with the almost sexless, Her face is a signpost on exotic features of a little the road of contemporary idol was created by Holly- looks, Rounder, less remote wood genius out of a pretty, than Hepburn, the new girls

A COOL LOOK AT THE LOVED ONES

HAVE THE OLIVIERS LIVED ON TOO LITTLE

Andrad Melis

Lelio Cerv

A Sannatt

Anne Mosser

Grace Kelly

T

They are generally pocket-harmless by different tests sized, their hair makes no pre-lasting more than a monta, tence to curi, and some years Improved safety standards for ago, before their particular making the vaccine are to be looks hit the market, most bf sent to all manufacturers. them would have visited a good plastic surgeon to see about a new nose.

race

EFFECTIVE

precautions

But unless Grace Kelly

With of cool

these presages a new buttermilk blandes and puts all Medical Research Council chiefs those little squashed Peke noses are satisfied that the vaccine even further out of joint, if developed by Dr Jonas Salk will such a thing were possible the be safe as well as effective. next few years are all theirs.

They have their decisions on u }} report submitted to them by Dr And we will probably en-Walter Perry, who was sent to our alce conventional America to make an on-the-spot regular features to look. just investigation of the vaccine slightly out of tume, so that we troubles.

look manage to

a little like them.

courage

D. Perry talked with Dr Balk, with the vaccine manufacturers,

YOU'RE NEVER TOO

by Jill Craigie

of

FOR TOO LONG? history, people be-

By JOHN BARBER

OR an hour London's feeble film called Carrie." In St Martin's Lane was England he turned singer in a disastrous flm of "The Beggar's Opera"

shut to traffic. A crowd of 2,500 blocked the entrance to the New Theatre.

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"We want Larry," chanted hundreds of girls. And when Laurence Olivier left the theatre he was forced on to the roof of the taxi to make a speech of farewell,

He did lease a London theatre backed the St James's-but flop after flop. On stage, he dribbled his talent into such trivial comedy as "The Sleeping Prince."

а

married

It happened ten years ago. at the end of an Old Vic season. It She-the dazzlingly lovely buk was the peak of Olivier's career

aa an actor.

blazed

pedestal. For ten years now he 000-their entire savings. has been up there.

un-

In defiance history, people be- lieve that by the age of 40 the days of romance are over. Nothing could be further from the truth.

"Y

OLD TO LOVE

stirrings in the human

heart

are extinguished only with life itself. Convention alone ridicules or raises its eyebrows at the of the elderly. The amours facts tell a different take.

Consider what some of the older men have been up to out- side the acting profession. Two most publicised marriages in the political world in recent times

have been those of Sir Anthony Elden, aged 55, and Herbert Morrison, agod 87. And, in one sense these two must be classed

almost as adolescent suitors.

At 80 Lloyd George married his secretary

who

was then 35.

Confining this record to those

whose affairs have actually led them to the altar we can extend the list endlessly: Ralph Vaughan Williams married at 21, Sir Alexander Korda at 80 and Bertrand Russell at 80.

Nor are late romances only a phenomenon of modern times. Way back a few hundred years Sir Winston Churchill's ancestor the Duchess of Marlborough re- ceived two proposals after she was 60.

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even

their anyone

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The accident was entirely due, to a fault in commercial pro diction of the vaccine. It was not dare to any basic defect in Dr Salk's methods.

His work has been entirely vindicated by the Inquiry, and the hopes that it will eventually mean the defeat of polle due as high as ever.

The failure of one batch of the vaccine must be measured aguinst the success of thousands of others. More than 8,000,000 UB. säildren who were inocula- other ted with vaccine from batches experienced effects.

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And there is every reason to believe that most of them are so well protected by the vaccine that scores who would otherwise have contracted the disease this polte season will now escape it.

I can reassure Eritish parents that there is no substance in the scare about "satellite pollo" -the theory that children who have been inoculated with the properly, made vaccine are & source of infection to others."

When properly prepared ind tested, the vaccine does NOT give the children a mild form of the disease, as some vaccines have to before they can work.

PROTECTIVE

It is a "killed" vaccine, which works on the principle that the dead bodies of the minute polio. germs from which the vaccine is made can stimulate the blood, to form protective substatices which are effective against an attaci by live germs.

History will show

that the accidental infection of the US. children was one of the "teeth- ing troubles" which are almost inevitable, when medical re- search enters a new field.

Remember, some people ex- perienced severe ill effects from impurities in the early batches of penicillin. But their suffer. ing does not detract now, from the Kie-saving power of Fleming's great discovery.

Lacta

In the light of all the the Medical Research Council is clearly right in deciding to go ahead with its plans to make every safe use of Dr Salk's fine work.

RESEARCH

YOU live your life Always now, at his side, was

and I will live

The eternally young-Sir Alexander Korda, Gracie Fields and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Vivien Leigh. He was no longer

mine," remark-

A first trial to find out how A brimstone an individual. He was half of

ed Joan Craw. "the Oliviers. They

Vaughan As much as any young lover and neither Ralph

was ready with abject effective the vaccine will be polio partner- ford the other day when her

And she, be it not forgotten, to be unique.

Bernard Shaw believed his love Willams nor Bertrand Russell apology, but before I could utter against the British types in August 1941. The ship began ominously.

stepdaughter suggested that

is in the Roger Bannister class. a word he bearded at me and germ will not start before the the had truly earned her reputation 35 "A brimstone of a wife."

"But they all possess a certain said: "My dear, how delightfallate autumn, and will probably oydinary little actress who bad she should travel on

Yet in defiance of all history something. Maybe a lock in the of you not to arrive in show be held over until next spring.

There hoping you the small wound caused by an "is strong evidence that to stardom in "Gone with Paris Metro. For the young Nearly half a century ago Ber- many people believe that by the eye, a spring in the walk, an boots, I was so the Wind" co-starred with him girl, the Paris underground nard Shaw, to his astonishment, age of 40 or so the days of attitude of mind, perhaps sheer

er wouldn't. They do look so

injection, needle, can sometimes His triumph then, with both for the first time in "Romeo and

hideous, don't you think?" How often was a delightful discovery; suddenly found himself in love romance are over.

des zest.

cause what would be a mid critics and publiée. in plays from Juliet." "Plodding and

with Mrs Patrick Campbell, the aging imagine themselves to was w Shakespeare to Sophocles and inspired," said the critics.

but the older woman

For zest I have never met Many a date with a beau has attack of pollo to flare up into Shaw, thrust Olivier on a

His love letters, are part of our tion. Sometimes The venture cost them £12,- engaged in a more ancient mother of a grown-up daughter. be incapable of physical attrac

like quite.

Ralph faded into insignificance beside a crippling infection. pastime. At the age of 48 terary met and dreamed," he almost as unnatural

heritage.

adventures in love are regarded Vaughan Williams. Eo once that Junch with Vaughan wrote some music for a fl of Williams. And that was in 1943 Joan Crawford is on her

writes,

"and walked on air for honeymoon.

all that afternoon and the next Nothing could be farther from mine; I had an appointment and he is still going strờng.

with him . for inch. We Marital escapades by film day as if my next birthday was the truth. A recent American

These qualities are not con- arranged to meet on the steps

Because of this injection fined to people who are famous risk, research is being pushed had married. More, perhaps, stars are so common that we my 20th. I could think of survey on longevity has finally

or possess exceptional talent. ahead to produce a vaccine But for ten years now Lau- than his own carcer. Now he no longer take them serious nothing but a thousand, scenes proved that people who live to

According to the Registrar which can be taken by mouth, rence Olivier has done nothing wanted only one thing: to make ly. If an actress marries at of which she was the heroine a ripe old age often maintain

and I the hese and I am on the a prolonged interest in sex.

General 22,000 onlinary men a comparatively late age for verge of 58. There has never

Why, theri, do some people

women marry every year. · Such a vaccine might have

tion; now he has only fame,

He rehearsed with her far into the fourth time she seems been anything so delightful state while others seize all, the at the studio and arrived hair **** they are over the age of two further advantages. Doctors 1945.

all his great achieve the night.

He took Infinite only to conform to the freak the history of the world. ments were already behind him. paine. As director of her plays behaviour of a freak pro Friday we were together for an advantages of a full life? It has an hour late. It was a bitterly must do is to cultivate wider and more lasting protection. It

son he wrung enchanting perfor

hour, we visited a lord; we nothing to do with a person's cold day with snow on the interests and overcome their in- could also probably be made The Dorking clergyman's

fession. Besides, Joan Craw drove in a taxi; we sat on a sofa shape, appearance

I arrived consumed hibitions.

the boring without the use of the thousands had come far. In the theatre mances from her.

His masterpiece

herford has sufficient wealth in Kensington Square; and my health.

with gulit keeping one of his statistics clinch the exciting of monkeys which are needed he was known as a vitality, Cleopatra, four years ago. But and leisure to make the years fell from me like a gar- Gracie Fields is no Venus, years and frailty waiting about truth: No one is ever too old for the production of the Salk

for love. as her Anthony, he seemed tired,most of herself. Small won

in such brutal weather,

vaccine. exhausted by his efforts. It

He has hauled his wife Vivien

Leigh up beside him. As "the

Oliviers" they are feted and idolized.

Just One Thing

But Olivier loved the girl he

that has added an inch to his hers. stature. Once he had a reputa-

of matchless gusto and

a brilliant comedian, 3 haunting tragedian.

The War Over

was

was as if she had drained him. der she gets her man at

I hate

that phrast, "The the age of 47.

It kowtows to the TE

Olivashionable couple in show i

most business. The titled lions of

Endloss list

The flim people would pay anything to get him. Scorning Hollywood, he had directed and Mayfair salons. The pair royalty Ginger Rogers at 41 made

starred in his own

own spectacular.

know by Larry-and-Viv."

look beyond the gloss

an equally devastating con

flm of "Henty. The war was Over was & great actor. But/quest, we

He was .over.

money

38.

his kleuring, viperista Gracie Fields, who married

could have gone to Richard III, his fiery

Hamlet, at 54, does not quite fit into

He the City and raised all the he has lost his way Now at this category. True she is a

he wanted. He could 48, he is an aging matinee idol, have acquired his own theatre, and as actor-manager dazzled desperately Aghing to win back singer; but she has always his old reputation. To young had the courage to look and people, he is a name that be her age. Still, Gracie is "He could have con

commissioned

attaches to plays and given the Olivier achievement.

the world with bold, new enter- prises,

new

no

outstanding unique.

that

Must we theri conclude stamp to classics as no one had She is a great beauty sul late marriages are the peculiar done since Henry Irving, date 42. As an actress, excellent sport and prerogative of the But some weakness in in a dainty, waspish way, thating profession? Not a bit of Olivier's make-up shackled his seldom touches the heart. banda, * He went "traipsing off to It is time we saw them both conclusion that we are Hollywood, to act a waiter in a as they really ere,

e

it there fe hope for everyone.

All the evidence points to the

never.

too old for love Romanis

‚ment,"

of an office in Soho Square.

A cold day

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and

To my dismay. I was in resign themselves to the cellbate

detained

On

JOHNNY HAZARD

I TOLD ME WHERE HE WAS

POOR SHAY? IF ONLY HED

HIDDEN THESE KILLERS WOULDN'T HAVE DROPPED THE FLOOR FRON UNDER

Alexander Korda no

WE SHOULD BE WITHIN SIGHT OF OUR DESTINATION NOW! HOLD YOUR COURSE STEADY WHALE I MAKE

RADIO CONTACT!

OF:

even ground.

Sir

Adonis,

HELLO. CHARTER CALLING THE "GENERA EAR YOU HEAR ME? JO

GENERAL TO CHARTER: PLANE I HEAR YOUNG YOU

· ARE SOUTHWEST. OF THE LANDING

STRIPEKEE

So the injections will not be given in the summer, when the pollo risk is greatest.

It seems that all the lonely believe it would give stronger

Yet,

By Frank Robbins

CIRCLE NORTH AND COME IN FOR THE LANDING A TELL THE PILOT TO MAKE IT GOOD GAIT

WILL BE HIS LAST ONE! N

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