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MRS POST

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1955.

ADDS

A POSTSCRIPT

AT 68, AMERICA'S TOP HOSTESS EXTENDS HER HORIZONS

From EVELYN IRONS

of

New York, tion, now the world's biggest Mrs Poot has bought unother food concerTI, with Washingtow place, Arbremont, IFE begins again at 68 packaged

scores of products that include with 24 acres. The imposingly for Mrs Marjorie Maxwell House coffee and porticoed house is now being

Post. Jell-O... Merriweather

redecorated no a setting for her Mrs Post's holding in the millions of dollars worth Six months ago, after 19 years of narriage, she Corporation is worth 10 million town house furniture.

dollars, and she also owns It gueste at her fabulously divorced her third husband, vast tract of Texas, with oil appointed houses have uny

is E. wells, bought her father criticism,

by

that is like 78-year-old Joseph Davies,

staying in a museum. The rooms former American nearly 50 years o

She is the only woman ameng are ruffed with thằng, Mrs Ambassador to Russia, au- the company's 17 directors, Pest is til expert on 18th thor of "Mission to Mos- Every month she installs her century French furniture and

bric-a-brac. cow,

resumed her self in her suite in one of Man- Americu-indian and

hattan's plushiest hotels and She studied antiques with Lon- maiden nume.

sharp at 8.15 am, takes one of don's Lord Duyten, and textiles Now she reigns alone as queen the firm's cars to their new, with New York's Metro- of Washington society. She is offices at suburban Wisite Plains politan Museum. 1er possessions the hostest with the mostest In

altend the board meeting. are priceless. America, and probably in the

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She claims that it was ber In her bedroom she uses the world. She is one of the 10 idea, back in 1929, to add a gold dressing-table set made by richest women in the country brand new industry, frozen the City of Parls for the mother She entertains on a scale

of foods, tu the corporation's of the late Tsor of Ritesh, and

opulence that harky back to the activities. fabled days of Mrs Cornelius Vanderblit at the start of the century,

Gold cutlery Ilegal, statuesque, with up swept grey hair and a 27-inch waist, Mrs Post is still an at- tractive woman. She has only to be seen lunching

or dining with

friend 1

hotel Colonel Serge Obolensky

mint

in

the exquisite desk which www was one of Murie Antoinette's wed-

the ding prevents,

When Ambassador Davles appointed ambassador do Soviet, Marjoric, who has Topaz and jade enough ussurance to sell re- frigerators to Esquimaux, made Her third home, from which headlines by shipping huge she has just returned after a supplies frozen foods out season of summer entertaining, ahead of their arrival in the is Topridge, a private village Russian capital.

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When Everest was conquered by Hillary and Tensing, the victory was, the culmination of a big-scale operation organised in military fashion by a soldier. Thousands of pounds were deployed to gather skilled labour, special boots, tents, cookers, oxygen tanks and food for the venture. Since then, another British expedition has penetrated to Sola Khambu, the Valley of Fifteen the story of that expedition.

Peaks. This is

immigration oflice knew nothing about.

savod

his He worked, and oney. By the time McInnes was able to join him in New Zealand they were able to scrape

. up £250 each.

This 't much. The steamer fare to India was £175, and train fares there would cost

we

an impression In their modest "The sun was hot, and way is Clive had done.

dumped our packs and sat on one of these pedestals. In a This was a now kind of sahib., Ansh the traffic cop shot out of With their hundred pound a house near by and jumped on packs,

their lack of inhibition

to the pedestal and waved and their practically empty

on up the street. fresh pockets, they species. Their route lay by rail to Patna, steamer up the Ganges

to Sondur Ghat, Nepul.

were B

anti rall to

Beginning Today: Another Fascinating Series

ADVENTURE ON

A

T

SHOESTRING

Two Men's

Men's Target: Everest On £30

HE expedition con-

sisted of two men-

By CLIFF HANLEY

a carpenter and # shupkeeper's sou, shipyard, he brooded

on

over more.

J

"We would

have hired elephants and done the thing in

Cunningham style,"

admits modestly. "But they

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"We were probably the only chance he had had to wave his arms for six months."

Their first real troublé árose when they arrived at Nepal. The Nepalese are still sticky about strangers und very sparing : with their entry permits. Cunning- and McInnes had set out blithely after being refused per- mits, but the problem suddenly had to be freed

There was another problem Cunningham recails, "I had done all right with my Urdu studies, but I discovered right away that the Nepalese don't speak Urdu For some Blogical reason they speak Nepalese

'way, this helped, since

it produced the maximum con- fusion. When the frontler police asked for our entry permits we played dati.

pulled out my vaccination certificate, which baffled them, but they finally waved it away and kept their hands out. I tried other official documents anything at all, but they wanted that permit.

Then I shouted triumphantly and gave them the last letter I had had from my mother. I could see we had them worried

As an assisted emigrant have any hall-crown by this time.

their

mect own

in a lake in the ruggedly plc- furesque Adirondack mountains. It is so secluded that not even Her income places her a bridle path leads to it. Visitors New York, or 59-year-old John America's highest-of-all Lox are talten there by launch across Logan, president of the Nation- bracket. She is allowed to keep Upper St. Regis Lake. She has ni Association of Food Chains only

parties four cents out of every

of 30 there, in individual luxury in Washingto-to set the gossip dollar. Because of taxes, she has grouped

she will had to make one concession to cottages, with 40 servants columnista rumouring

has sold But her friends austerity. She

her look after them.

They had planned to ussuilt Everest. He had the weird leaving the country before his By avolding Orst-class marry again.

contracted

Was period

out, which Bay

clipper this

was easy, and adapting unlikely, not because 350ft, square-rigged

For her grand-scale Washing Everest. but the Hunt ex- notion that if he worked of her age. but because she is Sea Cloud, one of the biggest ton dinner parties she likes to pedition beat them to it. his passage

Cunningham had to find an extra their habits to the country, they WORN DOWN to India,

themselves one CBO to deposit with the New absorbect enjoying her freedom.

without private yachts in the world. seat her friends at five large Mrs Past Is

than

stopped by required a crow of 72, and cost separate tables. One is set with They were

a day, he might be able to Zealand Government as a token difficulty into the population. her her $1,000,000 a year to keep amethyst crystal and porcelain storm 900 feet social lender famous for

from the tackle the

inclimbable goed fr th against his retur time on an Urdu textbook and Cunningham had spent some liveried servants, priceless up.

with an orchid centre-piece from

about £30.

"They decided to worry, about could even Mrs Post Is, however,

occasionally porcelain and solid gold cutlery.

ex- her own conservatories. Another peak of Pimoru. They suc- mountain

problems ceeded in sealing Pingaro- A boy's crazy dream! But money

when they some Indions in other has red roses, ruby glass

on Sho is a shrowd and experi- panding her empire

and

Just before they ground. enced business woman. She had directions. This winter, after red china. A third is laid with the Finger, twenty thousand what he finally

did do were broke.

boarded ship, a New Zealand a good start in trade.

an absence of six years, she is the sapphire blue glass that the feet of cold rock.

doesn't sound much less climbing enthusinst came She Inherited

million reopening her vast villa, Mar- last Tsar had on his yacht, and

Cunningham. They made their final crazy. dollars from her father, Charlos A-Lago, on the ocean at Palm decorated with carnations dyed

She has Willam Post, who made his for Beach, Florida,

had to match. A fourth is done in assault in one day of solid

Hamish Mcinnes is A He had heard about their ex- tune by inventing and market- some of her most fantastic topaz and a th in fade. elimbing and descended in good climber, though prob- pedition and wanted to offer ing Postum and Post Toasties, parties there. Once sho hired With this taste for lavishness Post Laught his daughter about the whole Ringling Brothers Mrs Post combines a distaste darkness, without porters or ably not in Cunningham's them his yak tent in case the the business almost from the and Barnum and Bailey circus for publicity. She likes to keep Sherpas, and their rations class. He has two other had none of their own. cradio, She went

to her first to put un, a three-day show on her parties very, very exclusive. wero a raw turnip each, a talents: He is big

one day for her

but board meeting when she was the estate,

She loves display,

the bar of chocolate and a tin prodigiously strong, the other display must be private. Marry eight.

and run the private guests

two,for charity,

of her closest friends are Demo-

of pate de foie gras.

of ho has a lack machines,

crats, for she is a Democrat This is Himalayan climb- tions in his

ing Scottish style. With life. out sponsorship or funds, sometimes

"I could even she says, From her father's death in Tregaron, the 21-acre Wash 1914 until 1022 Maforie was the Ington estate which was her. horself.

Postum company.

the and included a nine-hole Koli twenties the company developed course, into the General Foods Corporu- name. So since

single controlling owner of the home for more than 10 years Now Washington, is waiting

During

wus

to see what the magnificent Mrs in Mr Davies's Post will do next.

the divorce,

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Cunningham and

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Two incidents on the journey indicate how different this Scot- tish Hiranlayan expedition was from the traditional safaris.

They TRANSACTION

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McInnes, watched this as the most laughable looking ex-

"Hamish and I joined in the game of muttering and gestica. lating and smiling. winningly. and we finally just wore them down. They decided it would be less trouble to let us through than to argue any longer, and we were in.”

The climbers did even better than this with their winning personalities. The frontier police at Namche Bazaar Iny15

few days. 19

to

and

Stay for During the crossing, Melnnça

guests, and everyone had a good in

One of their travelling com- time before the boys moved on. inhibi Cunningham succeeded

pation charming the women passengers.

Was A Eurasian who

With

a certain amount of attitude to A ladies' sewing clrclo

became friendly with two Scots, money to spend, Cunningham established to sew their ground accepted their shortage of cash and McInnes were prepared to sheets

terit--the two 0s a reasonable thing, and offers hire porters from time to Ume, into the things have to be joined together them some of his own food, and did But

10 Nepalese, for Himalayan work, otherwise which they accepted in the same accustomed to Rolls-Royce-type for much of the time with-

the tent is liable. to be blown friendly spirit.

expeditions, they исто out even a tent, and all

A well - dressed

times a crushing disappointment. Indian the time without permis-

transaction Some years back he ap

Inside Nepal, from Tan Khot in sion to enter Nepal at all, proached Cunningham

some puzzlement, never having service--an

there is to Khatmandu,

1 bus nged vehicle that Glesca sahib at close apparently dated back to 28-year-old John Cunning a stranger and suggested pedition ever to land in Mother

the ham and

and Hamish McInnes that they should join up for packs and realed

Cunningham India, shouldered their huge MeInnes became aware of his days of Kublai Khan. walked 600 miles with 100

down the scrutiny during the later stages this bus were really sharp budi- The driver and conductor of an Everest climbi pound packs to discover if

Bangplanke at Bombay at the and of the journey, and were $3 "I could borrow a tent, of July fast year.

jessmen," they could tackle the Hima and I know

slightly disturbed by it.

Cunningham told me. a bloke with

"I don't blame them, of course Inyas and discovered that

By this time they knew But on the Ganges steamer, they're used to rich climbers. crampons he doesn't need. roughly where they stood. They the Indian Introduced himself They were willing to carry us they could.

Have you got a rope?" This had applied through the. to them. He wag obviously to Katmandu, but they wanted was the kind of proposition Government for permission to ment as he asked them if they price in the region of the Himalayan Club to the Nepal trying to conceal his embarrass- us to hire the whole bus, at a you could expect from enter: Nepal. The application would allow him to stand the national debt. McInnes.

In the Craig Dhu climb-

PRINCIPALS

***

was turned down fat.

scen д quarters,

a glass of lemonade,

It never occurred to them to TWO SEATS sub his generous invitation.

They dra

drank the lemonade, and

A Norwegian explorer ing club they sometimes TOO LATE back from three years. in called him Cuckoo. He had Antarctica heard some of a talent for worming his their story A few weeks why into other people's In an effort to get, whatever ago and declared flatly that tents and commandeering was going free, they had written this story caps Kon-Tiki. other people's gear with n whoedling letters to several big They had a glimpse of in By any standards it ranks casual persistence

that firms who might be interested in

prestige. rather than rage. It was Another

as one of the great adven- raised them to admiration obliged with a hundred bars.

A chocolate

tures of the century.

were rewarded with the evident glee of their host, For one India, a giant step forward had been made in inter-racial rela

other India in Bergunje, a little Arm village en route for Nepal.

fiona.

letter a useful talent to take to McInnes a beautiful jacket, but EASY CATCH

brought John Cunningham is a Nepal.

Cunningham eft his letter too. man who slight modest

This was the team that late and heard no more about it. world-wide photographic

He has

YOU FORGOT to wind your watch? It can't happen when you wear a Tissot automatic

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would not stand out in crowd climbers are always obviously

men.

the watch that remembers

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to wind itself. Just set it

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and your wrist motions do

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the work your fingers formerly

did.

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mon.

All dials are set with

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in

"We wanted two seats like

work-

We

any other peasants, and men's tickets if possible, cusalon about it, and finally had rather an unpleasant dis Hamish and I walked away threatening to call the police.

"I don't know if they under- and we certainly had no calling anybody, but we hadn't gone far when the bus pursued us and the lads indicated that they had changed

"We shook off our packs, and

with

them

-any_mote,

a set out to tackle the Hima- company was willing to supply "They've got a small stream their minds. not layas. Eric Shipton, whose them, with gear and films in running past the village, with muscle word stands high in climb exchange for complete rights nsh in it. But why walk to the. they rushed to help us aboard

ing, has suggested

over all pictures taken. the

burn? The villagers have They turned the offer down diverted the stream through the

But they couldn't As it happens, he is as with a small party, living own.

wisdom of doing the job and found a camera on their main street of the village, and Ect them the ground.

The driver

actually tough пя teak.

they can catch fish without even struggling with Hamish's, and been climbing in Scotland as much as possible off the

Thoir funds were down to leaving their front doors,

going black in the Lace, "And they land.

when catch for

13 years,

£75 each and they had to cross umbrellas, honestly. They just Hamlet swing It up to the bus and many

practically the whole of India dip the brollies in the

door

with the good judges consider him

Nepaleso AN OFFER

before they could even

start with

water dangling from. it.. Hamish is a The ferrules the finest rock-climber in

walking.

pointing very strong boy. downstream and pick them Scotland:

You know... what?".

Nobody argued full of water and sometimes fish and wo gol te Katmandu.” Shipton

"We're

too. We could learn something wasn't thinking McInnes. This means that he has of a team as small as two that's what."

The expedition, like

More from the Indians.

famous expeditions, was now in "You're dead right, boy," said "But superb co-ordination

what tickled us about Nepal. and men, and it was originally Cunningham. "It must bo balance and

The rest was going to Borgunje was the contentious bo sithple... All they had to do a high-power- planned to have four In murder to be rich. Come on,”

ness of the police. The streets was walk with their packs to-weight ratio, A few the party; but the two And they sot off for were completely deserted when the vicinity of Everest, It was

Katmandu. years ago he held a West others couldn't make the

we stopped for a rest-traffe is of Scotland championship trip East..

India has had some centuries something they've never heard only a few hundred miles away, to Brow

accustomed to the of catch-as-catch - can

(COPYRIGHT) By 1953, John Cunningham British, and some people say the "But they have little · stone wrestling.

had gone to New Zealand. His East is never surprised. But pedestals in the middle of the As an

amtime as a carpenter.was out, and when, John Cunningham

and street for, traffle" cons, In case apprentice car- ho travelled tree as an assisted, Hamish McInnos landed in two barrows arrive in town ort penter in John Brown's Immigrant, but he had plans the Bombay, they made as much of the same day and create a jam.

in

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