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★ Hi Fi Records Before The · Races ★
Trainers Use Classical
Music To Soothe Their Greyhounds" Pre-race Jitters.
Greyhounds Relax To From Miami: Brahms & Beethoven
Miami.
"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast”-so said William Congreve. And in Miami, Florida, it is doing just that.
Two greyhound owners have installed Hi Fi systems in their kennels, which play Brahms and Beethoven to their dogs before they go to the post for a big race,
They are the President of the East Pingler Kennel Club, Mr Isidore Heelt and Mr Jack Cooper.
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to relax dogs," he added United Press
From London:
The Gentle Sergeant Leaves The Army To Servo Another
Flog.
From
Stockholm:
A Now Pre- poration To Help Get Rid Of Excess
Weight.
From
Paris:
A Young French Architect Has Developed The World's First All-plastic House,
AFRICAN TSOLO
London,
A game pizyed for ce- turies by Africans, who shroaded its rules in tribal fabu, will be introduced to Europe at the Betis In- dustrials FatE At Barja Court, London, this month, The game, tsojo, is played a similar principle to draughts.
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It was brought to Britain by Miss Patile Price, a Bouth Africs authority on Bantu folklore, who learned how to play is before the war from a Barto house-
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The game is played on a bonel which Вда four paradio) rown of six bolts- two rows for each player. The counters are cowrto
which shells, and the firm
will manufacture the game In Britain has imported theam whelly from Attica to make
the
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THE GENTLE SERGEANT
JOINS UP
By Anthony Brown
London.
used to bar and that makes ERGEANT Albert
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energy."
of
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John
Cass, the gentle sergeant of artil-
put them in a state of relaxlery, the N.C.0, who has iten."
Cows Have It, Too
"It frat jazz at Orst," Mr
never Sworn at
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private, and who wakes
his men with a smile, is
to leave the British
Harris auct "Buy your think Army.
they were a bunch of hob, cals i the way they acted. They went wild. But when we put on the Tlf me of Braipur, Beet ven, Mozart and the other greats!
Jauny just Joved it. They hardly whim- ཙྩེ ཐཱངྒl*tཎྞཾ It just put them in state of serenity."
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Two doctors who slevyfograd a new Swedish reducing preparat tion reported in the
Swedish
Medical Journal that it seems
The 43-year-old soldier is to serve another flog and another
uiter 14 years
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Artillerymen at Woolwich, where the gentle sergeant ts doned, talked! of him the ther day.
There was the RS.M.: "Sam" Cus? Pine disciplinarian, smart soldier, a credit to this Army-- as he will be to the one he's going to serve.
A fine man
"He doesn't drink, smoke, or wwenn He's never thrown 0 crew. Kar fya--r¢
puntoom arhom All of us admire him... from the bandstren celmel."
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There was his comrade from the days of 42: "His served in battery which shot down 120 By
apart from Doulers and Heinkels off Dover and Portsmouth. He served in the desert, in Jordan, wond with anti-terrorist patrols In the Canal Zone. A very time
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tes be a good aid to reducing mun.
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There was the corporal:
Writing in the Journal, | 06.00, when reveille's sounded, Doctors Holge Nystrom and Sam't ass doesn't hurtle into barack TONDITI shouting: both weight the reducing experts the St, Get up, you lazy so-and-so's No, it's: "Out of bed, chap George's Hospital, wid that the product had given their patients and shout. And every time he time to get up and ring the "subjective feeling of com- gets results" picte satisfaction that 19 There 1008 the gunner; **I absolutely neecssary to eat less remember making a mistake and reduce weight."
when 1 was on No. 1 Bofors, Some Sergeants would have
A NEW
LIFE OF
SERVICE
"When Kiven in connection cussed and cussed. But not with a diet and under a doctor's Cass. He said, sharply: Wake enlisted. directions, the
preparation has up, you dozer blighter.
"I felt like letting wake my principles and belle's slide." up."
he said. And there was the National
such things
ven results that must be held | up.' encouraging." the two doctors said.
Service man: "Ho's as hat as "But one Sunday I stopped fo Usten to a prayer service of street corner in Woolwich. 1
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"The medicine is no universal rtanedy for fat people who want
-but in a gentle way.
'fe doesn't put you on
to become slim, but It seems to you on one side and have
be a good expedient for weight reducing cures," Drs Nystrem and Swenning concluded.
The manufacturer la planning to export the preparation.
Now, however, the demand in Sweden is surprising all ex- pectations and the entire output In sold on the Swedish market.
A company spokesman was not able to say when the export will begin, but he admitted that negotiations with foreign buyers are going on.-United Press,
Hook Not Needed
Wellington.
A shark Landed off Mayor
Island, in the Bay of Plenty "Es hauled aboard a launch without hook-mark on his
body.
Two dahermen pulled the sbark up from 60 fathoms and found the line wrapped firmly round its daw, with the hook * dangling - dfree, wa China · Máll
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charge unnecessarily. He'll take quiet word in your car.”
Now to his
went to an evening meeting. My beliefs and principles were strengthened. I decided to join the organisation.
that
the into
It was suggested gentle sergeant should go the service of the poor when he retired from the Artillery.
And so he will
go to work among the derelicts of London, among the inen who sleep in archways and
doorways,
or
huddle in the winter by ground- level grilles to catch the warmth coming from the London hotels, "I held Bible reading classes 51
CILSS Sergeant Albert John amorrest the soldiers, and swore changes his khakis, chevrons. the brazzes of other army-the allegiance to the Articles of Wargalters, and army he joins ля a full-time beneath the Blood and Fire British Army for the blues and soldier in ten days.
symbol on the flag of my new peak cap of the Salvation Army. his army. I became a soldier of the His new rank; Hostel Sergeant-
Church,
Eight years ago he lost parents and his home. He re-
Major.
THE HOUSE THAT PLASTIC BUILT
Paris.
A young French architect
student who wanted to rescue It
his countrymen from tho tawdry garrels of Paris has triggered the development of the world's first ali plustle house. The house-made entirely of plastle from its fumace to its TURS and draperies-goes on display here next monili at the annual salon of household arty.
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--BUT HE LIKES HIS JOB
th gr
London.
Down on dingy Waterloo Road a film star who earns £50,000 a picture is working so hard for £45 a week that he could hardly keep awake while 1 interviewed him.
Last DIE AUTOVIT 21.N have in Babylon at 33. Burton gol seated to have Hollywood and the rule partly because producer- n's festiwels and "go back to the | writer, Robert Rossen thought But Enwuldering | he looked like the anelent Richard Burtony is one of the plaques of Alexander.
[kr who have actually "But no one told my charger, Bucephalus," Burton said. “He Hi- has twit moved grandly and his stund-in threw me 12 from the stardom of Hollywood¦ tutal of 12 times, twice at a full en filans suels as "The Robe"" to | Kullop. However, I did better stardum of Broadway or than my double. He got thrown London with his nune in lights, 15 times,"
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his fame and reputation | To make his Spanish visit used as b magnet at the box complete Burton, entranced by office.
Finest Acting
the skill of the bullfighters. fought a young bull in a private ring near Madrid. The bull promply took up where Buce- phalus left off and tossed Burton In the theatre he chose, the with bone-rattling frequency, nume of the play takes top After the old Vic senson Bur- billing And the name of the ton returna to Hollywood for playwright, usually William another film for 20th Century Shakespeare, comes next.
The Fox, He said he likes the m names of the enst are listed but clly, the climate, the people and that's
About all. And yet the money. He likes them--but Richard Burton seemed as happy he likes acting there. Even at in the Old Vic
Theatre as he £45 a week.-United Press. ever hag been before the cameras.
He apologised for the fourth or fifth me for yawning after walked into his shabby little
dressing TOOM crammed with the costumes of his role as "Henry V
At that vepy moment a British national newspaper was selecting his performance as the finest acting of the London season.
"We've
been rehearsing Othello all day," he said rub- bing his hands over his face and through his hair. "Terribly bard work and I'm afraid I'm not at my best. I was lying down when they told me you
at the stage door."
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No une at the Old Vie carns more than £45 D week bul Burton Bald he regarded the renewal of contact with live and critical audience RS priceless experience. And this season in Othello he is achiev- ing another of the acting goals he set himself when he left his coal mining family to seek his reputation on the stage,
Unstable Alexander
The tall Welshman truin Puntryhydefen conceded that the underpaid calm of the Old Vic was a restful change from tho adventurous Alming in Spain of "Alexander the Great" in which he plays the title role.
This is one of those
stagger ing eples with thousands extras locked
in the struggles that made Alexander King of Macedonia and Captain General of Greece at 20, Emperor Persia at 20 and conqueror of the known world before his death
FAIRYTALE
CASTLE
TO BE SOLD
of
of
Lenzburg. Schloss Lenzburg, a typical living room, and dining nook fairytale castle, is to be sold to and will be enclosed by a tho Government of Canton transparent woll stretching Argau by its American owners, from floor to ceiling,
the Ellsworth family. The house will be decorated in yellow, grey and white under- neath a blue roof.
The castle, perched on a hill above the mediaeval town of Lenzburg, was bought in 1911 by the father of the polar, ex- plorer, Lincoln Ellsworth. The widow of Lincoln Ellsworth, who is Swiss, has lived there in recent years..
lead in the development of plastics for everyday usc.
started when Yves Was Schein, anxious to improve Paris housing conditions, took his idea for a plastic dwelling to the French coal industry. The coalmakers put their beat technical brains to work of Its designers polat out that it the project and erilisted the
con grow with growing aid of the magazino and some
family as extra bedroom units of France's top architects.
can be attached to the centre- pleco as the family expands, Three Bedrooms
After five months of negotia Several innovations aro plan- tion, a preliminary contract has hed for the interior of the been concluded between the 1101150 including one-piece Canton and the Ellsworth kitchen and bathroom fixtures, Family Founciation, represented its builders say, ・・
by the Historical and Art Pre- The House is made from theservation Company, of Now
basic moulds over which a YOTE. series of plastic sheetings have The Cantonal Parliament of been stretched The moulds Argma-Jins iyot to dición d0 are then quoibled, and the purchase. The price has not house comes into existence;. | been disclosed, and China): Mail
United 2xwas.
The result is a modernistic, one. storey dwelling composed of four base units cirqular centrepiece nine yards in dianelor and three bedroom. units which will be attached to one half of the circular omtro.
in it is derived from отю
of fourteen basle plastics developed by the French coal industry. The house was put together fai four and a half months by 4 team of selen Uiste und architects working, under the direction of French fashion magazine "nie"" Authorites The other half of the centro per- laim It gives · France the floes will house the dwellinga
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