THE. CHINA -MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1956,
Bouncing back INDESTRUCTIBLE ROONEY
ROCKS THE CRITICS
THE
ROONEY RISKS 'MONEY IN A CRAP CAME
BRITISH, more medicine-conscious than any other people, stand accused as a nation of hypochondriacs
a nation of people who imagine more illnesses than they ever really
HE'S OUT FOR THE JACKPOT
MY MONEY ... PAL!
HE RAKES IN HIS DREAM
HYPOCHONDRIAC
have. Truc? And if it is, does it matter? We are this week inves- tigating this phenomenon, public and personal. PUBLICLY, we asked five ordinary people yesterday to give their medicine-buying habits. it asked Nancy Spain to reply to Derek Marks's anti-doctor article yesterday. First hear the rather reluctant five
PERSONALLY,
• Lieut. - Com- monder Arthur Brister, R.N.: I Bever ko to A doctor and don't Carry medicine about with me. But my wife takes a tot of aspirin.
THE LONG
• Mrs Francis Mons, housewife: I go to the doc- lur unty la AIL emergency.
1
think plits are deadly
things. We don't bud- get at
for medicines.
WORD EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS
• Mr John Sinnett, hotel proprietor: J
never so
веж
A
doctor. I carry some pills to re- lleve
my ulcer.
I don't buy any-
thing else.
• Mir Reginald Durrand, char. tered surveyor:
AN
I would go to a doctor only In emergency. My family take halibut olj the winter.
Ina
Mrs Marce Kilczycki, house- wife: 1 go to the doctor if I have
bad cold. Always carry headache tablets with me. I get a bottle of tonle if I feel low.
I'm proud of my record
AM a hypochondriae
and proud of it.
can
Ever since I remember have been
taking pills for this
and
powders for that, and littl
tablets for the other thing, as
by.........Nancy Spain
a
full
of
hypochondria,
when I became wedged-shapert face. When wo middle-aged. But I still eling, didn't want to do the polka wo as sovages cling to theie totem user to sit together, wheezing, poles, to a box of powders,
behin the arra,
over
But Then we grew up and the Andi Second War came along. Davki went into
Lank regiment, "How do you get on, David," I asked him, "with your asthma, and ali that foul air and thuso exhaust fumes
tho And tank?"
I have one on me as I write. and my doctor has told me that it has no effect on me whatso 4 ma elation ut mortern fe. with
Title bottle
"Rather less effect," he and great big soothing A hundred years ago most of ephedrine hydrochloride. I had rays, "thon the averago aspirin." powders earned in thing or two before 1 Yet I once forgot to pack these draughts of cough mixture my lovely pills and
tok my school leaving certifi- powders when I was on holiday tasting of tror.
Toit
ephedrine in the South of France. The before I went into class.
I felt as if I were dylang.
↑
Every morning before can face the world 1 furtive, ly take my pills, powders,
weren't invented.
by se lys
In
iconthi only prve gene about quietly to
"Oh," said Davki, "It isn' toge eh and fallen in love but it mey harm" I'm "The sensibile, logical French the hypochondriacs who collapse
long
I cft.'t know.
stuck It don't
thest sean for afrudel
powders. in a war. We know how to and sewed #
made me go a ther blue in the "What's the gouty atul reluxation.
use of keeping keep going. because we know tablets and cough mixture.“
was always rather something in stock that doesn't where our weaknesses ile. It's Se Boss days I wouldn't fare, mud 1 Tus is partly became Ente
afterwards.
who've But I do do you the slightest good?" they the hig, strong chapa victim of hypos cross 11 from a long line of
red chomĒT, Jolly
1. member I used to take a pill said, as i reeled from chemist's never had a chy's illness in their Ihould have died facet hypochondriars 4271 MAY
unstent. In my teet18.
Hyes who keel over." What called alophew with the effect shop to chemist's shop. mother's sider. (Indeed. I cat
01 boredom, of course
of a hydrogen bomb at the same distinctly remember my grand-
Ime as the ephedrine, mother as A dear, ww.sed-face i old lady carrying a big
of castor oil and a
But it also reau
The
glorious strain and the exhilaras
• The asthing.
powder
*
sever
4th
The posteder
bugzie(?).
The pilt to clear aut of my system. The latter is for the headache i get from the effect of the pill, and the eigh mistre for the sore throat get from the tables.
Put the
f
MY
neh..
WEIGHT
Why? To clear the ephædrine rut of my system.
1 was
the
MY WORD
wasn't Pale-faced, THEY offered my other seda Oh, tives, antiblodles, antihysta WHEN I was a tol, you sce, I round-shouldered wheezer,
I What thinna
shocked. a great big, broad- mines.
Wite
**I None of your no.
couldn't possibly take those," I No, uldered young woman with whewing ser I hai the real i ld retirers the red fare who weighed 11 stone sald. Those are drugs."
played cricket for
After have taken 1231 my school and full winery that made•
school.
remedies, I like to settle bashers any mat in plous horror ch
once played Incrosse down to a nice cosy chat with a me the darling of the
(allegedly the fastest gune in fellow hypochondrine, mation.
the world
bur polo) against The best I have ever known Why, i can distinctly remem-
Lancashire when I was having is a man I will call David. her sitting a scholarship exam.
the
Isthmatic went to dancing classes in worl thor Roedeon at de age of 12 cer
atteks of my lite.
Well. I know cut asthniù anti Some
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тому отиту по
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You may think that I am trying to But every word
pull your legs.
honest truth.
am
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QUESTIONS THAT WILL TELL YOU IF YOU TOO ARE ONE
Answer Yes or No to the following:-
1. D you feel insulted
Borneone says how well you are?
2. Do you think your doctor a fool if he Rays there is nothing wrong with you?..
3. Do you know the meanings of more than two of the following terms: metabolism, psychosomatic, enzyme, vita- inin deficiency. cardiac murmur, urticarla? 4. Have you at this moment in
or handber plits
Ray
not ordered by your doctor?
5. Do
take you
A clinical thermometer on holiday?
HE IS KILLED IN ACTION LOOKING FOR THE MONEY
Ava's label
Mickey Rooney Gestructible.
is a young in-
During the past Bix years has made more news with his wives (married four thus:
is dropped o at last
PICTURE COMMENTARY
BY DAVID LEWIN
wile No. 1 being Av Gardner) and his squabbles with producers then with his acting.
Now
The Bold and the
Brave"
shows un adult Andy Hardy gulng ta was. Rooney
plays a soldier winning a fortung His dream-tho mort W
WHEN Mickey Rooney at dies,
beautiful restaurant in Jersey bounced back with a ls in his grasp. But he 13 performance of "startling forced to leave the marey on a vitality" fu Ik new film, battlefield. As he goes out under called "The Bold and the es to collect it, an enemy bullet Brave," the critics hauled kills him.
Rooney has shrugged off a out adjectives of praise recent trell of near misses, and they hadn't used on him in a variety of jokes based on one
years.
The
crack by Ava Gardner.
Miss Gardner cuce suld about Alm 1000
goes out general release, It will show her former husband: "One day be known as tho thet at the age of 33 and with a 'll merely waistine which has spread con- man who married me," siderably since he played in Mickey Rooney has now final- those Andy Hardy pictures, ly lived that duwn.
HOW THEY DO
THINGS AT
MOSCOW RADIO
From SYDNEY SMITH
Мовсом He made up his own speech THERE is trouble in on the great scale of building work in Moscow, and then to Moscow Radio, Radio
a night watchman of reporters have been Moscow's Broadcasting House to part of a team leader their act the
out "n dircourse on advantages of large panel constructions and plan
Unfortunately, the
6. If you go abroad on hoilday discovered faking
do you take your own pet remedies?
7. Do you
ever
suffer from BTU
of
stories and script-writers and read
the being accused ambidiclaudicosis disease "putting out 11 flood of ment." which chiefly affects highly trite, hackneyed stereotyped intelligent and conscientious
and
full-
night
like a dismal watchman's family recognised
people and which has these phrases
him and wanted to know very symptoms: lassitude, loss of autumn drizzle."
sharply why he had concealed This attack, factual, detalled the fact that he was a building appetite, insomnia, general body aches, heada
headache,
reathing, and
although expert-and even more im "humenised" and quite witty portant what had been happen as well, came from Izvestia, Ing to his wages. And that which, with Pravda, is one of was the undoing of Comrade Russia's
national Pavlov biggest morning papers,
lack of concentration?
4 4,°
8. When you dip into a medical dictionary do you fancy you have everything in it? 9. Do you ever lake. your own pulse because you suddenly think your
going too heart is fast or too slow?
do?
COMRADE PAVLOV
• SCORE: If you answer YES of building workvior did not
Izvestia Koes on: "Other broadcasts concocted almost according to the same rimple
And
begins by telling the story recipe are often heard on the of this confession is the sober, 10. If you wife or husbandda
radio
reporter Comrade regional air," off colour do you ret irrit
The Pavlov.
comrade was
then It gives this ex- able, thinking she is putting assigned to go out to a big pianation: There are 12 corres it on and cannot possibly be
Moscow
construction site and pondents working in the depart- feeling nearly as il as you organise a broadcast by a team ment
Seven of them are sup- posed to be permanently in the But Comrade
country. "In
reality, only three of move out of his offler, Instead, Izvestia
felt no them are out travelling. The reports, he
others rofite anxiety to go to the building oth
lcovq ther site at all. "Whether it was capital.
that FOOTNOTE to Question 7: There, we cannot tell." So what health. So they invent Agricul
sheer disinclination or fear of rural air is too bad for their
tural stories in
the city and broadcast with night watchmen as tensultants.
Moreover, I am 38 years old and completely sound in wind and limb. I am one of the few really good Insurance risks that I know. I
one of the people I strongest, healthiest have ever met,
And here's the moral. We
Only the very strong indbed our
can take the sort of modjelnes that we hypochondriacs tako
and survive.
babyhood. David and I, when Inv David was a delicate, pear- my shaped little boy with a
white
seven times or more you should stop bothering your doctor-you are a true hypochondriac.
Is NO sveti disease A **ambi-
diclaudicoslu,”
did the Comrade do!
WANTED: A FRONT-PAGE
W
ENVOY FOR BRITAIN
New York
E nre soon to have
a new British Am- bassador to the
DON IDDON'S DIARY
F
They
to fcel
the
On exemple quoted of fake agric turni
ral reporting was when a radio reporter gave collectivo farm Production ghres: "This year, according to
plan, the
farm has already produced 6,200 pints of milk and $8,400 pounds of meat from gach cow."
SO
thi
Says Izvestin,
why? "ha kills, two birds with one blow.
The cows aro first milk- ed and then butchered, or per
༣
IN A HAZE
Another fille report that irks vestit was a broadcast: story
of a collective farm which was said to have produced 300 tons of cabbage from over 2 acres. "The broadcast of this sort of nonsense is unforgivable," says the paper.
pronounces on
ino
The Important John S. Knight Tribune. Mr Dondvan was hops first butchered and then newspaperS, which are fervent supplied with State papers and milked. For both meat and
of supporters
Cabinet Mr Elsenhower, confdential
meeting milk must be procured." are now condemning the Re- minutes, Go there is no ques- publican theme that the Presi- ton of its accuracy. U.S. This is one of the
dent is as fit and strong as ever. James Hagerty, the Presi world's most important
dent's Press Secretary, has re- The present Ambassador, Sir spoke before the television Other newspapers are now, fused to say. who made the jobs, particularly at this Roger Making, is tipped to be cameras.
showing objectivity in their re- White House papers available the next Permanent Secretary timo.
Strangers would stop Sir porting and comment. It will to, Donovan, But someone did of State for Foreign Affairs and Gladwyn Jebb in the street and be a great shock however, and obviously with Mr Eisen-
ask to shake his hand.
the President decides not to hower's permission. During the period I have he will probably do well.
Although Sir Gladwyn is not run. The Republicans
will be been here there have been Sir Roger, who has an Ameri- an inspired speechmaker, when left without a candidate. Sir Ronald Lindsay, Lord can wife, is popular in Wash- he spoke ho captured news- Lothian, Lord Halifax, Lord ngon, but largely unknown to paper space and radio time, Inverchapel, Sir Oliver
Exasperated Franks, and Sir Roger In recent years our envoys Makins occupying the big, been
Sir Pierson. personalities who have HIS successor,
Dixon, has not red-brick British Embassy ocoupled much American atten- fortunate, and there has been In Washington. Of theso tion. At a time when Great men, Lord Halifax was the Britain is not getting a parti- no electric issue such as Korea cularly good press an outstand- over which he could have most outstanding.
ing personality and killed shown his talent. propagandist would be invalu-
the American public.
and resident officials have not
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been
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There are, naturally, among the who oppose his running for__n.
of style. It
It quotes
다.
Under fire. President's family several THE Marilyn Monroe-Arthur q
question Miller marriage at last, Miss recond term in office. Mrs Monroe has been so rude to the trom broadcasts the use of such Elsenhower does not want her Press, keeping reporters, photo-words and phrases as "Inter- husband to run again,
and but graphers, newsreel
"deformational tela-torrometere realises that only he can malce vialon men waiting two hour
nodosity seams"
of the decision.
on one occasion, an hour and a "setting: rove into the
And it comments: - quarter 'on' another, that sho; is | theCH There has been one Interest about na popular Just now in special technical training, the ing revelation thio
week. now rooms as Grace Kelly was listener wanders in hazo, in the at the time of her wedding,
Broadcasts
ATO
steeped able. Perhaps, we can't hope Send us a man of brilliance President Elonhower,
first half of his term before his Victor Mature, back here after cliches and stock phrases, anxi to get another Halifax, but have A man who can engage the at the refusal of dio-hard, Re asked Which place
and personality 10. Washington. Heart attacks, was so exasperated a long European tour, was the meagreness and feebleness we considered Sir Gladwyn.
did you of style amazing.” Jobb on the next British Am- attention and affection of
replied: bacic this pro- profor?" Mr Mature to bassador to Washington?
American people. Send us Sir Publicans to
Izvozlia's conclusion. It he, considered "London, I love those' people,” Gladwyn.
starting, a third party to ad- The two biggest, flim success that thero is a very good Bir Gladwyn was not mer~ "In the past few days moro vance his progressive moder- on Broadway today are English children's broadenst called on the front page. When he lyn BUCCHED
as the United, and more, newspapers, including ato" policies.
worrien, Deborah Kerr and Dana "Quers 15." Alas, there is no made a blunder, such as riding Kingdont representative to the the New York Times, have..
Wynter, despite the competition much broadcast for adultal 1.bo bounicir on a Sunday, di United Nations, ho WDA a' printed. both, aldos of
This news was bored in a of Gina Lollobrigida, paper "But, never mind, says Izvortia created a controversy. We have triumph. His face and voice medical opinion of iliotis, the new book, "Elsenhower; The "They are better ambasadors consolingly, "Ito place is wall had no one like him over the became "damiliar, to tena of illndesi which nocessitated the Inside Story," by Robert Dono... · than some of the officials we filed by some of the breadcaste port: 15 years, 1992)
millions of Americans (as he President's abdominal operation, yon, of the New York Herald- trave had in Washington, of the Moscow, regional radio.";
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