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"There's going to be some protest marches about bull" around here before long."

"TURN THE YOUNG TOWARDS SCIENCE"

T

THE NEW ROUTE TO THE SUPERMAN JOBS

HE Biggest Business Man in Britain sits hunched at his desk. Walnut punelling. soft carpets, and hushed secretaries insulate him from-the raw October dusk.

A telephone connects him with his industrial empire: eur- rent assets- £652.313,585,

But look closely at the man. This is no cartoonist's pluto- with top-hat and goul. The

is a worker.

man

The

seen

hands capable more accustomed to holding a test-lube than a cigar.

The quick.

Intelligent eyes face, glint in the long, craggy like quartz rock.

Highest award

This is Sir Alexander Fleck, of formerly laboratory boy,

now chairinan at Glasgow,

Chemical Industries Imperial

Chemical Limited. Imperial House, London, S. W.

This is Sir Alexander Fleck, who revealed the Isotope to the world, and today receives the highest award in his field of

Medal. sclence, the Messel

This is Sir Alexander Fleck a prototype, perhaps, of future captains of industry who wili, as he bolleres, rise to the board- room from the laboratory and the experimental shop rather than from the accountant's desk, the lawyer's chambers, and the inherited treasure chests,

By TOM POCOCK

Messel Medal Winner

THE RISE OF SIR ALEXANDER FLECK

tak Art

dramatic overflow. The gentle arts flourlati

surver before.

The Dope Man And The Bible

From

JAMES COOPER

New York IBLE in hand, 81-year-

Bold Roy Eaton de

fended himself at Dallas, Texas, against a charge of possessing marijuana by claiming he had the right to do what he wanted. with the weed.

He quoted:-

Romans XIV, 2 and 3:

For

one believeth that he may cat All things: another, who is weak, cateth herbs,

Lot

that hot him

despise him that eateth

culeth

not: and let 1ot hằn which cateth not judge him that eateth: for

God hath received him.

District

Altomey Watts countered:--

t Romans XIII, 1 and 2: Let every sout be subject unto the higher powerD, For there is no power but of God: the powera that be are ordained of God.

Whosoever therefore resisteth the powers, resisteth ordinance of God: and they that resist rhall receive to themselves damination.

And Eaton went to gaol for 12 years.

BIG businers

time

kling.

bustting America is taking off these days-just to slop and think.

A new cruze is sweeping the

and Company presidenta

U.S.

higti

executives Donm fancy- nomed clubs. There they Oscape the stress and strain of business life by not talking shop,

f

In Buffalo heads of companies have formed the Steam Room Philosophers.

They meet in a Turkish bath. Clod only in towels no one, can "pull rank." In Atlanta's Breakfast Club leading of men and In off with: "Oh, when I was a lad the motto is: "We aim ut men and women crowd to the in the

philosophers, administration by working for 1 spent too much money Lecture a

on nothing and never miss." Di

industry.

None sulphuric acid, to the detriment

The clubs elects historian and lawyers

DMCCTA undertakes welthre "But he must keep his outlook of my clothes," schools

Не does not say how the work, falses tunds or takes part brood.

"The study of history, for Glasgow youth, fascinated by in form of "da godery.

show him the science, swept and cleaned, and

Wall Street broker But the scientists, upon whom example, will

work in

and our washed

the T. Thomas Madsen, one of the of his

scrubbed there place The very existence of

It will give him Glasgow University laboratories New York Repulsives: “It is a aris will depend, now see the civiliation. Lechnical

of

and then, at the age of 22, wan chance to do some thinking out intelligence

a sense of proportion"

The chairman of 1.C.1. is him- a chemistry degree himself, and of home and office,"

and aloud away from the pressures nation withering, and willing self an historian of some note. flow, two

wo years later, he had beneath the massive competi-

laboratory, "It relaxes my mind," he says, his own radium Lion from America and Russia.

He

HURRY back home, nil for does not find anything He also relaxes by walking

given, said the New York In this deep-seated struggle

Science Inc and felling trees at his home in extraordinary about the brilliant parents of 10-year-old Donald between Art and

Vality, and Tees

scientist reaching Hanswirth when he telephoned by individual of imagination

youth, the

the peak of his career and then, to any he had eloped with 14- where does

Alexander gardering too. Sir

being year-old But these Interests are a mere only three years ago,

Madelyn Spreier and Gland?

to lead his titanic married her in West Virginia. garnish on the personality and Invited

On the way back their car the intellect of this colossus of organisation,

crashed

The boy was killed, Industry,

the girl critically injured. They do not explain how ideal man can

the

A

My advice

of or Kical chemistry.

the

science

a

Molecules

different

to

sca

He says: "It 1 were to advise

boy of 17 upon the

drive through every There ls something almost MERICANS course his career could take, I stratum of society and, with-

poetic about the tapestry of A Russia's Marilyn Monroe, might tell him this:

oui the conventional trappings selence. LC.J. manufactures Alm actress friara Siobtseva, "First, take a medical degree. of

a vast 12,000 power, dominate

products, in a coloured film of "Othello." Then, go on to the higher study complex of

and In- Plastics and paints, weedkillers Russia has released the Alm organic chemistry, physiolo- dustry so effectively.

and explosives, fertilisers and for showing hero in, part chemistry, and bio-

He is 00, this man, and he is

exchange for 11 Hollywood pro- dyes. not yet ready to potter in a

that star, among And yet, as one relentist laid ductions In that way, he could take garden on a Tees hillside,

"Most of It comes rue,

Ingrid from others,

Bergman and About this particular scientist cost and salt and limestone and

Loretta Young. The rise of this one man from his place in the world of science

as there is much of the

eternal, ale and water. the mental lasks of an assis- either as an individual, or

We pull the INGER Kathryn Gmyson molecules apart and then put tant at the acid-stained chemis- a member of one of the great inscrutable Scot,

tums her back on Holly- There ka tho

defence them together again." try bench to the most powerful scientific organisations."

where she has sung But would such

wood, technical mechanism posilon in British industry is

of craggy humour Science has presented place rich and bland assurance,

everything from "Rio Rito” to There is challenge. Personally, Sir Alex- "Kiss than

a saga of individual achievement along

Me Kate." She has mere

among the Olympians the passion for common sense ander Fleck has triumphantly signed a five-year contract endeavour. It points the way to a man

the heights of power and he interrupted a recent board

accepted salvation for British technology, on

the challenge. He and appear on television more os an Con British industry? .

national meeting with industry,

"Never mind, and British

spring from the arid, never mind! I just want facts a few men like him have given actress than as a singer because the scientist a new stature in "stories in musical Dims are xă eminence in the world of to- leader

soulless world of chemistry? Focis! Facts!" morrow,

Sir Alexander's reply: "A He is, too, the eternal, quest- the world at large. Can others flimsy."

now get training ing scientist.

【IGHER mid higher climb, the He will laugh it also accept the challenge?

"I believe," he says, "that scientist can

TV quiz Jackpots. New when we can raise the level of challenge: "Break the $250,000 education more and more young Bank. To win that prize people will be turning towards || (£80,000). moons answering difficult questions over a period He has shown thếm the way, 'of 20 weeks,

Industry is starved of brain- power. In the universities young

Peter Finch-Back To The Bush

I

LAST saw my good friend Peter Finch on

the deck of a cargo

bont in the London docks.

He was taking a slow boat

By RALPH COOPER

And here is Peter's story:

Flerely

When I was making "A Town friendly

Independent,

but

saloon, and while everyone else was paying one shilling and eightpence for a rum... old Harry only paid fourpencel

The

hotel keeper shuddered and lilcubio for pill when I got curious. "Harry to come out of the Like Alice" (writes Peter) 1 that, they filled in the time by refusen

"Years

中

quite a bit of deck scrub- after this trip is over I'm due back again next year to make bing on the way.

another pleture called "Robbery. Under Arms,

JEC

俗

to Australia to make "The expected a trip back to Aus- cong on a tremendous jag, past," he said bitterly.. Shiralee" for Ealing tralia,

but I wuz robbed. I They frequently gathered round ago ho used to pay fourpence, Studies, and proposed to do don't mind, though, because our set, and during one fight and when I first went up a few was in, they began pence-you should have seen scene I cheering wildly.

The performance he put on He one ancient shearer cried, he mered, and stamped jumping around like a Dervish and bellowed and upset all the Deck scrubbing, says this Australia's changed a bit red yelling, "I have a Aver other customers.

The towns on Finchlo-end remarkable star, is good for rince I was here.

I'll fight the

but the forgot all about it for though

I BOU

the soul-and he not only have become harder and more winner." I was rather glad he talks about it, but gets phisticated.

down to it.

But Peter makes the return Journey-much faster, by air

to finish the studio scenes on "The Shiralee" and to appear as one of the stars of

ever

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is as wonderful as he was nigh on 70, I'd think

"He repeated the performance twice before talding him on! every time we asked him for After two or three days more money In the end we Not only for its scenery,, but

and rum, they were got frightened to mention it to for the incredible characters it of beer

Has zombies, hlm. The price of rim hog thrown

all carrying a walking about up.

bumping into each other and gone up and up....... and he's shifalce of their own.

A shiralce, I'd better explain, not even noticing! The

a rather come a local legendat my Our cook developed Battle of the River Plate at a means a burden or

In the early thirties I terrifying habit of buttonhol- Royal Film Performance,

You'll be meeting a lot of Who are charncotrs like old Harry In Being an Incurable optimist I carried one myself along these ing me every morning and

Peter before he left to remo dusty roads, through the Faying, "I'm

know you, our fim. Wherever possible keep me posted on filming same quiet creeks and across you? Glad to

Litten, If you'd like a little we've used local people... and Down Under....and he said he the sunbaked plains.

drop up to my but any you "a should -- sen

their anthuisinemi

would

and

drin

"AJbY.

If he had forgotten I would Nothing like our film, in- Once I told him we had met One old - horseman's' stent not have been marprised, for vision has ever happened before previously, "but " the "efort of moment – came, when the wun locations are hastle, affairs and to the little towns of Coons- waving, awcy the ⠀¦rum-apun, anked...... to 'gallop, up iho, maĪCĀ actors have other things to do barabran and Binnaway. cobwebs caused him so much street or Binnaway. He was besides, writing, home. If their Sightseers have been coming trouble that I didn't try again, so enthuriatic, that he amared of miles to watch us That same day he cornered all ordits and rollover a mile dedahku. Ponteard they're hundeds

Londoner Rosemary Harris," anch out Remote as these places are, zaid triumphantly: daskanke

dalf an hour to ge was once a reporter the local girls, demand and get I've met you, miss! You'ro him back; againt vers me and I guess the unge is still all the modern feminine frips the little as I was talking to It's been tough out here of *Area, with floods Cand wurde, pories Bad Jollynke they this morning." Te sent a colourful accrunt : ook, too, too

VWThat Manick, Rosemary,

MR had forgotten was,

there.

of his return to Australia,, the. They're tough around here, three days agojno country he; regards as home! They live hard and when they is character. I Hices bout: Its/wna:/(here,” aen struggling got a chance, they play and "Old Padlock Pockets He malar ay after year, in a dozen drink land:ANAGARAMKY,

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