3FT. SHIELD FOR ATOM SAILORS
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¿CIENTISTS working on the development of an atomic marine engine for Britain's merchant ships of the future have discovered that a shield at least 8 ft, thick around parts of the engine room will be needed to protect the vessel and crew from radiation.
Such a power unit would enable a large tankës to steam more than 50,000 miles—or six months without refuelling.
Tests of the
The shield may be mate of
steel, concrete,
lead-or a mixture of all three.
It will be Installed around the reactor "furnace" ship, from which power will be drawn by wing enriched uranium füci,
Experiments being carried out at Harwell On Lido
'swimming poul" in which uranium rods are suspended and tested for radiation-have shown that Overi A small reactor could endanger the whole ship by radiation unless heavily shielded.
Naval experts bellove A merchantman's reactor will be the size of a chest 12ft, square,
bave shown that dithenyl or terthenyl-products of
benzino — are
idcal
"moderators to damp down the
energy given off by the uranium of an atomic marino engine,
The hout could then ba ex- tracted by liquid Bodium, Inolten metal OK water under pressure and passed into twin heat exchangem filted to the ship's engine room.
From there, a conventional turbine
would drive the propeller.
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THE COW WALKED INTO
THE LITTLE FOO-THEN THE POO WAS GONE--
SO WAS THE COW!
"SAME THING HAPPENED TO THAT CAR ON THE HIGHWAY--"
"AND THAT GIRL-- RUSHED OUT OF THE FOO--WAS PULLED BACK IN BY A GLOWING ROPE OF SOME KINDY
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his services to caricaturist
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IT was an Englishwoman who was responsible for start will write honourable name in
ing off speculation in the American Press about the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.
Her name is Mrs John Graham. She is 38, and has been on the London staff of the Baltimore Sun for five and a half years.
She sent a report to her paper which repeated the rumours that she had heard in London. It was printed on the front page of the Baltimore Sun.
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personally didn't. think
it would have such a
snow-
ball effect," she lold
If
"Father де and son should never recognise "But," she added, "I do not each other here," apologise for reporting rumours.
Milly's dietu was;
you
are G foreign Cor respondent, it is your duty lo
THE SOLICITOR
report rumours. And I
mot careful to point out at M'
MICHAEL PARKER'S solicitor
they were just rumours,"
IN WARSAW
is
Mr Eric Summer, making name for himself as a high-powered legal adviser.
He is developing as a succes- Mrs Graham was in the Press sor to Sir George Sutton who section of the British Embassy knew so many of the secrets of In Warsaw between 1946-49, the Royal Family and the peer- Then she had a job on the age in the days of Edward VII managerial side of a magazine and George V. group in London,
Summer, who is in his late
"I don't pretend to have any forties, met Parker and the spectal Inside sources of Duke ot Edinburgh through Information about the Royal Baron, the photographer, Family," she told me. "I just
His owner, Mrs Phyllis Mr Goring. of Maidstone, Kent, Erskine obliged, wrote "Honour- told me his name is Badmash of Dacolis, which in Hindustani means, more or less, "a pretty
able Robert "Erskine."
The
luft.
LOOK he got 115 he bad lot."
BAD BADMASH
STAFFORDSHINE
bull
Badmash used to run wild on the streets. He chased motor- cycles, postmen, anything that moved.
He was such a bad lot that terrier rushed pust me at his owners had almost decided Cruft's
irre full
angry to have him destroyed, But of two giant wolf- Mrs Goring, who "boards" pursuit hounds. A few minutes later I dogs, saw some good in him. saw him again In the judging And there he was at Cruft's. ring, snapping at the other dogs He got only a "Commended," and barking at the judges.
I'm afraid.
4
NOW A SILENCE
IS SHATTERED
Briten kan ekbesond
by Robert Pitman
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BOOKS
who
too,
Already Summer has handled
HE man in the big of those Frenchmen who sought
1870 revenge for
and repealed what I had heard." many society cases in the past
black cloak was an-
sought national scapegoats And the Baltimore Sun, few years. He acted for Lord
nouncing his scheme such as Dreyfus and the Jews. which has a reputation as a res-
Montagu of Beaulleu and for apartheid for the Jews. ponsible journal, did likewise, handled the strange case of
TO
Ho
Belloc was half-French. Whe also a Roman Catholle. He grew up hating the men at
Commander Martin Solomon, All Jews, he declared, His hatred the ex-noval officer who died should be registered. They THE SNOB'S DELIGHT mysteriously in Spain last July, should have their own To say that the Bag O'Nalls Since he took over his firm in
has
closed is rather like Dover Street Mayfair, soon courts, marked off from the saying the House of Fordy has ofter the war, Summer
has rest of the nation. It should been reformed. It sounds in bull! credible. But closed it is.
they were an alien element crats, Empire men, the rich. In તાવ u night-club it really
Summer drives daily from
particular he hated the richer have distinction. Ils member his flat in Eaton Place where in the country's life.
Jews Who жете following ship list In Its great days was Parker has been staying-and
But who said it? President Disraeli's path.
As
a snob's delight,
The
up the practice to an be made utterly plain that the top-royalty, the aristo-
income of £30,000 a year,
It
does two hours' work in his Nasser? Oswald Mosley?
to going back Mr owner,
Freddie office before
was nobody like that. It was with his former one of our most celebrated Aldrich, tells me business had breakfast
writers. Mr Hliaire Belloc. been falling off for some time, actress wife, Judy Kelly. "The right people," he added ***SSSSS regretfully, just cannot afford
any more. The club opened in Milly Hocy ran it for 11 years-- J remarkable character who knew exactly when to tighten or loosen thọ reing
THE DUKE'S VIEW
LEARN that the
ot Duke 1928.
Edinburgh had many talks
The first of...
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Then Beiloe stood for Parlia ment himself.
told the open-mouthed Noo-Conformists of Salford:
Catholic. This is a rosary, I kneel down and tell them beads each day. II you reject me on account of Belloc has been hailed as the my religion, I shall thank God bas spared mo the about his matrimonial difficulties first of modern Roman Catholic that He
(his living successors: indignity of being your repre- before they went on tour, Parker wanted to They say that in her time a
resign Greene, Cronin, Waugh, Noyes, sentative." He was elected, father and
Compton son met there un- before the trip if there was no Pamela Frankau,
*pisode expectedly, an
with from Teconcllation
wife. | Mackenzie, G. B. Stern, Alfred "The Forsyte Saga" that came
ric,
Soo Homeside Pictorial
There's More than Magic in
THAT'S HOW
WELL?""WELL?“.
IT HAPPENEDY
IS
RIGHT!
FRY'S 4
JOHNNY HAZARD
THEY'RE INDICATING THEY DON'T WANT ROUSH STUFF BUT THEY WANT,
US OUT!
WE CAN'T GO SNAP! GOTTA STOP JARAK FROM TOUCHING THAT
POISONED MIKE/
WHILE IN THE CORRIDOR OUTSIDE www.
YOU MUST LET ME
LOOK, LADY GO ||H,SRL A VER-RY. NASTY |"WAY! THERE'S AN
YOUNG MAN PILFERED MY EMERGENCY INSIDE!
ENTRANCE TICKET! I GOTTA GO HELPI
RITY
NCIL MBER
By Frank Robbins
IT-IT'S THE ONLY WAY LEFT.! I'LL PROBABLY BE RØVLED THE MOMENT I FIRE, BUT IFX CAN DESTROY THAT MIKE E-
They Del
are
"FAVOURITES
with Lieut.-Commander Parker
his
authors
"come
rémarks that the
that
BALTA
1
Belloc refers to Jews who The Duke took the view that Duggan, Christopher Sykes, "swarmed" in politics and the Civil Service, He tells how one the resignation was unnecessary. Enid Starkle, Edith Sitwell), Jewish peer had begged
Parker agreed to postpone his Anal decision so that he could He has been hailed as the his people should bo let alone; alve the Duke the beneft of his first and best of the century's and speclailsed knowledge of writer of lighter verse. A peer's young relatives had since Australia during the "Olymple sample of his lightest:......
out in parliamentary Games.
scandal after scandal."
He comments savagely "They had been let alone right enough. But they had not let us alone." Later he says: when you
Jew,
whether you are his enemy or his friend, the meet a Jow."
LOCAL SCENES....
North THE by-election in
Lewisham came to Uto with a bang when a team from
Lord Finchley tried to mend the
electric light Himself. It alruck him dead,
and serve him right, It is the business of the wealthy meet a
TIT
the American TV network C.BS. To give employment to went downS to get some local artisan.
scenes,
But Belloc's views on
the
you.
The Idea was to take the Jews? Since his death in 1053 Out of fashion
of
Belloc's
cameras into the Hore and there has been a unison Billet and get four "regulars" silence. Now at last Mr Robert talking about Suez and
What is so familiar about auch- other Speaight
bis has produced
about omefal issuca.
blography (Hitaire Phrase or Mr Henry Price. M.P. for Bellac, Hollls and Carter, 30s.); hidden power of the Jewish
references elsewhere Wen Lewisham, tells me the and the kush is broken. Torles learned about it only
plutocracy" Speaight now gives us the full in went man.
Ho
us Belloc the
*
or to
a crooked financier's "black crisp hair"? board at
Delicious to the pub and found the place anti-foutotallet, teaching Where else have surely
...this situation
calls for a
San Miguel
full of socialists.
Churchill boy to bottlo wing any pro-war Blackshirt meet- Finally,
four people were with his own hands, chosen to take part in the dis- "He gives the darker moments. et Belloe himself was harm- cussion: Price himself, Brian After la wife's early death 1cam? For the Jews, certainly. Farmer, son of the Tory candi-Belloc closed her room and
Despite his predictions, relations date: Mrs Mabel Raisin, agent never used it again in his 40 between Jew and Genille in for Mr Herberi Morrison; and remaining years. Throughout Mr Frank Shepherd, another those 40 years he wore Socialist agent.
Only Shepherd had been in room
black; every night, passing
his on way to bed, the pub before--so much for would pause and trace or the regulars.
door the sign of the Crome. (Emmanuel Burden, A Change Spenight gives us low facts in the Cabinet) arq no longer on the obresion which clouded rand chiefly beca of the
10. Belloc's whole
inges of anti-Semitism which
Portape there could be
HON. MISTAKE";
the Japanese Embassy in A London the Erskina (younger son of the Tale Lord Erskine) talked cosily about prints to the embassy's cultural attach",
10uk Britain have grown, sandalber only with every your. But such out
the pourings have done harm all the ho samoto Hilaire Belles, His Its brilliant political
satires
It began early. Belloc, half linger in every chapter, Hon. Robert
French, was born neur Paris in 1870. Within a few days the
had marched, in Germans
and word using the Balloo family
.
greater wound. For note. Belloc's
own written wlah:- When I am dead, I hope #
may be andata
When he rose to go, his host portraits for target practice. asked him in Traditionally. This young Balloo, was al- "His sins, were: scarlet, but him-- polite language: "Plener; you "ready" incalded
"bocka" spere void,”
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