1957-04-27 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1957.

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Interesting

News Stories

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Paris

Of

The

World

DO-IT-YOURSELF BULLFIGHTS

Once Upon A Time I Had A Car...

Wuerzburg,

Sgt Eldon Bestwick car-

rics his

car in

these days.

hla band

I called last week at a German garage to pick up there the vehicle he left

repairn

lank autumn for

after a

a ratio accident, The proprietor solemnly presented in with -- iwa icence plates, tall-light. and

Net of keys.

Bestwick, army police and insurance rumpany ollicials are still trying to Bind out what happened to the Dart between the Beruce platen,

The American soldier, who in stationed here with the 10th Infantry Division, figures the Katage

owner

thought he had returned to the US and cut up the car for serapUnited Pream,

No Homework

But There's

Amateur Matadors Spend Weekends Biting The Dust

By DOC QUIGG

Lisbon.

In this delightful country, whore the law requires you to take an hour and a half for lunch and to shut up shop and office for the day at 6 p.m., they have what an American would call "do-it-yourself.. bull- fights."

on

This is a sport unique to Portugal, for the man who doesn't have anything special to do Sunday afternoon and who doesn't really care whether he comes back home to his wife-now or

never.

Dustere sterteel

by hand-elmanation W..1K.

it

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Totaling

the I. bullir lo witne

he would extend stune courtesy to the tourist."

bull Actully,

they get the

Through

sono try, out For th

village at

Salvaterra,

amantes!

dinner

10 Tutustegano, you

who came Hayed

Cal

The hard-handling side

Arpastum newspapermen went pretty tried before the amateur

Bels btwD Broan dive

into the ring, guiding him int Folile charges by jumping from behind barriendes

uncl waving bats at him. Then the amateur

hint matador

De faungf

The paydo q with the rural

Toy Tr

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more ured still. Finally he is ready for the real sport, a sort of bull-wrestling in which A 2114921 meets hin head on,

horts and izing the

THE CAT THAT LEADS A DOG'S LIFE

takla HUGO is

Time base with The Intel and the bulls lunge in the pit of the

Fandango Danis who stomach

A Catch

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Given

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with -taking enpr

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Verdun.

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sport is called "Pega" in t Portugal,

bull-donger The www was another amateur.

London,

a

half- a cat, a Siamese, half - mar- malade golden-haired cat-but he leads

dog's life.

dog, Charles, his owner's

treats Hugo just like a dog. He won't let him

himself do a thing for at his Wilton-mewa, Marques ante

Westminster, home. lawny Jaris

catty in- camppled with the bull on carn Hugo lost his (2016 Finally Marques pulled dependence the day

the heart forward and down on

bin as he went

down

Anslags vat have a gu

at net Marques, 25 broad- I doughing

Ccaper arts trent of the shimplered son of one of the Students at two Verdunstung Fals

For at which come El restaurant proprietors. schools have a small tough to verkum whe clementary

was hard to tell which rating

was being dogged. the man of been released from the un- the a horsepower

the build. chore of doing popular

couple of homework-but there's

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catch.

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where they could do mand le bene #ti Bhox ci There was much law journalists befort. among the hord-about getting at the mat with one.

Target Run

оп

kward on his back, and the "Typical Housewife'

over

Wily

supine

on

is

The Verdun Catholte

School Commission sys that partly because "the dining room table: Wear but

J long ago."

inther small with much tuggIK Our sight of a Muried WIT

under experiment

dip-stopped under 1.000 pounds which see 900 students at the one two schools ure

longer taking sim and making a target man's head, landing take their books run on i Portuguese amate back in a sort of lying mare required to

Bet out of wrestling. in a chreked sport cap and a home.

gay Ike jacket was enough to bring about an editorial change of judgment,

A

Instead they spend an extra half hour at school in a special

supervised study periud wachers.

by

The plan applies only to English-speaking students, and their French-speaking counter- parts still are saddled with the burden of lessons at home after regular clue-sea.

In

JHOOT!

Noonday Meal

ench

The amateur hdûgh seeming It recovered quickly. So did

the inen. quite graceful and skilful, was

They ron for cover, Family spilled once ard, another time,?

groups drop Into the fell down himself and came restaurant on sunday atier- within inches of being gored.

Tur

ment, noonday the

which, is professional

is nothing short of huge, Teal

Portugal, the law consists of six courses, bullfights in prohinks killing the bull. When with appropriate side dishes

the soup.

ish

steak and eggs. proprietor

the chicken, rice dessert, and sugar Commission secretary-treasurer restaurant-and-ring asked

11 anyone Itoy

tourists

The guests Paul

one smothered oranges. that gawking explained attharities feel that children in would like to step up and try probably are forced to turn to mus homits these days do not his luck. a reporter quoted the amateur bull fighting to settle

the proper, factiles for law and said: "Please ask the their stomachs-United Press, studying.

have

"The dining room table went out long ago, and if there still is one, other children In the family are using it he said. "Under the new plan, younger children will get in some study time.

The experiment is to be con tinusdi until the end of the school year in June, when it will be decided whether to con- tinue it or go back to the old system.-United Press.

the

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Throws Teacher

Birmingham.

A "typical housewife" of tele- vision was fined £2 for attack- ing a teacher who gave her child a bad mark.

A court found that Mrs Mary Evans, who had appeared as a typical housewife on

a televi- sion show last year, visited

teacher school

Jean Lucks' classrocrn hit her with shippoin basket, pulled her hair and knocked her across a desk for censuring 12-year-old daughter Maxine.

Mrs Evans admitird to the court that she lost her temper.

United Press.

No

Charles decided to wash No one ever sces bit. Hugo contentedly lick- ing his fur in front of a fire. Charles keeps it silky and shining.

ono sees him silently stalking the roof tops, either.

Of course, Hugo is some- for at times lonely, week-ends Hugo is loft

ARISTOCRAT GROWS

TOMATOES ON

A TEN-FOOT TREE

By ELVEZIO BIANCHI

Rome.

A southern Italian aristocrat whose hobby is crossing plante, has started growing tomatoes on trees instead of bushes.

Baron Gautro do Gemmis ten feet in leas than two bas in fact grown' a ten-font months. tomato troo bearing fruits

which he claims are better in

The

quality than those produced by production the conventional planta, V

tree is not a giant re- of the ordinary tomato plants, but has con- De Gemmis has submitted to plotely independent features. the Italian Ministry of Agricul-Its leaves in fact resemble those ture a report on his expert of a coconut plant.

ment which may touch off a full tento revolution in Italy's prosperous national Lomato industry.

GENETICIST LYSENKO

Do

'D Gemmis,

typical southern gentleman with 超标 inkling for all scientific branches of culture, gays he got the seeds for his tonato tree from a German scientist friend”” who got them directly from the Russian Geneticist Lysenko,

Lysenku, whoso mnamo fell into oblivion

death, after Stalin's the Ruslan acadernician who skulmed

he could

produce a perennial type of wheat that needed not to be planted every year but only once.

It looked aį firm as if the ox- periment with the tomato treo seeds were heading to fallure.

The Baron had sown the steds in his hot-house in the villago of Terlizzi, near the heel of the

in London when Mr and Mrs Stanley Mason take Charles to Buckingham- | ftalian boot, shire.

"It wouldn't be fair to

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move Hugo from place But nothing happened for to place, although he so several weeks. The seeds pro..." much

enjoys playing duced a tiny and anemie reen And plant which stubbornly refused with Charles. Charles needs

to grow despite the painstaking the

attentions of De Genimis. exercise he gets in the

Then It suddenly country—he's such a big | springing up at a fast pace,

reaching the present height of dog,"

started

The fruits, on the contrary, are exactly the sazna in size, colour and tasto us, ihose grown by ordinary tomato planta, Baron D. Gemmis claims they actually taste better-United Press.

ANOTHER

DRINK ?

British

be

London,

teenager 10+

A learned

has herited £1,000 from his grandmother provided he doesn't take a drink for the next threa' years,

Duncan McGowan, 18, was left the money in the will of his grandmother Elizabeth, Lady Cory. The condition Wis thai ba should not touch drop of alcoholte liquor until his twenty-firm birthday.

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Shane Ferguson, another gruzudson of · Lady Corr widow of a wealthy' ship- ping' magnato, wäs left £1,000,- but. then Com dition did not worry him, He passed 21 a few days after his grandmother's death—United, Press.

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