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THE - CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY

1957.

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FEVER HITS MOSCOW

WHITE LADY STARTLES V AND A

London,

THE most eye-catching exhibit

THE

Among the thousands on view at the solemn Victoria and Albert Museum squatted int outside the building one night last week,

It was A oft-high model of s wolnan, In cardboard and planter.

The width of the Whlie Lady of

South Kensington Was 451. from shoulder to shoulder.

Iter hrown hair flopped

Iter hend like

over

an ouislat

blanket. Her lips pouted.

There she stayed

the

in front of

of

Elnora matu

museum.

Above her the statue of Queen

Victoria looked down approvingly from her niche. Medical students attending

dance nearby are believed to have constructed the

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mammoth staito and to have laken it to the museum in trailer.

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Three policemen, called by a startica attendant, tried to ramove the While Lady, But their

small. was teo

vin

Meanwhile, Дм admiring orowd collected,

Taxi cabe stopped as

drivers

popped out to have a look. Passengers

on No. 74 buses

abandoned their Journey too,

Midnight, and the police move a goddess

Clergyman Kept Cromwell's Head

At

Foot Of Bed

By RONALD MAXWELL

Suffolk.

The man who owned a head which he claimed was that of Oliver Cromwell died last week. He was Canon Horace Ricardo

Rural Dean Wilkinson, aged 85, Woodbridge, Suffolk.

of

Canon Wilkinson kept the head, a frightening relic, in a box near the foot of his bed. He delighted in showing it to callers, which helped to make his rambling, tree-ringed home popular with American tourists.

I met Canon Wilkinson and

open a stained,

mahogany box

saw the head three years ago, he kept about three feet from

the foot of his bed.

I arrived at Woodbridge, 2 hilly old town m the River, Deben, without knowing his address.

That didn't matter. The first person i spoke to sald: "Canon Wilkinson? You want to see the hend? Go to Melton Grove."

A few minutes later I was with the canon.

plump. twinkle-eyed man, active for his age.

He gave me tea and took me to his bedroom and began

to

EMPLOYEE

LIKE

Pike-Head

The cat used to sleep on it," he remarked as he unlocked it. Then she found out what was inside and wasn't so keen,"

Inside the first box was a smaller casket and inside that Wha a plece of black cloth. Under the cloth was some red silk-and under that was the head.

Canon Wilkinson lifted up the relle by the pike-head that has been. thrust upwards through the neck so that the point juts out of the skull,

"A lot of people say I should give the head to the State," he saki, "But I can look after it better than they can. When the

EMPLOYERState had it they stuck it on a

London.

The foco is mutilated and dis- figured. Tho stump of the neck

when it Was hacked from the body.

Sir Winston Churchill's body-shows the marks of three axe guard, like his boss, has taken strokes mado up paloling.

Bodyguard Detective Sergeant Edmund Murray went to the Royal Academy of Art to hand in his oil paintings for the

The top of the skull has been sliced off and stuck on again. There is a touch of worm in the wood of the plice.

HAVE NEVER SEEN

Academy's summer exhibition. ANYTHING QUITE 50

Ho reently accompanied Sir Winsten on a "painting holiday" on the Riviera...

The two paintings are scenes of the Riviera const.-United Press

CHEAPER BY ·

THE DOZENS?

sore.

my family

UGLY "It has been in since 1812," Canon Wilkinson! told me, "My grandfather bought it for about £100."

The Gallows

Cromwell died in bed on September 8, 1058, and was embalmed arıd burled nt Westminster Abbey Three years later, after the Monarchy was restored, the romains, wore

taken to Tyburn, where, they were hung on the gallows until London. sunset.

Fast Workers

But Bad Degrees

Too

men

Blackpool.

attend

T.

WOOF! WOOF!

Heidi The Canine

Proves To Be A

Bourgeois 'Love' 'Barking' Success

Rehabilitated

SOB SISTER POPULAR

By COLETTE BLACKMORE

Moscow.

In spring, a young man's fancy turns to love--even in the Soviet Union. -

And now, unlike the early years of the revolution, he has the blessings of the Communist Party,

This may come as a surprise to Westerners who

| have concluded from the Soviet Press that Russian youths believe in puritanism and think only of meeting their next production quotas.

London, Ontario.

Even a dog psychologist, who should know, has concluded that Heidi, London's mathematical dachshund is “amazing.”

Heidi has already stumped the human variety, but now Mrs Alva McCall, a noted dog psycho- logist from Toronto, admits she is just as baffled by Heidi's ability to handle arithmetic and work out problems.

"The dog has powers of tele- pathy" she said after a session with Hell

'Jack Horner'

for

exact number of barks to match, "Oh, what a good boy am I."

Mrs McCall, who has been probing the minds of dogs 30

youre, says. Heidi's ability, Using one bark for "no", two which appears to be based on a for "yes", and barke to match mental rapport with the ques

sioner, Sacks up what some numerals, Mrs McCali

belloved, for Hold a battery of tests. Heal, scientists have when asked, said she was three years that a human being can

mind. years old, said how many people get through to a dog's

When

Barbara were to her family, and barked Heidi's two teenage mistresaca, Phipps, one of sharply when asked if other asks a question Heldi

always gets the right answer. She is not so muccessful when someone else asks a question and with Barbara holds the food which she is rewardo for an answer.

Sure algns of spring

than fever him, and even do better now current belle such ideas. | he," she wrote. "I wanted to be While romance is not displayed pretty, strong, agile and do as openly as in, say, Paris, it is something for the good of all. found along the rivers, on ex- In short,

dogs were as snart as she is. I fell in love with cursion boats

She completed the last no of and in shadowy him."

"Little Jack Horner" with the

doorways.

In Russin,

the place for romance is necessarily the out- of-doors. Nobody boasts a cozy apartment for two. Lovers must flee from the prying Сука of mothers, elsters and aunts and seek thele privacy in woods and Acids and waterfront paths.

Biological Urge

Love did not always have prominent placo in Soviet life. Back in the revolution, most Communists considered romance

u bourgeois action. They con- tended "love is just the bioine

gical urge to continue the species."

Devotion to the party and the job was supposed to take prior- ty over love. It a conflict arose between the two, love

was mean to be the loser. difference of opinion between couples on how to plant pota- *toes was almost the occasion

for ending a beautiful aftir. But now the party hos inny women universities to "philander withhabilitated the family and other there. Professor G. values once considered bourgeois Leeds University, including love. Their place in Clapton of told 400 schoolchildren here. Savlat society in secure,

There are plenty of women www, only a few minutes after arriving say we want the best men and the university has got them," he rald,

a waste of time and such women got neither good men nor good degrees," he added.--United Press.

"What was

HIPPO WALTZ

London.

Two hippopotamuses will dance a waltz in a forthcoming Mos- Stato Circus Production, Moscow Radio said, - United Proes.

Cow

Consulting Service

Movie Actress

An 16-year-old boy described, how he fell in love with a movie actress after seeing her photo- graph

"This first love of my life helped me to earn an excellent grade in my graduating year and to enter the university," he sald.

In past years, Soviet books. and flims portrayed hard-work- ing girls who thought their lives were complete once they. had received a medal for superior performance on the job.

Kind Hearts

Now, however, the heroines lean more towards the type of girl in the recent movie "Three Who Went To The Virgin Lands" who expressed the la ment, when she won Brst prize for being the best tractor driver, that her loved one did not know that she existed.

It Is all very well," she says, "bát you cannot, give prizes to the hobrt."

The modern Soviet girl looks

Evidence of this is the hun- dreds of letters sent by love for romance with all the trim

mings--flowers, strolls in the struck boys ond girla to

perfume, squirely moonlight, Konstantin Lapin, a self-ap-habits of opening doors pointed expert on love, marriage ladies, helping them with their and family who runs a consult-

into cars-United Ing service in the newspapers and on the radio.

couts Fross.

and

London.

Lor

The letters reveal one prob- able reason why the party has rehabilitated romance. It urges youths on to higher production A court told Harold Sturge, and better grades in school. heavily boarded 25-year-old One 17-year-old girl helping self-described "dealer in black with the summer harvest wrote | magic," to go home to his a shave." to Lapin about her boy friend: mother "and" get

"Seeing how he worked, 1 | Stunge waB -- picked up...for unwittingly

to imitate loitering-United Press.

tried

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Get Hypnotised And Become

London.

proof

Shopkeeper Sid’Lockyer, 57, Then an uxelled mov chopped told a Bankruptcy Court he had off the head, and stuck it on a so many children he could not pike, it was exhibited outside remember just how many there Westminster Hall for 25 years.

One night the head was TF you're a person of average Locityer estimated his fold at blown down in a storm and

you a gonlus, British doctor 23, and his second wife confirm taken home by a sentry He

| hid it ed he had 12 children during

a chimney and did not up

ha whe their marriago and 11 during a tell, oven his wife unti

She then Writing in the British Journal provious marriage. But Lockyer on his deathbed. She them

Močioni · Hypnotism, Dy 8. J. hastened to assure the Court: Though Canon

Bold 100000

Wilkinson

"Vans } Pelt,fi President of the Medion

"It's not the kids, blown, would not part with the head who have been my undoing. It's he was not a particular adruirer the booze-four or five bottle of Cromwell, CARA MEMAN

#COTONE WHOk. Unibeti - He indicatoa that he would

leave the head, to his son,

A Genius

#Mont people

Potentiality for Gen

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He quoted the case

(hypnolia")

a picture,

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a concerto under hypnog w Dr. Dabi of

however, that ziół dan do these things.

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"Peasant' Hits Reporter

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Phenomenon

nearly

"Barbare is transmitting her thoughts to the dog's mind." suye Mrs McCall. Psychologista st the University of Western Ontario here reached this same conclusion when studying canine

the

cave with

Mrs McCal

explains: "Adole- cccrls have a certain amount of These girls are police lieutenant | excess energy, fined 160 marks active children and they're dis- tribuulger af lot of energy around (HK$210) last week for the dog

nearly hitting

radio

all the It was by accident that Held's porter who called him "a talent was uncovered. Asked jokingly one day what one and peasant."

one make, the dog barked twice, Unwittingler the younglers op poor to have got through to the dog's mind. The correct answer is transmitted to the 'dog by the questioner'a concentration.

Ed Sullivan Show

The reporter, who also collected 230 marks damages trom the polleeman, was ined 30 marks for the insult,

powersant

The reporter and the police man got Into a squabble in the overcrowded. Nuronborg Stadium last August.

The naked whether his opponent

Tho the

wal

Mrs McCall users if others or a Deamat?" will try the same thing, then on, Heldi,ywho was purchased, for

"apeutenant.

concussion.

bit

him behing

de:

Sullivan lato da April or early "The profession of prasent, in May. She is taking every- or farmer, is a very honourable one," the Court

North London sald,

couråd › will aba. this case there is no doubt the home. Her reporter intended to imply that guided by Mr and Mrs Hartley fo consider the Heutenant was a man who Phipps, who have. did not know how to behave their daughters' schooling along himself. That consitutes an with appearances of their dogin insult."-United Press.

"But however, in her

United Pres