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NEWS FROM BRITAIN-

PIE

IN THE

TF anyone doubted that I curity debted that powerful interest of the British voter, he must, at last, be convinced.

Nallonat newspapers battles for advance leaks on the Labour Party's new pension plan. Mr Macmillan called a special week- and meeting of his cabinet to draw up a counter-plan, editors pressed their largest type inte service.

Transport House, after a year of searching for a wont-whlie lasue, rang the bell at last.

SKY

rest of his life. At the a man tached).

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1957.

"LES ARMOUR

Si

about

rest of his life. At the moment, refinements, such as bells, at- aged 06 is about 6 years. That

Meanwhile, it seems that means he can expect to receive 22,000 from the fund in return Bultar 10 now obligatory for for the £1,500 he has paid in, every well dressed mon

the trade press re- But, a present, he could in- town aru

ports that there is a "fantas~ vest his money, year by year e shortage" of them. (One in shares which would certainly music dealer admitted that he yield him 8 per cent interest, had only 750 in stock, A M If he invested 15 shillings every months ago. 750 gulings, would week for 40 years on this basis have lasted him well into the the Interest would get him next century. Now he doesn't slightly more than £1,000. Thus know whether they'll last into the interest and the principal nevet week.) add un to more than £3,400 against the £2,000 he can reasonably expect to cet back.

All this is the outcome, of what is called "Skifte Mude." Diligent research has failed to In return for the sacrifice of disclose on arlequate definition No one seriously questioned the rest of his interest, he is of this furm of entertainment aither the need for a new and

certain amount of in- but. It seems to be 1 kind getting comprehensive plan or the baske surance;

he may collect his noise produced by tortured principles of the Socialist plan pension for 25 years instead of guitars, beaten washboards, and itself.

five years or he many die early bits of metal brutally assaulted and his widow will get in cash by muscular young men, far more than he has pald in,

At the moment, the national

pension scheme-which provides anat £3 a week for everyone nt retirement nge-is both gross ly inadequate and nearing Anan- clat disaster. Three pounds is barely enough keep breath in the body,

a

The effect defies description

rage.

But could be buy insurance but in coffee houses on Soho against these eventualities incre basements it is all the

dest cheaply on the existing Insur- Even the B.B.C. has ance market? Some people think it essential to take notice. he can-and that is where the

BATTLE LINES debate will le

SEE AMERICA?

драм

DON IDDON'S DIARY takes the Sunshine Trail (but the sun stays in)

FABULOUS

Daytona Beach, Florida. Fever this pink balloon boom bursts I hope I shall not be around to help pick up the pieces. Fabulous Florida should perhaps be called Reckless Florida. It is only two years since I was last here, but the expansion is almost terrifying.

Everywhere there are new hotels, new motels, new highways, chains of restaurants, and, at a conservative estimate, 1,500 new swimming pools.

The young (he is 47) and handsome Governor of the State, Leroy Collins, who one day may land up in the White House, says:

FLORIDA

"Spectacular kotelo, motels, restaurants, swimming pools, and yacht basin have mada Miami the tourists' Mecca all the year round.

It makes Hollywood look sombre...6 million people will spend 2,000 million dollars there this year... and there's no sign of the boom bubble bursting

The Church of England The new plan proposes noth- ing wikily revolutionary. Under

normally quiet, calm, liberal it, contributions will be divideri

"Florida is now the fasicst Laste. Before the war, an

outlook, scholarly in between the individual, the em of 75,000

average in

growing major State in America. Americans come to a leaders, on the whole, re- ployer and the state, and the

Britain every year, This year gard criticism more as evidence has a flourishing economy on the three sound Individual will be assessed on

of bad taste than as something based sliding

the collar foundations of industry, tourism, ling scale in proportion to 230.000 ure expected.

But how many Britons will to get hot under his income.

end agriculture." and the suggestion of about go to America? A Poltical and competition" from other

1 say: "What doc's major Pensions will be paid on the Economic Planning Survey religious denominations is normal-means?"

The answer Is-east scale and, veals same proportionate

the only 27,000 will teleen to be a sign of excep

of the

of Alississippi-the

Picces Big

properly were ultimately, they will average manage le break through what tional redenesa,

Tline Stoles,

bought for ten per cent down comething like half the contri- it calls "the dollor curtain."

This year more than 6,000,000 and sold for twice the figure butor's average earnings.

Of these, 8,500 will be busi- But the Bishop of Chester hat people will visit Florida, They in a matter of days.

Hotels, nessmen, 1,200 guests of the been accusing the teman Catho will spend $2,000,000,000.

garages, and apart- Every week 2,500 people ment houses sprang up on the government, and 1,000 scholars Lie Church of "spiritual totall and pludenis. The remaining tarianism" and of rudely blow-arrive in the State as settlers. sand facing the blue sca, and

"Nothing can 18,000 are all people visiting re- ing its own hom.

halt us," say the bluer sky was the limit. lativen

Tens of millions of dollars and close friends who That Church, he sald, had the Chambers of Commerce, I If the contributor dies

It was hope so. his have agreed to provide for them falsely Instunted that

But take a look at changed hands every day and In Florida and remember what hap- then, suddenly, the bubble burst, in the dollar making large-scale widow will receive a lump sum while they are

guins

By the 30's grass and wild roughly equal to half his earn- area. Not one of this 16,000 is membership at the expense of red in 1928.

flowers The ings over the previous Ave years,

allowance, the Church of England. dollar given any

No limit

were growing in the streets and thousands of build- required by law to Bishop's figures showed that HIEN there was another fan- The plan, it is thought, will They are not only provide a callfactory land flat broke,

Anglican gahus from the Church

tastic boom. It was not on pension scheme but serve, {" PEP., a private research or of Rome were many times an

the massive scale of this one, well,

Rome's gains from for the inereusa national panisation, estimates that 50,099 art as

country and the Sluté savings ankl investment, In Brilong might go it they had a England.

were not as rich, but it was a theory. therefore, it will help change and That this would Roman Catholics. dispute his great surging wave of to Increase productivity and cost the British government 1gures holly.

perity and speculation. check inflation,

The money will be invested by the government largely in industrial shapes and the car ings from the investment will help to finance the fund,

10

It also serve as an al semnative to nationalisation in that it will give the government a substantial holding In a large

£5

the dollar equivalent of million-a drop in the bucket in terms of existing dollar expen- diture.

It also points out that Britain

number of important industrial Is Just about the only country undertakings.

This last" might or might not

in Europe which doesn't make allowance for reasonable

B

be atunning, depending in how tourists who want to go to the

it I looked at, But even the truest blue Conservative have so far not expressed alarm.

The one qutations that is being asked and the question that the government is presumed to be examining in delall—is just: W the plan do better for the citizen than he can do for him- #elf?

Under the scheme (though the Labour party has not finally

dollar area.

OE- United that

The

report opeculates on the effects of nearly 20 years of no-contact between the dinary Briton and the States. The conclusion is the isolation enforced by tho do British government cannot

relations any Anglo-American

good, MUSIC

committed itself to the details) The

a

Musician's Union

player to its ranks.

has

man now earning £20 recently admitted a washboard week and now 25 years old will pay 15 shilings a week for 40 years. He will then receive a Pension of £8 a week for the

Music shops are selling wash- boards for us much as 80 shilings (same have certain

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INFLATION

LABOUR

PENSIONS

ings were crupty and crumbling

with disuse,

GOVERNOR COLLINS. White House one day 7

un-

Today in New York some economists say that the burst- ing of the bubble in 1926 was pros the forerunner wil the great the warning which went

U.S. crash of 1929. That was heeded.

PIE IN THE SKY

TORY PENSIONS PLAN

LOW

World Cupfenkbarragement with the Manchester Guardian

How Do you get

Is there any sign of on ex- plosion now or uny distan rumblings? None that I can

sec

are

made in

shine departed from the Sun- shine State.

Here the big commodities are sun, sand; and sea

So every Floridian, wheller

native-born or one of the seillers who have Bocked in from every State of the Union, hopes the sun will never desert them for more than day or two at a time.

These people are at the merey of the weather, just as they are

elements

at the mercy of the when the savage hurricanes

when the mowbirds go back to New York and the North.

That is the official season, but the Florida ture is now 60 strong that people flock hero all the year round,

Slate Supreme Justice Bonny Roberts says about the boom: "These people are just "llell- bustin' their way down here to Florida." So the bubble gela bigger day by day, the balloon swells and swells. In Florida there are only prophets of boom,

Chapter 11

Count

Basie

THE RAID CA

Wain

Inborn Rhythm

of the Basio

Wrhythm section today?

blow and menace the Keys from This section the most Largo to Key West,

famous feature of the band My host here says: "Some since its inception is now fines I think we have things

too good and there will have to comprised of a mixture of be a reckoning.

the old and new, both "In the past 13 years the musically and in years. average incoine of people living

Is Indeed ture,

The Count and Freddie Green

able

in Florida has gone up twice as are still there, of course, and inuch as the national average On the contrary, while Woll Income, despite the fact that we are still playing much the same Street logs and motor-car sales have a lot of old folk,"

way as they did 20 years ago. then can this be accept- decline, while "necessary ad- That

For How

to the thousands upon justments"

the every bathing belle on Miami national economy, Florida races Beach there are half a dozen old thousands of teenagers who cut on music ahead at break-nicek-speed couples living-in-retirement-en-their mustent teeth

stemmed from such More hotels have been bullt the west coast of Florida. For which

DA the late in the past ten years than in every leg-palace and glitter hotel modern glants the rest of the world put to un the Gold Coast betweca Palm Charlie

Parker and Dizzy gether.

Beach and Miemi there are a

Gillesple? "It could never happen again" score of modest housing com- Perhaps the answer comes is one of the many slogans munitice for the "solid folk." from the old blending with the quoted here. There are strict

modern suppiled regulations curbing speculation and if you want to buy property now you have to put down one- third of the cash value.

by

bass

is these solid people who player Eddle Jones and drum- may help to curb the extrava- mer Sonny Payne, Both, be gances and excesses of a Stateyond any shadow of doubt are which sometimes makes Call from the "new school." Eddie's forala and its Hollywood appear big fat swinging bass tone is

ideal for small-group nodern stable and almost sombre. - Miami is,

course, the jazz as it is with the big Baste Mecca.

band. Sunny's great quality -- When I was last in Miami apart from his soloing → là bụạ "this year's" hotel was the ability to cut figures with EROY COLLINS Is cleaned Fontainebleau, which has 565 section.

The speculators and the mobs who flocked to Miami are being curbed or are being driven out of town und Sinte.

Cleaning up

of

A lavish sulto (about £35) a day.

costs

4

Many a sharp, bling brass section attack is heightened and $100 solidified by Sonny's cracking punctuations as he Micko thu Bgures off with then

up the gambling, changed rooms, 283 cabanas, and docks the "quickie" divorce laws so for 50 yachts. that now you have to walt six months to shed your husband or wife, and encouraged the in-

The Fontainebleau is still the vasion of big northern business. most spectacular hotel in Miami, In Jacitsonville there are two despite all the new building huge, new, Insurance company during those two years, but the sityscrapers,

on,

With Eddie walking the band through its bluey changes and laying down that wide founda- 1957 "this year's" hotel is the lon begging to be bullt Everywhere there is money Americana, which has a lobby of Sonny joins in. And with the to burn and people are 'burning Roman Travertine marble 100ft. steadying. unamplified chord pacings of Freddie's gultar, the Count lends his magle touch to the world's greatest rhythmm section.

Jt.

challenges Niagara Falls,

"I drove here from New York, by 100ft, and a fountain tha: passing through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Wash- gton, Virginia, North Caro- Ilnia, South Carolina, and Georgia.

'Old stuff'

By the time I reached the AN assistant manager at the Americana bold me: "You

What it is these men have Sunshing State the rain was gotta be up to date, see. The which makes them just that pelting down and the wind was Fontainebleau's old stuff, now." much better than any of their howling.

May, of course, is not in the contemporaries dates back to the There hos been hail in season. Rates are "cheap" now old argument of jazz being Miami and floods in various and I am paying only $15 a day Negroes music, and that white parts of the State,

in Daytona.

men will never be able to sur- I hate to think what would

Dass them at it. There a happen to Florida If the sun- and ends officially in February, something in-born in such men

into Who's Who?

A

TW year's edition of Wro for 1957, They are

THIS year's edition of Who's Who is bigger than ever.

mixed medley of talent and achievement.

of

One curious fact among the

Some famous names are in the new edition-bat some equally famous ones are omitted. Why? by JOHN TOM

IN

OUT

The season starts in December

Stirling Mass

Hausbera.

Gilbert Heiding

Lady Barst

what they are playing I something which comes right from their souls.

If four other technically- brilliant men were to play the self-same notes, the odds would be heavy against anyone mia- taking them for The Baslo section.

The Count's

piano playing has. I suppose, an ageless ring about it. It hasn't changed much In 20 years. It didn't need to. His solos are sill simple and sparse; so hi work behind the band. But that rolling four-four bass lino in his left hand never seems to clog or chug ke us it does under the hand of many ad other planist. That rolling Ine and Eddie Jones, walking bass are a perfect couple,

Despite all this, the Count has yet to be heard 'claiming to bo à planist "I'm just part of the rhythm action," ho'll tell you. "I feed the soloists and the band. I'm a pace-solter."

The most notorious new boy and complain that his patience

them all

President was exhausted because his entry Nasser. He slips quietly into in Who's Who wasn't as long os the careful, alphabetical order Stalin's. of the handboole between the

simplicity of the guillotine it quality automatically because of Bishop of Nameru

But for all this Who's Who and the foreigners in this year's edition read: "BERIA, Laurent, OMIT," Bishop of Natal, Under the is that Bulganin appears whilst

tixir appearano above

And that pace-setting is one acer remains an invaluable hand- tain level in the Honours Lists. book. My only hope is that it of the open secrets of the band's beading of recreation neither of Krushchev does. mol, Molotov 35,000 namNON Marion Brando, aged 33, comes décan't get any heavier,

prodigious owing, A typical the bishops oupplies any in- and Malenkov are there, too. It

in for the rat time; Do does

Baile number will open with as formation. Not· 50 President is, however, the rule that once Who's Who this year has the Wilfrid Hyde Walle, aged 5/ I book this year'a Into the many rhythm section choruses

Meticulously, like, a namos appear they continue to and has entries for some 35,000 number of 3,350 pages

bathroom, and it bounced down as the Count thinke 0! to get good official ho Lista

his do so. In this way Lord Kylsant names. These are the men-and Peter May, 37.

Azother young newcomer lion our old weighing-machine at that swing going.

He is now one the not-so-slim vokimo size of The careful stener will bear hobbles us reading and sports. went on appearing even after he women-who cut a figure for of the youngest entrico-along Sib, 4oz. Quite some baby, that slight changes in tempo se the had been sent to prison for his themselves in the world. They with Stirling Moss, also 27. But a mere 2lb. 13oz. 1ghter than four men pick up on coch Nusser appears in the social part in the Royal Mali Steamship inluence the most people even the strange fact in that while Princesa Caroline of Monsoo register of Who's Who because frauds. While on the other hand, if they do not make the most Mos Ja included · (and) Hista binti by traditions foreign statesmen in Russia after Berla's disgrace friends.

armonikle recreationa spear

Nasser,

record

oiler's best and set it rolling,

"A band can't really awing unless the rhythm section 24 Tamla, the inscription on all 'he plays,

who ore dures of public interest a correction slip, wie circulated · Hera are some of the people fishing oriă judo) neither Mike And she, incidentally, da not | Kitting” une included Thus there was a supplement to the Russian who appear is your for the Hawthorn nor Pete Collins in Who's Who you time when Hities used to storm handbook. With the cold clear 'first time; agárd from those who преса,

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