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Baldness? It's only the men

who care...

says ANNE SHARPLEY

all the bald hends in London were faid side by side I for one wouldn't turn a hair. This panic about baldness is a purely mule invention (not associated with the fact, I admit, that men are the only ones to go bald). Like most women it never occurs to me to notiee specifically whether a man is bald or not,

But male-vanity is both more tenacious und insidious tha the female furm. 31 hides behind

a lot of selentists (mos) of whom

are bald or balding anyway), and prompts them to hold somi- thing called a "Symposium" at the highly

respected

Society of Medicine.

Royal

ut Two hundred and sevenly these mostly baldur balding xioctom

scientists and

· have flown in from all parts of the world, Under the chair- manship of a completely bald Jarriel American professer they

three-day Jiscussion

Junix.

They uk a lot about things Bike The Electron Microscopy of the Melanocyte."

The real nothing

Then they get down to the real thing. Or what most women would term the rol nothing, Baldness.

Organising the whole thing is a tanky, hively Amiration called Dr Geoffrey Dourne, Reader in Histology, University of London, at the Tandon Hospital Medical College since 1947.

Dr. G. BOURNE

Fire minutes' massage every morning

This stimulates the supply of blood to the hair follicle.

Dr Bourne mosṣaged it Intr his scalp each morning. His head went bright red for an hour or 20 and after three weeks octor's deserted temples

The had

lled in with a mild black fuzz and vanity was temporarily allyed.

now

"It's getting thin again though. I have to start freat- meet again," he laughs. All in aid of scienlife advancement, of course.

to

When to start

| IT

Dr Bourne has managed hang on to his own thin black hair with his finger-tips. Five

When should one start frnd- Urala-Inuising brisk, minutes' massage every morning after ing baldrey; off? shaving.

He, kas un tried what ive TURIES 2 the world's nearest hope to an answer for baldness at present. Nicotinic acid.

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of keeping hair," says the doctor, friumphant in keeping his own.

"

(THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1957.

CYPRUS

INFLATION

The

CHINA'S ARMY

by Peter Sum

United Press Staff Correspondant

of

Hongkong on Ruzia for supplies of heavier Communist Chinese and more recent types Army is the largest standing military equipment, almost all army in the world today.

smaller and more conventional military equipment are made in Chinese factories.

OMAN

000 officers

HAROLD'S

HOLIDAY

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

Officially, it has about 2,500,- and men on active duty. But this does not include Two recent additions to the tho many thousands of regional list of domestically mado security forces,

the public military equipment are the

cecurity units in towns and MIG-type મ fighter and four- large elles and

the murni ton transport trucks.

The Chincoo Reds had a

miltin units.

Chairman Mao

IL Tse-tung has seld he would not arm his forcesillary force before 1927.

scattered consisted of

write with nuclear weAJDUS. But which co-operated with Chiang aside from that, the Communist Kai-shek's Nationalist forces in Chinese Army is well- n campaign against corrupt equipped and well-trained warlords.

organ, one such as China has

When the Reds split with the ntver before seen in Ils more Nationalisis, however, Mão than 3,000 years of history, formed the "Workers' and Above all, Use "People's Pensante Red Army" of 30,000 Liberation Army" is a battle troops on Aug. 1, 1927, and tested military machine that has faurel

launched its war against Town rapidly as the cost of Kuomintang.

This WIJ the years of bloodshed.

Most

the

birth of the Chinese Red Army. of the weapons and

The Chinese Red Army dis- equipment in use, in the Red Unguished itself between 1934-

Army are from Russla

or 35 when it staged the famous Eastern Europe. Although long Communist China still depends

ALWAYS it seems to happen worst to Coventry-the saturation bombing; the paralysing strikes; and now the polio epidemic-and the rest of Britain becomes both sympathetic and anxious.... Could it happen to us too? The answer lies deap in the cathedral city which has changed its character faster than any other. ...

THE UNLUCKY CITY

Coventry.

So I

by TOM POCOCK

the

Factory

Thuis massiere proxtured 2 sprina new verb: "to coventrate." in prettier than a pic-

But as Coventry recovered Lure, The stream

from It's wounds so moro winds through Warwick-

troubles camo on it. ridge uf new

Industrial Ridge beyond shire meadows heavy with

came out of the

Alfa.

The slump in the ear beyond houres advance like breakers on

The great clty.

chimneys industry last year, grass and the pink, white, vastern suburbs, "Ah, that's the whole secret

Walsgrave, Wyen, and entch the morning sun like re at the Jaguar works And and yellow of flowers,

Stoke, where pin is most minarets. In the shallows, beneath prevalent, to look at this factories,

willow's arch, children stream, splash. Then, in the sun-

mother It is called the River lit silence, their calls: "Come out of that Sowe and in no other coun-

the try would it merit a muck or you'll catch

let done the distinction of

is caster in keep thin hair from going than to replace-hair

that's gone."

Prince Philip, for instance, he considers hus already left it too

late,

How can a young man esil-polie!" mate his chances of going bald fending-off to wake in order tellen?

"If his grandfather on maternal side was baid The chances are 50-50. If his father

name,

Rasholders

great nixt

warehouses, und rise like castles in the industriaj haze.

the

Prosperity

the "river." The Sowe here is the past 20 years in

nast 10 years Coventry has

arc

pullo. These now

the troubles of a boom town, moi a enthedral city.

Walk through the centre of is ittio Coventry and there there to remind you of the historie past, much to remind you of the revolution that happening here.

19

True, you can still walk for

arches of the old trces,

This is a summer scene in

a furrow of filthy water, changed more than any other a hundred yards or to round the the England of 1957. This mud, broken bottles, bi- British city. An official in the is the scene in a peaceful cycle wheels, and bashed-in Council House siphe: "Twenty funt, red meadow overlooking a city kettles. It is--the-play-dle of the city and meet tween medieval and Georgian

yeing go, I could walk through cathedral beneath shady was bald the chances are prac-smitten with the twentieth- ground of thousands of a dozen people I knew. Now, I walls. tically 100 per cent that he will century plague of polio Coventry children who live em surprised if I meet one."

myelitis, infantile paralysis, in the new housing estates Dr Bourne's own father was or, as the dictionary puts that stand above its banks. thin-haired, but not actually it, "inflammation of the bald. His wife's father kept his grey matter of the spinal

Le bald too."

haic. So Dr Bourne's own two sons have a fairly good chance of keeping theirs.

But bals, like everything else seems, begins with those small clear crystals In the blood stream known as hormones.

advocate

the

"Some people use of female sex hormones-to Antagonise the male sex tor- menes." (What else was 10 be expreled")

Success

"A certain amount of success has been experienced I under- stand In these experiments. although it is a tricky feld tu which to experiment."

The only known total cure for baldness is a draslic operation the most men would probably feel hardly worth the sterlilee.

"The bald man, in fact, is believed to be the man with an excess of male hormones. Hald- ness night almost be described as a masculine virtue,"

One of the doctor's students who was bald thanked him personally for publicising the fact. Hls social life had im- proved tremendously, he said.

The doctor's wife, who is psychologist, is all for bald men.

cord."

Filthy

The city is surrounded by Auch fouled watercourses and ponds.

Some will blame open du:t- bira, or lack of personal clear- nes for the pollo cutbreak.

yat again to the trouble that bese! the #noient, historis enthedral city of Coventry.

But this is like finding

lovely but tasty old painting in broken frame hanging on the wall of a coffee bar. All around this enclava of the past, the new Coventry Is arising for its new citizens.

man,

In his black homburg and sugging, prey cardigan, and the red-cheeked farmer in his tweeds look freakkh among the marble ant the leopard Takin and the shaded lights of the Leofrie Hotel,

In Coventry's smartest bar, of Maytair luxury, you will meet factory foremen and skilled air- crat Atiera entertaining their wives.

Shops, designed with a conL- temporary elegance that shames London, fill their windows with the fashion, furniture, kitchen Cadgets and television sets that will

their best appeal to customers-the factory workers and their familles,

Drama

WARWICKSHIRE farmer who drives into Coventry week put it like this: "You can call this a new city.

once a

in 1911, the population was 100,000. In 1941, It was 103,000. Now is more than 270,000.

I've seen it double its popu- South From

Wales, from

lation. The buildings are new, Liverpool and the North, fram

There's lots of money. Lots of Scotland and from Ireland, the It does not looks like England, foreigners tou Not just from Immigrants have come,, drawn Hugo angular biccks of class, Scolland, Wales, by the prosperity promised by steel, conerele, und brick, but Indians and West Indians,

forced the

thit Sheets of

Vas Sill, I expect it's the sime all piazzas,

and over the country.".

MORE than 80 Coventry But, whatever the cause, it adds cathedral city.

citizens have been struck down with polio this year, a dozen of them this month.

The cause of the epidemic may not yet be known offi- cially, but among the citi-

zenx

growth

The heat that has forced this growth has been provided botir by the furnaces of industry and German bombi.

Stand co the gentle bitiside above the stinking Sowe. Lonk

Coventry Before 1930, already a great industrial city across the Belds and hedgerows to Coventry and only the sleeple producing striking weapons

ot plutc-glasi,

concourses,

planades.

march" withdrawing from bases in Klangs to Yenon over wild mountains, Malaria- infested swamps and burning dcserts.

This march took one year, and covered eight provinces.

The outbreak of the Sino- Japanese hostilities on July 7, 1937 proved a boon to the Com murists. While the Nationalis's had their hands full with the Japanese, the Communista re- mained in their well-protected hideouts. Soon scores of scatter- ed but well-knit and well-led Red guerillas come forth to harry Japanese comununication net- works and create disturbances behind the Japanese lines.

These tactics won them many supporters from the masses. It Wod during

this period when both the Nationalists and the Reds forgot their Civil War to fight the Japanesa,

It was not aceret at the Ume more that the Japanese were afraid of the 'Pa-lu' and the "Hin-Szu-Chen”, the Com- munist units, than they were of the Nationalisis,

When the Japanese surrender- ed in August, 1943, the Com- munist and Nationalist armies Icnewed their struggle for supremacy. That was the last phase of the hot war that ended with

being the Nationalists thrown out of mainland China.

While the Civil Wor was being waged in China. the Communists sent a handful of their best army cadres to Man- al- churia-presented to them most

the intact by

-with- drawing Soviet army and formed fed China's first

Army Air "People's Liberation Force Unit." This was the be- ginning of the Red Air Force,

The men were trained by Col. Wu Ka!, who learned his flying In a Nationalist Air Academy In 1937,

air-

The first class graduated in 1047. Today, it is estimated the Red Air Force has more than

Bno military 3,000 front craft, mostly MIG-17 late model and Ireland, Jery little

is known

about the Red Chinese Navy, although it is believed to possess a num- ber of Soviet-made submarines. The tant Red Chinese mill- In a way it is. But Coventry's

grew on tay machine today "All it wants is the Skylas forced growth has heightened bloodshed. When the Red Army and the Demo of Discovery," a the drama. There has been more celebrated its 30th birthday, the Broadgate shopkerver says, but excitement, more money made. question uppermost in the minds

LS sarcasın

tinged with

of Chinese outside Red China also While other cities have There has

been more price.

was, "Will the People's Libera- The polio epidemiction Army again bathe itselt in bigb to rebuild timidly, trouble,

errage may be the result of expansion

blood? to create something startlingly, overlaking prudenor.

They have not forgotten the Coventry has had the duringly new

But, rough or smooth, the cost in human lives and suffer- docs not look like story of the rebirth of Coventry ing that went into the building

old elergy is louched with magic.

of this military force,

hls

Was

of

of Coventry thero of the bombed cathedral will, the HAF, the loyal Navy remind you that this place is in and the Army, And so German scems little doubt. It is,

the English Midan Perhaps bombers tore out the entrails of so many of them say, the it is the skyline. The skyscraper the city and killed 1,200 of its But it England. fault of dirty water.

people. fals in the suburbs.

The

Chins up, you baldheads!

TORE than 200 doctors and scientists met in London

MORE 200 y curs and just sises thet i

grows, why it greys, why it falls out and what might be done to make it grow again.

Though the cry for a really effective hair-restorer 1 heart- felt and clamorous, baldness hug never been tackled thoroughly Germany, end before becouse it carries 7 took part.

"I think it is the other ex-hazard to health, treme to feminity. What could be a more obvious sign that a mon is completely masculine than that his head is bald?"

Money matters

In fact the symposium" can pack up their microscopes right

AWDY,

All they have to do is to pub- Helse the fact that only

the really masculine man lose their halr.

And they can start re- search on a substance to get rid of hair on the head right away.

But either way women prob. ably won't take much notice. They'll still keep on picking their men for unsetcalidic rea- sons ke bank accounts,

-London Express Service). ·

con-

tod scientists from the U.S.. other nations

men who are LEAST virile have hormones con the best chance of keeping their after-effects i

controlled. haw.

cause unpleasant not carefully

But he does claim that he has proved it is possible to stimulate a hair "root" which has been dormant for up to 25 gears to preduce her again.

HERE IS NEWS to send bald men back. to work today with a smile. At last, science is to tackle on a big scale the age-old problem-yes, BALDNESS. By CHAPMAN (well thatched) PINCHER

to

Dr Irwin Lubowe, another U.S. hair-researcher, claims he has already cured baldness of many years' duratio with cortisone and similar hormones.

Ol 42 patients give the

"This result," he Enys, "may treatinent, complete regrowth of

pnswer certain legie Dr J. 13. Hamilton of Now hair was seen in 19 while the change completely our present is

it is impossible to questions such an... The purpose of this

York State

University dis rest had partial regrowth, he re- belief that

restore hair growth to a really latest Andings on ports.

WHY.docs a single hair a bald head." ference was to spark off a co- closed hla

the head last for only 10 months ordinated research programme receding hair-lines in men and

11 drops out k human hair in Inborntorles women of all ages. throughout the world.

group led by Dr M. L. before

the people while in others it lasts Ryder of Leeds reported effects of diet on hair growth seven years? It is already known that a de- ficiency of a food ingredient call- od lysine care ecuse premature goreyling,

Dr Lubowe does not claim that this treatment is the answer to

He found that boys and wildness because these powerful It was organised by the Brilish girls have a similar pattern of Society for Research on Aging, hair-growth until about 10,

the hair-border forming stralglish lime across the fore- hood.

From then on the hair-line begins to necedo at the temples in both sexes. It slowly curves back forming aronds Into the hair but this Boon stops t women while it continues in 20 per cent of men.

Dr Hamilton's work suggests

A

told

scientists Other

of their findings after studying the

fine structure of hair with the electron microscope and by chemloat means, including radio- Belivity.

come

Nong of them expects that this conference will provide an Burling Moss Immediate method of covering Michael Wilding Kenneth Horne

Mr H: of bald and Sald

"It all began in Best funk

Sidi Barron,** Said Mr K: "Can't you wave tween this progressive loss of Sand Mr-M: "I never get hair, the vast nereage

hair in men and virility.

in my eyes driving.". your wand or something?”

Brushchoy

David Nixon that there is a

connection by- Alto Galanosa

The

thinning scope. Their

WHY do

men start growing hair on their cary when they lase from their heads?

WHY is baldness raro in riced which live a fully open-air life? WHY do thea song of hold men almost always go bald thom- selves?

Bocause of the kwcxoable way horodity works millions of males are doomed to baldness unleas the acfentiata con do something der them..

The current advice i choosa well-thatched parents.

The scientists hold out no im- mediate hopes to men who want keep their hair. But they

Do

are confident that, given time, they cza produce something better than that dofcatist slogani