1957-08-27 — Page 4

SADRUDDIN's NINA TALKS ABOUT

HER PRESENTS

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from `SYLVIA LAMOND: Antibes. VERY morning at 10 a girl on water skis skims Ε

a private beach on the

Rcross the water from French Riviera.

Few people conking up the sun on this lazy, golden const recognise her. But all of them talk about her,

She is Nina Dyer, the girl who marries Prince Sadruddin Khan, son of the late Aga Khan on the 27th of this month....the girl the gossips call "La Mysterieuse," or "the cold one,”

Why?

her past.

Because she never talks about Because reports sald she was originally a model in London in the and Paris-but nobody tightly knit fashion world can recall her.

Beauty her marriage to the German steel baron, Henit von Thyssen, rated only 10 months; but left Ni considerable wealth.

womra of

Everybody rround her wout like to see an end to all the fats --not only the pend-locking, (Nina's serious-minded Sadri name for him), but his mother, Princess Andree, and a third

figure--M. Le Rac. e powerfully

bull Frenchman win is. Nia's trusted friend end advists hez-- when asked-us on older rela- five night.

In the white villa, rerenhed 7 tall cedars, which is her future Home, Niza mother-in-law's sgreed to give ker Ars! full

Interview.

"Cindorolla'

She seemed reluctant to 12k about herself until Prince Sad.

stid: "Darling, † krew you are shy, but look at it this way. It's

Cinderelli Hory # modera

which everybody loves."

Bo.h Sacri and Nis are irritated by ell the tek shout the presents von' Thyares show- ered on her,

had expensige Jewellery but I

not overemember being without flowers,

"It ly all in relation to the man's income.

"It reaches the point where a woman leved by a rich man only bes passing and it arrives

to caire something.

on her doorstep, tied with blue ribbon.

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1957.

The World & The Bottle

AFTER their onslaught on smoking the do-good doctors are setting about the drinkers of the world.

They are not after the alcoholics with whom drink is a disease but the ordinary social drinkers.

Variations

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Heroin ban

He also says: "We must not drinking habit to a dangerous shall be applicable to all to the best available evidence, underestimate the damage degree.

nations concerned,"

moderato drinkera - live longer aising from occasional excess, The extent to which this

than tertotakers. vulnerability shows in a com- Ab, ΠΟΥ,

recommendations To be sure, nobody douhin measures' from World that people who munity But what is "exceXE"?

depends on national and

habitually habits.

Health Organisation are no idio abuse alcohol are a nuisance boast,

- and sometimes menace. Thus in Italy, where every-

But these international cɛ- meals, body drinks wing with

ganlutions and in England, where

like World Health which have. to justify their existence by occasional action, THE professor admits that the stains and a badge of masculin..

ity,

are far too fond or "penalising capacity to cope with alcohol

exposed to danger.

EMEMBER how pressure everybody in the interest of a The World Health Or- varles enormously from person ganisation has circulated as perron. He has pointed out Thate with highly vulner from this organisation gt foolhardy few.

It would be criminal to ban statement by Professor the dally amount of alcohol able temperament will quick most succeeded in getting the

tablets because a fow which doctors believed was y succumb to alcohol's drug herojn banned In Britain aspirin

them to commit and become although almost every doctor people use Edward Jellinek, its chief the maximum the human body talous rects. consultant on alcohol, which could cope with was grossly stondy !!pplers or

complete declared it was vitally necos suleide,

By the same token any cam- clearly

Lo underestimated for many people. maks--so the professor believes. Bary as a pain-kliler," designed

paign against moderate drinking frighten us out of the local

is contrary to this independent Anding of civilisations

down the ages:

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Some men and women can at Sunday lunch-time and tolerate almost two bottles of keep us away from cocktail grotch a day! partics for ever.

The menace

E professor claims that there are more than

"I got my Caricbean Island 3 000.000 male alcohol cs tint way. We were sailing near full-blown "last week

alcohol, In regard to

mod are convinced that "per- doctors or

alcohol in moderation eases the tension of modern living. It is safe and highly effectivo tranquiliser, helping to cope with circumstances they would otherwise find able.

BUT this concept of a drink- Ing temperament" sonality" is not supported by a detalled study of 40 alephölles Fat the professor ditzeks all carried out at Crichton Royal,

What inkerz.

worries him a hospital in Dumfries. fret the

that millions of French, linus,

Americons, Truslane, an: Britons, and somal alcohol in their biccdstream every day.

the s

Vulnerability

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A LITTLE of what you caïn milong ferment does you good.

intoler-

We know that some are "bom two drinks

people under liquor

Although regular drinkers in- AFTER studying every aspect par," and need a little

of body bulld, temperament, to counter their Inhibitions and elude such clear-headed leaders

over developed and and attitudes to life, Dr William blunt their Krushchev, it on a cruise ay paradise edersin his Ameren Church

McAdam and Mr J. E. Orme critical faculties. That belief is island with coconut trees and

almost all the "great" of every

"The only thing supported by medical nuthor!- nothing che,

but says the problem they nation, the World Health

Or concluded:

alcoholles have in common is ties as eminent A Professor is determined to "Spontaneously I said, 'What create is nothing compared ganisation a lovely spot. I feel I could live with the damage done by rossus them from what it con- there for the rest of my life. A few days later the islead was the moderate drinkers who cation."

intoxication." mine."

ccasionally have one over

"Why won't you discuss your past?" I asked.

"Because it is very ordinary- and I am ret interested in it."

the eight.

Ile says: "International particularly experience leads to the con- clusion that in many coun-

Thì d.forac tren Duren von Thyssen Have her a

a state of sub-

Ludicrous

AND Professor Jellinek

their drinking and its resaits.", Jellinek.

the World Nevertheless in

Dr Leon Greenberg, of Yole Health Organisation's continuing University's Centre of Alcoholle study of alcohol problems, all Studies, declares that he can. peoples, trem the British to tho find

ill-effects no long-term Balinese, ure now likely to get from moderate drinking, facir rational "vulnerability" charted even And "recommendations

ex- measures"

settle-tries problems of national toys with the idea of

tending the term "alcoholle" to,

ment of £83,000, a chelesu near magnitude arise more from Versailles with 70 eros, ho jewellery, and a menagerie of other types of drinker than from the steady excessivo jungle animals which the bayon And been prepared, tor her sche, symptomatic drinkers."

to have round the Loure.

"How does Sedri feel about r belt panther in the family

ht Nina laughco, "At first said: T'd like to feed the hum- mlag birds to the parrots, the the Fare blue panots 'pekinese, the puke to the baby "Men enity alving presents leopard, and the leopard to the to their wives or the women pasther. Then I'd give Queen that 10 love." eld Nine im- Panther

↑ 200-and they patiently. "I have not clways would be that."

And there is no doubt that the British are included in this anti-drink drive.

A big

include all people with capacity for alcohol-those who can drink substantial quantities without ever getting drunk or even showing signs of wear,

This, of course, would be a ludicrous extension of a clear- cut clinical term meaning those who crave alcohol with the intensity of drug What are the "problems of pathological

he talks addicts. national magnitude"

He lists then as "Industrial

traffic accidents, Finally, the professor con accidents,

resistance, cludes that everybody is i lowering of disease

the absenteeism and over-spending." come. danger of acquiring

pre

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made

the

And, Indeed, Dr Miles

of and Weatherall.

London "which Hospitzt, reports that, occording

-Chapman

Pincher

BUT this, of course, is not to ray flm alcohol-14 20 problem. Indeed, in many respects it in a growing prob- tem of world proportions.

In Britain the number of people,

under 21 convicted

of

80,000

We hars

alcoholics, and

· chronid

that Iesves

Sectland out of account. #hic

whole country there ard *G0,000 suffering from the ely alages, and many of they are already incapable of a day's work.

As the peculiar stremen of the.

twentieth century "mount, the problem proliferates in al countries.

drunkenness last year was up Escape via the Boille. 22 per cent on 1958.

Anit there were 9 per cent MORE over-21's.

Of 60,182 people convioled last year, 5.385 were under 21; and of these under-21's girts numbered 250.

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