1957-10-03 — Page 4

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for democrat

for

NKRAMAN

dictator

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1957.

Cummings

Mr. Bing-Attorney-General AND Minister of Education

Try shivering your fat away

—but count

me out

OME time ago I bought a new suit off the 'peg.

SOME

The shop assistant measured me round the chest and said "Tak, tak" botween his teeth.

Then he measured my waist and raised one eyebrow. Then he measured my hips, stepped back, smiled cheerfully, and said: "You, sir, are what we would call a portly fitting.”.

I HATED HIM.

Two years ago, in a newspaper profile, I was described as "a chunky figure." I wan very pleased. Chunky nounded firm, muscular, husky, and virile. I began to walk with a swagger, and when I met the journalist who had written the article I bought him a beer.

"I liked being called chunky,” sold. "It is Л good word. What precisely does it mean?”

"Chunky, brother," he sold. "means fat."

I HATED HIM.

Stuck to it

two years 1 FOR the next

#limmed with passion and assiduity. I devised a diet to sult my needs and stuck to it bravely.

had

two

For breakfast bowl of cereal with cream. two eggs, bacon, beans, tomajocs, ond three slices of toast and marmalade.

Al eleven I drank a cup of coffee and ate a couple of farts brimful of sticky, purple jam, of which I am very tond.

For lunch I ate protein, he- cause protein is essential in the slimming diet-soup, two chops,

lots

of green vegetables. dark.

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I was given very valuable advice by a German

by WILFRED FIENBURGH M.P.

thick gravy, and cheese spread with jam, because I always like jam with my cheese. In order to give me some roughage, neces sary if I was not to injure my- self by my fasting, I would take a couple of crispy rolls, and four or Ave foury potatoes.

About four I would have two more of the jam tarts, because I found that the rigours fasting left me faint in mid- afternoon. The jam tarts were therefore, in a sense, medicinal.

I was told that one should have at least one good meal during the day and so for din- ner I would have soup, a sliver of delicately browned (protein again), some joint, more roughage, a large vanilla fee, and more slimming protein in the form of cheese.

No sugar

sole

O my return home from th

N my return home from the

brew a pot of strong tea to settle me for the night,

But I did not take sugar with the ten instead I used haif a slice of lemon.. i then ate the lemon--becaure, lemon juice is an important, constituent of the slimming diel.

H

"My wile left me," he said sleep at night without indizer- simply. "She wanted a blanket lon

And now I have done it. One or the bed."

and a half alone have gone' ia I did not adopt his system. six weeks. I am now cating After a while I began to worry Grimly I devised a new diet. agala-about half my previous because I was still chunky, so I A very simple diet.

I stopped consumption. When previously compared notes with othar cating For breakfast, one egg 1 smoked 15 cigarettes, a day; dieters to see where I was going and live cigarettes, Lunch, one now smoke 88. My cults will wrong. I was given some very coffee and 10 cigarettes, Dinner, have to be remade. I no longer valuable advice, in particular by a German who weighed

Bat, whom I met on a Rhine steamer, eating Bayarlan dumplings and sausages.

Duck-bumps

salad. A little meat, and about cigareties.

LTHOUGH the day was cold he wore only d cotton shirt, jacket, and pants. He was blue covered with with cold and

German duck-bumps, which is for goose-pimples.

1 still drank the odd beer. Not because I like beer, but because in my job I have to mix with people and i do not mix very well with a glass of water in my hand. In fact I dislike drink,

but 1 sternly resisted the easy temptation 10

cut out

the

look Important. People shoulder me aside in bus queues instead of landing back respectfully, But It.has been worth it,

Jealousy

FOR now I have a cause in life,

Refore I become thin Í used to

occasional pint. Lesser men. waste hours in idle chatter- feel, might have weakened. about politics and sociology. and people-bours Every day I weighed myself Fulating

members wasted in the trivialities. But on the scales in the

House cloakroom at the

I talk now to good of no more.

purpose. Commons and for days nothing I

happened. I even cut out some of the cigrettes, but still the proteins Beah remained solid, rounded-ing. and heavy.

"This," he said, "show keep not too fat. I keep cold. 1 went to my doctor and agiced him how I could continue to out four meats a day washed down with 10 or 20 steins of lager. He told me that if I wore practically no clothes my body would burn up energy keeping me warm and thus there would he no calories left to make me ent

at

"He even made me sleep night, winter and summer, with only one sheet on the bed."

"And what happened?" - naked.

I

Eating again

I talk about: slimming, about and calories, weighe machines and carbo hydrates. I know by heart the Inaccuracles of every weighing- machine belween Westminster and Euston. I am knowledge- able, informed, and carnest,

And nobody wants to talk to

HEN the miracle started andme. THE

The pounds retted away. awful ragging hunger which tortured me for the first few days disappeared.

found I could run upstairs without panting, tie my shoo faces without grunting. - could

com

I know why, of course, Everybody is jealous of me. They are all fat, stoday. placent, and will die very soon of fally degeneration of thạ heart.

And I shall, unfortunately, dis before them of starvation,

THE BAREFOOT BOY

TOWARD Hughes, the *£160,000,000 American tycoon who wants to buy Britain's Britannias, is n hard man to keep track of. But in recent weeks he turned

in up

Montreal, where he became known as. The Barefoot Boy because of his eccentric dress and sandals, and worked only at night in hia £1,250,000 Super-Constellation.

He also turned up in Nassau, in New York, the Mid-West,

and in Los Angeles, where he owns a mammoth aircraft com- pany which has orders for al- most £33,000,000 worth of cloe- tronic equipment.

HE

Arrogant

is behaving with

124.

pt

• This is the man

who wants to

buy Britannias, the man behind

the U.S. missile

programme,

the haggard multi-millionaire who lives on salad and crackers

DON IDDON'S DIARY

House of Morgan, over William Street, Broad Street, cad Lower Broadway. 'over almost all the men of the money market. -

I had lunch there with 4 group of brokers and they acted like pall-bearers at the funeral of a dear friend,

It

was only last Christmas that these brokers and men like them were banding out Bve and len-thousand dollar bonuses · ta their employers.

Today these same men are making their clerks 1 Đạt a farm before making a long- distance call: they are cutting down their expenditure on their research departments, axoing expense

accounts and Aring little people wholesale. Mergem are being made as the wind from the Hudson gets chillier and several brokerage firms are likely to go out of business.

A near bust bas hit the head- quarters of boomland and no

arrogance and hauteur of Bille Dove, and squired Lant was married when he was 18 to Miltz! Gaynor, June u ocity girl called Elin Rice, e man sot merely trying to buy Turner, Britain's Britannias but Britain Knight, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan but the marriage did not last herself.

Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Ava and a second marriage to actress cae seems to know what to do ubout it. The frightening words The multi-millionaire

Gardner, Katharine Hepburn Jean Peters has never been ecr.-

George have little in- of

Humphrey, who mystery, one of the most oh, almost all the famulo stars armed women

night-cluba fuence over him.

recently resigned as Secretary fabulous personalities of our have gone.

of Hollywood-to

of the Treasury, are being He has been known to send a mumbled over the Martinis la Britannins and what I want I Now, at 51, he seems to live plane-load of orchids to a girl Manhattan, get"

mized salads, crackers, friend In San Francisco and No one knows Hughes (la pineapple Juice, and the then refuse ever to see her full name is Howard Robard telophone.

era, has boasted: "I want the

Hughes, and his initials II.A.H.

on

on

are

intt- most appropriate) mately. He shuns the Press and during the past few weeks

His lovo

ȚE used a squad of assistants

agala He hates talking and says grudgingly: "I regard this Britannia deal as one of my most important."

has holed up, making statements Has a buffer, Most of them aro himself: "I'd like to live to be hips as they are called here.

Sometimes he talks as if to only through his battalion of Mormons, and are dedicated to 300, or maybe even 3,000 years.

public relations counsel,

Hughes is a man behind the Hughes. Hughes is a hermit. I never want to die." guided missile programme.

He unpredictable, volatile, and often

the

Down they ga TJUMPHREY <bviously got out at the right timo and is back in the boardrooms of score of rms with his private fortune of $3,500,000 in gilt-edged, or plus Down go the slocks day after day, and "down goes Is the man behind TWA, which ruthless.

And on the subject of money: volume of shares.traded. Two raised me vory years ago it was simple even for wants Britannias; he owns 76 Sometimes he disappears for "My father

make money, by per cent of TWA's stock. days at a time and not even strictly, taught mo the value of the mugs to

He used to be the man behind his closest associates

I didn't have every buying almost anything on the can get money. and be thing -1 wanted by any means. market, listed or unlisted. RKO ilm studios, but got bored rear him. He is dead,

Today even the experts are with it, He appeared at the exaggerates his deafness it. he He explained to ine the value of

concentrating my

ard being clipped. The President of studio only once, looked at the does not want to hear.

He used to say to the Stocks Exchange, the band- place, and mid: "Paint It," and Sometimes he stuffs pillows energies.

'If you can concentrate seme, energqtie Keith Funston, left. It was painted.

over his private telephone, mo

you can conquer who crusades for the little buyer His one love is the peroplane, hard enough

in an attempt to make the Stock Ho saya: "Flying is my life," anything.***

Exchange as popular sè, the 'com-

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Oil wells

mind

ner supermarket, is saying littio.

Ho piloted his own pinne around Air of gloom. During his presidency he bas

HUGHES owns oil wells, blocks the world in a record fight in of real estate, slect mills, 1938. During the past few weeks engineering, shops, department he has been dying the Brita

hotels, mines, and one of hia. the country's biggest Eroweries,

The

intricate dolells of his

ODAY this man, no longer selection to pieces of

young Uned,

sometimes publle relations literature and to attract the small coking almost haunted, is intent distributed a nim, What makes He also owns on oulsiped ego, huge, business empire he carries on doing business big business Us Tick, investor.. and his staggering miccess and in his head, and be never alts, with the British,

However confident Howard Today millions of people are the parade. of beautiful women still for more than a few minutes,

are asking: What made us who have passed through his Opos he consummated Hughes may be there life have made the HHH moro $6,000,000 deal from a drugstore roomy of the Moguls of Wall unstuck?*****

Yat, by a strange Irony pers und horn appropriate, telephone....and he called after Street who are not.

Today hu in haggard, a'lonely, "six o'clock because the rates are Gloom a thick as amog and sonal Incoma in the United

mone, destructivo after so many States has just hit a new recorda) brooding man who rarely talks, cheaper, The days when hy duxovered Although there have been billions have been made and and the work of living, IN MERIL Jane, Russell Jean Harlow, many woman in Mello-be lost, has settled over the austere, all-ilms, high, p.

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