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The man

who has made Ike a 'Lincoln'

from CHRISTOPHER DOBSON

NEW YORK THEY say he is a nice

little man but with n distressing tendency to belch in public.

He is a hillbilly from the Li'l Abner and Erskine Caldwell country.

His mother's gravestone

brars

the legend "Mother of seven.

The oldest become Governor of Arkansas,"

That is Orval Faubus, who is

Governor of Arkansas.

Dr. SALK MOVES ON

【OST delighted scientist in America at the news that'

vaccine is Jonas Edward 'Salk.

MS now oing to import the Salk anti-polio

'I hope that some day I may produce

something as valuable as the polio vaccine "

"It is great wood news," the perieure). The vaccine hus now 42-year-old dapper doctor told Leen tried in Australia, America, will now. But I only hope that are usually printce en plastic mc when I contacted him at Canada, Israel, Denmark And some day it may turn to produce ribbons which can be erased his laboratory in Pittsburgh, many other countries where 44 zonwething as valuable as the and re-used indenitely. In Pennsylvania.

has given complete protection," polla vaccine."

"I don't say that because I It was typical or Salk that his have any proprietary interest in own three children, whom he

it.

There really isn't such a describes as "Little Indians. Fit for the Queen

uny oflleial tour of New York is the funeral-slow drive through the canyons of Wall Street as the tons of ticker tape snow down hom the brokers'

thing, medically speaking, as were among the first batch of 'Salk vaccine.' All I did was to volunteers to be vaccinated. He demonstrate that vaccination Is a man who collects facts as MOST spectacular moment in against polla was possible. From some people collect old coins. then on it was out of my hands. And he never commits himself But I am always pleased to hear to an opinion until he is certain that any country is taking the that every fact has been tested "Lic Orval" must have fullest precautions against a and proved true.

changed. There are plenty of

pollo epidemic. weeds in his Little Rock corn patch. So many that Eisen- hower has been forced to send down his crack 101st Airborne Brigade to weed them.out.

10.

"Believe me, I would be just ns pleased if the British were making the vaccine out of cheese scraped from the moon."

Dr Sulit is neat in appearance, precise in speceh, tidy in every gesture. Be could be the gry- ing, spectacled, fatherly doctor

order to obtain sufficient paper to make 4 Hollywood-sized downpour, a few old-fashioned brokers have been saving their per for six months at the re- quest of the Commissioner.

Sacks of it are collected by the City sanitation department cach week and rationed out to Cach firm with window over- looking the parade. When the Royal cavalcade has passed, the streets will be ankle-deep l

fiter, Then the same sanila- 1301 MICIL will return with barrows and brooms and water- carts to sweep up the debris. storm This is only one of the many 1927. organisation problems which

ALAN BRIEN reports from New York

ed at Bastogne and asked to He remains untouched and admired a dessert and insisted

Thele, commander | unenriched by his world fame.

In a scientifle formula for it, sent the classic message "Naturally, when you first Afterwards he explained why

incculate children against pollo, cake becomes a cake, chemicalty

Winston Churchill

in

A woman friend of the family widows. This paper What a pretty pass it has come

Lindbergh "Once lie greeted in Pittsburgh sald: I know the 101st well.

sewing n dress and General Elsenhower in 1945, Bir daily harass the oflee of the They are America's atomic

saw me

1816 and Oncial Greeter. airborne division. Thrigen

In any patent medicine adver wanted to know every step that

I had Another time he will blanket the Queen, years ago they were surround- tisement.

went into it.

Even the Royal menu 10 always admired this as an ins

at the Waldorf has pressively spontaneous obupt, tuncheon of American high spirits.

been discussed and analysed and re-written by dozens of Amoris can and British officials. In e d'oeuvre and the pudding, there may lurk the cause of a diplo- male incident or at least, a social solecism. For this reason,

surrender.

"Nuts."

AL the office of New

The They are good soldiers, proud you don't sleep well for two ar speaking. I thirle it makes him York's Official Greeter, 72-year- tiny print between the hor

man who in these past few days has brought the South to where it was a hundred years ago-to the start of one of the bitterest civil wars ever fought.

The man who has forced Prest- dent Elsenhower to drop hils polf-playing hoilday and 25 sume the menile of Lincoln.

Rampage

I is Faubus who has rulsed

the crusader in Elsenhower just when

President

seemed resigned to sit out the remnants of his official life as

quietly as possible.

But now Ike is on the rampage. as angry as he has ever been. as determined us Lincoln ever was that the South musi succumb to the authority of the Goverturnent of the United States,

D

How,

man

Who then is this man? when, why does become an

Orval Faubus, o man who mired the name of the United States throughout the world and who has done more harm to America's cause thea a dozen of even John Foster

Dulles's most ham- handed blunders?

He is a Southerner for a start. white" He comes of "Pore stock. And he is a man who has tasted power-and iu glutton for more.

Hthe

Rifles

IE. came from the depths of Ozark Killswild, rugged country, beautiful country but poor, desperately poor, where the moonshiners still fight off the revenue men with long-barrelled rifles.

In a rough wooden cabinet u place called Greasy Creek, Orval Faubus was born 47 years ago. In Europe people would be called · pea- sants...

his

men. And the sink of what They have to do today is in their nostrils-weed out Orval Faubus's offshoots.

Advice

three weeks," he said. "But uneasy hot to understand some-

old Commissioner Richard Pat a had the courage of my convic- thing going on around him."

Salk has Anished his long terson I discovered how

Ca I couldn't have recom- tions. | 120]

demonstration imus on pollo and is fully this mended the vaccine unless I had arduous work

Immersed in. other be planned. been mare critical of myself now than others were of me. It ́problems. wps courage, bused on con- fidence not on daring.

confidence based

SAYS Orvel's father: "I told was

Orval not in hate anybody of any race."

Faubus was poor. And one of the basle causes of the white Southerner's fear of the Negro is economic tear. He thinks that if the Negro is given on equal education, equal voting righis and all the other rights which belong 10 a clvilised community then the Negro will take the white

men's job away.

But Orval clawed his way

And if you can do that you are tough.

I learned that few moden I discovered, the entry "Tartes just follow my fancy until brokers, in fact, now use paper Jelle Royal" was removed last their stock market week-end after much serious And it things begin to look promising. tape on

on ex- I can't tell what I am grappling machines. The share quotations etymological argument,

100 baffled authors

send for Mrs Saunders

XHEN I met Mrs Joan for

W

the top. He did it the hard

women graduates with way with a succession of low.

bables, says thir London Uni paying jobs, then fighting his St George Saunders versity graduate, who has two way up the political machine. in her fint overlooking children( now grown up) of her Pelham Crescent she was own. "I can only give them tem- and the pay is sitting behind a pile of porary jobs,

small (£10 for a week's work) reference books chasing up but they do love having, & some important facts..

chance to stretch their brains. ALL-ROUND

Tough

RVAL was tough.

comes

He got to the top. He was elected Governor in 1954 aud again last year. And now the crux of Faubus, Never once before had he shown any animosity to the Negro. Despite his Southern backe- ground, despite his poor white ancestry which might have made any other man rabkily anti-Negra from the Faubus claimed:

start.

(a) Who manufactured the

Arst electric light bulb? (b). What is the Intest thing in deep-sea diving equip- ment? (e) Which was the first or the stately homes to be opened to the public?

Mrs Saunders herself is the only tull-time researcher. She is also something of an all-round expert.

"But I started without any Mrs Saunders was not, as one quallications at all," she says might have expected, boning up cheerfully. When her husband, for a TV quiz programme. Nor writer Hillary St George was she trying to improve her Saunders, former House of general knowledge. She runs a Commons librarian, died sud- European - wide organisation denly in 1951, she began looking

HOMEWORK

-She answers

queries that would

tio the Brains Trust

in knots ...

by

JOCASTA

hon St. George Saunders.

INNES

of minutes. scientists,"

and what she calls

TWO PEOPLE

the enlled Writer's and Speaker's round vaguely for something to self in a matter most liberal Governor in the Research, whose headquarters do. A qualified doctor, she was "Like Anding out where the fret "lunatic inquirles." South," And he was.

is the book-led study of her considering going back into unexploded bomb fell in Lan- But he changed. And how he

own soberly elegant dat.

practice: "Unfortunately my don. The secret of research. Is changed! Almost overnight hẹ

medicine was a bit rusty.”

knowing where to look for became the hero of the most

Then out of the blue a friend, things," she observes,

"A television programme onçe rabid Negro-haters. And why?

asked me to dig up two people This is the only iterary in- writer Rober Henriques, sug- because lie found himself formation bureau in the world gested that she start an 11- But she also secepts gargan named Brandy and Soda. I was slipping.

And It gives her plenty of formation bureau for writers tuan Inquiries that involve six in Somerset House for days. Bu He was losing hla pupularity. homework.

like himself.

months" "work by a team of s'

I was happy to And that there The votes were allpping away.

are no Brandles or Sodas in the "We do anything we can to "A party of us were lunching dozen researchers.

tarily, country," she remarked And Orval Faubus looked at help authors except write their in a restaurant," she recalls. "One writer asked us the future. He was Governor | books

for them," says Mrs "It was a good lunch, and we supply every known fact about She has not done any televisión but what would happen when Saunders, tall, Handsome got rather carried away by the Roman Hte, in 300 AD. That work since.

In her spare time-"This isn't he was no longer Governor? woman in her early Attics with idea. I remember drafting out kept my classicists busy for a nine to six job at all Mrs Where would he go? Certainly brisk manner and sharp sense the circular there and then. But months, And here," she added, Saunders follows up her private

not back to Greasy Creek of humour.

I didn't think the How would he earn his living?.

friendly kick, "we've got

resiful, and relaxing nature. Sho Certainly not by hoeing rows authors from popular historians The iden has been catching on " whole man,"

kaits, cooks, potters about the of corn;

to skin-diving experts receiv- sfondily for two years. Nanes The man was a well-known garden, goes to the theatre and So Orval; decided to stay whore ing help of the moment, To like Pater Fleming and Andre English Jew who died recently reads amnivorously. He worked on the farm and, says

he is, at Iittle Rock, the cope with inquiries, Home of Maurole crop up regularly on her leaving his blographer maroon,

But she does .not write. his arthritis-crippled father,

Governor of Arkansas. And so them highly specialized, Min card index, And, i stropis week's ed In roomful of personal "Writers rely make

good "He was different to anosť 7. he became the Orval Faubus Saunders has a reserve of op-oda queries could be guaranteed to papers. "He passed the job of researchers and good researchers boys, Kids like to get Jito the world knowa, #2,

researchers on call at short to the Brains Trust in knota. classifying them on to us. N frequently, don't - make · good mischler but all he ever did put he has gone too far. For notice. She also tas, representa Authors do want to know took us lx months.. The de writers," she said. was rood books. He

Faubus there is no hope. His tives in three European capitale about the most extraordinary ceased kept everything the which is just as well, both for father shakes his head over: and in New York."

things, comments Hirs Saunders, exclaimed dealingly.ph the writer, and ·COT· his son. There's one thing | USA. marprising number of her who is surprised by nothing migh The only job he turns down Sounders

ber 00-oda 'Orval; always hated to be researchers are young women. She pretend the "quick, Jobs," am the highly technical The rearches. Jocked down an

“I have a particularly; soft spot: which the can diegom, of tipr; once that need a lab fails of

SamyLondon Express Kervici

They grubbed a living from the

mudlande

eteck along the valley where the fog crept at night and the timber wolves howled.

(never

done anything if he couldn't, do it perfectly, You'd never find a weed in his 'row of

There are well over a hundred catch' on for a moment? Would giving a mammoth filing cabinet interests. All, I noticed of a

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