THE OTHER SATELITES
OF THE SOVIET
ANOTHER Wave of ink
Icettvisation is aweeping Communist Europe. In An- gust, 1957, the Czechoslovak leaders congratulated them- selves on having passed the 50 per cent mark in Rocialising agriculture. The Bulgarian Government has announced that its pro- gramme of "Socialist re- construction" in agriculture is virtily complete. Near-I ly nine-tenths of Bulgaria's arable land is now said to be filled either by State or endlective farms; and a cam- paign has begun to sucialise as much as possible of the remaining tenth mostly marginal mountainous areas. That Bulgaria should head the list in Europe for Soviel-style agriculture is food for thought. Perhaps It is not evidental that this record should be held by a country whose farming is athang the most backward in Europe.
Redundant Men
L
the
Bolgeria's basic in following the Soviet pattern creates
Our of signal parados. principal avowed al culier fivisation is to release as 2ny and as possible from furlog, and shift newly-built facies Bulgaria, however, is the last roantry in need of extra man-power; she netually suiters from unemploy- ment. Indeed.
heen it has ropol Ad 1hat the Bulgarian
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12,' 1957.
Page
THIS is the Gin
"Haw list of penalties for civil sarvan.s who disclose information about their work. Bane any lately?"
Zanies of the Ring-1
By GILBERT ODD
The Real "McCoy"
vacation.
"Hey, Dutchie,"
he
said, "pull your shorls up, you
't leak decent." Pincke foolt a two-handed tur eat at his waist-band and went
NE morning in April, 1940, a newspaper reporter walked into Detroit's Tuller Hotel, They tell me Kid McCoy killed himself with an overdose of sleeping-pills hure last night," he said to the desk clerk. Government h:: nekatially "Nope. It was a guy named Norman Selby who like a light. with other Communist Govern-| enshed out," came the reply. The cops upstairs are ments.
with in particular Czechoslovakia, with a view of satisfied. He signed a note with that name."
Bulgaria' of
taking some redundant fabour.
Czechoslovakia and Fast Ger- mny, on the other hand, are two territorius where an aute and chronle man-power defeit puls
brake on Industrial development: ved (24"
that argue
they need egration policy
11
free some
for work
"Sure he did," said the reporter. "Norman Selby was his real name. But he was Kid McCoy, the great fighter, The real McCoy.”
Just
why the 67-year-old - IN THE STARS
McCoy should take his own life did could stop the Kid. whee will never be known for erta, systematically cut the changien
knocked out of McCoy by this
tired time, ke
spicy, and when dropped in the tenth by another vielcus punch to the midsection failed In beal the rouni.
In Paris Jean Charlemont He Pu was making himself a nuisance, so McCoy began glancing nut into the audience. "Say, Keed," queried the Frenchman, "What
t you look ul in zer
replied Mc-
gallery?"
"Oh, mutting","
nover let
Coy.
He had certainly had a wonder- down and finally knocked him a woman' su rup for the past 50 years, out in the 15th round. even if he'd
an
111
would which facir labner
Industry
spent sven of
them in Sun Quentin.
In these two countries labour
a very scarce
commodity,
consequently they must use it sparingly in agriculture; which implies replacing farm Ibour by labour-guving nechinery. This is one of the renos
frun the
apart
doctrinaire Communist approach In agriculture, why the Czech and East German regimes teri cbligeal vig rously 10 renew the collectivisation campaign. cannot have
the
Nevertheless ene clfcient Ogriculture under system not congenial to
And this precisely is farmer, The bacie dilemma of the Suvi-lype enlloctive.
"But you are always looking When they picked Ryan up there." to his and carted hini
corner "Well," said the Kid. "If you
it wonderfully
game Aght against James J. Corbett for Ave rounds, in spite of being outweighed by 1015. end well outreached by the former heavyweight champion.
At the time of the Corbett
was 27, defeat he
and the following year he came to this country, where he chocked out Dave Barry, Juck Scales, and Juck Madden in an aggregate
of seven rounds,
Back in America he went on pald another visit to Europe, beating Hubert Roe in Parla abil Petty Officer Curran at
There he had been forced to McCoy came over. "You'va ini- must know there's a beautiful fighting until 1014, when he
lot since we sparred girl to there that keeps waying proved together," muttered
Tommy to me. I don't know her, maybe through his broken lips..
"No, you met the real McCoy Choricition! fell for it. Ile Nice. tonight," mswered The new lecked over his shoulder in the Oh, for; ittle-hukter.
chave himself, but he that mind. It had given him time to releet on the highly adven turous te he'd ferl
to relax and look forward to the good tips he could promise himself When he cante out.
admired McCoy, Everybody hud noorly liked him-that i no way in the light game.
The women loved him. They
fl for his handsome features
slick tongue, and his win- rằng 68, He married pht of them and he murdered in
1
I loved
threes offer, while veze innumerable.
Be in a ring he was a erael Piler. euming trickster with
"I a consciens v', * bruiny, et Famer whose motto was win at any pric whe:
Narnian Sulby was born in Rach County, India, in 1873. BAM the Czechoslovak and it is known about his youth. Eur Gennan Communistaccuse he rarely spoke about it. palate an elaborate policy of At sevemen, however, he had
eollective: privileges for the
chosen pugilism as a profession. which is of course, fantamount He tolised the perfeel physique and built up body that HOW
Privilege Policy can't pay him hett to las
you re
dirvelfen intiiented by the Kie.
Being champion sulted Mc- and the next moment he was a drink!
vanity down to the ground, being brought out of a trance by
Now he could hit the high spots his couds.
to his heart's content, lavish the Later in the dressing-room ho
to
was not
It was August and it was very
He
The Kid was now 41 and
the
dies and indulge in compagne, he tekel mournfully: "Why was 20-rounder. Midway through the bout soincore id you do zal. Keed. It was two time
brought The iline-keeper a not sporting and shack
"Lrl that be a
---whisky-and-sode, so what did lesson to was married then you" replied McCoy, "Never McCoy do?
went
titutt Lotte Pichler. She was his first let a woman turn your head." wife and the Kid was 22. Bul':
Sumcone In the Bghter's roper, and while the man with ger later he was world cham hotel lol a valuable necklace the gong was reeling of the Blond Lottie ld not in and the next day McCoy took count McCoy swiped his drink, the new Mcture. So he left her a fast boat to Johannesburg, tumped up on the lust second- fran neftess, Julin Woodruff. Ills fame as a fighter bad and won on points.
She was the only woman he preceded him and it
War started, and the old really full for, but their wedded kunt before he was matched fighter joined the American life was anything but bilsful. with a huge Kaffir, who fought forces and stayed in the Army She loved her fighter-husbond. In his bare feet.
until they finally threw him out. evertooked his faults and way- McCoy was in no condition Reluctantly he fook off his wardness until his behaviour to stay more thui
uniform and looked around for was to outrageous that she left and midway through the first and Theresa Moers came to
meal-feket. he manoeuvrej tho coloured Mrs alm through 200 lights and 28 and they remarried, but their
Twice the Kid got her back, man into the Kid's corner,
She was wealthy Suddenly his rival gave and tired of her husband, The years of ring warfare.
into the alt Kid volunteered to come in as Although he developed
happiness was short-lived. You yelp and leapt Ane had to be a deaf. durub, and When he corne down McCoy substitute. After 2
while bitting muscles, McCoy didn't
heavily blind angel to remain for long hooked him rely on brawn to win his con-
the realising that here was luxury chin with a loft and put him to last him for the rest of his When The East German tests. He studied footwork and with McCoy.
he even Invented
away with away for the full count. Deputy Prline Minister, ringeraft; Ulbricht, visited a village near Schwerin and asked a peasant the hook the reasons for his opporlikon
te discrimination Crainat hdividual farmers. In
this
way they hope to break down the peasante resistance, but Psychological resistance is strong as ever.
4
punches,
to collectives, he received was born
frank answer; "We do not join begative we
to being are used tree."
At least in one Communist-idea?" he asked. controlled country,
home.
exportener has driven this lesson The failure of the Soviet-type collective has been frankly admitic in Poland mid
the
myth of its superiority over Individual farming exploded.
big
him.
Finally she ran
another and less colourful man. tintack The Kid was shocked and pro- corded to divorce her. It was tactics the only time he had the opportunity to take That dignified step.
After Julin bad
with deadly power, making the otherwise,
rifle a devastating weapon.
And
on
round.
0
The tercue,
life, he
proposed marriage for the eighth line, but Theresa
alled him aff.
There were frequent quarrels, A3
bten and one day, a shot was heard he bat soon as Cne tiny he was looking down
announced as the winner the in their apartment, and a few dashed The barrel of n gun and notterd
ropes minutes Inter M.Coy the over Kid jumped parted for
But ju when Info the street with a the
the riing. "What's
good, McCoy decided that and disappeared.
ran to MLN further matrimonial adventures they examined his corner they his hand and Someone told him that the
the trould be solely, for, Inancial found canvas bestrewed Moers's lucrative antique shop
nearby. spiral grooves sent the bullet on guhi. He then set his cap at rich with tinlacke, its way speedier, truer, and women married, widowed, or But don't Imagine that Mc- There he held up the startled It was money for Coy's nighting career was all staff and customers, made the nothing.
tricks and knockouts, He met mer move their trousers, "Za 502 mured the Kid. For Lilian
Futisacked the cash register, Ells was
a million the very best men of his day. weeks he practised on a bag of aire's widow, and when she de-
assistont in the leg. He beul tuch fomous scrap- shat one cement, then tried out his new tached him after three or four pers as Gus Ruhlin, Joe God- and rushed into the strect
Hein, Creedon, and only six people ron.
Neked
of them big latin, all
a count One was Tom Sharkey, the of eight tough sailor, who gave Jerity. When they caught up with Corbett, and Fitzsimmons such
It has been admitted that gross punch on an unsuspecting spar- comfortable years he married dard, Joo Choynski, and Dan ugalo, shooting wildly eas output per hectare was higher,ring partner. The result was so Mrs Edna Valentine
by a ofth, un private
forms satisfactory that he used it in daughter of a sliver king. than in the collectiven. And his next fight. this despite the fact that the
Instead of leading. McCoy guts and collectives enjoyed priorily
stopped in, whipped his arm guile supplies
machinery. fertilisers and other means of around, and gave his wrist
Trubuna LucZRE was able
L
boys.
he
n seven-
twist at the moment of impact. McCoy then opened a night
him the Kid was acting like a production. The Soviet-type His opponent collapsed in a club, but the police soon closed hard battles.
crazy man, and when they put collectives iny Poland collapst heap at his feet and the Loft It. He tried various other risky The Kid boxed rings round him in the box 10 answer a after the October revoluilon, Hook had been born.
ventures with the money his him In the early rounds and murder charge he pleaded tem- and the Polish Government has Jic won the world's welter- stccessful marriages provided. floored him with a quick 10 parary insanity, saying that he made some important con- weight le on a ruse. Two Th☛ all faded away as did his In the third, Tom jumped up in had shot Mrs Moers under great! cessions to the pensantry,
years earlier he had engaged numerous wives, and finally the a dazed state and a straight provocation. Provisionally assessing this himself as sparring pariner to Kid went bankrupt.
right to the jaw dropped him He got away with year's satisfactory results in Tummy Ryan, the iltte-holder, This meant a return to
the again.
year stretch, Geing released in agrleulture, the Polish paper When they were working to- ring, but now he found it, oven He just managed to beat the the summer of 1932 after a
together one day, he said: "Don't more necessary to use his brains, count this time and McCoy was stainless prison recoid, point out retenlly that they hit me too hard around the Fast living had played havoc robbed of victory by the There was only one thing to were not only attributable to heart, Tommy I can't take it with his stamina, so he had to sounding of the bell to end the do get married again. weather: the principal reason, there, and there's something depend more on his guile,
Tound. Shatkey made won Sue Cobb Cowley became the paper said, was the new wrong with me, but I must fight in the second round of his derful recovery in the interval, eighth brido. For a time things #gricultural policy.
to get enough to live on."
New York battle with Peter
McCoy' footwork Ryan was good-hearted, and Maher the Kid stepped out of a when McCoy was surrested as clinch and pointed to the big wonderful, but the allor kept a challenger by a Maspeth pro- Irishman's boot-tops, Peter look rushing him to the ropes, where moter he thought he was quite ed down and over chimo a short, he smashed away at the ribs. anfe in taking the match. right that ended hostilities for These blows reduced the Kid's
Bui in the ring he found that, the evening.
speed, and in the eighth ho was McCoy eculd tuite it under tho When he was fighting Here put down by a dubious body heart, aver the heart, anywhere Placke in Philadelpila the Kia blow for “pine"
by ALFRED ZAUBERMAN
was
Mes
his
went along happily, he even got
Ford factory. huself a job at the Detroit 1vien the marriage split up and the Kid move into the
And Hole!,
there. Tuller strangely enough. he suddenly row Ured of living. Perhaps to had become too humdrum
In fact. Nothing that Tommy used the same trick with a A lot of the stuffing had been for him-who knows?
SAPOINTMER!
GORDONS
DRY GIN
LONDON,
Connorhét sorbentia jip
Quality Incomparable
Gordon's
Stands Siprome
Sole Bistributor: DODWILL & COMPANY LIMITED
POPULAR PUBLICATIONS
The Guinness Book of Recorda
$ 9.50
Chinese Croods & Customs Vol. 1
18.00
Chiness Creads & Customs Vol. II
18.00
Baby Book...
25.00
This is Hong Kong
8.50
Hongkong Birds (Herklots)
35.00
Coronation Clory
7.50
King George VI
7.50
It's Fun Finding Out — 2nd terios
(Bernard Wicksteed)
5.00
Express Annual (1956 & 1957)
10.00
Ruport Annus!
4.50
Ruport Magazines
1.00
Collection Builder Stamp Albums
3.00
Balmoral Stamp Albums
12.00
4.00
1.50
1.50
.30
.30
.30
2.00
12.00
All Nations Stamp Albums Ten Points About Pearle Points on judging Jado Outline Relief Map of China
Asia
S.E. Asla
Moomin Music Sheet
Karoon Artists
On Sale At
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.
HONGKONG
To make your reservations telephone 63311, or call at our Booking Office in Alexandra House, Des Voeux Road, Our Cargo Office is also located here.
KOWLOON
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.