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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1957.
THE TEN YEAR MILESTONE OF MARRIAGE.
Your
SINCE
I have. become a Writer on Royalty I have made two astonishing disoveries.
The first is that no dic- tator ever muzzled tho Press quite so tightly as the Queen of England muzzles hers today; ол every personal aspect of royalty.
The research I have been deing these past few weeks has brought me into contact with some very frightened people. Whatever Siberin she threatens them with if they talk to a reporter, it is enough to scare them, gag them, and make them look ridiculous.
to:-
LET ME tell you some true stories of people I have talked
Muzzled
Majesty
if I may
be allowed
one
suggestion
by
Anne Edwards
"Does the Queen pay for owner. her clothes?" "I am sorry, are no comment."
paper and printed again here.
Nothing made this acute ahortage of material more! apparent than the American reporters' treatment of the royal visit. Faced with a complete blank on a subject which all thoir roadera wanted to know about, they were forced to extra- ordinary longths.
of when
Invention
Prince
ONE newspaper in- vented a story that the Queen is so fond that practical jokes
she heard Philip had grown a beard, she and her ladies-in- false walting all put on whiskers to greet him on his return.
to
the Cowan's dyan vero,
shining when
YOU REMEMBER THAT MAGAZINE ARTICLE TELLING IN DETAIL ABOUT THE ASCOT MEETING WHICH DIDN'T TAKE PLACE-AND THE OUZEN'S So QUEENLY DEMEANOUR
of royal treacle asked hurriedly. As a woman, ed this kind how do you stand the pace?' down the throats of the public. The Queen replied 'Relax and One guft writer even reported a Miss Falkenburg glowing portrait of the Queen's enjoy it.
the
which got that on
within bearing at a ceremony "The Queen," announced one minutes.
never took place.
Driven desperate by the Queen's resolve never talk publicly in anything but cliches, they posted lip readers with telescopes op- posite her seat at the foot- ball stadium. The reporters gathered round and waited.
"Well, well," said one, unable Since her horses to bear the suspense, "what iitl to
worth have you seen?" be £250,000, it seemed a legiti- mate subject. But at once When I was making re- the Queen telephoned her of the Hp renders, "has just
Captain ONE was named in an
article I wrole about the searches for these articles I racing manager,
was astonished at the re- Charles Moore, and forbade Queen's new style of dress- action of people I knew well. him to talk. ing.
They would talk to me only under cloak and dagger pro- mises of complete secrecy.
And do you
know what they whispered to me be hind their hands?
"How did this get into the paper?" she demanded to him. "Did you give informa tion to the Press?"
Once
royal warrant
#
holder was quoted as having
Round and round
Norman LOOK at Hartnell facing his questioners
the
said 'Yes.'
Even Time, the weekly famed hitting style was stumped.
American Its hard
main- "Seme lady reportera tained that Jinx had sald to the Queen, 'I'm Jinx Falkenburg," *Oh.' and the for
Queen replied, Others said that it was Philip who said, 'Oh.'
of
Marzipan
IS IT any wonder that
on this at the pubile
д
pure,
on
went "As she passed the bed of
sick? Bitlo bright-eyed, four year uld The British reporters' method,
Wasn't it just the kind Warren Thonipson the little boy when fareed by a hungry public of marzipan nonsense that creat blurted a simple 'Hello. Shot to give details where no details ed the climate for the Altrin
the public's England: existed, was to produce a mass back the Queen
cham attack-and of what must be called "Guft support of it? Hello,"
writing." Better still was the effort of
Can anyone seriously go
carved in Falkenburg, 4 fardous Prime exponent of this tech- liking a character
virtuous columnist. 1
spun sugar, quote nique is Richard Dimbicby, a
ot reporting every white from top to toet
of hushed reverence:-
Falkenburg obtained
"The doors of the coach Arc For example, an incident one of the real scoops of the open. The crowd shouts with quoted in this newspaper tour, when a temporary recep- excllement and love. The King
flon-line halt brought her face comes forward to help agency and quoted in an aising her opportunity Jinx she steps down, ...
"The Queen said she was B.B.C. Press Conference-a Jinx fold a writer the price of so pleased with the material fresh material of genuine American some goods Prince Philip 1 gave her and was going to anecdotes about the royal from the report or her encount- genlus had bought from him. At have it made into a dress," family and what there is. or with the Queen, as given in ordinary mortal action in a voice
once he was summoned to breathed one. the Palace and asked to ex- plain why he had talked "I expect I oughtn't to about his royal clients. tell you, but have
you noticed that the Queen is
whispered another.
goes round and round.
Newsweek.
"Jinx
It may presume to make a suggestion for the next 10 years of marriage, I would say to her Majesty Get the Press on your side.
years there
In the last few
Now the result of this wearing pointed toe shoes?" was picked up by a news to face with the Queen. Recog- daughter alight carefully. Now have been several members of
Press gag is my second dis- covery. That there is a very small coinage in muzzled man if ever I saw one.
American paper.
"I did meet her, but I.
This in turn was pub- can't tell you what she
American And then, said."
under lished by "About how many dresses pressure: She said, 'Your magazine, and when Time: magazine in America came do you have to make for a opera was very nice"." to write one of its famous A colleague wanted to surveys, the story appeared "I am sorry I cannot write the story of the again, only to be picked up. answer that."
Queen's success as a racing by another British news-
royal tour?"
All in a Doctor's Day by CEDRIC CARME
Heart trouble *** OT *W
OULD you mind listening in to my ticker?" Mr adult Hill asked me. There's probably not an who, at one time or another, has not wondered, in a moment of terrible silence, about his heart..
A
woman
may faint once because of Ils marvellous ability or twice and she assumes the to work powerfully even when
worst. "Is my heart wonky?" partly damaged,"
Or
INSTALMENT No. 3
The Guff
*******
heartburn? Writers
sho asks. But fainting is not Moreover, it for any reason, a manifestation of heart disease, say because of leaky valves A man has a sudden pain in hit because of high blood pressure, chest. "My heart," he thinks, the heart has to do more work, and is almost invariably wrong. It has the ability to grow bigger
A woman wakes up at night in order to perform its task, and can't, somehow, get enough That is why people shouldn't air into her lungs." heart she whispers to her- scit in the dark and thus accen- tuales the Borvousness that initially caused her harmless air-hunger,
The verdict
worl If they have an enlarged
Yet, becaus
they've bcen
told their hearts are a bit blg or something of that sort, thousands restrict their lives, go on diet needlessly, beconte heart Ittvalids," I said,
Of course, they are too fat A man hears his heart go they are advised to reduce in thumpely-bump-bump-bumpety, urder to lessen the work of the and is alarmed because he does, heart. But all people who are not realise that Irregular or over-obese, even if they have no double heart beats are caurod hearis, only clubs, spades, and merely by too much coffee or diamonds are well advised to tea, by excessive smoking, lose weight.
fatigue, or ordinary nervous-
ness.
I took the stethoscope out of
my ears.
"Nothing to worry about," I
seld.
дос to
Shamefaced
Mr
Pve been keeping off salt,"
incedly,
Hill admitted shame-
It was a verdict that hun- But all that was wrong will: This dreds of thousands long to Mr Hill was heartburn. hear. In fact many of them Is a symptom common as gram ore even afraid
their and comedians. It can best bo doctor in case he kaye: "You described as a burning sensation have heart disease." They feel located on the left side of the that such a diagnosis would lower part of the chest. Where, inevitably change their lives.
Not needed
It would be as if a sombre
In fact, people know hearts to be.
thair
But heartburn has nothing at all to do with the heart. Just ar jamborees have nothing at all
Judge in block cap pointed to do with jam. It is amely a
and said: "You are guilty. You are sentenced to death." are wrong-hopelessly wrong.
Those who have some disorder
It
perticular kind of indigestion, They generally the result of pedas-
trian worry.
Mr Hill smiled with rellet. of the heart generally live as He walked out of my surgery long as the next man. And like an acquitted prisoner. many with heart trouble do not was as if a judge had cried: even have to restrict their daily "Not Guilty." But he activities to any real degree, gulity. Like tens of thousands For the heart is an organ that who regard a stethoscope as an har an immense reserve of instrument of torture; he was strength.
guilty of tear. Fear that his "We have two eyes, two lungs, healthy heart was disordered. two kidneys," I said, "but wo Canalder: Are you always do not need a 'spare" heart, utterly innocent?
Wis
A
DO
*******
Listen to those otherwise intelligent B.B.C. correspondents Godfrey Talbot and Wynford Vaughan Thomas on Prince Charles:-
the Queen's family who have known a lot about handling the newspapers. The one most be loved by those hard-working, hard-billen,
soft-hearted men,
is the Queen Mother.
At a creche
`IN NIGERIA when the present Queen was visit Ing a creche for Nigerian "The Prince is growing up
babies, there was vigorous and alert and intell- buxom mother sitting in front rent. forthright and esger, with one set of twins and one quick in his mind and quick of triplets.
with bila hands. . He sitines At
д
solving jigsaw puzzles. His feet She was bursting to bo are nimble too, as he demon- notleed, but the Queen did not strates in his weekly dancing spot her and the photographers
gnashed their teeth.
class."
Llaten to Maurice Edelman, a
brilliant journalist, and an M.P.. "If only they said,
How far are they when confronted with the task only it had been
and their tribe
to blame for the
Altrincham
Attitude?
Inflation
SWEAT-BOX
the Queen of writing about the Queen. I Mother. She'd have talked to quote from Holiday magazine: her and what a pletute we'd
have had." "The Queen settled for a tournedos Rossini with a salad, A pleture, your Majesty, that followed by obcess, and then would have dreted the globo slegwberries with a vanilla too even faster than a Sputnik surrounded by raspberries and topped with Chantilly cream.”
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