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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1958.

RISK-and REWARD

Take the lion tamer.... 'conquering the will of a jungle beast'

LEX KERR tames

lions and tigers for a living. He is there. fore a bad risk, the in- Burance men tell me. Alex, in fact, helps to head the Hist they call Extra- Hazardous Occupations in the insurance office.

He top it alongside people like atomic research workers, electrical overhoad line maintenance mest. ex- plosives workers, Bremen, shunters and pernbent

way workers, some sporls. men, miners and some quarry workers-and even the man who sprays crops with dangerous insecticides,

Conqueror

HOW does it feel (o be brand- mysticism these men who live the animal's; to get over

ed an E... Risk?

I life the dangerous way. there some kind of consent. - tory reward?

Like Alex. "It is a strange, My research tells me that deep satisfaction to have con- # Jungle there certainly is: an intensely quered the will of

Blindst beast," he says. personal, sometimes

inexplicable reword,

They talk of it with reverence,

and

sometistog

"In the beginning, you have approaching to try to atlune your mind to

tu

him exactly what you want him to do.

THE MEN WHO LIVE WITH

"To achieve it, you must be almost one with the animal, To

ง conquered Everest as hr.ve achieved it is wonderful." tha

Coronation gift for the Queen, that SIR JOHN toll.ing about the reward Listen now to

leader of the team is buried uncler the BNOW-

capped tummits:

HUNT.

DANGER

• This is tho strange! World of the Men Who Live With Danger men like, Alez Karr (left) who facen the lions for his living. Why do they do it? The answer comes from

Peter Bloxham

The captain is right; and not alone in his modesty..

Sometimes, I have found, it 1s caster for men to risk death then to talk of the strange, deep content that comes from doing so. Men who live dan-

heroics.

ROUND-UP

Cinema Of The Future?

HAMBURG.

ONE day you may have a referee's eye-view of a cup Anal

Alm:

A young Hamburg im producer, "Adalbert Baltes, who has airoady won a reputatlon for his short "culture" flims in colour, is convinced he has the answer to the cinema's waning popularity. "My ideas," he said, "could make all the films we know today look like 'children's magic lantern slides.”

Herr Baltes would send cameramen to the cup final with ordinary apparatus and sound recorders. 'But his cameramen, ustend of painting their lenses directly at the players, would alm the run of the play through a spherical mirror set up near

the cameras.

"This would give me a film of distorted images such as you would see in a crystal ball," said Herr Balles.

Next stage: his projection room would be in a cellar and his projectors would project those distorted pictures upwards on to a sphorient mirror. From this mirror they would be reflected on to a another mirror going all round the cinema walls.

After big football matches, Herr Balles would like to fim a tour of the Grand Canal in Venice.

In front you would see the gondoller. Turn round in your swivel seat in the cinema of the future and there to the gorgeous blonde who is sharing your trip along the Grand Canal,

"You take your choloc," said Her Balles, "whether to go on looking at the gondolier or turn round and keep looking at the girl."

Ecrously have no time for It is all done by mirrors. And, of coureo, swivel seats.

and miners Watch These Icebergs”

I asked fremen about it—and met the kind of ❘ wisecrack that makes you wonder whether you have asked a silly question.

I asked test pilots about this intangible thing you get tr return for the offer of your fe and was parried by half- cmbarrassed evasion,

The trawlermen, who have lost 04 mates to danger since New Year's Day, said it was just for the money.

TORONTO.

CANADIAN Arctic air and sea patrols have been alerted to keep an eye on Russian scientific teams floating around the North polar sen on icobergs.

An oMcial of the Canadian Defence Department said every year the Russians fly in scientific teams by aid-equipped aircraft io study moving pack fee and ocean currents underneath.

The teams are supplied by parachute drops and are constant radio touch with Soviet scientists based in Siberia.

in

The iceberg stations frequently float within a few miles of American and Canadian territorial waters, and last year Canada launched a mild protest with the Russian government.

However, the Russians bave made no secret of their leeberg stations and have freely exchanged oceanographie and meteoro- logical data with Western nations.

During the Inst four years n toin of 524 known Russian- manned Iceberga have been spotted by Canadian and American bir patrols in the Arelle.

The guinea-pigs who volunteer for dangerous medical experl- ments manage lo dodge the "Fundamentally, the appel who really likes throwing stock-

question by remaining com- of climbing mountains is that cars around the track.

pletely anonymous, they take you away from the

The ski-equipped aircraft are occasionally pleked up on the There's a kind of satisfaction, ariacial things that civilisation he explained to me, in knowing faction in living

But there is a special satis continent's Distant Early Warning rudar system, which stretches has hedged us around with.

dangerously, from Greenland to Alaska. But planes have never made an effort that no one can touch you for Something in the eyes of allo fly over Canadian territory. "They dispel the peity worries driving how you like. You con of them, as they talked about |

do ell the tbings that are

their jobs, saldi that it must normally forbidden..

of everyday life and help you to see things straight again to get your values straight, par ticularly your tense of propor- tion about yourself.

You've The Highway Code? never heard of it. You can't help enjoying yourself.

"No one can take a really

And, he says, there is another dificult climb, whether it be a kind of satisfaction in using the mutnynn peak or British crus, sk you need to keep you on without having his own wak- four wheels, when someone ness in the face of nature pretty catches your wing and you have forcibly brought bumie to him.

to get out of spin Isst.

"Mountains provide a solutors lesson in humility. Sharing im:cuntain

dangers,

hardships and Joys brings comradeship.

Ski and cxperience acquit et port con be matched against the challenge of a dif Aculteliub. The peace and eauty of the mountain scene wwvides an atmosphere in which we natt become our real selves," Or sten to crack Harringay drive TONY MANBELLI

Kind of creative,

There must be deep sadisine tion, too, for CAPTAIN -F. KINGDON-WARD In scouring the remote mountains of Asta for rare plants.

Eut dangerous? Net to Capt. Kingdon-Ward. "If it were," he says too modestly. "I'm sure I wouldn't have the courage to do 1. There are BU many people who really do live dangerous lives, as the sudden death statistics show.

60,

What we miss

In Ottawa, n government official said: "We know all about be these fellows and there is not much doubt they are genuine selenists. But just to be on the safe side we like lo koop taba on them."

T is not only public acclamo- tion, the roar of the adrair- Ing crowd. That might explain the kick a Hon-tamer gels, bul what about the shunter?

No single danger-monger I to have met would ever admit wanting a different career.

Air Travel Problem

GENEVA

N International manual of airport sanitation has been called A for by the World Health Organisation.

A special committee under the chairmanship of Sir Harold WhitUngham, formerly medical director of B.O.A.C., states that the number of air travellers increased from 2,500,000 in 1937 to more than 90 000,060 in 1057, and will pass the 100,000,000 muric this year.

A steeplechase jockey told

This increase in passenger trame is over-laxing the sanitary me he would be seared climbing Everest, Stirling Mces The speed of travel leaves no time to check on quarentinable

fpellities of mony airports throughout the world. once said he is scared of skidtsennes ke smallpox, cholera and yellow fever. There can boy

because Ing.,

a broken mb

Hitle control on many drports of disease-corrying Insets and might prevent a later rendez-

some far greater vous with danger.

Lesser mortals like, me prefer gardening and cycling down; quiet laries. What we misa wel shall never know.

rate.

Only rarely, siales this committee, have rats been known to enter aircraft, but they have been known to gnaw through aluminium, puncture plastle tubing and even to now through centrol wires in search of food.

International control of hygienic conditions in alrerait und on airports is demanded,

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should

In America now they are saying:

IF YOU WANT

TO GET AHEAD

GET A TOUPEE

THE WIG WAM

ENTRIE

Suddenly, however, the When in a toupee-wearing jolly, Mr Sonz tries on his A TOUPEE be American man in exponding mood, he swims in his own headpieces to amuse sically like an item of dress. to a sales argument that is toupee, sleeps in it, and he the customers and seems anyone occasionally able to look like It should not be worn so inconsistent as to be hair claims he every day but just for cer- raising in itself,

polishes his shoes with it. from Freddie Mills to Dr Albert Schweitzer in them. tain occasions when you

He has been voted his wigmaker's favourite cus- tomer for his appalling honesty.

mass production.

One of his customers turned out badly, he tells you. He was a leading burglar whose trick was to

want to feel dressed up.” Although toupees are now This is the new sales o skilfully made that even philosophy that is pushing a man's mom could be de that one time shy dis- ceived, the wearer is sup- sembler, the toupee, into posed to repudiate this skill "A headpiece is not some go into a building he was by light-heartedly dolling it thing to feel sneaky about," robbing, wearing one of Mr when the party gets really commented his wigmaker, a Senz's masterpieces, and run America is used to seeing jolly, or to confuse his tall unironic man, who looks off with the loot-bald. rows of ladies' falsies laid friends by appearing one like Vic Oliver would look if Then there was the sad out in the general store day with a charming head he were ever granted a wish and touching ense of a cus- alongside the groceries, but of skin and the next day to be just slightly better- tomer male pretence has always with a charming head of looking. seemed more shy.

someone else's hair.

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MENTISTECS DEPT

No, I toon't marry, you for the three.. thousand-

four hundred and seventy--

↓

ninth time)”.

London Megrese Cros

"Toupees should

be worn whim.

sically" so the safesmen.

IMPORTED

RING

| CHARLES

Mr Senz is rather an ex-

What better example could be

which..

loads them pretty well by the

who missed his clusive wigmaker (about set the bald heads of America. toupee, found that a bird £100 a headpleeg) as his than Madison Avenue, had flown off with it and waiting room implies ("You nose in everything else too? So He is unabashedly bald had made its nest in it have made me what I am by the thousand hairless, heads The nicest American himself, and works in his and was too kind to disturb today" runs the inscription made newly conscious of their know calls himself the man braces which are made of it.

on one of his photographs), writing in for "A free profusely look of Ivy Leagueness are in the grey flannel toupee tapestry depicting god- Mr Seng's toupees are, set

illustrated booklat and simple. and gaily turns up some desses, and which he buys on tough but near invisible But now the mass production measuring kit that. will enable evenings in his grey crew every year in London. nylon not, stuck on with boys (£50) have got Into the Wien to order by mail,

net." "Now Ivy League Hair- tut "rig" and other times in

the farge, and Jusċious just his own bare freckled His waiting room is a adhesive tape and spirit

He even achieves advertisement they are putting sorcery work.

Incredulously ono watches thà pato.

mass of the photographed gum.

the out to more of those queпky doesn't look neat with a bald

"Aman · Juaný. famous, some who are clear such grace notes as

thin-haired toupec, with looking to ade

hoad. There is something un- biurred type and apologette finished about him," ly hoping that other cus- tomers will supposo they that outer perimeter visit Ira Senz for theatrical baldness-defying hairs, for

Somehow I had always sUA- the man who doesn't want Ivy League is the style of pored a man would be able to Secr to go the whole wig (these man's dress Ho tells shameless stories wigs only.

on Madison

customers are in the Army, Navy about scared chambermaids Most are deluding them ho supplies by the dozen to Avenue, the heart of Americans, such appeal. "Most of our ("There is a wild animal in selves on "this point as a certain famous frotful and adverusing, and each and every and Air Force was the un

one of the young advertising compromising and depressing -- your cupboard") and divides American gossip writera notoriously careless Eng exocutives in the glossy offices reply. his friends into BTs (Before love nothing more than ex- lish actor), Toupees) and ATS (After posing under-exposed bald

Shameless

Toupees) Typical BT re- hends.

action: You look different,

Didn't you use to have a

True to his way that

moustache or something?" toupee wearing should ba

of

pir),

with tie

wears a dark neat crew-cut.

"imgLondon · Kapreza Keraton),

ANNE SHARPLEY reports from NEW YORK