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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1958.

Stories From

Paris Of

Dodds-Parker, Fletcher-Cooke, Cooper-Key, Gomme-Duncan, Mott-Radcliffe, MacCarthy-Willis-Bund, Garner Evans...so the double-barrelled list grows

"The World

The Zeppelins

What Makes A Man Take May Rule The

THE

London.

man with a hyphen is a peculiarly British

Agure. No other nation

The

Hyphen?

sota quite so much store by, of Lord Swinton. As Sir Philly hia -small mark which Lloyd-Greame he had won a makes a man's name double- | reputation for himself barrelled.

Dodds-Parker, Fletcher-Cooke, Crowthwalte-Eyre and Cooper Koy: the roll" of member of Parliament reizes with such and imposing names. Fenoraus More than 40 MP now boast a hyphen, All but three of them are Tories. Only the Noel- Bakers, father and salt, and Sir Lynn Ungoed-Thomna stake out

Socialist claim to byphenated

#tatus.

Inherited

of

Many

MP inherited their hyphens. But six or seven them have acquired them during their lifetime, Sir Alan Gonine Gomme-Duncan was once plain Mr Duncan: Sir Charles Mott- Radcliffe lived out his carly years as Mr Radcliffe.

It seems to be the

at the front of the old surname

In the House of Commons and was President of the Board of Trade under Bonar Low and Baldwin But after his wife succeeded to the Swinton estates at Masham Sir Philip took her maiden nume as his own and resumed

political Sir Philip Cunliffé- Lister.

Not since Mr

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Ashmear" Bartlett bechne Burdett- Mr

on

Catlin and Mits Vera Drittain, the writer, now bears the name of Mr John Brittain-Catlin.

If a hyphen can be added it can be dropped. But it very rarely is.

Mr Hugh Sebag-Montefore, now Dean of Gonvilla and Calus College, Cambridge, and one of the leading Anglican theologians by. IVAN

1

YATES

Couits marrying the

had formed farnes Victorian berCNESS such a radical change of name F. "L

Even in the overtaken an MP,

templ.

Motives

弦 to

Д

of the young school, shed his Sebag after he became Christian, But the Chaplain of Balliol College, Oxford,

the

į

of

Ills reason? - tie was tierd being credited with one in error. David Lloyd George in Is carly days in publie, life WOS known as Mr George. But even when tro Lloyd came Into almost invariable use, he found it, unnecessary to reach for a hyphen. Not so his son Gwilym. Before he became Lord Tenby he qu'elly instructed the House of Commons authorities to give him one.

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he

Mr James Henderson Stewart, too, when he

Was mode baronet last year decided could

and do with a hyphen naked the authorities to slip one Inlo place. So the numbers spread.

Speculation

Current spoculation surrounde

Rev. F. L. Mucite person of Mr Emlyn Garner Carthy, tratar | Evons. Be has fought election. himself into the Rev. as a Liberal. He has stood and MacCarthy-Wiills-Bunch, | sat as a Tory. But always be Church hyphens has been plain Mr Evans, Never again. It Honsard Ja anything to go by, next time he! approaches the electorate I will be as Mr Emlyn Gamer-Evans.

Truly great men do not need this support.

full

the

They can give rise to mis- understanding and dispute. The The occasions which give! Chancellor of the Exchequer, fashion birth to a hyphert are many and Mr Heatheont Amory, objected nowadays to attach the hyphen various. Often a hyphen is

the insertion of a hyphen condition

Sir Winston Churchill's Aucceeding to pro- betwete his nemes when he wan

name is Spencer-Churchill. But a desire to at the Board of, Trade. But his It was

always, The perty: sometimes not

Minister, Sir perpetuate a dying name; oces brother, Sir John Heathcost- he has got on all right without Prime Liberal

to 'make an urge

1 Amoty, Bi., insists G his the hyphen all these yeats, Jenry Campbell-Bannerman wassionally

And

Mr common mashume less common. hyphen.

Henthront That pillar of propriety, Mr Campbell, not Mr Banner

Some inen Lake their

Court Circular, insisted on Sir man, when he first entered

wife's Amory is his heir.

Winston's hyphen right up to Commona; while Sir Arthur name. Thus Mr Ivar Thomas, who

Corrected

the end of November 1951. But Steel-Maitland, the Tory Minis the former Socialist MP

on December of that year it, ter of Labour, was Master Steal became a Tory, took the name

On

other the

hand. of Bulmer-Thomas soon after

Mr too, succumbed to prevailing at birth, not Master Maitland

Walker, the unge, and for. first time let Some

marrying into the Herefordshire Patrick Gordon exchange men

clder hyphen for another. The mosi

family. Other men turn Socialist ex-Minister, ponounced stip the universally loved name

that he was of Churchill. noiable example of the trans. 10 mother for their inspiration, some years ago ferred hyphen in our day is that! So the son of Professor George thinking of taking a

Goldfish

the

one

Led Owner To Court

Birmingham. THERE was Derrick Strahan, driving his! goldfish to school.....

for

As they drew near the school

children where

Strohan's wife teaches

where he

was going to show The children the goldfish, Derrick pulled up sharply at an intersection.

hyphen.

➡(London Express Service),

The Major They'd Never

*

And The Mums

London.

OR all mothers with sons in the Army, there

comes today quite a shock.

Because mothers, it

und seems, 1 ranks pre A bed influence on wars.

A basket containing a bowl.soldiers. water and the guldfah fell off

the front seat, and the goldfish flapped around on the floor.

Slipped Off

Strahan bent down to rescue the fish and its bowl.

nghiting Britain's

"Who," mothers will ask, "does he think won the last astonishing war? And who has been winning statement is contained in an the hot-cold war in Cyprus,

This

comewhat

attack on The British soldier in Malaya, Kenya, and Kored since

a semi-oficial - magazine called 1945?? The Army Quarterly,

Grudgingly the major adriits that in times of crisis on opera- lone the noldier onki he especially menus the National

suya rather condescendingly

comports himself in a manner

Granted, it is no serving His fout officer who makes the charge. slipped off the brake and the The author is a retired major Serviceman-improves and he

another Reginald rolled on-into

Hargreaves, author automobile that

policeman

and military historian:

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was parking.

The policeman, described in

But since this magazine ciren- no way unworthy of the

officers Merlin military traditiona court ca "decent and humane", Intes among the top

has inherited."

1 attended to the unhappy it is not without influence. goldfah. He got water for the goldfish

Then he charged Strahan with Strahan was careless driving. fined £2-United Press.

Up In Arms Over Pirate Barbers

Major Hargreaves calls the modern soldier petulant, in- subordinate, locking in metal fire, and resentful of disci- pline.

THA

Blame

he

TRAINING la mode difcult writes the author "because Firmly, he blames the mothers" "pernicious influence."he is woefully hampered by these inimica) Infuences which

Pride....

Seen Anything

Like It

London.

A US serviceman made tatorially conservative Bri. tons gape in open mouthed astonishment at · West End Underground station the other night,

He wore black shoes with white--socks, black shirt with white Us, white suit with g one Inch black stripe down -the panta seam and a white overcoat. The American refused to give his name or his base in Britain but confirmed he was "a Yank."

A cleoma outside the en-

trance to underground station is showing the film "The Quiet American". United Prest.

Skies Again

Frankfurt.

THE world commercial airlines may soon face

tough West German competition if plans to build a giant airship are realised.

Baby In Chair

Rolls On

Line

The man who piloted the Graf

and Zeppelin

Hindenburg dirigibles, Max Pruss, 68, sald blueprints have been, drawn up for a new airship capable of carrying 200 passengers, 70 tons of freight, and capable of cruis- ing

the Atlantic ai across

100 mph.

The new Zeppelin will only need to All 30 per cent of its passenger and freight space to realize a good profit, Pruse sald,

Commenting on recent air mishaps, Pruss said erash possi- bilities in the new airship will Le practically negligible because It will be filled with helium.

"The Hindenburg was filled with hydrogen, one of the most inflammable gasses," Pruss caid. London.

The airship expèri was pilo!-

the ABY Dominic O'Brien's|ing|| mighty Hindenburg BAB

push-chair rolled to the when it exploded on landing at NJ, on May 1937. edge of a station plat-Thirty-ive of the 97 passengers form last week, bounced and crew were killed.

off an outgoing train, then toppled over the

edge with Dominic strap- ped in.

Lakehurst,

Safest Possible

"But today's hellum makes It hit the Ilve rail-but the the dirigible the safest possible transport," Pruss cald. eight-month-old child escaped ar electrocution.

"If an engine qults, the blimp It can low17

He was taken to hospital-with just stays aloft.

only a braise on his forehead, It happened at Warrior Square Station, St Leonard's, Sussex.

ANTHONY and DOMINIC,

Dominic's seven-year-old brother Anthony had been holding the push-chair. His mother, 39-year-old Mrs Pamela O'Brien, screamed as she saw the chair moving. Mrs O'Brien, whose husband rans a photographic business Bramley, In Station Road, Surrey, was returning from

with

three holiday

LOCH NESS children.

MONSTER DEFENDED

A

Edinburgh. FRIEND of the "Loch NesS

Mon-

have to be overcome before aster" brought an angry

can take the Aeld as anything

bear on its

HIS accusation: "The anaconda-vier than a liability to his com- pen to

rudes and a menace to the enter behalf. like einbrace in which the prise on which he is engaged." mother entoids her boy is such In a ni paragraph "tha "I speak for the whole of the that he enters the Service pay-soldier's bivialble but most Highlands if not whole of Scot- chologically preconditioned sul-powerful weapons are courage, and in resentment against the lenly to resent hla severance adelity, selflessness, self-control, hunting of the Loch Ness

Wendy from the emasculating home in- fortitude and above all a deep monster,"

Wood of fluence: to which his deplorable and abiding sense of consecra- Edinburgh wrote to the Scota lack of moral fibre can be at tion to a lofty and worth-while Bulletin here. tributed." Edinburgh.

"What harm has the monster In a grandiloquent siyle of "If. Mum's boy should be done and what better oft is any

cause.'

her

She said: "Suddenly. 1 Baw Dominic in his pusher shoot away. The pram began bouncing backwards and for- wards as it struck the moving coaches.

Then-what seemed an eternity later the last coach was past, The pram bounced back and dimppeared

over the plat- form."

BRITAIN'S barbers writing, the major harps back found wanting in these sterling one if it is killed of wounded? L

soldiers.

Long-Hair Peasants Cash In

London. ONDON wig-makers are offering up to £8 an

.but Englishwomen's hair is not often suitable.

An afficial of one arm anid;

verbal war to the good old days when qualides and proves incapable Can't they leave anyone

wives and mothers wept with of their steady cultivation, then anything alone to live a happy ounce for good-quality fair on 1,000 pairs of pirate pride as they said goodbye to the blame must very largely rest and natural lifet

on "MUM,"

EXPEDITIONS scissors threatening "Even so fecently as 1914 the The major forgets. that Misa Wood.apparently was re- their bread and butter. mother might shed

silent throughout STLATLY centuries, ferring to the fact that a number in pre-war days traders used The National Hairdressers tear," he writes, "but she would whether a soldier was in bivouac, of expeditions one from the to outain hair by trading pols

Broadcasting Corpara- Federation adopted a resolution still join in the chorus of 'We at sea, or in muddy, shell-torn Brittan

and pans for it in villagos in the cha thing that tion-planned this Spring to Dohemia and Moravia. here demanding that steps be don't want to lose you, but we trenches,

"Now the short-hair slylo hay sustains him more than anything and out once and for all if a taken to slop hairdressing in think you ought to as" inctories

Yet, according to the major, is the warm thought of home legendary monster lives in the spread throughout Europe, and since the First World War and MUM. nationalised Industries,

Scottish Lake, Loch Ness.

Some of the skin divery enter- have not bulled their federation sald there "Muma” · were at least 1,000 free-lancing weight or brought up children

The

and

especially

part-time barbers in the country suitable for joining the Amy's-Hugh Pond ins the lake will be armed just more and more, dificult to find.

who administer haircuts in

pubs, factories

homes.

private Bld

Federation President H. A. Prosser said, "These are black

workers. They pay no income. tax for what they can,

the. country."

are robbing

United Preas.

They

Hertford.

A local brewery acknowledged payment of a 67-year-old bill for 18 ahillings, covering 18 gellons of beer solid to a man when beer, cost ord, shilling a gellon...A roiative of; the man who died several years ago kaid 100% the bill was unpaid s

the bocstars, he moved from district--United Press.

1in caso it does,-United Press.

IN-LAWS KIDNAPPED HIS BRIDE!

you have

Naples mother-in-law

The groom refused; arguing: hờ had a good Job as a tailor in Naples and he did not want to ya with his'th-laws anyway..

Giuseppina's parents left in a huff. The

So you think trødhias?

mother-in-law Antonio. Romalioʻa strong arm squad of alx other in-laws to kidnap Antonio's bride, during the couple's honeymoon.next day they returned with reinforcemente

Romano, a tailor, told police his bride, Qilkepping, wis whisked away by the trafo- fn-laws because he refused to take his wifo brɑk to live with them.

Antonio and Giuseppina were honeymeaning In the nearby town of Paternopoll when tha in-lawe paid them a visit.. bagging Antonio`lo toke hie bride back to live at thoir 'koma` · In Unviant.

long hair for wig-making is

A farge consignment of Chinese hole which recently op- peared on the market had to bo turned down as unsuitable for European use.

NOWADAYS

-depend

Traders nowadays for their supplies "mainly on mountain villages in Italy. whore the difficulties of com- the rapid munication Impeda spread of fashions,

Some peasant -women make the bride's grandfather and four uncles,

o habit of welling their hair

• Thà -in-laws assault foros dragged Clusap directly it has grown long pina from Antonio's arma, fighting off the enlough after the last cropping, groom and his oven mynt who tried to come to This normally takes: from two to his rescue,

*f three yeara. Now Antonlo lodged - kidnapping charges But nowdark" rist the against the in-laws, who were bullaved holding official, people with really fine:

·Olussppins back home in Bavigne-United | śresses rarely want to self Prosa.

them,"

inelf smoothly for lending."

Explaining why airships are co economical, Pruss said, "Inex- pensive helium docs the job of money-consuming petrol or jet:

fuel.

"Besides," he said, "dirigible landing fields are smaller than large airplane strips,"

With newly-perfected alloys | and Improved motors, we con now build Zeppling that no one would havo da:wd dream of 20 years ago," Pruso sald

The ride in an airship is more pleasant than a high-speed air. liner, Pruss said United Press.