THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1958.
PEOPLE
in the news
A Weekly China Mail Feature
Papa Gabor Talks Of All His Beautiful
ONE MAN FROM LANCASTRIA WAS WAITING FOR DEATH... UNTIL A VISION IN WHITE STIRRED HIM WITH THE WORDS: COME ON, POP
The Angel found
JUNE, 40; The Lancastria goes down and 3,000 are lost.
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after 18 years
EAR trickled down the cheek of the old an who took Mrs Joan Rodes by the hands. "Thengel of St-Nazaire,” he cried. “It really is the Agel of St Nazaire."
Mrs dies Tooked at the far, of Randolphavenue, Maida weatheaten faer, smiled, and "Vnte "fatterd of that other June suid: course....Perey Fair- day in 1940, fax. Frember nursing you."
He saki: was lying in an It w8 years ago they last met. was Daily hur open boal waiting until the survive from the troopship ferries overhead finished our Les waiting for death in pain with their muchine-guns. the il-fered waters five miles Then, suddenly, above the noise of the hnch coast,
of the Runs, I heard the sweet voice of a British luss,
She the PHllah nute whe appure out of the smoke of burning to haul bim aboard a Frenchshion smuck-- she had real scores of others that
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tion
"I thought I was delirious, But there in a small French boat coming alongside was a girl in a crisp white uniform.
Was
*She
corper(cl
- worried by the battle. Come on, Pop, she anid, na she pulled ne un to the-deck.
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By PETER
WHALEY
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When the Lancastrin went down -Churchill called it the greatest scu
lisaster of all time-only 2,000 of the 5,000 on board survived
Mrs Rodes, wife of a French en- gineer, was working with the French Red Cross in a hospital converted from a sea-front hotel at St Nazuire.
On the first day she tended sur- vivors at the hospital. The second day she went out to bring In the men still at nea.
She nearly lost her life. Dodying machine-gun bullets, she flung herself Bat on the bottom of the fishing boat.
A few weeks later she lost the baby she was extling,
ter perience caused athe. illnesses that kept her in bed for two years. They still recur.
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While in bed, she helped the Resistance movement with a secret radio hidden under the bedclothes, and later had to be hidden with her haby son by peasants,
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It was during her liners that nun pinned a medal to her pillow. It is one usually awarded posthumously thought she had given her life for the solders.
The other day she receiver other award: A The of honour from the purvivors,
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"I lay with my head in her Ever the war ended, the lap as the boat turned for the Lanenst, survivors' associa const. Her cool hands eased my --they
for sched!
her-the huraing free as she me "Angel" se mane they never cigarette. Journal
"If ever 1 met an angel, she They d her a few days ago was it," living a Paris. She flew uvir Ex-Sgt. George Youngs, aged With her she brought a bottle of to jorem for the day's 50, of Clapham Junction, re- perfume for Mira Jacqueline Tillyer is union trip down the membered waking la a French of Norwood Road South-n, Jarque- Thames a pleasure steamer hospital to find her bending over line,
Roon to be married, was 1wo And ġ piaceful June day him. " was like a vision," he years old when the ship went down- in Londe4-year-old Mr Fair- sald, "I never forgot her." And the youngest survivor.
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Girls
PEOPLE SPECIAL
Budapest.
In a room overlooking the Danube filled with the souvenirs of his three beautiful tempera- mental daughters, an old man of 76 sits with his memories. His name is Vilmos Gabor and he is the father of glamorous Zsa Zsa, Eva and Magda.
Although partly disabled by a book out deniuicly Hom a china stroke which put him on his cabinet. back and robbed hin of speech for a year in 1951, "Papa" Gabor ts still a lively character with sharp blue eyes and old graphs-Zsa Zsa os actress of fashioned courtesy.
shown Then the lajtor glossy, Hollywood-style photo-
The year" and in a variety of other pones, and, on a shelt, Д book called "Bainm aud Or- name of Eva
Visiting Hongkong chids with the
Holding
Gabor on it. antique car- trumpet clupped to one ear, the
Prompted by his wife who plump,
The out- Tosy-cheeked former translates the sounds jeweller, a large signet ring on side world for him, Pape: Gabor hla right hand, brightens at the waved his hands excitedly s mention of his daughters and his he recalled his past. former wife Jolie, soon to visit 4+ [ ind four villas, Beven Hongkong with her new son- houses and is jeweller's shops. aged husband,
The girls were all educated in
The first question he asked Switzerland, and I used to spend during a recent visit was: Doe werk every month visiting
them. you know Zsu Zaa?" He received the reluctant answer "No" with "I went to the United Slates a forgiving smile.
Ind In 1945–to New York
he chuckled Hollywood Chere
Then he spoke of his for-off and wagged his head to show "babies" in hostalgie vein, every extreme appreclaiton) and came how and again dropping into a back in 1947 to sell my property sort of refrain. "2 Z, Zsa and settle up my affairs here." Zen."
The amoli neat Bat, over- crowded with furniture and pubitings too big for it, where he lives with his present wife. sanall. undssuming woman whose family was gassed by the Nazis at Auschwitz concentra- tion camp in World War I, is re- dolent of the absent Gabor girls, the toast in bygone days of Budapest
This is all that remains of the villes, houses and jeweller's shops waichi once belonged to Mr Gabor, "All gone." he said, spreading ble hands in a gesture half-sad, half-amused.
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Prefers Budapest
He planned to go back to America, Join his daughters and settle down. But he was mul allowed to leave the country. In 1951 he was sent from Budo- pesi to live in the country, had a stroke, and returned only 1 1953 when a more tenient policy was Introduced.
Now he has a passport per mitting him to leave the coun- try, but he prefers to remain in Budapest, He
EVA
MAMA
ZSA ZSA
speaks only Rivert to him by his daughters. few words of English, très He hardly ever leaves his fiat, casily, and has difficulty in but he has been to see the film pronouncing his words as well "Moulin Rouge", in which Zsa os in hearing.
hun- sa plas, as he says, "a dred times."
In the The "best children
the old telephone to world" touple every Christmas, and every week when
in they are Europe, which is most years. They also send their father and step-mother about 250 dollars {about £00 sterling) every One of Mr Gabor's abiding month as well as gift parcels passions in his old age is to sit through the Hungarian state- and watch television on a set run agency, IKKA.
Three colour transparencies, On his last trip to America, showing Zsa Zsa in low-cut he apparently telt rather tosi t dresses and languid poses, aro umes. "I was lonely and poor, pasted against the window pane and the babies said I should which looks across the Danube marry this poor orphan"-turn to the Gellert Hill with its huge ing to the present Mrs Gabor, statue of Liberty, guarded by ence manageress of one of his two Soviet soldiers.
shops,
The
MRS RODES: The Angel In London •
girls,
The premier
they call
Hugh John
... HE COMES FROM THE LITTLE PROVINCE WITH
THE BIG FUTURĖ
MA FLEMMING Followed father's footsteps.
features of three little with long halk and in Frilly dresses, painted on a plate,
TRIUMPH .
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THEN
FALL KILLS
SHOW JUMP GIRL
The Culprit... A "Good Reminder" From A Special Metal Bar
LONG CATTLE TREK!
Modern 3 W ENDOLIN E. T GABRIEL was closer to top success 119 R show before. jumper than ever
Kimberley,
Sho had just left the ring Maid- HEY call him Hugh John: family, friends and A with 1,500 oxen across 350 mlies of the Kalahari Desert. He stone, during the week-end
KIMBERLEY man, Mr Jim Steyn, has completed a 24-day tretjat Linton Park, near admirers up
and down the province of New; used 22 herdsman to drive the eattle.
after taking third place in Brunswick, Canada. It is a measure of the affection in stretch of 40 miles without water-because trucks and permit the Foxhunter Trial-the
He said he had undertaken the hazardous trek-which included; which Hugh John Flemining, the Premier of the province, were dificult to obtain.
main show-jumping event, is held.
food
him
His warm manner, cheerful Conservative Opposition. The berm Ince and twinkling eyes next year he won the provincial are the marks of a man who elections and look office likes mankind and believes that, Premier. to have friends you must make friends.
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MONDA CROSSWORD Across: 1-Car-ate,
Ass-am
province,
He lost no entile and plans another trek with 1,000 caltic soon. "People" Speela),
SWIMMER
London.
03-YEAR-OLD American who has reum the Ohio, Mississipp|j
Later he was invited to:-both ways,
She had qualified for the Horse of the Year Show at Harringay in the autumn.
MISS GABRIEL
For her cheers
To warm him up she put
the Welsh Lad at
practice She fell with the horse Jump, on top of her.
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She had heard 3,000 peo- Her father ran to where sho New Brunswick is a small of the sweep to the Conserva- Hudson, Missouri and Colorado rivers, has swum the Thamel ple cheer,
toy. Welsh Lad was uninjured. but it produces big lives.
But Gwendolino died before men; men who leave it to find overnment; but he declined to; river near Kew Bridge where it is about 160 yards wide. He now in Diefenbaker's Mr Jim Sleppay, of Columbus, Ohio, a bank teller, awam thở;
Few people The 28-year-old Gwendo reaching hospital, fame and fortune in the wider world, Men like Str
leave his province, Janice
plans to swim the Rhine, the Tiber and San Francisco Bay, Peo-line, of Little Bursted, in the crowd know about It, Dunn, the industrialist, Rt. B.
ple" Specia).
Billericay, Essex, Bennett,
Flemming is
took a Prime Minister of
attractive Canada in the thirties, and worker. He rises at dawn and spunker. And 4 tremendous
practice jump. ..her lust. Andrew
Bonor Low Prime
is first at work and last to leave
For Minister of Britain.
before the
show off.
was over she was dead.
He
Hugh John Flemming, how- ever, is not one of thead. stayed home,
RICHES
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13-YEAR-OLD SAVES FATHER'S LIFÉ
Angers.
The prospects for the future FARMER Paul Barillot, of Lazay, was working a mechanical saw of New Brunswick glow bright,:
with power from his tractor when his clothing caught in the In the thst Ave years immense machinery.
deposits of base, metals-lead. : M. Barillet was being dragged to certain death when his 134 zhe, th, copper- and of ferro- : year-old son Michael raced up and shut off the tractor power. M. Hle roofs are deep in its soll, manganese have been discovered Barillot was uninjured-"People" Special. His father was premier before in the province. him. And fie also succeeded hla
MISS BEAUTIFUL EYES
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The top bar
Gwendoline, the youngest of three sisters, had been riding since she was a schoolgirl at a Brentwood convent,
Her sister, Mrs Megan Cullen, has competed with her in the few
iriai, She was watching 'gis Gwendoline took the practice
Warm up
Gwendoline had n minutes to spare after her father in a prosperous timber, discoveries
They are autong the richest
triumph before going back made In North
in the ring to jump in America. To exploit them great A 25) who "enlarged and developed her eyes by reading
BEAUTIFUL Japanese faahtori model Miss Reiko Yoshikawa, handicap competition. resources will be perded.
English while working for the Occupation Forces has won the She allpped from the saddle "Miss Patchiri" (Miss Beautiful Eyes) title in Kyola, western-of Ivan Yates
her borse, Tiko, and Japan.
mounted Wolkh Lây.
concern.
8 Bars, 9 A 11 Pearl (Harbour), 12 Entire. 14 Sung, 10 Steps, 18, 19 Pert, 20 Damper, 24 Drill. 25 Pirute, zo Even, 27 Ds Re-veal. Down: 1 Chne(lady), 2 Rage, 3 Ĺlice Jacob who served seven "TOS, 4ESĮ Asperse. U Scarlet,, 7 Maltese, 10 Union, 13 Divided, 14 be, in Needles, 17 Trier, 1 Pamper, 21 Pine, In Parliament
years for Rachel, Flemming cat seven yentat 22 Race, 23
before he becathe leader of the
Tokyo.
jump--a "triangle" with fron top bar, hard to dislodge and à good reminder to a jump- the horse to lift its feet.
And it was that top bar that Welch Lad struck,
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