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"CHERRY RIPE” GIRL

THE Royal Academy wishes to contact a woman who must nory

be 8, or mone-who sat as the girl in 1879 for Milas' cele brated pleture, "Cherry Ripe.” The painting is on view at the Royal Academy for the first time since 1008 es part of Sir J., B. Hobinson's collection now being, exhibited. The girl's name was Edle Ramage the miere of a Mr Thomas, editor of the illusreted periodical "The Graphie." Millads was paid 1,000 guineas for paint- ing her portrait, Some 600,000 cola red reproductions of the paint- ing were printed. Recently a man visited the Royal Academy and told the secretory, Mr Humphrey Brooke, that he was the son or grandson of the famous cherry-girl-he was not sure. It is known she married a Signor Francisco de Paula Ossorio, Little was known of her in later life except that she and her husband escaped with dimculty from Mantia during the Spanish-American war in 1098. TOO MANY

THERE have been so innily entrants for the truss-Channel swim- ming race to be held on or about August 22 that the numbers I have to be restricted. Altogether 53 swimmers have applied to take part but only 35 will be accepted. "That is the number we consider practical and safe," says in organiser. Twenty-three coun tries represented by the to women and 43 men who have upplic. Cash prizes totalling £1,000 are offered by the race's spon

. Mr By Hattin. The Brst man and first woman will receive £500. A speelat prize of £100 is offered to the British swimmer who put up the best effort.

ZOO ENTERTAINMENT

CHICKEN cranes of the rare Sarue species from North India have been hatched at the Whipsnade Zoo, Bedfordsaire, for the first time in 40 years. The red-headed parents, who stand about 5ft. high, hatched the chicks near lence and have entertained thou- Funds of vriters with their antics of pride in their offspring.

COLONEL-FARMERS

FA

PARMER at Shobdon, Herefordshire, is Lieutenant-Colonel Uvedale Corbett, fartherly Member of Parliament for Ludlow, Selop. He runs the farm with his wife. In 1943 he bought 400 acres while he was silt in the Army. Last year he adried 300 seres. Improvements on the farm over the last 10 years huve cost about £50,000. The Colonel keeps 8,000 turkeys, 5,000 hers, 700 pigs, 80 enite and about 40n sheep. He says the best paying pro- position to his 40 acres of black currants. CROSSWORDS

TSLINGTON, North London,

where Pentonville Prison 15 altunted, runs a library service for prisoners. Most popular book at present in demand, anya the crual report of the district's chte: bration is a dictionary, Crm word puzzles are thought to be the cause of the demand which has followed since the de- cision to allow prisoners to be supplied with dilly and weekly At the Women's

new popers. prison in adjacent, Haljaway, nlso covered by the Horary service, Jetéctive "stories cod romances are the most popular. At both prisens more than 250,000 books were borrowed last year. Many requests are also received for travel books and biographies, while faterest ranges widely over such subjects us flower

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1958.

U.S.A. SUB-POLE A-SUB6. TIME TABLE

AMERICAN NEWSLETTER by J. W. M. THOMPSON

Mr. U.S. tackles

his waistline

New York. MERICAN women suffer

to preserve their figures: American men

planting, music, cookery and offer because they do not

archaeology

HOME-MADE PLANES

preserve their figures.

This proposition. It may be. discloses yet another held in

N aeroplane which can be which the women of America A shane 500 which

laken the Initiative

will be on show n the forth-from the mer. But at least coming model engineer and alt can report the burgeoning of craft exhibition Westminster. a sort of male resistance move- London. The craft, to be put on ment to this steady spread of show is a single-seater which the waistline. operates at about 40 to 50 miles per hour at a cruising speed ní 75 m.p.h. Time for three men to make it is stated to be leas than ten weeks.

TRAINING SCHOOL

Victory

Businessracn by the thousand the spending hours each week

"Health

exercising themselves a In-

stitutions known

BOYS leaving school this sun mer term who have been nccepted by London Transport Clubs," Hordes of portly New The taxi driver who took me you know. will go to the new training Yorkers conscientiously grunt there was wearing shorts. He they gain centre for Tallway engineering away their lunch hours to win kept a towel on the seat beside Muscle is apprentices at Acton, Middlesex. file glory in the battle of him for mopping sweat from see?" The centre will take 25 boys at a the tailge.

his face. He had an electric fan time; it is Atted with the latest

Alted next to the steering wheel, type machinery and tools for Inst Week I have bea 10 teaching nine different trades. ane of these."health clubs" to The club was at the top of a Pupils will spend up to a year rez them at it and a stirring sicysaraper. As I entered, the there learning basic workshop sight it was. The day changed air had the Impact of hot principles and the use of hand to be surrealistically unsuitable dannel in the face. Everyone in and machine tools before going for n study of strenuous exer- sight was either naked or wear- out to the main works and rail cise. It was one of the hotllest Ing trunks. depols to complete their five-and most humid of New York's Year course.

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It won't rattle the Russians!

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

WHAT are the Russians thinking while the Western world applauds the magnificent American seamanship and inventive genius which, took the atom-driven submarine Nautilus under the North Pole ice? Undoubtedly they see the long-term threat when rocket-firing descendants of the Nautilus, surfacing in breaks in the ice-cap, will add their weight to the deterrent which checks any Soviet hope of domination by military force.

Bul over the next seven years the Russians have no need to be edncerned about the U.S. technical lead in undersen pro- pulsion.

For by another ingenious act of Improvisallon compamble to. that which gove them the Sputnik Icad. they have established a submarine advant- age of immediate strategle Im- porlanec.

Naval Intelligence has a re- port that the Russians have a bit of weight managed to become the first heavler than fat, naval power with a Ballistic

to

Since the Americans will no have such vessels for at least three years, how have the Russians achieved this disturbing lead?

Missile Fleet—a pack of sub- capable of fring Bicycles anchored

the martnes

H-bomb-carrying rockets at fluor, rowing machines, and

land largets. various bizarre devices akin to the vibrator, were all being strenuousy employed. 0

A mus cula? young man was liftian fearful weights with an expros- sion of quiet dedication.

They have done it by adopting "Avoirdupols" Fuid "Dog" existing submarines and rockets Stern regretfully. "It is a big for the purpose instead of walt- problem. All these men

-leading for specialy designed sedentary lives. If they get vessels and weapons as the West overweight it shortens their is doing. lives. It is certainly a big

Then he man in charge ap- peared: he was wearing clothes. He introduced himself as "Doc" Stern. He looked in pretty good shape. I thought; a well made, muscular fellow in his sixties.

"All our members are execu- Lives and professional men,"

problem for American men," How it fires

He led me past a swimming

he told me briskly. "It costs pool and into a hall where a them 140 dollars a year (about golf professional

El a week). Most of them come indoor lessons.

twice a

"

ROLEX

At landmark in the history of Time measurement

Lime.

week for a couple of hours-usually at lunch Same como every day.

Beware!

"When they go back to, their business you had better get out of their way, Boy, they are: ready flight their weight in wild-cats,"

was giving

"We mainlain that man is the architect of his own destiny,” announced "Doc" suddenly sounding an elevated note. "11 he bullds himself right, then he will find success,"

Briefing

As the sketches show, a sen-

going submarine tows behind it a launching canister Attad with ballast tanks so that it can travel submerged, Behind the launcher дре three Comet rockela In waterproof containers.

The submarine surfaces when its firing point it has reached

anywhere up to 600 milles oft- share.

The lid of the launch- ing canister is opened and one of the 4211, missiles is alld into R.

50

Sca-cocks in the base of the I stepped back smartly ta

launcher are then opened avold a falling golf club. We that is partly flls with water. He led me down a corridor. mayed. on to another room This upenda EQ that the The outdoor temperature was where a group of lawyers were missile is pointing skywards. bigh in the eighties: What it pursuing success through Dr

Gyroscopes in the launcher was in there, I don't Ikke ta energetic game of `handball. help to keep it slable but it need think. Suddenly he opened a

fully.

1

welglit

I told him I reemed rather superfluous when all New York was one natural.Turkish bath. "It very relaxing," he pliod,

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Well, como anyway," he said Perhaps I will when the thermometer is 50 degrees lower.

not point accurately at the tar

get. A blast of compressed Bir

German idea

Russian submarine

How the Russians took a

short cut

to rocket firing submarines

-Michael Rand draws the ingenious

'an tow'

method of

hit and

run attacks from under

water

Rockets in

Rocket launcher

watertight containers

Compressed air ejects rocket

H-bomb warhead

Launcher tilted by flooding

Racket engine takes over

door and a blast of sizzļinst "Come and have a workout steam enveloped us. "Steam one day," said "Doc" Stern throws the missile clear of the which must be greatly slowed and arc developing atomic marino, an existing rocket and room," said "Dee" Stern help hospitably. I told him that launcher and its charge of solid down by its burden in tow, is depth-charges which can be a standard H-bomb while the:

tuckily I didn't need to Jose fuel bursts into flame turning it Ausceptible to attack.

dropped from, airplanes, It West waiting years for a on to flight-path pre-ordained But the Russians. have explains why the Argentinian streamlined atomic-driven sub-

thought up a way round

attacked by instruments aboard it.

this Navy

A Rustlan morine equipped with a specially. The launcher is automatically dimeulty a way which explains submarine recently and an built Polaris missile, carrying a pumpod dry and closed. The why there were 184 alghtings of nouneed the fact as a warn- special H-bomb head, submarine then dives and pro- Soviet submarines off the U.S. ing. It also cxplains why

A threat ceeds to the next firing area, Atlantic coast alone last year. Britain's Aral atom-driven sub- will be submarino Through another door was the When left he gave me a

The submarines, would be in marines

The only way to counter: this gymnazium. An elderly stock grip of steel. I shut the door on

their firing position before the killers,,

formidable threat, is to speed broker wearing a dent aid and

The Russian decision to build the supply of anti-submarion the mistained' din of

As with the Comel missile West was given any hint of an pounds

ar Interim Balllatic Balssile devices to our anti-subinarine trunke appeared to be. Aghing being shed. The express lift Itself, the Russians have adapted impenalng" attack.

To make this possible the Flest while tho'r own specially ships and planes, televish for life with a threshing snake. sped me down to ground level. this system from an idea supplica

missile-firing by the Germans, who teled it out Russions are establishing the designed

sub- The Russian makeshift milzalib- Out in the street I looked at in a crude way with the V. Idea that scores of thele sub- marines are belag built is in submarines, could not ploncar a the passers-by · attentively. rocket The German plans, marines are always on training no with the principle they new passage under the fear still thought there ward. an I missiles, and DOMLO of, the pairol in the Atlantic and followed so triumphantly to beat But whereas the missile dising the U.S. In Jounching the Drat descendants of the Naustiur wil extraordinary." number of scientists involved fell into Pacific, "That's an electrical vibrator" shapely women and shapeless Russian hands at the end of the Wasters Intelligence men Eputnik-adapting existing bard not be operating in strengül for Stern advised me. Useful for men. Bome of the men looked war.

* realise this—which explains why mare proved by use for the job. - many years yet, the Husalan reducing. People who come here pretly successful too.

Admittedly this system is not, tho' Americans have just set up'. Now the Soviet designers have submarines can threaten U.S. "reduce weight get results, —thenden Express #ervice), " | «logant, And the subpparido,» a special sub-killer Task Force combined an - existing sub cities now,

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