1958-10-02 — Page 4

Part 4

THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1958,

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DON IDDON'S DIARY

PRESENTS SOME

LISTO

OF THE

LADY COKER

After the Formosa

AM standing in the I crowded drawing-room

of Sir Pierson Dixon's Man- hattan apartment talking to Mr Selwyn Lloyd.

The Foreign Secretary, dapper in grey suit, in slim-

mer.

Someone suggests that my description of him as "a plump pigeon of a man" might more accurately be applied to me unless I go on a diet.

MARION ANDERSON

The now voice of UN.

Lloyd laughs and seems happy about everything.

Everyone in the big Fifth Avenue home of "Bob" Dixon, our Ambassador to the U.N., seems happy al-

though we have all

Follies

I

SEE

THEM

ALL COOL OFF

WITH CAVIARE

with his ex-wife Rita Hay room. worth, and then think better of it.

The Scotch, Bourbon gin and tonics, martini

just come from the moment I think of men- Gromyko, but perhaps they United Nations, where tioning that I crossed over are battling in

an anta the Far East crisis, known us the Formosa Follies, has been the subject of an acidul- ous and sometimes angry debate among the men in this room.

-My Henry Lodge, chief Ameri- woman

can

delegate,

Mr Monon, his hair $ and Manhattans are gulped polished mane, struts, stick down between nibbles of in hand, under the huge the caviare und smoked sal chandelier,

marskjold, but a plain-clothes diet, usually has a small stenk detective.

'Look at Marlon Anderson," someone else crtes. It le p Buling as a Broadway pre- dere, a big show which New Yorkers enjoy, although most of them cannot spell Quemey or Taiwory

Miss Anderson, the concert sager now a new vuice of the UN, holds forth. "There aro tral areas where people over- need to know and meet revalent people in Americn. There are so nuny misconcep- ts. The main feeling is that Arctica has a lot of money. Abt of people don't want to be bought. They resent it. The important thing is to findi at what they really need."

for breakfast, u meat lunch toes), or a salad, a lean meat with vegetables (but no pola-

dinner with vegetables. He Scotch and soda before dinner, doesn't smoke, but he has ગ

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The famous Eisenhower grin no longer blazes on and off ilke neon sign, but the warm smile flashes frequently. I anything, be tools Atter

than When 1 saw him at his last Press conference in Washing- ton, though things in the world and the New World have wor- soned since then,

Little change

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YOU

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WHEN

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What is Mr Eisenhower going to do about Governor Orval Faubus, of Arkansas, and even te ice cubes in the glasses more Important, Governor tik, the bracelets jangle, the Lindsay Alinond, of proud Vir- dardeller *ways above the ginia? Can he go on allowing

of talk. Quemoy zeema them to eloro schools in vey far away,

definitely, robbing white and black children of education and Te most Americans it seems defying the Supreme Court's arion miles away. This is unanimous ruling that integra- gationists But Mr the crisis which no one under- tion in the classes satis including the statesmen, place?

must take smiling and moved by the

ovation. said: "No, no. I've and if it comes to war, which I cost think it will, it will be wer that no one wants,

a

Indefensible obviously mon by most of the guestsį

A Cabot pleased with himself,

"There whispers:

and gues my heart-throb."

often wearing a scowl before the television cameras, is relaxed as he sips his ginger ale, which he pretends is a highball.

Aly Khan, looking dishevelled but gay, closes in on Krishna Menon, and for

Caution

Lady Corca, wife of Sir Claude Corea of Ceylon, has two diamonds clipped to her muse and jungles of gold bracelets and jowellory.

I do not Hརྒྱུུ་ Mr John & Foster Dulles

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Mr

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Truman,

Front Mory at Little Rock and done my shore, now i'll help dia

Hoyal seems to be the others," same as that at Quemoy. Let There are few outward signs things simmer. Maybe some of the crisis at home and the way, somehow, everything will turn out all right.

Rain and fog

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crisis abroad. New York has been engulfed in taln and fog, But in the South many white and what

been should have I noter the chief delegater Ahough hundreds of thou- illdren are taking malters in brilliant nutumuz only sip cautiously at their mes of Americans are opposed their

own hands. demanding bren

weather has drinks. The Indians drink nood China being admitted that

chill 28 damp and the schools be opened November's,

да thing at all.

10 United Nations. there whether coloured children are

The restaurants, bars, hotels, Outside the apartment build-ons who describe the allowed to attend or not,

tha shopa org jammed, but twer-Dulles Far Bas! Ing on 06th-street the police.

theatre, with Howle ita only, policy as Russian roulette, u are two deep and there are brist-war late sumner mud-

opening this new season, is barricades with signs "No ness at is indefensible.

lagging. The best show is ab Parking."

the United Nations and ways the United Fifth Avenue, Ling Newport, Rhode States 1 have returned to shows A caravan of Cadillac moutard recently after a month's little change. This is where 1 Scots Guards pipers in full dresa sines, all with CD plates, la hong, the President asked for came in. Ex-President Harry and lined up, and the crowd mpes

with bagpipes skirting and says; "There goes Dag Cup me, Issued stern

the led news on the America's Truman, the buntam cock, has

marched down the street of com- starled his latext "Give Hammarskjold." It isn't Hani-

formally golt. Mr hell" campaign, accuses the splendid stores und nhower, during his latest President's party of deliberately The British Fortnight," Every- opened an exhibition called cation, which he may resume, fostering unemployment an sram at the most recent asinine charge and charging thing we make and sell from tills 11 hours on the golf course Eisenhower and Dulles with display. The slogan, perhaps

Rolls-Royces to raincoats is three bankrupt foreign policy - Fer- stale to some but heart-warming and re hours and

ROUND-UP MYSTERY-IN THE

NEVILLE DUKE

AYEVILLE Duke who became Hawker's chief test pilot after RAF. service, retiring with the rank of Squadron Leader with 28 victories, tells of his carver in "Book of Fight" just published by Cassell. Wounded in the leg, and with his Tomahawk fighter badly damaged, Neville Duke span down from 10.000 feet to crash-land at Tobruk. The number of his fighter, 337, added up to 13. In 1055, as Hawker's chief test pilot, be crash-landed his Hunter at Thorney Island after engine failure. He staggered from the wreck, cut, bruised and with the skin stripped from his shins. He sat down and thought "poor old 562." Then he realised that the numbers totalled 13. " felt doubly lucky," he said. Rather than take a desk job he started agam as a free-lance pilot. It was Duke who first took the Hunter through the speed of wound and raked the world record to 727 m.p.h.

WAR-TIME ORDEALS

THE women whose experience of war is more than usually un- pleasant are members of a musicc1 group, the London Alpha Trio, which is making its television bow la the B.BC. Sunday programme. The founder of the Trin, Polish-born Natalia Karp, before the wor appeared! In the famous Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. When war cane she was imprisoned, in the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp where, like others, she was tattoned with a prison number, French-born Henriette Canter, the Trio's violinist, served with the French Resistance Movement and was awarded the Legion D'honneur. The third member of the Trio,

soldiers as brilliant star of many ENSA programmes.

FINAL

MOMENTS

OF A SMOKE

BIG_CIGARETTE HUNT STARTS

Express Science Reporter CHAPMAN PINCHER

MEDICAL Research Council scientists are to collect thousands of

cigarette ends off the streets, in restaurants and in parks to find

the Swiss cellist Regina Scheln, is kanwn to thousands of former out the average length of the butt the British smoker throws away.

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the theory that excessive smoking causes lung cancer.

If the answer is substantially less than one inch it will be further support for If the answer is more than one inch the whole theory may be thrown into serious doubt,

The question of the vital statistics of the British fag- end is raised as a matter of medical urgency by Dr Cuyler

Hammond, the statisties chief of the American Cancer Society in a report recently.

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He raises it to try to ex-

search among the gutters OL Holland has shown that the thrifty Dutch discard a bult only threequarters of an Inch long on average.

1 measured a sample of 20 butts collected at random. Their average length was almost «x= netly ONE INCI

A quarter of an inch differ- ence might be important be- cause the smoke from the last plain why lung cancer in part of a cigarette Is far men is twice as common in richer in tar than the first Britain as in the US.

part.

Americans smoke. MORE cigarettes than Britons and they inhale to about the same extent. So If smoking really la to blame only one possible solution remains the British consume considerably more of the tobacco In cach cigarettu because they throw away A smaller butt.

Dr Hammond admits that the length of a buit can be decep- tive because it may smoulder after being thrown away and that Aller lips complicate the issue,

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Joenis Hagerty

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In many

the haps a valid charge.

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Recently o contingent of

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The other night at a din- to others, is, of course; "There'll ner in Albany there was a great always be an England." Secretary, M: shout; "Truman should Full Americans, looking at the Far seems even again. Harry can liek any East crisis, the Middle East more charge of the White body. Including, presumably, mess, and the swamp In Hout when went away the Russians, the Red Chinese, South, are glod and grateful six wels #go.

Is Hogerly, Nasser, and the Southern segic that there always will be. the new

York Times re- porter who is issuing interpre- lative statements using the farple We think," "We have decide we know."

Under siege

Print Eisenhower, under siege by the crisis in the Far East the crisis in the poutes United States, where the Gremurs close the schools to be the negro chlidren, appean perturbed.

Just from the men I mel at Bheson Dixon's he seems to be happy too, and says that his mang holiday has been onglot best he has ever had. se years since Dwight David bower suffered his heart. Hagerty says: "The Pride health is fine, just

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Mr Eshower weighs 1711b.. Just for his height 5ft, 11 He is on a no-fat

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After measuring more than "Nevertheless I hope 4,000 cigarette ends discarded method will Be suficiently In New York, Chicago, Pitts- reliable to reveal a large burgh, and Los Angeles, Dr difference in this respect be- Hammond reports that the tween Britain and tive average Americon fag-end United States, if IL in fact measures ONE AND A QUAR- exists," he writes in the British TER INCHES,

Medical Journal,

If the mystery is not solved by the British fag-end Inquiry This means that the average doctors will have to look for American throws away about to other cauace of lung cancer per cent of the tobacco he besides smoking, Dr Homenond buys.

believes. Smog steady air pollution and climate, which The length of the Britists wealoon the lungs by causing butt is still unknown but ro- bronchitis, are ibo malo suspesja,

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"COME"

ZANIES

Larry

"Funny thing, real They speed 'em up and we slow 'em down.",