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THIS IS AMERICA
New York, Monday
Quiz Man
HERE is a twentieth-century tragedy. Here is a glamour boy, whizzed to glory and unbelievable riches from his dreary routine world, now left high and dry.
Here, in St Louis, Missouri, is Mr Teddy Nadler, the world's only full-time professional answerer of questions on television quizzes.
As all big money US telir- chiel guoler, and approved by marriage, and planty of wedding vision quizzes are now extinct, the police chief.
so as Mr Nudler's profession
Two years ngo Nadler was a US. Air Force clerk. He euracti
stendy 70 dollars (£25 1 week He was unhappy,
WILS
frustrated --- ind
(sune the guiden bonanza, Nantler
discovered. und starred for 18 months
on the £4,000-dollar question.
He quit his clerk's Job. got into the habit of quizzes, kle earned morr
seconds than be bad
תן
two earned
In two months. The world was his oyster.
When the 64,000-dollar ques- Nadler Con stint was over.
moved off to different ques He trained constantly, lets! 4 research staff to fecik han with quiz knowledge. ifis
carver looked bright, an upward path and war of more
stawy which he spent like water
Cume the crash, as you all
American know Some
were accused of being QALİ crooked!, Art in some placen None slick on the dirt stuck Nadler, no one has suggested he was anything but honest in t quiz appearances,
But the quizzes were pulled of the air. And Nadler, now 49. has nowhere to go.
Not positive
IT was,
preasts.
His new bangniow 1n. the smart Detroit suburb took 13,000 dollars (£6,300). His clusters of new pala took loan after loan.
Then most of that Aroney had been taken. After a heavy night's drinking with Daisy. Puterbaugh drove his John shiny car into his shiny garage, say the of closed the door and those glossy, colourĎal affairs police, took his life.
If you remember, a endendar which first placed pubile Marilyn Monroe in the Kaze. A nude calendar.
She
starred
thai for
on
one
ham
זידאן
issies of American folk art, Well, that s all over
The CIMACE
in the centre of the door is sinmaned in the face of
complex nuclear reactor starlets who may want to follow poweraut the U.S. Submarine
Seawoll 15
small brass
talisman.
this path to fame,
#
85 ocn13
It has been decided, it seems. Buddha. that the nude calendar-ilke the
11 in a good-lucit med fle, the overstuffed Cost: one dollar chronium - plated automobil: (189, 3d.).
not Pa the Stetson halis
with The modern, Carlisle, dogged by operational keeping reapertable U.S.
Mr Jay F. Show, Vice- president of the Shaw Barwon Company
Lurpest second calendar firm in the US. bas unveiled his 1950 models to the trade.
Show's mimber ORIL fur 1960 A garland
Such popular advertising
Etui → Commander
Charles 5.
troubles with the reactor during Arhals
30,000,000-dollar Di the
Dis (£10,700,000) Seawolf, told troubles to an old sailor work- ng in the Groton, Connecticut, which Liht the sub- yard emrine.
#the The mam offered him Buddha, picked up in Honoluin In 1940. Tt was fitted to the "We have not reactor engine. had a minuse of trouble since," says Cartiste.
Balloon's Designer
The "Small World", a 46-ft, ballon, curly this month left El Medano, near Tenerife in the Canary Islands, in an attempt to cross 3,000 miles of the Atlantic. The crew hope to cover this distance in
any time between seven and 21 days, They are, Mr and Mrs Mudie, Mr A.
Eiloart 远
and Mr Timothy Elloart. Pic- ture shows Colin Mudie, 32-year-old naval archi tect, who designed the balloon and the car, is also the navigator.
Thirsty Work
And there is not a nuce among then.
Mr calendar of red rose,
He says: *Nudes are out. They are not a positive symbol," calendars are still as
to climb ever. But for IF you want
society, Laugh purposes there are with
"product professor says the laugh
barometer of social status. Every man, he says, will hang more you do it, the higher up a nude calendar eagerly, and are.
hanic its sponsor. But he will place it bektine a cupboard door a lecture audience at Ann Arbor,excused from duty the other day
Michigan: "The lower you are after he admitted he dronk er an out-of-the-way corner
the less likely an of bere submitted in evi- He will see the advertising. in social status. but no one else will With gar- you are to report, having laughed dence in lands of roses everyone has a during the past day." kuk-$24.
So will he live on the money fina hls investments" sprut Lar money, paic for identification." my lease, new car, and go turve kids to send to shoul And my wife lerts' felt berw Surs pretty
to spend money FERRY
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BUTTERFIELD A SWIRE, Agente.
Hong Kong. December 23. 1908
after the following dates: CHRISTMAS--
24th, 25th December,
NEW YEAR'S EVE
31st December.
26th
THE HONG KONG & YAUMATI FERRY CO., LTD.
Hangkong. 2001: Dee 1930
SAN DIEGO elly presented
[tx prisonern with tive TV set the other day. They have been paid for out of profit on the sale of sweets, cigarettes, Items Lo milk,
other prisonern.
5437
Easy takings
JOHN
dollars
FUTERRANGE. Detroit, won 79,000
1m sweepstake six (£25,000) months ago. Then bega the easy laki.
The tax collector took 34,000 doden (£12,000). A shiny new Cadillac took 7,000 dollars £2.500). Ha new girl friend.
took his THEYNS
But the crooks still tack the freedom
Lwiddie, Pro grammes will be chosen by the Balsy.
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HARRY ODELL SAYS A MERRY X'MAS AND A HAPPY 1959 TO YOU ALL, MY REMEMBER MINE IS THE ONLY BRIGHT AND HEALTHY SPOT
PATRONS AND FRIENDS.
IN THE ENTERTAINMENT
WORLD OF THIS COLONY,
I DESERVE YOUR SUPPORT.
LOKE YEW
HALL
MONDAY.
29TH
DECEMBER
AT 9 P.M.
TEAGARDEN SEXTET
PHILIPPA SCHUYLER (pianist)
THIRD
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SERIES
OF
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WEDNESDAY.
31ST
DECEMBER
AT
LOKE
YEW
HALL
SUNDAY,
4TH
JANUARY
12 NOON
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SUBSCRIP- TION
CONCERTS
Sorbalugis Alex
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Is a The you
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Jurar Richard S. Carter was
U.P.I.
burglary
BY. THE WAY
by Beachcomber
traf
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NE day the Transport Com- graded +2 with a view to mission, tamed with a £750 providing photographic records, million loss of revenue and which could be examined for £200 inillion for Baws, blemishes, chips, uneven moderrisallon, will Je em- surfaces, discoloration, bruisca, usymmetry, fnctures, a further shell powered to borrow £500
skrinkage, million for capital ex- partial amorphisan. penditure, and an additional lopsidedness, topheaviness, and when million to cflect ceone other peculiarities,
Admiral Sir Horace Teakle and adjourneti The taxpayer, his withers Yuwned loudly wrung by this evidence of in- the session. poverishment, will respond to The voice of Narkover
£300 mies.
monthly increases in fures with the same compassion as that which he lavishes on the equally unfortunate Coal Bourel,
Suet elucidates
CHARLIE SUET gave it na
a
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SMART-ALLICK touc
the following statement yesterday: "There is today widespread and Icgrettable tendency to concentrate alten-
The Factories Have A Habit Of
Blowing Sky High
Bogota, Colombia.
Big bangs are the order of the day at this time of year in Colombia - but not all of them are intended.
In ten days of November, for example, no less than thres
#rework factories blew up.
The Bird, on November 26, went up with a terrible explosion which was heard over a large part of the elty.
The
booths on the stroois and squarta
Almost every year, there are explosions on these 100.
The up
The brigade und the police inke all the precurtionary mmaires possible; but nothing seems prost against the careless
BURNE
Clouds of stolte drifted
mountain stude And ire
rushed to the engines with sirens screaming, cleaving
through 21 313
thousands [ people also running to the far- lory elte.
nan
smoking a cigarette or sumecame striking a match in the wrong place,
Some years ago, two days be- fore Christmas, afl the stands in the the central Bolivar Square blew
up in one huge Ore.
Than, aboIL duzen people. including several children, perished.
In the upshot, no one was killed and no one was hurt √21 this explosion. โรย work of many weeks had been destroyed in seconds, to- gelber with the factory and the owner's home,
The
owner himself stood, s shaking, amid the ruhule, nour the only thing left standing - primitive sign, written in Tres- spelling. Door
warning pastors of danger.
It was the third disaster of the kind widch this Brewerk- maker han
few adfered in a
years.
Born To It
has
Each
starteri time, he
busi- again and recovered his ness, for he just cannot give up the profession for which sue to have been AMOTTI.
Fireworks вте ан essential parl of iny celebration 111 Colombia, but especially Christmas,
so 21
Al a house-warming party, there
AFC firecrackers, of rockets. When there is 5. wedding fireworks are often among the attractions at the reception. When a
church urgandses f bazaar to raise funds, Are crackers and reckels cannot be
And it is enough to give any- one the creeps to see how care-
kondic lessly people
thoot rockets, Sonur years ago, even The Mayor of Bogots burned his hand badly letting one off.
But for Christumas,
all
of
fireworks
description are essential part of the fun.
un
Noise Is The Thing
People start shooting then off At noon on Decciober 10, when the Novena of Aquinaldos (ie nine days prayer celebrations) before Christmas begins.
And if it seems curious to let off reworks at noon, in broad daylight, the resom is That here the noise is much important than their tive qualities.
more
illumina-
From December 16, 11 goes on night after night, in family after fondly, with fireworks la every shape and derm even Lo tiny "aeroplanos" which fly at astounding speed, screaming through the Air with an ugly whistle. And every year, many people are injured through carelessness or inexpert handling.
It is difculi lo say how many thousands
pesos people spend every year on ireworks.
The vicllm of the explosion
Street Booths
tion on the financial affairs of mentioned above claimed that Narkover. Little is said of 12,000 pcso (about £600 and to read the sterling at official rates) worth his opinion that only gross education,
newspaper stories of merchandise blew up. negligence and absent-minded- sensational LESS could
Mr one might imagine that Kark- account for
as concerned with Daddy's fallure to notice
OVET WH A
material interests as the govern- human ce MINI SO itatiy CRKS Suct quoted leaflet ing body appears to be. If our Issued from Shaftesbury Avem boys have a subsidiary interest (C.N. 4/264, d./10. es. 1. 42/e. in money, it must be remet- a country, M. 7.pg. 1278 R/320. 1. E. 17 bered that we, as 21/464 UV.) on corup photo should be unwise to discourage graphy of egun He was about those with a bent for financial ELP read
a ond business affairs. We shall from
much Onanciers 04 regional need assembling technicians and scientists."
pamphlet
machinery
extracts
the on
for
And there are dozens of other such factories, so that the total manufactured must amount to hundreds of thousands of pesos' worth a year.
Apart from the numerous explosions at factories every Trat. there is the danger of further explosions from fire- works being sold at te
a Such
has bly disaster never been repeated: bat al- most every year, a minor ex- plosion occurs, and one or two famlites
Christmas speed mourning their victims.
thirr
killed
In November's three disasters, people were only two
half & dozen In-
list Fren modest casunity compared with some years. But Christmas is not over and none can tell what may yet happen, --ficuter,
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DENNY
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