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He Risks Death To See Mars

AT a little-used airfield on the outskirts of Paris

a slightly-built Frenchman is waiting to scientific most daring attempt

one of the experiments of the century—an experiment in which the slightest slip means death in any one of a dozen forms.

The experimenter, Audoi: Bollfus, 30-year-old internallon - what ly COUN astronomiut,

to ballcom

nearly aspend by B0,000 feet la unke observations which he hopes will prove otarı nt far whether tife can ext

Mars

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vil have foregated instrument- saging Parth" satellites in one of the first tasks which had beer and for them

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a balloon aseen! lo 22,500 feet above Fratice lo enuizle young astronomer to study Mars. Aude31 Imitus returned 1:431 th High with, some TC- His ex- markable observations:

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Kay And Rex Lose Savings

"I FEEL

IT'S ALL

MY FAULT,

-SOBS KAY

ACTRESS Kay Ken-

dall, wife of actor Rex Harrison, sat in her dressing-room at the Winter Garden Theatre and said: "Rex and I have lost all our savings -everything.'

With ters her

eyes she

adried: "The uwful thing ** that I feel it has all been my fault. I feel terrible,"

Miss Kendali was Jalking closing after only bout the

12 performances of the play in which she and Gladys Cooper sturring. The Bright

were One."

Mr Harrison, who is now appearing in "My Fair Lady," Was the play's director.

Said Miss Keniall; "Rex and put all our savings into this play. We had a half-interest in the productiosa.

A Disaster

£71

dirasterand "This financial Ubre

that is what is is to people our position-was my fault be- rauke it was who discovered the play and persuaded Rez to direct put up the

money and is."

The smally vivacious rod- headed Kay looked pale and dis spirited as she talked to me about the abrupt end of her first West End starring role.

there WILN 140 tines ng such water on the red estimated planet as had been hum graund observations

ut the 1054 asetul was not conclusive cough to convince the young scientist. He had to get higher yet to establish his Incis,

So in the living-room of their thodest Parts an

the

aviator father and his tronomer Sert settled down to plan a new Balloon.

Bun what has emerged after four years work is not one but

8 balloons.

String

She took occasional slps ot mineral water and as she spoke | played

withi absent-mindedly

Chinesa

doga. pug her two Higgins (named after Professur

husban Higgins, the part her

. BY .

THE . WAY.

by Beachcomber

of tish father

has Markover boy that plained

his son been unable to get the of a prefeel honoured

plays in "My Fair Lady"), and ¦ THE Woolseck, "after the Lord Chancellor (Lord Kilmuir, the Lord Chancellor, 19 Mr Harrison's brother-in-law).

Although I was not well reviewed, the decision to close everyone

the play surprised 10

connected with it.

The balloons vuch about

at sea level are feet across strung in threes on a long nylon line

And at the bottom of the Ine will be the tiny metal gondola constructed of alu- minium and magnesium for

and lightcas

covered white intex sponge for insu- lation against the bitter cold of the extreme altitudes.

When he wants to descend he will be able 10 SUV LT the balloons, one by one, from the bratiches that will stream above

im into the star-filled sky, until he starts to drift slowly earth- wards.

In the Hondola with young

Dollfus, will be uny radio

transceiver with which he will

"It's Rotten"

"It was the sole decision of the produce, Mr Jack Minster,"

"He Kendall Buis Miss

has given no reason and no one can understand it as everything was going well, with bookings picking up.

"Although It is terribly dis- appointing for or to tose this part, I feel much more sorry for the stagelande and people like that. It is awful for them to be

work like this.

thrown out of It's absolutely rotten,

the

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have ame, and you musi

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one DT

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There may be little that can

be done to help the astronomer hermetically sealed in his tiny swinging metal prison.

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101: A simple answer

MAN whose nerves were The profeet said that it won

affected by the perpetusi the boy claimed noise of an airfield near which a forgery,

AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER By H, King Wood

£1 MILLION NEWSPAPER

TAKE-OVER

For several weeks moves have been made for a takeover of the Sydney Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, and the national Sunday Truth in all States, by John Fairfax and Sons, owners of the Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Sun, the Sunday Sun-Herald and a host of other papers and periodicals,

The deal ended this week when it was announced that the majority shares in Truth and Sportsman held by that fiery newspaper proprietor, Ezra Norton, bad

been sold.

They were taken over by o lung, and sawyers who know the new subsidiary company of John art of operating it. Fairfax & Sons, who have an- A Kempsey sawmiller, Mr nounced

that the papers will W. H. Haydon, found and felled continue to be published under the tree, which was dying, in an almost inaccessible gorge on the upper reaches of the Mackay

an Independent authority.

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No money has been tioned in the deal, but it is River.

bot much

understood thai

Its base was 70 feet in cir-

short ut Li million is in- cumference and 20 feet thick, volved

and the spread across Its heud was more than 200 feet.

and

This makes the Fairbax group one of the most powerful news- paper owners in Australia leaves only the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph as Lule- pendent newspapers in Sydney.

*

*

It contained 18,000 super real of ümber, compared with 3,000 super feet in a relative- ly large cedar true,

A special and was built into the gorge and powerful winches and one-inch steel ropas used to

There was considerable haut the logs out.

Mr Haydon mays ho found a surprise in 1956 when

pit-w after an exhaustive Sir Wilfrid Kent seach,

Then two brothers, Albert Bm (74) Kyle, of

Hughes was sacked (70)

from portfolio of Bellbrook, agreed to operate it. The log is placed over a pit, Minister for Interior one sawyer stands on top of it

by the Prime Minister, and the other stands in the pit Mr Menzies.

Sir Wilfrid Kent Hushes, chairman of the successful Mei- burne Olymple Gemes, an out- standing former Minister of the Victorian Government and soldier with more than an or-

an

dinary record, has always been

out recognised as having

well standing brain and a man ated for any Ministry.

For the last two years he has maintained strict alience regard- ing his sacking, but following the disappearance

from

the Cabinet of another Minister for the interior, Mr Fairhak, he has now publicly blamed "intriguing public servants" in Canberra for

his dismissal.

Reading between the lines of his statement, It is easy t

beneath.

By alternately piling and pushing the saw laboriously they qul the ing up into boards of any deatred width. Considerable skiĺ is required to make the saw rin Luc.

After cleaning and setting the old saw, the two old-timers set about their colossal task of cut- ting the huse log into planks.

Despite the fact that they had done po pit sawing for many years, they had lost akil). none of their former `and sjówly, buť"ítráighit and true, the long ple saw redacod the log to wide cedar planks. At une stage of their work, MF 30 Kyle commented; Thủ oid sow has gui a bit of a twist in it."

"Yes," said his brother Alberi, "I noticed the last time we used it,"

"When was that?" askod byatanier.

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"it was when we were cut- -

Long ting the bears for the Flat Bridge in 1904, wasn't 11, Albert?" said BIL

accond day of the Best Test | visualise the grent old bottle that must have gone on for some time com match.

han

between tog pubille servants who had their home and social orbit a determined in Canberra and

make Minister who wanted to Canberra a real capital and not

Such is the power of public however, servants these days, that Sir

working Wülfrld Kent Hughes Wharfles and his outstanding ability now inquish on the backbenchés.

"If you want more

planes, you

must

the amount owing to him fron he lived, made a complaint. Hea "bush town." the muster who administers the was sold. General Purposes Fund sub- and inore terihed by gullible parent at endure the noise." "But, you sold the man patiently, "I don't." shocked server.

the beginning of each term. Dr Smart-Allick explained that when a prefect loses money at ends to a new boy he resents the humiliation. In the present

the Litse

prefect

fool was enough to give an 100 Instead of using his superior skill and experience to gel is money back Saying of the year

NY clergyman In England who happens, while throw-

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TIMEE THOUGHT FOR, BODAY:

Oh, that I know where I ing together ermen, to be might find him!-Job 23:3. looking for examples of the He is nearer than hands Importance of refusing to dea- 'ur feet. Listen and you may pair, might do worse than draw the attention of hla cuntregation to England'ʼn performance on the

even hear His volte,

Press-Radio Bible Service, Ine Cincinnati, Ohio.

*

Two retired

Bawyers,

*

the

Italian ship Bellarix in Cairns threatened to walk off last week because it did not fy the Australian flag in port.

stoppage

when he hoisted

An

one aged 78 and the

The cargo ship's master, Cap- other 74, have had to win V. Di Rocco, prevented the be engaged to cut up Austrailon dag borrowed from a a huge 1,800-year-old shipping fun. cedar tree felled re- ahips in Australian ports usually cently on the North new the Australian flag 29 0 Coast.

The tree is far too large for modern machinary to cut up, and it is necessary to use an old- lime pamu】 pitsaw, 10 fect

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