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PETER WILSHER
TALKED to John Bestford a man who dares never again set foot in one of Britain's gaols. A short time ago Bestford, at 38, with 18 con- victions, and five prison breaks on his record, ap- pealed against a 10-year preventive-detention sen-
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THE CHINA MATE,
TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1959.
PRESENTING.
Old Vicky's Almanack for 1959
10
Arrival
JANUARY
delegation
from
Moon to discurs a fine teado aron M2, Macmillan In outer spaco. says there ain't gonne be any Ms. Dulles vizita Spanz election.
the United States.
in pilvia and Vanozuela.
Army coupl
Fag.
icc rain and blianardı.
Welcome
To
Monaco
JULY
ss Princa World tanalen omsat Rainier declares peace on Lady D. Mr. Macmiltan says there ain't gonna be any Autumn election. China launches maan rocket with Military coup In Riant panda.
Ethiopia. Heiress alopos, Bright intervals and thunderstorms.
FEBRUARY Manufacture of the H-bomb by Switserland upsets world balance; the Swiss demand ■ volta in the Summli talks. Mr. Eisenhower visits the White House. Army in Chile. Mr. Catrskell toup Issues election manifesto, Ola- aside, rog and drixx.
AUGUST
Latest Parle Fashions strain not eclations with France: Do Gaulie Intervenos. Progion at Geneva
Rustion author of Lolita says he wifi accept Nobel Prize i it awarded to trim. Reported Army revolt against Me Sandya
Orought.
MARCH
Mr. Randolph Churchill becomes official spokesman of the Foreign Office. First teen-aga divorce the country. Mr. shocki Macmillan refuras Suas Inquiry. Military coup in Peru. Electronic brain discovera çare for cammon cold. Floda.
Tóns
free
back.
CINEMA
NOW SHOWING
THE FILM YOU SAW
SEPTEMBER
ON TV
Desperate attempts by the film industry
the customers to go! Mr. K. denouncea Lenin tos having been "anti-party."
Macmillan
down Comand for Suca Inquiry. Army roval in Brasil. M.. Galtakell inquos eliction manifesto. Rain.
MI
APRIL
Unusual picturo of a smiling Chancellor of the Exchequer
the appear In
Press Mr. Macmillan says there ain't gonna bo any Summer efection. Progre reported at Genova talks. Famous haires elspas.
Дему саар
Rain.
Ecuador.
ONWARD
WS
BIRCH
OCTOBER
iz
MORE FLOBING
RING BACK
CAT
Surprising demands at the Tory Party conference. Mr. Macmilian says there ain't gonna be any Winter election, Famous (ilm star divorced. Doadlock at Geneva. Peace Famous TV star slopes, hopes in Cyprus. Aimy coup in Monaco. For and rain.
Focus on '59
Bestford says Term prisonera.
Say The Thiey relea The Best em- jes He has foll players 1 want to were prepmed men met on preventive deten-
I am sick of the sink. and i live hitter
fer had been las talg crime in
Couldn't and got tame nat there
We to
deroman. don't wim1
wir kne prove
detention potence ticise eventive wrong," be sad, after box tit
the cult day's wijk with have butt. for me tivial stupidity over
squalor? overtime The N !! 1
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Got my har da city"
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The bas falards to put fum
So I haven't fataled m
ste any man of thema, i would probably frol my I've destes one with "
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in grison lesid first-oftene and second- ullence yogsters astray **
"Rubbish."
ays
Besford
He has a hite mes
of the long-testers t' hav
Na moty to argue with: Aristar Heart to get hold t wind to a straight then suy
The fings"
one ever given er for
And he had me clifi: addres with 1 polire "A lot of convicts bhire then fin every- thing Chat
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341
Best forel to a grateful man.
what he oN The ref:ses Land Justure Parker, and Mr Ibert Feren, a probations th eer in Bristol, and
the pristin
of
by CECIL BEATON
The Individual who does not Must young men
write always conform is today becom- plays about living like then before. The public instine
more quickly recognised pigs as if a drawing room is never eventually wrong, True something to be worth is always discovered in was ashamed of?
A drawing-rom momedy such Hugh William's "The Gross
is Greency" at the St Martin s is it as contemporary as race relations, drama
Our struggle
Th Hogal Court Theatre dues wonders in giving a shot in the m to the West End stage. Jahn Caborne wis are angry young
the end, but now It seems to be wateker of the mark.
Encouraging signs are that
the individual romanile who with be the man of 1959.
IN AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN CRUESEMAN
MAY
Mr. K. guts tickor-tepa welcoma hom Wall Street on his State visit to U.S. Rumour of military Sendys. revolt agalust Duncan Mr. Gaitskell publishes afection Haircas marios. programomo. President Natur invited to
Hoat wayo.
London
[Diət 'M+1
[for Moon]
NOVEMBER
The Postmaster General Insugar- ates first disect telephone spraice with the Moon. Miter's Main Victory, pubilched oosthumously. becomes
Mr. best coller. Macmillan refuses White Paper on Suaz. Millary coup folled by Mr. Sandvi. Fox and frost.
puts on a particular style of her best, Bardot appeared in a box in black and rett, looking whatever period is affected by
Constantin Jike
Guys1 the moment of creation. must clearly reflect the mood of
Of all the Puria designers who
today.
2 would pick Pierre Cardin He has no staigia for the past He is only concerned with today, when anything may happen.
His is an offhand gift with no I near the sort of perron who frills
trimmings. er
His lights the person who salts elothes reflect the practicality of alone, concious of his integrity; the Jet age. Yet his wearers look The
extremely feminine in them, but who follows his UTTON caped despile public opinion, it is a new sort of femininity. Convention, or acclaim.
The peak of the zombie look Feart perple such as Ingrid has been passed the exog
gerated make-up looking like a Bergman, Patriet Leigh-Fermor, artist Francis Bacon, and John hangover froth amateur theat- reals there is nothing more Betjemati.
elegant than soap and water).
The geisha girl sets the new style. Women wilt become leis angulur: hands, nccks, And brows will be snouther.
vemang who spake up fer pan with a fresh talent for the FASHION
hotel wrote
wishing hin
well, And he have pronskind he wil go angin for the rest of
als life.
His read promise. Though, 14
າ າ າ ງ the ten-that-x Term prisoners suitenly wasting their yere behind locked gutes
British gaols.
In
John Hestfard 27 years has run ar kull gaml: of las country's isoft
system of 10 buch suuks approved school, nautical- Baiting school.
pobal.c
0. preventive detention. The total runs to more than 20 years for offences ranging from breaking a coal-omer window hopeful Night
o safe. 1.800. and question: loacted with
Borstal. Bront
sentence,
To stealing
two curs
spares,
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to show KLICKS that criminal law in its present form dur's
than good
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"I have nothing.
My
קוד!
And he dare not go bark.
theatr.
but his self-appointisé disciples must rendise that dia- respect of construction and dis- cipline, und bibulous potshots at the Fablishment do not neces- sartly make drama,
It.
Fashion responds all the time to the world around
It is not a caprice manipulated
sketch She wore no jewellery; her echive hair was topped with age rose.
Here y the complete self- woman, the, expression of n
vital. No dressmaker young,
She suggesta dictates to her
than projects herself, rather
From being a sex-kitten with the allure of the apache she has Now brome the meet extreme expression of femininity,
Fler own itilude of min rather than her measurements hus achieved this creation. Hardet 13
that tusing stretch of imagination.
extra
I APPLAUD...
I which
It is thie extra stretch young peopic, working-class
That avid, greedy look must Erve way to a geroner regard. The noni, tight little head will
that women's especially be enlarged so
Why
JUNE
Picture of the year at the Royal * Acadamy by an unknown adit. Mr. Miemiðjan raya “No” to Sues Inquiry. 0.5, selonth Invent the ultimate anti-anti miesilo-missilo. Film star alopes. Army capp in Luxembourg. Floade and storms.
HOP ON A SEDAN CHAIR
DECEMBER
Abolition of all butas kalvos London's traffic problem. Turkey pričet sise and fall, Mr. K. can- tesses ro Mr. K. Stormy debata on Suon in Parlament. Rendalph Churchill appear is Patge Pan. Army coup in Parsia. Coldest
month for 52 YOU
London Press Service.
Brigitte Bardot is important (and frankly there's much to be said
for Teddy Boys) but most of all I ask you to
give your imagination That Extra Stretch
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Africa
where presumably
the been writing poetry and talking less and feeling strongly about things that matter to him,
West tribes are erllica).
My own enemy is the mat yho thinks he knows what the public wants, and doesn't,
Two
of
Betjeman is the sort of man who should be the symbol people we must applaud,
It is
1
person
Continental designers,
sad fact that the working over here of recent more intellectual years, haye revolutionised in- erest in English fabrics because
the gloomter his prognostica- ilons the Huxleys, E M. their
imagination Forster, USA of
Bertrand Russchi which has been recognised in
Cyril
doom Connolly Paris, and la consequence by the rest of the world,
of
Existener today is ʼn struggle. ly a few designers working in hair will be fuller, higher, and boys and girls, seem to be OLD HATE We all have to tight for our Incubators, whu dictate that one wider, or piled high and loosely Individuality We have to rebri year the waist will be higher, knotted on top like the young attempting so against accepting the second- rate and the queue mentality
A E Matthews was splendid in his fight against that gibbet of a lump-post; the anger of Gilbert Harding is loved by the mases, and the mellow protes- tations of Robert Morley heart-warming.
Are
the ftext year the hemine girls in Renoir's paintings,
lower.
The swing of the pen-
dulum is inouenced by muste, THE LOOK
Foods, events.
I had designed the cos- tunes for "Gigi" now instead of 18 months ago they might be quite different. Even though the slory takes place nearly 60 years ago, the interpretation cre
THE TRULY BIG EVENT OF 1959
Brigitte Bardot has per fected the look of tomor- row.
much more picturesquely than those of middle age and middle class.
I applaud the colour and alive-
They or ress of their clothes.
ninhibited and the effect to catching.
I used to hate plastics. Plastic trays and tooth mugs, until now, seem have been made out of poi-. soned bacon fat.
to
uhead.
But
stick, in
my DWD abstinacy. to being optimistia about the future.
:
ROUND
UP
I admire the emancipation af
Now more imagination is At the opera gain in Paris last the Teddy Boy looks, light employed in colour, mould, and week when every woman was in coloured trousers, leather jerkins, texture, so that soon plastic and cowboy boots, The plear will be more utilitarian and will esque appearance is, after all, have the charm and variety of "Gunners' " Parado indigenous to Engilsh. It is lacquer.
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almost Elizabethan In its
swagger.
There is no reason why young
men in 1950 should not be even more picturesque than womenfolk.
CULTURED
their
1
are
These youngster), who setting the pace, are not afraid to be flamboyan!,
How delightful to sea young women in their brightly coloured skirts and stockings-co much gayer than in macintoshes and pale, laddered nylons,
A SHOCK
More people are in terested in art than ever before in history.
R.S.M. Barry Pandy, 18, put
800 of his fellow-members of the Junter Leaders Rogiment, R.A. through their paces on the square at Bradbury Bar- racks, Hereford. Watching them was Colonel-Commandant, RA.. Major-General II. C. .Phipps. Millions more look at pletures Barry, who has won the Gos and sculpture, Ilsten to music; chen Prize as the most out- mulitude is interested in the standing Sumlor punner of the parade with art of living: even cooking in year, took the
great confidence, In an address
England has improved.
to the boys, Major-General The cpresse bars encourage Phipps said, "Qualities of the people to become fastidious; in modern soldier are discipline with individuality: them the coffee is good and the combined pastry delicate and the decor you boys are showing both and lively, a welcome contrast to the many of you will be the leaders What dumbfounds me is greasy, beer-swilled counter and of the Cunners of the future."
The sawdust sandwich of the the continued conven- railway buffet.
Space Flight tional attitude of so many
manufacturers of materials. AND FINALLY...
How Inevitable are the pat- ferns and colours of carpets; Most significant of all how sad. ind misguided that 1
cone of our bens cotton designs
BIG progress made within the
last year in the military milesilo and space fight folds is
reflected in the 40th issue of . Jane's "All the World's Mr- individual fighters, and craft," just published... "Year
ard not even seen in England; one who epitomises the new just past has seen space fight the charmingly garish dolens trend which I am pleased develop from nelence fletion to of sewing machines, soda-water to see developing, 's John cientific fact," says the books. bottles, balloons, and hellcop Betjeman (and his wife ed about conditions in Inter- "Already much has been learn-
Penelope, one of the greatplanatory space and vehicles are belig. davoloped, which will (onabla, mán to follow the paths
ters.
Apparently they are con- aldered to be too wophisticated characters of our time). for our tanio, but are exportal""
Il success should encourage of the Sputniks. Meanwhile alf individuals and even eccen-military missiles from which trics.
theso, épace projecia Have been born are beginning their ca- "Il te not that he has changed | croachment, Into. Service opera- but that we are changing, Lions which was foreshadowed For a long time now he has Ƒlast, your,”
CONSTANTIN DUYS, French nineteenth century artist whose nivid eua for the social' scene epitomised Partslan'elegance,
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