Now Anne Edwards
enters
the arena
very
personal
Today's report on the Fluffers League for '58 comes from one of the best-known CHINA MAIL star writers
Fluffed it in '58!
IN
I WOULDN'T CONFINÈ
MYSELF TO ONE
PERSON AT ALL!
a year brimming over with boobs, fluffs, and proper muck-ups I find it impossible to choose just one person for my booby prize of 1958.
IN
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1959.
EUROPE
THE FAITHS BY
WE WHICH
LIVE: Part five
via Pan American
Eight rules gain
Buddhism and Islam are non-Christion religions. that dominate the face of the Eastern world. They have two
in things
common: both bellovo man is the architect of his own destiny. And both are gaining strength hare in Britain.
converts to Buddhism
the thin murk of a damp afternoon the tall Victorian house which once belonged to
a breakfast food heiress looks like any of its neighbours.
on the front you stand steps and glance across the square you can see smoke drift- as trains ing Inzily upwards bull out of Victorlo Station. From the busy streets near by comes the low rumble of slowly hoving traffic.
But go inside that house. At and sounds of once the sights London are fogotten. You are wafted, as it were, to the East,
'THE THIRD EYE'
-
As you enter one of the rooms you are confronted by a foot Image of the Buddha, teak covered with gold leaf.
in
You notice the bump or pro huberance on top of the head Anil
which symbolises the "flame of
zupreme Enlightenment."
-by
BERNARD HARRIS
While you study the sorene
It is only one of several such meditation ("as we think, to wa expression on the faer of the
Britain. And its become").
Buddhian does not hold seated Budha your gulde says: societies in "People come to this Shrine founder-prezident, Mr Christroas
a devotional services. There is no room every day. Not to pray, Humphreys, lawyer son of
we do not regard the famous lawyer, estimates that worship in the Christion sense. proportion of The emphasis throughout is ince
only a small Buddha as divine.
to meditate. British Buddhists Join a society, that each one of us can work "They came
So the total number of out his own salvation-in con- the Christian bellef Meditation is the essence
adherents here must be many trast with
achieved only No thousands.
precise figure that this can be Buddhism.”
can be given, for conversion to by divine grace.
involve Buddhiom does not
THE CONCEPT taking any vows or under- going any initiatlon ceremony.
of
What sort of people are they who come to this house to con- template the *mago of the Buddha and let their minds and the dwell on his virtues principles he taught?
People from all lands, Indian, Chinese, Sinhalese, and Japan eso men and women who are studying or working here figure among them.
REMARKABLE ·
But the remarkable feature increasing number of For the Buddhist Society, of The image is flanked by four whose headquarters the Shrine carpet, are two buff-coloured members at an average rate of cushions on which to kneel,
between the eyes a jewel re- is the presenting the third que of Britoris. spiritual vision,"
DO BUDDHISTS BELIEVE The concept of But the Buddhist Society-in IN GODT No. London is finding the demand personal God and an immorial for instruction so great that it soul which can only be saved by holds classes almost every Him finds no place in Buddhist
teaching, evening of the week.
BELIEVE DO BUDDHISTS IN AN AFTER LIFET Yo; through rebirth. They believe that each one of us has lived The innumerable lives before. condition in which we find our- selves in a future life depends on what we make of our present life.
What is Buddhism? And why is ita influence spreading in Britain?
Buddhism is the teaching of Gautama, the pon of a prince, who was born in 503 BC. Northern India.
in
It is related of him that as a day from the palace.
From the highest to the low- and had them donated right candles. In front on the thick room forms part, is gaining new youn;t man he drove out one
eat. I've got them on my list.
And they've none of them been talssed I trust.
BUSMAN
T
I GIVE you Sir John Elliot'd
fluft. Having cut down Lon-
don bus services to a level of wartime discomfort, he pinaters the few buses that are still run-
posters ning with
urging Us rain-coaked, weary, frustrated, and fulminating queuers to "Hop on a. Bus."
RED
ed it.
back at her
Proving that if you want to do good in a blaze of publicity, Into the team It's wise to get some people who don't mind being done good to.
MARSHAL B.
INDUBITABLY has flued it.
ELOPER
Bulganin
TESSA ELWES fluffed it, running away in a blaze of
Love Conquers All, then finding
INDUBITABLY-Serov Auf- Scotland unhelpful, Mexico too
INGRID
1
New York too expensive, hot. coining home to be put in her place by Mr. Justice Roxburgh, who reduced the romantic run-
20 a month.
ISLAM, TOD, IS GAINING GROUND HERE
The Britons who
turn to Mecca
£5
MEDITATED
Some of his students, Christ- mas Humphreys mays turned to Buddhism as "a Teller from dogma, ritual, and reliance on some Saviour."
convert An undergraduate Ands that "Buddhism favours e
discipline of genuine
life, Christian whereas
in the
He saw and here I quote Christmas Humphreys - "an old man, then a sick man, then a dead man, and at the sight of each asked his charioteer the Churches it appears you can do meaning of what he saw. "This to all men, said the charioteer and tho
prince's mind was troubled that such was the effect of birth, the come mon cause."
comes
pretty well what you like!"
NEXT on my 1st I give you away heiress to her proper place igers can see the centre tobacco from dawn until sunset and the path which leads to the instruction
in three words:
two women-one who seemned child."
to be getting everything
her
own way and then duited it on the last lap, and one who began by fuming and then got every- thing her own way.
The first is our Miss Bergman, who parted from her husband, took the children with her, linked up with a for richer man played the part of a saintly missionary for an all-time high in fees, and then when ques- tioned about her previous marriages said the past was blunk.
a
LINDA
"This silly
00
4.
Another supports Buddhilarn because it is far more rational than other religions. There is no supernatural intervention, no That night be felt compelled ritual, no. prayer-there is so not only to save himself but all one to pray to.” direction --
MMONLY FAITH' anx S
from suffering, Ho mankind "for wherever you turn, God
Actress Elizabeth Sellars, abandoned his princely robes the trains of the foco Southern Region there
art set out as beggar into althowch not a strict adherent, A Moslem must also observe the homeless life.
record that rumble
has gone towards the
YELIDA For six years he meditated, it is the only faith, my an entire month each year la West Country, passen- fasting which means abstain- Finally, he believed he had dis- allows me to accept."
from ing
food, drink and covered the cause of suffering
Actor Peteri Finch hark from 1. Buddhist of another non- Alcoholle drink is banned the end of suffering, He became monk as a boy in Coylon. Ann the Buddha, "the Enlightened Todd, Marlon Brando, Olivia Christian religion which whole year through.
One." He must give away two and a
de Havilland
other stars is gaining strength in half per cent (0d. in the pound) He decided that his teaching reported to have Interested Britain.
of his wealth each year for the must be given to all mankind. theruselves in Oriental philo- A few hundred yards poor. And he must make
pligrimage to Mecca at least converts increased rapidly, sophy allied to Buddhism. Will Buddhist Inẞuence And his fame spread all over Woking Station
Northern India. In time one- tinue to grow here?" board beside
its leaders describe Islam as third of the world's population supporters are confident. They the rallway track proclaims:
the "common man's religion"
was to be guided by him.
bolove that many people This is Islam.
to present-day The Buddha himself wrote find the answer for it. teaches that divet access And behind it
None of his teaching problems. by "rediscovering the characteristle bulbous done of to God is open to everyone. So nothing.
It has no priests or monks. was written down until 400 years ancient wisdom of the East".
after his death. That is why today there are several versions of Buddhism.
I PUT Linda Christian high
list on my
as a girl who before fuffed it last year, always want-green-painter ing to go to funerals looking dis- tracted and lovely in black, and Cabled never gelling Users. Tyrone's widow to Lindi;
"It is my express wish that you do not come to California with the two children to attend the funeral."
Sald Portago's slater a little
Plyped on the last lap by the ironical fact that she cannot carller get D divorce becauso the marriage she went into
with
"Miss Christian will not oc-
such disrespect for conventions company us to Madrid for the has turned out to be the one burial service." which is conventionally dissoluble.
BEA
in-
DOUBLE
FOR the biggest double- boner of the year I nominate THE SECOND is our Miss the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lillie, who made a bad fluff who invited Makarios to Len- sorry ex- in choosing a clumsy piece, took den, made a rather
hibillon on TV explaining that a panning from the critics, and
as well as of course ho knew 19 by making no concessions winning now audiences to her anybody what a bad character sophisticated comedy. The stalls he is, and then had to apologise are not full but the gallery is. A for "un unpremeditated phrase tribute to the Lillle doctrine. A itable to give offence," sophisticate now can be hand-
ling a pick and shovel,"
FISHERS
← THAT Idea!
all-American
couple, Debbie and Eddle,
BLACK TIE
T
NOT forgetting a low duffe that every woman wut sympathise with: —
THE WAY Mra, Nixon forgot
Buffed it So young, su success to pack her husband's dinner- ful,much wunnerful parents, Jacket, the one human flaw on they started off thele marriage a highly organised tour.
AND THE WAY the two little
in a welter of all-American
sentiment (gold hearts on the boys who travelled in the same wedding table and three leiters
compartment TEX the Prime
risus
the Shah Jehan Mosque.
7
the
once in his Lfetime.
Their religion marriages to adopt Its religion.
be
It
The property is owned and its Its teaching missionary work financed by a
Islam does not believe in trust which is supported by a
But is main message is that community in Lahore, Pakistan. "original sin." It makes mou the
destinics, by his own exertions, by fellow- Business leaders, humble clerks, architect of his own all give a tenth of the income teaching that if he follows the ing the "Eightfold Path,"
the Koran can achieve Nirvans-which la ED that "Our Christian friends rics laid down in
appromo enlightenment, or the can be given the message of ho can achieve salvation,
Islam does not require the end of all suffering. And that Islam.
non-Moslem partner in mixed stale of perfection can
schloved on this earth.
"Eightfold Path”? The In Britain that
This means that the Mexican s message
Bylvia Casablancas consists of right understanding, usually called Mohammedanism, heiress But the word is unknown to would not have to change her right akns, right speech, right Moslems. To them their religion religion if, as is rumoured, she action ("cease to do evi, learn Islam, an Arabic word signify were to become the bride of the to do good, cleanse your own young Aga Khan, spiritual head heart"), tight livelihood, right ing subralssion to divine laws.
effort, right concentration, right Today there are about 100,000 of the Ismaili Moslems. followers of Islam in this country. Most are natives of countries which the Mostem stretch in a wide are from to Indonesia and Morocca include about one-fifth of the world's population.
But the number of British converts do. Islam is growing. Some arise from mixed marriages, others from convic Lion
MAD for
The religion was founded 1,300 Years ago by the prophet Mohammed He was phared as a child; A youn he acquired a reputation goodness of the highest order.
God's message in the form of the Koran, the Islamic Scrip- tures, is said to have been given
a day). And now it's ending up Minister Jet their mother down in by the angel Gabriel.
in the all-American divorce, in the way children always CASTLE
dol-
"I would have felt betier," said their mother afterwards,
LETS not forget Barbara "If my two lads bad looked A Castle's book, whacking bit more presentable. Gareth psychological misjudgment in not kad chocolate all over his face, realising that when she criticised and Alan had put his pullover the soldiers in Cyprus she would on back to front.". offend all the soldiers' mune whose votes she is after.
THE LADIES
THUS was the your when two perennial fuifers out- fuffed themselves, Lady, Docker cut herself, off from hot favour-
P.S.
THE ONE that got way. In spite of being put by others into the fluff category, John Osborne obstinately refuses to adbutt that John
· spoiled
succed, kas · Osborne.
"I Have I növer in my lif ite: playground by not realising, written just what people transed that the melodramatic cornic me to write, be told opera geature of towing a recently, however great the into places would only bore fumptation. Now Tye Roto sented, in a melodraroelic, comte much money I'ma-not- OVID opera country like Mobico
tempted.
And the indartzkirishie - Lady
-Law shum ja donated in wonie lots of time," and all you 1000
Mohammed taught, his paæap LAVAL countrymen that there only one God, Allah; that Allah was righboots and required Tighteouses of them; and, that there was a bodily, resurrection after death.
He and his anall flocks' of
ostracised followers were
and persocutal-Eventually Moham- med bad to fiee from Mecca to Medina, 250 mákos away,
Fighting broke out, but the followers"
Moharamod of triumphed and he becama ruler of the Arabian peninsula, n
Ielar endices-hoozy demands | orifts, matowers. Like
A convertiregired to declare publicly that, at witness. that there is no! vos but · One God out that Mohamured in Hin
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