1959-02-24 — Page 4

JOB

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1959.

"They can sure trust mine with the top secrets-ask him why the Americans will risk war rather than part with Berlin and he says 'Dunno!***

LONDON'S NEW-STYLE

PLANS NEW-STYLE

TERVYN STOCKWOOD,

Mwho becomes the new

Bishop of Southwark on May 1. saya he objects to the idea of going about his diocese dressed like a jockey.

He will not ask his tailor to provide him with the tra- ditional gaiters and apron distinguish every which other bishop in the land.

"I really don't see why I should put on 18th century riding kit," he said. "To me it is a rather ridiculous get- up, anyway."

We were talking at his Cambridge vicarage. He was wearing a crisp grey suit,

London Express Bervies

BISHOP

PARSONS..

THE UNCONVENTIONAL MR. STOCKWOOD OF HIS OWN WORKER - PRIESTS'

TALKS

This, he hopes, will make good the failings of the tra ditional parochial system in modern conditions. "It's not that the parish system has broken down," he says. "It just never worked properly after the Industrial Revolu- tion."

Ordinary jobs

men

by J. W. M. THOMPSON

"How do I do it? I am luckily writing and broadcasting that able to double my income by

the explanation."

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Mr Stockwood another -cigarette and poured out some more sherry."

Another aspect of the plan appeals to Mr Stock- wood: he sees it as a way out of the Church's "formid- uble" financial problems.

"Why do so few young

enter the Church? "I've always been a member We must face the fact that of the Labour Party," he said, shall certainly remain a mem- money is factor. The There's my card over there. I not the most the average parson ber as a bishop. I'm

party to can hope for is £650 a year first member of the when he is 50. That's hot be made a bishop, by the way. much to bring up a family Archbishop Temple was What he wants, he said, on, is it? I can speak casily is a "secondary" clergy con- about this because I am a sisting of men who earn bachelor. their living in ordinary jobs

Ile handed me a glass of with collar and tie of good dry sherry, lit u strictly non-clerical- faveur, c'garette, and pursued the at the time. He looked as point. though his tailor would probably boggle at thought of making guiters.

the

ather.

"Chucked out"

Church has suffered enough in the past from having Conserva

out tive Party politics given from the pulpit."

PARIS NEWS LETTER by SAM WHITE

Is The Buffet Bubble About

He told me how, in 1948, he listened to a bishop preach a against na- Afterwards he tlonalisation. scorching sermon told the bishop he had never heard such markedly politi- cal sermon in his life.

inThat wasn't politics," said the bishop, Andignantly. "It was just com mon sensel"

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Ä 'pattern'

ON

Paris.

the international art stock exchange there are ominous signs that the bottom is be-

To Burst?

ginning to fall out of the victim is his wife's great friend,. Buffet boom.

After a melcoric paint- ing life of only 12 years, during which he has pro- drced over 2,000 canvas, Buffet must now he some thing of an anxiety to the small group of Frenchmien who have invested around £2,000,000 in him..

Francolse Sagen.

Like her, he is generous to the point of folly, and his disregard for money is best shown by his recent gesture of making over his South of France chateau fo secretary-companion his

Fierre Berge.

£40,000 a year

M.

very pleasant township ចង់ Champagnole in the Jura Moun- teins.

ed

The Prefect for the Jurn ask- the local city counell to .rnme EL hitherto

anonymous dend-end strect.

He explained that the matler was urgent as the chief tax for the district had Inspector taken บ reridence in tifa alert,

The council, overwhelmingly opposed to the present Govern- ment's uncial policy, repond- ed by naming the street "Bud- getary Dead-End."

Sitive he Ecenine Irmous he has been making a

steady Recently,

fourth The Buffet's pret "one subjcel" £40,000 a year but, according to Els dealer and discoverer, 50- exhibitions went on show at the David-Garaler Galleries year-old Emmanuel David, he a penny in before an audience reseinbling remains "without a im premiere. The previous the bank."

The Prefect replied tarily exhibitions were devoted to the

Now that he has disposed of that the secret of wit was elreus, Joan of Arc and Paris.

bia chateau he, is, apart from brevity and asked that another his chauffeur-driven Rolls-

name be found for the street. Royce, without any exterior signs of wenith for which New comes his thaw of 20 French tax collectors are mammoth canvas the smallest on the watch. Is 211 by ft.-depleting រ deserted New York. the fruit of n two-week visit to that elly and three months work in his South of France chateau.

A flop

ever

His wife Annabel, a moody part-time model' and former actress, is now sharing tome of which the orchestrated me

Tie council obliged by changing the same simply to "Censored." The Prefect there- upon said that offelst approval would be withheld from such a name and Inaisted that it changed.

Meanwhile the now erect name has been duly posted up. the council romains

be

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adamant surrounds both her husband and her friend Mile. Sagan.

She, too, has published a novel and all that remning to be seen through Mille. Sagon's publishers, la what will happen when

force of police on the Prefect's entitled As the World Goza, in which everyone has an affair orders arrives to take down the with everyone else' with the offensive street name. drill-like precision of marion-

The show has been a critical nop and a seeming fiancela) Succes. Twelve of the 20 can- vases, it is claimed, have already been sold to unidentified buyers. What, then, is there for those who have invested in Buffet to vorry about? Only this: three moderate-sized ↑ Buffret felched £5,000; today the biggest of the Buffets on chow curries the top asking; price of only £4,000.

years

ngo

Missing

This may seem a Philistine way to value a pleture, but is 1 standard almost invariably applied to Buffet pictures.

significant even more that, despite a pubilelty com-

ettes.

There is

a restaurant

in Paris which gives à 10 per cent discount for

"intellectuals."

house.

Banished

The Mayor of Champagnole promises that that day will be Fomething in the nature of D rather riotous pubile boltday,

QUOTES

• Writer MAX OLIVIER- - LACAMP: “Everyone in France firmly be- lieves that virtue is in inverse proportion to a person's social stand-

•

Sn

The reason: It was too easy,

Take one example: In Paris at the moment is Larry Aldrich, a U.S. elething millionaire, who is one of the most direriminating collectors the world today. Mr Aldrich started his collection for fashion spies in the crowd to take pletures of the .dresses before they were officially re- teased. So all fashion photos have to be taken in private

A long-established and pleas paign on A super Hollywood ing Paris spectacle has now scale, not a single Buffet has

been banished. The spectacle is by n great that of elegant models being Mr Stockwood laughed de- yet been bought

gallery or found its way to a photographed draped around lightedly at the story. But distinguished private collection, famous Parisian monuments. an- also saw in it evidence of a

Now such photographs habitual allegiance to the "cui-

public places have been barted tural pattern of the middle

by order of the Paris

fashion classes by the Anglican Church. That is another of the things about the Church which this What happens over and over "I'm a member of the Cam-

newest, and least conventional, in 1947 and has specialised in and are parsons at the same again is that you get the par bridge Counc}, Of course, a of bishope is diesatisfied with.

tuying the work of the most

<f time.

promising young French Something like the con's wife going out to work a bishop I won't have time for But if I were a

painters. "By the way," he told me, Mr Stockwood has always worker-priests" who pro- while he stays at home, looks active politics,

I have just seen the cataloguegardens preferably ones with consecration will take reserved clerical dress for voked such hat controversy afitr the children and does the member of the London County "my

high walls. church occasions; and he in France, in fact; but not coking. The 10or devil has got Counell now I would be fighting place on May 1-Labour Day. of Mr Aldrich's collection

But the Archbishop of Can- there is not a single Buffet in St. means to continue to do so, confined to men in factory but when does he hip, and thigh this ban which t

do his priestly, work?

read of prohibiting Labour terbury chose the date, not me. At 31 and only just married

this This is a small illustration jobs,

year, Buffet remains on members from criticising the

likeable "And it will take place in enormously

and of his well-developed sense

ofBelal party policy.

Southwark Cathedral not thoroughly

young unspoiled of the incongruous,

Transport House."

Impatience

Nagged

.

+

Factory workers, yes.

"I've been chucked out of the but also shopkeepers, doc-

"I he is carning his living in party twice in the past, and When he talks about more tors, personnel managers,

I wouldn't in chucked the least mind being serious Church problems, house agents, every kind of an ordinary job that situation then readmitted.

would be dealt with

a thing the same impatience with job. That is the way a per- "You can't do your duty if out again for fighting

tit. I'm absolutely the out of date is evident. son can get alongside the you are continually nagged by ke

As vicar of against anything which hinders ordinary chap whom nor money worries.

the University Church here I am free speech."

He

Ho-is already preparing a maily he just can't con- better off than most Let 4.050. Ae. Socialist Mr Stockwood revolutionary plan for his contaci.

a year. But then keep upen has sien ocen tacken (ur.

the Church house for sundergraduates and citangling new diocese (which includes

politics, most of South London), le

go others 1st year i entertain- party intends to Introduce a new cautiously, of course tart food aw 2000 people. In this ich black tagli

house, I have to provide the have never knowingly preached species of clergyman-half am sure this is very im- petrol for thousands of miles of a word of party politics from

portant." worker, half priest.

"We will have Lu

inoturing.

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An

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TERRY

DENE

ing."

MLLE. Maite goYE- NETCHE, the girl who iz a star witness in the Lacaze Affair, on being rebuked for ordering £500 worth of clothes: "Well, after all, I have to have something to

wear at the trial."

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• Former Premier M. GAILLARD: “It will .

our British

·Friends to learn that we consider it dusterity cat less beef and

to

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