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PEOPLE IN THE

Professor Allen Had

The Times

".

Sizzling

London.

Top People Lake The Times The Times says. Re- cently, The Times and its Top People were taken- badly..

When one of the paper's "Special Correspondents” turn- ed in a atory that geology tudents from Reading Univer-

ty

were haut found what

diamonds in almost certainly the Thames Valley, the sub- editors thought Itsensational nuugh to give it almost an en- tre column on the inain news pare.

the

They also published photo- Professor Percival

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if not prepaid a booking fee Allen. hend of Reading's geology department examining Anda under a microscope, There

were atraight-faced quotes from Professor Allen, lic was "9 per ceni sure" the stener were diamonds.

BIRTH

HEWSON-01 111 March. 1839

.M., we Rod is. Diana. wife of Commander .W.K. Hewson, com (Cile).

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The Tim special corres pondent volced his suspicion of the fact that the diamonds had bren found remarkably hear the time of the Reading alu- dents' "rug week.

But his ear; seemed ground- lera when, us he put it, Pro- lessor Allen and his assistant "discarded the idea that the discovery was a stum."

The Truth

Within 24 hours, however,

The truth somehow slipped out. The "diamond" arike WAS a hcsx.

Professor Allen and his staff

| had co-operated with "ragging"

students in putting it over.

The Times fairly sizzled with ind gaution,

The special correspondent reported that the professor was *quite unrepentant, happy, in hoax had been fait, that the such access."

it nat But was

ying? Duubiless It way, wald the

Nevertheless, professor.

he thought it “perfecily ethical to take vari in a harmless- and what is

obviously — a juke,"

Mrt

The Five Cold Caisfalquers in London. From left: Mr John Chapman, WestclIT; Elleen Balley, Hastings; Mr Terry McGen. Norbury; Mrs Marcaret Doughty, Stoneleigh; Mir

Michael Johnson, Mitchain,

5 COLD CATAFALQUERS

IS WHAT THEY

ARE

London can be a friendless place. Yet sometimes the firmest friendships

begin in the strangest places.---

One such friendship concerns The Five Cold Catafalquers. They met at the Lying-in

Their club was founded as the State of King George VI in February, 1952. queue snaked through the streets towards the catafalque in Westminster Hall.

Jim

And

His

Rich

Get

Plan

Hollywood.

Bearded Jim Moran, free. lunce screwhalf and pro- fessional jokester, stop- ped in movietown with a get-rich-quick scheme to sell 10,000 purple tunics to the natives in Tahiti. Moran, who haa hatched no ostrich egg, sold an ice box to an

* painted Eskimo, purple, spent 82 hours finding a haystack, and needlo in a applied for a job as volcano watcher, stands to make $30,000 il the Tahitians dig his crazy

Tú a leading article, however, no doubt of The Tanes left what it thought of people who play such Jokes un 11.

Sld the leader: "We apolo-co tunes. ¡Rise cur readers for haring

their time, with water

pack of tles, told publicly and in his officlal capacity by Pro- starer Allen.......

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Recently they had their seventh sinud reulon.

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Bearded Solin Chupraon, Tinuo Avenue, Westellit-on- Sa, joined the Lying-tu-State queue at the sure time at Terry McGee, ci Pellard's Hill North. Norbury.

Soon they exchanged a few words. The subject was banking: Terry then worked in innk and John had had previous banking experience,

Soon joining in the same con- versation weris two girls ahead of them-bunk elarks Margaret Ellis, then 17, and Eileen Foot, 20.

'Don't talk shop'

From behind came a repri- munding volce pleading: "Don't talk shop!"

It was another bank clerk, Michael Johnson, of Dahlia- gardens, Milcham.

Coming away from the Lying- in-State the five decided to meet a year ahead in a hostelry in date Wardour Steel. Scho--- that has Leen repeated ever Kinec

ebuitient 'Seven years later the Five huchster was depressed after Cold Catafalquers are looking spending five weeks in Africa | forward to a dinner to cele- where he falled to sell a tunic to the native tribesmen, "The natives are poor and set waye Moran sighed. ("A had combination for a sales- nin But I've been advised the Tahitians will buy my tunles as soon as I get off the plane."

"There

distinction. in their * clear to anyone with a sense of proportion and a sense of between boaxing humour, and lying... Медве address communica-i The Governing Body wil! tions: Secretary, Hongkong te dubt take note of this dis- Society for the Protection bredhable affair. Unil of Children, P.O. Bux 2502 cleared up, the

flongkong.

It is public will be unable to know whether any future

statement coming from Picase and us your unwanted toys. Reading University is true or

Collection centre at Rediffusion. not."-Express Service,

HARRY ODELL

THE

PRESENTS.

GOLDEN GATE QUARTET

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Contemplation

Moran picked up the purple robes in a Cincinnati warehouse have been stored where they since 1940--following the demise of "The Mantle Club," a fellow- ship lodge with a penchant for gaudy raiment.

brate their 10th anniversary,

There has always been some- thing to celebrate. In 1953 Mike was planning his wedding; in 1954 klassey were raised to the birth of the irst of his two children; in 1957 the two girls said they were getting engaged. They were married last year.

June mother

This year Terry told them he will be married in October and Eileen-new Mrs. Bulley, of Milward Road, Hastings, wilt be

mother in June.

The Five Cold Catafalquers have a firm rule, not to get in

Jim tried his luck at un loading the natin and velvet tunton.lo chowder and marchmuck-wlicach other between

Ina nocieties but to no avail,

"I figure to make a proit by selling 'ent for Ove bucks

annual meetings. An exccp- tion was made for al

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NEWS

Prince Of Thrillers Wrote

For The King

BRITAIN'S DEFENCE WAS HIS

- "MEAT"

In 25 years of writing, mystery author Den- nis Wheath has com- pleted 44 books and watched his world sales soar to a stag- gering 14 million. Yel 62-year-old Wheatley's most satisfying work re- mains the 500,000 words he wrote solely for a readership of four.

They were Britain's Chiefs

of Staff and King George VI.

It was a real-life episode which matches any of the author's swashbuckling, cloak-and-dagger sagas. "IL happened by sheer chance," he says. "My wito was a War Office driver just after Dunkirk. One day, she was driving an MLS chap who'd Just been given the job of think- Ing up ideas for resisting German invasion.

д

"He was at a bit of a loss, and my wife said: Why don't

Dennis Wheatley you have

a talk with my "Red

1931, to Joan Eagle," "The Man Who second time lu husband. Thas sort of thing

The

usually Gwendoline, daughter Missed

Wor") is, just his meal.'"

the pounding of lete Hon. Louls Johnstone. resound to

of has one son by his first mar- horses

hooves, the clushing

The M.I.5 officer did. And, is a result, Wheatley had writ-

ten n 7,000-word report called ruplers, and even the whine of plage. "Resistance to Invasion" within a spaceship. the next 24 hours.

For

ho

A

of

the

Ho

Guests at his home, Grove remarkably Place, are likely to be treated versatile author. Before be to his fine home-made nectarine He became the first non-

sits down to write, he has or tangerine gin, or a wine from regular officer (with the rank of

probed deeply into bls sub among the 0,000 bottles in his Wing Commander) to sit on the

ject, many details of which cellar. Joint Planning Staff, personal

he has gleaned from maps, "resistance adviser" to the

histories and interviewE, Chiefs of Staff and the King,

The bulk of his information Man Who helped plan "The

from his own library. Never Was"

and the careful comes

-Whatever you want to know," pincing of Field-Marshal

be Any", Montgomery's double.

written it."

Off secret list During the next two years,

1 am," he says as he raises o glass to his lips, "a consciourly happy man."

someone's aircady Mail. Notices'

Came Late

Authorship came easily-but Wheatley produced another 19 late, to Dennis Yates Wheatley, papers, part practical psy In fact, he wrote his first book, chology and

Forbidden part story-telling "The

Territory, skili in visunitsing life under, the Inte in his thirties. It Gold Nazi heel.

49,000 coples in seven editions, Now those papers have been and he has never since known released from the secret list and fallure. published in a 333-page book

on

of

the

Wheatley was born on Janu→ called "Stranger than Fletion". ary 8, 1907, the only ron

stocky, But

reddy-faced Albert David Wheatley and Wheatley is celebrating more Florence, Lady Newton, He was than that. This year is his 25th schooled, curiously, as a best-selling author. training ship H.M.S. Worcester, In those 25 years, his 44 books, and in Germany, entering his all of them still in print, have father's flourishing Mayfair wing grossed more

£250,000, business in 1914. have been translated into 22 languages, including Russlon, "n pirated edition"Hindu and' Japanese, and have earned him Supple- the Times Literary

nt's title, of the prince of thriller writers.

than

Daily quota

But by the end of the year, he had been enlisted-into the City of London Brigade ahd, later, sent to the Western Front where he was severely KassOHA

Wheatley returned to England re- In 1010n sick man. He entered his father's business, owner in

the sole

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Vietnam, Cambodia,” Malaya, In- donents. North Bornen, 0 5.m.

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BHILE THOUGHT

FOR TODAY

Yet success, and a £10,000 becoming Wheatley to ease up. He still other companies. But the effects face to, go to Jerusalem. works a nine to 10-hour day at of the gas poisoning prevented Luke 9:51.

$38,20originally and they Margaret in the wife of the large fosfatis yearly incort, have not caused 1928 and the director of male cadEasy-set-bla never been worn. They'd be England hockey player Michnul great for the contemplation levitation."-U.P.I.

of Doughty, of Steneleigh

Park

1 Road, Etcncleigh; Surrey,

• BY. THE WAY.

by Beachcomber

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his giant Regency desk, quietly him from any neve leisure, It takes sublime courage

pencilling a rigid daily quota of and he spent all bis spare Ume

to go ahead when we know 1,000 words,

studying international politics.

In 103), Wheatley's literary medium

sold the business death awaits us. We must ranges over the French Revolu- and, soon after, sat down and bo tendifast always when tion espionage system, vam- began to write.

we know what is right to pires and witchcraft. The Wheatley has been twice de. pages of his novels (among married, the first time in 1923 them: "The Devil Rides Out," (to Nancy Robinson), and the

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