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LESSON OF

IRELAND,

INDIA. PALESTINE,

SUEZ

CYPRUS

etc.etc.

VICKY

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1959.

CENTRAL AFRICAN VOLCANO

NEVER

When one tune

makes a name

Д

IT took Connie Francis just 20 minutes to record "Who's Sorry Now,"

three-minute, brand-new version of a half-forgotten, sentimental classic' of the 'twenties.

of small-town show

In that time, the time it takes school to play a long-playing record, business, paid off. Today, he Mies Franels, an unknown but is still probably best known for not uniolected teenager from his "Cry."

con- Both these men have New York, became a top sing- ing star.

record sold tinued as high-paid entertainers, 1,600,000 coples and has earned sometimes in, sometimes out, of £12,000 in royalties.

the Hit Parade when you've got a solid talent it doesn't real-

Miss Francis is the latest clar to hit the one-tune jackpot. ly matter. The jackpot that mocky Eddle Calvert, the Man with the Golden, Trumpet, hit for nearly £20,000 six years ago with "O Mein Papa."

Hard school

THE JACKPOT is also the big bogey of many of the sud-

Pressurc

THAT is little consolation for many singers who find them- selves in the Top Ten, For that is when the

pressure be- gins,

Connie Francis is lucky, elle found that all-important second

denly successful. For few one- success,

tune stars have the staying But it isn't always so easy. power or the talent to survive. Jane Morgan ("The Day the

Johnnie Ray worked for Rains Came") and

long time before he became famous for his "Cry" Thut was in 1952. Although he has probably never quite repeated

Rosemary

June ("Apple Blossomn Time")

are still searching for that viisl follow-up hit.

" SOMETIMES It is

long, that success one of the big torg walt. Teenage rock 'n' roll gest In

business singer Jackie Dennis sold about the iolent. developed in the hard 200,000 copies of "La De Da." A

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It's the go-getters who are getting

results

LONG, long ago

as far back in history as the 1940s

and early 50s it was customary for a man to mark his first flight across the Atlantic by joining the Short Snorters Club.

Its members, who thought themselves the Drakes and Polos of the twentieth century, bought one another congratulatory drinks when they met by chance at airport bars. They were rare, roman- tic birds.

BY FRANK ENTWISLE

Today, top British businessmen flock aboard the world's airliners and ships to sell their goods and services abroad; they cross the Atlantic half a dozen times a year and think yelling tycoons, he is

from casual about nothing of it.

journey.

Top commercial travellers fly their Diamlers and chauffeurs across the Eng Hsh Chunnel for business talke in Amsterdam or Dusseldorf.

Bone hopes to be whisk Ing people to and fro across the Atlantic at the rate of 8,000 a week by next year: 15,000 a week by 1968; many of themi British business men on export missions.

The time-space revolu- tion of the last 10 years has accelerated the shrinking of the globe; brought a new pace to selling abroad.

And the Short Snorters Club is obsolete.

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· 70 crossings

Among the modern mer- chant princes who inhabit the air in 1959 is Sir Miles Thomas, chairman of Mon- Banto Chemicals Ltd. He has crossed the Atlantic 70 times.

He flies to South America big hit. Since then, even his frequently. He has tra- company admits it, nothing,

It in't too difficult to under. velled many times the dig. stand why the one-disc jack-tance round the world. He has never kept a log of his pat so olien scares the stars,

-Peter Evans

travels.

FLU

|Q

DOWN, down they go under the attack of the influenza germ. What is it? Where does it come from 2 And how goes the fight to defeat it?

What is Flu?

But like most other

tra-

One

far

Henry Deschampmeuf,

airborne tycoon;

菲

Toddling off to Rio is NOT just like hopping on a trolley. He ir meticulous cbout getting hi full sleep, organising hin diet, wearing the most comfortable clothes. Or as Sr Miles put it to me "I'm not one of these to the Andes in my undles." chops who flies from the Indies

namel bags and a cinzer. He In fact, he travels in a pair of always carries a pair of shoes with rubber soles ("to imulate myself against the cold if I And I have to walk across a frosty airport in Iceland"), and alsoft

feli hat ("against the sun").

"It is most important to diet," he says. "Your stomach cannut keep time went once pad times. You might leave London at 10 am and arrive in Now it is really 0 p.m. The thing to Yort at 4 p.re. their time. But do is to forget about formal meal times, and cat' little and often.

"Don't try to live on aperitifs, 43 some people do. And don't Imagine you can fly for 24 hours and walk straight into a business conference.

"You need at least 24 hours' sleep. Sleep is the great corrective."

Sir Miles finds crossing the Atlantic by eca "excellent for making business contacts; but

ring."

of the

"I crossed In one Queens," he said, "and soon got involved in the socitl whirl. It was tremendously eventful. But

Excess baggage charge con

be very expensive, ›

**7 carry three synthetic,

retse-proof suis-for hot, cold and moderate weather. I wear

und synthetic shirts

under Mc clothes and wash them myself in

who is

boss of an international advertis-my hotel room. I carry, no hat-- ing agency and recently worked it would get left/somewhere. in 14 countries in 17 weeks, has clorely studied the business of hurtling round this shrunken globe.

Take care

tale

he says.

And cotton!

once made the Atlantie erem- ing: eight times in 18 months.

"I always travel by air now," he told me. "But if I had time I would always go by seal i

Today's airlines and shipping companies keep a sharp look-out for the flying, businessmon.

The Cunard Line has a sec- retarial service in every ship. A traveling. executive can die- tato messages, reports and "I always take my own mond-

ideo memoranda, have them tran- Ing material-you've no how complicated It can be to scribed from tape by multi- get a trouser button rown on in lingual secretaries, and deliver-

ed by alması. Bangkok,

.

Bone tries to give business- men secluded seats to make it endder to work in flight..

"It's a technique," "In five hours you can nip from "I travel in blazer and the shode. You have freezing point to 70 degrees in Bannola even synthetic sulis to look would look untidy after a long after yourself if you are not to fight. grow ulcers and die young."

Trans. World Airways gives "And as soon as I reach my its business passengers letters "Always

His three basic rules. are destination, I can be dressed in of introduction to the managers

a couple of an Immaculate sult appropriate of any aspirins before dying-li calms to the climate."

10 offices. seat- United tered throughout the the nerves. Always wear slippers

States. And the managers are in flight. Do not over-ent."

Sixty-four-year-old Major instructed to introduce them to General Kenelm Appleyardhe local chambers of trade and "Remember," he added, "that used to be known as The Flying industrialists, and advise them if you fly to Australla on busi-Brigadier 19 Dess, and arrive ill, you flm in fores and hotel bills. probably fest £1,000 for your

have

consulting

thelr

Arms on

Bren.

advising large engineer who travels the word about business conditions in the industrial problema.

He has been flying on business for 38 years and estimates, has travelled more than 24 times the circumference of the earth by air.

..

Travelling on business is very different from the day when Short Shorter Field-Marshal Alanbrooke stood on a windy quay at Stranraer waiting for a flyingboot to take him America with Short Snorter Mr Winston Churchill,

ta

"To be an esset to your busi- ness you must learn the trick ...feam to have a sixth sense about the weather.. learn that. It is often quicker to take local airplanes for local fights ... learn to take a day's rest

Tis Arst airline fight-in one between flying and working.

of the eight bucket seats of a "I want to spend a week in converted Handley Page biplane He wrote: "It was at á ume In when Atlantic kad not been a country Ify on Saturday, rest bomber--was to Brosscle on Sunday, and work from 1921. Before the war he travel- so frequently own, we were Monday to Friday. The rest is

led by Russian State-airlines in both somewhat doubtful ... as important es the work."

a Junkers 62. He has been a whether we should pit, there passenger. In almost every type and whether wo should over Mr Deschampsneuf, like Sr of Western airliner. Today he get back.. We were facing e Miles, has a carefully chosen prefers the Comet.

journey of 27 hours by air, sad flying kit.

"I go round the world 441b of luggage," he says a brief care weighing

A few years ago the Cunard with Line told him he had crossed "And the Atlantic 74 times in its 101b. ships, and he has crossed, many Не times by Canadian Pacific.

I nerded a rest afterwards." Everything I carry it weighed

might reasonably have some doubts as to whether we should reach our destination."

It was 1942,

-{London. Express Service).

medical authority answers

Leading medical

10 pertinent questions: starting with

a simple explanation of

Those are some of the questions ANGELA CROOME put to a sonior research worker at the World Influenza Centre at Mill Hill,

"The year':

outbreak is

epidemic

Few cases

and

Is there no “A” virus

method does basically is the big epidemics? A. Flu is a virus what the smallpox vaccine fact that someone has had serious

does gives the disease to "A" Virus flu in 1957, docs probably will not bo infection-like a cold, someone so mildly that he not give him any immunity measles, and polio. A does not notice it.

against another attack of smallest virus is the

"A" now? But there is a special known parasite-a great difficulty with flu. The most A. Yes. The Asian Flu deal smaller than bac- troublesome flu virus has a that swept round the world about this season?

change its in 1957 whe an "A" virus. teria and a great deal capacity to more difficult to deal character very rapidly so The "B" and "C" viruses A. Yes, there is a little. that a serum prepared do not seem to have the But, so far, only a few cases with. Viruses are not from, say, last year's strain same capacity for change have been reported. affected by the modern may be quite ineffective "C" in fact, has never pro- "magic" drugs, the anti- biotics.

It is not difficult to kill a virus, but it is difficult nat to kill the patient at Virus-kill- the same time. ing antiseptics are strong that they kill the hody cells in which the virus lives.

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Epidemics

What is it??

The search for, a sure gues

MIII WIII foļints nggw: with infivauzo gurmu,

against this year's. This duced an epidemic; It occurs. “Q-Are these Isolated is the reason for the very in isolated cases and the “A” chaca, new imports, rapid spread of Asian Flu' virus seema. very stable. from abroad? Or are they last year.

Q-What kind of flu is left-overs from last year's going round in Britain Asian Flu? пом?

A. Almost certainly A. This is a "B" virus left overs. We are studying Since the World Health outbreak. You may say them now to see if there has Organisation set up the that "B" is the regular been any change yet from World Influenza Centre ("English" type of flu that last year's virus. kind of library, of flu viruses pops up every winter. It is where all known strains ns it were on the premises can be compared) we have in the same form all, the...

Q-Have we reached the produced at Mul Hill from discovered that there are time, surviving through the

climax of this year's Buty, dend virus, and which stopa Q-Is there any way to three main types of flu. summer by means of a few

The description of last AI leave prophecy to the virus growth in the cell, prevent du?

stray cases here and there

year's flu as "Asian" was the astrologeres A-Yell, a vaccine or The A, B and C viruses. Most adults have mis probably unfortunate. It

may prove the answer to scrum can be given to the covered and the one that often before, so have an made it sound more sinister QI suppose it la patient before the causes the big world-wide immunity and are not easily than it really was, and nected in some way strikes which will build up epidemics. "C is the most affected Children, on the

connected it the weathert Immunity to that particular ently Isolated and loast other hand, may be too

epidemica ⠀ A-It must be, for virus by .** Increasing; important.

No defence?

antibodies -- the --

young to have built up this:

That is why 66

that fight the virus within Gelen mean, that be immunity

the body cells S

What this well-known changes – no fast it cannon schoolchildren got, ik

Unfortunate

But

too early

bodn

atient