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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1959.

GEORGE WHITING

GOES CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN 'TEXAS

The most fabulous

shopping spree of my life!

Dallas, Texas. THE folks back home

in England said that, as there were only a few more shopping days to Christmas, might as well pick up a few. odds and ends in Texas..

from A Christmas present

would be Dallas, they said,

highly acceptable.

I

So walked around for a while under the monster arch- Christ- ways of plastle Father manes lit up ilke a frenzied faleyland and droppexi Into this unpretentious-looking rix-morey shop on the corner of Main and Ervay.

small bronze A

plate lettering whispered in modest that

belonged to the store Nelman-Marcus.

Just the thing!

The chap in the jewellery department sald his name was Dudley Ramsden and he was pleased 10 moet me. He thought he had just the thing I was looking for.

liow about necklace in emeralis?

Netman-Marcus would be privi-

leged to MATUSI 114 Aner connoisseur qualties with a like myself.

The price?

Just 100,000

These and other select items, be assured me, were remark obly popular at Christmas time. Why only recently ho sok 20 necklaces at from £1,785 to

£7.140 each in one week. It was then I made my

throw Mr toke. Seeking to

a loop hinted Ramsden for and

that we British were not really interested in this modem stuff and didn't suppose he had any

antiques genuine place.

dollars (35,714).

No? Then perhaps he might be permitted to show me this superb diamond

ruby brooch being knocked out for £0.925. Or maybe this neat ifttic wrist-walch which tells you the time through quisitely out diamond crystal for £3.570-the only one of its king in the world.

DR CX-

When 1 pointed out five that the watch was minutes fact

everyone laughed heartily at the English visitor,

and Dudley said I was ob- viously man of the world.

Perhaps he could interest me na champagne swizzle stick, al 35 ur a diamond sanded toothpick for £18 or счеть а

£23

coln Zold

specially designed for playing plich and No bunk-house is com-

this unobtrusive diamonds and Sheer perfection. loss? Specially designed, of course. plele without one.

There is no gift like

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The sensational new. Victor .smaller lighters with

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about

All sold

the

He had. By an extraordinary coincidence Ñalman-Marcus had that very day acquired £89,378 worth of ancient Indian jewels, many of which dated back to the Mogul dynasty beginning an 1520. Would that be antique

enough for Mr Whiting?

Nobody turned a hair when I said that on second thoughts my wife night profer coat. Instead they introduced me to an aristocratic brunette named Mona Price-who began by apologising for the fact that she had only that morning sold Russian their one remaining' broadtall (unborn lamb) lined with sable for· £23,305

a fur

A model sets the atmosphere in the jewellery department, at Neiman Marcus's.

one,

bass himself, Mr. Stanley you want It killed, cut and ham baked with beer, warm Marcus. The same Stanley chilled in ready freezer for Marcus who received the OBE British recently from the Ambassador in, Washington for organising "British Fortnight" From Big Be to complete

.and squcak-at the bubble shop his father and Uncle Al

and Aunt Carrie had started on Main Street back in 1907.

It

Mr

The bull

A businessman from Calf fornia. has just ordered and Sara was busy seeing that discreetly the sale was made and with taste. When I left she was arranging for the steer to be televiset, with gold pain! on its hooves and a chaplet of mistletoe round its neck.

I said it was a lot of bull. But Spa figured you had to study the customer.

A

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buttered thin sliced rye bread. with shrimp. mould mincod

largo curried mayonnaise, garlic, salted potato chips, pigs

blankets,

straw choose assorted olives on loc, cookies, and coffee.

Murmuring that I had just eaten a whole sheep for break fast, I settled for ten inches, of prime beef rib portion

for but

The fling

the

that

(special small Marcus

Englishman) who got me off the hook

and a glase of mysterious when he said that

Corbitt to didn't

She introduced me to men's amber liquid called Arfanart havb to buy

(where Jack Franklin (alleged by Helen thing and that he would had just sold £230 vicuma taste like English beer.) be honoured if I

£107 just topcoat and 16 suits at lookod around and met cach

promising Texas the folks and had lunch lawyer) and then pressed on to

That was all I needed. Dy then I was hardly listening. in the Zodiac Room with lunch in the Zodiac Roon,

Bill Nice le place they got

Bradley, whe Sara

Sara Marshall.

there, Dreary mannequins drip would be right with me.

admitted haute couture on the carpet, Nottingham-bom senior vice-

president, guy in a white hat cocks gin- Nelman-Marcus had 25 million gerbread for the kiddywiddies, dollar assets, H quarter of a and they've dyed the table million credit customers on the turned

match sugar turquoise blue to

and alate,

Scots 罪 Dundre toothsome Texan blonde with a. the wallpaper.

comptroller named Bob Jeffrey to the

Anesi you-all-honey-chile accent and.

They also have

dance the Highland fling at the ball rather

A New cook in Texas,

York Christmak

and count nil ther her eye on the bull.

frishooman called Helen Cor- money for the rest of the year. It seems that one of Neiman- bitt who once served the Duke

As I crept away, I tossed a Marcus's Christmas gift suggep of Windsor with an avocado

coin to the legless beggar en man in your life mousse. use tions for the it was no

Like I the sidewalk outside. is a manogADY" wild Labrador

#nd

sterling

a fabulous She suggested that just the said, Texas silver barbecue roast beef cart, thing for Whiting's lunch might place at Christmas time. Real complete with a prize black be roast turkey glazed with fabulous.

stcardn the hoof for maple Angus

bread white about £714 or a little more if squares with mushroom butter,

Just what I had been looking far. It couldn't have Russian broadtall then

175

showing mink at £5,355

tip- dyed Russian sable at £3,570,

But these Texans are triers,

10 They even took me up

or even

the

Sara

out

to be a

Syrup,

-(London Express Servies).

Mother nature's onslaught

Continued from Page 14)

And still the earth's shocks continued, Catastrophe follow ed catastrophe 'as the earth's eruptions grew in their inten- Bity".

Worse to come

Nor

Lad

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began, and there was little

a long time.

Thousands who had miracul- survivors. As soon as the waters chance of outside assistance for ously survived the earth tremors had sufficiently subsided, hos- lost their lives by drowning in pltal and casualty trains as well the swirling flood waters.

us Red Cross and health ser vices were rushed to the, di Two

towns- temir and aster spots,

completely sub- Not for a week did the flood waters start to subside; by then, their toll of lives and property had been immense.

ifonelessly the homeless herded together, valaly try- ing to keep the warmth in their bodies. When they were discovered, they were still huddled together in death. Even now Mother Nature had her murderous

finished

Bruss--werC merged.

that the end of not Mother Nature's onslaught. She work. The dawn of the new Meanwhile, the rest of the

nation bad savage, day, December 28 brought fresh Turkish

been more. equally weapons in her armoury and earth tremors.

mobilised by the urgent pleas of used them viciously against the This time they were not so President Inonu. Rellet worker pathetic. helpless survivors of strong but Bill frightening sped to the scenes of destruc- the earthquake.

enough. And with the tremnots tion. CAME the Tain....blinding. Night fell on that scene of torrential rain. carnage....and with the night

came the bitter, penetrating Thousands die

cold, Dinon dow

down

dropped the temperature, to 25 degrees be- loro zero.

frightened sur-

of the

From every comer globe offers. of help poured in. Food and clothes for the needy were readily forthcoming. AL most every nation on earth sent Turkey money to help her re- cover from the calamity,

Grim Toll

I took long months before the earthquake's grim toll could But communications between

be assessed. Anatolia and the rest of the world had been wiped out. It But eventually was imposable to assess, from nounced that. 32,741

=103 2035

people

Boon the swollen rivers afar, the extent of the catas- dled, 9.404 were badly injured already upset by the earth's trophe. convulsions broke their banks and deluged #tricken earth,

and 29,131 houses were des- Aerial surveys showed a grim troyed. the picture and the all-pervading The death roll was calculat

silence was ominous. But until ed largely on the number of the floods abatod, it was not bodies recovered. It is likely possible to give aid or instruc- that the true figure was much tions to the stricken áreas, higher.

Where possible, relayu of

Yet stul WPO speak of aeroplanes dropped supplies to “Mother Nature!

The weary, vivors had no homes to go to, no adequate clothing to protect For three days the floods con- them from the bliter night air.......... tinued to rise, destroying houses and no food.

which hod survived the quakes, Communications had been cut washing out everything in their almost as coon as the upheaval way.

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