THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1960.
By ANNE SHARPLEY
JAK AT THE BARBER'S
Love, Money
AND
Tina
PERHAPS it was be-
cause her fibre was so unexpectedly fine- for a girl of Mediter ranean blood, The soft, sweet, tiny voice. The pale wraiths of hair that always had a smoke-like wayward look.
AS SHE SHOWED ME ROUND THE YACHT, I COULD TELL IT MEANT NOTHING TO HER.....
TINA-Pecze?
phere suited her, for all her richt Greek parentage and mostiago,
It in one of the inverted luxuries of the comparatively poor u imagine that the rich are not happy. But I remember feeling strangly sad about this beautiful girl as I left the yacht.
There was une assurance that she seemed to have, however. This was an alllance of two rich stemming from n country where there is stili a dower system and a tradition of arranged marriages,
Ar would always maintain and respect the marriage. It was inmoyable and secure 63 such Greek marriages usually Bre. So it seemed then,
Assurance
Perhaps, too, his friendship
that
FDM Kiral
with **
Perhaps it was the gentcel curse of her English upper- class education that inade her seem so curiously out of place. on that absurd yacht. She welcomed you aboard though there were worn tens
the floor and pudding to follow the roast,
Buf Tinn Onassis never seemed quite right in "Ari's" life as she admits herself,
Ruthless
Is balement and anger were on insight into the energy WH-
wil that had made him what he was,
One would see him night night after night in the same club in Monte Carlo. The same door show would go on nigtil after night, 100, but Ati, it he had eve: notleed it the ume, had long since not altow- ed such minor distractions as a floor show to stop that eternal absorted conversation.
Arst
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a Winston Churchill, whose res- pect for and loving protection of his wife has always been among the many parts of great-
Besides this fascinating capri- clous extraordinary man who ness in him, was an added, as- called himself "The Monster".surance.
Tina was like a china gurine But it was not to be. Like to in a monkey house,
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Sometimes she would it his table in the nightclub with the pained, withdrawn me of o woman who has a headache but seeing a rocial occasion through.
many men before film Art made
public spectacle of hiraselt And I kikw how this must huve hurt a person as proud. and sensitive and steadfast Tina.
as
s
She is a person who has that rare quality-a capacity for peace. Perhaps she will find it now,
London Express Service)
One had the feeling that possessions, the yacht particu
nll its terrible larly, with treasures, meant nothing. tuxi beer got together in a He would it with hve or three fellow-businessmen, heads "We'll have this, this and this"
close together, gossiping, argu- ing, and laughing. About his
Kreat and lasting pition
business, Money,
mood.
Felt sad
And it certainly
meant even Anc When, one
Mrs Carly morning.
He had the air sometimes of
toucan - his orange-rimmed less to her. spectacles with their wide Monte
side-bars providing the touch Onassis, her voice sweetly chim-
dien
best of English over the sensed that
recents, showed yacht I suddenly the hated it.
of colour to complete his sud- ing with the
comic likeness to the bird, At other times he would seem grave and ruthless as an Assyrian king with he long nose and huge dark eyes.
Angry
חתן
The the
I remember looking at ift-wide
around brass swimming pool (whose gaudy mosate floor raised to become a dance floor).
I remember once seeing him
was on my lips to jokingly lesing his temper with, of all in the
ask her if I was gold-Indeed thing, frult machine,
Carlo I wasn't sure, having seen to entrance to the Monte
and lapis lazuli
stold him much casino. It was irritating
I SAW her elsewhere. Then beyond endurance. It was
fare. It had a pained "don't allowing him to win. And in
ak me" look. blinger its side in his anger.
the Aristotle Onassis, one of richest men is the world who, in owned DOL all but any case, unly the frult machine but the whole Edwardian Rococo edifee around him-we being deflext by a fruit machine.
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It must have been abominable which the sun shone on all that brightly polished metal. And I would sensed how gladly she give it away for the, comfort of old, red bricks, a lawn and a yes-hedge. This sort of almos-
Astronauts Poise Has Three 'Secrets'
New York.
THE seven young astronauts who are preparing for America's first-manned flight into outer space were chosen, primarily, for their "superb emotional balance."
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con-
George E. Kuff, the Air Dr Forca psychiatrist who ducted key tests on the pilots, calls them the "happiest, besi- adjusted persons 1 have ever }«<DWIL"
The three most attitudes which
hans.
They are ready with
a new plan If the old one fails. As a result, they are not forced 1. act impulsively.
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CHARGE
BHAMPOO SINGE
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London Express Service.
PART TWO Voyage into the world of the dead as a mystery radio spells out a message of hope
It
been
HYDROGEN bombs have destroyed the world (and every. In a few months one in except, miraculously, Austraila. deadly radiation will reach Australia and wipe us out. the last survivors of mankind. But as we sweat out these final montis u radio signal is picked up from California, brings hope to beautiful Moira Davidson, who has snatching every pleasure these last short weeks can offer. of the Es brings hope to Dwight Towers, commander U.S. submarine Sawfish which escaped the holocaust. it brings hope, against all professional judgment, to Belontist Jullan Osborn. Here is my second
nuclear clouds
Yet
the sun shone just as were on their way to u In four-five-six brightly from a clear blue sky. months' time, they would be doing
10 us what they had already done to the rest of the globe.
"Look, some of you boffins the And
uptimistic oncs-have a wo've sur got a theory that me.
chaper, that the mucleer India- zion will wear off before it reaches us."
report. *
by LEONARD MOSLEY
"Weird," I said. "You're sure "
THEY were all in the it comes from California?"
radio operations
"Within
The Pills
"I
Down in the city laboratories chemisto were Government
overtime sanking up working The Pills. There would be one for everybody, when the time came IF the time came, I found myself saying now...
And then I laughed at myself for being a dam-fool optimist, banking too much on that radio
from message
San Diego, reminding myself that already they had tanded out The Pills } interposed. dryly.
to the people up north in Port The Pills measured the radiation betere I Moresby and Darwin. Lesson: Wherever the possi-
came here this morning, captain. that were switter and pleasanter sickness, that than radiation failure exists, give lily of
a 100-mile radius of It's eight times greater than Important thought to planning what to do room when I got down to San Diego. That's as close as week ago, and rising."
produced a lovely lethargy, a characterised if things go wrong. A hostess
without pinpoint it
feeling of happines, and then know "'I
that,"
rapid he cald nothing
more....in. toull decide beforehand what naval headquarters. But we can
triangulation." before the world of to do if the food runs out or even
I went
"But this is a fact, order. roughly I asked: "What docs It It's impossible, but it's a fact. reality, and not in a take urns.
through the door I could
sny?"
Hadio signals are coming from believe world of "dreans "ol glory." They give themselves 3-The
any without as well as hear the Morse code.
Bridle shook his head. "That's around "San Diego
fornia And they shouldn't common-sense goals, and don't with people. Emotionally in-
Doesn't say any- Morse is just-jabber to me, the trouble. dependent, they also prefer to
words we've be. There shouldn't be anyone thing. The only
alive." : Lesson: There
the handle their jobs by
then-yet these sounds got me.
Dut mode manent when a man must give relyen.
his dream of becoming u цр famous writer, when a woman' anust let go of her dream of becoming a film stur.
thern were:
They live in
brood over past failures
comes
-The astronauts prepare for trouble before it actually
sparentn
can
far
Doomed
I could see I wasn't the only WATER and CONNECT." Lesson: Solve your own one to be affected, either. The problems
without feaning en incal naval commander, Captain remtone else. Resist frustra-Bridic, was hunched over the tion and olger when faced sel with the expresson on his with difficult task.
face of a man who is hearing a volee from another world.
(London Express Service).
Just Fancy That !
VHEN · farmer Claude Grimwood, of Wethersfeld, Essex, was Wained 26 at Braintree for illegally settlax traps for foxes, l was zafil that one trap caught the village policeman who had to wait for help before he got free.
*
CHOCK for Santa Claus-a seven-year-old boy who was asked: "What would you like for Christnins, sonny?" repfled with a smart sock on the jaw. Then the file boy fled from the store at Prairie Vilage, Kansas, Later Hanta visiis the dentist--the boy's - right to the jaw knocked out a tooth filing,
*
N American airman, Marion Van Thompson, fined £10 at Luton. A Bedfordshire, for careless driving, was seen with his right hand on the wheel wille, with his left hand, be shaved himself wills an electrio razor. lle said: "I can do it quite safely. I don't have to look in the mirror,"
-(Landon Express Barvice).
The mystery
are
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Call Up periscope'
"I'd
fond, and affectionate..
-
From the conference at naval headquarters, we had gone to for the afternoon. He turned to Dwight Towers. the beach "There has to be an explana- Looking at Dwight Towers and tion for it. I'd like to know Moira Davidson sporting them-
So much to live for and so little time to five what it . What do you say, selves on the sands, I wondered
Moira (Ava Gardner) and Towers (Gregory Peck) | You've got the Sow why I was worried. They made Towers?
the kind of pair that reinforced For the Arst time. Dwight fish. She's nuclear-powered. She
We crowded away one's belief in love, in human- way. To what? For two weeks
round under water. Towers spoke. "It could be a can ve
How'd you kind, in the difference in the cur world was suddenly shrunk watched us Towers pulled dow kld, Somebody who doesn't from the radiation,
the like to track that radio down for axe. They splashed around to the size of the Sawash. We the Raps, adjusted the flaps, and I knew Commander
morse. Dwight know Only
We talked. We looked the water like a couple of kids, ate. We slept.
through the sighis. sub- thoughts that must be going us?” the American
in Dwight layed cards. Towers.
but the expression
And it struck me Somewhere noar bere a radio He had two mariner, seemed cool and un- through his mind.
A faint spasm of emotion Tower's eyes as they followed as a funny thing, here we were, was working-a mdlo powerful kids of his own in America.
Moira' llasome figure was adult, on a mission that meant fa enough concerned.
to be heard uske, thin. crossed the lean face,
itself, and the boys in the crew halfway across the word. We Bridic said: "I can't explain welcome the mission, sir.”
still made the same old jokes, bored our eyes into Towns's it. You know the old story.
Bridle allowed himself a grin.
face," waiting for an exuresin, I began to pln my hopes on ulked about the same old sex, About un infinite number of
infinite "All right now. It's better than Dwight Towers, as Moira Drad monkeys
on your rump so obviously building them. He end the same old comic books. But all we saw was a tikliter file 10 days out when of the jaw, a pulse batting on the Suddenly the muttering over number of typewriters on which sliting around
seemed so sure that his son Dwight Towers looked up from the speaker stopped. The radio they start tapping and one of and just waiting for it.".
and daughter were alive and the map and sald officer Addled with the dials on them has to end up by writing
And then, to me "You'll be well in California. He persisted. the receiver panel and then King Lear.'”
Your in talking about them as going along too, Julian. We looked at cech other in Job will be to keep a check on nothing had happened. Bridie looked up at me. "It's silence. We all knew the sig- the radiation, see the boys don't
Moira was stunned and I was the dampredest thing." he said. nificance of this. So far as we get into danger."
startled when he had said it That's how it goes. It starts know, the world was wiped out, That afternoon, it was harder because, In the circumstances, it and them it stops. We'vo every living thing except us.
or the world than ever to realise that death didn't make sense. monitored it for about 00 hours Yet from s part
where the bombe had dropped instruments told me that the But now? Now that we knew 50 ár."
most, where the air was thickest paion that would eventually that there
was' a 'Tadlo ati with nuclear radiation, sounds kill us the degrees of radiation, working somewhere in America? of life were coming..
creeping the・・ fatal・ TRYEMI
| leoned buck, shaking his head.
Thia version of "On the Beach", in adapted from the United Articolina hased on the novel Ny
art
w.ad only weels away. My
www
We were
In sight
temple.
A petty officer asked: "Pléaso, sir, I come from Francisco B wife and Entally live things. Could I take a look.” *
Towers 1sokod down at fili, "Áll right. By, these colors and then stopped maide, roky an
should be of San sallor," he Bald. AZ CA alons we Francisco. Take her to periscope You take a look: A good look.” depth."
The bulbous, man-mode while TOMORROW
Silent city
und herself slowly from he depths of the ocean and roms towards the surface. A few foot.
It did not malde sense, but it slowly down towards us ́ ́ from It was time to go. We quietly down we levelled. Up went than
and sled prelioogv. cartaloda:* stirred hope. The the north, infiltrating om plood. took up our "bota
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