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THE CHINA MAIL, ~ SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1960.

SATURDAY MAGAZINE

JAK

and

GEORGE

fly high with the American Air Force

NORMALLY, the only

letters received by this column are either rude, excessively per sonal, or OHMS. ·

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We were therefore as pleased as punch, tremendously bucked, and no end honoured when the most postman brought us friendly and cordial note from Colonel Jay T. Robbins, a the real live Commander of United States Air Force. No less. Colonel Robbins, I would have you know. was anxious, positively anxious, to have Jak and George come and see him down at his airfield at Wethersfeld, in Essex, where he runs a slap-up, supersonic outfit known as the 20th Tactical Fighter Wing.

Full house

He was also inviting, he men- tioned, a few other VIPs like the Secretary of State for Air, a Air Marshals, an couple of Admiral or 50, and H.H. The

Sultan's Amir Qaboos, a from Arabia.

Obviously

'company. No peasants.

son.

mixing with the lower orders.

It was only later we covered that It

House at

that the

US

Never again! Not even for

£1000 an hour...

flying F-100 jet fighters, would not only perform loops, slow dis- rolls, and clover-leaf turns, but Open whifferdills as well.

WAS Wethersfield, and attendance was

expected to be anything up to 100,000. Really you cannot keep anything private these days.

Sure-fire Wow

agents

leaving Jak's head in too much pack, the American Forces Net-

of a hurry. 3-Dark grey L-2 work, and Jodrell Bank.

4-Life preserving jacket. bladders under Jak's armpits to

B

Captain Palmer signed, a form in 10 say FW 881 was all in one Jak's keep

neck

up unaccustomed water. 5.-P.4 piece. I signed a form to say helmet, incorporating oxygen Jak was all in one piece. They Then he absolutely guaranteed troducing us to some succulent aircraft and whereas I am doing mask, communication system, lowered the lid.

Upor my own microphone and headphones.

A cough, a splutter, a boom, a pretty select that his astral athletes, calling spare-ribs, and according us the so entirely A

No themselves the Skyblazers and freedom of everything from the initiative, risk, and respons -Automatic - opening

para bang..

flames shot from a flare-path to the fruit machines, bity: now, therefore, in con- chute with oxygen bottle.

spot some 30, feet behind where sideration of the permission And when I say everything I extended to me by the United

7-Survival kit to sit on, and my mate was sitting on his

jelly bables

and away sure mean everything. Mac States through its officers and comprised of a one-man raft,

went Jak, orbiting like including a free, fear-nothing,

piece of take said flight, I do compass,

cheese,

frenzied firework over Essex. hold-your-breeches, break the hereby for myself,

water purification my heirs, cereals, sound-barrier swoop in executors, and

administrators, tablets, built in supermarket- Thirty minutes later, F 991 genuine Super Sabre Jet at

waterproof zoomed back, a parachute bil- remist, release and forever dis- cum-shipyard, Mark you, there are whiffer- around 900 m.p.h. No foolin'.

charge the Government of the matches, snake-bite kit, woolly lowed from Its hot tail, and Jak, But not

sugar, chewing our Jak, was returned to Qur Still, it was a very nice letter. dills and whifferdilis.

an Now such seen a whifferdi until you've

out-of-this- United States and all its officers, socks, gloves,

and employees, acting gum, food-survival packet, shark bosom-safe, sound, with

radio Mach 1 barrier busted wide open Here's the briefing, chaps. at Wethersfield can you possibly world invitation fired the ad agents,

in me and obviously oficially or otherwise, from any frightener, jelly bables, It seems

Col. Robbins have a proper understanding of venturer

and all claims, demands, actions, set, cake, chocolate, coffee, tea, and looking like a refugee from thinks very highly of his 20th the 20th Tactical Fighter Wing, called for quick thinking.

or causes of action, on account two stoves, and a set of easy a pressure cooker after an ac-

to cident with a berserk tram. Tactical Fighter Wing. So high- NATO, or the United States Air ly

So, swift as light, I upped of my death or on account of 10-read pamphlets on what that he designed the Force.

and sold 箱 few well chosen any injury to me or my proper- do in case of emergency. shindig to ensure that Jak, 7, the

words. pointing out exactly ty which may occur from any Amir Qaboos, and all present

8.-Flying boots. what Col. Robbins could do with cause during the said flight or his Super Sabre Jet, and in continuances thereof, as well as 10-Beacon sisting that the honour of break- all ground and flight operations wishes. Indeed, Col. Robbins was ing (a) the sound barrier, or incident thereto." And

Col. so proud of his prospects that (b) his neck, was one that at this stage

regretfully · forego. in Robbins made two very cunning he declared the joint wide open must

First he revealed that to Jak and me at a special pre- favour of my dear friend, col- points.

run league and comrade. Me, I know admission to his air display was view, perinitting us to

amok in the officers' mess, in- when to make sacrifices. free.

that

One way and another, the shall gain it says in our letter) aerobatics had every indles- a better understanding of the tion of being a Sure-fire Wow. Wing, NATO, and the United

States Air Force.

THE REAL DANGER

Weird way

They showed Jak where (and

9.-Gloves. signal. 11-Best

Ears exploded

the

"It was nothing," he said modestly as they prised him and out of his tin.

With laughing quip merry jest, the 20th Tactical Fighter Wing piled this lot on (Note by Jak: Whiting is a Jak, bundled us into a jeep, and liar. My ears exploded, my drove 118 out to meet his limbs ached, my eyes stayed

I thought of my wife and partners on the perilous quest. shut, my past life was regretted, On the left stood Captain children, and I did not say "It Palmer, the pilot from was nothing." What I did may who said be' was that I never again wanted

And that folks, is how Jak how to sign this, and handed came to be the first cartoonist him over to a very large airman in the world to have a piece of named Sergeant Eddie Wysocki, Bil chocolate, a rubber dinghy, and of New York, who said that if I Minneapolis, a snake-bite kit strapped to his cared to call back in a couple of carried many a queer cargo in to fly at 1,000 miles per hour,

the hours he would have my intre- his time and not to worry. bottom before piercing

pid birdman all kitted up to go, Great Uncertain at between 40,000 and 30,000 feet over the man, go. English Channel and points

Now our Jak is rather

in snappy dresser weird way--one of the

OF HOLLYWOOD... and

It's too romantic, says Olivia

west.

Paper work

nonsense

ولط

0

Own

Bolted down.

-not even for £1,000 per hour.)

The United States Air Force, I understand, will shortly be making Jak a special award for Me, I want no On the right, silvering in the his derring-do. won- ders of Wimbledon, in fact but sunshine, stood Super Sabre Jet medals. Nevertheless, I think it Sergt. Wysocki's natty little W 901 as sweet an aluminium should be pointed out that, as always, it is those who wait who outfit really put the finishing alloy axial-flow - turbojet - First, of course, there was touches on the ensemble.

fighter bomber - complete carry the real burden of anxiety. with-afterburner As you could

I shall never forget that tor- paper work--- some

When next he appeared, wish to see.

mented, worry-racked half- about not blaming the United Stales if their Super Sabre Jet Jak's normally svelte 11 stone

Pilot Palmer climbed into hour I spent in the bar while came unstuck. As though we had increased by approximately the forward cockpit. Hell's Jak the Jet was breaking his would! Anyway, the declara- 120lb. Which is not surprising Angel Tak was compelled into way through the barrier of tion went something like this: 1960 "Know all men by these

to take a flight s a over. 2-Grey-green anti-G sult lead, and strap is going to be the all-time record year for marital presents: Whereby, 1, Jak, am

passenger in certain Air Force to stop Jak's blood smashes in little old Hollywood.”

Hollywood. THE growing boom in divorces among Hollywood stars has been described as "staggering" by the film colony's leading trade paper. The Hollywood Reporter dropped its usual attitude of indifference to the domestic crises of the stars to add this warning note: "It's only just beginning

the

The marriage mess" among the movie celebrities for month of May, according to the trade paper's lists, included the divorces of Lucille Balt end! Desi Arniaz, Cameron Bitchell and wife, and Leland arid Nancy Haywind.

Other film stars who are on their way to the divorce courts include. Bette. Davis and Gary Merrill (after nine years) and Collier Joan Fontaine, and Young (after four).

Over-romantic

For the past several years, Hollywood's high-paid public relations experte have tried to sell the American people the idea that the divorce rate of the stars is not really staggST=" ng-just the publicity given to each new marital break-up.

However, the fact remains that Hollywood's divorce rate is more than 2,000 per cent higher than any other suburb of Lo Angeles of the same size,

Former Hollywood resident Cilvia A Haylakad sel yand the slitation with these words

Hollywood is over-romantic. Frankly, the only Amershared by soné prople; in Haywood is a physical attraction."

-London Kaprese Service),

FERDINAND

about

THIM

FOUR D. JONES

VEL AND THE

MISSING LINK

THE

because he was wearing the

the rear-wedged in, screwed sound. following:

up, bolted down, wired for

1.-Blue flying suit zipped all sound, and connected by cable George Whiting

JONES PASSES THROUGH TIME BY WAY OF THE HOOP OF THE FOURTH

DIMENSION

I

to instrument any, panels, oxygen supply, survival

By Mik

GOSH

THE

HIS

WITH MASSES OF

LARK

-(London Expresa Biririca),

| Ak! That Food!

That Service! That Surissair!

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