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JAK

and ANNE.

(Sharpley, of course)

BRITISH respect for being sur-

rounded by water is so great that even the licensing laws are thrown overboard once the cunn- ing scions of the island race get themselves afloat-even if it's in only six inches of snail-infested sludge and within hand's-reach of either shore.

Jak, with his deep love of our oldest traditions, was glad to hear of this but didn't feel that actually going to sea was worth it. Even the Thames was a bit of a risk. What about a nice, safe canal,. he said, with a bottom you could reach without getting your feet wet?

wife, Margaret, got busy with the bar.

The children soon, discovered that going under Hayes bridge was wonderful for amplifying the words they hadn't learned at school and that the best thing about boats was the water round them, in which all sorts of things were seen Boating to advantage, particularly school-

CHINA

THURSDAY, JULY IL 1960.

London Stores Surukou.

The things that can happen on

a

nice, safe canal!

Well, there was the Grand Union Conal, I said, which went to Birmingham from London, a sort of M1 for ducks where the usual speed was five miles a hour and where the words "Time, gentlemen, please," had never been heard. There was only one thing that might put him off boarding British Water way's Water Kelpie and Water mates. Nymph and getting the main- brace spliced straightaway and that was the fact that B5 school-

two boats kept colliding with that if they got all the children's children liad boarded

those shattering impacts so dear heads and arms out of the way already.

said that Jak

he Before

Cowley Lock was to every child. Every child the two boats could just make would never allow his love of reached the question of which aboard The Water Kelpie and it in the lock without getting children to interfere with his boat was Cambridge and which the Water Nymph that was.

stuck half-way. determination to set them a bad Oxford was still not Bettled The ones overboard weren't example, because chlidren need either between the two boats, too pleased ed these awful warnings he thought.

Cast off

thean

The race

School-

are

or between the two factions

"As these narrow boats inside. the boats.

made of steel there is no Do children have their own way of sibility of our sinking." deciding such matters,

nounced the skipper, over sively drawn from the

amplifier. bloodthirsty bits of their history lessons, I observed,

exten-

more

The skipper of the Water There was

a flat-out race at Nymph, Tony Mumford, ex- five miles an hour to be first in plained you had to actually cart the lock. And it's funny how, off before you could open the even if the skipper never let go bar, whereupon Ják became the of the tiller for a moment, what greatest sailor since Nelson was with the cheering, screaming, a boy and said he'd look after booing, grappling irons, boarding the casting off it the skipper's parties, and cutlass-waving, the

ANNE SHARPLEY is standing in for Jak's regular partner, George Whiting, who is still in America after covering the world heavyweight fight between Ingemar Johansson and Floyd Patterson.

by Friell

Tate Gallery

PICASSO STHIRITION}

Now, now, Sir! I know how you feel.

Amery

You know, the price of land is Cryear is almost Ar dear as in Hongkong.

TRUMAN ACCUSES

KIKAJI

VOTER:

AS PARTY

COMETENTION

about 50 yards behind us. We beat them to the third locks.”

Another child, sticking to the point that impressed her most, bad wrliten in her book "Waarfs are very smelly,”

Another had kept a list of We had passed.

"Get your heads inside the boat or you'll go on without them," shouted Mr Mumford, which some children find an experiment worth trying. the public-houses particularly with their neigh- bour's head.

seem to

Side by side

Jak of course had been happy to ignore public houses, for the first time in his life, and was busy finding out from Janet Nicholls, the other skipper's of wife, the conditions

of employ- Chris- ment for thirsty cartoonists on

The two boats raced out

of the

the canal.

She and "Nick" live in

cabin in which you can't stand upright and which just takes a

three-foot wide bed and a stove. "It stops us quarrelling You can't quarrel in that space," said

Janet.

As Janet had blonde hair, blue eyes and the figure of a fresh water mermaid Jak didn't see how anyone could quarrel with her.

Room enough

"Nick" suggested that there was still enough room for him and Jak to have & quarrel if Jak didn't get out of the cabin

soon

The banks of the canal at this point were unusually rich in green frogy and dead fish so the children declard now good time to stop and

bave lunch,

WHE

The marriage history of Jean Simmons

"I

WAS lucky," said Jean Simmons to me a few

weeks back. "I met Jimmy (Stewart Granger) when I was 17, and this made life a lot easier for me. If I had been on my own as a very young woman, goodness knows what might have happened."

She meant that there had not been the rash of divorce and disappointment that seems almost invariably to accompany the career of a young film star. And in the number of times I have seen her during her three months' stay in London this summer this was the only direct reference she has made to her marriage.

The point of Jean Simmons's attitude towards her marriage is one of innate dignity and re- straint,

by JOHN

A year ago, when I bad CRUESEMANN

several talks in Paris with Brigitte Bardot at the tipe she and her present husband, Jacques Charrier, were almost aggresively, courting, they were literally in each offer's arrus, billing and coping, most of the time. Perhaps they honestly felt like that.

But this is something Jean Simmons could and would never do, despite her liveliness.

Potential

and

which

In a way, she wants needs, protection and this she certainly got from Granger, 50 that their marriage finally followed in the winter of 1950/51 was 8 foregone con- clusion,

In all the times I have seen Jean she has never deviated from her loyalty to her husband,

She just did not talk about her marriage, Perhaps there was nothing to say, but she did not even pretend there was.

For Jean there is one great was love, her three-and-a-half-year- with

the

Jak said he shouldn't spoll the kids' enjoyment by saying things like that and the skipper said even if they couldn't sink there was a very good chance they'd get stuck as he was going to put the lock side by side. both boats through the lock time, aged 10 was waiting was three inches too broad in contest; together and the Water Kelpie lock bylock account the beam.

"When we came to the first As the water foamed round Jock we kept bumping each the two boats Jak observed that other and the other boat took it had a fine head on it and the lead. They

were in the that he ought to be taking advantage of the lawless, lead until we got to the next romantic couple, he found. They and next week I know they're the year 1946 and she

all going to bring frogs. And I making "Great Expectations," old daughter Tracy, now licensed life of the waterways look when they went in and had eloped.

have to be introduced to all of in which she appeared as young her in London. "Every time I and would Mrs Mumford pour, we followed but they bumped

Estello. It was this film that come home and see Tracy," ska please.

into the lock gate and we got Mr Mumford and the skipper in the lead.

de-led not simply as

was to first stamp her on the said, "I feel again a glow

a pride and astonishment that of the other boat, "Nick" "They had to go back and we

coming beauty but also

as a she is mine." Nicholls, had meanwhile found were out aliead and they were "I wouldn't go back, not likely,"

great potential actress,

AF

un-

Eloped

She and her husband were

"For six years I worked in the City, Every morning on that Brentwood to Liverpool Street train," said 22-year-old Janet,

The Headmistress was looking

rather worried. "We have a Jean is now 31. Remember Pet's Afternoon every Friday her as she was at 17. It was

them," she shuddered.

opening time on dry land,

Jak, remembering it was now cided it was time to go.

-(London Express Service).

Space

FTER more than a year of deliberation the Cabinet is still unable to decide whether to get into the challenging business of space-rocketry or stay out of it, as Mr Duncan Sandys, the Aviation Minister, confirmed in a speech in London recently.

This time the politicians have the best possible excuse for dithering-the scientific and in- dustrial experts advising them on this issue are themselves split into two opposing factions. For every high-level adviser urging "Get into space or Britain becomes a second-rate nation" there is another, equally authoritative, warming "Keep out or Britain goes bankrupt."

Even the estirnates for dere - loping the Blue Streak rocket to put up five satellites range from £150 million to less than £20,000,000—with the GlovesZDA, meil accepting the tiebest figure because of past experience with rocket costs.

Inquiry

by Chapman Pincher

a

Streak is still costing, and so vital, because of its possible

eventually.

OBJECTION:

The

money

secrets

Blue Streak of

Germany because it is based on

And it was the picture which a year later won her the most coveted screen role in Britain as Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet,

Devotion

And again--and hearing the way she said it one knew that this was no faisely created

Jean Simmons, unlike image, for her care and devotion

many

other

So who

to Tracy are intense but also

→

hopefuls Alckered and then failed in that practical. Immediate post-war boom in British films, was now clearly marked out for stardom,

Tracy, in the coming months, will be doubly dear to Jean now that her marriage has broken, By then Stewart Granger was, mental woman and one cresting for at heart Jean is a sentí. with James Mason, the most The

sought-after actor in British and capable of immense affec- tion. She has managed more studios. He was handsome-and he was 15 years older than Jean triumphantly than any woman I have seen in a similar sijua- Simmons. He was immediately

down-to- and immensely taken with Jean. tion to maintain a

earthness about her stardom And she with him.

without being cynical O despising it

Her need

She must have done this at because great cost sometimes, there were times in Hollywood when she was bitterly homesick for London, where she was born. he But she has contrived to do so because filming is something

Although at that time-1948- Granger was married, there seemed little doubt that would want to marry Jean.

established

star

Jean herself was now already she genuinely believes in becoming an

The break-up of a marriage and potentially looking for and is never easy or happy. But In longing for a man who could Jean's 'case it must be doubly take her around and, indeed, hard because she has succeeded in the toughest, most publicised look after her.

business in the world in staying One of Jean's greatest attrac-

a nice, ordinary young woman. tions is her utter lack of ARGUMENT: The cancella-

Whatever the heartache for obvious sophistication. She tion costs for running down makes no pretence of being a stay that way because she has ber I believe she will manage to the character to do so.

the Atlas H-bomb missile. In any case International operation would mean prohibi- tive delay,

-{Landon_Fryrem Sarolje),

MEET MR CLOGGHEAD*

*CLOG: ANYTHING THAT HINDERS MOTION

OR RENDERS DIFFICULT.

ARGEMENT: Scientific dis- system. must *Work in an Blue Streak and compensating oeveries waiting to be made to emergency

the firms will total £50,000,000. great wit, or queening it as her

beauty, style, ARGUMENT: Reconnaissance For a further £80,000,000 the would entitle her to do.

and stardom space are so vast and immeasur– A DECISION U so urgent, able that they are bound to satellites _ capoble of photo- male could be developed for because of the money Blue yield profitable return graping Russian territory con-

space work, tinuously are vital for defence.

OBJECTION: The costs of

OBJECTION: This is throwing effects on the zelion's fire, could be more wisely spent in U.S; reconnaissance satellite good money after bad. By the that I have made a searching scientific research earth experiments, coupled with the time Blue Streak is ready, five inquiry to secure the major where results are foreseeable fact that those shot down would years from now, surplus Atlas arguments and comter-args and likely to have immediate have to be replaced, show that rockets will be available at cut ments being submitted to the application,

this project is prohibitive for prices from the US. Cabinet by Lord Hailsham, the

ARGUMENT: Space research Britain, Science Minister-

will skimplate electrondes, radar, ARGUMENT; The Inter ARGUMENT; The completion and other down to earth national prestige from being in of Blue Streak and its use for branches of engineering.

space will be worth, the money, OBJECTION: In that case put See how Russia's exports have

THE · Prine' · Minişler knows space shote will provide ex- perience In engineering and all the research money straight rieen since their Soutalks that he decides to buy US. technology which cannot be into those branchen.

demonstrated Soviet scientific missile for a grill-scale space obtained any other way.

ARGUMENT: The future of prowess.

programme, Britain will be out OBJECTION: Blue Streak long-distance communioction by OBJECTION: Any prestige in of the big rocket business for unes liquid duel which' La telephone, radin, and TU will space will have all been grabbed ever. rapidly being replaced by was depood on satulifes orbiting far by the Russians and Americans fuel. There is no point in out in space. A message from a before Britain gets there." investing in a technology which cable office to a satelite will be will poon be obsolete,

relayed via the other satellites LARGUMENT" Unless Britain in any point, în garth free froga. gets into space research, scien- sinapot interference andy pós-

In Germany

ALGUMENT: Space research

tists will leave in droves for sibly more chearty than by sabirorthwhile as a political move

ODJECTION: A worthwhile

space programine would tie

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