1960-08-20 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1960.

Mr. Meddlesome, Q.C.

SEE HIM FLITTING FURTIVELY IN WHEN TROUBLE IS IN THE AIR.

FROM time to time, emerging from Africa like a genie from a bottle, there flits into Britain a most mysterious figure. You catch only fleeting glimpses of him--this plum, toothy man with the almond-shaped eyes and the strange, sudden smile,

His plane touches down at London Airport. Then with a whoosh he is away by fast car to a third-floor flat above a chemist's shop is Great Portland- street.

For the next day or two the " mord outside is all bustle. Black

Jimousine:

dignitaries

roll roll

Up

out

Black hurry

upstairs for enigmatic confer- ences.

Then abruptly It is all over, A put of smoke, a whiff of sulphur, and prestol Mr Geoffrey Henry Cecil Bing, Attorney-General of Clans, has

vanished back to Accra.

Marx House

And the modest flat in Great Fortland-street stays vacant- till the next time with the rent being paid to its owner, Left- wing millionaire property magnate Mr Howard Samt:el,

by DOUGLAS CLARK

in London, training centre fur Britain's young Communists.

next in the Up he Spanish Civil War, acting as legal adviser to the Republican Government. The war condes; and Mr Bing clocks in for outragously brave job-jump- to the greater power and glory, ing out of airendt to lest new

types of parachute equipment of Dr Nkrumah.

Sometimes the business he

parsues is utterly unf thomable

ike the sudden jaunt he made to Britain with eight Ghanaians recently in a Russian plane,

On auch occasions Mr Bing, bulky, mysterious, smiling his Mena Lisa smile, seems to have supped straight out of a drama from Hollywood,

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Then the 1945 election. The Labour landslide rolls Mr Bing into the Commons as M.P. for Hornchurch.

He pauses to thank his con- pid situency helpers..."The of the Communists was in many

ways invaluable"-and plunges into a hectic parlimentary

career.

Mr. Bing "seems

to have

stepped straight out of a drama from Hollywood...”

elbow

He even finds time to write And ever since then he has

at Nkrumah's for Tribune a pamphlet on Irc- hovered land which sells so prodigiously while Ghana has been building that, for a year, the magazine is the constitutional framework of no doubt able to treat its usual a massive dictatorship. Teft-wing millionaire backers

with faini huuleur,

Alas, in 1955 the Hornchurch vors sling him out.

Formidable

How varied, too, has been his

Su Mr Bing.Q.C., switches his career. Same passages in it do

He keeps the House uplate mile in a now. direction. To not seem fully documented. But

with

brilliant Allbustering the Dark Continent, rich in What an astonishing, colour- here we go.

On the side, he prospects

for the Left-wing ful, incalculable man is Mr He was educated at Tonbridge speeches. Bing. Never resting. Always and Oxford. A plush, easy start. Lecomes vice-chairman of the explorer. In 1957 he becomes Nkrumah's chief legal plunged in some deep, intricate But suddenly we find him, in British Rumanian Friendship Dr political

dedicated 1935, lecturing at Marx House Association,

manoeuvre

The amazing

IT is as plain as the nose

that used to be on Juliette Greco's face that it is now boom time for new noses in show busi- ness.

Indeed, the other day Julla Lockwood actually had a special And preview of her new nose. practically every starlet and pin up you meet now has a button-

down nose.

list

of

new noses

by

PETER EVANS

the anaesthetist's fee and some- times a nursing home fee.

"One of iny patients, a travell ing salesman, actually got a private loan from his bank to

For this is the gold-plated age of the plastic surgeons, And it isn't only the stars who are in a hurry to bob, tilt, and other pay fur the operation."

wise streamline their noses.

The bank manager, shrewd

adviser.

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

Indeed, out of 55 boys at TOTHING is more fun than Portland Borstal who had plastic N the spectacle of our rulers surgery 30 were not reconvicted.

It does not always work out falling over themselves and each so well, of course. Recently a other in frantie efforts to decide his ut what point gambling becames nose-docked soldier lost,

a heinous offence. flancee. "You're not the same man," she said. And left.

I have also been talking to some of the more famous nose

jobs to try to discover what effect it has had on the wearers' life.

Jackie Collins, sister of Joan, sniffed through her new one year-old) nose and said: "There

The Lords believe that betting on dominoes is not wrong if the stakes are low. The same will

probably apply to halma, snap, and tiddleywinks. Side-betting on draughts is a scourge when tic-tac men get to work in the background. Gambling on the Stock Exchange, whether the lation rather than gambling, «We like Mr Glapiron”

A Harley-street surgeon told soul, figured that the traveller are problems. Oh, it works all stakes be high or low, is specu-

me that

of out

every

would do rather more business if he looked more attractive.

At Borstal

10 nose-jobs he does eight are people who have absolutely nothing to do with show

Dr Denis Ogden, medical ofcer business,

During the past few weeks to the Prison Medical Service, who have plastic surgery to im-

he had worked on a secretary, said recently that Borstal boys

a bank clerk; a housewife, and an Army officer.

He said: "My fee is between chance of going straight on their £100 and £200. Then there is release.

right. But I don't know-people seem to look upon you as some kind of freak. There was nothing much wrong with my old nose. Just a bit long, so I sort of had it cut down."

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is said that Sol Hogwasch may be asked to inject Into Singer Rosemary Squires had our General Elections something into cute of the excitement of an Ameri- her nose turned

Strip-tease artists, Market place in a country con- stituency. models, actresses, and air- hostesses surround an enormous wedding cake. A Cabinet. Minds- te presses a button, the cake falls apart, and out steps, to the

of the overture stains

prove ugly noses have a greater retrousse- very popular model can Presidential election. Scene: this year. She said: "It made all the difference. I photograph better, get more dates, make

more money. Marvellous,"

A British Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS

3 What the Houst master

wields? (4).

7 Like that obedient servandi

(5).

8 Made round cheese (4).

@ What you need it accused

of knocking it off? (4).

10 Bob Fish is the captain (7).

12 Write mechanically (4).

15 Hauls out of the water (G).

18 Waved with a magical air

18 They don't catch me at the

greyhound trackel (5).

21 las fun on the stage? (5). 22 Quarry of the sialker (4).. 23 Have a ven for and then

some (5).

26 Go by Wagon Train? (4).

29 In the first place? Far from

$1 (7).

30 Doesn't fast (4).

21 Lend in a heavenly scene

(4).

32 Gives a personal

ment (5).

33 Features of chestnuts? (4),

DOWN

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1 Gets together for a game (5). Show in a good light (7).

4 Tried to be audible? (5).

5 Cast a skin? (4).

4 Play on and on, it seems (4).

9 Force out of shape (4).

11 Girl in the garden (6).

13 For which we get twelve

months (4).

14 Facility (4).

16 Back on board (5).

17 One for a dog (4).

18 Become weaker (4).

20 When payment is collected?

(7).

22 Understanding of a speaker!

(4).

24 Ledger lem (5),

25 Stuck up? (5).

27 Formal observance (4).

20 Roadside! (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across 1 Blocks, T Item,

9 Wager, 10 Olled, 11 Last, 13 Horse-shoes, 15 Tete, 16 Mona, 19 Embroiders, 22 Deal, 24 Trews, 25 Lorry, 36 Moss, 27 Surrey. Down: 2 Lage-r, 5 Carte, 4 Sloths, 5 Billeted, 6 Beds, 8 Tease, 12 Tress, 18 Humid, 14 Seamless, 17 Nears, 18 Crisps, 20 Idler, 21 Eeria 28 Eton,

Men too

to

But the plastic surgeon isn't only a girl's best friend Peter O'Toole. comie Alan King, com- "Zampa" by the Guards' massed the candidate. He is poser Lionel ("Fings Ain't Wot bands,

The

drivers, They Used T'Be" Bart, and mobbed by racing dancer Lionel Blair, have also guitarists, debutantes, boxers, been recent visitors to the nose and company directors.

whole assembly, led by the doctors.

"Rockin' Round One actress who isn't too police, sings charmed with her new nose is The Moon" while the candidate Delphi Lawrence. "I regret the distributes coples of his photo- whole thing." she said. "I had graph.

a better nose when I started.

"Keep Britain Brown!”

It was well, more aristocratic.

all the people who can Aafford to grill themselves in

A noble nose."

Shani Wallis. you might say,

has the nose that got away, the sun for a month or two I Said she: "1 was just going offer my sympathy. Today they

right-watchman in

to have it chopped when Charlie can get no browner than Chaplin stopped me. Stay as you are, he said. 'Change your nose and you'll ruin your per- sonality."

Lots of them

Finsbury. Thus does democracy, alded by chemical preparations, bring duke and dustman to one dull level of colour, In the age of the the brown man,

common

So the starry parade of nose humblest may aspire to synthe- jobs goes on Zsa Zsa Gabor, ic sunbum. No longer is the Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Sellars. swarthy Moorish look the pre- In Hollywood there is even this rogative of rank or riches. A concoctions advertising slogan: "Why not thousand cunning give her a new nose for Christ-have struck enfeebled feudalism mas?" That of course is for the a blow from which it will never girl who has everything.

---(Landım Express Service).

recover.

I'm afroid thats today Phugh! Schnozzle Durante just couldn't used to be the custom, among have happened.

touring actors in theatrical And Cyrano de Bergerac would lodging-houses, to nail n kipper have been a wow with the under the dining-room table women with his poems and plas- and leave it there until it made tic profile.

its presence felt in no uncertain manner. The other day a lodger objected to his landlady that her establishment "recked of cab- bage." With considerable dignity she replied, according to the re- port, "It isn't the cabbage. It's the potatoes." It is always safer to say "The place reeks," than to particularise. Mrs McGurgle once rebuked a pensionnaire thus: "What you imagine you detect, Mr Wappel, is a certain aroma Inseparable from the pre- paration of a home-cooked re- past,"

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London Express. Bertion,

Where might such an extra- Who ordinary career not end? could predict a limalt to the powerful influence that Mr Bing is gathering to himself in the seething politics d Africa?

At this moment he is thick in the Congo busi

Deep in Ghana's nesi. manoeuvres with Guinea. Establishing close personal relations with Lumumba.

I may even be that Mr Bing, lying like a rhinoceros under the surface of the Zambesi, may eventually prove a more formidable Agure in Africa than any of the coloured leaders who now capture the headlines.

This, at least, is certain. He ruanol complain if some puple believe that his single-minded purpose is to throw every white man out of the continent.. except Mr Geoffrey Henry Cecil Bing.

-{London Express Servics).

AUTOMATIC TOASTER

MATIANA

National

Lost in an ecstasy of living - - - Hot grgeous live life. With great big rosen

And furs...

And cars, waiting,

And men, delectable men, waitinę..

What did site need with the time?

It was a horrid, precise and completely unnecessary

detail,

I wasn't feminice...

But one man,

Who had the superbly manlike ability,"

To calculate, sometimes, that the thing a woman 'saya

she doesn't want is the one thing she does. Brought her a Rolex watch...

it wasn't feminine

to know the time