THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1960. ******
JACKY'S DIARY JACKY MEndeLSON WHEN You come in the Entrants They also had a Place Where they were
LAST Week i Told You WOULD TEll You More ABOUT THE ARMY CAMP we VisitePs SO NOW PM Telling You
Mendelsohn
Age 321⁄2
Like i all Ready EXPLANED YOU, Sold JERS ARE UniNformed accordian To RANK, The MOPE Rank They are, the MORE STRIPES THEY GOT ON They're APM,
a private
1st CLASS
The PLACE We Went to eat in was
REAL POPULER. The Line was about a Mile
Long to
Geti
There.
Mess
HALL
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A full- Blooded Lan Etc, CORPUSCLE
"THE 1st Thing THEY got is a Bie
Cannon thAT PRObaly could kill a Million people With one Shot
So Right aWAY
You could tell
It's A Good:
Place,
So instead we went in a
PLACE called a PX.... Which! Stands (for PAY tRa
8-28
TRYMS OUT Ba-Lipstick Missiles, it WAS teal intresting, exsept we couldn't goin
Bang!
Real BA- Lipstick Missile
TOP SECRIT No Admittens
Then we went & Saw SOME SOLDJERS PRACKtising GORIA Warfare, Only we got There Too Late, on a count of they were all out of BANANAS & COCÓ- Nuts to THROW at each other,
(Bang! Your DeAd
This is Jack Cotton:
The master builder who today plans to borrow another £20,000,000
talks
about London...
AMAN'S office can tell you as much about him
as a woman's bedroom can about her. So I was interested to look about me in the suite at the Dorchester which Mr Jack Cotton maintains as his HQ.
He is the greatest of the property developers
by Donald
Edgar
who, in the last few years, have transformed the fairly gav
matching handkerchief Just For example, the great skyscra–
por in the centre of New York
bow tie with a several projects with Gropius. centre of London and many other cities---and now showing out of his breast that it is too late there are many people who do pocket
As he is talking he likes walk- not like the result.
Only now it is revealed that his company is to room. Increase its borrowing powers from £30 million £50 million. And the experts say he will have trouble finding the money.
Roses, orchids
no
in which he has a large interest,
Cotton doesn't
There was another Renoir there also. And there were two or three wonderful flower paint- ings by Fantin-Latour.
i got
You 1st,
RaT
So then we went Home
BS i think i'll be
a Soldjek when i grow up. That way icaN SET Free AmM-| unishun for MY POP GUN in CASE LOSE THE CORK.
more taste or genius in their rebuilding.
But I think ..we could have had lots worse men than Jack Cotton.
It has become something of a
He is a great man who has cllche for rich men to buy a got things done, in spite of plan- collection of French impression ning restrictions and the enmesh- Ists, so I was rather impressed "ments of bureaucracy. by his understanding and love of his paintings,
Any vision?
There was a Frantin-Latour Ike to be of white steeks. "You go right drawn on the subject, but I feel up to that one." Cotton said. that he thinks British architects "It's Bowers all the way. how Have you any
ever close you get," And he was right.
ing quietly up and down his now and again staring through the window down at the 10 trame in Park Lane.
have never really had a chance themselves because At the back of my mind, I of proving
been innde- was naturally thinking about their training has you notice arc the bowls of the squabble over his designs for quale,
"For ene thing." he said, flowers-carnations. roses and the Monico site at Plocadilly
don't travel abroad urchids.
Circus which ended with the "they Ministry of Housing veloing it enough. They just don't know what is going on in Italy er France,"
Over the mantelpiece hangs one of those delightful, wistful Boudins of a seashore.
No chance
We went cut to the hall. There were two delightful paintings of young girls,
I asked him my question:
London should look?"
QUOTE
4
----by Judge Geoffrey Howard at West London County Court recently when a woman com- plained that after
firm cleaned her white fur fabric coat it Was no longer while:-
STLOV
I FEEL this case presents
the opportunity for number of firms on televi. sion to tell us their pro ducts produce whiter whites.
*
--by Mr J. R. Moore, of Little Mellon, Norfolk, nuaker of instruments for racing cars:-
DRIVERS
EARNER
•
Liling the driving
test for the third time should be banned from the roads. Persistent failure is proof of inadequate aptitude.
-by
...
Clerkenwell magistrate Mr T. F. Davis:-- .
THY is it that some
WHY
men are charged with dangerous driving as well as careless driving in cases of a similar nature? And why is it that we get A counsel in this case yet no counsel in more compli- cated cases? Some damned Billy decisions come from New Scotland Yard's traffic department.
Runaway Nazis are
working for a revival
DOZEN Germans
Buenos Aires.
in a crowded restaurant suddenly rose to their feet, lifted glasses vision of how of champagne and cried: "To Hitler! The Fatherland!" It is a scene from Germany of 20 The word "vision" seemed to years ago. But it happened only last month in the
smart Cabana restaurant in Buenos Aires.
These Germans, dedicated above-all policy of Adolf Hitler Nazis, believed in the Germany-
and still do.
trouble him.
"Well." he replied,
"London
"what
is the most beautiful city in the Well, the answer about Mr
"I like coming into the ofee" world. I think it always will Cotton's office is that there is
he said. "'s rhways nice for higher. We are gradually being bu. We are gradually building Very little of the office about
them to be here waiting for me." I don't think he is bitter aboul 11 at all.
converted from a conservative There is none of the tubular Outside the softly curlained He picked up on article on the architectural profession, but
He's a dificult an to sum rebuilding. starichess. the
"But." I continued, the mussed com-
great I think he would like to see it up. In his life windows are the autumn tints Walter Gropius.
he must have German architect munication machines, relleved of the Park.
who now undergo a drastic reorganisation. been tough end, no doubt at about the style of architecture? perhaps by a rubber plant, that The atmosphere is quiet, rest- works In America, and sald: Of course, it has been difficult times, ruthless, But if he was Which of the buildings that heve mark the executive ofces in ful, elegant, And that is the "This is the chap. Look at the ler Calton to impress his point he has dertainly mellowed. gone up since the war do you the buildings Mr Cotton has almosphere that Jack Cotton pictures of his work 40 or 50 of view on architects. For he is
like?" put up.
gives out himself, He has a sort of study with a small desk and one black tele- phone. There is another largish table: But the first thing that
years ago. It's only now that not an archieet himself, ke. they are beginning to catch up say. Wren or Nash. with him.
A man of 57, medium height, black hair, a fairly, bronzed face, A plaka blue sult, dark eyes. no waistcoat, a white silk shirt, is
I began to realise why Colton,
now working closely
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"Ob, all of them," he replied
I think he worries more about the look of his buildings now He has been the developer, than he ever did in the past. In
finds the man who
the site, one way you can say it has been with a wicked smile. raises the money from insurance sad for London and other great companies and guarantees them cities that there has not been un excellent return by finding
Arst-clase tenants.
He's a very man, this Cotton.
self-contained
I asked him
what he thought the secret of
his success had been.
"You've got to be single-
minded," be replied. “You can't
diversify a hamam mind.
London Express Service).
Lonely women
LONELY
"If you're going to be on top 14
Now York. frustrated
American women are
of a job, then you have got to transforming
Bingo
Allek to that job. I've never left | [Housey-housay) from
that pattern."
"Have you had your ups and downs?"
a
gentle parlour game into ono of the country's greatest gambling enter- "Well, as you know, I came prisos, it is estimated that from Birmingham on January more than 1,500,000 of 21, 1924, when I was 21. 1
borrowed £50 from my father, these women play the Bingo
I opened up on my own. He circuit each night to the told me if I wanted any more tune of 1,000 million dol- money I could go to him. But Ilars a year-or more than was able to repay the 250 in
hore to attend all three months and that was the is paid
only money I have ever had professional baseball from anyonW)."
Delightful
boxing oxhibitions.
and
The averago American Bingo fon has been described as fol-
OF
make
Bingo
pay
'They
the
aro Germans · In Naxis' Inst bunker- hideout In the Argentius.
True or false, the point re- against the wanted Nazla mains: Peron took no action
He even employed Nazis who were not on wanted Bits.
were
He took 40 of Hitler's experts on the staff of the Argentine's military aircraft factory at Cordobo, 400 miles north-west of Buenos Aires. The Germans employed us aircraft Nobody can say for sure how designers and technical advisers. many Nazis are in the Argen- Now Peron has gone, the tine but there are 75,000 Ger- Nazis in their South American mans in the country, great bunker are Anding life Moto numbers of them with Nazi difficult. All but three of the 40 sympathies and ideals,
aircraft experis have left or loat their jobs.
Juan Peron and his beautiful, opporturilst wife Eva were while
openly for the Germans they ruled the Argentine.
Vengeance
The present Government has
not such strong sympathies for The Nazis, fleeing from their the Israelis for personally kid- the Naxis. It was angry with
bealen Germany, poured into
trusted to kill 6,000,000 Jews.
the country-including Adelt nopping Eichmann, but it might Eichmann, the monster Hiller even have arrested aim it pres
sure had been brought,
Though Elchmann has been captured, the Israella are not finished yet-not by a long way.
Somewhere in Buenos there are always Ismells on the look-out.
Eichmann, pursued relent lessly by Jews who survived his horror, was at long lost kid- napped by an Israeil commands team in Buenos Aires and now awaita his fate in Tel Avly.
Safety
Aires
As the gas chambers of Ger- many Ellently sent millions of Jows to their deaths, Jewish vengeance was aworn, One of Eichmann's staff, Dr
Lracl's agents tracking down Joseph Mengele, also reached the Nazis swear to honour that the Argentine safely. So did oath of vengeance. Johann von Leers, a high- powered Hitler propaganda
ruan.
Hitler's personal
But the Nasis in the Argen-
1 still have hope--hope that pilot, Hana
Rudel, also turned up-and so Germany will once sgain be did scores of others.
Despite the false arrest last master of Europe, weck of a little ono-armed
ard
are
In some areas the games have storekeeper Walter Fiegel, be-
Hall a world away from their lows Bha ia mikile-aged been organised with all the emuse sumeone thought he was beloved Clermany they He talked about his family, older, her children have left clency of Big Business, and fitler's deputy, Martin Bor working for the day they think and his grandchildren, about his home and she has too much time chartered buses are used to bring mann, the rumour still persists will yet down again. gardening at Marlow, about his on bor hands.
players in from all over the that Bormann did not die after So that their children will bo reading" perder thrillera. I
he left iller's burning bunker prepared for it, the Nazis like those Saint books by Leslla A psychiatrist added: "More State,
in Berlin, but that he somehow making sure that they are Charteris. They help me to often than not she is a partner
reached the Argonilne, relax,"
in a lovelem marriage.”
properly "educated." There are people who swear So now at the German Row- that Bormann once regularly toy Club in Buenos Aires, where drank beer in the A.B.C. Ger the young Germans gather, restaurant in Lavalk there is something extra for the In New Jersey, for instance, street, in the heart of Buenos young men to do when they
put their boats away,
Former members of 2 Hiftoria. never removed a Third Reich-kaya-orgutland (k
He led me into the next room.
I was a large sitting-room with,
Every night
Prizes of nearly £2,000 are not uncommon in Bingo but the biggest "prizes" go to, the or sumisors of the games.
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The typical player often plays ma Haramk decoration, -iha | 'every night of the week, and the gomo Han grbased about Afros.
And one The man many swore was farsous Renoir, “La Penas" for follows a ciret it. One woman 230 million a year.
admitted that sho' went'. more. Now Joey church made thand 86 a night, and frequent £100,000 a year from the game Bormann which hie, paid £12,000 a couple ty travelled 00 tiles in order to even before Bingo was made black glove from his right hand. series of disculous, ja The, salang This mays the story, was to die- Jeol; the Fourth Reichsponsi find the garnes with the best legal, prizes.
*|--Chandon Expyese Korales)......... gulso a tales hand,
of years ago,
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