An "Elvis-inspired"
discovery
go
"I WON'T 80% to declared Manja Cer.We
the Carlsbad Cavern-won't,
to
ing stalactites and dripstone; the effect was breathtaking, and Marijane just stood there star- ing in wonder at all she saw.
Sinister
But she wasn't exactly wild of sinister- touring for two whole weeks and just today, when about the swarms Elvis Presley is on T.V., you have to go touring those looking bats hanging upside old holes!"
caves.
down from the ceiling.
Marijane stepped back, dis- lodging some stones in doing so and startled all the bats which made for the exit where Mari- jane stood..
"Yeow"
"But dear, this is a chance of up everywhere. (Soda straws a lifetime," "coaxed Mrs Greene. are a kind of stalactite, appro- "Besides, they are not holes,' priately named for they are as you call them but gigantic hollow and thin-walled).
Then they came to a fork, a *The Carlsbad Cavern is an big sign said KEEP LEFT and American National Monument. Marijane, being at the end of She gave a hair-raising Besides you can't stay here all the line was quite unnoticed as shriek which echoed over and day in the hotel watching TV." she made a quick turn to the over, broke through the thin "Oh yes, I can," said Mari- right, into a smallish cave. shelf stone and fell "kerplop" jane, "and I wüi!”
into a deep pool
"Oh no you can't" said Greene, "and you won't."
She was going to do some Mrs exploring on her own, aided by
a small electric torch,
And what Mrs Greene said went, so....
The greatest
"Ahem," said the guide, "you are about
America's to enter
follow greatest caves-please
wandering me and do not go off by yourself
"It is still not known what to
in expect
undeveloped areas."
And with that the party pro- ceeded, headed by Mr Small, which was the guide's name, though in Marijane's opinion it should have been "Mr Large, because there was such a lot of him.
All the walls of the little cave were covered with whitish for mations just like pop corn.
Marjijane probed further into her newly found world.
Good
Fortunately she could swim and soon crawled shivering and soaking wet out of the water.
Meanwhile, Marijane's "yeow" was registered by the search party and soon she was found
The next day nearly all of New Mexico's newspapers bore the headlines-
"New cave "John!", gasped Mrs Greene,. teenager lost "Marijane's gone, she's lost." Cavern."
"Oh, good," murmured Mr Greene bending down to
examine a crystal
Then, realising what his wife had said, he straightened up suddenly.
THE CAREER CORNER
By ANNE HEYWOOD
Don't blow your top
if
you quit job mad
eight months is a long always begins to for- time to suffer so give a place as soon as it's is, you have to begin to resist left behind."
DICKENS once said: "One that
such
ning.
:
It's true, and its eminently discovered by worth remembering when you're in Carlsbad resigning from a job or being fired. Under such circunstances, there's an overwhelming temp- tation sometimes to let them have a plece of your mind, especially if you feel you have At her special request au- been shabbily treated. But re- thorities named the newly sist it!
and
"American girl discovers new etc., cave in Carlsbad Cavern" etc.
"Eh? What?! Marijane's found cave "Elvis Cave" lost? Don't panic, call the when asked by the reporters guide, tell the authorities, what her ambition was, she re- inform the FBI!"
plied in a-matter-of-fact way.
"Why,
speleologist, of course."
Mrs Greene raised her eyes
Meantime
a
In the meantime Marijane heavenwards. wondered од, to discover,
Mr Greene, being a scientist was very interested in the
"Thank goodness, I'm glad caves, and so was Mrs Greene, quite
by accident, a huge she's not going to be a rock'n but Marijane merely tolerated. the whole thing and tagged cavern with a queer glow given roll singer after all
off by phosphoric rocks, which
sion.
along at the end of the proces- reflected the trickles of water.
(Credit card to Antoinette The floor was covered with a Rozario). As he went on Mr Small, the million little pools, clear and gulde, pointed out the different deep, the light from her torch fell on the pretty, delicate, formations and named them.
formations of Marijane soon found herself flower-like actually listening with interest aragonite. There were thickets to what she had previously of soda straws covered with thought of as strictly for "pop-corn" as Marijane called
squares!
it.
She took special interest in The floor was of shelf stone, the soda straws which sprung there were also helictites, glow-
Reel Corner
DR
KATE
O'REILLY
R Richard Gordon, the man who has probably made more money out of medicine by not practising it than most doctors can hope to make in a lifetime of packed surgery hours, says that writing is hard work.
"Writing does not come easily, to me," he says.
relatively
into man
Yet Richard Gordon, one- from a time resident doctor at Barts medical London's St. Bartholomew's Hos- famous literary man. pital-anaesthetist at an Oxford · Infirmary and surgeon in the Merchant Navy, is the man who found that the pen is mightier- and more profitable-than the scalpel.
It was a book called "Doctor in the House" that turned him
Dr RICHARD GORDON, author of "Doctor in Love", and the other "Doctor" books.
a
unknown world-
"Believe
me, though, it is work. Hard work. But I am far happier now than I was when I never I practised medicine. really liked it, you know."_
Even though he confesses Lat he was not altogether keen on his medical career, Gordon is grateful for his experiences as a doctor. He has drawn on them constantly for his books counting personal and imaginary experiences in his own inimitable
way.
TOO LAZY
re-
He had, in fact, been writing for some time before "Doctor in the House" was published. When he qualified as a doctor he spent three years doing resident hospital jobs at Barts. In his spare time he edited the hospital magazine.
"Can't think what made ma take up writing all of a sudden," he said. “As a boy I was too laxy to contribute to the school magazine.”
by
Produced and directed Betty E. Box and Ralph Thomas -the same team responsible for the earlier Doctor films "DOCTOR IN LOVE" stars Michael Craig, Virginia Maskell, James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips and Carole Lesley.
AUTUMN CHANT
N
OW
the Autumn shudders
In the rose's root. Far and wide the ladders Lean among the frult
Now the Autumn clam-
bers
Up the trellised frame, And the rose remembers The dust from which it
came..
Brighter than the blossom
On the'rose's bough Bits the wizened orange,
Bitter berry now;.
Beauty never slumbers,
All is in her name; But the rose remembers
The dust from which It
came.
Credit card to
Robert Bau.
· READER'S - PROBLEM
This is the problem of a read- er, who writes me:
"I was hired to be a steno grapher in the office of the vice- president of this company. He has a secretary, and I was to help her out and relieve her to some of the details.
"Well, I've been in the job eight months, and it's a night mare. She is a 'deadbeat, never lifting a finger except to apple polish the boss.
DOES REAL WORK
+
=
treatment at
The trouble
the begin
START IMMEDIATELY
If you are given too much to do, so that you have to work nights while the other passion does nothing, don't waif eight months and then leave, bellow- ing. Begin at the first sign, and make it clear that you can do only so much. Don't criticiss her, simply make it clear that you can work just so much and no more.
If you nip such a thing in the bud, you can handle it, but if you wait until its full-blown, it's hopeless:
FIND ANOTHER JOB
Second, don't blow your top when you leave. It will do no- body any good and it can do What the you a lot of harm. secretary does is her business, and you are not her keeper. It ber boss is stupid about it, let him find out by himself.
"She takes care of his office and sharpens his pencils and does his personal chores, acts as weeks notice. front and takes the phone calls, But the rest of the time she writes personal letters or has personal phone calls while I do all the work-literally, all of it
"She
gives me the reports she's supposed to be typing, and then when I've done them, she takes them in to him as if she had done them herself,
HUNTING NEW JOB
"Well, I'm looking for another job, naturally, and when I get it, I'm going to enlighten him, don't. worry.
Find another job, resign from this one and give at least two Clean up your desk and leave things in good shape, and resist the templa tion to say a word. Remember, as Dickens said, that before long you'll look back and find you have forgiven and forgotten the whole sorry mess,
Most of all, keep your eyes open next time and you can avoid getting into such a setup in advance. There are always telltale signs, and now you'll be able to recognise them.-
If you are leaving a job, or breaking off with a boy friend, or resigning from a club com- about mittee, resist the temptation to tell anyone of. You máy en- counter the same people
up, and you don't your way This sort of thing happens a want them to remember un- good deal, but it seems to me flattering things.
"Please do
a piece women like that, and avoid them.”
wolk
Will you
faster
darling
!!
-!! HELP!!!
how to
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