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Jak and

George

IT is with some aston-

ishment that

this

column announces that its artistic half, one Jak, will shortly be appearing with all the physical at- tributes of Rock Hud- son, plus a touch of Tarzan around the pec- toralis major and the inter- costalis externus,

With a bit of luck, we migh even have had him looking like Marilyn Montor and/or Ava Garaner. Only the regrestable substitution of a green card fur a pink one brought this during a trustiating tull- prospect to stop.

Full credit

But this is no time to be Dippant. Full credit to Jak fur facing up to the fact that, as of

now, his shape leaves something whether that to be draired.

shape be viewed from the front. the back. the side, er trom

greatest available distance.

1, at least, can feel for Having myself been

The

him.

blessed with rather more prepæssessing have A Lain- proportions. radely sympathy for my Less well endeared colleague, aml ( Histoned with tolerance and affection when he confessed that 10 look he, too, would like human.

in- Immediately, I caused quiries to be made in the world of science, as a result of which Jak is shortly to be re-shaped, re-modelled re-designed and re- ball like nobody's business.

The Body Beautiful awaits him by courtesy of the experts up Tarzan's torso; who tuned made Monroe's chassis immortal and ensured that Zsa Zsa Gabor shall never crumple where she should most assuredly curve.

Perfection

In short, I took Jak's peculiar problems to two gents abounding it physical perfection blossoming in London.

J

NDW

THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1960.

In search of the body beautiful

..for JAK!

Their_reputations are impec- cable. One is ALIT es-marine who once wanted to be a mum ster, to which end he filed two buckets with concrete, cemented them to a length of s-pipe, and started throwing the lot around until wiser courses and a couple of hernias prevally

The other finished 15th in the

and

at their ing steel equipment

isponat, they face Jak's future branely, if not with confidence,

Recovermg

quickly

the initial professionally from shock of my colia.gue's appear- anco, tin instructor explained were 2,146 known that there methods of improving the human If necessary. shape, and that, Mister California Contest they were quite prepared to behind, he admits.. 14 idiot think up a 2,147th in the present gorillas.

From these humble beginnings propor- sprang the splendidly tioned chaps who

have sworn to make a man of Jak or bust their biceps in the attempt. Having re-furbished the hip lines of half Hollywood, and with £15.000-worth of gleam

Anthony Lejeune asks:

now

rather interesting case.

True, the bone structure was no1 immediately discernible, but much could be done if only Jak would appreciate the importance of body-building. tuning, dictless slimming, proportioning control.

and

What did the Ministry

JUST

how efficient is the Ministry of Defence. now, four years after the Suez crisis? Whatever one's political views about Suez, there can be no denying its military lesson...

With UNO round

If With our slowness and our necks and the Russians indecision which brought us to rattling rockets, any local disaster at Suez.

military action must

our

be

four There have beon completed quickly, prefer- Improvements since then. ably within 48 hours.

kon

and flexibility is Mobilly what we most need. Lord MAT!

of Lambeth has admitted that his Government might have intervened at Abadan," but it would have taken six weeks to build on adequate force.

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from

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The idea was to have Jak finish the course looking like Jayne Mansfield's husband, not

ke Jayne Mansfeld.

COM-

But it sure

-a5

ALEXANDER THOMSON

A Fortune out

of Fashion

MODEL girls with practised elegance walked

round a fashion salon as we talked about the textile business.

There was Maureen in a dress called Bonjour. Daphne in a cute little number named Amour. And many other dazzlers, too.

Said Mr Kenneth Boardman: "I believe 1981 is going to be another wonderful your for Lan- cashire.

"Demand from the Taxhlon buyers for next spring aud summer Is alrendy that."

This puts Boardman himself in the millionaire class, although you would never think so, He Is such a homely sort of man.

Yet he has a 40 per cent stake in the company. And at present showing stock market orices his holding

is worth £1,500,000.

Down-to-earth

Kenneth Boardman. 46, 's

So for expansion, has taken place out of carnivwer, which

Is much the best way of doing things.

We

head of the £3,000,000 Board. What happens next? man Marden group which has are not going to stand still" just pleased the Stock Exchange said Kenneth Boardman, "I am by raising its half-year's looking at half-a-dozen other to see how they dividend from 72 per cent to concems

would fit into our group, 9. per cent,

He is a down-to-girth Lan- cashire businessman who saw better chances in fashion than In cotton spinning and weaving.

For . six years, now he has been chasing those opportuni- ties. And trading prodis of his firm have risen from £55,000 to £484,000.

an

"But we are only interested if the management is good. Any other way only leads to head- oches."

I asked about the bird's, oyd view Berets of the rest of Lan- cashire's textile industry.

He said: "So far as I can see, there is no sign yet of any let- up in its boom. Order books are stronger than since 1851.

Improved

STO

If Boardman Marden were to consolidate its Is, shares into be. form, they would probably be investment rank- given higher ing.

"This

JERT,"

whispered Boardman AS

attractive brunette twirled in front of 129, bo nearer "I hope they will £700,000.

"Most people, you know, are fooled Jak. Hel preliminaries Thèse We were handed a pink Pro-

than "Pront

much clothes conscious

margina Chart, then gres

hurriedly pleted, we moved to the murmur smiled happily at the shiny-more

For example, cloth substituted a green one. Pink, it of soft musle into the gymna bright appliances that are going ever before, I started with better, too.

Their purenis then that was selling for 20 pence a was explained with merry sium, and I wish to go on record to shitl 12 inches from his hips teenagers.

followed their example. Business yard a year ago is fetching 34 Laugh, was for ladies, and that, with the remek that I do not to his shouldere or else.

pence now." would never do, would it

care how many gymnasiums We turned a couricous bead, is fantastically good."

Boardman's story is rather of course, nover

we passed the seen-you've you have

He came out of seen one like this. Even the ladies bust-developer (it looks fantastic, too.

major blood on the floor turned cut lo like an ironing board) but were the Army as a Gunner

un as a cloth encouraged to make detailed in 1946, and set he carpet.

examinations of the universal merchant.

Eight years later, he merged The receptionist, who used to hip and thigh machine, the leg

Arm of ¤ middle-weight for extender, the abdominal boards, his business with a

and weavers, England and St Pancras, accom- the vibrator belts, the jungle cotton spinners panied us on tip-too. Ceiling pulley

the and took over control. and naturally

He closed down three of his decorous light latissimus dorst encourager. laments shed on walls of ebony and coral But enough of the idie fancy, ew group's six mills, and began

went to see our dividend cover mirrora multiplied every Jat's the boy for jerks. My buying dress factories instead.

As profits increased, he bought increased from twice to 214 htful glitter of the stamless steel part in this deal is simple. All

Now there are more of them. equipment.

times," he told me. female form I have to do is to find a worth in the Boardman Marden set- divine rogaled us from a mural while pedestal

muscle-develop mount the magnificent bundle of p, including the Mornessa and ing weights were painted pink muscle that is to be the new and gold: Nobody mentioned Jak. the word "sweat."

Astonishing

that

Earnestly, swiftly, methodi cally, with never a hint these astonishing contours were beyond hnan ken or under standing the experts jotted down Jak's measurements on the chart, and swore never to reveal them to a living, soul.

sa 110 more

1, too, gave a similar under- taking, and can muscle- than that my colleague's vital

an outline re- statistics revealed weight not dissimilar to that of a banjo a Chianti bottle or a bed-pan.

box

..even the

Gymnasium? Confronted with this salon, this sybaritio work- aut

Jack Solomons parlour, would have rushed in a scream- ing frenzy to his fish shop.

of Defence

Suez?

would be any better next time Suez, specifically is anybody's guess.

TWO: The Navy now has a special Commando-carrier; only one, but it is a start. Bulwaric, already serving in the Far East, can carry one Commando of 500 to 800 men permanently and a second

我 Commando cmer-

ONE: As a nan from the said, our Ministry of Delence Joint planning machinery is fur better. But against this remains gency. the old doubt; soldiers, sailors, and airmen can do nothing un- less the politicians give them clear orders, Whether that

Albion is due to be refitted Es

to

learn

heavy fighting broke out in the

on which to

Something like a circus... or possibly the Dairy Show.

Marcus businesses.

As things are, they yield 5 per cent on the basis of last year's dividend of 27 per cert,

I asloed Kenneth Boardman

about this year's chances "

But I would still hope to pay at least 35 per cent, if trading continues as at present,"

Just then, model girl Maureen was back again, as Boardman's fashion show went on.

"I decided" he told me, "that our best policy was to get much

WOEDEN nearer

Now we are really getting into our sildo.

Over the past six years, with I noticed thai thila, time; the

gown she ving weariṭig the firm's shares have climbed· called Galety. Very fitting,

-London Express Services?- from 101⁄2d to Ss 6d.

GEORGE WHITING Kenneths Boardman in control,

-(London Express Service).

IT'S NOT A GLAMOROUS

LIFE FOR THESE PILOTS!

NOT

News in the air- by

all the RAF's Yemen. Our forces would then pilots fly glamorous be very heavily strained indeed. 700 m.p.h. fighters, big The longer range and greater 600 m.p.h. V-bombers or speed of modern transport air-

world as "airline" fliers James Stuart go cruising round the

relearn forces go further. But in other craft can certainly make small wartime techniques of working ways our position has worsened, with the Army. Its function is เจ transport the Strategic Reserve.

Against this an uncomfortable doubt remains. If the Strategic Reserve is to be effective, the R.A.F. must be able to move it immediately.

But transport planes are not earn their

a Commando-corrier next year. kept standing by; the Treasury And some time in the doubtful requires them to futur a "dockship" or "assault keep by constant freighting. ship" will be added. Two of

The R.A.F. approves because these ships can then be kept East it trains crews and accustoms of Suez.

people to scaling these planes come and go. In theory, aircraft Against this is the state of could always be brought from the present Amphibious Warface somewhere by

the time tho Squadron, which is the Navy's troops were assembled. But no congregation of landing craft. one outside the RAF seems very This squadron, now at Aden. confident about it. bas been streamlined and

refitted since Sucz-but its ships side of Suez was grossly mily- FOUR: The public relations ate all four years older.

handled. That will not happen

THREE: R.A.F. Transport again.

Commatid has been

beyond all recognition.

improved

Comcis

and Britannias can operate at

for greater distancce than the

The strain

Hastings and Vallante we used The Army has a new radio for

Space for reporters

at Suez, find, being much faster, the use of newspaper corres can perfum two or three mes pondents.

many misslots. The Beverley will be reserved in the drat wave transport altcraft will soon be of froon carriors, Correspond- ente pocred flation cards have been distributed to area.. com- manders all round the world.............

supplemented powerful Argosy.

by the

The doubt

more

We are losing our OVETSCAS bases, in which men could be trained, acclimatised, and held ready.

And

across great

swathes

neutralis!

arc

of the globe uur alterati being blocked by nations which will not allow them to over-fly.

The needs

I suggest that Britain three big defence Boods.

of Transport Command:

For two years now the men of 1072. It would use

built 1.18 prop-jet airplanes. BEA is to extend its present

London-Prague service

Hungarian capital.

10

SOUGHT AFTER

the

British girls are still sought after by airlines in the USA Latest airline to send recruiters. of the long to Britain 1s United, one

No. 78 Squadron have been runways made necessary by the America's biggest domestie. based in Aden doing local flying big American jets of today, operators.

In their 100 m.p.h. Scottish- but Twin Pioneer airplanes,

Incidentally "GRE" heads

the organisation that has

Just

Gov-

a

The squadron's pilots claim to been given the £350,000 be the "oldest and slowest" in crament contract to prepare

for a supersonle the RAF. Their average age is design study 35, compared fighter sqmdron.

with

22 in

The Twin Pioneers, which

are

sicliner.

FROM BUDAPEST

☛ WHAT à remarkable story is

the growth of passenger flying since the worl" Told in a hit- Nine million people shelliit used the world's major airlines in 1945, and 18 million the fol lowing year.

has take off and land in about the

The New chink in the Iron Cur- length of a football field,

recently announced. ideally suited aircraft for the tain: The state-owned Hungarian Agures for 1959 were 97 million. more Aden landing strips. They are airline is to start a service from These do not take into account civi air used for troop transport, recon- Budapest to London on April 1. the massive Russian, naissance, casualty evacuation it will use (of course) Russian network, nor the Chinese.

London Express Service). and all other kinds of flying.

We need to spend money on conventional forces. Government expenditure 05 whole should doubtless be cut rather than raised, but this is not the place to cut it.

We need to give the Services more confidence in their poll- tical musteris.

We need a new concept of global strategy to meet a new

situation. We political

shall have to find a way of keeping small striking forces

In two years they have carried over 10,000 passengers and 3,000,000lb. of freight.

DOWN TO EARTH

MR GEORGE OGDEN has to go into the. sext-door garden Amid all tre droom-talk of

to clean two gable windows of his home at Newton-le- affliners whizzing Willows, Lancs. Now the council, which owns the next-door supersonic per-acrom the Atlantic in a couple garden,, is demanding 58. a year rest from Mr Ogden for using

of hours comes some down-to- its iand every time he cicats his windows.

manently nearer to their pos 'sible targets,

(London Express Service);

QUOTE

earth language from the chief of

the British' Alteraft Corporation,

Sir George R. Edwards,..

WARMER Louis Rochas was blown out of his house near. Nimes, Southern France, in ». zas explosion. A rescuer rashed in “GRE." is always matter-of-from the road. The rescuer's name: Guy Fauques,

Mct, and the man who designed the Valiant bomber and ↑ the Viscount airliner (among a long line of others), he ueritally kiws what he is talking about w

FUE only plece of property. Usted among the £175 acts of a master of foxhounds at his public examination Tit, when and the planning and modernisation has been done,

bankruptcy was a hunting lorn, valued at £2. The examination of 28-year-old Dennis Browin, Master of the Hatherley: Páritkárs the ble query is still the simple

He says "We do, not yet, khow Hunt, Devon, was closed. We shall still have nothing one: Are we strong enough? E

by an offteini after a con- how to build a Mach 3 striiner to equal the great American

Duncan Gandys who planned forence recently to plan an (three times the speed of sound Globemaster

COUNCIL onani in Norwich picked up hĩa bubblóLE; which

An appeat, fund fde flood victims at 1983 mph of any sort, let Affed it over hie garden fence, and parked is on the lawn. such

sturation na PL

our post-conscription roared into Beleitt during the he told me that the Linaire town of Husn-alone a vertical take-off middel.

we should never gain be fada camile Lebanon crisis. But though its with an operation as largo de UITE obviously, the hun reflection of that nefuler does!

"I console myself, with the

committes denied to fill hit to keep the one th lifting capacity may not com Suez without American help. Qdreds of families we have anybody else," he adds.

suffered will need more finan- wyjechan

caused they

parm with America's, our Tr

port Command in new probably the fastest in the world

that a fuft?'''

That may be true, but to ind, it aboma a dangerous assumption help in the mate: cic Cleorge thinks that?"If we Suppare for instancers last give. Detalls Wraa101 -being, tried very hard" wegilght And the A a group!" "Kam Benki erkälloj šinos Katya and at the wadonge thealer), znant will be made.

vormcil“garage in future. “

DEMEMBER that drunken duck hunter in Russia, who thot down's place and got afght years, Juli? Well in Beeply saber moment, He appealed. Just an honest mistakam- he ha