1961-05-23 — Page 6

"THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1961.

Patricia Lewis

Bachelors with

no time for girls...

TV it's accepted that all handsome men are slightly I'

sum-burned then the Australian cricket team will be accelerating feminine pulses from Lords to Leeds this summer.

But I doubt if the romance will be reciprocal because out of these 17 strong men and true all but four are married with thoughts of home rather than abroad.

Which would seemi ja nyaka manager Sidney Webb's cautionary & a.m. curfew more of a joke. Even Richie Benaud, the captain, admits this is "the quietest bunch of cricketers I've ever been with.

I met the temal over sents and milk-the gin, I was fedd, undly comes out at nighland Healed that the average age is

They're all tied up-

on the playing

fields of England

"Ami rons for miles every South Melbourne Cricket Club,

Axed 31, he's a journalist with morning and evening. It's a hit when has so far acted fee A £10,000

the Sydney Morning Herald, and though married with two

nigh on the caterers the way Australian

Test captains the

he won't touch bread or pota- record and yes with Dis job.

27 and eight months, that each children sell thinks the tour is toes and asks

10 pald 1,200 Austration F

pumus plus all expenses for thu frip, und that wives are Janned.

Iarked Mr Webb why, as a six-munth parting would g De talher a lot to ask of s marriage.

I

TROUBLE

"Well, wives always create trouble," said this stubby the man with a potato-peelt voice "They Althor

belween themselves or they cause upsets with the team.

TOW

"This way the boys stick to-

"Like"

JOBS

A right-hand spin bowler, he's played cricket must of the tinue this past year.

Un

"I've only been in the office

for natural, raw foods at every meat."

What eligibles?

Weil

{

parents about town.

40 miles out of

the remaining He's acknowledged

"alland, good stay-partiet Jarly when a can to be and BiH Lawry Quick have the reputation of tirinking anil annus adven

and most fures." being the quietest reserved players in the trum.

Lawry, a 24-year-old plumber from Melbourne, is known as a left-hand opening a handful of occasions in "stubbern recent months," he told me. batsmen and a pigeon-fancier." "Our jobs are kept open for us while we're away, but very few in list-class cricket last season, Apart from scoring 240 runs of us still draw a salary.

one of his birds won the cham- after all, an employer can't

from Hobart 10 experied to carry a feller all his pionship race

be 15 Melbourne.

career it may

cricket year.

"A gamble? You

Y

+

►

be

A s man

gether and they re all good right-I have known player cockney face,

Triends.

with a check;v he carries the

Phantom,"

COMICS

Of course, if a wife lose their seniority because of wulikele mekname Cons over under her own these touta" steam Bære's nothing we gon do-Colin McDonaki's missus is here, as a matter of fact, but she's not allowed to travel with 1 or to slay in the same hotel..

of

"And anyway very few our wives are interested in eric- het, ddeal Benard dolefully. “So as we're playing! six days a week with only Sundays for golf or resting up in bed they wouldn't see much of us it they did come."

Frank Mason, a 22-year-aid bachelor renowned us a right- fust bowler, is aisa hund curiously distinctive.

Perhaps

beenuse with bis straw hair und palo sitin flushed pink on. The s.5. Himalaya's sun- deck he looks to English,

DIET

and

Lanky

very girl- conscious, it turns oul that when Bengud, die tab, frau veteran he's not working at a Sydney of 50 Tests, is one of the most paper mill he's a health fanatic. impressive lookers in the team. Th others think he's a bit of He has Siamese-cat eyes, un- a crank with his year-round det usually graceful hands, and of fruit, nuts, honey, glucose,

for conserving and alik...."calls energy for something better. jup of it he does," they said.

Povest

it he's

SECURITY

Thus is commonly believed to Com frums his favourite and fastest Tncing pigeon, *This!- tom's Pride," but in fact started many years ago when, as 2 youth, he was originally select- ed to play in frst-class cricket.

"He turned up at the train," recalls one of his males, "with a whole wad of comics under is erm. They were all about been the Phanton, and he's called that crer since."

Quick, perhaps the biggest man in this hefty quota, is even nre taciturn than Lawry.

A 27-year-old car-tester from Melbourne. he plays for the

HUSKY

Her

the

31% a formiduine ask for woman to produce a chikl if any as

novel a year....parti- and cularly when he novel has to

Evenlyn An- be historically necurate.

But somehow thony manages to cope. book. seventh

"Charles King" (she was wrlling long before her marriage in 1055). will be published this suminer round about the same time as The fourth backseter 17 1 her fourth child is born.

PT. husky, men haired

And, like the rest, its world

with

total known instructor, Graham McKnzle sales

probably 210 the "Baby" whu milions. must berouns the pin-up of the "It's something I do in my this Junior League.

time," explained Unfortunately, spare

young. freckled red-head when at 19, he's cut of mine.

we talked about her £10,000-a- year career, "It will always come second to my family but i (rom And it A Ereal release everyday worries.

A native of Perth, there is cricketing blued In his family, for both his father and his uncle captained Western Australia.

McKenzie nas in

way atrendy made erick-t history, like a hitting the Test team bumbshell after only one full season in hust-class cricket.

"He'd just finished his PT. course and was on his arst day

when teacher

the news came through of his artection," I was told.

#5 #

"But he's t exceptionally nice fad-we call hits "Garth" 'cus he's S. like the bloke In the comic sis kp.”*

And for the rest, they are all family me

the

For them, I think, the world- Bway suparation proves toughest Test of all.

--and this pantomime panic to paper over the cracks

HARRY HOUGHTON, the Navy secrets spy, whose appeal against 15 years' jail was dismissed, was probably the most ham-handed foreign agent runs the Secret Service, though in the history of espionage.

They were even forbidden to suggest that the Foreign Office a statement to this effect had without objection at least three

He broke every rule in the spy's self-preservation code. Yet he been made in the Daily Express operated successfully for seven years under the noses of security men times previously. without being caught.

A SPY is supposed to avoid drawing attention to himself. You titton VYZK loud-nnulied, "boastful, and a drunkari.

A SPY shouti

filver arouse

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

Umbrella

Pantomime

over that

"You see, I think the ordinary housewife has a very dull and n when she very hard life so

with a bonk she settles down wants something miles away from the kitchen sink and where Bund a man will read James she'll read something historical. Miss The next eccentric on

list welling

Jy Anthony's Cleopatra.

(London Express Service).

BRITISH SECURITY

Installed after

NUNN MAY'S Secretss

escaped

Installed after Fuch S'secrets escaped

Installed after Pontecorvo's secrets escaped

Cummings

NEW YORK

Installed after

Burgess & Maclean's secrets escaped

Installed after - KROGER & CO's

Secrets escaped

"What's so depressing is that we can't even lock

the stable door after the horse has escaped ! "

London Express Service.

NEWSLETTER

The clam becomes this city's Public Enemy No. 1

ANICKY public-enemy-

FROM

JEAN CAMPBELL

favourite game. Last week

Agency the victim was the Central Intelligence

and this week the victim is the elam.

Twenty-six of his juckier Chicago and Popo in Minnea Infectious hepatitis has psychopathic patients who took polls, galloped through in the last few months leaving

this country the serum, also caught the hor- Eppi has written a series

rible hepatitis, but lived to tell of antall books for teen the tale.

agors called Necking, Pet- Wiener posted a £2,500 secu~ rity bond and left the court for ting, Dating and Teenage freedom of bis Drinking. She is considered the doctor's office. For in June to be "a little more sorigus faces trial ond the possibilty

a little more often" than of a 150-years' jult sentence.

her sister.

a wake of death and terror.

Now Jersey, our neighbour. paper panie to

State, wide ing

has proved the security cracks so

ferite breeding all the world-except disease's most the British public-can see ground. them is partly an outward sign Again this ineptitude has a familiar ring.

Months before of the cloak-and-dagger almo-

Burgess and Maclean fled the sphere in which British security Closed

10 operate. H

uneasy

Twins-and

suspicion by blatantly living above his normal inconie. Houghton flashed wadz of British Intelligence agents. Blake, whose name at birth was money in pubs, bought a suc-

had a father born of cession of dats, and entertained Behar.

His country, M.1.5

the still tries warned lavishly. When serving abroad mixed parentage in Cairo.

mother was Dutch and he was Foreign Ofee that both men partly due to the Foreign Omee he operated on the black mar-

hulter-than-thou

posture

Now Dr Roscoe Kandie, New sug- born and brought up in Holland, were unfit for position of trust.

the ket.

that whatever

Jersey's

of Commissioner Houghton's story is made A SPY should

Just as the Foreign

Office Resting Bever confide

would Health, has traced some of 1,014 may do wo Russians more incredible by the chicts CVCD

the could not eredit

in such a dirty, cases of New Jersey's hepatitis In anyone outside his network.

never Indulge doubts about their diplomats, so Houghton dropped enough hints fact that four independent re-

to the inland clam beds and, hey the Portland security men hug- game as spying.

But mainly It is another presto, in the night the Verty

attempt to use Clam beds have been closed to twing in the writing world here The sisters are sharp and security

So arouse the suspicions of his ports questioning his reliability wife with whom he was on such had

to be made before

bad torins that she reported him effective action was taken.

this superiors.

The facts

become even more reinem-

fantastic when 11 is

urred

that

such defects of

character were displayed just

Suspicions

about

as an umbrella for human contacts, Incompetence and Based,

Nic

not talking

But Papo would challengo this as it was the who plumbed the precept: "Dear Teenager, don't date out of your faith unleas you are absolutely certain thai there will be TO heartaches should you marry out of your

Joan sticks to milk...

JOAN PLOWRIGHT, DOW

Lady Olivier, is living

at the Algonquin Hotel of Broadway, although she is UD longer playing ber Erize-winning role in A Tuxio of Honey on Broad- WAY.

The Algonquin is the favourite place for visiting British writers and actors. TI has dark mahogany walls in the hall and com-

Corling brawa leather chairs,

At night there is a tato buffet supper for theatre. ggers and theatre players. but the talk is seldom lond except when Brendan Bohan, Another zuest. bursts into sudden sons.

Span is drinking oniz milk and her eyes aro sparkling with motherfy joy over her future child. She told me she would like tü buy a small house in Chef. sea when she returns to England.

Close friends of the Oliviers say that Sie Laure eltee's pride and love fot his new young wife have from taken the shadows hl brow and elven him an easy way with the world about him.

any ged their fears about Houghton

stides and mappiest faith." until they lulled themselves in deliberale

are those brunette babes Eppi suceltid in their advice. Some suony Sunday afternoons. They to believing that the whole idea

Today they lie desorted and Pupo Friedman, otherwise times they advocate "help"in ask their parente to take them was too far-fetched to be true.

No Briton worth the name while sullen bands This suppressign of Informą-

of known s Ann Landers and form of marriage counsellors or across the Hudson River to

psychiatrists for

the their corre- Fallandes Park, depart wants to present the Russian clamming operators sulk Abby Vanburen.

biggest tion Inside Whitzħall

is ments Is habitual among civit with facts of genuine security

The two sisters hold a com- spondents. There nothing amusement pork in the country.

sentimental in servants. They can always think value: so a system whereby the in the local bars playing

plete monopoly of America's either prim or

Onco among the big tho up some apparently good reason Services and

cohemins and therefore a their writing. It him Were raised while why Information should be con- authorities can warn the Pressing dice. was attached to a Foreign Office fined to as small a circlo as of dangerous areas has

Here is a typleai letter: Intelligence department

devised.

Dear Ann possible. Warsaw he was relurned home. Bul the toutsta were not reported to the secret Under- Weapons Establishment demon- water

as obviously by both Burgess and Maclean,

Incredible

Houghton's

case

been

When serious doubly

security the juke boxes and throw schold on the heart, head sings.

12

st Portland where he was

strates that not only is Britain's security system incompetent but transferred,

that

former mistakes,

It

The Fuchs case unless pooplo

Czo

trusted with secrets,

born

When Mrs Houghton reported

The ban

The public has

seen

of this altitude in the

proof aston-

Epitaph

awings and wheels,

the. merry-go- rounds and the ghost In Mianfexippl the clams' rich and telephone of the teenager. relation, the oyster, was deemed

Between them

Landers, A man trains they slip away from they furnish responsible for another

out- 727

U.S. newspapers with years my junior talks of their parents and turn break of hepatitis, so we may nutherly advice to the love-lors. marriage, but his conversations themselves into the ad- presume that the lovely lush The one confict that the twins about my financial altuation.

all wind up with questions ministration office." sea-food restaurants of America have not succeeded in solving have been warned that he is in- last-hopelessly, lost and the They explain that they are are going to suffer some empty is their own. They tables in the merry months won't speak to each other.

dn't and

sincere. If this la truc

then why, administration

.broad- does he swear he draḥips the enats a call for the missing ground I walk on?"

patents. Eppi answers: "He probably thinks there is oil under it."

plained, is scapegoating the New Jersey, it must be ex- little clam, for a deeper and darker hepatitis scandal hos hit the Jersey courts.

export

Quarrelled

Always o

This takes some time to be effective as there are roughly 190,000 people in Palisades of *those Sunday. During minutes the administration feet they ought to entertain) and nourish the last childet. Fro

#

"This system

has now been come never learns from its her suspicions to the Portlandishing security as clapped on blanket restrictions designed, at thrown into disrepute by security authorities they stic proved that her husband find been trans- to British newspapers during in the Blake case, to payer up

of terred to a harmless position in the Blake case. British parents In Britain their the dockyard, but they did not Though foreign

disastrous fallure and save per- newspapers sonal reputations. of loyalty tics

reported that Binite was à Bri- may be too tell Admiralty headquarters.

In the wartimo German band-

Dr Albert Wiener, a much- The twins were in Iowa in tenuous for them to be safely

When the Admiralty security sh say, who had gone sour and book on the British Secret revered

away the names

psycho- 1910 to Rumian Jewish immora chiefs found out through reports given

of Service Himmler wrote: "The therapy, has just been charged migrant parents. Yet the Forelan Office falled from doclc-gate kopper that his fellow agents to

the British have brought Intelli-with the manslaughter of 18 Ono was named Pauline to apply this costly lesson when Houghton was spending

British too Russiano,

newspapers gence werk to a mastery unique patients

Father andt the other Esther recruiting

Blake for much money they did not tell were forbidden to reprint these and unsurpassed." George Intelligence work do secret that MID. Only when M.1.5 found statements under threat

He gave 10 of his psychopatito Paulibe. After a doublowed- 11s words now seem to have patients a special serum. All 15 ding their husbands quarrelled New York children.' have sized lollipops.

died "or" "Ingveriõus (hepatiitä, Differly and today Eppl'Uves'in found a white or á game" for. Londay Express Barvico),

of

he wan ablo lo give the out through Its own resources action under the Official been an cultaph,

Rusalata tho

names of other was serious action taken

Secrets Act.

In

Sundays toll for the lost last Sunday

was 67 Ice-cream cotive, 00 callon curulles auf 00 plant-

London Xxpraia Sprytep),