1961-07-06 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1961.

HE DRIVES HIMSELF HARD. NOW THE QUESTION IS BEING ASKED

Just how fit is

BRISKLY, or as briskly as his injured back will allow him, President Kennedy has re- turned to work against his doctor's advice.

But there is deep concern in the overcrowded politiend factory culled Washington.

First of all, the President's short illness drew atten- tion to his longstanding adrenalin insufficiency. His per- Bunal physician, Dr Janet Travell, revealed that recently he has received larger than usual doses of cortisone derivatives to correct it.

Then there was the secrecy

back over his recent

injury. Perhaps it was inevitable be cause of his meeting with Knrushchev that the injury should not have been announced straight away.

Bu on Sunday, June 11 after the back bury had been pullely annotinged New York bone spuctalis: Dr Prestoit Wade flew to Palm Bench to examine Kennedy at the request of De Travell.

I was three days before Florre Salinger, White House Prens Secretary. confirmed that the sperialist had been

called in.

This has led some people to believe that The President's health was rather worse than It was pubhely matte out to be

And people in Washington who don't take this, pessimistle view ask nevertheless: "How much longer can the President keep this pace up without is Juring himself permanently and

this time irredermably?"

Fashionable

The "virus infection".. the fashionable new term for du- which sent Kennedy's tempera- ture shooting to over 101 degrees would have made most people take a week aff.

With his characteristic im-

Patience and almost feverish energy Kennedy spent a day in bed and then went back to his big desk in the oval-shaped

office at the White House.

There he goes about the busi ness of the presidency in his own direct, highly personalised way-reading. Through long re- ports the dors not trust usi ians to make mummaries), con- ferring with Congressional les ders

with Administration aud members, making direct tele- phone calls to sometimes sur prised civil servants,

World-size

It is not just that Kennedy is one of the most energetle desk Presidents ever. Slace the in- auguration he has travelled to Key West, Florida, Camp David, Maryland, Annapolis, New York, Chicago, Ottawa, Paris, Vierma, and London.

Most of these visits made on world-size business. No doubt Kennedy felt that he was compelled to go on them.

WITC

from

ALAN WATKINS

NEW YORK

But he has not neglected the ceremonial, royalty-type side to the presidency wither.

It was symbolic that his re- rent back tajor developed after he had shifted 10 shovel-- fuls of earth, Instead of the usual auproved maximunt of Canadian tree- three, ni

planting ceremony.

He has grinned at visiting Heads of State of airports. He has reviewed troops. He has even been to the equivalent of a prize-giving at a Middle West high school.

Few worried Kennedy has brought the same energy into his social life

eving dinner with old news- permen cronies, flitting in a helicopter to his Virginia estute. Glen Oma, or to Palm Beach or

Boston.

President ALL

Kennedy?

toutl

Democratic

clrcles after serted a small metal plate In

the inauguration, is increasingly his spine. Staphylococcus In- being recalled with increasing fection set in and Kennedy be- came so it that he was given unersinets.

rites of the Roman the last Catholle Church.

1955

In 1935 he contracted Jaun- dier. This recurred later and forced him to withdraw from the London School of Economics and from Princeton University, In 1937 he injured his spine --the injury was believed to be dine rupture in the lower tumbar area-playing football af Harvard University.

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In 1941 he was turned down fur army rervice because of his hack injury. After he had done special exercises for five months he was preopted by the navy.

But in 1943 his back was injured a second time when boat was kly P.T.

rammed and sunk by a Japanese des troyer. Kennedy was dung to to the deck and the old back injury was aggravated. He suffered spinal muscle spasms and relaties.

In the same year he con Iracted malaria. This is be- Heved to be the cause of the adrenalin deficiency which de veloped later.

On crutches

In 1944 Kennedy had his

to the Kennedy elan's head- arşı back operation. This re- quarters at Hyannis Purt, lived the spasms, but made his left leg a quarter of an inch The shorter than his fight. imbalance gradually made the epans recur.

wire worried

Before the track injury and the attack of tu, few people Now there is genuine concern in Washington lest Kennedy rush himself out of the presidency altogether.

The Kennedy health record which was politely forgotten in

A one stage. Kennedy was campaigning for the Senate on crutches. By 1954 he was F cripple. A second operation was

New York doctors tried,

in-

Just Fancy That!

PATROLMAN Tom O'Sullivan of the Royal Automobile Club, uld k a_motor-cyclist at Upstreet, near Canterbury, was told by the art on the pillion seal:

"He's pol

bee

in his bonnel,” The bee had got into her companion's crush helmet and stung him twice, Patrolman O'Sullivan gave first ald

and enrolled a new member,

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*

DOLLAR-A-DOZEN export trade in acorns from Nottingham- shire's Robin Hood country has stopped after five years be- cause of red tape. Escb dozen acorns sent from the Thoresby Han estate of Countess Manvers to Americans who hope to grow Eng- linh anh trees required six Ministry of Agriculture farms. Estate manager Christopher Stanley said: We had to do three dollars worth of work to sell a dollar's worth of acorns,"

WAR

Four months later in Kennedy hud his third back operation. This time it successful. The metal plate was removed and novovalne treat- ment sinpped the muscle spasmas.

However, he had to wear -- and still wears-an extra quar- fur-inch thickness in the heel of his left hoe and a brace rupperi The buck muscles,

To

During the 1980 election cans Daign 31 further charse was made. The campaiga organisers for Lyndon Johnson, now Virg

Kennedy's President and then rival for the Democratic nomi- nation, alleged that he suffered from Addison's disease-acute adrenal tuberculosis which unill

ly ended in death. the discovery of cortisone usual-

Kennedy and bis doctors denied this vigorously. But it was admitted that he did have an adrenalin deftelency and that he took cortisone to make up fur it.

Unconnected

Jack Kennedy

THE

In pain at that all important meeting in Vienna?

MEN WHO

LIVE ON SCRAPS

When Kennedy took over the

THEY would have the bracelets on your presidency Today's Health the

ΟΙ The Amerlean wrists before you got magazine Medical Association wrote glow-within a baton's length ingly:--

"President Kennedy, a of Room 109 in Scot-

an

have werk

IN

ROOM

who has suffered both ittuess and acrious injury, enters the land Yard. White House in the knowledge that his health is excellent and Bur if

conk you his medical future bright." eavesdropped there last

This sanguine predletion may-after a day which saw the se- The cond jailbreak in 72 hours-you turn out to be correct. White House officials repeat that would have heard great deal Kennedy's back injury and his about 10 desperate men's tastes mouths bout of u are completely un-

putis. in women, drinks, connected, with his old illnesses, and cars, thes, suits, and cigar- ettes, and their weakness for the dogs or the snooker table.

But at the same time, it is being said freely that a man with Kennedy's health record cannst aftord to drive himselt as hard as he does.

At her Press conference re-

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109

This is the Yard's top-secret

Outside the Yard no one knows undercover room, the Central the identities or the exact num- Intelligence Barent, formed 16 her of men he has to help in the

demanding ago as a new weapon most

Job In the Force.

clubs in the war on crinu,

The lights burned late in that room at the end of the ground floor corridor. Detectives wrolu down the name Michael Howe, (the only man still at large after the four-m breakout from Maidstone Jail).

Unknown

cently Dr Janet Travel admit- ted that he would probably not have caught his vhus Infection if he had not worked so hard.

The hope in Washington is that Kennedy will not do much in the future. Otherwise the result may be something Steadily they listed his per rather more serious than flu. sonal habits, is likes and dis- And this would be a disaster kes, his home address, his not only for America but for friends, his relatives, and added the whole Western Alliance. the scrapa of information to the

London Express, Servicej.

fast-growing Ales in Room 109.

Francoise Sagan: another £100,000 coming up...

Paris.

THE Francoise Sagan

phenomenon

con-

tinues unabated like some stratospheric ob. ject well out of range of critical fire.

as

-1

Last weekend a new Sagan mode publishing history Bagans have been doing gularly every two years 1954.

since

This one is a slimmer volume Imunor by seven pages than her standard 192-entitled Mar- vellous Clouds.

Unlike her two previous novels dedicated to her ex- husband Guy Schoeller, this one is dedicated to "My friend Phillips.

It concerns middle-aged men announced

that dinner

was some were in jall for their cum- falling for younger girls, younger served" one Immediately con- plicity in the Algiers mutiny, girls falling for middle-aged men jures up a picture of a couple und, lo adú a certain complexity caught in disarray." to matters, everyone is everyenu? else's best friend,

Unsophisticated

It

Ц

ali 115 charmingly The dedication evokes

unsophisticated no the babblings tragedy. Phillipe 18 Phillipe of a precocious schoolgirl who Charpentier, a talented 25-year- had access to a forbidden part uld photographer-Mile, Sagan of her father's library. And it herself it should be noted is

is all becompanied of course by now all of 28-with whom she

a exemphony of creaking bed fell in love and who committed

springs. suleide earlier this year.

Thus tragerly continues to In addition to the £40,000 atalk her but leaves her curlously seriat rights, the book has a unmarked like someone sill pre-publication order of 130.000 young enough for emotional coples. At a modest estimate

wounds to heal fast,

A secret

this alone will net her further

£,00,000.

A noted French critic examin- ing the Sagan phenomenon

out that points

J had

characters

Nearly half the guests, com- posed of Communists and left wingers, were not on speaking turms with the other half, corn- posed of fiery right wingers.

Francosic

Sagan:

"To my

friend Phillipe"

Apart from being seven pages shorter, the latest novel has other Innovations. For the first

me working-class

Neither, of course, were on appear, one whom, a fisher- speaking terms in a political mon, actually has a love affair aense with their host, General Germany" but "long live the

gilded char- de Gaulle,

Federni German Republic."

with one of her acters.

Among

the guests was the This broaduned outlook even extends to motorcars.

famous paratroop officer General Instead Manau, whom de Gaulle encked of everyone driving round in the 18 months ago and with whom latest sports cars, one of the

cors,

Absent friends

Ita

H'

This new book has made her beginnings when her firat novel,

Germany.

for several

'I must paint'

has been an-

The man hat charge is un-

Only his depuly has been

Deluctive known to the public. Detective named.

Inspector Superintendent Charles Cud- Peter Vibart, a tough man in a more, greying, 51, is a meticu- lough job with a brilliant re- lous and highly intelligent C.I.D. curl at home and abroad. man from the West Country.

Vibart led the hunt for police- His job was

man-killer Gunter defined in o

Podola. He Yard communique on the right was highly praised for his cour- the C.I.B, was born:-

age in tackling gunman Ronald Easterbruck, who also shot o + .. net as n ericinal policeman. He knows more about intelligence bureau about or- Alfred Hinds, the greatest us- Runisud crime, the activities of cupe artist of all, than most men prominent criminals and their at the Yard.

sauciates."

Unofficially, Charlie Culture's squad is known as "Little In- terpol" and his fles as the most revealing "Crooks Who's Who.'

Painting is not her only Interest. She is also engaged

Its title:

in writing a novel. Am a Yo-Yo.

Burning the fakes

He worked on the Yard in- vestigation into the charges of corruption among the police at Brighton. He was one of two mich ehrsen to ty to Cyprus at the height of the troubles help the hard-pressed polica

there.

to

15 space

eyes will

watch Russia

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

RING of 15 American keeping spy satellites constant watch on Russia launch- to detect rocket ings is to be tied in with tho big radar worning built at system being Fylingdalos Moor, Yorkshire.

East

A glation to track the position of the satellites and receive from them to information feed to the U.S. is to be sot up at Kirkbride. Cumberland coast. The spy satellite network call- ed Mitlus (Missile Defence

near the

Alarm System) will give the US, 30 minutes' warning of en bicoming Russian Tocitet and Britain six minutes. De- talls of the Anglo-U.S. agree. ment (or sharing 1 are to be announced. Midas satellites will orbit con-

tinuously miles up.

Russia 300 Their electronic eyes are highly sensitive to

the Infrared ruys given off by rocket exhausts.

Every scrap of information | Alaim signals radioed from the that comes into Scotland Yard

about the "bly buys" f feil Into Room 100.

It works this way. A C.ID.

man spots a criminal In his area. He passes the informatiun to his headquarters,

Action

Little Interpol swings Into netion. Find out where he is lly- Ing. Keep an eye on the pubs he uses. Get a description of every Iran and woman he talks to Follow him day and night.

Then if ever that man is wanted for questioning, crack down herd and fast on every assoclate until he is picked up.

This is happening now in the hunt for the nine who got away from Wandsworth. Houses are raided. Clubs ore watched. All their friends and families Dre {questioned.

For men like "The G.I.G.S." -George Peter Madsen, one of the top "Jelly-boys" gellgnite specialists) in the underworld- rank high among criminals.

In April hl-jackers go! away with a lorry-load of cigarettes worth £35,000. An appeal for beip went to Little Interpol.

minutes

Within minutes it supplied every known deinil about the gangs who specialise in this type of crime.

The mobsters who run Soho's profection rackets come under the microscope of Room 100. And its men are walking librar- les on the haunts and habits of the bank bandits and hold-up boya who plogue Landon,

he bas not been on apeaking lending characters owns only a

terms since. They were seeming- beaten Chevrolet and another ly reconciled at the party and

I have been invited to what the cheapest of French family chatted amiably

N intriguing impending promises to be a splendid bon- A divorto minutes.

ire. It will be a bonfire of some 300 fake Utrillos. The bonfire JOKE No. 2: This was pro- nounced between French has been organized by Utrillo's vided by the State visli to Parts actor Claude Dauphin and dealer Paul Petrides and it will of President Luebke of West his American

be held at the Montmartre home actress wife, of Utrillo's widow. formerly Nora Eberthardt, It will be attended by [ President Luebke was the first

almost legendtory character Mme. Dauphin

of the Parla announcing Inspector Clot FISTORY, that heartless invited German Head of State

ever to ylalt Parin, The visit the news nold that she would poller who hendin the special harlot, played somo involved some embarrassments: henceforth devute her life to squad for tracing artistic fakes.

Paris this owing to ɑ a small fortune even before its Bonjour Tristene, was hailed cruel jokes in

Cabinet meeting painting. publication. A newly launched novelists Francols Mauriae on week.

French

General de Gaulle did not weekly bought the serial rights, the work of a new Stendahl,"

accompany him when he laid ́n Mme. Dauphin, .a atriking HEADLINE OF THE which becawio of the novel's

JOKE ONE: General de Gaullo wrestli om tha Unknown blonde, went un: "I have con- WEEK:: "Daladier an-108, in here to stay. brevity ran to no more than six

WCA he Kulied two paychiatrists. Dro M. Maurloc has since retrained Rave a reception at the Elyree Soldier's Tomb, nor

his retirement Instalment, for £40,000.

Palace for from passing an opinion on her

members of its allowed to rekindle the memorial French and the other American.

This A condition for

Both are in complete agreement. from political life," the pre- subsequent work. The critic then exclusive under the Companions Blame. publication sale was that the adds a penetrating note,

He of

the Liberation to com-

I must paint."

requires some amplifica- The vinit allowed the possibility plot of the book should be kept points out the

unintended memorate hig 1940 London

1 had forgotten that It was an un- eroticism wholly in the reader's appeal.

of close friendship with half of Mme. Dauphin has been palat- tion, A clone secret. necexxy precaution because by imagination.

a divided Germany, Thid General Ing for some time, ller prin- Edouard Daladier, French Of the 1,053 members of the de Gaulle underlined when he elpot

psychiatrists Prime Minister at the timo Sugen plot new a stantiantinod os the Michelin Ho say: "If she writes "The order some 800 turned up. Most ended his speech of welcome not should note, are children and of. Munich, is still alivo.

the words Gaside.

of the missing were dead, but with

"long live angels.

that by

doyen of

is na

-maki entered

the room and

subjects.

nounces

~~(London Express Bervice),

1

It is a hard fight. The odds are heavy.

But Latile Interpol, c/o Rooin

DONALD SEAMAN

--(London Kxpress feruice).

salcites will alcat the giant radar stations at Fylingaules, Thule. Greenland, and Clear,

Aluska,

siles,

SIRENS

These will then traeft the mis- predict their point of Impact, and feed the infor- mation to a huge screen call- North ed the Iconorarna al American Air Defence F1.Q. in Colorado Springs. If instruments there

rule out

n falsu atorm, warning sirens with automatically wall in Britis, U.S., and Canadian towns and bomber bages. As the Russians consider the

Midas

satellites to be re- placements for the now-ban- ned 6.2 spy planes, it is ex- pected they will try to shoot them down OVET Soviet ter- ritory. The 22ft-long

sololites, each weighing 171032 Qua two tous, will

revolve round the Poles instead of the Equator.

An experimental Midas is to be launched in California this month,

London Express Service,

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Fanatically loyal 'as I am to the Western alliance, I could wrials that, the White House would stop whirling to keep pusher · prople's courage up!"

London Express Servios.