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Pago 8

I'M

KNOWN AS THE

OLD MAID OF

TENNIS,

BUT..

ANGELA MORTIMER said frankly: "I know

what they call me--Old Angela Mortimer, the old maid of tennis." She fiddled with her fingers us we talked. Fourth finger, left hand-no ring on the third.

Angela, champion of Wimbledon and con- queror of Christine Truman, has been hearing some grim warning this weekend. Like that from Mrs Ethel Larcombe, who played in the last all-British women's Wimbledon final in 1914, who regretted having no time for children and said: "Don't let tennis wreck your lives."

Christine Truman's mother is edging ber mat of the game to zel some more fun out of life alf the courts,

But Angela? She said: “I play tent because I love it, and when you know you do spor- thing well you think for a long time before you throw it all over your shoukter.

"But then. I'm tucky, My Jennifer lets me treat sister them as though they were mine.

"Jennifer had asked me tel elverfully have scratched from Wimbledon to have helped ont with them."

She mean it. But then there is always tennis, the game that Jans dumimited Angela's life "I would give it up if 1 gut since the age of 16 when, with o married because I don't think it career 43 a P.T. instructress Ulme" fair to keep u

hom before her, she killed main al

by taking lessons al Torquay.

Where does she go now?

"I know I can't

RU much longer perhaps another three years,

or sometimes think 1y be one of those weird geniuses who will keep Hoing for another six."

cooking the supper while you go gudding around the world.

"But I don't know anyone 1 want to marry."

oll

in

Angela sat coolly with her feet

the piano stool

her mother's Victorian house in suburban Bickley, Kent, and said: "I'm the type that if I was scrubbing Doors I would be dedicated to it. That's just me."

Ker mother, Mrs Moba Mortimer. 1125 nursed her through many crises and has pleaded with her too.

Mrs Mortimer said:

her when sho

"I told was younger,

'Get a Job first, then enjoy your tennis.*

"But we don't talk about it now. Her mind is made up for tenals. Sometimes I think she has missed a lot of fun because of it. But then I am soclable

and she is not."

Angela repiled: "Just because I don't like mixing in the mad social whit does not incan have not got very good friends.

I

AFT:1

And I have my home my famly, who are terribly Important to me an escape from it all. I've been lucky enough to keep them out of the glare of my feunts Hre."

Ifor nephew,

LOVE

family

Stophen

includes hor Read, Just faut, and his younger brother Christopher, two years, and Bister Ailson, six months.

Angela" sald: "The children provide me with an escape. love them. I'd like to have children of my own,

A JOB

And then?

un

for

I

"I'd like to take à part-time job and then help alung a lot of youngsters who I believe

Bro

od but want encouragement. would rather not do it profes- sionally if I could help it but just becouse it would do some- thing for tennis."

Mortimer the martinet of the tennis

cour! is surprisingly different at home. Gone is the schoulmarish air of dedication, Kone the severely groomed 29- year-old of the spartan shorts and skirt.

In fact, it is dimeult over a Sunday afternoon teatime chal to visualise the relentless, even ruthless plodding that has

arried Angeln to the top.

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RED CARPETY {mini-pire

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1961.

Remember, if you let him escape to political asylum fiko that ballet dancer fellow did, you're all for the next one-way-only-trip space rocket!"

Cummings

IF

YOUR CHILD

Children, he raid, should not

London Express Service.

OUR MAN IN MOSCOW WAS THERE.

STILL CAN'T Flying high

READ...

be able to read so young. They were being "forced to read be fore the age of reading readl- ness,

The report so alarmed Misa Street that she began to make an investigation. She found that other schools had suffered similar visitations.

One inspector had rebuked a head master because his pupils

many subjects: "Four would be

Miss Street says that few

ARE you proud when your son or daughter were passing their G.C.F. In too

learns to read early? Happy when he can quite enough. reel off the alphabet after only a few months at school? Your pride could be challenged. Majesty's Inspectors of Schools are likely to say that your child is being forced to read too soon.

And ate you glad that your children

are

people over the age of 25 reulse Her now standards have been going

down in our schoots.

pollie By ANTHONY

and obedient? Such politeness has actually been condemned by an Inspector as "servility not civil- ity,'

LEJEUNE

Now

These charges against the in- spectors Are

robust The result, Miss Street says, is made by and freckled Laicie Street, who that

grandparents can has two sons of her own

write belter than parents, and and

parents can write better than

in a school governor.

In a blockbuster of a book their children.

published recently, "Spoil the Miss Street's beliefs were Child" (published by Phoenix born out of shock when * criarcational standards House, 289), she says thal Rehauls inspector visited the ore de village school of which she was liberately being depressed in a manager, the sacred name of progressive theory.

For the educational, theorists believe that children should not bu restrained or forced buf should

The village was proud of that school. The children were

polite and obedient. They could read by the time they weru

seven.

"learn through play." Then The Inspector called...

Oxygen bomb' brings new hope

cells

supply of oxygen.

Halted

Hey are A BIG steel cylinder in ing cancer

which patients breathe given in the presence of a rich She told me: "I have felt high pressure oxygen

while like giving up tennis a hundred

bombarded with times. It has not all been easy being but I have always gritted my rays is giving highly en

couraging results in the treatment of certain forms

teeth and luck to It.

"Until I do give it up, people will just have to go on saying of cancer.

I'm fou old and past it if they nast."

John

Ellison

London Express Service).

Vierum

THE [CO-EXISTENCE LINE

NEW CREATION BY NIKITA-

A MODIFIED DESIGN OF THE OLD MOLOTOV- {COCKTAIL DRESS WITH A ZIP TO ENABLE QUICK CHANGES! (WORN WITH VELver GLOVES)

X-

To prove the point she prints side by side a modern 11-plus exans paper and a 1817-27 car

riculum for grammar school entrance.

They are worlds aport. The modern child is simply not re- quired to show the knowledge. determination. or self-expres-

in that was expected of his

parents,

Guessing

How do children now learn to rend? The "whole word" or look and shy" method is now preferred.

The children are shown "flash cards" on which words-AIR- PLANE or HORSE or FLOSSIE or GEORGE-- are printeri In large latters. And they have to guess the word.

with Gagarin

as it

by

DENIS PITTS

the rice but picked the chicken clean.

When the lunch tray had been cleared from his lap, Gagarin went forward to the cackpit, banging his head as he clam- bered under a serving hatch. He was there far more than ani hour and the me: "I think he is flying the siewardess told

STRANGE things were happening in the cockpit of a giant Tu104 airliner screamed through Rusia pain can b sian skies on its way to

asked her about her home and London.

her children.

plone. Thats why She was almost swooning 23 travelling so smoothly." he talked.

Several times the pilots adjusted the controls, but even so the plane was just not flying properly.

a

The reason-there Was near-stampide going on in the passenger compartment.

The weight of people walking forward to shake the hand of

was Yuri Gagarin

throwing the pitcraft off balance.

I

The grin

was on

For four hours I was able to observe at close range this astonishing young man who new tourist class of

Aeroflot Service 031.

I joined Gagarin at Muscow on a chilly summer's morning. He was standing with a number of air force officers, his hands its trousers pockets.

The greetings

Gagarin, lost man aboard thre the fight with lane, sat in the art forward- facing seat with two security Gagarin, When the jet liner men-one tat, one thin-an bucking a stewardess either side of him. A young in..

10 everyone their terpreter sat opporite.

Learning the alphabet comes, If comes at all, not Arst but last, The children have

started to make houses without bricks. ordered

The { t-tRT!

seats. of Westminster Medical School has complained: The Vast majority of CAR- didates in our entrance exami nation bordered on the liter- ate."

"You are upsetting the trim of the aircraft dangerously," she said.

Gagarin smiled and stood up: "Very well tovarlches, if you can't come to me, I'll come to you."

Gagarin, still grinning the world's

famous grin, walked the length of the air- craft shaking 93 hands. It was

Arm, strong grip."

Aner five minutes in the air be lit up a cigarette while the Illuminated sign said: "NG Smoking."

The hefty Aeroflot stewardess saw him but said nothing.

We Arc

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

even

"Why, Frederick, I do declare that he's handsomer than that farcinating Monsieur

Blertat!"

London Express Bervien

The universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London have all in the

pas! fox months expressed alarm about the low

The young cosmonavt opened standard of English shown by

a briefcase, took out a copy of candidates for admission,

Pravda, and tried to read it. But every minute or so he was For four yenra the doctors

The same deplorable situa have been testing the cylinder tion was exposed in America by

approached by autograph hun- He sat for 10 minutes talkingers and people who just wanted which Hy n biili-in cobalt Dr Rudolf Flesch in famous to an elderly Woman from

10 shako book called "Why Johnny Can't Tashkent, In Central Asia. He

his hand and say: homb”—a powerful source X-rays.

Read." The Americans took

"Greetings, comrade Yuri," The treatment has been so fright and are beginning to

He Junched on cavlar, frier In about one fifth of patients for restricted to desperately stiffen their educational system.

chicken and rice, followed by I suddenly realised that this treated so far at St. Thomas's patients. Yet 20 per cent of If Miss Street's book Hospital,

Jumpy Russian cake and lemon stern-faced Russian girl was London, results are them have now been free from suades British parents to take reception.

lea. Comrade Yuri left most of completely and utterly star- described as "really dramatie any cancer symptoms for up to a hard fook at their

struck, fact, on her pantry such as

we had never sven five years. In # further 40 Johnnies and start

wall was pasted a huge picture from conventional

asking why radiothe rapy" in a report of the Bri- to have been halted.

per cent the complaint seems they can't read, she will have

of Yuri Gagarin. done a greater service to educa- tish Empire Cancer Campaign.

The doctors say that in spite|Hon than Sir David Eccles will A Leat led by Dr Ian of these early successes

thever do by building hygienic Churchlil-Davidson has fellow method must still be regarded glass-and-concrete palaces for éd up a discovery that X-rays as experimental.

fure far more effective in kill-

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London Rapiste Bereice.

Enter Britain

-new space detective

T is no longer possible for Russia or any other nation

to text H-bombs behind the maan without Britain knowing.

Scientists at the Atom Wea- pons Research Establishment, the way to detect even the smallest nuélear explosions in space.

Gagurin came back and slept with the seat reclined to the fuli.

Throughout all this ride there was nothing at all to suggest that he had become spalled or conceited by the lavish publicity accorded him by the Soviet Government or by his hob- nobbing with Khrushchev and other Russian leaders.

He woke as the aircraft began very slowly to lose height. He looked out of the window. And at once he leaped up from his and shouted: "Look, comrades, It's England! It looks wonderful."

And it became

quile clear that the Arst distant vision of Southend through a murky hole

Aldermiston, have found -raight use the vicinity of the in the clouds was just as excit

moon as a sectel testing grounding to him as his first sight of a

blue-ringed

150 world from Now, the report says, miles up in the stratosphere, known that space explosions

He was bouncing up and This is revealed In the leave two-

possibly three

down in his seat now, like an Atomic Energy Authority's an- clues.

excited schoolbey on the Grat nust report.

day of his holiday.

it's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful," he said.

στα

J

'Police'

scien-

Success

Sven

The hugs

London

up

whs looming banorth uo, Gagarin had his- firat look at the Thames and

Gagarin put his cigarette out The no-smoking light went up. this time.

Although there has been na chance to use the new detec- tion method-Britain, the Soviet

The radiation from them pro- Union and America

in the atmos-) are all ducas a change voluntarily suspending nuclear phere. tests the Aldermaston

They give off

lumi tista

content they will cocence" not unlike lightning, work.

And they may cause the other paris of the atmosphere sudden İy to release bursts of intru-red į Houses of Parliament. "This 11 raya.

truly magnificent," he shouted The Authority also discloses "Just look at it, comrades." that Britain's first civil atomic By adapting equipment al power stations, at Calder Hall ready in use, the report says, it and Chapelerons, aro working should be possible to detect a more eftcleatly than "bang" of a midget A-bomb-optimists predicted.

Wo touched down at London Airport, equivalent to a mere 1,000 tons Computers have been used to of TNT-more than 60,000 milds discover if improvements could ed with strange faces. The Rus- Buddenly the aircraft was All-

be made to the eight reactors sian Minister of Trade, Mr Other Instruments, specially in the station.

Patolichev, was hugging Gagarin designed, will allow space to be As a result, the time needed) and someone else was briefing "policed" out to a distance to refuel them has been cut him about the reception to come. more than half-a-million miles, from 11 weeks to four and their As he left the plans, every end the scientists believe they emelency stepped up.

extend

passenger stood up and cheered the range: atdı Station aro now adding and clapped him. further.'

2,000,000,000 units of electricitý There has long been fear in to the notional grid each year Russian stylu clapped back and Gagarin In the traditional Uhhe West that Hussia with and have giyen almost trouble walked down the rockets powerful enough to lift free operation, the report says.

steps inta. 'nuclear weapons deep into space

| Britain. -London Exprété BurukĪ).

--(London Exprém Service),

Away.

can