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The capital of Europe. Paris first Then...?

THE difference? I'll live in cach capital for a few weeks, giving myself an opportunity to gauge

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29.GIU.1962

19MAR1931

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18 ENTRATA 191496

Paris-but first I meet

and report the mood and spirit, to talk to the ALAN SHEPHARD is people the ordinary and the celebrated.

travelling too. And,

I must admit, on 2

Indeed, it could be called # Jouracy to £2,000,000, which is

exactly the negant be will cart

all goes well.

HOW is Paris reacting to the crisis? Is it gay, in-

different, or depressed? Are the citizens journey that should be more profitable than sullen, dispirited, or pleasure-bent? These mine. Much more so. are some of the questions I'll try to answer. AND these are some of the people who might help

me to find some of the answers. A rich in dustrialist who has three chateaus plus a direct private, and friendly, line to de Gaulle. A BEATNIK poet who belienea he is the reincar- nation of Napoleon. A Scots career girl who, as the French are loth to admit, has a more educated palate for wine than they have,,

A NIGHT-CLUB owner who imports and bottles ordinary water from Scotland as the only per- missible addition to whisky. Who also writes fierce political pamphlets.

And many more. A bientot.

My Joumey is to Paris, While he is on his way to a fortune, 1 na to spend considerably less on its readers.

behalf of this

newspaper and

Young

a man who will make £2 million

Itis face is smooth: expression asked me If I could arrange for clipping to Panama, where To tell you the truth, old blond hair sleek; eyes sharp

fuance over here to buy 22.000,- is will be assayed. I'm golag boy, I just wanted to 000 troy ounces of gold which out there now, had been found in Mexico.

an assessing.

His tone as he told his re- markable story was inalter-of- fact and emly occasionally sur- prived.

"I'm what you call on inter- national finance broker. Took it up year ago. Before that did nothing to

really except show

Dedicated as I am to both, I

"I got a phone call a few weeks ago fron a bank in New York P've had dealings with,

could have been persuatien change places with My Shephard, jumping.

A: 28 he scoins too young and almost to guileless to be tycoon. But alrendy he has the plumpness of prosperity. He has the Body GL #tored Billy Bunter after a dieting course,

"It was one o'clock in the morning and I thought 1 mint be dreaming at firal. They

MAN IN SEARCH

OF

THE SUBTLE FLATTERER

THE tailor tells you: "It looks as if we've got a winner here, sir.”

rou reply doubtfully, "To coun says, it

you like a glove.”

Trouble

"I really sai

took up and notice when they told me my commission would be 25 cents

That an ounce.

lets up 10 £2,000,000 sterling, I think.” (His last two words wore,

Thunght, the merest colloquial.

ITS.)

Then it will be taken 15* the Anal buyers.

include the Belgian

ment, I belleve.

make saine monay so I could go.on over show jumping. They

Govern-

"Quite a story, ch?" He producer letters and cables 19 prove that it wasn't part of the plot of, an improbable TV play,

"I've already had an advance On my commission 100,000 dollars," he added.

-

"But I won't be happy until I've got the lot."

1 wanted to know if Mr "Well, after a bit of trouble Shephard, who went to Harrow 1 managed

arrange the the school for Cabinet Ministers, finance in a London bank

and had always nurtured the deal's all set.

pelling ambition to the gold "Apparently

was millions. found in caves by a Canadian. A fellow called Colonel Andrew MeNaughton.

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"It belonged ton tribe Mexican Indians. They're call- rd the Yaqui, or something like that.

"They didn't know what it was and just left it there, Could have been there for over 100 years.

"But I'm not sure about these details. Not interested.

Dollars

what the

com-

make

"Not really, even count school.

Could hardly when 1 WAS

s

Loved

"Ail I ever wanted to be was a show jumper. Always loved horses."

When he left school at 18 he joined the Army-3rd Hussars rose to the rank of caplain, and became

Army an

jumping champion,

Beach

"It's an expensive If you have even income.

Pers

"She doesn't want me to do uny more show Jumping." ha Bald without, sadness,

"Says she'd rather I concon- trote on finance.

The fact is, since I got into this business I just haven't had the time for anything else."

I asked Mr Shepherd if he bad particular idens about how his uffluent career should develop,

I

"Can't say 1 havo really, just ilke to 想D on making money."

to ask if he had any specile ron-equine

I was unnecessary

plans about what he would do with all the money,

For some men, "of course—of all ages, types and idiosyn- erasies just making the stuff is enough,

Or they think it's cruoghi,

SEEN at London Airport: A middle-aged man and woman kneeling on the tarmac to pray before business, bourding their plane,

private

"After five years I was well out of pocket, so I thought it was time I made some money. where my father has a place.

"It all started out 1 Jamaica,

"Yes, quite a big place 300 acres, a mile of private beach. and all that.

"I met a lot of Snanclers put there and they gave me advice and introductions.

They had spread a copy of a newspaper as a mat and their knees were on a pic- lure of a plane crash.

Yoicks!

"But the man who's helped ••• me most is Leo Corrigan, 3 Tezan.

He seemed to take a liking

To me whenever we met and sold: Son, I'll make you some dough.'

Deal

"I've been all over the world with him helping to start a hotel chain.

"He's quite a character. A man of 67 who knows all about He served or jumped-for properly and money, but the four years and left to concen- funny thing is he always asks trate exclusively on Jumping as my advice now before he does

No

thanks

UST before I left London received an invitation an English gambling weekend in Las Vegas,

to

there will be the Hunt Master, "From Yorkshire, England,

n colourful Agure attired In authentic English huuling garb," read the invitation.

"He'll be your personal host re-creates all the excitement of at the Hunt Breakfast, which "No, I don't know Indians get out of the deal.

an early morning call to hounds Must be something, though I

a member of the British Inter- a deal. don't suppose they'd know what national team.

Το celebrate the deal Mr Swiss steak, country fresh ranch eggs, blueberry muffins, to do with money.

What made the equine, upper Shepherd ΚΟΙ engaged last dollar-size hot cakes with maple "But what I am sure about middle class, solid Harrovian week. to ex-model Ficur

that the

syrup. Yoicks!" gold has been with a private income decide to Hanson, who is wearing a So I'm of in

frm tackle the unsporting obstacles £5,000 diamond ring us a cheeked by a Canadian

ready in the money markets? that's involved, and it's

Jazzling token of his devollōn, direction. Yolcks!

But whatever

Is Savile-row may say, there is no doubt that the Italians have been the major post-war influence L men's fashion"

This piece of information i relayed to Signor Brioni, Fal,

Like a glove? It doesn't fit you anything like closely enough ac cording to some of Britain's men's wear manufacturers who talked suits and trousers at their biggest-ever convention in Harrogate last smiling 50, he smoothed his month. We have the cloth, they say, but it's the Italians who have the style.

Tira manufacturer's presid- enf, Leeds clothier Jenny Brill, says: "ilain analcons the finest cloth in t worki but the

Italiana bave got their eye on the ball. 1s azy creative

and stylish. I sell thele clothes

ayself."

by

PETER CHAMBERS

Young nu in Britain pend two or three times as much ou you know

dressers,

Ever

it

the smart Briton is wearing. the shops in Savile-row he

ran

butcherl you've again. However it turns out. PROVUN

tho will not be The Perfect Suit.

tallor,

sinco

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gel i made. And in the mass market?

narrow lapels and exclaimed: "130! As I said, proportion is everything? And you must

particular altentiou

pay

the trouser."

the

other

-(London Express Servicej.

THE ANSWER TO SMOKY

A

to

CHANCE meeting between an art historian and an £8-a-week Inland Revenue clerk has led to a scientific breakthrough in the battle to

Since Italian design half our prevent diesel fumes. There can no longer be any cars and we buy their shoes, excuse for smoky vehicle exhausts. typewriters and Sportswear f

trifusor.

see no reason at all why Itome The ori historian was Mr shouldn't change the British Michael Beatson.

managing director Dunedin Engineering This means trim. Jim. It's the Londunt. trouser that Mr Mikoyan wears,

35, How

of

the

Cu

of

The World

of Science

not Mr Krushey. There should The clerk was Mr John be so little spare cloth: In there Whyte, one-time diesel en- The man who has made the Hurricane Esther and not flap.

trousers, yini could sland D gineer who impoverished him- breakthrough into the

self during 15 years of secret re- market is Hardy Amtes, one of

search to find a quick, securato test for engines. Eloven cou- London's Top turiers. More than

mass

their clothes as the Huneration. Tehly, Boys, according to Mr. You're changing your Brill, they have

nart You're 里

road seeking your ideal shumette "What nur men's wear indus-, the Magle Worsted Convertible, try mejls—and is a bevaring industry-bi

it will convert you from what

$10,000,000 ufactur. You really are (hexagonal?) Into ers anal the retailers," said at that blade-true, smoth-fannel worth of Amics-style, silm-line Brill. Wenn create style by carrying an unlit

led lady-kiler Who is always suits are being marketed this Dire and month through the 290 branches working togethim."

smiling out of the men's wear of a multiple men's wear store, advertisemCHES.

flover collabora-

flon between the

Chaos

1

wish we

Some

say the

could fe some of us and our chnow in create

search for a

tllors, We

worsted in our

suit that will be a sublje

ferr. Life this...

flat-

Signor Brioni, master taller

of Rome, pat his fluger un the

problem right away.

No spare

Winner

I once lock This Nice Girl along for the third filing, And 'm that time-honoured phrase of

Last year Mr Whyte, 02, died Uit not before

EXHAUSTS

Invention has 'secret' value

der, and can be fitted onto the have been saving haulage con- outside of a diesel with o few tractors, breweries and trans- turns of a spanner.

porters between 4 and 25

per cent in fuel and thousands of hours of maintenance time.

Mr Beatson explained: "Diesel smoke is unburnt fugl-It's like going around with hole In

The secret

Its secret is a speelal valve, Inside the cylinder. And the secret is known only to a hand- ful in the firm.

your tank.

"Even an error of a few at-

Mr Whyte found the way to pinpoint faults in a diesel fuel. injection system while the

Mr Beatson told me: "You mospheres of pressure in can take the whole thing to injection system

the

can

cause

en-

of

he had seen gine IB running IN THE pieces and put 11 back again-clouds of smoke but up till his invention used on fleets of VEHICLE, Previously, only hap- but it won't work. Mr Whyte now there has been no way lurries and locomotives.

At hazard teal were feasible with would not tell me the secret at measuring this precisely.

equipment ral, nobody realised the Impor first only what the would do. I had to agree

tance of the invention-not even Mr Whyte." back him on those terms."

his the tailer remarked: "We've In the vehicle

got a winner here this time, sit."

un engine out of a vehicle on a beneli.

1

'No way'

since, the

ta

of

The equipment streamlined

The breakthrougli has come Today it is being fitted into by Mr Beatson to compactness

just in time. After January,1, "It's the trouser," he said.

Never shall I

the tankers of Greek shipping crures that an engine is ad- what forgel

1902, new laws forbidding the justed to perfect accuracy in Amies told me: "I cannot say This Nice Girl "They all concentrate on

has few minutes. the

replied, Shemagnate Stavros Niarchos,

emission

excessive diesel War Office tests with the pro- smoke from vehicles come into neket; not enough attention The sull I

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kave designed is looked me over and said to the the blessing of the BMC and the trouser."

London-style or

Italian-style. talior: "You won, he lost."

Rootes motor-giants and the It looks like a small pressure totype were a complete success. furce. Jstory can be told.

gauge on top of a short cylin- Ever

little gauges -{London Express Service).

-(London Express Service), Brioni and I were

smoking It's International. early morning cigarettes in t The tailor has a tape-mea, London hotel. He is showing his sure hung rexind bis neelt, Intest runge of ins clothes You've got this half-stitched, here-very cool, tapered Kor. semi-munde-u tuit draped menta. Än aclor Irunt round your huntlequate body. Dolce Vita" modelled some of

Like a glove? In the harsh then anel, watching him, light of the dressing-room felt as elegant as a heap Busions are dissolved, In the alnck. front mirror you do

Brioni's publicity agent said: Il look In bit like Rock Hudson,

"Some people call Brioni the Ho-bum. Look at the rear world's * best talior." Brioni view, You kept hoping for Ies himself nindeally jold claim Harrison-all' und willowy to having invented "the but you're stuck with the trith. Italian itu." le caid: "I in- It's the back view of Tog vented it 10 years ago. Sim, Hancock again.

proportioned, elegant. "light In sulls weight the Italian style

you swept America."

for

"Listen, do you make Tany Ifanrock?" want to aak. "You've given me his sail by 'miatike."

You do not my & ward. You nod dumbly as the tallur says: "Left. sleeve's a bit short, sir."

Yes, And the collar luoice terrible.

The ideal

Humbly

The stores

you

of

But what is the Italian line? Switching rules, I whipped nut

thue-Insure 1:

prid jogged down these facts about Beloni's Atuning muit.

A single-breanted button-three It is, with a conservative-length, now, two-vented jacket. The tapel at your the wident point is two and

- half inches aercos. The trousern down are 17 Inches round thu bot-

tons. No lorn-ups.

Hancock złot Harrison-you coat eye over the falar stripe and suggest ho annething about the collar,

"I mwen, between my shirt collar and my jacket collar there looks like Toom for a hangman's house."

The taller laughs "Ha-ln" in

t

Above all, absolutely no pad-| ding in the shoulders.

And thal's it-the Italian alln-dine.

If it sounds familiar, then it's

a very cold way, and somehow because this is also the bull that'

Cumming

"Of course, I'm

(still Mr Unflappable ---but if there were a Channel Lunnel

wouldn't refuse to

use it!"

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