THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1961.
Top men tell Dennis Hart
WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS TO ME
THE
words came out with the staccato rattle of a machine gun. Each one had the clipped assurance of settling in a second yet another great financial deal.
The words were Plum pul- ding. Mince pirs Tinkay Good cheer Fellowship flatly. Snow."
SARKIS GILBEN- NUBAR
commercial KIAN tillionaire. diplomat, garmel, was ing me what Christmas meant to
him He answered the ques-
from with the immediacy al man whose full life allows for no hesitation.
Affairs of commerce and state attache to is the frunlan Embassy in Len don; are not forgotten even ou Christres Day. "J like my pleasures, but uere is no fun e work." But he does feel "guruad glow" at Christmas.
the commercial
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b) was just a bit disappointed that I hadn't seen Santa Claus." When Paul Getty was eight, He came the tail of truth.
that there was no uisonverval Santa
felt Claas, "I illusioned."
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dis-
ryanks who could de pe more han buy the talons de hud
o
There and then, Ellica deler. aipei to us the talent he had
Bing Crosby Traditional Christmas space time and the universe as For Blug, Christmas means a Blog's happirst white Christ- it is."
family re-union. His ar sons, mas memory is of the first time To the scientist, the meaning their wives and his younger he and his family spent the of Christmas is scientifle. "It's children, three-year-old Harry Christmas in their log cabin p position in line astronomical and two-year-old Mary, get to the edge of Hayden Lake year makes it the natural festi- gether to enjoy the festivities in Idaho, val of the year, and of course à traditional way.
date back beyond Christian times."
He would use its origins ar full. This inhe has done the 10 dediraling himself Spartan training schedule of his
fanatical Uhe
Percy Cerutty.
People seldom speak of the ch
deeper meaning of Christ- mas. Nor
HERB world's Everest conqueror Sir JOHN
ELLIOTT, the greatest athlete.
What does Christmas mean tu mer 1's the celiberation H the birth of Jesus Christ.
Christmas helps couler Elliott Will's of life. "Every so often in life you rome face la face with your
and think what
Take another millionaire-ng with bfe, wital dres
o
PAUL GETTY, the richest of them off, it is said.
Materially. Mr Gelly has gui everything auyone exuld want or din 4. He controls an mpire worth £350 million. But lake those of far humbler etray tabees Christains for Paul elty is the time for a family athering and, more important. huying children around. "Christmas 15 the time lo he at home and not in an heard ot restaurant," her hay's "RC In have children around. Chil dren make Christmas."
" Faber 1
Paul Getty's earliest memory goes back to Christmas Eve believed Santa Claus twelve midnight in a sleigh and reindeer to put presents on the tree. I always tried to stay awake but always seemed to fall asleep.
When I woke up, I was thrill ed at the sight of the presents,
it nat This is the reling you get at Christmas,"
1 EBall Rud not come fare thewa hinseif 1950 h
have Leo!
HUNT has been face
to face with the natural won- ders of the world.
for hán (naasimis Exa fune
Ja is giving thanks "nique birthday anniversary-
We can- hint of Jesus Christ ti send Him pre nis, but we Beam, on this particular easton do e band sing. to re- ce, and to love bar neighboVIE
curseles
Christmas minder that d we harder to eli w w. only on Deemiar
ariy
1
Alter showing much athiekes promass, he had drift- ed out of the Spurt after an in- He preferred the party- Jury ging rounds and general uge social whirk,
Then, in 1956, he watched the Olvmja Gama - al Melbourne, he saw Vladimir Kus, Russia's "E ME" rus the cream
world's articles inis the and winning the 5.000 and
10.000 metres events.
Kalite, ne vaar-old Elliot was doing some serious Ho how he had a think.
At the back of lot of ability.
mind
the biblical paralsh of the suryanks who had Lok after the master's talents He thought most of the
s
was
as a re-
were le try
ivice not
23, bu all
year run, we should have the kind of world comminually wich God plans for us."
Astronomer FRED HOYLE deals not 30 much with the wonders of the world," but of the universe.
To him this wonderful uni- verse is not a work of God but a chemical combination which exists and has always existed. Says Professor Hoyle, "There is ne room for a super being in a
where there is universe
con- tinuous creation.
He
"It was some years ago now,
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And he has seen a white Christmas-many of them. will never forgot me when he "I used to do a news- was teu One cannot
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some pocket money. this Christmas, or
on ony Even Christmas day the me"
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That's one accident Crosby can't pin on Bob Hope. "The old man was chasing lost golf balls somewhere in the sun- shine at the time."
It such a super being exists then he must stand outside of
What Christmas Means to Me, Left to right: Nubar Gulbenkian, Paul Getty “Children "maka Getty, Herb Effiott. Gulbenkian-"Good fellowship."
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