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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER '10, 1946.

REAL POCKET RADIO-This transmitter-rocoivor, no largor than a 20-packet of cigarettes, with a transmitting, range of about half a mile, is the latest British development in the fiold of olectronics. The sot is carried in the pocket, the carphones appear like a deaf-aid sof, and the microphone is concealed under the jackot lapol.

The British Set Make News In New York

LL around New York you seef familiar British faces-in the hotels, the theatres, the restaurants, and certainly in the night clubs.

Before

But a word of advice to Mr Hylton: he must have Annie, too. the war there was no tugboat with- out Annie, and nowadays there na gun without Annie. In this case

Annie is Miss Ethel Merman.

If she is going London way, "Annie Get Your Gun" will be a big success, even in our biggest theatre.

SIR

NOBEL PRIZES TO BE AWARDED TO-DAY

PRIZES for physics and chemistry (1923), who discovered insulin for

ING GUSTAVUS of Sweden, Kthe Swedish Cabinet, mom- are awards by the Swedish the treatment of diabetes; Sir F. G, bers of the Riksdag and the Academy of Selence; medicine by Hopkins, O. M. (1020), the founder

the Caroline Medical Institute of of vitamin research

and Oilcint Diplomatie Corps, representa- Stockholm; Ilterature by the Swedish Analyst to the Home Omeo; Sir tives of scientific and artistic Royal Academy; and that for peace Charles-Sherrington and E. D. Ad- societies all over the world as- by a committee of five elected by rian (1932), for their joint work the Norwegian Parliament. They on the brait and nervous systems: semble to-day in the flower- are worth about £10,000 each, and Professor Sir Henry Dolo (1938),

were rat awarded in 1901,

decked great hall of the Royal

the present President of the Royal Musical Academy in Stockholm.

A glance at the names of winner Society, who was chairman of Mr and their achievements provides a Churchill's Scientific Committee two The occasion is the annual presen- brief but inscinating history of the years ago; and, last yedi, Professor tation of the Nobel Prizes, and to- | great development of modern Sir, Alexander Fleming and Str day's ceremonier also mark the science. Great Britain has figured Henry Florey, for their discovery aftieth aniversary of the death of most prominently in these awards, of· penicillin, the originator.

Wha Lord

and stands second only to Germany | in the total assessment.

Rudyard Kipling (1907), "poet Swedish chemist and engineer

Jaureate of the Seven Seas" the Alfred Nobel, a difdent and self- In the realm of physics, there great' Irish poet and dramatist. W. effacing man, was the great scientific

Rayleigh (1904), 10 B. Yents (1923), Bernard Shaw Inventor of explosives. He produced whom the science of opties over so (1925), and John Galsworthy (1032) dynamite in 1862, blasting gelatin much. Sir Joseph Jon Thomson have been awarded the. Literature fourteen years later, and ballistite, (1906), was one-time President

of prize. the precursor of cordite, in 1889. the Royal Society, Sir From the manufacture of these Bragg shared the prize with bis change of Swedish and British cul- death-dealing materials and large in- father in 1915. He is an Australian tural values.

terests in the Baku oilfields, he amassed a vast fortune.

He left the great bulk of it in trust for the establishment of five; prizes to be awarded annually,

The first goes to the scientist who

has made the most important dis- covery or invention in the daranin

idealist tendency,

Controversial

This is only natural, for of the standardised throng of people, the London faces are the ones we re- cognise. Just as in a field of wild flowers, where we see only the well- CIB Alexander Korda is expected

In New York. He is known daisies and dandelions.

curious man with many quall- ties. The Brilish Alm in- distry ours in the memory FINALLY, this originator of all of his ms stays with us. Even if

that was most destructive until he decided to make no more, his forceful imprint on the life of the the atom was split, Industry would allow him to bask fifth prize to Peace.

The English visitors are gay. They go everywhere. It is lucky that they may pay for their return passage in sterling before leaving England. Otherwise many might be stranded.

ment.

bis

devoted His testament

In the contentment of past achleve- stipulates that it will be awarded to "who shall have most or best pro- HE £76 available in dollars will THE

He has the real art of conversamoted the fraternity of nations; the not long stand the strain of tion-that or being a good listener abolition or diminution of standing living in New York. But the as well as a good talker. He pos- armies; and the formation or in- problem of money is not a subject. sesses great curiosity a quality 10 crease of peace conpresses." for talk. In France all Britons dis-be looked on not with disapproval, cuss their franc situation. But bera but with praise.

Shaw dedicated the entire

William sum of the award to further an ex-

By

PETER

LOVEGROVE

who received his award at the re-

Trade Union Leader

BRITISH

efforts for peace have been recopilsed on five occa- sions. The Americans have received seven awards in this rection, France and Switzerland have each figured four times, Germany twice; Italy once and Russia not at all.

of pliyales; there is another for chem- Istry: a third for medicine; and a fourth for the author of the rustmarkably early age of 25, and wha

The first Brilon to receive this distinguished literary work of on was employed on sound ranging in honour was a joiner, who, founded the rnap section of British Army HQ the Amalgamated Carpenters and In France in World War 1. Lain-

Jolner's Unlon and who was for a cashire-born C. G. Barkda won long time one of the lendern of the in 1917 for his X-ray discoveries, Trade Union movement. This was and C. T. R. Witson, Scottish Sir William R. Cremer, who received farmer's son, in 1927 for his re- his prize in .1903. Sir Austen search on atmospheric electricity. Chamberlain, Tery Foreign Minister, The following year, it went to O. W. negotiator of the Locarno Treaty. Richardson, for his work on clec was awarded it in 1925.'-- trons; in 1835, to Professor J. Chad-

Then came Sir Norman wick, who discovered the neutrons

Angell

prospector, lecturer, economist, and in 1937, to G. P. Thomson, for (1033), whe has been rancher, gold his atomic research work.

Journalist and author, and 'has de- The chemistry award has gone to voted his life to the cause of peace; Britain on six occasions. There was Arthur Henderson (1934), foreign Few international honours have Sir William Ramsay in 1904; Sir Secretary in Ramsay MacDonald's administration; and quite the fame of this prize, and E. Rutherford four years later; an- second labour none has proved more difcult to other atom scientist four years la- Viscount Ceell (1997), who did so assess or award, or caused more con-ter, F. Soddy (1921), who originated much to try and make the Lengue

of Radio- the Displacement Law troversy. It is a sad comment on

activity; F. W. Aston (1922), one-

Madame Curie there little reference to dollars. I

no this city of precipitous the behaviour of the Jast two

time technical head of an aircraft The social alliance between Britain heights, which at night look like generations that en' fourteen occa- and the United States is more in- lighted bastions, is the home of a timate and more natural. Many goodly number of our cliizens, some sions there was no award, and that factory at Farnborough; A. Harden English have an American relative, visiting and some permanent. Such only eleven years ago, it went to (1929), for his investigations of su-

to a society. In 1904, the Institute everyone friend. After all, about a multitude, in fact, appear to have a great pacifist who was interned gar fermentations and studies two million Yanks were stationed in provided themselves even with their in a concentrailon camp

his vitamin problems; and W. H. of International Law was honoured, worth, Birmingham University pro- as were the International Peace the British Isles recently. And a own burglars,

views, and who has since dled in

fessor and an authority on synthe- Ofice In 1010 and the Red Cross relative or a friend is often an easy

C captivity. This was a German, von tic chemistry and Vitamin in Committee in 1917. supply for money or money's worth. Besides American hospitality and RS Herbert Agar was robbed in

Ossictzky, a true martyr, who was 1937. generosity towards friends is famous. I her own hotel, just like it is done long and bitterly persecuted by the in London. At home she is affec- Nazis for his advocacy of disarma- tionately known as Barbie, formerly ment and international peace. the wife of the late Euan Wallace. Sir Edwin Lutyens was her father. She is married to Herbert Agar, the historian.

By Pamela Churchill

50th Street houses several Fleet- street figures, The Plaza hotel is the temporary home of Lord Cam- rose of the Daily Telegraph, and Lord Rothermere of the Daily Mail.

THES

HESE important English Press the Lords have interested American socialite columnists. Chally Knickerbocker has written of the beauty of Lady Rothermere-a sen- timent rightly. echoed on both sides of the Atlantic. She is also witty, and has that measure of intelligence which God has given to many gene- rations of the family from which she springs, the House of Wemyss.

The Plaza Hotel overlooks Central Park, the Hyde Park of New York- n pleasant place of exceptional beauty, where the statues and the trees appear to stand still and defy time.

Lord Camrose and Lord Rother- mere overlook this small centre of New York, where there is neither hustle nor bustie. Lord Beaver- brook sits there on a park bench. All the morning and part of each afternoon his friends go to Central Park la join him.

THE House of Commons have mem- bere here, too. Sir John Ander- son, Independent M.P., atomic bomb. authority and director of the Cann- dian Pacifle Rollway, is staying in Mr and Mrs Myron Taylor's apart- ment in the Ritz Carlton. So is Lady Anderson.

The Canadian Pacific Railway does not run in New York. But Baruch and his atom bomb com- mittee provide plenty of work for Sir John.

He and Lady Anderson have been entertained by Mrs Roosevelt, who campaigned vigorously for Senator Mead and 'ex-Governor Lehmann, the 'unsuccessful democratic candl dates in New York State.

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CIR Andrew Duncan, M.P. for the City of London, stays with his son at the 42-storeyed Waldorf As- toria. Their windows look for over the city as from a mountain peak. The younger Duncan is to remain and go into business. He will work for the Shell Company in New York.

also

The Brish showmon abroud in this, the most beautiful of modern cities,

Jack Hylton arrived in the Queen Elizabeth. He has a dual mission- to sell "No Room at the Inn," now. playing at the Winter Garden in London; and to take to England "Annie Get Your Gun," the musical hit of the year on Broadway,

And

for

of

of Nations work.

'

T TIMES the Peace Prize has gone, not to an individual, but

prize was made posthumously For Medicine

to

One award-the 1931 Literature

Erik Axel Karifeldi, a Swedish nu- thor, This had been offered him while he was still living, but he had

So enraged were the Nazis at the NINE British scientists have ob- refused it on the grounds that he

Ntained the medicine honour. The was not read outside Sweden. international press campaign that list is headed by Sir Ronald Roas ensued that they passed a law for- (1902), the famous expert on tropl- Only one person has won more "Fier"jewels and her treasures are bidding Germans from accepting enl diseases, for hla work on malaria. than one Nobel prize and that was. all gone. But prestige remains, for such prizes. Two distinguished chem- Then come A. V. Hill (1822), the the famous Madame Curie, who was in this land of light and understanists were thus prevented from re- the War Cabinet's Scientific Advi-work on radium. 24 years later, it blophysicist who was a member of honoured in 1993 and 1911 for her ding English aristocrats

war: was her daughter's turn to win a sory Committee in the late F. G. Banting and J. J. R. MacLeod similar prize.

are still

looked on with favour and approba- calving the honours for which they

were designated in 1938 and 1039.

tion.

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson).

North had a clear warning of advised by his adversary (who was, "duplication of values" in to-day's deal, but he disregarded it, to his own loss.

South, dealer.

East-West vulnerable.

NORTH

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NANCY

he knew, an "honest" bidder), and he promptly took his finger off the club queen and selected the less inviting heart opening. Thus, the defenders took two Tricks before surrendering the lead.

In discussing the hand North sald that he had "thought about" the possibility that South's announced 6-5 distribution was accompanied by two losing hearts, rather than two singletons, but he said also that had appeared worthwhile to risk that danger. I North (according to North) bid only five diamonds over four apades, South would not be able to visualise as strong a sunporting hand as North actually held.

This was a major error in analysis. Of course South could, and would, bid the slam on his own account if he had what he required in the way

heart control, after of

North's vigorous diamond raise and Inter club bid, Let's assume that instead of two low hearts South had und a singleton in that suit hnd in clubs. flow sure the slam would be from his point of view) Thus, a simple five-diamond bid by North would have been ample to preserve slam potentialities, while also preserving safety,

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