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"Somebody's been tin- kering with thing again."

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Sounding Ocean

Secrets

BY

By PAMELA CHURCHILL

NEW figure has emerged; can therefore devote his atten- in the company of the Bly tion to such miasters as Toulouse Four, He does not sit with Lautrec, who is one of his the Foreign Ministers, but his favourite artists. position is high up on the list

Its round, beaming face with a always He is Paul Henri eigar protruding jauntily, of names. Spaak, of Belgium, the Presi- brings the stock emmment, "Why he look Ilke Winston Churchill" dent of the United Nations As-Spaakt is accustomed to this, and sembly.

smiles tolerantly.

At a glittering Waldorf din ner which included the Big Four and the delegates of the United Nations, the wittiest speech in asen of heavy, carnest talk was that made by Spaak.

Sitting at his high, impressive desk at the assembly hall he has an important magisterial look, but pri- Vately he smiles and says: "Do you want to know what I am doing up

I'm there?"

reading the

Intest

Agatha Christie,"

WHO IS THIS MAN?

He went to New York rela-| EVERYONE SAYS, tively unknown to the average

American, and in a short few weeks has become known as the man who looks (but does not act) like Churchill.

PETER LOVEGROVE Bubbling wit

HOW a group of Swedish WIT is a perishable commodity

scientists and oceanographers

will sail from Gotheborg,

heard only seldom at official

Sweden, next May in a four- dinners. Spank's Waldorf au-

Heavy set and jowly, there is little! about Spaak now to remind you that

SMALLEST HOUSE IN LONDON

'By Kit Stoddart ANYONE looking for a house

big enough to swing a cat in would not have given No. 10 Hyde Park Place, Bayswater; 'n second glanco-but the house has been soli again.

Ton Hyde Park Place, said to be the original of the Darling's home in "Peler Pan." is 300 years old and Is the smallest house in London Just four feet wide and 30 feet long. *** It Is over 300 years old.

The tiny property is being sold by a Harley Street surgeon, J. P. Lock- hart-Mummery, to the historic Ty- burn Convont next door.

"WHY, HE LOOKS bewus once a member of Belgium's above and two rooms, sot one above

LIKE WINSTON CHURCHILL . . .

Profile of

PAUL HENRI SPAAK

***

masted schooner on a 16-months dience were therefore doubly SAAK'S career has been as in-

research expedition in the At-

credible as any fairy tale. As in machine-gun Foreign Minister when the Germans the Mediterranean was related French, politely poking careful invaded the Lowlands, he escaped in London recently by the leader of this romantic expedi- fun at the long-windedness of first to France, where eventually he tion.

statesmen, and suggesting how was mierned. an exchange of roles might liven the proceedings of the Council

lantic, the Pacific, and the Indian surprised when he bubbled and Ocean, and in the Red Sea and sparkled

They are going to try to find re- cords of the past of this very ancient planet in the unplumbed depths of the oceans. They believe they are of Foreign Ministers. on the verge of great discoveries.

ton schooner, the Their 1,400 "Altstross", has been specially fitted

"If for example," he said,

up with laboratories, cold storage! "Mr Bevin should take over the rooms and electric winchés capable foreign policy of the USSR and af lifting 13 tons. They will be

Mr Molotov should speak for using new equipment capable 6 metres through

Britain's Foreign Office.

the which time has accumu-

nu

later at the bottom of the cecans-

times farther than any

Both Bevin and Molotov

When Vichy broke relations with

the Belgian Government exite. Spank and Premier Pierlot led, Ilving for three days in open felds, Spank escaped through Spain dis- #S 21 Franciscan mauk, in a guised, making part of the journey Caise-bottom trunk, which is said to have been provided by the British.

Secret Service.

International tennis team.

No. 10 has its own front door,. complete with letter-box, a window

the other in match-box style. To get On several previous occasions has from the ground floor to the first, onç

climbs an outside staircase. Spank visited America. He calls it

The biggest worry is trying to turn "n new country but an old civilisa-round Inside the house without get- Lion." One question he asks re-ing Jummed. There are no sanitary peatedly, and he has not yet had a arrangements and only one cold water satisfactory answer. It is, "Why do faucet. But housecleaning is easy- American boys and girls walk along of air will blow the dust right out Just open the back door and the rush the streets holding and swinging through the front.,

week.

hands? Spaakt laughs and shakes his Solo tenant in recent years was on head over this phenomenon which author, paying one pound to most of us has gone quite un-Could he have been writing-up noticed.

successor to the "Thin Man?"

Now the nuna use the house as a lumber store. "Maybe Wo can make it into a tradesman's entrance later," they explain.

He agrees

that the dominant American woman has great attrac- tion, but with a Latin tilt to one Kays she Jacks the eyebrow he European woman's "tendresse." Tolerance

HIS Latin-ness is the quality that makes him so unlike Church!!! despite the often-remarked physical resemblance.

of

Spaaks impresses one as an great sympathy and unders fowards diverse points of view and bellefs, a man of cultivated tolerance without nurifcing principles.

ever

Pro-war, the miniature mansion was gay with bright paint, gleaming knocker and beflowered window-box. Now the paint is peeling from, the narrow front door. Even the tiny knocker has mysteriously vanished, and

the one window is broken and boarded up.

No one seems to know exactly why. the house was built so smail in the are various #rst place, but there thecries.

One is that it was erected by a wealthy family as a home for on nited (and presumably thin) servant, another, that it was built by eccentric, who lived at No. 9, to prove his right of ownership to a pausage- way.

an

appuralus which has yet been used. who was listening closely to father was director of the Brussele making any known enemies--In - tion that he bullt himself a residence

three Their device is a form of collector which is driven into the button of the sen by the weight of sounding lead and in which the deposit is retained.

found now

Physicists have menus of dating periods of the carth's history by calculating- length of time a fraction of sediment takes to form both on a mountain or at the sea bottom, and through fossil and mollusc remains.

Ambitious

It will be the most ambitious ex- pedition of its kind since our own HMS Challenger laid the founda- tions of the knowledge of the relief

of the Atlantic occan bed in the

1870's.

The first deep sen soundings will

Pavlov's

translation-laughed uproariously, as did the surpris-

The qualities are avaluable to one who must preside parliament of all nations, a Jobs

A third theory attributes it to u He was born 47 years ago. HB which he has done so far without miser who, left a legacy on condi- self a formidable accomplishment, In London, put up the smallest house Opera, and his mother was Belgium's

Spaale received a message of coil-possible, nest woman member of Parliament. gratulation from Molotov en his

But the Lilliputian home has one After Spark was grown up, he speech. It was the first he had ever really big advantage-It's the only

received from

Russia's Foreign place in London that is really squat-

ler-proof-Associated Press. ed audience who hadn't quite and his family would lunch every Minister.

Wednesday at the home of his adjusted themselves

mother. Always a Berce political reverent wit in such high argument would ensue. Perhaps it was at his mother's lunch table that places.

Spaak Arst learnt the art of cut and thrust in political debate.

to an

Spank takes his duties seriously, but he has demon-

For two years during the fest strated that he finds responsi-World War he was a prisoner of the bilities no reason for being Germans. He then joined the So-

pompous.

cialist Party and became known as "the firebrand of Belgium.".

He dines out frequently in

New York, where his language Boys and girls

problem (he speaks only

be taken near the central Atlantic French) has been no barrier. AT 33 he was elected to Pariln

WRS Bel- rise on the Equator. The depth of He finds time to wander through

of

gium's first Socialist Premier, and -the occan along the main ridge

ment, and by 1030

this rise is about 2,000 metres, while l.picture gallerics, enjoying -the was then referred to as "Belgium's the sides slope down to 5 and 6,000 fact that he is unrecognised and Spaak plug."

motres. They will also visit the neighbourhood of Martinique, where there was Д great earthquake In 3902.

the

After probing the Atlantic, "Albatross" will sail into the Pacific

are

to explore the greatest sea depths so for known: near Mindanao, where there

submerged trenches reaching down 11,000 metres; Tahiti and the Marquisas, and to the west of Java and Sumatra, in varying from seven and a half to eight and a half kilometres deep In the Indian Ocean, they will "fish" off Bombay, and then return home via the Red Sea and the Mediter ranean in August 1948,

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)

in to-day's deal the declarer singleton diamond was. led; Enst waters thought he had to guess between two played the ace and laid down, the

Jine of play

that apparently had heart, king, which of course de- equal chances. Unfortunately, he clarer ruffed. guessed wrong, but that was not his real error. He could have found out whether one of the plans would succeed, and in that way made a highly enlightened choice..

South dealer. Both sides vulnerable.

NORTH

This was revealed to the Royal Geographical Society in London by Professor Carl Peterssen, the direc tur af Gothoborg's Oceanic Institute and the son of an equally distin- gulshed Swedish physicist, who will lead the expedition.

Upheavals

Dr Peterssen conducted experi- ments in Swedish waters during the tate war and has just returned from a preliminary research expedition In the Mediterranean.

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His party first explored the 1,000 fathom depths in the neighbourhood of Alglers. 'where they found traces of volcanic ash salts, dull slate grey In colour, below, the crust of the sen floor though nothing is known of Africari active volcanoes

on the st. Certain molluse shalls coast.

olls were niso recovered from lower layers,

then they worked in the Tyr- rhenian Sea, between Stelly and Naples, in the deep holes that reach North, obviously enough, was

nearly four kilometres, down

of timid in his bidding! they have found several layers of

volcanic ash, which

which they have

where

Now, since the fate of the con tract depended (first of all) on capturing the trump queen, South cashed the ace and king, and was pleased to see the queen' fall from Wesl

Even with this break, however, there was still the ques tion of how to round out the play. Should South lead the diamond queen through West, playing him for the king and thus ruffing out the entire diamond sult; or should South cash the club king, enter dummy with a trump and depend club sult? running off the

of South realised that East's play the diamond ace

might have been

he card-that

adually 4 false held the diamond king as well and therefore decided in favour of the club plan. He came to grief when West turned up with a club stopper.

011

The correct play after trumps was

drawing

to overtake the club. king with the ace and then to ruit low a

club. This would have revealed whether clubs were breaking, and when the negative answer came South would have. been forced into the winning line lending diamonds through

not

West opened the heart jack:

of

compared with the known outbreaks Dummy's ace was put up and the West. of Vesuvius from A.D. 70 to 1000.. They were also netive between the Balearic Islands, Corsica and the south of France, and ..In the Straits of Gibraltar near Josephine Bank.

needle of

of rock with sleep slopes of an Alpine character which rises almost to the surface of the sea.

They also discovered two species of fish.

new

Swedish solenlists are now work- ing on the results of this first ex- which should contribute the knowledge that Is De Plowly. pieced together

to

of

periods millions of years ago when the earth was going through the violent phases of the Triassic En

when great muntain upheavals

Hely altered the face of the

and the Jurassic Ers, when

the seas flowed again and animal and human life Logan to develop "gradually.

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WE DEVELOP NEGATIVES

WELL, ON A

NEGATIVE. EVERYTHING DAT'S WHITE IS BLACK--

AND EVERYTHING DAT'S BLACK

MS WHITE

I STILL DON'T. UNDERSTAND

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