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nore than 50 years with out the abbreviating Ind. Imp (Emperor of India) in the King's title, are now being is~ sued in London by the million. Three million a week are be- ing struck at the Royal Mint. "Four to five million pounds worth live been sent to the benis sluce
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ΟΣ England's greatest anthorities, Professor Thomas Bodkin, has declared that neither of the two por- traits in Nottingham Castle put forward as portralfs of Roning- tom had any claim to authen- tielty. £2,000,000 ORDER: THE first
of 50 shunting engines being built by Bagnall's, of Stafford, part of a £2 million order-the first placed under railway's nation- alisation-han had ils running tests. The firm will "fum out an engine fortnight for the next two years. TV FOR MIDLANDS:
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CHAPMAN PINCHER
flies to Austria to test a professor's challengo
Are bees
the next 'cleverest to human beings?
BRUNNWINKL, AUSTRIA. WHITE-HAIRED Austrian professor-
who seems to have stepped straight from a Franz Lehar operetta, has set a challenger to man in the use of language. He nominates the bee.
The professor is Karl von Frisch, who. after six years of studying what goes on within the darkness of a busy bee-hive,' has picced together a story so startling that, until they prove it for themselves, even his best scientific friends found it hard to accept.
Von Frisch claims:
THE PROFESSOR: Dr. Karl von Frisch, formerly Director af Munich's famed Zoological Institute and now professor at Graz Univaralty. Ho wore Tyrolean. style dress at his mooting with Chapman Pincher
TV-In America And Britain:
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America cuts
prices
60 per cent
from FREDERICK Cook
New York. ELEVISION in Ameri- perntures
weeks now, it is true, tem- en is no longer satis- that few have felt inclined have been such fled to be a rich man's to stay at home in the oven- darling. It is trying-with ing to watch television: all the tricks it knows-to The manufacturer maintain become a poor man's slave. that a midsummer doldrums is But it is having a hard time, as much to be expected in tele- Caught in a stiffening vision as in the theatre. They buyers' market, where aid that there is now no import- ant baseball to watch and will everybody looks two or not be until nearer the end three times at the price tag, summer; that there is little box- of television is faced with ing and no new Joo Louis, something which RONIC All this, of course, is true. But makers frankly call a slump The trade, highly sensitive on
It may
not be the whole truth. and others my is "just a the whole subject of declining seasonal slackening in the sales graphs, goes no rate of demand,"
further than to admit that "expected Certainly the demand is Gunner recession" came much not the headlong rush
carlier than had been foreseen.
was a few weeks ago.
it
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The swank radio salons
In Miny-the last month, for along New York's Fifth and which figures have been compiled Madison Avenues and the television
-196,000 Americans bought
scle basements of the big depart 1,858,000 the number now in
raising
to ment stores alike are full of operation. Five new stations sets, immediate delivery, no went on the air, and television waiting. And at prices of which had not had it before,
became available in three arcas 25 to 60 percent off.
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But the figures also show that One small table model re- the rate of growth slowed down, ceiver, with a seven-inch appreciably. In the preceding
screen,
thirty days,
sales had totalled 215,000, now be bought
Taking the USA as a whole, for £34 16s., there are
00 television reduced from stations on the air. £62 10s. handsome tele-
Empire Stato.
couple each.
Now
Unsold Sets
1
New York and Los Angeles ave six each. Washington and vision-radio- Chiengo have four. Philadelphia;
Baltimore and Detroit three. gramophone each. Even remoto towns like combina Albuquerque, New Mexico and Columbus, Ohio, have one sintión tion, priced a con
each. Half a dozen cittes (popu. fortnight ago lation approximately at £82 5s., is and Dayton,
400,000) Ohio (population now marked approximately 270,000) have £54 15s.
In an indus- try accustomed to having Proof of the American con- Ils products snapped up be- viction that television in here to fore the varnish had dried, stay-and to grow is found in The first bee to find the nectar was necurate to within 100 yards has now reached crescendo. towns where there
located up to 3% miles away he the whistling in the dark the remarkable fact that thou- have bought sets in was No. 36. Von Frisch watched
not, at it ay back and break into a
Most makers are saying, present, a station at all. "What about direction? Von "The slump-if yo lively is on the hanging honey- Frisch noticed that all the boys it that is not serious.
can call It is to facta liko these that It makers paint when asked about the sales slump. But the fact There isn't a thing to be have larger stocks of unsold sets
remains worried about."
They point to the fact that one of the biggest makers, most of the big stars and General Electric, have laid of
350 workers in the the shows sponsored by Big assembly shop, which normally Business are now "off the employs 2,500 people: air" for the summer.
För
sands
is
THE BEE has a mechanism for comb. He saw bees Nos. 21, 82 working on any one bowl danced is just what we expected. that wholesalers today
recording and remembering the location of any place it visita.
and 7 join in the dance, and with their feelers ECOSO the lavender still clinging to the USING a sign language consist- leuder's body.
ing of ceremonial dances in
A
their straight steps in the same direction. But this direction gradually slowed round as the day wore on.
than they ever saw before. And
television
-London Express Service).
BBC plan first
"vision" election
by KENNETH BAILY
which the rhythm and direc- Within
e few minutes his
Following up this observation tion of the steps give precise assistant reported this trio bearings, reckoned from the they too, homed to the hive and
of experiments drinking at the bowl. Then with hundreds
he found:- sun it tells its thirsty hive danced more workers into seck- mates exactly where a good ing a drink. We walked over If the bee dances its straight drink of nectar may be found, to the flower-studded meadows tail-wagging steps up the comb BEE allows for the wind where the professor had repeat it is saying that the feeding when dancing out the mileage, ed this experiment hundreds of place lies in the same direction FROM a quick glance at any times, gradually moving the as the sun, doing them down- nectar bowl a few-yards further -patch-of-blue-sky-a-bre-can the hive cach day. Howards means it is-in-the opposite
from tell the exact position of the always had the same result angle left of the vertical it is direction. When it runs at an sun and so get its bearings on until the distance increased be- reporting that the nectar les ut a cloudy day.
yond 100 yards. Then the just that angle left of the sun ploneer beo did 11 different and so on. NOVEMBER
When von Frisch greeted me, dance. It capered along a broad
BRITAIN'S General Elec- initiate party broadcasts, opening of the B.B.C. dressed in deerskin breeches figure-of-eight course (sce Midland Regional television and grey-edged green
tion will provide tele- reserved about TV. As it reaches jacket, sketch) wagging its fail cach
By pencilling guide-lines on station at Sutton-Coldfield, there was a twinkle behind his time it did
the glass front of the rive, von Vision's biggest news event. only a minority of the populn- tion they wonder if it would bợ which will
the straight steps Frisch was able to measure the focus for taking cameras to unfair to us it. serve Derbyshire.metal-rimmed The pilot transmitter for test-told-me-he knew I had
glasses which_across the line of dance,
angles danced out by the bees olectioneering meetings have · I believe that a more bellig ing will start work ston
He proved them accurate doubting thaf all this could go will be mobile, and will
to already been discussed; so reason for caution is the know- tela on inside a bee's pinhead brain.
within three degrees: out signals from n
has a visual system of ledge that 10 ndnutes" appear Birmingham and later in the
: transmitting
re ance in vision might not flatter election Coventry and Wolverhampton
some politicians. sulta.
canera Instantly It will be betrays the slightest nervousness the first TV or insincerity, and reduces every in trick of the orator's emotion- At raising technique to-well, Just
arcas.
will sco the
Bend.
come
Numbered bees
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six-lenged jive with a stone Timing the rhythm of this
watch, the professor proved that the nearer the nectar was to the hive the faster the bees danced.
election
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BUT his top-priority work this When it was 100 yards away the recent of his timbered chalet
15 to find Royal Show at Shrows tween the craggy southern slope down the straight every minute; eye a bee houses the mechanism they did 40 tall-wagging runs where, within ito egg-shaped bury has ended the two years' of the Schafberg and the green- when it was a mile away they which enables it to tell the sun's task of the Parks Superinten- blue water of Lake Wolfgang, did 18. To prove that the tem-position from one dent and his
12 gardeners he led me straight to the garden po was a signal of distance the cloud gap.
glance at a They laid 30 acres of lovely In summer this turf across the slic of two
professor placed dozens of nectar former farms,
150 research station of Graz Univer bowls at different points along cultivated 000 magnificent flower plants nity
By letting daylight into the a line in front of the hive. used and
80,000
hive through mirrors to change flowerpols.
Result: The bees consistently its direction, There were 20,000 geraniums,
von Frisch has
4
summer
out
Britain.
the last elec- a trick. tion TV had' not
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The professor showed me his flew to the bowl located at the shown already that he can fool 3,000 salvias, 2,000 hellotropes, ingenious, glass-sided observa- 1,500 hydrangeas and hundreds tlon hive, located under a tent
wet distance the bees into giving wrong in- topped out by structions. the dancer, ignoring nearer, bowls they had
HONOUR FOR MONTY:
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TV
are
Now that the film industry has broken off discussions reopened with BBC television, in order to the whole after the war, put
Josue to the but in the in- Beveridge Broadcasting Inquiry, I suggest that sports promoters there terval
and theatre
managers-Ull has been a TV fearing television cameras. on election in the their preserves-should also USA. BBC re- present their cass to the same Alexandra Palate, ceived its own
quarter.
They can be sure the BBC I left the professor certain in observer's reports on this send in a formidable case FIELD Marshal Viscount
The professor's first patient
toy get my own mind that his claims are election coverage, Cameras on the bans imposed on TV pro- Montgomery, Wostorn step had been to number
proven. I report now, much were everywhere—even in 'gress by "vested interests" Union Defence Chief, will soon few hundred bees in his smell
humbled by the knowledge that barbers" shops to inter- Incidentally, with the film be the only living Freeman of hive by dabbing each one with
The system the mind of a creature smaller view voters.
understand there 15 Bolton
There were talks off, I The honour is to be a paint, brush. One morning ure of eight was so accurate than my thumb-nall is intricate TV interviews with candi- nothing to prevent a aim com- conferred upon him in Novem-before the boss were out, he put
that, without to a degree which the human
pany maldag a privata film- ber during the diamond jubileu bowl of lavender-scented knowing where his assistant had brain, for all its size, finda dim- dates and party leaders. showing arrangement: Jarith club, celebrations of the local, boys synthetic nectar in front of the put the bowl, von Frisch could cult perhaps impossible to Electioneering telecasts by the TV-a prospect causing some
There have been nine hive and crept into his observa- pla-point it by Uming the understand. Froemen, but all are dead. tion tent.
party leaders a trickier litters in Wardour Street. --fLondon, Brpresi Serelco) „problem. The Whips, who
-{London, Express Service)
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tho
THAT LOOKS AWFUL-- I CAN'T LEAVE IT
THAT WAY
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