1949-10-15 — Page 4

What's Wicksteed been up to?

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wors

being lost

AVE you noticed any-" Can you unagine anything thing wrong with the Albert Memorial Lately, I mean. Well, the top of it has come off.

then

for ever bene.th ปาด Albert Memorial? The gilded cross, ai least, was saved from this fate. R was taken out and laid be- a potting shed close si band.

out

There used to be a large gilt cross with coloured lozenges At this point it occurs to me all over it.

And now it's gone, that you may be feeling The angle who balanced the of the picturs. If you've never thing on their heads are left Albert Memorial for yourself it and aren the been to London

there alone, waving their aizs

may be rather hard for you to in space.

understand the affection Fome of us Londonèrs have for it.

It a bad enough that this should have happened, but what makes it so much worso in tant hardly anybody has noticed,

Ask any of the people who walk past every day. Ack them If they can 50 anything Junny about the Albert Memorial. You'll get plenty of Interesting swers, but doubt If one person in thousand could tell

you the top was missing.

Thourh the по-

eldent happened way back in the war,

has never been ro ported in ti: news- Omission papers, an

shall now remedy.

ht

kracked

W

off by ft

WAS

at bomber

shooting awny when bang went the top of the Alliert Memorial.

The four angela were supponed, by the neulptor, Tu Fuggest arpiration after heavenly glory. Well, there are only three of them now. The fourth JLAVE up her aspirations and went for a Burton.

A little below, with her back half turned on the Albert Hall, was the Agure of Temperalize.

The стопа, which is made of bronz. and weighs to, but her mnack

the head and squashed Il

THERE pre

They

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seven

As

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S an object it in diféult to describe. Lytton Strachey who wrote Queen Victoria's blography, says the basic design was taken from the Prince Con- sort's favourite pepper pot, but diligent research by myself at the library of the Victoria and Albert Museum falls to confrm

is necount,

There's Ir book there, prepared by UN under of the Queen, that gives the whele history of Ita construction แ ad

origin

From ils pages you the Iden that

wiint the Queen wanted was a new wonder of the world, something that would lake Es plove beside the Pyramida and the Taj Mahal.

The Orst suggestion was it fi

like helisk

Cleopatra's Needle, only much bigger. The trouble was that no one could for a sugle piece of Ke that was big tough.

And to bulld one in sections would be to admit inferiority to the nuclents,

to

So George Gli

Gilbert Scott, the architect, WHE relain:d to design a shrine that would be something out of the ordinary, and this he did so faithfully that the Queen gave him

Scott himself said that "the other architectural character of the may be de- statura IL that group, Albert Memorial

very free version Topo, ribed as a

the style of the 13th

Falth. represent

Charity. Humility. Fortitude, of Prudence, and Justice, bai century."

brut to htt Temperance

who lost her hend

Continuing 110

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NO here's another beautiful destructive thought. This Albert course, the gilt crusa wiped off Momarin!

was buifl almost the

of pinnacle and entirely by teetotullera. crashed to the ground

to hard that it went clean through into the vaults below.

You didn't know there were vaults

the below

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1949.

The Smile that Wins-

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HEALTHY WHITE PEPSODENT Simila

"Upon learning of the coming price-increase on toys you did wilfully acquire these at a minimum price from your colleagues, thinking they would be what you term 'big dough' come Christmas.”

‘Quite a fuss

a game

by C. V. R. THOMPSON

of rounders!"

New York. Oct. 4.

London Express Bervice

about

Fans laughed at them at Arsi and then wept for them. First DiMaggio hurt his heel and

could not play for wecks. Their other start got ill or had accidents.

Their triumph

In the face of auch disaster supplied L2 happy ending all Americans except those living Yankees could in Brooklyn, demand.

The Yankets,

with their £39,000-a-year baller Joe DiMaggio cut with pneumonia behind the

First there is the way. It all N Brooklyn today there canig about. Six days agoʻlib Scott guve a dinner to the

WAS A five-mile war one but a gambling fool would workmen afterwards, and though

dance along Flatbush have bet that either the there were a few backslinters

avenue, and the dancers, in Dodgers or the who touk ale. the majority Albert drank lemonade

between cheering their own make it. and ginger Memorial? I la honeycombed by er, and made speeches about heroes, yelled battle cries in with them. If you look on the their sobriety They also said their local patois, such as frass bank on the west alde how much they all enjoyed Ve

will moider them you'll se rectangular manhole their work and how little swear-

Yankees." flown at cach cover norrwel

Ing there was. corner,

Bronx even And in the will se the scaffolding going up ag such a responsible citizen as have a look But don't worry. They are not the borough president,

going to pull down. They get lost they ar puing to repair

it for the James J. Lyons, made this

"Those few paris 1951 Exhibition. The

statement: drar of their way thing.

from Brooklyn will get such aospitality --London Express Service)

warring enemy deserves."

Feeling is running high,

That's the entrance. Workmen go down once or twice a year to

round. There are 300 arches, are its easy kave candles very

nu they

back.

Clanc

Any day now

You

Where American girls beat British girls

by...

#

were a fuit gine Buston Red Sox,

And at a crucial game with their rivals the St Louls Car- dinals, the Dodgers' ace pitchers, Do. dew.ome and Preacher bums Roc, collided.

as the war correspondents used to say. Police have even been called in to settle ourder incidents.

This is merely part of the uncivil war which the

WHAT A DAY!

In the women mostly who ore th. Yankees' new fans. They ary stan ling around for hours ou'side the hang-outs used by DiMario and as roon as thel tall lean unsmiling hero appears they five him to Frank Sta_tra treatment.

GIFTS, CASH DIMAGGIO is the m n of the

hour with the men too. They have just given him a benefi, and gifts that poured in would have stocked up a radio com: Sunday, the most give-away programme - two thrilling day In Laseball cars, u motor-boat, history. In that one afternoon cycle, enough shirts for a Ilfo both Yankees and Dodgers came time, and nearly £15,000 in out from behind to win.

cheques and dollar bilis (which

THEN

motor-

have

hin

Even the sober New York he gave to charity). Herald-Tribune threw polica Brooklyn's star 15 Jackle traditions of American off its front page for what it Robinson, the first Negro ever sport demand 118 part of called "The most freuelle day to play in major league base-

of baseball the city has ever ball. Souvenir hunters any important contest.

sworn they will tear off scen." The World Serles they

clothes before the Series is over. call it. This is a best of But there is another reason World Series

The games will have the Suven contests between the why this year's

New Yorkers in a frenzy, 000 a day) and the greatest TV the final championship of

audienco (20,000,000) in history. the year.

Everyone has suddenly gone There is nothing new about sentimental about the Yankees, Americo having a For years the Yankees had the World Series B money to buy up the immortals the there is something like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and DiMaggio, And cvin abuul this Joc

THE MARQUIS OF MILFORD HAVEN two league champions for has Americans, and particularly greatest radio audience (73,000,-

in an interview with BERNARD DREW

EOPLE call me Britain's

PEOP

I think the American girls!

most eligible bachelor. are more lovely to look at than British girls. They dress

I don't know why.

It all began when I was man at Princess

best

Elizabeth's wedding.

beautifully and are good com- pany, too.

But English complexions aro basically more beautiful. Only B:fore that my name was our women don't apply malte- Inked with Princess Margaret's, up as skilfully as the Americans That was pure invention.

1. have known both Prin- casses for yeurs, but there has never been any sort of romance between UD.

do,

+

LIKES HIS JOB

I am most enthusiastic about

my jab of selling British

I went thing applies to radiators. Sharman Douglas, whose name America to start up the new

The rame

over

to

now

year's World Bronxit got bored with their Serie. And it bas cold efficient victories.

Profits will be divided as usual

among the two teams players, winners getting aborti £2,000 each, the losers £1,000,

Not more than 70,000 people can see any one game, except by TV. The box office prices

every American This year everything changed. are: £3 for a sent: 25 for above the age of Owned now by Dan Topping, standing rooms three 'pop - eyest Lana Turner's brother-in-law and every New the Yankees started of the Yorker behaving like a three- season with bad luck. year-old.

General 'Iron Pants'

has been so closely coupled with business, and opened an office may succeed Monty

raine,

WEDDING DID IT

When I went to America bo- fore the royal wedding ao...ono

in New York,

Today's black market price is £10 but it will probably go up to £30.

From tomorrow on when play starts all afternoon business appointments are subject to can- cellation and even those who have to kopon working wil have radios beslife them.

Today the wiglen of Sing-Slug nnnounced that all convier

MONTGOMERY'S successor B Stories about him are legion.would be given th afternoon dif

I hope, when I go over this

European Defence Chief Ones when on a bombing mis while the Series is on. President winter, to

tho export when this post merges Into the alon to Germany his gunner re- Truman has Ax to get the

Atlantic Pact defence organisa- ported "all guns jammed" and scoris every ten minutes. business established

very tion is likely to be an Ameri- took any nollee of mt. I saw soundly. My job is usually de сил.

only one picture of myself served as ogling radiators, I The tip for the job in America published.

But Jast winter photographed every time I went

Curtis

Emerson

General is more than that. I try to is get our system nupied through- LeMay, more familiarly known

I was our entire buildings, Faites are as Iron Pants"

done on so much vaster a stale

into a restaurant or night club.

It le diffèult to escape that, for every restaurate tners seems to have its own photo- grapher. Of cource, t could not, stay away just because of that.

"The pictures were cent home and published here. So I became "the most eligible bachelor."

MORE LOVELY.

in America.

TO LIVE HERE

He Is 42, nt present.chict.of Strategle the Air Commarf, and as 'Amer!-

I expect, as has been sald, can ga.a hamn-

Bungested they turn bick,

LeMay barked, "Keop

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SEE ABOVE

course. What we got bomb'for?"VERNIGHT New York has He irritated Congress by his become aboom town. This outspoken views on defence. In thousands trooping In by train the same 1948 he told them that American and plane just to be politicians were cllowing U.S.clty where this Series will be air power to wither.

plyed have filled every hotel.

الا الله

So Congress gave him the job'

. It

wha ho

: again.

to be married. at the end or burger. November in Washington, the home of my fiancee. Zut I Intend, to return to England be- who introduced fore Christmas and and a homa formal'on pat- bombing by which tor-

or near London.

torn

I must live close to London | tets were

I don't think American girly because iny real work is hore.selentiä. ever viewed me in that light I had to find job before I eally wiped *150N PANTS "

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Everyone is in such a fever at building up the air, strength that here is a warning for any Englishmen arriving in New York batwain now and next LeMay belleves in nuclear Tuesday-this is not the time to power and rockits. He forecasts say something like "Quite a furs that one day Wo shall have about a game of rounders,” atom-powered alecraft using no fuel at alL'S

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They go after money.

Ateared. clear of the dowagers who might have had Idenz.

And I could think of marriage.

ΣΤΟ

(London Express Berulos)

Bot American as o out.

hamburger ablaze Tokyo. with a 300-plane raid,

He was made a general at 37---- U.S. record,

FOOTNOTE dated Oct. 12: The

·Yankees bave won the World Series.

---{London Express Service)

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