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JAMES MAYTIR

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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1949.

"Just come To inspect your bomb, sir!"

Warmongering, again,ch? You know very well I inspect it for you myself.".

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CULTURE BOYS GET

A DOLLAR BONUS

PARUS.

LTHOUGH there were

muny Cripps

Krona when slashed the two dollars 80 pound to cents, there were loud and hearty cheers from one large body.

The

man from Britain tried to save your money but in Paris the big spenders

Won

Guess which? Why, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Or By R. M. MacCOLL ganisation. whose fourth annual general session has just ended in Paris.

its

And why was Unesco so cheerful? BecausC finances (salaries and all) are based on the dollar. And the dollar rose in importance overnight.

voted down by 33 to seven. So their head, Mr David Hardman MP, Parliamentary Secretary of the Education Ministry had lost his Battle for Britain.

These were twò remarks I heard repeated several times. I pars Ben on without comment.

Overstaffed

1s

KAY

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The Curse Of The Castle

Strikes

Still

TN the jungle of Malaya

Before he died he cursed his

recently a bandit, threw wife who had given evidence

n grenade.

against him. She would die, Faid he, for more painfully.

So she did, 40 years Inter

It fell among three Scots burnett to death while reading

Guards and wrote another in bed.

name into the story of Tho

Curse of Fyvie Castle.

Had him burned

Francis Lord Bosforth, Baron Mackenzle of Kin-

For there lay dead young (N Lieutenant John Alexander tail, fell the strangest of curses, Forbes-Leith, heir to the ile was born deaf.

baronetcy, heir to the castle. A century earlier, in 1000, o

Lady Seaforth Six centuries ago the wan- her husband'a

dering bard Thomas the Thy- Parls.

mer saw Fyvie Castle crecled

had suspected behaviour in

She called in a seer, Coin-

for hand-whara-onso del camille. She had him burned.

church: “He- cursed--the would live to inherit the keep

and aware that no mole heir

Since then certainly few sons have lived to be Laird of Fyvie for long.

Into the story of most families there comes

Curse."

Churchgoers flod

ald

Out of the flames the Beer wore that the Seaforth Hne would end with a deat chlef who would beo his cons borne before him to the grave.

muto four

He would leso much land, The and what was left would pass to a "white-colted" fass from the East who would kill her sis- ier.

There would also be

four

ONSIDER the Lambtons of lairda buck-toothed, hare-lip-

ped, half-witled, and a merer, in that sequence.

Durham.

One Sir John Lambton went ching on Sunday. The Ashing was poor, and Str John blas phemed so heartily that good folk on the way to church fled in horror.

Earnest men are bending to

And there, twisting on Sir the task of Improving cultural John's hook, was an ungodly relations in far-off Ecuador. The serpent which he threw down Arts and Letters Department is well.

wan

in full blas round the corner.

Arul a remark made by a

revealing: Mcial

"Mr

"I think I have caught the devil," said he, and a strange passing answered.

bodes evil."

tזיי

Sir John went crusading, and

Unesco overstaffed With out hesitation several officials Drzewieski of Poland heads the And they complain Reconstruction Department. They yen. bluntly of the dendwood, Penat are Very important. For, you in the well the serpent grew to warmers, time-serveTH and job see, they are the people who a monster which ravaged the

do things," seekers" who clutter the pino?.

Old friends

resembles 1ke

countryside.

Back came Sir John to kill the monster. A witch guaran- teed him victory if after killing the serpent he slew the next living thing he raw.

They speak of the initial mis- ale which has sadilled a young organisation with a hopelessly old-fashioned administration.

Th'rily, they complain that WHO is that chap over there

So Sir John agreed with his vevements concerned who have been to

to blame in folsting Eisenhower? Why, it la Ike's father to have a greyhound at aome duds on to Unesco simply brother, Milt, Bless me, that girl the place of battle. to get rid of them.

does look like Myrna Loy. Don't Life got rather rasping Although there nre some be naive, old man, R 15 Myma for him around here. Bodet energetic and sincere men and Loy. acensed Hardman of trying women in Unesco, there are fer too many people who regard it Battle

She does extremely valuable to "kil Unesco. Also of

as a charming economic air-mold work. She is chairman of the witch's words and let his father trying to cut the throats of shelter.

United States National Com-live. Pres-

mission for Unesco Branch), IT so happened that a battle the smaller nation."

royal was in progress tige reared its ugly head,

Royal

over the budget. The Bri- and Bodet would not back Charming HQ

tish delegation was leading down. a bitter fight for economy.

Behind him were ranged

(Californin

But Sir John's father forgol about the greyhound, and rush- ed into the battle himeelt.

And Sir John Ignored the

Four Lords of Lambton died in battle. Another fell into n river. Two others were Also And who, urny, is that power-drowned, and an eighth perish- ful gentleman in the tight-fitting|ed by a strange discose.

Smoking the ND there is no getting away sky-blue sarong?

The ninth, dying happily in AN

from the fact that Unesco's tiny clear? That is U Ba Lwin, bed, broke "The Curse." The budget last year fotalled the Latin-American nations. Paris headquarters in the Ex- who his native Burma is chief 7.780,000 dollars which at Springing to the support of Holi Majestic are indeed ex- commissioner of the Boy Scouts. Cursed his wife

He wears

a different the old rate

about Hardman Was

were the Do tremely charming. £1.945,000. And that is quite minions, the United States, corridors among

As you wander the Edwardian every day.

IN 1670 the Earl all the pretty enough said the British. and (to the surprise of secretanca, you feel delightfully

But...excuse me a moment, Why not peg it at that figure practically everybody) the remote from the world and its here comes Myrna Loy, for the coming year? (You Arabs. see. Britain has to weigh in.

AT 2.30, 5.30.

7.30 & 9.30

with 13.42 percent. of the expenses).

:

The rivals

P.M.

problems.

sarong

-(London Express Servier)

of Ferrers shot his steward in a tem-

He was trled and hanged #1 Tyburn.

per.

stom-

The curso come true. The "white-colfed" Insa was the denf Baron's daughter and heiress,. Lady Hood. She killed hier als ter, innocently enough, driving accident.

In

Swept to death

QIR WILLIAM WOLSELEY,

Staffordshire baronet, was fold by an Egyptian fortune- teller that he and his four Arab horses would be drowned,

Sir William cent his homes home by ship.

and travelled himself by land as much as pos- sible. All arrived safely.

Years later Sir William and the four Araha were swept to death by a rush of water which destroyed Longdon Bridge over- the Trent.-E, V. T.

--London Expters Seroleaj

作

ANTERI

RATORS

'I always knew he'd turn

up somewhero.

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Not so, said the Director- General of Unesco, Mexico's

Torres Bodet. I want nearly HARDMAN pointed out to

Bodet that in a single another million dollars for year Unesco produced 30 this year-8,748,000 dollars million pages of cyclo-styled to be exact (old rate £2,187, material. Three separate 000).

sections of Unesco vie with They argued back and each other in this outpour- forth.

suddenly ing.

with Eleanor PARKER

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-THE-

CHAPMAN PINCHER Columu

reduced to formula!

RUDERFER. "who

Continued hard physical work after the age of 40 reduces the life span of healthy men and women.

necologist PROFESSOR WIL- LIAM NIXON warns,

Barbiturates may cause D

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Oddspot of the evidence is baby to be born in such O those for whom the MARTIN

uncertainty of to- puts it forward. arrays this the fact that husbands general- stupefted state that it cannot came the Cripps devaluation. A British official put it

ly live considerably longer thinn breathe, he says. å godsend for more bluntly: "I got releases |

morrow is the spice of human evidence

bachelors, who, with only them- solves to keep, should not have Professer Nixon is trying to Bodet. For in a twinkling from all three on the same living, this, column brings

to work so hard.

devise a safe method of using more than half the extra subject. The only difference sad news-science has suc-

Husband Ruderfer's diplo the drug pethidine so that it dollars he wanted-575,- was in the timing."

ceeded in reducing life to a

view in- matic-though in my

It rigid formula. 000-were knocked off the

adequate explanation is that can be given by midwives.

seems that no drug, which gives Here it is:-

the security of wedded life rc- budget.

duces "mental tension."

mothers full relief by producing a state of anaesthesia can be considered safe for the bables.

over

A = ƒƒTP dt2.

Mental workers, who gener- ally use up little energy- a clerk can do on a daily diet of 2,000 calories while la bourer may need 4,000-live

In six months the Publica- tions Division put out 920,- The British were asked 000 printed publications. if they were going to argue

"pultry" 303,000 Let us have another look

Its symbols mean that every longer than manual workers. dollars (£140,357 at the new at the expenditure. The

normal baby ty endowed at

The average man, with a rate) extra. They said yes, Deputy Director General birth with a defnite quain of 35 percent, greater power- they were.

does not do badly. He gets activity (A), and, barring ac consumption than the average £4,464 (tax free-it is all-cidents, its fe-span (T) de- tax free) plus an allowance pends entirely on the rate (P) woman, has a

at which it uses up this quota, of £4,160 for "representa- j tion."

Intervention

THEN

A

4

shorter Ule.

Little people, who have a low overall rate of energy output are usually the longest- lived.

There is te doubt that the formula holds for lowly or gatised creatures. But I know too many 80-year-old country folk who have worked hard since they could toddle to be convinced that, it can apply to humans.

Whale winks

the * THOUGH whales, are thickest-akinned of all creatures On one point, though, I am they are extremely sensitive to 100 percent with Dr Ruderter. touch, setentists have discover-

maintains that scientists ed. should devots their efforts less

Ho

Most people are born with

to increasing though

life-span and - A 15ft. pilot-whale stranded the same quola and,

more to encouraging the most sudden

in shallow came

water Immediately The personal assistant to the the rate at which they use it

"fective use of the energy on Inherited

to the American intervention. D.G. geta

An abnormally large num-

responded

Mightest secre- depends partly 23,200. The cork- temperament, it is to a large 5 ber of people who

quoia. reach Assistant-Secretary of State tary gets

In other words, let life's fire, finger-tip pressure-by winking the nineties have had pro-

ToAr occasionally, instend of its eye. George Allen got up and stenographer geis £17 a week extent under control of the will,

(are you listening, you girls in the relentists elalm..

longed illnesses early in their suggested a' "target" of City offices?).

In other words, your quota lives. This Ruderfer, claims, keeping it low just to make the

fucl Inst 8,000,000 dollars flat (£2,*

is like a wound-up clock spring, reduced their energy consump The tolat cost of the Director-and the time 11 takker to run tion, and SO increased their 857,143 now rate) as a com- General's office is a quiet £36,- down depends on how fast you ultimate life-span. promise between Britain's low and Bodet's high.

007 a year.

decide to live.

Let's get out

Not so safe *IF you seen clothes moth

on the wing. It is almost cer "This is a difficult organisation

Most convincing support for Frugal enters live longest., CERTAIN drugs being given tainly a male. The females to assess because we are deal the formula comes from care- The habit of fasting regu- to mothers to relieve the pain ugutally run to cover."

may kill their The British objected for ing in ideas," "We cost less in fully measured animal experi- larly, which reduces power out of childbirth

London New York's DR put, seems to stave, off senility. babies. the last time but they were a year than

cruiser." ments. But Few

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