1950-04-19 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1950.

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DOCTORS OFFER RULE OF THUMB FOR DRINKERS

MODERATE drinkers will be happy to know their alcohol consump-

tion is not going to lead them to an early grave. This is the find- ing of the Medicine department of American magazine Newsweek, which made a special study of the problem.

Shorter Film Kisses

To ket. the

matterbillon but they have no direct straight, Newsweek defines effect on sexual activity. the moderate drinker;

"He is the so-called 'social drinker' who can stop at will. He drinks because social customs traditionally use Intor on part of certain ceremonies, because drick is a symbol of pleasure or because alcohol relaxes him and mankes him feel good.

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On special occasions he to become

Film

kisses are getting may take enough

It does not make you work better. As one doctor pue 11: "Alcohol can never make you work better; it can only make you less ashamed of your mis- takes,"

A shot of Ilquor won't help you break up a cold. Actually, it lowers blood pressurs and may be harmful.

MAY IRRITATE

la

lightly injudielous in sprech er. The doctors my there is shorter. The idea now is action. But he does not lose self-scientific evidence to support the just to give the public #eriileat judgment and he does not claim that excesive use of nico- on end up in embarrassing brawls he will cause definite heart, kid- preview of what goes

with strangers or the police." ney and other organic damage. when the camera goes off.

Instead

the

20-second scorchers that burned up the screen in the ent days and chering the war, director: stop watches are holding things down to 16 seconds.

Johns Hopkins Hospital's Dr

Cirrhosis of the liver, once known as "drunkard's liver," is Raymond Pearl, who made a study of more than 5,000 family found among drinkers and non- five drinkers alike. Not inore than arcords covering three to

of all chronic that eight percent concluded with sten rations,

malerate drinking had no effect alcohollen have the disease, rm the life-span. Heavy drinkers,

had Im the other hand,

very much shortened lives.

the

must Th

wait for tight moment and proper place To moderate drinkers, the doc- 11 simpio for anything more," explained | tor: concerned offer

Michael rule of thumb: "Drink if you Hollywood director

want to; don't drink it you feel You must"

Curbz.

"Everyone knows that when The article admits even mod! there's a war on any kis may berato drinkers sometimes have a be the last for a happy prite. hangover. The physical symp-|

Hultons are People are more tolerant.

Inflamination of the had to readjust istanach, now we have

of tho dehydration our dog watches."

Usues and a severe headache.

Even in 10 seconds, however, some Slin stars have been able to convey the idea.

DIETRICH DOES IT

!

TAKE WATER

You are advised against taking mose alcohol A cure. Irtend, the doctors suggest several classes of water or alcourt, hot black coffee taken slowly, Aspirin

Richard Todi, 11 reserved Engashman, gets a kis like that rest will fix the headache. from Marlene Dietrich in "Stage

The coffee in a real stimulant! Fright." I took eight trends, which serves to counteract tho necorating t the slop watch | depressive effect of nicohoj held by the script clerk,

Steve Cochran has a moment

The doctors explode a lot of popular fallacier about atechol.

some

or two with Joan Crawford in It is not a stimulant. It is a "The Damned Don't Cry" and ¦ depressant with

of the norcotle effects of the barbitur was vlocked at 10 seconds flat.

"I wan anything but Bat,"ates. Onec alcohol enters tho he blood it has an anaesthetising Cochrane contented when emerged shattered.

action.

It does not relleve fatigue, ale Clark though it may seem to by relax- Baring the mureles and creating a

feeling of warmth and comfort.

Ruth Roman Al Dane go into severni eluches in riende," the lougest of which lasts seven seconds.

June Havor and Gordon Mac- Rar kept it down to six seconds.

"They know what's 12 | form and what isn't," director

Butter explained.! David "Otherwise I wouldn't unelor- take to set a time limit for either of them.

They're Irbh, and the Irish

heiter are real lovers, Even than the Latins."-United Press.

DOCS MUCH MALIGNED

past

Almost nightly for the two years 37-year-old Captain Stephen Davidson, formerly of

the RASC, and now chief of one

has

of the ISPCA all-night einer Rency squads in London, been chasing dogs,

Hardly a night passes without at least one vicious dog' SOS reaching the Society's head- quarters in Piccadilly, but when The Captain Davidson answers

he cull experience tells him won't find a vicious dog

just another maligned

cause

but

canine.

police-

to to

These dogs may men to besitate, civi

civilians scatter and telephone wires hum, but Captain Davidson has tackled hundreds of officially designed viclous dogs' and has never been bitten. Ali he uses is a pair of gloves and much ..patience,

The lost and wandering dog. says Captain Davidson, general- ly gets kicked from pillar to

and ends up by sneaking some building in desperate search for shelter. peace and warmth. The injured dog usually hildes somewhere where he can suffer in silence and lick his wounds.

Alcohol may irritate a stomach *ulcer but it won't entire one and, wile it increases the elimination of water through the kidneys, it has no harmful effect on these orgātus.

There D other Interesting aspects of this drinking babit.

Rare individuals can have an ulcohol concentration in the blood of 0.30 percent without showing signs of intoxication.

Generally, however, anyone registering more than 0.15 per cent cannot escape impairment of his factifles and loss of con- trol of feeling and retions.

When the concentration reaches 0 percent the drinker's life is in danger. Concentra- tons from 8 percent up will almost invariably result in death.

REAL DRINKING

To achieve this high rating person would have to drink from between 14 to two pluts of high proof whisky in hour.

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And that sounds like real drinking: la any languCHIGAN.

Food and drink combinations, such ns oysters and whisky or lobster and champagne, do not in themselves caure intoxication or increase the possibility of a hangover.

Alcohol in moderation dues not

It is not an aphrodisiac. Small harm a mursing mother or her amounts may release sexual in-unborn child.

FIGURE - HUGGING

ACTRESS Anṛ Miller, in Los Angeles, models a silk

velvet bathing suit that includes a velvet-striped cotton taffeta back. The sult is shirred for a figure-hugging

K. O. CANNON

A HOLIDAY ON ONE'S) LOL COMPANY MAKES

OWN IS ALL VERY ✈ WELL, BUT..

FOR MORE FUN, NOW BYI WONDRA IF I COULD

DRAG THAT MAN

AWAY FROM

Y OUTDOOR

> SPORTS?7/

fit. (Acme).

Cover

Girl Of

Bars Swimsuit

By GENE PATTERSON

Year

Poses

Georgia Hamilton is as handsome as girls come, but she wouldn't dare pose in a bathing suit. "Cheesecake poses would hurt my business," said the 24-year-old beauty, who undoubtedly could do happy things for a scanty swim suit if she would.

Georgia is a high fashion model-one of those sophis- ticated belles who look lean,

Shirt-tail Outside

But she won't.

hungry and cold flossing the T'm home. I just lounge around

covers of the higher-browed in any old thing"

Any old thing Georgia

women's magazines.

out

wears must look pretty

face

CRAMMING his hat on his head, R. E. McConkey, of Topeka, Kansas, watches the shingles on his roof taking off in the wind which reached hurri- cane velocity during a re- cent U.S. Midwest dust storm. Some deaths were enused. (Acme).

GAOL IS TEEN-AGERS'

NEW FAD

Latest nice.

FABLED RIVER YIELDS DIAMONDS

Acern, Gold Const. Native and European dia- mond and gold mines are operating in the fabled country neur Turkwa, 89 miles north of hero by rail- way.

Prospectors, and Africans us- ing primitive tools, have dug out small quantities of gold and in- dustrinj diamonds from the Abonsai Woraba River, where legend says the wife of the forest god once took her daily bath. 'Abonnam Worsba" means "Mis- | tress of the Devil," from the god-

derg.

The legend was belleyed uni! a few decades ago, and natives feared to visit to stream at night.

Government sanitary workers have Improved the area in recent years, and it is eternally green now a wide carpet of bahamsa Bruss streiching to the far dis- tance, relieved by undulating hillis covered with short hedge plant, and mountains on the horizon.

MORE DIAMONDS

The Abonsam Woraba gircam Úlself shrinks jo a mero trickle in the winter, the Gold Coast'n dry

Smison.

Prospectors here noticed two months ago that the number of diamonds in the soil was increas- ing.

There was no "diamond rush," but the number of sweat-

ing prospectors grew to 30, In- cluding many women.

The Africans work alone or in small groups, wash the gravel in calabashes, and travel to Tarkwa every day or two to bank their diamonds, receiving advances on Fotes In London,

Expect for the few European companies, diamond mining in Tarkwa is purely a "home indus- iry." It is impossible to estimato fad of bobby-production figures because the "industry" is unorganised, and Did anybody ever see a strip It just happens that in front soxers at Atlanta (Georgia) overhead is small Leave pe fronting one of those of a lens her hazel eyes, oval is to visit Murderers' Row

geography and general organs? "No," said Georgin.

better in the Stato prison.

To judge from the undiminish- show off high fashion

ed daily yield, however, hunt- "Ifigh fashion Is my than other model types, such

Thrill-rocking teenagers haunting for diamonds will be a per- "American Girl" business," she said. "Leg art untor,"

the gaol corridors after school manent source of income to the of and "showglel." would put

hours sacking permission to see Gold Coast. elracter."

LIKES HER WORK some notorious criminal

Chief Gauler Hugh character. the auburn-

The Los Angeles born model says: "These girls, many haired American mod:1 got her

magazine married a fashion photographer, good Atlanta families, come to picture UN more

Eliott, four yeara

the gael daily with fictitious owers during 1949 than any of Stephen

according t ago when the just was break. her competitors,

"We can't always tell thell-

Woraba River, keeping the shirt outside the annual trade survey which ing into the modelling trade reasons for visiting the inmates. village of Asaman, a mile from

a second child in seekers from legitimate callers." Abonsam the They expect a

Asaman is crowded and busiling. -June.

to krep Georgia plans

The girls bring gifts of candy, women cooking and naked babies posing right up to the last food, cigarettes, and stand out romping in the streets. Occasion- "Head and neck work, you site the cells, giggling and ally a frain whistles past.

whispering to hardened crooks.

Cromer

says

Cult Grows

The beachwear cult of

named her Cover Girl'of year.

Her

I

know," she said.

which!

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real

she

Cromer from

tho curreal

BUSY SCENE

Most of the miners live in the

the trousers is likely to be confined to the seashore and

COMFORT AT HOME not extended to the wider

How does it feel, she wan haughty poscs field of sports wear where

stick covers naked, to walk by a news stand heart-throb of the bobby-Boxers A little clearing near by serves the traditional home of the decorat such

To-and see yourself on a magazine is handsome Don Kerrigan, 29. as a market, where weren fry- Harper's Bazaar, Charm,

She blushed prettily, shirt-tail will remain inside

day's

a payroll bandit wider cententeing plaintain tarts and cakes out- McCall's, cover Woman n

manoeuvre de of death for having murdered to one another with praise of Pletured surprising the trouser band, writes A were strictly puses.

their products in the language of London correspondent. ns a really aloof lotheshorse initely out of high fashion his girl friend."

African hawkern. Inred there has been quite with underslung hips and re-character, but this

frigerated personality the te

awful." just dend it. the United King- dom for the full length beach turns out to be, in real life, a

the

and street so long ago, warm, chatty girl with a bright Kingled. "I feel like stopping which, not

and two-people considered outmoded for smile, a husband

saying. Look-me? " wear. But

netw.n getting her picture Britain's Sear-old son. teaches this sumance will dis- "I f'm a high fhion model. Laken in fabulous

AUT US$25 plenty of the shorter then it wouldn't be anart upwards of ricty

Jacket fashion

professionally to Ex: snapped and running, home, Georgia

To with linen

stay pretty, shorts or

the stays busy. colured

healthy," shc Just stay sakl. "But you linen sucks. Most of them wilt in any other character,"

can bet your " be in plain-colour linen or spun boots 1 get comfortable when said,United Press.

thirt

war

Leisure

wort

made with wide-open

rayon,

sleeves and wa collar, short large breast pockets.

TERRY TOWELLING Alternative to thuse coat

knitted are the shirt Byles "otton beach shirts with polo llar Dyed and printed terry towelling for shirts and even ort will also figure agala in the fashion. While lach or linen-weave spun rayon rau- nad shorts in rust, tan, and red will be the beach, In

KreeD

worn

country, cavalry

blue

on the

cord

twili

will

and

clothes

Laler the twerd.

place of flannel and

the

What of the patterns of holiday thirlines? After a sea. son or two of big, bold cheeks, Britain's stylists of sports shirlings are producing mini- ture checkn of three-quarters of an inch compared with two nch squares worn last summer. There is

colour in plenty of hva malier checks,

For example, a glen style ballern has three shades of blue overchecked with

faint

orange one way and pale green the ather. In another, the colo

chocolate brown,

colours are oatmeal fawn,

rust tan, palo

gold and green, A third has green and catmeal dominant and overchecking of rust tan.

THIS WEEK-A NEW ADVENTURE WITH WHISPER

NOW, WHAT IS THEMS *I COULD THINK OF

TO LURE HIM OVIČÍ

HERE? WHAT WOULD MAKE CHIM COME OUT?

ite.

on

SEARCH FOR OIL

clothes for hour

Liner Losing Bandmaster

The native authority receives -- two shillings in every pound of income from diamonds. The com- bined yield of both native and European enterprisca last year The Queen Elizabeth is to have totalled more than 900,000 carats,

which nalive new bandmaster. Mr Paul at

industry Wood, for three years in charge now claims a respectable share. of the ship's 22 musicians, has

ven up a life at sea. He is 47. Chiefs at a provincial council Wood has played for many cele-meeting last month asked the urities One Christmas he led a Gold Coast Government to sup- enrol singing choir to the Dukeply modern machinery to remove and Duchess of Windsor's suite. tree stumps and top soll and to An elderly man who listened to remove some of the restrictions his pinying every evening was which now hamper them--Uni-

ted Press. conductor Koussevitsky.

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