He's Best Dressed In Britain
After Dior, after the Paris fashions, after all the arguments about what Miss Gussie Moran should wear nt Wimbledon-here comes i "Britain's Best Dressed Man."
Who
he? Mir Qliver Lyttelton, the Conservative MP for Aldershot.
The title was given him by
Mr A. A, White,
And Mr. Whife is in a post- tion to judge, He himself has a e-President of the Na- tional Federation of Practical Master and Foreman Tallers Soctely.
IN BLACK AND WHITE
A
What did Mr Lyttelton wear?
black coat
and striped and white collar trousers, 4 striped shirt, a black-and-white spotted te, with pearl tle-pin, and a thin cold watch chain. Why does he tress to well?.... There was a clue in a sprech Exhibition he made opening an
at the offices of the Tailor and Cutter, In Gerard Street,
to
"W.
Beets-
Be sa: T be ill-dretred or
turn
badly-creased! up in trousers, make, contante sity or high taxation makes it Ju sign of over- necessary, rondence or fame.
think that
a form of coeit to an ill-dressed man Before
is likely to have more sucersy if he
tury in a law suit, or in engaged in businers; netoliation, or the most senious negotiation of annan life... with the female of his choice.
people
There are not many entitled to wear clothes of an- other era. will mention ong of then. Mr Winston Spenes Churchill rometimen takts set- vantage of his fune."
Accident Victims Improving
The
condition of the two the Am- young women from bassadors Ballroom, the Minnes
BIG BUSINESS
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1950.
KNEE-DEEP in a catch of herring, a fisherman in Bergen, Norway, operates a special basket for unload- ing it. The container has a 600-pound capacity for entching the fish which have built up a multi-million- dollar business in that country. (Aeme).
'KNIGHT SCHOOL'
BOY AND A
'BALLY DANCER'
Boys and girls, in Britain, aged 14 to 20, were asked to answer a list of 20 questions about them selves. One thousand and four sent replies.
wanted to be 500 boys girl One of the
""The standard of writing and
"whent to the einima," dancer,"
"bally
Iron Curtain
In London's West End
A £35-a-week man sits in a West End travel office doing nothing-except to tell people that the office has gone out of business. "Better try some other agency," he is saying to dozens of travellers who look in to book air and rail tickets every day.
POACHERS
USE POISON ON FISH
Highly organised gangs
of ponchers in Scotland are making £100 a night by raiding salmon
The £35-4-week man is 1 dapper Jaroslav Polak, nged 49, London manager of Cedok, Czech travel bureau, and a wartime fighter with the Czechs who escaped to England.
The Ghost Office he runs is
In Regent Street.
And this is why it is a ghost office:-
Into it walked Dr Karel Svec, and trout. Czech commercial attache, with
a letter ordering "on high nu
To get the fish they use hority from Prague" that the explosives, poison, and elec-branch censed to exist on April
tric shocks.
of Scotland taxi- In one ares
£25 a weak divers carn up to for taking poached
fish to the disposal centres,
So reported a committre set up by the Secretary for Scotland. It says poaching is no longer confined to men operating in hom: districts.
Now gangs in cars raid remate walera.
This "commercial proposition" has been made possible, rays the committe, by
High prices for salmon and trout: inadequate penalties for peachingg and tie readiness of
lo buy and public caterers "black" fish.
The committee suggests watchers for rivers and fuchs; harsher penalties; confiscation of equipment, eluding cars and boats; powers to search; and licences to deal in calmon and luut.
Ko Lin and Chan Man, who others went to the "pic-spelling anong so many of these get up to 10s. n pound.
were reriously
at ..
injured in
traffic accident in King's Road
yesterday,
to the latest moving. Becording report this morning.
The
women were in a car riven by an employee of the Broadensi Relay Service Ltd, i which crashed into the west gate of Talkoo Dockyard.
1.
"Give me all your tickets," demanded the doctor. Me Polic over those issued by handed Cedok's Prague office, but, re- fused to part with tickets issued and other airlines by British and railways.
"I don't Added Mr Polak: know what will happen next.
"Dr Svee seemed surprised when I told him this bureau la a company registered in Dritalu. But he said: 'Surely the Prague more about the people know business than you do.
WALKED OUT
"I retorted: I don't think so. 1 have been with Cedok for 25 years and did not come up with Communist putsch.' Dr Svee walked out."
Mr Polak phoned his Prague employers. The agency's lawyer said: "Leave everything to us. You and your staff are Czechs. We will attend to your affairs."
TALKING
FOR HIM
THE inscrutable Sphinx at Giza, Egypt, hasn't talked in all his 5,000 years, but he's still the magnet that draws tourists to that country. Despite his silence, however, he's always surrounded by dragomen, tourist guides like those shown here, who are more than anxious to do the talking for the Sphinx.
(Acme).
No Money, So Fewer Dine Out
West End restaurants cannot be run just for over- scas visitors, and they must cater chiefly for the peoplo who live in Britain, it was safd in London the other day,
At present, however, Lon- doners and people from the country visiting London, "have such calls or their resources that they cannot afford to go out. as they did once."
This was the comment of Mr H. W. K. Won, announcing chairman of Savoy Hotel
at the annual meeting a trading balance for 1040 of £473,252.
This is a decrease of £145,- 099 on 1940, and less than in any year since the war.
The todoney for people to go out less "was more pro- nounced in the past 12 months, and although it may be un avoldable for the time being it all tends to make London as an International centre less attrac- tive than it was and should be," Mr Wontner added.
WARTIME CONTROL
He
hoped Food Minister Maurice Webb would quickly end the artificial and compli cated war-timo control of restaurant meals,
"If this can be done it is very likely that people will find not only greater variety in the fare that can be offered, but
ni30 a much fairer system of to what is charging neconding
taken, and certainly a bill that can be understood by a foreign visitor."
There remains, he said, the
necessity of providing hotels and restaurants
"with those good
ingredients esantial to
cooking which
are ai present either very scarce or not avait- able at all."
Too Many, Forms, TORE SOVIET
So The Firms Orders
Reject
If an article for repair is sent to a firm in Britain from abroad, the firm are required to fill in four forms and to Mr Polak told the lawyer he pay the Customs a duty on the article to ensure that it
will be returned.
is a British citizen was
Now the maximum penalty for salmon poaching is a 15 lne, deterrent to a poacher who
one of my trump cards."
Poaching with neto Is an
He added: "I intend to fight! tuers." One, aged 16, went young people was astonishing"
writes the Rev. Bryan Reed, 45-offence if committed by three or the decision to close the office. to "Knight school."
colleagues do not wish to the My year-old head of à Birmingham more people together. So
penalty is dodged by working in return home. They have mar- training; college,
ried EnUsh girls," pairs.
Sonte of the 501 girls went to "Jim" or
just "mesed arowend."
The questions were prepared by Mr Reed, who has a 17-year- Jobs were listed as "mecanics. Aloing clerks," watererse" anded slanghter, as part of a survey
One 16-year-old of. 80,000 young people. "plummers."
LEARNING THE HOT WAY
IT'S a rescue made by seamen J. B. Stanley and A. C. Polte who are serving at Barber's Point Naval Air Station, in Hawaii. The men fought their way into a blazing Inferno to rescue a dummy from the cockpit of a burning plane as part of their training in a mobile fire fighting unit. Stanley is shown carrying the dummy while Polte emerges from the cockpit. (Acme).
K.
CANNON
CARESSE! HOW DID SHE KNOW? ALL RIGHT ASK
HER TO COME UP.
VERY WELL, M'MSELLE WHISPAJAK - DO SO.. VITEMENT!
1738
READ COMICS ONLY
He was helped by his staf and 80 students, who went out with molcboalts to record what they saw and heart,
The job took three years, and has the information obtained been written info a book, "Eighty Thousand Adolescents,"
This reveals that the investi- gators visited 321 of the city'a 1,400 youth organisations. They called at c'nemas, dance and billərd halls, and pin-table nrcades,
(
And It was found that most boys and girls spend three
home. tir nights a week at Each fortnight they go to the pictures three times and fanei unce.
As a result, many Bri- tish firms are now refusing to accept such orders.
This is the procedure: When
The deposit is refunded to the
and the artiete is returned. firm when the repair is completed
FIVE WEEKS' DELAY
an article for repair arrives at The firm have to 11 In a the Customs, a form is sent to fourth form to say that the the repair ir netting them to article has been rent back.
when and where the
Dr Svec said: The London More up-to-date poachers have collected explorives from un-ofce has not paid its way.
tarded ammunition dumps.
for all the tickets state "1 askerl But the very lales: poachers because beadquarters put up a article was bought.
means that the This usually before they were guarantee
Bem must write to the owners return issued. I intended to
and ask these questions. them all."
use alertrical The fish.
clevices
HAS HIS H-BOMB
DOUBTS
Swedish nuclear physics expert Dr Torsten Magnus- son said recently he was not at all sure the hydrogen bomb could be made.
"Hydrogen bombs construction must be anly at an initial, ex- perimental stage, and the prob- en of changing hydrogen into methods indicated in the Ameri- ran Alemle Energy Commission report-if it can ever be solved" alagnusson said,
Many of them read nothing but comics and lud maga-belium cannot be solved by the zine
bleak, Intellectual poverty," writes Mr Revi
A quarter of them had. not month. for xix read a blots Popular tiles were "No Orchids for
Blandish," "Forever Amber."
Mits
The reason for his scepticisin and is the extremely high tempera- ture required for the operation-
and "temperatures
basic cir- which now exist Nine out of ten boys and 86eanstances
Sun and which 100 girls sak! they enjoyed only on the
on the be reproduced
Not even the high temperatures produced by a urun bouts explosion would be suficient for the purpose, he added.
the jobs. But many of them
oh as little as they could.”
AMBITION
Their unbitions? Mest girls
Dr Magnusson, who works for wanted to go on the stage of
Defence Research screen. Only 13 out of the 501 the Swedish who answered the 20 questions Institute, said he thought the only feasible way of increasing wanted to get married.
the effect of an atomic bomb al the to lacrense Several boys wanted to be present was professional foolballers. One efficiency of the present types. light wanted to be an M.P. Another Reactions produced with u driver's mate on a pop torry,
such lithium clements, hydrogen isotope, might also be
or a
Mr Reed is sure of one thing used, he thought, but "as to "Mixed clubs are better than this method we can rely only boys' of girls' clubs. Boys on hypotheses which, so far as not yet been from mixed clubs are not less is known, have 'inanly."
proved."
A. NEW ADVENTURE-WITH WHISPER
“M'SIEU CANNON – IS IT NOT?,
I HAVE SEEN, YOUR PICTURES, LAM
CARESSE LACROIX
When they have completed But Mrs form they get another asking The wrangle goes on.
them if they will pay the deposit Polak, who lives in London with
on the article. Austrian-born wife and
They have to say "Yes" or | daughter, is still opening his
Give their a'clock olice at mines
every "No," and for
either. morning,
shuting it at And
Then
arrives a third form five o'clock.
are ready to nsking if they receive the article.
FIGURE GIRL
ALTHOUGH actress Dorothy Hart was a well- known cover girl, it took the movies to show sho could also be a figure girl.
Here, in Hollywood, she lets the camera prove the point. (Acmo);
reasons
Again they have to say "Yes" or "No," and give the'r reasons. Finally the articles arrives.
East Germany "Celebrates"
Berlin, May 7.-East Germillis tomorrow, for the first time, celebrate, a new public holiday instituted this year to mark Germany's liberation from the |Nazi-Fascisi yoke,
of the
Enal
War
The main ceremony day will take place at Berlin's
Soviet huge Memorial, where West German traders and workers' delegations wilt ny wreaths at the foot of the huge statue of the Unknown Soviet "soldier,
leaders A.1
Later, Government and delegates will attend official ceremony at the Soviet rector State Opera House, and during the day school-children will hear lectures on the signi- ficance the struggle against Imperialism, capitoleration Day slogans
of
one hailing "brave lighters for peace in France, Italy, Eng- land, the United States and all capitalistic countries".
The only other allusion to the Western Allies says, "Liberation Day is a day of protest against Anglo-American war-mongers". Meanwhile, in West Berlin life will sto on as usual, with neither
American British nor celebrations.--Router.
TRUMAN OFF ON TOUR
Washington, May 7-Preal- dent Truman set out today by
train special
on AL 10-day country, speaking tour of the
10 He will travel through States as far as the West Coast. and is due to make several major speeches, although only is Ilkely to deat one of them with foreign affairs.
The tour in described by officials as non-political, but the Republican Party has called it a "political Junko!" designed
the ond Influence November Congressional alsu- Tons-Reuter
to
try
FLAG
Berlla. May Threo un- Ainerican soldiers identified today entered the Soviet sector of Berlin and tore the Soviet dag from a flag-pole in front of the exhibition hall of the Com- Democratic munist-dominated
League, the East Women's
nows agency, ADN, German
"When passers-by approached cinimed tonight.
them,
the three Americans their heels," cowardly look to the Agency said,
However, before they reached the nearby Amerlean sector, a "people policeman managed to reenpture the Bag, the agency added.
An official
American spokes- nan in Berlin tonight said that the United States authoritica Recently a gultur was sent had no confirmation of this co-
music flon for port.-Reuter, ton London repair. The cost 359.
work would have
For five weeks the guitar was held up ut Holyhead until the Arm bad paki 30я. duty.
A incmber of one London firm sald:
"We have stopped -weet pling -- repair orders... from abroad. The form-ling, and having to pay dutles, decided us against it.
Cuban Rail Slow-Down
Ifavana. May 7-Workers on. the British-owned United Rail- ways of Havana in Cuba hava started workshop strikes and a-
In protest traffic slow-down against mooted nationalisation of the railway.
Senor
the Xavier Bolnnos,
of the Workers' President National Railway Brotherhood, ald that the workers opposed A Customs spokesman said: nationalisation because "Loo "These regulations are needed much politics prevents honest to guaranice that the article goes and efficient operation," which out of the country again. The was essential to the railway- duty is quite reasonable."
men's well-being.-Reuier.
"Many other firms we know have acted similarly. There is far too much red-tape."
FRUIT TRUCK CRASHES
A CRUMPLED piece of metal is about all that remained of the cab of this fruit truck which crashed into n building at the end of the Lincoln Tunnel, in Weehaw. ken, New Jersey. The driver was killed and the truck's cargo of oranges spilled" all over the road. (Acme)
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