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London Diary:

Singing

The

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1950.

Rain

Jebb Puts Winchell Right About

Britain

A tall, dignified Briton was strolling along New York's Park Avenue just before midnight after a strenuous day at the Foreign Minis- lers' meeting when a man in a slouch hat and raincoat approached and

asked:

"Sir Gladwyn Jebb"?

Jebb admitted his iden- ours in his columma or tity, and the stranger hunts." troduced himself:

nist"

"I am

brea:l- think that had better remain oli the record," says Sir Glad-

The two men

stou talking wyn, "unters Winchell cures to

disclose what I said. But several minutes, and

Win-

1

of

U.S. SECRECY FOUND DANGER

TO SCIENCE

The U.S. Government's security and loyalty programmes are unintentionally retarding scien tific progress and endangering American leader-. ship in the field, according to a 90,000-word report on the impact of governmental security practices on civil liberties.

Written by Walter Gellhorn, a Professor of Law at Columbia University and a frequent critic of Government loyalty procedures as a director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the report is the first of eight to be published on the findings of a two-year study financed by the Rockefeller Foundation.

AIR SPEED PAST

Three major criticisms of the operation of present security programmes were voleed by Professor Gell-

HUMAN horn. While aimed at de-

ENDURANCE

sirable objectives, he sald that the measures have:

Hindered scientide teamwork and led to wastefull duplica- lion of research by prevent- Ing the free exchange of lens between relentistr

3. Discouraged, by

Fine Feathered

BETTY McLaughlin, of Portsmouth, N.H., is doing her good deed. When Smokey, a sea gull, was found injured, Betly offered to nurse the bird back to health, and he

looks like he's doing all right. (Acme).

Heredity Is

High-speed plane Fre outstripping the abilities of the human body and mind Obstructed the training of to control them, so the

young scientists by refusing. them Beress 10 new dis- THESE somewhat damp plane of the future will

coveries. Protestants

own electronic German

"Icar of are carry its

of brain, kaya a scientist.

snear," experienced scientists attending Church Day

from entering accret research. the Evangelical Church

In an article dealing with usu Berlin and the Province of of clatronle calculating

"The hope for selence in this in problems of country and for the nation's Brandenburg..Some 10,000 machines

ecurity is that and automatic flight control. Dr

the public pi persons from Berlin

N. E. Edieteen said the human large will shed its feam, grow in the Russian Zone of Ger-body's deal is becoming the understanding ht cesse many were on hand in the principal slutabling block incredulously accepting assertions

development rain. (Acme).

that safety lies in secrecy," Mr Gellhorn wrote in his report, military planes,

which is published by the Dr Ellefsen, associate techni-Cornell University Press, eal Brector of North Americati

SOCIALLY HURTFUL Aviation's nerophysics 1. bora-

A Madam Z, comes down in medical literaturo tory, said in the company's

"Secrecy is antithetical to the because of twenty-six members of her family-mother, magazine that milliary aircraft now fly to fast that pilots can-pirit of science, It is socially children, and grandchildren--sixteen died of cancer. Out But react quickly enough to firefu Only for brief period of 174 members of the G. family of Michigan, forty-one

can it be practised without succumbed to cancer, destroying the scientific

FASTER THAN

SOUND WIND

TUNNEL

their guns.

nt

supersonic

The

Unknown Factor In Cancer

cusea of

families,

There are some striking Such evidence may convince identical twins most people that cancer runs in report recalled that who developed tumours in enough research with mustard gas had the same period of life and heredity-geneticists, led to methods of combating

In the future, brains built into superiority it is intended 19 small boxes will Handle au- | preserve," The Southern California tomatently this Interception

tunnel, operation, he sald, Walter Winchell the colum-helf liited Jebb to the Stork think you may say I put him co-operative wind

The devices will be so com- Club for a drink. Cenwds there straight on one or two things. being hurried to completion:

to serve nearby Sir Gladwyn had only one re-

warplane plicated electronically t test Suid Jebb: "I had been want- saw Britain's arch-critic and

a number of factorics, has been "souped panels will have to be built ing to meet Winchell, I had het Uno spokesman sitting side Bret: there were

and Broadway stars Hollywood

into the plone, Dr Edlefsen said, up" past the sonic barrier. things about by ride for about two hours. heard so many

busy

and the pilot will do little moré him that he was no frived of What did they talk about? present, "but he was so

talking he did not introduce me

Originally designed to testhan press buttons tę superviSC to any of them."

aircraft at ilated speeds ap-action in the various phases of EX-COMMUNIST

preachbut the speed of sound, the mission. plang for the tunnel were changed to push its potential to 1.000 miles an hour or more.

Lesson For

Liz

WHEN actress Elizabeth Taylor returned to New York, after a honeymoon in Europe, she went to the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel and took an accordion lesson from Dick Contino. Liz will soon be back in Hollywood and hard at work on a new film to make up for time spent on a long honeymoon.

ex- For Mr W. II. Stokes, Communist, whose elevation to the Steel Board caused a rum- pas in the Commons, the ap pointment means an incone rise! of more than £4,000 a year. Stokes, 55. is divisional or

started on The project was hehiff of several aircraft com- panies to avoid long delays they of the

when forcell 10 Haniser

Amalgamated encountered

Lista wait their Engineering Union at Coventry,

to test new The job is worth le:s than designs of goverment experi-

the mental facilities, £1,000 a year; as one of Steel Board Stokes will be paid

£5,000 a year.

20

are

improvements

expected, however, to boost the tunnel's speed to as high as 1,050 miles

Pilots in the jet fighters of the future will go along for the ride," supplying information

that would be dimcult handle electronically, be said.

Who Is Jacob Malik?

Hodgkin's disease and that BAL, occasionally in the nu cintment developed for treat- | place. ing Lewisite burns. had been foùm effective in combating arscale poison.

Such examples, Mr Gellhorn dectured "suggest a real perit in terms of the nation's future, in focusing solely upon the possible military implications of scientific tor technological advances walle

Ignoring their power for good."

SOLE SIGNIFICANCE

"Secrecy ought not to be really attached to scientile, or technological matters merely be- they aspects,

Anme

America Now A Nation Of Old People

Government

but it is not for students

good of

At the recent meeting of the Genetics Society of America, held at Columbus,

Ohio, to commemorato the fiftieth an." niversary of the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity, Dr Clarence C. tule, organiser and

of director.

the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory of Bar Harbour, Me went

over the

again. ground

He is the geneticist whe convinced blologists years ago that, though cancer may not be inherited as Auch, susceptiblily or nonsus- ceptibility is certainly inherited.

"In most

of cancer

New York.

types statistics heredity may be involved, but Its effects are complex and often nave military significance," the show that the United indirect and unpredictable," said

be States is rapidly becoming Dr Little. "Heredity is there

"It should

The Federal Security of human cancer"

uncertain factor in the incidence

INBRED MICE CANCER

cause, in some Driven by the tunnel's 12,000 How will prosperity change horsepower plant, 32 specially- Stokes's way of life? fe and designed high-strength metal

Hugh Park, Atlanta Journal port sald. Mrs Stokes, married more than blades will drive air through a

writer, made some interesting akached unhesitatingly if their into a 10-foot years, live now in a modest throat

model discoveries when he went about sole stignificance is a military nation of older persons. fore, at present, a variable and hcuse In Rochester Read, chamber. Engineers estinate downlown Atlanta asking whone, Coventry Mrs Stokes Is in the blast should reach a speed Jacob Malik was, Ile found

Agency reports that 2.1 "The design of weapons, IC terested but not active in the rating of about 910 miles on that besifles being the Russian

population ports about their causes that move her husband.

delegate to the United Nations, and properties, hour at the start.

performance percent of the the design of now has reached the age of NO PLANS TO MOVE

Malik, was n football Shakedown tests and Later Ku Klux

play Crge-scale plants for their pro- 65 and over. In 1900, the The case is different for Mr and Mrs Stokes have no

Klansman, basebali

duction and

occasionally specie

percentage of 65-year-olders laboratory mico, Dr Little children, have spent most of

Instruments or processes, can be was only 4.1. player and sailor.

pointed out. Midlands. their lives in the

restrictions the kept under flexible were some of

highly susceptible or highly When he becomes a steel boss

answers provided by people on without any very likely effect

resistant to Cicer are inbred Ar Stokes will work in London.

the streets,

upon industrial scientifle Here are some other facts for many generations. In sonic But he and his wife have made In addition to tasting

advance. But care must be revealed in the statistics:

of the Inbred mice cancer of Bo arrangements to move there. ultraspeedy planes, the tunnel! Park questioned 20 persons exercised to avoid confusing

the breast will occur in over 90 think for the moment we'll will allow

en-about the identity of Malik and these matters

Doer stay where we arc," says Mrs gineers to observe reactions of 13 answered incorrectly or said and practices which expand the persons aged 65 and over in this prove in itself that cancer Stokes, She views her hus-

guided missiles and robot craft, they did not know. band's impending rise

with "mixed feelings" Said the: think it is a big honour, but i suppose it will break a lot of old associations.

**I

Stokes is a teclolaller, not smoke. At week-ends likes to watch Coventry rugby !cam.

docs he

MTB MAN v. ATTLEE Mr Attlee's Tory opponent at the next election is a

young man of 28. Mr Edward Du Cann, son of Mr C. G. L. Dit Caan, the Old Balley barrister, was officially adopted at Went Walthamstow,

Mr Du Cann Is unmarried, lives with his parents near Horsham and works in a City efee. He was a sub-lieutenant in motor torpedo-boats during the war.

He is a parish councillor at Horsham, assisted Lord Winter- ton there in the last election.

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the Society of British Aircraft Constructorn” display at Farnborough, experimental bass, the This bulky amil-submariss craft, and the others on display were seen by Western experts, but Hosakan lines were not invited to the show! –—– (A pm 6),

Mice

which are

There are about 11,500,000 percent of the females.

the estimates of the breast is hereditary? Not population, and are that by 1900 the aged group at all will number almost 15,000,000 and, by 1975, almost 20,000,000. Fifteen years ago Dr Johus J. Bittner, then one of Dr Littlow There are somewhat more colleagues, but how a member boy bables born than girl babies, of the faculty of the University-

the male superiority in of Minnesota, transferred the numbers disappears in later life newborn young of these females because of the higher mortality at birth to foster mothers of a

of breast tánvér almost nothing. something

the

but

ས་

highly resistant dropped to

of adult males.

The longer life expectancy of incidence women shows up particularly I old age.

Evidently Today, there are about 100 women 85 years and over for every 30 men.

Moro' and more Americans, old as well is young, live in

The citites and towns.

strain.

1. Tha

milk of the Tancer-susceptible mother brought of cühëër of the" breast when the young matured. Now geneticists peak of the bind many of shift "milk factor," from rural economy has been them belleve that the milk factor particularly hard on older people is a virus.The polpt as Dr because cities. provide a less Little pointed out, that the part favourable environment for played by - heredity. In thent There are fewer job transmission of conter has not opportunities for the aged and yet been determined homes are smaller,

HOUSE CHORES

the

INFLUENCE OF HORMONES

The case for the heredity” In- fluence of hormones is a littla also better. Here, De Lstilosald Conetic influences are clearer,

The agency's statistics thow that the development of household appliancos is re- duced the number and burden of house and farm chores, ane consequently the usefulnes about the house of older relativas.

Human beings are mongrels. here is no human stock on earth as pure as De Little's mice, Forhizoson tiis-hard to discover just whint, part. Berodity Plays

In the development "The big increase in the lust human cancer, -It' is tuso. for. 50 years in the relative number | Invin reason that the pure of older persons," the agency strains of Inbred mice that? points out, "has been accom, Little's laboruidry has been panied by significant changes in supplying,.

the, proportion of other Agg of such impbany years are

groups in the population:

Institutions are now conduct or researches with these airstris. "Increased length of life as ʼn only in dancer-bur in other result of botter living condi-diseases,

tions and gains in the control of

infectious diseases” are reflected (Why are these : pure-bred,

In relatively more people notaistocratic mice with known only in old ago; kút in middīju günwalogios in dronėsiant

age as well,"

institution?

With Americans living to an exactly

older age, the problem of treat- material they ing discuses of old age becomes that monetic

'moro acute.