The Westmount examiner, 26 décembre 1958, Cahier 2

[" ID ~~ AERO E0 7 naz a + miner WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 27, 1958 Santa Claus is a bureau in De Santa Claus is a slickly-operating bureau in Denmark.A \"delighted-to-have-your-letter' department which brings a warm word every Christmas to children all over the world.The department is staffed by three dozen schoolchildren.A Scandinavian airline provides the envelopes and stamps.Their annual mission: sending Santa's \"personal\" greetings to every one of the 40,000 children who each year address a letter to \"Santa Claus; Greenland, c/o Denmark.\u201d \u201cIt all started in 1948 in the Greenland Department of the Chief Post Office in Copenhagen, where a young girl called sorting out Christmas mail.a letter addressed to \"Mr.Santa Claus, Greenland.\" She put it aside.Then came another.And Gerda Stauning was busily Suddenly, she turned up another.Soon there were 29 in all.Miss Stauniñg looked at \u2018the letters for a long time.Should she defer them for returning?Instead, she took them home, opened them and replied with Santa's \u201cwarmest greetings.\u201d One of \u2018her replies reached a little village in Essex, Eng- - land.It was shown to a local newspaper.The newspapér gave it headlines, the Danish Tourist Association took note \u2014and the scheme was launched.: Over the years, the number of letters multiplied.Last year, there were nearly 40,000.Dealing with the letters is a much sought-after job among the Danish secondary schoolchildren.But there is no scope for initiative in the replies, for the children\u2019s task is simply to gort out the leglible from the illegible, the genuine from the joke, and to address the reply envelopes.Sometimes, the Santa Claus Department is called \u201cHeartbreak Corner.\u201d The name comes from letters like this: \u201cDear Father Christmas \u2014 - \u201cCould you please find a bed in a sanatorium for my big sik bruther ?\u201d Or this, from Brentwood, in Essex: \u201c1 don\u2019t wont a mama dolly RRRRELEAETTONENEEREEEECRE Across 1 and 4.Reindeer draw his 4 sleigh (5, 5) 8.She probably sings carols at Christmas (7) 9.He makes us laugh at the circus (5) 10.\u201cCrackers often contain them (4) 12.They're for Shrove Tuesday really\u2014unless Wendy bakes them for Peter! (8) 15.Sailor, popular in 11 (6) 16.Many letters to 1, 4 across, are (6) 19.Children hope to enjoy it and 27 should keep it! (4, 4) 20.Too slow to conceal a northern capital (4) 22, Sage companion?(5) 24.Where the Christmas pudding is prepared (T) 26.Entertainment with this (5) 27.The shepherds kept theirs by night (5) begins (answer où page 3) POSE EE I or a teddy bear for Christmas.Please could: you give my Mummy and Daddy a house instead.\u201d But many of the letters provide a clear (and sometimes startling) insight into the foibles, fears and adorations of the younger generation.Pat, aged eight, lists her own requests (for a doll's pram, roller skates and a teddy-bear to hug) then says: \u201cMy brother would also like someone to hug.He says Marilyn Monroe would be fine, so please see if you could get her for him.~ \u201cHe is 21, and he says that he would not need another Xmas present if he gets Marilyn.\u201d From Karl, many: \u201cI want a train, a jeep and a dog that talks.P.S.If you need sum money, just take it out of my dad's pants pocket.He's a captain and is loaded.\u201d Many letters tempt Santa with food and drink, like that of David's, aged six, of Bir- kenhead: \u201cI will leave you some coffee, à mince pie and a sugar lump for Rudolph.\u201d Even Mrs.Santa is catered for: \u201cIf you bring your wife, please tell me then I can put two lots hot chocolate.\u201d in West Ger- .EVERY YEAR thousands of children all over the world write to Santa Claus.- AGE, TAY Ei ANS Often they address their letters to \u201cFairyland\u201d.One little girl in Dundee, Scotland, was not sure \u2014 but she was taking no chances.Her letter, you will be glad to know, was safely delivered.: Some letters.are faintly sinister, like the request of one six-year-old who asks for a \u201cbulldozer, a cement mixer and some Egyptian mummy books.\u201d Others are plainly threatening: \u2018 .\u201cDere Santa Claus \u2014 \u201cI would like a naregun, sum bulets and a target.I no- you are à kind man, but if you dont bring them I will by them myself when older and wate for you at the chimley.\u201d Some children are worried about Santa's travelling powers.Margaret, \u2018c/o British Consulate-General, Haifa,\u201d reminds Santa that he will have to get a visa to visit her home.Is there a repentant note in- the letter from Kenneth, of Water-street, Middleton (England) who, discreetly reminding Santa of the name above the local toyshop, adds: \u201cCould you send a dummy for my brother and sum soap for my dirty face?\u201d But the children generally keep up with scientific progress.Last year, it was roc- Kets and airplanes.This year, it will undoubtedly be sputniks and guided missiles.Even so, the most popular requests from the youngest are for \u201ca napple, a norng and sum sweets,\u201d and from the ea] oe 4 older, toy construction outfits.Also much appreciated are cowboy and policeman sets, lorries, toy trains and airfields, and something called \u201ca oof-oof.\u201d Books and clothing are rarely mentioned.The record for brevity must go to Leila, of Sheffield, who requests (perhaps after a chiding?): \u201cPles cood I hev a new daddy.\u201d And the record for optimism to Wallace, of East London, who demands a \u2018grate big station in Ostralia so I can use my airgun.\u201d The addresses on the letters (continued on page 4) Down 2.Peter's turn for a card game! (3) 3.Sorry, a lags isn't all there (4) 4.Many Christmas services are fully this (5) 5.Joan's village; Archer doesn\u2019t want her (3) 6.They are hung up om Christmas Eve (9) T.Three brought gifts to Bethlehem (5) 8.However many does 1, 4 across, transport?(5) 11.Characteristic Christmas entertainment (9) 13.He presides in the 24 (4) 14.Bvery actor in 11 hopes for a good one (4) 17, \u201cCome, let's sorrows\u2019 (5) our 18.He hopes for a present of cigarettes or tobacco (6) 19.11 girl, and an alternative to turkey (5) 21, Confection which may include 22 (4) 28.The last of that ice-cream cornet! 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they had lived peacefully and / This is the traditional time of the year for itting by\u2019 the fire and \u2018bered by many people \u2018and possibly ranks as tie strangest gho st \u201cStory ever told.The haunting of Cashen's Gap -began in the winter of 1931.Farmer James Irving was sitting with his wife in théir lonely côttage 750-ft up Dalby Mountain on the west coast of the Isle of Man, where quietly for 14 years.Their \u201c 18-year-old daughter Voirréy (Manx.for Mary) was in bed upstairs.Then, \u201cTap.Tap.Tap.\u201d The noîse came from the attic which was boarded in.\u201cMust be mice,\u201d said the farmer t his wife.Next day he opened up the ceiling and went into the attic.He found no mice but he did find a little wood carving that \u2018had been missing.When drop- \u2018ped on the floor it produced /.the sort of tap that he had - heard the previous night.That evening the sounds came again.Londer.Then came a running noise.\u201cThat's no mouse,\u201d said Mr.Irving to his wife.Then in succession came animal sounds, barks, growls, _ spitting and hissing, a thump that set pictures on the walls swinging, a noise like a baby starting to talk, more barks and silence.Mr.Irving waited.Nothing happened.He looked at his wife, then made \u201ca barking sound himself.Back came a bark.Mr.Irving meowed.Back came a meow.And so according to Mr.Irving the Dalby spook, came to Cashen\u2019s Gap.The story was to become stranger still.THE THING The \u201cthing\u201d next began to imitate Mr.Irving's voice.And in a matter of weeks was talking like a human, talking in a high-pitched screech.\u201cWhat in the name of Heaven can he be?\u201d demanded the frightened farmer.\u201cWhat in the name of Heaven can he be?\u201d came back the mimicking screech from the walls, Then it answered the question: \u201cI am a ghost in the form of a weasel and I shall haunt you with weird noises and clanking chains.\u201d There was a noise like metal - clanking.\u201cIf you are kind to me I will bring .you good- luck.If you are not kind I shall kill all your poultry.I can get them wherever you put them.I am not evil.I could be if I wanted.You don't know what damage or harm I could do if I were - roused.I could kill you all if I liked but I won't.\u201d And to prove it, the self-des- cribed ghost in the form of a Crossword SOLUTION ACROSS: 1 and 4.Santa .Claus, 8.Soprano, 9, Clown, .(Cor)net.25.Hot.10.Caps.12.Pan-cakes.15.Sinbad.16.Penned.19.Good time, 20.(To) O-slo(w), 22 Onion.24.Kitchen.26.Enter- (tainment).27.Watch.DOWN: 2.Nap.2.A-las(s).4, Choral.- 5.Arc(her).6.Stockings.7.Kings.8.Sacks.11.Pantomine.13.Chef.14.Part.17.Drown.18.Smoker.19.Goose.21, Stew.28.= me\u201d weasel began to throw things, Gravel was hurled at the windows from outside.Things were pitched across the rooms indoors.RAT POISON The farmer put down rat poison and the animal screamed and shook the house with great bumps.He hunted with a gun and found nothing.The job was difficult because the house had double walls to guard against draughts and keep it warm.There were spaces between the walls and it was from these spaces that the voice generally came.By now the farmer's story of the strange happenings at Cashen\u2019s Gap had spread.The first reaction was the obvious one.That the Irvings must be going mad.Yet Mr.Irving was known as a healthy, educated man, Mr.Charles Northwood, a retired cotton broker and a friend of Irving\u2019s for many years, dashed to the Island to clear up the business.He was greeted by the voice of Gef, as the ghost was now called, \u201cCharlie, my- old sport!\u201d Gef went on: \u201cTell Arthur not to come.\u201d (Arthur was Mr.Northwood\u2019s son \u201cI'll blow his brains out with a threepenny cart- \u201cridge.\u201d Mr.Northwood was staggered, Captain Macdonald, a racing motorist, also claimed to have heard Gef screaming and knocking and saying \u201cHello, everybody.\u201d Two boys from Peel, Harry Hall, 19, and Will Cubbon, 15, told of conversations with Gef, According to Harry when he tossed a penny in the porch Gef called: \u201cTails,\u201d and was right.He tossed again and Gef called correctly.He muffed the next one and Gef screamed: \u201cYou didn't turn the penny.Gef asked Will: can you drive a steam -roller?\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d said Will.\u201cYou young rascal,\u201d sald Gef.\u201cYou would put it over a hedge.\u201d KEEN INTEREST Reporters and ghost-hunt- ers began to arrive at the lonely farmhouse in droves.Harry Price, one of the most famous ghost hunters alive at the time investigated the case, And the stories that Iv g told them all grew even > Week Ending December 27, 1958 ON THE DALBY MOUNTAIN in the Isle of Man, a lonely cottage suddenly became haunted.But by what?According to the \u201cghost\u201d itself, it was a mongoose from Delhi, Whatever it was, it started one of .he most amazing ghost- hunts ever recorded.stranger.How Gef killed rabbits and left them on the porch, How Gef would daily discover new words and ask about them: \u201cJim, what is countenance! Jim, what is a nun?; How he would read the daily newspapers over Irving\u2019s shoulder and scream at him when he opened a letter: \u201cRead it out you fatheaded gnome.\u201d Irving said Gef told him: \u201cThou wilt never know what I am.I am a freak.I have hands and feet.And if you saw me you would be paralysed, petrified, mummified, turned into a pillar of salt.I am the fifth dimension.I am the eighth wonder of the world.I can split the atom.\u201d But soon the Irvings were claiming to have caught glimpses of Gef \u2014 a weasel- like animal with a long bushy tail and hands like \u2018human hands.No one else saw him.FIVE YEARS The haunting, if haunting it were, went on for five years.And the stories grew more remarkable.According to Mr.Irving, Gef knew everything that was going on in the island.He knew the names of horses and when a foal was born.He could describe furniture in houses 20 miles away.He told Irving all the gossip, saying he had overheard it while riding on buses.Certainly it was difficult to understand how else Irving could have known of conversations on buses.The islanders, of course, became angry and John Cowley, a mechanic at the Pell bus terminal fixed a contact plate under a bus to electrocute Qef, Irving was becoming attached to Gef.and told him about it.\u201cOh, I know all about that,\u201d Gef replied.\u201cIt's under bus 81.\u201d Irving checked.It was! Stones, some weighing a pound, were thrown at islanders from nowhere.They blamed \u2018Get.- Now Gef.told Irving that he was a mongoose; born on June 7, 1852, and came from Delhi, The ghost hunters and reporters suspected ventriloquism, The Islanders suspected that Voirrey, the Irvings's daughter, was responsible.But, despite all manner of test and traps, the investigators were unable to get to the bottom of the case.Anyway what could the Irvings gain from a hoax?And then the case of the talking mongoose reached the High Court.One of the people who had helped investigate it was the then Editor of the BBC paper, The Listener.When a titled man laughed at his interest in the affair, the editor sued him for slander and after a sensational Weight control is one of the most important rules of health and beauty.The person whose weight stays at a normal level usually enjoys good health and a long life.Since food is the essential element in human life, and is the fuel which keeps our body operating, the problem in every day living is weight control.If we overeat, we gain and if we eat too little we lose.It is far healthier to be underweight than overweight.Overweight is a danger signal.Life insurance figures show that overweight people are more prone to heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and other serious ailments.Any person who is more than 15% overweight and over the age of forty should visit their doctor for a checkup and diet, for this degree of overweight must be carefully evaluated \u2018 action reported all over the world, was awarded $25,000 damages.Later the case was mentioned in the House of Commons.Radio comedians took it up.But Gef\u2019s public career was almost at an end.The Irvings moved away from Cashen's Gap and vanished \u2014 at least from public notice.Gef has never been heard of since.Some islanders believe Gef went with the Irv- ings.Others believe that he was the odd, polecat-type animal which was trapped and shot in 1947, by Mr.Leslie Graham, the next tenant of Cashen\u2019s Gap.\u2019 Was Gef a real talking animal?The Irvings claimed to have seen him and that he raided their larder.Was he a ghost in animal form?No one else ever saw him, despite the number of investigators who searched the farm over a period of many years.Was the whole affair a delusion or a hoax?Talk BY MOLLY SACKS before a safe reducing plan is worked out.More people are fat simply because they overeat.They start out by putting on a few pounds and don\u2019t bother to check themselves and their - weight increases to the extent where it becomes a problem.If you are one who seriously intends to reduce \u2014 whether you mean to lose five pounds or fifty, the important thing to do is to follow a sensible diet and not succumb to easy methods of losing weight.Slow and steady weight reduction is the easiest and safest way to insure your health and beauty.Follow a diet that contains the right amount of calories, vitamins, proteins and, minerals.Eat foods that turn to energy instead of fat.Dieters should eat three nutritional meals a day and at regular hours, \u2014 MOLLY SACKS.nab, gy REA ET RE C +R REE PROG 1) CMR ET AST rey THAR \u201c#4 Ty 4 Week Ending December 27, 1958- M (Continued: from.Inet.week), | Best was added to: this: ope -.eration by the fact that we were: on: the surface, close to the enemy coast with: a fiat battery, and for alli we: knew the hunt still en.The: forard: standard\u2019 still battered about, but finally we.lassoed it, Inshed it to the ship's: side; andi endeavauredf to enti it adrift.Men: worked: in.15-minute: shifts, endeavouring, toi saw through the jumping wire with a hacksaw at arm!s length: With one hand, while struggling to: maintain: their pre carious position: with: the othe.Sawing through.a heavy serrated steel wire: which is jerking about: is.no light.task;.and we had only got through: one strand when some hours.WAR UNDER by Rear-Admiral BEN BRYANT CE, DS.O.ond Twe Bani, B.SC.Inter we had te: dive- because Meanwhile Clarke (CFQ Tel.Clarke, D.S.M.).had rigged\u2019 up a makeshift aerial, and F hadi te report ta: Flag Officer Submarines that we: were useless: and' eoming home: The code book.had; & number of phrases and\u2019 words which: eould: be: represented: by: æ single group, but any word! not in that limited: vacabulary: had: ta: be spelled: aut.a.group tor each letter.- \u2018The longer: the: signal, the: easier for the: enemy ta: fix aur position: byy W/T'direetion- finding, We had to.keep: it: short.Groups.existed\u2019 for he- ing rammed: and\u2019 coming home; but I wanted also to: convey: that we.were quite happy and: needed\u2019 mo help: .\u2018There was.no group for bap py; but.there was one for the port of Blyth.E, ended up: \u201cBlind.but Blyth.\u201d This caused eonsternation.to.the Wren who: Max Horton, the Blag: Officer; .Submarines, that we were: making for Blyth, not our base but: the nedrest home port:.Max, Lowever, quickly saw\u2019 \u201cthat \u201c\u2019plîthe\u201d was meant, and\u2019 grasped.the implication.FE was; nob.really: so: blithe.We- were: far: from: out.of the: | wood], even: when: next night we cut the standard adrift: - Anxiously F watched: the: preventer wires: which II had: had! fixed: to.the jumping wire: to prevent: it wrapping: stnelt around! the - propellers and bringing us: to.an impotent.stop: I wished! IT had had them: made stouter, for they: looked\u2019 terribly thin: and were subject to chafe.One by one they parted, hut the last held until we.were going alongside - at Port Edgar three days later: It parted, the: jumping wire: whipped round.the propellers, stopping the mators and.igne- miniousiy we rammed the pier,.adding.a broken nose: to the: other ravages to Seallon!& beauty: F had heen: testing mast apprehensive; ¥ had heeninieals lision and hazarded my ship; putting: it\" out of action: wien: we.needed every boat we had: HE .Court martial at least.Thelie Lordships\u2019 \u2018severe displeasure Joormred! menacingly: in my .' \u201cmiss - ! To ny amuze 8 Ruckers, our Captain Y= new: Vice- Admiral Philip Ruok Kees, CB, CBE.\u2014 gave me nb of iia, most enthusiastic: welcomes: \u2014 Bmbarrassingry- we fou ourselves heroes, and\u2019 Admiral: Forhes, our C-insC;, found: time to hand us: out:a bouguet, which ran: \u201c.,., in: carrying out: their offensive patrol right up: to: the enemy's shore and in: successfully extirieating their damaged.submarine so close to.the enemy coast; is worthy of\u2019 the highest praise.If a tonic is needed when we have so recently suffered the - loss of several \u2018of our most successful submarines; then Sealion certainly provided! it.\u201d Santa Claus .- (eontinued) from: page: 1) are varied, but often: highly fmaginative.One \u201cSanta Claus, Toyland, Snowy White Ice Forest, Fairy World Jeeland or Greenland.\u201d Another was to \u201cSanta, c/o The Seven Dwarfs, Reindeerland.\u201d Whatever the address, postmen in Britain, and in many Commonwealth countries, know where to forward them \u2014to Copenhagen, whether or not.the postage is adequate.* And back comes the reply, printed in a wobhly blue hand: \u201cDear Little Friend, \u201cI was delighted to have your letter which reached me in my country, Denmark of which Greenland is a part.\u201cIf you are very good, I be- lleve you will have your Christmas wishes fulfilled.\u201cIn any case, I am sure you will.be pleased to receive one of the fairy tales written by our Danish story-teller, Hans Christian Andersen.\u201d And so on, into the fairy tale.Thank-you notes are fairly common: \u201cDere Santa \u201cMeni thanks fora big red books an fora the bloons an choklits and most of all fora crane of wich works well.\u201cI dint wont anyathing- better.\u201cSee you again.\u201cPeter.\u201d Letters to Santa come in all shapes and sizes, and the decorations at the top range from green-crayoned houses billowing smoke to balloon- like fairies.Some are written on cheap, ruled paper with old sums scratched out on the back; others come on formal note paper.Those on the formal note paper are usually very polite: \u201cT should be very pleased, sir, if you could come to .\"\u201d, and \u201cNothing could have pleased me better than.\u201d It was a shock, therefore, when one turned up with the blunt protest: \u201cYou silly old man! I said I wanted a TALKING doll!\u201d Whatever the plea, or the insult or the threat, Denmark's busy Santa Claus Department works on enthusiastically.But \u201cthen, it all seems worthwhile when a letter like that of Brian's (Glasgow) comes into the crowded sorting room: \u2018My frens dint beleev in you til your letter came.Now they do and Mummy and Daddy do too now.\u201cThank you very very mush Santa Claus.\u201d was ta F you could have: anything in the world for Christmas, what would you choose?And where wauld.you.spend Christmas?Eight internationally- known personalities were asked these questions.Their answers were surprising.BERYL GREY; the famous ballerina, the only British dancer ever to perform with °° the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, is Mrs.Svend Svendson in private life, the wife of a Swedish doctor.\u201cI would lave.to spend Christmas with my in-laws in Sweden,\u201d Miss Grey said.\u201cI have always wanted to see a real Swedish Christmas, but somehow I've always been unable to get there\u2014 sometimes because I'm dancing abroad, or on tour.\u201cIn Sweden they celebrate Christmas in a really big way.You have a huge dinner on Christmas Eve, and they all go to church through the snow on slkighs \u2014 my small son Ingvar would just love that.\u201d Will Miss Grey manage to spend Christmas 1958 in Sweden?\u201cI live in hope,\u201d she said.What would Miss Grey like best of all for a Christmas present ?\u201cI'd like a little house near the sea on the English South Coast,\u201d she said.\u201cWe've been searching for one for ages, but it always seems to be the wrong price, or has too many rooms, or too much garden.I have to be fairly near to London so we can't go as far as Devon or Cornwall.But there are just one or two spots en the South Coast that would be ideal, so I'm still hoping same- thing will éome up.\u201d TOMMY STEELE, the 22- year-old rock \u2019'n roll star from Bermondsey, who used to be a steward on a liner before he was discovered playing his guitar in a Soho coffee bar by a West End showman, has a hankering after going to sea again.\u201cT'à like to spend Christmas on board the old Mauretania.I used to bé swimming-pool attendant on her, and when I was off duty I used to go down into my cabin and practice the old guitar until my fingers bled.\u201cWhat I'd like to de is to charter the liner and put all my friends on board as passengers \u2014 including a member of the crew, Dick Cam pion, - Enow.I'd take the family along, too; and Anne-af course (Amne Donaghue, the 21-year- old actress: to whom- Tommy is engaged).\u201cAround.Christmas time I reckon we\u2019d be somewhere in the South Seas, But I'd still have the turkey and\u2019 Christmas pudding and all the: trimmings, Christmas wouldirt be quite: the same: without them.\u201d JAYNE MANSFIELD'S choice was completely: out of character.\u201cWhat I'd like most.of all,\u201d said Jayne dreamily, \u201ci= a Cornish pasty delivered: to me each week.for a = year.When I was a little girl; in Pennsylvania, my grannie used to often make me Cornish pasties and\" I loved them.You know, my family came from Cornwall originally.\u201cHow I miss those pasties today! The people in Hollywood dont know what you are talking about when you mention them.But here in London it is different.My chauffeur knows a lady who makes the most wanderful Carnish: pasties, and he brings me along some from time to time.\u201d Jayne was emphatic about where she wanted to spend this Christmas.\u201cWhatever happens, we're going te apend Christmas right home this year.We've \u2018just bought a new house \u2014 ît is just an empty shell at the moment, but.we are going ta decorate it and put in a swimming pool.\u201cWe are going ta have a real family Christmas, Mike; Jayne-Marie and me, We'll invite my people over, and I'll cook the turkey.\u201cLast Christmas, Mike (Mike Hargity, her husband) and I were touring the Far Fast.We spent Christmas Eve in Korea.This Christmas I want to have ell the family, at home.\u201d \u201cLast year I had two Christmases,\u201d said Jayne-Ma- rie Mansfield, whe is seven.\u201cMummy was away at Christ mas time, but when she came back we had\u2019 Christmas all over again.\u201d What would.Jayne-Marie like to have as a Christmas t?\u201cA prancing white charger,\u201d said Jayne junior prompt- who taught me all IT ; What would you choose.: Ip.\u201cLike: one af\u2019 those: lovely Horses they have at the changing of\u201d the guard at \u2018Whitehall I.used: to have a litle pony, but we hadi to sell her ag I wasn't around to ride her very much: Im hoping; Mummy will buy me.another one soon.\u201d A girl} whe has made horses.her career, Pat Smythe, would lille & new home for them for herr Christmas present.\u201cI'd\u201d like: to.be given a: little estate with a eharming house and! excellent stables\u201d says Pat: \u201cT'd like a lovely garden With.swimming pool: and a tennis court; and also a large barn which.could be made into: an indoor scheol!for horses, and: plenty of good paddocks, with safe- fences, for grazing, and a flat field with: springy turf for a jumping area.\u201d Pat, who lives ir a Glouces- tershire village when she is not jumping her way round Europe, says that she has Httle hope of getting her ideal present, but that there is nothing like knowing what she wants.Pat says she would lilte to spend the holiday \u2014 in the right company \u2014 camping by Lake Villarica in Southern Chile.: \u2019 \u201cIt has wonderful scenery with the towering Andes and beautiful lakes and rivers, excellent fishing and perfect peace in ideal mid-summer weather: Sir Miles Thomas, chairman of Monsanto, former chairman oft British Overseas Airways and probably Britain's best-known captain of industry, wants to.spend Christmas at.home with his children and grandchildren.\u2019 \u201cE do so much: travelling during the year,\u201d he says.\u201cThat.I always make a point of.being: home far Christmas.\u201d What would he lhe for a present:?\u201cAlthough, domestically; we are very happily placed, my ideal Christmas present would \"he a kitchen furnished.with all the latest labour-saving devices, and engineered so that, by time and motion methods, the minimum human exertion.wouldi be required to operate.it.\u201cOur present kitchen goes some.way towards.this.ideal, but 1 have always: been firmly: of.the opinion that.liter- .for Christmas?ally millions of woman-hours could; be- saved in: the homes ofi the world if time and motion study, were devated: to the task.of not merely pre- pering a meal: but.the washing: up afterwards; \u201cIi know that the: household appliance industry is making practieal progress:;along these lines, but.what! I have: aut- lined would?be a.wonderful thing to pass on: te.ones womenfoïk.\u201d ~ The: Duke- of\u2019 Bedford - is - probably Better known as the man whe delieves half-orowns mean more than coronets.: His ducal\u2019 home; Woburn in Bed- fordsliire, attracts: record numbers of halfcerown visite ors each year, end\u2018 includes such attractions as 's: pets\u2019 corner, a juke-box and\u2019 beate ing on the lake, as well'as 8 magnificent collection of paintings.But what many people do not know ig that he had to give up a successful career as a farmer in South Africa when he succeeded to the title (his father dled suddenly in 1953).It was not.toa.hard:ta gness where he would: like: tos spend his: ideal: Christmas: \u201cI'd: like ta g back to my farm in Africa,\u201d he: said.\u201cIt is about G0 miles from Espe- .town snd I\u201d haven't beenthere for a long time.I miss it.very much.\u201d i Since.the Duke of Bedford has to pay off death duties, amounting.in all tœ over a three million dellars he might have asked: some help fronr.Santa: Claus in paying off the debt \u2014 but: he had other idens.\u201cI'd like a helicopter;y\u2019 he said promptiy.\u201cI do.a: great deal.of travelling: around Brie tain and I'm se bred with: British roads.I could also use it to commute between: Woburn and the continent, ox- wherever I pleased.\u201d JACK SOLOMONS had no difficulty at.all.in making up his, mind what he wanted.Jack is Britain\u2019s Mister Boxe ing.Most of the big boxing events im Britain have a Solo» mons label tagged to thent His stock-in-trade are a: midt night blue evening suit, cigars of Churchillian length, and the ability to- talk money \u2014 big money\u2014 all the time, often on the end of a $3-minute transatiantic telephone.\u201cTHe best Christmas present I could imagine would be for- a British boxer-to-win: the heavyweight championship of thie world,\u201d he said: \u201cAnd\u2019I would like: to spend Christmas in: an) arena watch ing: a promotion: of\u201d mine when.the Britisit> boxer- wing the titles A La 92 7% \"En I WAS #rying to drum up some sympathy for: myself toda vue the «hors every man | déing \u2018the rigtmas | said: \"Nothing to :it1 cocktail.\" Within seconfls \u2018I was on any way up Fifth-avenue to the-store which lays on this + \u201cHream \u2018service, At the nein entrance was = swarm of women \u2018bouncing \u201c \u201cfE one another in \u2018the battle - ito get in or out.++ But 1 went 'to a side door \u2018marked 721 Club For iMen - \u2018@rily.A page in \u2018a \u2018pillbox hat - Jet me in, took \u2018my coat, then guided une across one «of ithose \u201clush up-to-your-ankles carpets to the promised arm-.schair.EVERYTHING - \u2018As the ,page bowed away ma \u201cBlonde undulated \u2018up to me ani asked : \u201cWhat would you Mike to dfirk, sir ?Martini, Manhattan, Scotch on \u201cRocks OU - i \u2018began te wonder if it \u201cvas the blonde \u2018or the drink \u2018@going to my \u2018head \u2018as I found -umyself clutching a \u2018brimming, -Uve-misted glass (which 1 was old I :didrit :have to pay for) and heard the blonde asking: .\"dre you zure \u2018you are quite .teomifortable ?\u201d .But she : ht ane \u2018back to earth a second later by asking : \u2018\u201cNow what \u201chave you in mind for your wife?\u201d It was then that I dooked round the room and realized that its shelves and \u2018tables were loaded with whatever my wife might want for - Christmas \u2014 from .a jar of bath salt de a chinchilla stole.\u201cThe idea of this store is to put into this room one of everything a man might want to buy a \u2018woman.Ashe sits there each wrticle that takes \u2018his fancy is \u2018brought to him by a hostess, PEARLS TOO Once \u2018a man decides : \u201cYes, I like that dress\u201d (or \u2018hat skirt, \u2018housecoat, or :underwear) all \u2018he has to add is: \u201cMy wife ig = bit tailler Then you, but not quite so slim\u201d * The hostess then goes off to pet \u2018the right size, while Steve, the barman, pours an other drink.Some of -the men wore running ap bilis of $1,000.Ore an \u2018bought a furry toy rabbit, price $5, with each free martini he sak.I saw he had also bought a $1,000 string of pearls, hanging round a -rabbit's ear.NOT 10 WORRY Some men, of course, are not as guick at choosing as .others.Or .perhaps tirey are just slower drinkers.:But this ds not allowed to cause them a secoad's worry.\"There are telephones-around the room where their offices can get hold of them \u2014 or a .man can ring up his se- \u2018cretary to ask : \u2018What size hat does my wife take?\u201d -Gr call his wife to ask: \u201cIss my \u2018sécrétary already got a gold indaid powder «æompact 7\u201d Æven if his wife replies : \u201cnd what's that got to do with you ?\u201d there is nothing much else she, can do about dt.Tor this room is barred The official explanation of tthis.is: To -preserve the element of surprise .wo-thet a wife, fiancée or sister -can- Æot see what is being bought for;her.\u2018 - ping \u2014 when a friend | fou .can \u2018have :# done Tor - you while you sit back dn an armchair and drink a Bit \u201cone ot \u2018the toÏlesses told me : : \u201cYou couldn\u2019t'guess \u2018at the number.of men who \u2018here, saying they want 3 0 \u201cbuy a present for thal were America.\u201d #rhe men sonn \"either pay in cash fer ttheir purchases \u2014 or an account (to be , sent te their business -ad- iiress) ds opened \u2018Fer \u2018them son the æpot I they lock - thonsat.The hostesses ware \u201cincredibly patient, \u2018but \u2018a \u2018woman ex- *ecutive ut -the etore told me: \u2018\u201cWemen are supposed \u2018to dither over \u2018their shopping.But most of \u2018the men who come here \u2018haven\u2019t \u2018the wag- uest idea what wort of gift they are:after.tT \u201cWe've \u2018known \u2018them to sit \u2018here Yor \u2018four hours with girls parading \u2018up \u2018and \u2018down \u2018in one dress after \u2018another.\"Then they walt out with a $2 scarf, \u201cInvariably they imagine the woman they are \u2018buying for to be smaller and more petite than she really is.Se after Christmas, wives and sweethearts come along to fet their gifts changed.\u201d I -could have stayed in 721 Club for hours myself.But there is so much to see in New York just now as Christmas excitement sets in.There is a Banta Claus on every street -comer.Wéll, on more than 60 of them.\u2019 This can be a bit discon- Certing until you Know why they are there.They are-coil- - lecting money to proviile Christmas \u2019-dinmers \u2018for old People who might not other Wise get one.LOT TO LEARN Each of these Santas (paid 285.a day plus 7s.for Jundh dy the charity he works for) is splendidly turned out in soariet robes, with elastic tucks that fit Santas large which he is supposed to run through .soapaugs each night #0 \u2018that is is {fresh and white , when \u2018he æets out each morn- dng.- Tttaliced to one of them as \u2018re atood on Broadway, ring- À \u201cWe have a threesweek school before we turn out on this job,\u201d he told me, \u201cThere is a lot you have to learn before you can be a Santa Claus.\u201d Some of the rules a New York Santa has to remember are :\u2014 1\u2014Give special attention to your whiskers.2\u2014Avold eating garlic and onions.8\u2014Never promise children anything.But send them away hopeful and hap- Py.4\u2014Don't engage in any argument or dispute.5\u2014Don\u2019't smoke, eat or drink en duty.6\u2014 Never leave \u2018your chimney unattended.The last is \u2018the strictest œule of all.For the chimneys of the sidewalk Santas \u2014 they are made of wool \u2014 are what you drop \u2018your money in.Anti it would \u201cbe disastrous Af .Santa went off for à cup of .coffee sant: a so Mmemy \u2018Tieces in ; M Cu\u201d ®* :.\u201d \u2018 He sought a furry toy rabbit with wach [ree martin.doughnut and came ba:k to find his chimney had wan- \u2018ighed.Bo what does he do?He _ hoists \u2018it under his arm and takes it with Him, IANES JAMMED I do not know how New York's mothers and fathers explain away 60 .Santas to reir children.And their task cannot be made any easier by the fact that, at the same time you see a Santa in the street, you can step into a phone booth, dial Yukon 82121, and speak to him \u201cat the North Pole.\u201d This Santa's voice is recorded.So many children ring him up around bedtime that the lines become \u2018hope- leasly jammed.Nothing could délight the children snore because it means they have to stay up alittie longer until the lines are clear.Some of the presents for children this Christmas \u2014 you can hardly call them toys \u2014are ¢nough to make anyone but a millionaire blench.There is a 6ft.9in.long acale model of a car, costing more than $1,000, that runs om à small motor at five miles an hour.This \u201ctoy\u201d weighs more \u2018than 250 pounds.\u201cIHE LAST WORD The young miss can have E Christmas spending spree this year promises to provide more toys for the children than ever before.And the preference \u2018is for toys stamped \u201cMade in Britain.\u201d \u201cThe majority of manufacturers have completely cleared \u2018their showrooms to meet the bigger demand,\u201d said a spokesman of the British Toy \u2018Manufacturers\u2019 Association.Christmas 1858, will climax a year in which British toy- \u2018makers expected to achieve a record optput, worth about dive \u2018million dnore than last pyearaévalue À don dol- cr her big moment if Daddy is wealthy and reckless enough te buy .her a anink-trimmed prem for \u2018her doll, If costs more than $3,500.T thought the .last werd in dolls was the one with eight changes of clothes \u2014 among them \u201can authentic tutu bal lerina costume, street dress, strapless evening gown and UW lounging outfit\u201d But there ds another \u2014 \u201cThe electronic doll\u201d \u2014 with a radarlike gear inside it which is beamed to a remote control panel This 18in.doll, with no visible means of support can walk, run and ride a bicycle.For boys the shelves are filled with space ships and satellites.There is a three-stage rocket ($8.50), driven somehow by a mixture of water and air, which has a push- button control that fires it to 800 feet.\"Then there is a bank as the first stage falls off, and the rest soars on.I alse saw a four-Toot long \u201catomic cannem,\u201d which actually shoots pdly- ethylene Shells ($7.) Among all these things a cuddly weol dog looks grotesquely old*fashioned \u2014 even if it does have a tag sewn te # reading \u201cLaika, \u201d the \u2018lars.Exports, which in 1957 amounted to thirty millions of dollars will benefit from the increase.\u201cIt is definitely a boom year,\u201d said the spokesman.\u201cThere is a bigger demand and people, have bought earlier.\u201d Some manufacturers had been \u201crather embarrassed\u201d by the demand, \u2018VERY CONSERVATIVE\u2019 The consumers\u2019 choice is surpfising: \u201cSpace suits are out.Innovations and gimmicks not to any great proportion.It is dolls for the girls, cowboy-and-Indian out- \u2018fits and trains for the boys, and cuddly toys fôr the youngsters.Children are vexy con- \u201c servative.\u201d [Ed mame of fhe dog that went \u201cup \u2018in ane of the Russian æputniks, HOW MUCH ?\u2018How much will \u2018the United \u2018States spenil on its children\u2019s \u2018toys this Christmas ?The makers are gaing to be disappointed if it is léss than a billion ddllars, .If, after that, the grownups have anything left to spend on each \u2018other, they can send out cards costing up to three guineas each, They \u2018bear a Bible message and your name hand-painted.There 4s one solemn suggestion in magazines that mo husbazid could do better than give his family a car for Christmas, Or he can always settle for \u201cA Merry Music Christmas\u201d with a spinet organ at $2,000.A husband can also have a telephone (choice of seven colors) fitted for his wife in the kitchen.She can reciprocate by having one put at the bedside for him (nine colors) \u2014 with -electrically lit dial or a ditted stopwatéh, \u201cperfect for timing long- distance calls .making impromptu appoirfiments.\u201d Also FOR HIM \u2014 a set of (Continued on Page 7 DH Toys made in Britain having a boom year The British boom in toy- making is one of the biggest post-war success stories in light industry.Before the war British manufacturers\u2019 production was worth only $20,- 000,000, a fraction of this year's record.Expansion has been helped by the renowned German toy-makers who escaped from the Hitler regime.\u2019 \u201cWe have got some of the best brains of the pre-war German toy trade to help .the British trade,\u201d said the association\u2019s spokesman.Britain's best customers .are Canadians who in 1957 bought British toys worth more than $3,000,000.London Express iin pet Dé a = a EE LES E EE ER FIRE oo ps HT TRE, ae rar BIE YING 23 it if LE Oy it + Week Ending December 27, 1958 6 ROBERT - PITMAN ASKS HILE the ordinary people of Britain relax in their fireside chairs this weekend a portly young man in a Yorkshire town will be desperately at work.Near him, as he jabs and thumps at his typewriter, baubles will tinkle on \u2018the Christmas tree.But that plump, worried author will not hear them.He will be listening to quite a different Christmas sound \u2014 to a carol which whines relentlessly on the winter wind and moans its refrain through the letterbox.The old familiar words of that refrain: \u201cWHY ARE WE WAITING?\u201d For the author in question is Mr.John Braine, of Bing- ley, whose first and only \u201cnovel, Room at the Top, appeared in March 1957.And the taunting chorus which he seems to hear comes from all \" those authors and critics who ask: \u201cWas that success just a flash in the literary pan?When are we going to see by Nancy Spain HE scene: a dark street outside Wand- sworth Prison.The time: before the First World War.And \u2018then the air is suddenly bright with the- brassy beat of the Wandsworth Borough Prize Band.Hearts are lifted.Bosoms burst with pride.And the boy in the trombone section, playing with his head a little on one side, ever so slightly deaf from the din all around him, probably proudest of them all.His name is Ted Heath.This is his dad's band .and that is his dad in front there with the magnificent waxed moustache ., and Ted himself has already won cups at the Albert Hall .and by the time he is his dad's age he will have the bestest band in the land .Bless the boy, Now at the age of 56, Ted is acknowledged (even by the Yanks) to have beaten them at their own game.His entire British band, 12 Englishmen and five Scots, has more Long Playing Yecords on sale than any other band.Yet he has not turned out brash or brassy himself.He 2 your second Braine ?\u201d oo UNASHAMED - They cannot be blamed for novel, Mr.asking.In the 20 months since he found room at the top with \u201cRoom at the Top\u2019 John Braine has remained a permanent mote in the public eye.: On television his bulging lips are as familiar as the whiskers of Lenny the Lion.His broader-than-Priestley vowels have droned like trombone notes at a series of literary festivals.Wherever there has been a platform available, Mr.Braine has stepped on to it.He has rushed in where even Bren- PME ENED It\u2019s still speaks in cockney accents.He says he loves London more than any other place on earth: and he opened his own front door when I drove down to Wimbledon on Common to see him this week.Once inside the enormous house I was enveloped with coziness.\u2018 BIG SCALE E took me into a drawing- room where a coal fire roared.On the grand piano stood the Ivor Novello award, a statuette \u2018for services to music.\u201d \u201cUseful to bonk burglars on the head,\u201d said the Heaths.For I was now introduced to Moira, Mrs.Heath, who explained - that the Heaths had to have everything on an comforting vas .and dan Behan fears to tread.Unashamedly Mr.Braine has enjoyed the: publicity.But his fellow authors have not enjoyed it at all.; With cool eye they .have read\u2018 the details of the John Braine success story which has been issued with zest by John Braine.(\u201cI always travel -first- class.I never travel by bus when there\u2019s a taxi handy.I-always stay at a good hotel.And I'm acquiring a taste for brandy and cigars.\u201d) - Without enthusiasm they have seen him pictured with Simone Signoret on the film set of Room at the Top.(\u201cYou are all just figments of my ed enormous scale because of the enormous Heath family .five sons and a daughter ringing from the late 20's down to Tim, aged 6.Moira, who was one of Mr.Cochran\u2019s Young Ladies, was dancing in cabaret at the May Fair Hotel when Ted married her.\u201cEveryone prophesied disaster for us,\u201d says Ted ¢Om- fortably \u201cbecause I was an ex- street musician, you know, and she was very well educated and her father was a consul in South America.\u201cBut it's worked out marvellously.We have our silver wedding this month, we got married - for Christmas, and Martin, pur boy who's a jet pilot, ig getting married to make Jt a doliple, eyent, He's 0 legion BL WwW avait .are we waiting ?imagination,\u201d Braine told the assembled stars, \u201cJust think, .a couple of years ago I sat alone in a little room and created you all in my mind\u2014 and now you are here.\u201d) It is scarcely a wonder if the older, established authors are not fond of Mr.Braine.Mr.Somerset Maugham has beén scathing about authors of his type.As guest of honor at a Foyle\u2019s Literary Lunch Mr.H.E.Bates set the coffee cups rattling with an anti- Braine onslaught.WARNING TALE Early this year, when I drank whisky with Eric \u2018Linklater at his Ross-shire home, he spat out the name a great lad, Martin, Wants to do things on his own, make his own way.\u201d The Heath marriage is, like everything else around Ted a simple success.When they had been married a year or so, in the war, they snatched a weekend together and Moira bought Ted a present and left it on his pillow with \u2018a little note.: $20,000 NOTE HE note began: \u201cI haven't said thanks for that lovely weekened, those two days of heaven you helped me to spend ., .\u201d and Ted, very touched, set it to music.\u201cI was playing with Geraldo at.the time,\u201d he said \u201cAnd we made about $20,000 out-of | the song, so I decided.to get Arp Music of my OWRraiy - Abed gfloh 30Y valu ged ne of Braine as if it had been a brand of soft drink.° So what a mixed prospect the coming year offers John Brainé.For some time in 1959 his second novel is due.Bleakly before Braine's eyes flickers the warning tale of Colin Wilson.Once Wildon was a poor, would-be aithior sleeping out on Hamp stead Heath, .2.Then came his book The Outsider.It was obscure and difficult to read.But the seekers after culture concluded it must be pretty profound.It bad fabulous success, .Then for the critics who praised Wilson there followed a galling sequel, In his turtleneck sweater Colin Wilson proceeded to occupy the tele vision screens.He lectured.He spoke at big dinners.His name was everywhere.The result was inevitable, When Wilson produced his + (Continued on Page 7) \u201cFirst date was in Manchester.It cost $200 out of fares and things for the boys to get there.Our takings?$240.So Heath's.music star- \u2019 ted off in the red .\u201d Now every one of Ted's boys makes $200 a week steadily.\u201cAnd they surpassed themselves,\u201d said Ted.\u2018They played magnificently.Tears were running down my cheeks at the end.They played themselves out though.They were really rotten at the second house.\u201d : Loom I got a strange view of the life of the band, travelling \u2018 in a specially-chartered bus.\u201cCricket crazy,\u201d said Ted \u201cWill play -ahywhere.\u201d.+ - Ted himself is soccer silly - \u201cEvery Saturday,\u201d he: ex +7=-(Continued.on Page:#)#> .WEIBSIS DICE IIL FY fey - 3 aK \u2019 : \u201cgrr all.THIS ~ TARLE \u201chas a mind of her own complain\u2019 about being called -starlets, though they usually sa they don't \"want to soon.\" But Beth Rogan is a starlet, star to be, or aspiring actress, * who can .at least lay legiti- - finished, mate claim to \u2018other professional labels.\"Like commercial metist.ni She is also one of the few \u201cstarlets who sounds, as well as Qaoks, attractive, whose elo- \u2018quence statistics include a full-sized mind, whose eloquence is not entirely sensual, .She says: \u201cActing is more of a challenge to me than - patating and drawing.i .HER BOOK \u2018And I suppose acting is more ego-satisfying.I have to be honest and admit that mine needs a fair amount of satisfying and feeding.(Continued from Page 6) plained mildly, \u201cwe're off to Fulham to cheer Johnny Haynes on.He's my idol.He's the Fulham and England inside forward, Another great friend is Stanley Matthews.\u201d Ted waved towards the foggy windows.\u201cOutside in the garden we have goal posts, My sons are at it all the time, shooting and dribbling.Yes, \" I have.a go too.\u201d And this was from Ted Heath, the man who discovered Dicile Valentine, Lita Rose, and Dennis Lotis.He algo, is seems, turned down Frankie Vaughan.And then while we were drinking our coffee Ted produced a battered old gramophone record in a tate stars too \u201cBut if there's no acting to do I ge back to the easel.\u201d She has just returned from à holiday in Rome, where she apent some time at the easel.* But she was also tested for a film and she may return soon lo play in it.IUs called \u201cThe Soft Life.\u201d she is planning to write a book and illustrate it herself, - She has some hardish, satiri- a Sie to ao.A a She was under contract to - \u201c the Rank Organization for two years.They changed her name © frems Jemnifer Puckle, and she eaw\u2019t blame them for that, though she thinks Beth * Regan makes her sound like a fugitive from an imported TV cowboy serial.She was too repellious and individualistic for the Rankery , of starlets.\u201cYou have to conform.And It's Ted Heath .and his Dad! tered brown-paper sleeve.He put it on a magnificent gramophone, DRUM GONE wis the Wandsworth\" \" Borough Prize Band, playing \u201cAtlas Those Chimes\u201d and the \u2018Lost Chord.\u201d The noise poured out lugubriously from the Hi-Fi, all the weeping desolation of Wandsworth at its worst .the sobbing of the cornet .the sad thunder of the drum « » » Ted looked nonplussed, T know,\u201d he said.Tve got it on thé wrong apeed.It's playing 3314 instead of 78 I'll speed it up.\u201d He did so.It still seemed pretty sad to me.But Ted cocked his head on one side and, delighted, crept closer Why.are we waiting?(Continued from Page 6) second book, Religion and the Rebel (slightly better than The Outsider, it seemed to me) a unanimous shower of mud descended on his head.That was in 1957, but Wilson is still trying to wipe it off.Could the same happen to Braine ?Some fear it could be worse.Braine's detractors are not only asking what his new novel will be like when it is They are asking whether it will ever be finished at all.' It is a year and a half since Braine announged the plot of that novel which he said would be titled The Vodi, It was to start with an Imaginary game played by two small boys at a Bradford school.They pretend that smoky Bradford is somehow dominated by the Vodi, a set of secret, mysterious.people who are pleased only when things go wrong.When they grow up one boy becomes a sensitive failure, the other a tough success (Braine approves of success).The failure finds himself in hospital (Braine wrote Room at the Top in a TB , sanatorium) and in hospital he remembers- the Vodi, whom \"- he once imagined to bé his \u2018enemies.He also (as those who remember some sizzling sceneg in Room at the Top might guess) falls in love.Such is the framework of the new Braine book.How far has he got with it?In 1957 he wrote 30,000 words.Then he scrapped them and started again.Now he tells me that he has completed his first draft of the whole book.At his big house in Bingley he is pounding out his final draft at the rate of 1,000 words a day.\u201cI will take three whole days off at Christmas,\u201d says Braine.\u2018The book will be finished in March.\u201d Will it be a flop?Will it give the critics the excuse they want to tear Braine's good name to ghreds?I do not believe so.For About her life as a at \u201c the tension spots.| rm Strictly a non-conformist, \u201cThey tried.to give me the \u2019 full treatment and some of it wils useful, bit not all.\u201cI got a_dose of the Method, I was told once to give myself completely to the table.I remember it was a table with ~ifluted legs.\u201cI was also sent to a centre to learn how to relax and overcome my inhibitions.The first thing that happened was I was told to lie down while - someone ran their fingers over my face and body to find \u201cIm still fairly tensed up.\u201d Several members of the Rankery of starlets have been receiving the same treatment in the centre.Its full name is the Centre for Psychosomatic Re-education, + I suggest that some of the Rank executives should also be sent for psychosomatic reeducation.and closer into the Hi-Fi equipment, until he seemed about fo disappear into it altogether.\u2018Hear that trombone?\u201d he said, with joy.\u201cThat's me 38 years ago.\u201d The noise was now deafening.I shouted at Moira: \u201cIs he a little bit deaf?\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d she yelled back, \u201cOne of his ear drums has gone from standing up against the brass.Of course it\u2019s a vicious circle.He tells them to play louder because he can\u2019t hear them so well and then they play louder and so he gets deafer.\u201d She very firmly switched off the Wandsworth Borough Prize Band's rendering of \u201cAtlas, Those Chimes\u201d and Ted came back into circulation, looking vaguely disappointed that the noise had stopped., « NO CHANGE | years fell from him, at any moment one felt Ted would put on his uniform and pick up his trombone and pop back to the street corner at Wandsworth to give them a little tootle .He got out the Jaguar (brand new, snazzy, successful) and drove me back to London where he was going to have lunch, he said, In & little cafe in Maddox street where \u201call the boys go.\u201d He would probably have sausages for lunch.He likes them.\u2018Oh yes,\u201d he said, \u201cI often go back to Wandsworth and look \u2018em all up.It doesn\u2019t alter much, you know.\u201d But he couldn\u2019t have sounded wistful, now could he?Braine is a man of surprises.PRARERRAENENENESERETREN In public he may seem fierce end bumptious.In private he is one of the kindest and most .gently-spoken men I know.To less-publicised authors bag who is just about to pop.In fact he is a dedicated craftsman who will write and rewrite until he gets what he wants, On the phone I asked Braine about his Christmas.He said: \u201cIn 1956 we had chicken, Last year it was goose, This \u201cyear it will be turkéy.\u201d.Have no doubt it will go.on being turkey for John Braine.Buy your wife's .(Continued from Page 5B) three solid sterling silver golf tees ($20.).he may seem a mere winds.~~ FOR HER \u2014 \u201ca beguiling jewëlled dog pin\u201d ($650.).\u2018Ys WONDER.There-is, too, a great craze for \u201cpersonalised\u201d gifts \u2014 meaning that you have inscribed om them the initials of persons to whom \u2018you are giving them, There are personalised ear muffs, tooth picks, door ; and.candies, The list endless, Not for\u2019 a° 1, do I be- __ lieve we are going to have \u2018 dark green, ' TX, BETH ROGAN.When Alma was 10 her Mum used to drag her into the Piccadilly Hotel! to hear the tea dance band and would persuade the leader to let Alma get up there and sing.\u201cOh, how I hated it,\u201d Alma told me, \u201cstanding there in my gym slip.I didn\u2019t know which I was more frightened of: singing, or arguing with Mum, ALMA AND MOTHER .I learned \u2018Begin the Beguine\u2019 when I was four.I was at St.Joseph's Convent and was sure the nuns wouldn't think- it suitable.\u201d | UPS Alma adored every minute of school.Even hockey.She made a big hit in the school operetta as Minnehaha's MAORI anything but a joyful rollicking Christmas here in New York, But I can\u2019t help noticing the advert which keeps cropping up, in some of the newspapers.It is put there by a bank and it reads: Join our 1959 Christmas club now.Then you'll have $235 to $500 for Christmas 1959.\u201d I hope they are right, For the way we are heading towards Christmas 1958 makely me wonder if any of us will have anything in the bank ever again, \u2018 a Week Ending December 27, 1958 7 \u201cI'M STILL TENSED UP.\u201d Info singing fame LMA OOGAN, the girl with the giggle in her voice, was born May 19, 26 years ago.mother.\u201cThe only girl to sing deep enough,\u201d Alma explained, Alma is still completely surrounded by her ever-loving family.AND DOWNS \u201cWhen mother was making me ging,\u201d says Alma, \u201cwe were in hosiery.I've no idea why they were so determined I should be a singer.But one of the real sadnesses of my life is that my father never lived to hear me sing at the Palladium.\u201d \u2019 .WITH LIBERACE.Mr.Cogan was a dazzling personality who died suddenly at the age of 49.His family, who depended on his enthusiasm, went into a sharp decline.\u201cOne of the hosiery shops was sold,\u201d said Alma.\u201cMother ran the other.My brother went to America and became desperately ill.I lost my voice.For six months I just did housework here in the flat, Couldn't even answer the telephone.\u201cI got a job as an extra in \u2018The Blue Lamp\u2019.Promptly fell downstairs and cracked a bone in my back.It still hurts when I get tired.\u201cThen I sang again, went on tour.When I got back te London I met a girl who was married to one of the Keynotes.So I got Joy Nichols\u2019s job in \u2018Take It From Here\u2019 Joy was one of my idols.\u201d \u2018Take It From Hére\u201d took her to records and so to the top.\u2018 AAR ANS get TE a TAT 5 //\\ TO\\ST VE FIND VARE Ÿ V7 7 Vim, DISS TUNNEL , OA 7 GOES' 4 78 Ha ste Eat OFA rights reserved 7 Wy RX se di YOU T'INK HE THERE ISN'T ANY CHIM=\u2014 =( NOPE, BUT ie Ad CLT rh # ; CONTINUED TARZAN ANP (TO, © REACHING THE MYSTERIOUS MOUNTAIN'S TOP, FIND +} > TARZAN THEIR PATH BLOCKEP BY TWO GIGANTIC VA N\\ S LIZARPS.TRAPPING | NA .THEIR FEAST OF og À by Edgar Rice BLIP BATS, Burroughs [22 Ov WE HAVE NO WEAPONS AGAINST PREHISTORIC LIZARDS.THEIR SCALES ARE TOO TOUGH! 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JEFF THERES THE MAILMAN! WILL YOU GET IT WHILE NS © YOURE UP JAE a.2 __ NEW YEAR, k BUT AS USUAL, ILL GET IT ANYWAY! | FOR US FROM A a NEWSPAPER - OH, ITS A LETTER ITS A LETTER FROM A NEWSPAPERMAN IN NEW SALEM, N.D.HE WRITES, DEAR MUTT JEFF: AMOTHER YEAR: 18 ABOUT TD OPEN BEFORE US, WHAT WILL 1959 HOLD IN STORE FOR US?WE DO NOT KNOW.WE ARE ALLOCATED ONE DAY AT A TIME.THAT IS AS IT SHOULD BE, FoR IN MANKIND THE HOPE FOR BETTER THINGS TO COME SPRINGS ETERNAL IN THE HUMAN BREAST.WERE THIS NOT $0 Wi ARE - AFRAID THAT WE WOULD NOT HAVE THE FORTITUDE TO FACE LIFE! A NEW YEAR IS A TIME To TAKE STOCK OF WHAT WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED IN THE YEAR OR YEARS THAT ARE NOW HISTORY! THOSE DAYS AND YEARS ARE PAST, YET WHILE WE CAN PROFIT FROM OUR MISTAKES, IF WE ARE SO INCLINGD.WE CANNOT CHANGE THE DAYS OF YESTERYEAR, OF COURSE WE CAN, IN A MEASURE, MAKE AMENDS EOR OUR MISTAKES BY RESOLVING \\ TO CHANGE THE FUTURE = \u2014\u2014 Ra THE GRACE OF GOD WE CAN MAICE- AMENDS AND THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS WE SHOULD RESOLVE TO DO IN THE YEARS THAY WE THINK SHOULD BE OUR NATURAL LIFE SPAN.HOWEVER, WE SHOULD NOT PUT OFF RESTITUTION, FOR WHEN WE AWAKE IN THE MORNING, THERE 16-NO ASSURANC THE LIVING dE ; PÂAKE 1959 À MORE ENJOYABLE ONE, NOT ONLY FOR YOURSELF BUT FOR OTHERS AS WELL.IN THESE TIMES OF WORLD UNREST SUBLIME VIRTUES AS LAID DOWN IN THE HOLY WRIT ~ l'A AY THE THE GRAND ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE, THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD, BE AND ABIDE WITH YOU AND YOURS THROUGH OUT 1959 AND SO LONG AS HE GIVES YoU THE BREATH OF LIFE.HAPPY NEW YEAR! \u2019 W.L.DICKEY b \u2014_\u2014 \u2014 Zr Ay] =< by Len Kleis HANG UP YOUR SCHOOL.CLOTHES ?DID YOU WIPE \u201cTHE © DISHES ?+++ AMD DON'T SAY \"UP = SAY YES.SIRS -.1 REALLY DIDN'T WIPE TH\u2019 DISHES ME 70L0 MED TE : YES GIR "]