The Singapore Free Press, 8 August 1955

Microfilm: NL2443
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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya 1 1:> '<»• Singapore. Mon.. Aug. 8. 19.*>.">. Price 15 Cts
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    He walked to J.B. and won a bet
    247 1 Now 11 Singapore men issue a challenge G<EORGE (The Moose) Standish yesterday won a I three-month-old bet by walking the 17 miles from Singapore to Johore Bahru. The bet was that he couldn't alk from the General Post Office, Singapore, to Johore
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    10 WOMEN DIE IN SOVIET PLANE CRASH
    50 1 10 WOMEN DIE IN SOVIET PLANE CRASH TWENTY FIVE PEOPLE, including* ten women members of a Norwegian delegation, died when a Russian plane caught fire and crashed while on its way from Stalingrad to Moscow. The others were ten Russians and the crew of five. There were no survivors. Reuter.
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    Rubber down
    78 1 liHE weakness which develop- Ed on the Singapore rubber market on Saturday morning, following the unloading of lag quantities of rubber from up-country centres m the last lour of trading, continued m Singapore this morning. On Saturday morning, the price fell by 5% cents to close at $1.48
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    MOHAMMED ALI RESIGNS
    267 1 |>RO-western Mohammed Ali resigned last night as Pakistan prime minister, after the Muslim League's Parliamentary Party refused to approve him as the party leader. Thc parliamentary party chose the Finance Minister. Chaudhri Mohammed Ali, as party leader and authorised him to negotiate with opposition parties, including the
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    CAMERA LOSS
    23 1 An American, Mr. Joe Fitzgerald, reported the loss of a cine camera worth $600 at the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, on Saturday.
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    The Curtain goes up for the Church
    126 1 r PHE central rommittre of A the World Council 4 Churches agreed last n al Davos. Switzerland I hold ik> next annual meeting m a COOimiinlal country for tho first time. ThLs decision by the 90-mem-ber committee was made after a Hungarian bishop,
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    TAX RELIEF FOR DEAD MATES
    34 1 Widows and widowers m India can claim their deceased mates as dependent*- for purposes of income tax deductions, according to a notice sent to members of India's Parliament. -A.P.
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      83 1 Valiant off Britain's first four-engined heavy jet bomber, the Vickers Valiant, took oft from Changi airfield, Singapore, at 6.05 a.m. today m an attempt to smash the Singapore-Darwin flight record of 4hrs. 24mins. set up by a Canberra jet m 1953. Piloted by Wing Commander John Finch with a crew
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    Lock icon BUT THEY PEEPED TO SEE ROYAL PICNIC
    144 2 BUT THEY PEEPED TO SEE ROYAL PICNIC TWW3E Qw a Md the Duke ol 1 Edinburgh jtslerdmy attend* ri church serrice m historic st David* Cathedra] at Pembrokshlrt. shrine ol Wales' patron saint. it VM tne first time for a« arly 700 years that a reigning monann had knelt m
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    Lock icon 7 die as bus rolls down mountain
    35 2 Seven Koreans were killed and 48 Others injured last Friday night when a speeding bus toppled from a mountain road about 100 miles west of .Seoul. U. P.
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    JAYCEES GIVE TREAT TO 100 ORPHANS
    85 2 ONE HUNDRED orphans of Singapore, were treated yesterday to tours to Johore Bahru and a party and a magic show by the Singapore Junior Chamber ol Commerce. Jaycees called it "Operation Children The children came from the Mount Erskine Social Welfare < hlldren'a centre.
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    37 2 ture. pic- Bicycles waiting to be loaded aboard the Hon* Kong-b ou n d Tjiluwah yesterday for their owners —Chinese students who left for Red China. Fifty students embarked. Nearly everyone took a new bicycle. Free Press
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    Lock icon CYPRUS GARRISON
    33 2 An advance party of the First Battalion the South Staffordshire Regiment which will form part of the permanent garrison of Cyprus, flew m from the Suez Canal Zone yes- Urdav.—R Reuter
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    FORMOSA BOOM
    25 2 The production of oil reached record levels during the first six months of this year m Formosa, it was announced m Talpeh yesterday
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    Lock icon It was the gayest party Reds ever gave
    514 2 It was the gayest party Reds ever gave VOIIKA. ***** AIM! .MV AT 111 Mi A.M.VS PICNIC I>iumiu" Bsdgaaia threw i r.il.i tountr> part> fOI rli'ili'ln.its >esterdaj sad »n a j-ayful mood said he "hoped that sometime" he uouid visit thr I nlted states. Top soviet leaden felkdaneedi boa! ru
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    Lock icon SUMMIT TALKS SNUB: 'MATTER FOR THE U.N.'
    283 2 UNITED NATIONS Secretary-General Dag Hamm; to the September session ol* the General Assembl world's major powers for leaving the U.N. beHln< problem* by such conferences as the summit talks i Hammarskjold said the world might find itse Jnited Nations "a chance to develop
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    30 2 picture. The Vickers Valiant, Britain's first four-engined i J heavy jet bomber, sweeping m gracefully as she i landed at Changi yesterday on her flight to Austra1 lia Free Press
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    Lock icon Taipeh probe into attack on InchweISs
    142 2 TTHE Nationalist Chinese Government is making an investigation of the reported attack on the British freight*; c InchwelLs by four Chinese Thunderjets near Foochow. Foreign Office sources said m Taipeh yesterday. The informants declined any further comment while the case was "under investigation. The
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      71 2 It was followed b y a magic show by Mr. Jimmy Choo. Said a Jaycee spokesman: For some of the children it was their first ever car-ride when we took them to Johore Bahru. We have done what we can to make it one of the happiest day m their
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    Lock icon HURRICANE MAY HIT HOLIDAY ISLANDS
    174 3 force winds horn the fringes of s hurrimed Connie' by Weather Bureau are brush the Bahama* resident! of th< lay Islands hav< j to remain alert. >iamas had earlier to bear the fuli the hurricane which timated at 135 ,r extra ding 75 the centre,
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    Lock icon Prisoner set fire in cell-dies
    38 3 Prisoner set fire in cell -dies 'lino Rodrigues, a convict Ponte Do Lima jail, Lisjet tire to his straw, mats m a fit ot temper. i as burnt to death before liler was able to .summon guard.— A.P.
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    Lock icon Southern sojourn
    21 3 mben of next year's A-.t; rctic expedi- h this year vaLon visits, Sir Hillary, tho expedifiairi m Wellington Reuter
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    71 3 picture The president mi thr Bt. John Ambulance- Brigade, Chief Justice Sir Murray -Ay lisle*/, inspecting a guard-of honour of officers at Kaflfles Place. Singapore, yesterday. With Sir Charles (above) is District Oflieer A. N. Pereira. left. Later Date Syed A. M. Alsagofl'. tinBrigade's Assistant Commissioner, gave a farewell speech
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    Lock icon Beauty. 16. hides in warship—and sails to America
    256 3 Beauty. 16. hides in warship and sails to America A BEAUTIFUL 16-year-old Portuguese, Joycelin Pilapil. yesterday waved goodbye to 240 "shipmates" aboard the Canadian destroyer, Athabaskan. as two detectives took her ashore at Long Beach. California, to face charges of stowing away eight days ago m Hawaii. "It was a
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    SCOOTERS TO NAB THOSE SCOOTING PILFERERS
    52 3 SCOOTERS TO NAB THOSE SCOOTING PILFERERS MANILA customs authorities are cracking down on smugglers and pilferers In a mobile way. Customs Commissioner Manuel p. Manahan, appointed re cently by President Ramon Magsayaay to "•clean up" the customs department and rampant pilferage on piers. Is equipping his Inspectors with ers and
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    SINGAPORE MARKSMEN ON TOP
    177 3 N rAPORE was first m the event at the ■iday Shoot at Road and won the n Challenge Cup first time officially. Ed Tong Sen ChalCuo iiaci remained m ion of the Singain Cub for the paust pears due to lack of com:;om up-country. the Singapore
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    Bishop who hastened abdication now quits
    120 3 who precipitated tion of King VIII announced his ion yesterd Bishop of Brad- v. Blunt, who on iy m 1930 delivered a critl ;ng *'people il) for their attitude i and marriage. mars were generally as t.v first public- crim ol th< present Duke
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      129 3 BARGAINS We offer to clear these Hoods UNBELIEVABLE PRICES. Usual Special Pure Linen Trousers suitable for office wear (Made to measure) $11.00 Arrow Bi-way Shirts $13 50 9.90 Arrow T. Shirts Sixes S-M Assorted colours $4.90 2.50 100% Dupont Dacron Shirts (U.S.A. origin) $21.50 $12 50 Stretchable Socks 325 190
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    The Singapore free Press MONDAY, August 8, 1955. Opinion A good idea abused
    252 4 The Singapore free Press MONDAY, August 8, 1955. Opinion A good idea abused TT i.s right, that B gOV- eminent should gel to know its people and what they want, better still what i.s good lor them. But to find this knowledge is often difficult. And that's why the idea
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    Lock icon TITO'S BALKAN PACTS
    757 4 TITO'S BALKAN PACTS New Belgrade— Moscow ties have made the Yugoslavs a bit uneasy about their military alliance with the Greeks and Turks, says HELEN EISHER YUGOSLAVIA'S rapprochement with Russia has not affected the Balkan alliance but the general lessening of international tension and the decrease m the immediate threat
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    BY THE WAY
    131 4  -  Beachcomber BY rpilE mania for excessive refrigeration, and the consequent fossilisatlon of so many foods, led the thoughtless, some time ago. to acclaim meat which tasted of liquorice It wa.s a change from a taste ol nothing. I now read that experts have succeeded m --llminating the
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      39 4 THRIFTY WEDDING fmmmmmmm* Wedding j^ifts from $5/ m WpWttrdi ore ovo i I o bl e m ticiv de tig n f o l eo se both the giver ood the receiver. S.P.H.de SILVA LTD SINCAPORE, IPOH, X LUMPUI
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      28 4 QUIET QUIET QUIET '7 /M^\ that's the word _^f|£— ff*^^_c^—^_^a^_MJ_i^^^'^*~TT' '^tm*^^^ 6* k'.c "if O*"^ __a— ~~_ag *ii a- v Johnson SEA-HORSE OUTBOARD BORNEO -*yijoC»<^ SINGAPORE MALAYA BORNEO
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    988 5  -  Adelaide Eastley By ONLY one man m Singapore knows how to open that concealed cavity containing a scroll m the city's mace, $15,000 golden symbol of constitutional authority. He LS Mr. T. M. Stevens, city secretary. He was told the secret by the maces tsmen. lucked up safely
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      185 5 DACRON I talks ir TROUSERS 1 DACRON TROUSERS ARE FOR MEN WHO EXPECT EVERYTHING A GOOD PAIR OF TROUSERS CAN OFFER DACRON TROUSERS LOOK SMART AND I THEY STAY SMART ALWAYS NO BAGGING AT THE KNEES EVEN IN RAIN WON T REMOVE THE ORIGINAL SHARP CREASE oi ii ami ion
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      356 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis 1 I [CHIEF/ rcvF //ITH A. SQUAD TO il ,-AS A GADGET ;«AT I OPAL L ThE BU TME I OP.EEN. I'VE GOT THb CREEP i I LACES f/CLECULES-- S //OULDN T UE. HE HAS fH_ GANG* •p.r A r f rr,^^ fl
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      705 6 YOUE I LUCKY I i STAR |JOK\ today, y.uir w*m**{ I It*! toff l.n, nidu .nd f*mt rhrM m J Hun all < otnl.ti, to I tyou a ii;orous pr*fn Mj i tson. Yd., Irmra i n>_.- ease. This iv fertaaate, lm I 4 enjoy traveling ar.d win likely lo
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    Lock icon CHUFFY'S NEW FRIENDS
    67 7 ture pic- Seen to be on the best terms with ChufTy, mascot of the Women's Royal I Air Force Officer Cadet j Training School, Kent, r are these four Burmese j officers. They are attending a course at the school. All hold Rangoon University degrees. Pictured from
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    Chinese drive for public support on citizenship plea
    124 7 Chinese drive for public support on citizenship plea rpHE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce is pushing ahead with its plans to gain public support for its citizenship appeal to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd. The Chamber will, for this purpose, convene a meeting of representatives
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    Jiving and the party line
    80 7 Jiving and the party line HOT HEINIRS teenagers who learn jitterbugging m the dance halls of Western Berlin and then take the craze over to the East— are m trouble with German Communists. The official party newspaper, Neucs Deutschland, said yesterday: "Our worthy dance bands play nice light music like
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    Families in polio flats shunned
    144 7 PEOPLE m a block of flats where two eases of polio were reported are being shunned m the street, according to Dr. William Stott, medical officer of health at Southwark. London. He said: "People from the flats are being treated like lepers. People are sending
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    Church social
    30 7 More than 300 people attended a dance and social at the High School, Kajang, on Saturday night m aid of I the Holy Family Church build- ing fund.
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    Six for Britain
    21 7 I Nigeria's Oorernment riven £2.000 so that six ciils can take Girl II Guid* courses m Uriturn. i
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    RAISE GRANT, SAY CHINESE SCHOOLS
    156 7 THE Singapore Chinese Education Council, representing 503 organisations, will send a nine-man delegation to see the Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, regarding provident fund mutters. T*he Council decided oil tin.. after hearing the views of Several members, including Mr. Lim Chin Siong of
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    'Spore airports are neighbours but mix-up by pilots unlikely
    260 7 I EXPERTS disagree on whether pilots might be likely m to land at Changi airfield by mistake when Singapore's new international airport at Paya l.ebar is opened. Following the unexpected landing of b Changibound Hermei aircraft at Paya Lebar recently, a
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    Interest in quiz disc and aligner
    56 7 Interest in quiz disc and aligner THE secretary of the Singapore Safety First Council, Captain E. Richardson, said several inquiries had been received from motorists about the* new headlamps aligner and quiz disc. He said those who want to inspect or place an order for them' should contact him at
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    LAND EXPERT TO ADVISE S'PORE ON 'FREEZE' LAW
    82 7 Dr. John F. N. Murray, y chairman of the Au«. tralian Land Valuation lioanl. who is m Singa- pore to ad viae on legisLa- tion to hvieM the value* I of land m the Colony and on the setting -up of a
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    BLONDIN THE BOLD
    1335 8 ROBERT COLEMAN today recounts the incredible feats of rX)UR-YEAR-OLD Jean Franco!* Otavelet, »«*ng Ashing rod for a balancing pole, walked acrosi a rope strung between two gate posts. His paie n I I were ised enough with his performance to allow him to train m L'Bcole de
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    74 8 picture. lIIIIUIIIHIUIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIW *IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHMW* M,,,,,,,,, S SOME of the 1.300 nauti- cal miles of cable S fed via special gantry from tank house to the cable- laying ship Monarch on Erith, Kent, m readiness r for her departure to )a> r the first deep-sea section of the trans-Atlantic tele- phone cable
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    BASIC TRUTH
    103 8 BASIC truth of the week is uncovered by Mr Joseph Dargent who is a sort of travelling Ambassador for the Rheims champagne industry. "No Government", Mr. Dargent says "could survive without champagne. Champagne m the throat of our diplomatic people is like on m the wheels of an
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    BONN WANTS A-CANNON
    60 8 BONN WANTS A-CANNON WEST Germany Ls negotiating with America for the "loan" of nuclear weapons to train the new German army. Specifically, tlie Germans are interested m the U.S. 280-millemeter atomic cannon the "*°nest John" rocket and the Wac Corporal guided missile. The Germans argue that the recent NATO air
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    HE WON £2,000 FOR LOST WIFE
    393 9 Will she turn him out of home? COWARD FREDERICK fr JOHNSON. awarded E2 000 damages against a life-long friend who enticed tils wife from him, i.s wondering: will my wile now turn me out of my home? For the wife, dark-haired '-year-Old Mrs Eileen
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    Sleep drug kills woman hospital patient
    275 9 THE treatment she received at a mental hospital killed thirty-nine-year-old Mrs Olive Winifred Fisher. Her trouble started two years ago— she could not stand stiH or sleep. She went into Hollymoor Hospital, Birmingham. Mrs Fisher was treated with electric shock and drugs for agitated
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    18 9 picture. Mr. Johnson (left) with Mrs. Pollard and her son George (centre) after leav- ing iuui i. Popper
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    It ELL RINGS—WOMAN DIES
    47 9 It ELL RINGS— WOMAN DIES A door befl was rung at a Hat In South Owe BUM. South Grove. Highgate. and a gas explosion ,Jn«J« *"J Vt 63-year-old widow Mrs. Marjorie Lotthiem and Injured three children. It is believed a spark from the bell circuit may have
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    Ex-police chief fined £20
    79 9 A £20 fine and a year's driving ban were imposed at Plympton, Devon, on George Sidney Lowe, ex-chief constable, of, Plymouth and Sheffield, for driving a car while influenced by drink. Lowe who Ls 62. and retired eight years ago, said he had been celebrating Independence
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    PLANE HE BUILT IN GARDEN IS WAITING TO FLY
    204 9 PLANE HE BUILT IN GARDEN IS WAITING TO FLY IUN'E ORD-HUME. a*e^d 23. banded her 23-year-old husband .Arthur his tools oik* day last week to mush building the plane thai stands In the buck garden. Tho plane, .1 .ingle- «t»ter with ■»tt. wing .span. |uM fits between the apple treei
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    BACK IN S'PORE
    132 11 (ABOVE): To celebrate their return to Singapore after seven months' leave abroad. Acting Controller of Posts, Mr. H. M. Rose .Mid his charming wife Ann kept a "dinner-date' at a Singapore hotel on Saturday night. Mr. Kose came here two years ago from East Africa. (RIGHT): A
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    Woman boosts Reno in Britain
    352 12 "THE White Cliff* Ol Dover are attracting divorced people like the White desert .sands ol Reno It starts with a advertisement like this m a Belgian newspaper: I DIVORCES j Kemarie/ vs en 17 jours. mar. rmcenne en iteiciq. Nomto. refer. I'rix ss eene. Beas.
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    Is your husband a dead loss on romance?
    998 12  - Is your husband a dead loss on romance? ROBERT PITMAN Says **********111 l lIIH For the woman iv ho m von Ird "IT* marriage brought no sentiment. but romance made her fortune. IS YOUR husband hopelessly stolid, hopelessly unsentimental? Have those dreams ol romance been squashed flat by the dullness
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    Where the virus IS KING
    576 13 rpHE VIRUS is king m a A laboratory m California where scientists seek answers to its tantalizing secret. Viruses cause a host of diseaseshuman, animal and plant. One variety puts hundreds of children and adults to bed for from 24 hours to several weeks, suffering
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    If you feel giddy...
    728 13 If you feel giddy... by the SINGAPORE DOCTOR IVE talk about giddiness when I person has the feeling of toeing the stability of his body m respect to his surroundings. The sense ol balance depends upon the impressions which the brain receives from the sense organs: the eyes, ears, nose
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    65 13 picture. NORMAN HARTNELL, the Queen's dressmaker, sprang a bit of a bombshell on the fashion world with the news that he has started designing fashion jewelry. Here Mrs. Claude St. Cyr shows off a Hartnell Josephine-style aquamarlne-and-diamond necklace, with matching chandelier earrings, plus a bracelet of aquamarines, rubies and diamonds.
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    Lock icon So tired of waiting
    47 13 So tired of waiting pic- tun-. j riALI'KI champion Sok-« kara Sindebab of)^ Shammer Rives a bored-a yawn as he waits Sokkara Sabra of Sham-?/ ft mer for judßinj- at the tt Saluki or (ia/ette llound><> Cl üb's <>P**n sbou *t« tela m pton Polo/, Grounds. Reuter
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    FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
    2108 14  -  DOROTHY WHIPPLE hfl A famous author, a 13-year-old boy, and a packet of blue matches with yellow tips pose today's problem FACT or THE answer to yesterday's "Did It Happen*' story— "MY FIRST SECRET AGENT"— is NO, it did not happen. IT WAS m Brittany that I
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    Lock icon TO CAPTURE THE HEART
    37 15 picture. HERE'S an evening gown to capture every S feminine heart. It is of crystal-embroidered < white tulle, with a fox-trimmed jacket worn here a at a London fashion show by model Lana..— Reuter
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    Bridge Hand
    353 15 NOPTH *A b "V I 9 S 6 5 3 CA h 4 4 J 10 WEST EAST *gj 10 9 K4 fj 7 CyQ J 4 2 0 j is s s a 0 N 1054, when the American team won the World Cham pi on Rliip
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    Women are tops in fashion here
    373 15  - Women are tops in fashion here EILEEN ASCROFT SllfJS THREE cheers for the designing women of Home. How strange It La that Ln Paris Lead! designers are men and m London theic is not one woman among Britain's TOP Twelv. Rut m Rome it is a <li fT ent stoi
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    CHURCH TELLS GIRLS: DON'T WEAR SHORTS
    88 15 CHURCH TELLS GIRLS: DON'T WEAR SHORTS HPS.. (;reek Church has beI im, a bitter struggle against modern feminine fashions such as shorts which, it claims "promote debaui herv and immorally." hi a lengthy rn< vcliral to all (ireek parish priests the Ilolv svn n d 'supreme religious hnri\ m that
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    IDLENESS is a FINE ART in Spain
    481 16  - IDLENESS is a FINE ART in Spain JOHN CULMER by A CARRY-OVER FROM the PAST? VOWHBRE m thr WestA^ I'm world can the gentle art of doing Absolutely nothing have n refined to the perfection it ha.s reached m Spain, where ldiene. m distinct irom mere 1.1/1--5, is practised with
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    34 16 To have nothing whatever to do is a luxury every Spaniard can afford, and he indulges his taste for idleness with a singleness of purpose which to the average active foreigner is maddeningly imonipn-
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    Lock icon TRACK OF A TERRIER
    82 16 pictures. THK Convair Terrier, one of the newest of the U.S. Navy's anti-aircraft guided missiles, leaves a trail of flame as It is launched from the deck of the converted battleship Mississippi, during manoeuvres off the Atlantic Coast. The rocket propelled, supersonic Terrier, destined to search
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    54 16 SHEEtt NORTH, the -wiggle' girl who has taken the place of Marilyn Monroe at a Hollywood studio, ohliges a Chinese fan with her autograph and thus lives up to the title of the film ''How to be *#cry, very popular which she is making. Mia* Monroe was originally starred io
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    THIS PALACE WILL STRESS A FOURTH DIMENSION
    120 16 THIS PALACE WILL STRESS A FOURTH DIMENSION rrU.F.VISION will be the 1 keynote of what Ls believed to be the world's largest offtee building, the Palace mi Progress, t<> be completed abo v c New York's Pennsylvania Railroad Station > n 19.V1 According to Hollywood archlteeti the *;3o million (9SSS,aM,tN)
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      226 16 mttwmKL mmmm m I*l 'I ■t— -^—r— r* ii I 888 i IS CLI'KS AC'KOSS 6 That i s briefly around sun up 1 J^rtSjfSSl 7TS? at the 3 Honfe" partly composed of a cocKtail paitj io 6; wilder animal 8; 7 Soldiers m imprisonment (7i. a 0 A French
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    Lock icon STARS are in short supply
    469 17 STARS are in short supply FILMLAND FACES NEW CRISIS America is suffering from a famine. There aren't enough guys and dolls to go round in the entertainment business. When British prodttcef Robert Nesbitt was hired to stage the new floorshow at a Las Vegas hotel, he discovered a staggering tiling.
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    The girl friend waits for fame
    166 17 m new york and London "The Hoy Friend" is a smiish-hit. Next month a new Sandy Wilson musical 'The Buccaneer" opens m London. Playing th€ Oirl Friend In thai production is 22-year-old unknown Sally Ha/ely. To her could come the overnight fame which The.
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