The Singapore Free Press, 17 January 1956

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya No. *****. Singapore. Tuesday. January 17. 1956. Price 15 Cts.
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  • 89 1 TWENTY YEAR OLD Windmill girl Carol Logan will exchange the West End stage this year for a home in Malaya. She is to fly out to marry .Mr. John Roskams, a .10-year- old Assistant Commissioner of Police, at Kuala Lumpur. They met five
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  • 98 1 npOKYO police yesterday arrested two Japanese on suspicion of attempting to smuggle toy fireworks into Singapore. The police said Masami Morizaki, aged 37. and Akira Hata, aged 26, employees of a trading firm, mixed up 88 cases of toy fireworks with 20 cases of candy
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  • 52 1 He'll succeed Rear Admiral Shattock REAR ADMIRAL G. A. Hiring, formerly deputy Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief. Portsmouth, has been appointed Flay Officer, Malayan Area, the Admiralty announced in London yesterday. He succeeds Rear Admiral E. H. Bhattock. Rear Admiral Thring. who is 52, takes un his new post
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  • 35 1 An army fir*' unit helped in putting out a fire in Kampong Pahang. Johore Bahru. last night which destroyed a house occupied by 35 people The estimated loss is about $10,000.
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  • 29 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened this morning on an easier tone with first grade, February shipment, at $112 3 a a lb., three cents' below yesterday's price.
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  • 160 1 DAY PROTEST STRIKE BY 9.000 MAY GO ON MORE than 9,000 workers at the Singapore Naval Base went on a one-day strike today to protect against the eviction of two families from their quarters. The Naval Base Labour Union will meet this evening to decide whether to continue the strike
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  • 235 1 POLICE FIRE nil UN w mm CROWD OOLICE twice opened fire on Bombay rioters last night after a day of violence touched off by Indian Premier Nehru's broadcast that the city was to be centrally administered under the reorganisation of the country's state borders. On e person
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  • 21 1 One thousand immigrants from Eastern Europe, North Africa, South America. Britain, Austria and Germany have arrived in Haifa- UP
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  • 13 1 A 24-man economic mission left Paris yesterday for Peking.- A.P.
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  • 66 1 Three Indians, one with a revolver and two with daggers, stole $3,700 in cash and jewels from an Indian family in Lorong 105, Changi Road. Singapore, yesterday. They tied up the family then looted the house. A Malay woman neighbour who went to the house to
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  • 153 1 Tengku: All should mix and marry whom they wish T^ENGKU AHMAD, third son of the Sultan of 1 Johore, said yesterday of the engagement announced between his son, Tengku Osman, and a 17-year-old English qirl: "Everyone should mix these days and marry whom they want. Mv son and his fiancee
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  • 101 1 Stripping: Cable to British M.P. Selangor division of 1 the Labour Party of Malaya this morning cabled Mr. Stan Awberry, Labour M.P. to bring up the "stripping affair" at Semenyih in the House of Commons. This is the latest move in the affair which started when the entire population of
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  • 110 2 FRENCH STEP UP WAR ON REBELS FKENCH forces in East) Algeria killed over 100 B rmed rebels during th e part 48 hours, it was officially announced last ni Many prisoners and important quantities of arms and ammunition were also taken. The biggest operations In the stepped-up action to ::ueli
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  • 290 2 DEFENCE CHIEF URGES 'UNTIRING WATCHFULNESS' AUSTRALIAN Defence Minister Sir Philip Mcßride yesterday blamed agrressive policies of international communism for SouthEast Asia's precarious state. Welcoming delegates to a SEATO military advisers' conference which opened at Victoria Barracks in Melbourne, Sir Philip said that South-East Asia had
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  • 31 2 Dock workers in 53 Australian ports called "stop work" meetings yesterday in what might be the I prelude to a nationwide j walkout on January 23 U.P.
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  • 39 2 The Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black, will propose a toast to the Republic of India at a party to be given by the Indian Commissioner, Mr. R. K. Tandon. on January 26 Indian Republic Day.
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  • 31 2 Mr. V. K. Krishna Menon, leader of India's delegation to the United Nations, who has been progressing well after appendicitis, leaves London by air lor New Delhi today. Reuter
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  • 217 2 'PEARL' WINS FIGHT FOR WOMEN l TRIUMPH FOR NILE DAUGHTERS THE new Egyptian con--1 stitution, which gives women equal voting rights with men. Is a triumph for the country's leading feminist, 37-year-old Mrs. Doria Shafik (left). The attractive founder and leader of the Egyptian suffragette movement has campaigned for years
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  • 20 2 President Eisenhower's name was entered yesterday in Snringfleld, in the Illinois primary to select presidential candidates.- A. P.
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  • 143 2 Greek quarter cordoned oJJ MEN from the First and Third Parachute Battalions—who flew to Nicosia in Britain's biggest airlift in years— last night helped regular security forces to search a Greek Cypriot quarter for terrorists. It was the first time the highly trained paratroopers had been
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  • 25 2 A statue of Mahatma Gandhi is among a few selected models which decorate the room of Russian Communist Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev.- U.P.
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  • 16 2 Italy has raised its legations in Syria and Israel to full embassies.- A .P.
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  • 38 2 Thami El Glaoui, 78-year-old Pasha of Marrakech and chief of Southern Morocco's Berber tribesmen and once a major political force in the French Protectorate, was reported last night to be dying from stomach cancer. A.P.
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  • 157 2 FOREIGN Ministry Mamoru Shigcmitsu yesterday in Tokyo railed for a "more positive" Japanese foreign policy towards fallow Asian nations. He said such a step was necessary in dealing with other Far East countries which have gained International prominence in recent years. Shigemitsu did
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    • 58 2 MM it a nutt in every Malayan hone. MM it packed from cover to cover with fine picturet, brilliant fiction, cartoont and pointed articles: MM also contains a $20,000 Must-Be-Won Word Puzzle. A >«> HHP «RK^-" MWKf' BK X -Mfh nBHRn fIBBMP* an £< ..> i «HWhP- Wmt i V*4fin*L
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  • Article, Illustration
    33 3 picture. Mr. Seow Hwee (iee and Miss Annie Kweli Pui Vin after their wedding at Jalan Hoth (hye, Singapore. Mr. Seow is the son cf Mr. and Mrs. Seow Kim .sain. Free Press
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  • 139 3 lIELICOPTERS from a British naval ship have 11 been sent to blast a passage for the British Antarctic exploration ship Theron, which has been icebound for several days. The helicopters, which are from the speciallyf'quipped armoured netlayer Protector off the Falkland Islands of
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  • 168 3 'Keep Charles and Anne away from fox hunts' A LONDON Sunday newspaper has demanded that Prince Charles and Princess Anne be kept •way from fox hunts until they are older. Neither has been on a fox hunt, but they watchthe start of one near Sandringham last week pictures In London
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  • 41 3 The President elect of Brazil, Senhor Juscelino Kubitsrhek. announced Bonn. West Germany, terday "a new policy* under which "all who wish to invest technique a-id capital in Brazil will be received as welcome friends and worthy cc-operators." Reuter
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  • 272 3 4 LEX" has become the new reigning glamour girl of London. Princess Alexandra has taken over as leader of the gayest younj; crowd in the fashionable night life of London In succession to Princess Margaret and her group. Princess Margaret, :>.*>, has abdicated gracefully in favour of
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  • 266 3 J^AW-abiding Russians are complaining bitterly about the universal problem of juvenile delinquency, it is reported today. Their target are the .stilyags, who wear gaudy Western clothes, brawl over girls, assault citizens, damage property and otherwise comport themselves in the manner of juvenile delinquents the
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  • 19 3 Another 475 German former prisoners of war arrived at Herleshausen, Germany, from Soviet prison r.amus. U .P.
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  • 36 3 Eleven people were killed yesterday when a bus shot off a curve and plunged 1,500 feet into a ravine while travelling from Durango Mexico, to Mazatlan. U.P. Princess Alexandra call me 'Alex'
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  • 254 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. Jan. 17, 1956. Opinion THE GOOD IN the past few days. Singapore has again proved itself to be a! city with a heart. A widow with several children was faced' with eviction because she etmld not pay her rent. Kind hearts at once responded and
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  • 522 4 Show them democracy at work Britain should lay down the red carpet for Bulganin and Krushchev. Where they come from the party not in power is in prison by a Speiial Correspondent BY all means let Messrs. Bulganin and Krushchev visit Britain. Let them, despite their rudeness in India and
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  • 352 4 Shake-up in the Treasury r»AUTIOUS prophets— or at least prophets who are normally cautious say that Mr. Harold Macmillan will brin", about a major shake-up in the British Treasury, a department that has notoriously withstood all pressures for reform in the past thirty years. Mr. Macmillan is generally regard' a
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  • 306 5 UfHEN the sun went down on Galway Bay they were still talking about the Englishman who out-blarneyed the Irish, begorrah. For "Sir Patrick" wasn't all he seemed.... And there were many red faces among officers of Eire's crack regiment who feted "Sir Patrick Murphy,
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  • 141 5 WHEN a mother learned how her 12-year-old son was alleged to have behaved she began turning off the television and radio in their home at certain times. She told the magistrates this when the boy appeared on remand at Bromley. Kent Juvenile Court, accused
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  • 384 5 Should you wed in your teens? YES, SAYS MRS. FRANKLIN So Maureen, 15, is told: 'Go ahead' YOUNG people— yes, teenagers, even who fall in love and want to get married should be helped and not hindered. Who says this? Mrs. Molly Franklin, of Holly Park-Road, Friern Bar- net. Middlesex,
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  • 334 5 THERE WAS NO ROOM AT THE INN A YOUNG mother searched on Christmas Eve for somewhere to sleep with her baby. No one would take them In, It was said at the Bromley (Kent) Magistrates' Court. And her plight prompted the chairman to say: "It reminds me of a previous
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  • 131 5 Now mail is sorted by speedy robot AN electronic brain that sorts letters three times i as fast as a man can is being used experimentally by the G.P.O. If the tests being carried out at Bath. Somer.srt are successful the "brain" will be introduced all over Britain. Said the
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  • 41 5 The United States Ambassador to Italy. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, slipped I and fell on the tile floor of the bathroom in her New York home and is thought to have broken her wrist A.P.
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  • 26 5 The Buganda native Rovernment proposes to introduce collective farming —on land to be leased from j large African landowners and free primary education. Reuter
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  • Article, Illustration
    75 5 Top picture: Examining a sheet of Sudan stamps on which the surcharge overprint is upside down are two young visitors to the National Stamp Exhibition at the Central Hall, Westminster. Above Not far away, in the Palace of Westminster, Mr. Frank Inman winds the clock in the Members' Room for
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 348 6 'SIAXiiiIAKE Dy"'_cc'''Faik''and Phil liavi^ ~~ZZI_ IMgMWTWWO-. tl j ARE YOU MAO? 1 WATCHED .1/ NOW--WE MU?T V fWO WWr; BACKI (V!Voi-RErH- E I &T& ASX NWrWrV/SS^f^ /V HAPPI«O»J^\ P,LOV MX? 1 yS-s (/7 **jJy^C !!!m!r Tllg/W In B fl«»:ii- llid*c^ lllirri»fll«»ll% f- SS TeTl rn. s—l5 —I I —~9 1
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    • 296 6 7 lv^_^^^2 \a_-/ <i_-^» fSumS friends of imp^ance and A nllough e you do have a nrm and I <► determined will once you get "set", 4 i\ passed middle age, before vour trut J the world. 4 as well as the spoken word. There 11 1 a definite psychic
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 201 7 LONDON, Jan. 16. eo Previous Today RIBBER No. 1 RSS ci.f. 33', buyers 32 t buvers „'E a P^^ 334 sellers 33 4 sellers IUBBER No. 1 RSS ci.f. 334 buyers 3L- A buyers RIBBEK No. l RSS Spot 33% buyers 33 buyers v m 33 "s
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    • 104 7 NEW YORU. J.m Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 105 75 nom. 105.25 n TIN futures January 103.50 bid 103.75 bid 104.50 a 104.75 asked February 102.50 bid 102.40 bid 103.50 a.skee. 103.40 a.sked March 101.50 bid 101.25 bid 102.50 ask. 102.25 asked TONE: l.^ier. SALES:
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    • 44 7 Malabar spot and Lampong spot 35. awaiting release 34 I*-.1 afloats 34 to S3V6, Jan. 13%. Malabar Jan/Mar. 32. JTnrawak Above prices quoted spot and awaiting release II >.. afloats 31 to 30 V Jan. 30." Sellers ex-dock. in U.S. cents per lb.
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    • 33 7 NEW YORK. Jen. 16. Today Today °.0 Industrials 481.80 476 24 M RaUroads 160.68 158.37 in Domestic Bonds 98.70 98.78 II rtilities 64.01 63.75 61 Stocks Composite Average 170.58 168.67
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    • 122 7 mr a J*' 1 OOFKA Philippine*. c i.f. I .K./ Previous Today North European delivered weight per long ton Feb. Mar. M75 se n ers ||7| sellers < OPR A Philippines f.o.b. Manila in bulk per ton Unquoted Unquotrd COPRA Straits c.i.f. IK North Euroi>ean delivered
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  • 64 7 picture. The time -honoured annual ceremony of the Cutting of the Baddeley Cake at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, was carried out in the presence of the company of "The King and I." Here, Austin Melford, Master of the Baddeley Fund, helps leading lady
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  • 176 7 1 BRITAIN'S air strength is a quarter of what it should be. Sir Roy Fedden, the aero engine designer said so. He was giving the Lord Sempill lecture to production engineers at Southampton. And he said: ���•Sufficient money and effort have been expended and
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  • 268 7 rHE man who creates fog— and gets rid of it again— has been busy for several nights in London, collecting samples of the real thing. Dr George Elton, 30-year-old senior lecturer in chemistry at Battersea Polytechnic and smog expert to the Mini stry of
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 44 7 SINGAPORE HIGH TIDES lODAY: 1.02 p.m. TOMORROW: 1 54 a.m. and 1.40 p.m. THURSDAY: 224 a.m. and 2.02 p.m. FRIDAY: 2.56 a.m. and 3.09 p.m. SATI RDAY: 3.34 a.m. and 4.10 p.m. SUNDAY: 4.20 a.m. and 5.35 p.m. MONDAY: 5.19 a.m. and 7.44 p.m.
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  • 1931 8  -  MICHAEL MILLS by He was "the most loathsome version ot a human being'... yet he entertained the Princess of Wales to tea THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES ONE day in the year 1884 Mr. (later Sir) Frederic Treves, the distinguished surgeon, looked across the Mile End Road, London,
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  • 311 9 _r% H Shrubs are locked up for night Mr. PARKER LOSES FOUR— THEN ACTS QUT into his dark garden went Mr. Parker to inspect his five Sft-hlfta prize rhododendrons. It was nearly midnight. He tested the 9ft.-long ste» 1 chain that twined about their stems, and kicked the padlock that
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  • 209 9 INHERE is nothing extraordinary about triplets, Councillor Artiiur Simpson, the married but childless chairman of Slough, Bucks., council's tenancy committee. So, he says, there is no reason why priority for a new home should be given to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Warley. who recently became the
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  • 53 9 The week-end heat wave continued in Rio de Janeiro yesterday with the thermometer climbing to 108 degrees Fahrenheit. Two men died of the heat, two others suffered strokes, a man was drowned at a crowded beach, and a race horse collapsed in the paddock on the way to
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  • 23 9 Antonio Sardinha Gomes, farm worker of Campos, near Rio de Janeiro, died yesterday at the reputed age Of 128 U.P.
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  • 190 9 Spaceman joins 'Hamlet' cast JET MORGAN, interplanetary explorer of the BBC's "Journey into Space" serial, la to come down to earth to join next season's company at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Strat-ford-on-Avon. He will play Laertes in "Hamlet." He will appear in "Othello." "The Merchant of Venice," and 'Love's Labour's
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  • Article, Illustration
    98 9 picture. T This is an obstacle no steeplechase runner would X have to tackle in a race but "Sportsman of the Year" i> t John Disley finds little difficulty in climbing a rock J t face like this one. As well as being one of the < X as being
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  • 94 9 SADLER'S Wells Opera is looking for a new cat. The former theatre cat "Sadler." who used to make an occasional stage appearance, has been missing for a month. "Sadler" appeared regularly in "School for Fathers" when, at the end of the second act, as the
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  • 294 9 IKLNE KEILLY, 25--jrear-Old Lancashire mother ol two children, who was sent back to Canada with her husi band Arthur when they returned to settle again in Britain, broke down j when she was sentenced to six months' jail for fraud in Toronto. To her
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    • 156 9 r t' y Tan Seng Nan, aged 17, Is a pupil of C the Hin Hua High School, Klang. He produced this picture. ■r^^^//W 010 1 Ml and LO say: ,S "Seng Nan, has created a well f*^Z^ IW proportioned sketch of Malayan rural a^^^^S Iff ft Of life which
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  • WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
    • 331 10 pictures. WISHES FOR ADENAUER ON 80TH BIRTHDAY picture. picture. picture. picture. lish team for the five-kilometre womens Olympic la, were held recently in Finland. Winner of the trial Rantenen was second (extreme right) and Mirji third from left) they have been chosen to represent
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  • 86 11 Bubbly Miss Novak picture. A new bubble -cut coilYure is worn here by film star Kim Novak. Harmonising with the hairstyle is a cuddle dress of finest wool, the loop effect making it soft .i*» swandown to touch. For the hair-do Kim's silvery blonde hair is cut fairly short all
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    • 42 11 SINCAPORE CITY COUNCIL ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT 0£ YMK M£MS OF LARGE STANDARD mmsr^ COOKERS with large oven space two boiling plate c a and grill-boiler K AvailabU tut hire I at $2.00 per month Consult your Electrical Contractor or Ring 2419 Ext. 352
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  • 487 12  -  ANTONY TERRY But they're not in London for fun they've work to do TWO excited princesses, for whom their uncle, the Duke of Edinburgh, has furnished a flat in Dolphin Square— luxury block of apartments on the Thames Embankment— talked to me in Langenburg,
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  • 891 12 ZITA WILL WATCH HER ANTS ALL DAY From \.X\t: SHARPLEY i 7ITA DUNDAS told me: "I sat up til) three this morning with two sick ants." The statement has style particularly if you produce an ants' nest from your handbag to prove that while two of your ants may be
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  • 218 12 Studio gam ble pays off WARNER BROS, has unveiled the new Mario Lanza trim of figure, docile as a kitten and singing better than ever. Or his previous history of temperament, the controversial tenor commented in an interview: "I guess I'm facing up to reality now. Before, my great zest
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  • 994 14 STUDY the past if you would divine the future," spake Confucius, considerably before my time. "The future is only the past again, entered through another gate," wrote Pinero, continuing the line of reasoning. ,4 The best way to suppose what may come is to
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  • 166 14 RAYS from an atomic reactor could be used in crime detection says Dr. Charles Sennie. Professor of Organic Chemistry at the National Museum of Natui ral History in Paris. He suggests in the annual report of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington, that radio-active isotopes could help to detect arsenical
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  • 85 14 NOT ENOUGH WOBBLE it k NNA KASHFI, In- SS |SS J\ dian actress in >) l >/ Hollywood for the first << ;<< time to appear with >S SS Spencer Tracy and tt >> Robert Wagner in "The << \s Mountain," voices her >> >> first criticism of the <<
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    416 14 Holli sides vulnerable the bidding: North East South 2 0 Pass JN.T I** 4*> Pass 5 S* 6 1 All Pas* YESTERDAY, we showed how South was defeated at six hearts on this hand, opened a spade, forcing North to ruff. South tried to Ret to his hand
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  • 1636 16  -  SEWELL STOKES miiiiioiiiH OW iiiiiiiiiiiiiini DID IT HAPPEN? Another story to keep you guessing. Find the answer tomorrow. 0 DID IT HAPPEN? The answer will be given tomorrow I SOME of Sewell Stokes's experiences as a Bow Street probation officer have already been published in his
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  • 106 16 ITHOGRAPHS and mez- zotints are coming into fashion again —at sea Big shipping companies are seeking these old prints for decoration in their ships. The reason is that many of thp prints depict old shlDs. including namesakes of present ships, or show places of "Ntorieal
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  • 621 17  - A STAR USED HIS OSCAR as A DOORSTOP HAROLD HEFFERNAN It ii I most winners treasure ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦I awards Says BETTE DAVIS recalls her "Oscar" is ■packed in a trunk some place in the attic back East." Walter Brennan has a pair under glass in his rural motel up In Oregon.
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  • 78 17 ALWAYS a headlines. Diana Dors' name is rapidly becoming part the languaue. And it is fair to say that the big in- 1 crease in publicity about her pretty well dates from the time of the recent Venice Film Festival, j where champagne-haired Diana swept even
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  • 124 17 Chill to be his own boss WHAT a rousing comedy team tn e contemplate: (hill I Wills and Zasu Pitts! Chill who has just wound ud his latest acting chore in (iiant," plan I to I launch his own production company lie owns rights to a rural comedy, "Let *Er
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  • 557 18  - Landy on road to athletic feat at Melbourne JOHN Landy haslet the athletic world know that he is coming back. The temperamental Austral i a n schoolteacher gave every indication he wa s through with track and field after a dismal season a year ago. Now on the basis of
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    65 18 JOHN LANDY (right) Australian holder of the world mile re- 3 cord, is beaten by inches by Lon Spur- rier, American 880-yds. SK champion at Olympic Park, Melbourne, on r Jan. 4. Both Landy and Spurrier clocked _z lmin. 51.8 sec. which was 4.3 sec. outside SS Spurrier's record. Here
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  • 44 18 photo WITH the grace and speed of a bird in flight. lf»-year-old old Dianne Peach of Birmingham, glides over the ice at Queens Ice Skating Club in London ■he practices for the Winter Olympics She is Southern Countries senior champion.- Reuter
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  • 130 18 fTTHE South African nonL European Soccer Federation have issued a statement, saying they had with complete unanimity reiterated their application for membership of th e International Football Association. The statement said it was hoped that investigations by a four man F.I.F.A. delegation, due in
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  • 93 18 COCKELL FIGHT IS POSTPONED British heavyweight i boxing title light in London between the holder, Don Cockell. and Jack Gardner, has been postponed from April 24 until later in the year. The postponement was made necessary because Gardner received an eye injury in his last coi I against Kitione Lave,
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  • 79 18 T"HE Achilkt Club will bo or- to \x> held at m ii Ril hie R voir on Saturday, Jan. 28 and Saturday. Feb The net* a ill irt af 4.35 p.m. on each day. and will lx« open to riubs afTiliated to Singapore A Entries
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  • 391 18  -  Vernon Morgan -By BOXING. A SPORT WHICH SOME WOULD HAVE BAN NED. IS THE SECOND MOST POPULAR SPORT IN BRITAIN TODAY. That remarkable fact It disclosed by a nationwide poll taken by the British morning nr wspaper. The News Chronicle. It goes without
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  • 126 18 MRS. DOW Ticyc, of Golbourn, Victoria Australia is a great-grandmother at theage <>' 66, and she ha children, twelve grand-children and three great-grand-children. But that does not stop her playing cricket. a game the took up tix fears At Melbourne recently she toot: eight wickets for 26
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  • 1149 19 Bagby can saddle three more winners at lpoh tomorrow DOUBTFUL STARTERS pHOBABLE scratchJL ings tor tomorrow's races at Ipoh are: Matrix, Pleasure Park, Loyal Love, Gallant Scot, Unaware, Cabaret 11 The going is good. FOLLOW a stable in orm. That is ny best tip for t o m o r
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  • 68 19 Melbourne CC spends additional £20,000 THF Melbourne Cricket Club agreed yesterday to pay an additional 1 20.000 (Australian) for the completion of the new Olympicgrandstand on the Club's ground in time for the Olympic (iames in November. This brings the tot;il cost of the stand to C AH'JO.OOO (about $4,--340,000
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  • 641 19 8.05 Film S'udio II 8.04: Fighting Finish 8.03; Kingfold 8.02. I oire appeals as a sound each a.iv in the Class 4. Division 2. 8'- furlongs ran-. He has been one of the most consistent horses last tOMOO, though without much IUCk »v_ In ten
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  • 285 19 MCC off to good start against Universities ITOE touring M.C.C. cricket- crs made cood start to their three-day match nnst Pakistan Combined Universities in Lahore yesI terday, when thev took six wickets for 168 before the close The home side batted slowly but soundly en a dead pitch to reach
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    46 20 photo. THE muddy, grasping gloves of Bolton goalkeeper Hanson are within bare inches of the ball, but Arsenal's inside-right Tapscott just has to tap it away to score the second goal for his team in their 3-1 victory in the Div. 1 game at Highbury. Reuter
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  • 28 20 ILLUSIONIST won the $58,500 Tropical Handicap at Miami. Florida, yesterday. Carrying 7st. 10-lb. Illusionist ran the mile and an eighth in lmin. 50sec.
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  • 157 20 SINGAPORE Cricket Club "B" went down by 11 points (goal, penalty, try) to six (two tries) to RNAS Sembawang in a lively rugger match on the padang yesterday. i Sembawang deserved their victory. They were the aggressors for th e major part of the game
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  • 45 20 THE Singapore Amateur Football Association is leviving the youth soccer' competition after a lapse last year. Players must be under 19 years of age on March 1. Entries close on Feb. 1 and forms are obtainable from the Hon. secretary. S.A.F.A.
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  • 98 20 MURRAY ROSE. 17-year-old Australian swim star, smashed the Australian 800 metres and 880 yds. freestyle records in Sydney last night and then saw both times bettered bv Murray Garretty fifteen minutes later. Garetty's new record are 9min. 42sec. for 800 metres I and
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  • 113 20 JOHN Landy. Australian holder of the mile world record, announced in Melbourne yesterday that he would attempt to better the record during the Australian athletics championships in March. The 25-year-old Mel- bourne schoolteacher set up the record of 3 min. 58 sec. ,in Turku,
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  • 431 20 THE REJECTED LOTTERY: Appeal to Marshall may be only way out -BY THE SPORTS EDITOR- THE Singapore Government's rejection of an application by the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council to run a private lottery to send a Singapore contingent to Melbourne, has thrown cold water on the ambitious plans the
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  • 158 20 AUSSIE L.T.A. TELLS MR. MRS. HOAD- AUSTRALIAN Davis Cup star Lew Hoad and his wife Jennifer, have been refused permission to make an overseas tour this year until they supply "financial details" of their trip to the Australian Lawn Tennis Association. This is in
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  • 73 20 Ttf IDDLEWEIGHT champion Sugar Ray Robinson has I asked for a postponement of his return bout with former titlehoider Carl (Bobo» OLson. tentatively set for Feb. 24 in San Francisco, the International Boxing Club said yesterday. Robinson is reported not in favour >f San Francisco
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  • 117 20 rjAMANATHAN KRISHNA N the Indian Dmrii Cup player retained his men's plavers title in the Western India lawn tennis championships in Bombay. He beat Jack Arkinstall of Australia 5-7, 7-5. 6-0. The women's doubles title was won by Miss T. Zehden and Mrs. I. Voßler. both of
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  • 114 20 JIM BURKE. 25-year-old New u South Wales opening bat. I virtually made sure of a place in Australia's cricket team to tour England this year by scoring 192 in Sydney yesterday. Despite Burke splendid fallings, his team. .Rav Undwall's I Xl > finished 75
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  • 35 20 20 Words $6 (minimum). I.AMB: On 15th January at K.K. Hospital to Bente and Bob. a daughter, Kirsten Suzanne. MCEWAN-MYALL: To Joan and Colin, a daughter, Michele. on Jan 13, it Penang. Both well.
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  • 57 20 20 Words $6 (minimum). MR. AND MRS. G. C. GOMES thank all relatives and friends for their attendance, presents and best wishes at their marriage on 7.1.56. MR AND MRS CECIL CLEMENTI ESPECKERMAN thank all friends and relatives for all their assist .nee. kind attendance, good wishes and valuable
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