The Singapore Free Press, 18 April 1956

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1 4 The Singapore Free Press
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    Masthead
    17 1 The Singapore Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya No. *****. Singapore, Wednesday. April 18, 1956. Price 15 Cta.
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    Surprise peace bid by Reds
    167 1 Surprise peace bid by Reds SOVIET Russia launched a new pea c c offensive last night to coincide with the Bulganin-Khrushchev visit to Britain. In surprise, double-barrelled moves, clearly designed to set the stage Tor a "mission of peace," the Soviets: 1. Dissolved the Comin-fo-rm, chief organ of international Communist
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    BIG DAY
    30 1 BI G DAY Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier marry in Monaco today. Here Grace is seen reading one of the many hundrerls of telegrams received from well-wish-ers. See Page Two
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    More hopes of success at conference
    368 1 More hopes of success at conference MISSION SPLIT WIDENS, BUY- UNITED ON INDEPENDENCE [RESPITE a widening split between members of the Singapore merdeka mission in London, official sources today said mere was reasonable hope for optimism about the success of the talks. Mr. David Marshall, Singapore's Chief Minister, has so
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    HEY! IT'S MY TURN NEXT
    46 1 V roatlfStel in a tub bein* rudely interrupted by a farmyard sow provided Sam Kai I aye with this fine closoup of rural lifr in Singapore Two full pages «>f unusual pictures taken by Sam Kai layr will be appraritiK tomorrow
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    HAWKER IS ASSAULTED
    55 1 Eight men attacked a hawker, Loo Peng 800, at Outran] Road junction of Tiong Bahru Road, Singapore, last night, An Inspector was passing the .junction vvhon ho saw iiO<- being beaten up, He broke up the flght and arrested one man. The attack is believed to be
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    Rubber price
    34 1 The Singapore R übtx r Market opened fjuletly tin morning with fli I grade, May shipment, at 90 cenl i a Ib even eight hs ol b cent \x lorn yesterday's clos
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    Lock icon JAP FILM ENTRIES
    36 1 T'hc Jftpane >*• film Ui fiii.-.f rv u> ill enter five moviea and one nhori feature at the South east Asian Rim festival to be Held In Hong Kong between June VI 19 A.P.
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    Save and win £s
    349 1 Save and win £s (The budget] a 1VI A, N feature of the E ltl British Govern- 3 if men t s deflationary =j 3 budget yesterday was a 3 zz scheme unprecedented 3 E in Britain, for cash 5 E prizes to encourage 3 3 savings. 3 3 Mr
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    Good omen for fairy story wedding
    295 2 Good omen for fairy story wedding AT LAST TH* SUN SHINES IN MONACO SKIES Ui!\l a wonderful t>nien v everyone in Monaco is saying. Podaj Miss di.il t KriK becomes a princess when she marries Prince niei and tin weather forecast is al last good. Ever since she arrived i"
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    46 2 picture. A section of the cleared ch'ck of the Tone (<<un which caught fire in Singapore's inner roads yesterday. Singapore Harbour Board firemen stand by waiting to begin working on the burning hold. Ihe fire was put out two-and-a-half hours alter if had started.- Free Press
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    45 2 irace KH! > clut< hes hei l re nch p )o(J it !<>m- '«> hei c'liniii; lifeboat <ii ;ii aba ird t'" 1 taking her to Europe. l here are no life jackets i<»r dogs in the ce <n t of sinking they just have to sunn
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    WE WANT PANTIES
    83 2 WE WANT PANTIES r^IIORUS girls in the tourV^ Ing revue "Fancy Punts" threatened a strike over a shortage of what's in th< title of the show, and they do mi an 'fancy. Posing In the nude, t \\> y 1 <nfi no pa] t. of thi bargain when they .signed
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    The naked truth
    56 2 Two startled car drivers in Hoi West Germany, gave 'cha.se when thi v saw a man driving with a naked woman .slumped in the seat at his side. They forci I the man to .stop his car then found the nude was a shop window model. The
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    Lock icon G.M. profits
    27 2 General Motors 1 net earnn 3 in this year's first larter, ;ii:.t taxes, were Ss2B3 million, equal to Ssl.ol per share oi common stork. A.P.
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    Lock icon 'THIS IS A RED TRAP' WARNING
    72 2 'THIS IS A RED TRAP' WARNING A DMIRAL Arthur Radfori i haJrman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, said In Washington yesterday that the Communists were set ting a "trap" for the free world by seemingly switch ing from military to nonmilitary aggression. "We must not allow our selves
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  • ROUND-UP OF THE WORLD'S NEWS
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      Evatt says beware atom test dangers
      213 2 Evatt says beware atom test dangers Herbert Evatt. the Federal Opposition loader, said in Sydney last night that grave consequences might flow from the current tests of nuclear weapons in and around Australia. He said a recent survey of public opinion showed that a large majority of Australians were opposed
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      Lock icon Ike's call to party
      79 2 Ike's call to party I)RESIDENT Eisenhower told a Republican rally in Washington last night that the United States must remain strong militarily if it wanted to ptaj free. "We must gird ourselves with suffii ienl military strength to discourage resort to war and protect our nation's vital interests," the President
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      10 2 Rahman *£ZEnT (hlrf ¥*******< T«"n K ku Abdul -TTTTII— i ii
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      FAMOUS QUARTET COMING TO SINGAPORE
      143 2 FAMOUS QUARTET COMING TO SINGAPORE Next month the Singapore Musical Society is to present the Robert Masters Quartet in a Chamber Music evening on Thursday May 17 at 8.4. r > p.mand in a Symphony cert on Sunday May 20 ai 8.45 p.m. with the pore Symphony Orches conducted by
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    THESE BOYS QUEUE UP FOR HARD WORK
    281 3 THESE BOYS QUEUE UP FOR HARD WORK MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS? THEY MAKE THEIR OWN IN THIS SCHOOL YOUNG MEN in their hundreds will this week queue up to join night classes that teach technical subjects in the hope of tfoing a long" way up the technical ladder/ They are the applicants
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    78 3 picture. Pablito Calvo, the young Spanish film star who made such a hit in "Maree- r lino" < Bread and Wine) which received an award at the Cannes Film Festival. E last year, was among She hu^e crowd of children watching the "Carnival for Children" which took place through the
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    X-Ray Club drive beains
    176 3 X-Ray Club drive beains ■I FULL SCALE campaign p. to enrol the city in the it- Kay Club opens today, it §s announced by Mrs. Rita iLison, organiser. The Singapore Public Reia 1 Department has iindertakcn to distribute throughout the Colony thou sands of leaflets and attractive posters designed to
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    GUESS WHERE
    84 3 Well now! Come you Singaporeans! HOW well do you know Singapore? Mr. William Lee who was first with Mi (i answer to Monday.; Guess Where problem was first again in a much bigger field with yesterday's answers the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building in Collyer Quay. There were
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    Jaycees give orator free trip
    95 3 (VDNTIDENCE In speech j ;uiri democratic thinking earned b 17-year old Filipino B round t rip from Manila to Singapore, Han;' kok, Hong Kong and Tokyo He la Mr. Rolando N. Quintos, a high chool zn duate from Ateneo dr m.i niio, who vv,t.. rated
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    TRANSPORT GRAB FIRST
    50 3 Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike -said yesterday that state control over public transport will be t tie first step of his »overnrnent'fl nationalisation programme. He pledged that the jovernment would not be "stampeded in t o quick nationalisation projects without due consideration for all aspects ol the question.*'
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      108 3 ENGAGEMENT and DRESS RINGS iSels of Diamonds and Getnst I ln I Platinum and Gold with Smart and Efficient Workmanship Best Selection ai: <v G. C. de SUVA BROS., I "Jewellers" I 3, Raffles Place, Singapore- 1, Phone *****. -^v s'■ s (.1 NOW! Pure coffee instantly! Thf wonderful aromc
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  • The Singapore Fress Press WENDNESDAY, April 18, 1956.
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      Opinion ZENITH OF SINGAPORE
      237 4 Opinion ZENITH OF SINGAPORE lIKAVY liquidation of local hai es by oversi as holders, \k hich has contributed to tlie second fal] in three weeks oi the Malayan dollar in relation to .st< rling, could he int< rpreted as n i:- :ting a lack of eoiilichnce abroad m i> hi'
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    19 4 Gr.ice Kelly's got one fhmg at her wedding I'm glad I didn't have at mine you in a top-hat."
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    LIVING LONGER...
    798 4  -  CHAPMAN PINCHER by trriting from Basle .1 #*>**#> M*rvss science reporter hears sotne cxc it ing n tns-s I HAVE been listening to daring and exciting ideas from fin;.'- than 100 Euroj»• an doctors and .scientists meeting at Basle in Switzerland to find the secret of proloniiinj» life
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    BY THE WAY
    158 4  -  Beachcomber by ijKMAKKAHr c Incideni Jt Jiarr< d tii c n turn match bet ween Bnuffl< hampton Unit) <i and Pip--11 iring a Pip torn attack on the Snufflehampton goi thi Pip. Boali< i kidnapp ed by b well known gang Jfp bj b beautiful woman itn
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      30 4 It means I so much more' \to give-or get-\ <* i PATEK PHHJPPEf I Watch 7hi finest watch t er\ j H. SENA LTD. 8 E s'|M)i<- rtlMllf A Bsn|uk. z
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      55 4 P I ;'sfe? Co Up. rr^&F SSS^^i' 9 lf!!L"i'.'.JLl f .'jj:.. jTiTrt^r^"' 1 So cool, so soothing, yes, JIJ. thnt\ A!. Prickly I r "> Keep fl battle j^^^ft^ nn<^ hr [^cpnrcd f ~r PRICKLY HEAT LOTION !L Available at all Leading Dispensaries THE FEDERAL DISPENSARY LTD. 33 RAFFLES PLACE
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    Singapore Spotlight
    1102 5  - Singapore Spotlight ADELAIDE EASTLEY By YOUTHFUL LAUGHTER Youthful laughter sounded In st Thomas School ;it st Michael's Road as boys and K«ris inun the British Kfd Cross Society's Handicapped Children's Home, St. Andrews Orthopaedic Hospital, RamakrWhna MUsgtoa and the York Hill Homo listened to a talk given t>.v Mr A
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      42 5 t (^~:~^siiiiii^iiii|J IMP .'.y..' ,y.y.y.y.y.y,y.y.y.y.y.' v.v.VA'AWA'AVAViVamVff y'y v :y;;.;.;.Hy: '-i(^/;wk I I > GO! D \N D STTR! ING SILVI ft (d r (d v fdofc/'tf v cij^i > P (d C/t'iu/cr V O9tlpaClt OIL //iltfMJ (£Zq^ S. P. H.deSILVA^U/ SINGAPORE IPOH KUALA LUMPUR
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      162 5 H.M.Y. ilg^j Controlled He.it Elcctnc Automatic JBbbJhk bSSSESB Iron with signal limp safety cord. '^T^uvm^nif^ SIX MONTHS GUARANTEE. ![l M!N MlM A splendid .ill-purpose iron, c.ip.ible of he.ivy work, but perfectly balanced against fatigue. The thick solc-pl.ite. highly I polished chrcmium-pfatcd, ensures smooth operation, while I the heat-control knob has
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      168 6 iwilllAlil iMl^lalk ami Phil Krtl ZV THE C?gV EAK!TM. B W^^K^Mw V JWW^^ t v^'/^p^^Vr^ 1^" "^^Si /^f^> N N rt >"'■'+*' <> v V i' ABRUPTLY, HE SMOKTEP j* A > V/" LATMEK P(2O^A MIS AMGEV -X 5 c«iMK3 MOSTK.LSAKi7 GALLOPED POC THE WIMP MAC 7 CHAMGEI7, AKir H,S
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      668 6 Nss^^ *4. -^v j I nORN today, you im\ such ke, n m I> tuitions that at times v almost 0. mi s< cond sight, li you alv X follow your hunche rather th v awaiting for other more slow and de liberate minds to decide tor you, you will
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    U.K. closing prices
    183 7 1 ONDON imtii n. 1 1< Muus r«kUi BIBBER > |M -•■> buyc- 2(j', buyers turopean i»"t> *i»«» 2"3 stum 2G i r.iti.it No. i MS 26Ta buyers 26 i buyej Porta w*y 27 iMaara 2t>\ seiifi SFK xN'J. 1 K>> Spol L' 7'_. buyer, buyer, 11
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    New York prices
    113 7 NEW YORK. April 17. Previous Today IN Straits spot and nearby 99.62 nom. 99 37 nnm TIN futurbs April 98.15 bid 97.85 bid 99.15 asked 98.85 asked May 07. 50 bid 97.35 bid 98.50 asked 98.35 asked June no. 25 bid 9b'. 25 bid 97.30 a.sked 97.25
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    U.S. PEPPER
    41 7 Malabar/Lampong spot, await-1 ■n«? release, afloats were quoted lit 29. April May shipment 28%. *>••■ >pot, awaiting release 28. Afloats 27 to 27%. April shipment 2G'->. May 26. June 25% Sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per Ib.
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    DOW JONES AVERAGES
    33 7 I NEW YORK. April 17 Previous Today i Industrials 509.15 507 95 0 Railroads 172.89 172.57 0 Domestic Bonds 97.31 97.23 5 Utilities 66.33 66.2;-! Stocks Composite Average 180.51 180.14
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    Copra, coconut oil prices
    112 7 COPRA Philippines c.i.f. U.K./ North European delivered weight per lonp ton Apr./May COPRA, Straits <i.f. UK/North European delivered weight pfcr long ton pi. May May /June COCONUT OIL crude Straits if CK North European in l>ulk. long ton. April/May COCONUT OIL crude, Ceylon long ton April.
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    FAREWELL TO THE PINTS AND STENGAHS
    927 7 FAREWELL TO THE PINTS AND STENGAHS Life on a dollar a day This is the letter from Paid of Kutong which started it all: I am fond of Singapore, but I find it very expensive, if the dollar is worth two shillings and four pence, which I doubt, it is
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      4 7 If feii^ T-. NiPMAERSK
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      83 7 TOOTAL FABRICS? Here's round the clock fashion planned |l! for more colour and variety, lest care and trouble. It's all in Tootal Fabrics. i lovely to look at, famous for wash and wear, the longest lasting beauty you can buy. Checked for fashion, colour, wavh md we.ir. j Come See
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      62 7 s'ncapore high tides! TODAY: 5 12 p »>« TOMORROW: l 19 ■m and 8.41 p.m. FRIDAY: <i «IB in j X p. Ml. I SATURDAY: 7to ,i m and %X\ p i»i SUNDAY: x ;i m. .iruii 9JI p m I MOND v 9.53 ,i in indj 10. ox p
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    Lock icon WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
    391 8 COLD TEST sir Edmund Hii- lar.v, New Zealand conqueror ol Mount I Everest, testing; traitors in the snow in the high nioun- tain wilds ol Jotun- heinien in Central Norway. jl Hi I sir Edmund, pre- paring for the Bri- tish Antarctic ex- pedition of 1957-58
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    Student exchange appeals to Australians
    171 10 Student exchange appeals to Australians i PARTY ol 12 Km lian unr. students has retun I home after a 26-day to Singapore Fedei ation, and [ndoi at the Invitation <'* tud< nt organisations In these count ries. rhe students, who represeni aIJ the main Australian universities, plan to address s
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    He held up a cop just
    1163 10 Fiius ON pptmp L .A IF the latesi scientific ctoveries in sur- :y. psychiatry and medicine were brought into full play in the ol crime-preven-tion, murder cases and other out bursts of abnormality could be substantially reduced Such is the view held by many
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    101 10 MARISA PAVAN sister of film star Pier Angeli, i> climbing up the ladder ot screen fame herself. Here she is caught by the camera at the farden c.'tf bound for a refreshing fflP in the iwim-pool. MR. V DUDLEY, Deputy Commissioner Getiei •rife ;md daufhtec Margaret (0), have left foi
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    Watch out for crooks in the Kasbah
    1109 11 Watch out for crooks in the Kasbah tries out the hazards of housekeeping in Tangier DAPHNE FIELDING i!< .11 tip lv lv KasI the oldest art of t he old town oi there is a n irab house ianfS like a bat century >„ u-in walls. It i that I
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    Bridge Hand
    317 11 o,ooV <>nl\ al ttcsi's luind) North-South vulnerable and 60 East-West 40 Wrsl JcuUt I h< hide) ing: lr<tl North hast S<>ulh Pass Fas* I I 2 0 2 4 Pas* F'shh 3 0 Pa*«, Pa«* M r W' 1 1 A I WOllld JTOU (S< in 'X v.
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      187 11 DAILY CROSSWORD I hi m 1 1 1 1 1 i I H 1 i i« Es across i The French member oJ Par- uiy ln 5 rook a taken Into r custody? (7). i (!l head and fi Quarrr h 1( u s nltvr thouglil 1 5 111 mrI
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    I catch the glamour girls without their warpaint
    753 12  - I catch the glamour girls without their warpaint Eileen Ascroft by HERE omfoi foi plain girl catch Li glami 'n girl v. ith out her :i paint and you probably would not loo! it hei twice Into my hairdre lei v> X tiat chai m Ing film elf, Le ;lie
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    Lock icon BERLIN-MADE
    43 12 picture. NEW creation from the great German fashion houses in Berlin is tfhis dress for extravagant hoosewear. In sreen handpainted silk poplin, it has a narrow bodice with V-decollete. The stole is of the same material and has a yellow fringe.- Popper
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    Film star fashions set a problem
    565 12  - Film star fashions set a problem ANNE GLIDEWELL By IT'S not only a woman's world but a .small world too! When I was in Parks a fortnight ago my next door neighbour at the Dior show was a tall, willowy blonde girl with an "Kn»lish beauty" kind of face whom
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      70 12 The invulnerable Automatic M 33l M has still other claims, Aj^rflfi^M Movado precision reaches /x^ 1 iSEStk 'i^M.'ht in Automatic Sf^^LL >v J^mJk ar l lc l^i nncsl automatic SOLE AGENTS: KWATENA SOLOMON CO., 18 ROBINSON ROAD— SINCAPORE. TEL: 7402 StnpligM ond Switcbbox. It mNfiffijSjm W^mjk H] C.jTS (urrr-nt cori\umption
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    50 13 Twelve -year- Old schoolboy Patrick Collins is shown by Mr. Reg Unworn (centre), OVi rseer <>f (he Reptile House at the Regents Park Zoo. London, how to make a scar! out of a living python. Mr. Neville Powley (left) is busy recording the incident for a Forces Broadcasting Service series.
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    Choice of the Week
    150 13 Choice of the Week i\F the three symphonies by Felix Mendelssohn still heard today, one hundred and nine years after the death of the German composer, the Fourth Symphony (in A major Op. 90) ranks next to the Third, the Scotch"" symphony, in j lyrical beauty and scintillating melody. Mendelssohn's
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    NEW RECORDS
    371 13 FELIX Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture Fingal's Cave) receives an outstanding performance by the PhilharmonicSymphony Orchestra of New York under Dimitri Mitropoulos. It is paired with the Ruy Bias Overture, one of Mendelssohn's most brilliant orchestral works, although it was written In three days for Victor Hugo's play. Excellent. Philips
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    Popular Selections
    202 13 If you like south American music Vi it h its pul sating rhythm you will de light In the four songs presented by the- Trio Los Panchos on an extendedplay 4. r rpru disc. They Ing and strum their tui < iui way through "Nunce Jamas/ "Puerto Rico,
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    The girl without a gimmick
    633 13  - The girl without a gimmick KENNETH ALLSOP I>V VO mink slung over a chair back. No bottles of champagne in the boot cupboard. No subtle and costly perfumes among the dressing table dolls. And this I had verified no American roadster with leopard skin seats parked outside. I said to
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    Lobengulas MISSING MILLIONS
    1243 14  - Lobengulas MISSING MILLIONS WILLIAM GLYNNE-JONES by THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES {JOMEWHERI in the 3 wil I rica lie buried th< X ci millions, and even t< men live in iiop< thai tin-, n I ibulou ure. i:. lief ii nee ilted in many fraud But tin iol the only tn
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    A town of school day memories
    348 14 A town of school day memories By a Special Correspondent r FHE sign post at the cross- roads on the banks of the rippling Mississippi pointed to Hannibal and I knew that the name should somehow mean more to me than it did. It was as I turned the car
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      159 14 CYMA |I Whin you become the h.ippy r, W?^T?fi^£\ owner of .1 CYMA you will < />%#^ c.irn fhc .idmir.ition of .ill your 8,~~ *s^*^ j\ 1* friends. Your wntch, mognificcnt f v T li^ /JP^ in workmanship ,md splendid TL'yjL ■■>' Mm in r. li.ibility, will bi resj.irdcd everywhere
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    Test your sports knowledge...
    45 15 Test your sports knowledge... A famous player with a name that is a byward in badminton circles. Do you know him? In doubles he has scored constant success, always in partnership with a certain other shuttle star. Can you name the partner also? ANSWER TOMORROW
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    Lock icon BED FOR BENAUD
    47 15 A ROUNDER Richie g Bi naud, on his way to W' and with the Au.straBn cricket team, has lnJ 1 He was ordered P>; doctor on the liner to stay in bed m day. J i ud said he expected ,i .:ain todnv Reuter
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    Sportsmen in the news...
    211 15 c sportsmen made fl' night L|>'ii ZATOPEK, Czech triple W gold medallist, has de- in', Itatlon to run in r!l Boston Marathon. ill II would interfere training plans for the 00 ea.'-on rl {>l ki;. Britain's world pion had hii six i" n lon partially lifta"
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    Lock icon U.S. TEAM FOR MOSCOW
    59 15 Thr United Btat€B Amatrnr Ice-Hockey Association will send a tram to next year's world Chfunpioi Ship in Moscow, it was announced in Boston yesterday Atr.< I ICS finished third in the recent Olympic icehockey championship at Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy and this team wil] form the nucleus
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    Lock icon RUGBY MATCHES
    36 15 'itip British Commonwealth forcei rugbj team will play ftfi exhibition matchi* ftgainti .i-« r> r iuosr amateui v iwi starting »>n Apt I] :»h the ipan Rugby a gOClatlOD ai»liouii( ':ti yc.U'i (i.t> A.P.
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    Changi chalk up first victory
    1415 15  - Changi chalk up first victory RALPH BLACKEMAN RAF Changi sports round-up i>y (iiiANGi recorded their first via in the Unitfd Strvic*-, Football League on Tuesday when coring a praiseworthy 2-1 win over Nfava] Wanderers at n m 8. "Terror." Strengthened i<y i v- return of O'Neill n e&h from hfc
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    Lock icon Stewart and Segal win
    91 15 iffiff sfi ..ti r,i th( U B and thl S( Ol South Africa "on t he ni< r, doubles title In the Intel tifl t lonaJ tennis chain pion hip in Napi<\ by th itlng Art Larsen (U.S.) and Lvi Aval. i (Chile) 6 i <>,
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      28 15 OCEAN PARK HOTEL'S FAMOUS QUINTET Are Rand of Singapore S> with I 1 r j MISS SALOMA t»-r Malay 'Marilyn M«mr©«" -«»O<^— J I«m«« ftllil for ftoMt A
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