The Singapore Free Press, 28 January 1955

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  • 22 1 The Singapore Free Press Igrtesi Afternoon Sale in Malaya Nll 1 1 1 T;t. Singapore. Fri.. Jan. 28. 1955. Price U( iv
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  • 7 1 Anne a'Beckett Terrell
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  • 149 1 Il was wish of death note HAPPINESS came yesterday to Miss Anne a'Beckett Terrell, < above), 24-year-old daughter of a former Singapore biei Justice, wlio figured in a tragic suicide case lust May. She married Captain Eric Longden, a 32-year-old Superintendent in the Malayan Police in
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  • 84 1 The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Ac. Goode explained at the ative Council meeting toffhy the lowest tender for tag bridge was not acceptThe special piles offered in tender quoting $4,128,000 not acceptable since tenders board was advised had little resistance tiding and that they would under the condiexlstlng
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  • 178 1 Search for new sites THE Colonial Secretary. Mr. 1 W A C Goode. told the Singapore Legislative Council this morning that since last March about 4,200 dwellings for rent at $50 or under a month, had been built or were under construction at an
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  • 33 1 Rubber price gOGS Up The Singapore Rubber Market opened this morning or. an uncertain tone, with first grade February shipment, at 104 3/4 cents a lb., 3/3 of a cent above yesterday's close.
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  • 90 1 rrHE Governor. Sir John 1 Nicoll, today allowed Mr. C R Dasaratlia Raj to move his motion in the Legislative I Council deploring the recent Singapore improvement Trust decision to let certain flats in Queenstown to the unlimited income group. Th" motion culls upon the
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  • 509 1 A batsman 's wicket Batsmen take no risks winning the toss Australian skipper lan Johnson had no hesitation in deciding to bat first when the fourth Test began in Adelaide today- The wicket showed no I signs of life as had been forecast and after 45
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  • 231 1 America bans visits to gaoled airmen THE IT.Sl T .S State Department announced in Washington last night that it has barred relatives from visiting 17 Americans imprisoned by Red China, for the time being, because of the increasingly belligerent actions of the Communists. The Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster
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  • 31 1 President Magsaysay of the Philippines will go to Washington in May for a goodwill call on President Eisenhower and to address a joint session of i Congress.— A p
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  • 23 1 Every tenth human being in the world wears no clothes at all, the International Labour Organisation said yesterday at Geneva
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  • 33 1 Conservative caiididate, Mr. William Milligan, retained the North Edinburgh seat for his party in a by-election yester- day. He had a majority of 3,614 over his Labour opponent. Reuter
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  • 78 1 ABOAC airliner, flying from Singapore to London, made an unscheduled stop at Rome yesterday to disembark a sick passenger whose illness worsened during the trip. The passenger, Abdul Wahid bin Baba, said he was going to London for an operation. His legs had been
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    • 23 1 CRAVEN A' FOR SMOOTH CLEAN SMOKING Larqest-sclling mm?) cork-tipped cigarette xigKc N in the world. to^ Imported Irom London i*^^t£^o v\\ *-vW j />
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  • 215 2 U.S. PUTS HIGH PRIORITY ON ATOM -POWERED PLANE But still many problems top American ol(i meeting of Congress In Washington yesterday that the U.S. Air Force is developing a practical atom-powered airplane and has made a marked advance in inter-continental atomic missile research. Gen. Nathan Twining, the Air Force Chief
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  • 166 2 $250,000 for flood aid passed by council THE Singapore Legislative J Council today approved $250,000 for the rehabilitation of flood victims This includes the $50,000 donation to the Singapore Flood Relief Fund. The finance committee Wis told that $150,000 was required for general flood reUel and $50,000 to distress In
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  • 117 2 I^IIF First Tort Chaplain to come to Singapore after the Japanese surrender, the Reverend Father J. It. Fox. left the Colony yesterday in the Shell tanker. Neritopsis, ttfl six months' leave in Britain. Father Fox, a familiar figure on the wharves, has met hundreds
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  • 37 2 The production of a sound Aim depicting all stages of the call-up and training of j national .servicemen in Sin<;apore CO. t the Government $10,000 The Legislative Council approved the grant today.
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  • 97 2 rpilE Bank of England yesterday raised its interest rate, from three to three-and-a-half per cent. This means that people or industries who want to borrow money will have to pay more interest. The Bank of England is the central clearing house [Of ah
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  • 147 2 FOR EXTORTING $3 from a 12-year-old girl cigarette vendor, Ng Chin Chong wa.s bound over for a year in $200, by the Bingapore Filth Police Magistrate, Mr. R. B. I. Pates, yesterday. Ng went to the girl's stall at. the sixth mile. Bukit Timah
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  • 166 2 'DON'T TAX THE MONEY WE MAKE ABROAD' THE BRITISH Overseas Mining Association last niuht asked Mr. R. A. Butler. Chancellor of the Exchequer, to cut taxes on overseas profits and income of companies registered in Britain, in his next BudIn a letter to the Chancellor, the association said the British
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  • 31 2 President Carlos Castillo Armas said yesterday that approximately 300 people have been arrested throughout Guatemala as a result of an abortive revolutionary Plot last 1 week. U.P.
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  • 96 2 IT'S OVERCROWDED DOWN LAMBETH WAY A MEMBER of Lambeth Borough Council in South London declared during a council discussion on colourid immigration problems last night that more Australians were i ttlmg permanently in Britain than West Indians. The councillor. Mr. Nathan 1 Murock, said overcrowding was not only a problem
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  • 54 2 THE House of Commons sat until .1.30 yenterday morning ngnjrnving the last of 42 orders revising parliament. u boundaries in England and Wales. Tired members tramped wearily out of the house after a sessio which began at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday when 220 orders
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  • 61 2 CONSTRUCTION has finally >egun on American air bases in Spain. The job will take three years. The present chain of American jet bases extends from the heart of West Germany through France to the border of Spain. Now the Spanish link is being welded to
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  • 27 2 Radar is to be installed in one of the Singapore Customs launches at a cost of $21,523. The Legislative Council approved the expenditure today.
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  • 54 3 Dl.n\ni Miss Boyana Leigh, (above) a newcomer to ipore, was among those screen tested yesterday for speaking ports In the forthcoming I. Arthur Rank film. a rown Like Alice." Boyana had to play the pari ot a nasty blonde who accepts s cigarette from
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  • 106 3 WOMEN ON MARCH MEN HELP THE I.S. DELEGATE to the I'nited Nations commission on the status of women says: "Women are o*l the march throughout the Middle East" and are getting a surprising amount of help from men. The delegate. Mrs. Lorena B. Nihil said that men are coming around
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  • 46 3 Mr. Anastas Mikoyan has been registered as a candidate In the election to the Supreme Soviet of Russia on Feb. 27. Mr. Mikoyan. whose resignation as Minister of Trade was announced on Monday. will stand in one of the constituencies of Rostov-on-Don.—
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  • 125 3 RAYMOND BLACKBURN. 40-year-old, >rmer Labour Member of Parliament, was to two years In prison yesterday for share kburn was convicted on two charges of making statements to induce two men to acquire a company, which planned to ring London with sites. He was
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  • 79 3 A ),j rt from Canton, printl in the Hong Kong indent Chinese Press yesrclay, Sllld silk worm b ee Chin ne K ar f Sh untak village in n beat two Communist nment silk buyer.s to on Dec. 20. were protesting ompulaory sales
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  • 309 3 Ij Queuing at keyhole when women bathed r p\VO warders sentenced to hard labour in Villach, Southern Austria, yesterday were said to have made the district prison tor men and women more like the one in the Strauss operetta "Oie Fledermaus'* so that prisoners committed new
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  • 18 3 Cheap Egyptian rice has pushed .traditionally favoured Italian qualities off the bis north German market- U.P.
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  • 200 3 Ex-beauty queen awarded £2,000 DIRECTOR LOSES BREACH CASE IV|RS. AGNES EMPSON, 49-year-old former beauty queen, in London yesterday was awarded £2,000 damages and costs against Mr. Cecil Montague Eales, 54, a businessman, whom she sued for breach of promise. Mrs. Empson, who was "Miss Venus of 1932." is the actress
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  • 27 3 John Sherman Cooper, form- 1 er Kentucky Republican sena- l tor, was yesterday nominated by President Eisenhower to be the new ambassador to India U.P.
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  • 69 3 Sir Anthony Eden, the Fo- j reign Secretary, will spend four j days in Ankara, Turkey, for talks with the Turkish Government after the end of his South-East Asian tour in March. Middle East defence. In the light of the projected TurcoIraql Pact, will probably
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  • 37 3 Ceremony and cutaway suits were introduced Into the Bonn Parliament yesterday in a "more dignity" campaign. Members had complained that the pro ceedings in the Bundestag (Lower Hou.se; lacked dig- H nity. A.P.
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  • 17 3 The United States aircraft P carrier Midway anchored Off IN Colombo yesterday on a visit
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  • 276 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Jan 28, 1955. Opinion Stopping the drift rpilE sure way to lasting! peace is through unity. security and prosperity. Britain stressed this in her latest note to Russia rejecting the Soviet protests against German rearmament. Even Soviet threats to end friendship treaties with Britain and
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  • 472 4  - Reforms are now paying off HENRIK KROGIUS FREEDOM IS A BIT SHAKY L\ TURKEY 8UT.... by VL the i mbul, you ml onal women's rid I n the fl< rki.sh mustache Is n only by die-hard In of s tradll clothi s in a he v I i an prett
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  • 585 4  -  BERNARD RONALD Relatives and the "faithful" await the day when Mussolini will travel home "in style" by npODAY, less than nine years after the death of Mussolini, thousands of ex-Blackshirts are getting out their Fascist insignia as they await a signal which will send them marching
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  • 9 4 LI can't read uliur> YOl'R excusf." I
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    • 18 4 WEDDING GIFTS DISTINCTIVECUTLERY IS ALWAYS APPRECIATED P. H. HENDRY, JEWELLER 78. NORTH BRIDGE ROAD. SINCAPORE 6 —K. LUMPUR
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    • 45 4 -GD /ffiffe)^ TRUFOOD cs3C' pv&frentd uA |||S g( Lf\fl @t r w a. %u*k?i «f Oml l o^ 0i Big tfcVi* 11 siaaffifii coop For babies, toddlers, adults invalids and trie aged. THE FEDERAL DISPENSARY LTD. 33 Raffles Place, Singapore Cold Storage Arcade, Orchard Rd.
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  • 221 5 THAT FUND IS SUBJECT TO ESTATE DUTY HSTATI iluties art- payable on provident fund contd trihutioiis €xc «ediiiK SI, OOO when they are withiwn on the death oi an employee, according to a Sinraporc Government s|M)kesman. slid' "It does not matter it the amount is piled out among various beneficiaries.
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  • 57 5 thy with Singapore j suffered dam- huts during the the < unjommittee has thai icn squatters be build their dwelist be cornJune 30. [icy covers huts when they .cii were damIs, fires, temllke disasters." be rebuilt on was that for tsl Beptemuld take no at
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  • 40 5 no outstanding last year whereas opium was seized in a raid in 1953. Department katies of opium in tion last year and 380 in fines for opium I. 665 pipes and Indian hemp. «ere found in Batu
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  • 45 5 Aitabahadur, of the wa.s fined $20 Istrate's court JoBahru, yesterday, for driving a jeep on 21 and colliding with a at Scudai. Beer told the court to rain, visibility r and the accident ocwhen the driver tried an oncoming vehicle.
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  • 125 5 S A PORE girls are lovely,", 17-year-old Hong Kong sun <the Marlon Chines* dims) in night. > make a film soon Malaya providing the > kground But the will cme Irom Hong cause he won't hav< tin local girls. r„, ln t nere on
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  • 74 5 Osman bin Reiab, a temporary clerk in the Registration Office, Johore Bahru. allowed bail in $200. pending trial on a charge of corruptly accepting $200 from Kwan Cho Hwa in order to forge his identity card. Kwan Cho Hwa, of Kuala Lumpur, was also given
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  • 217 5 rpHE SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRIST has ar- ranged for rent collection at the Alexandra Community Centre. 16, Prince Philip Avenue, for a trial period of six months, beginning next month. The collection centre will serve Trust tenants at seven housing estates Alexandra North, Alexandra
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  • 84 5 Dr. Ann Willcoclu rhect ph\si<ian in th*' Miuipore \nti Tuberculosis \ssociatifMi, accepts i lioiM--shoe hmiqiit t from four year old Graham utt^. .1^ six i iiks with her liiM>.ind. Sal Lieutenant Rogei Pyle I V after t h»-ir wedding al the Dockyard Chun h ol
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    • 36 5 tor their turnilure which they usually buy from LITTLE'S FURNITURE DEPT. FIRST FLOOR Sole Agents for Singapore Federation but /\^T nevertheless, B^ajr S f YAA A mJr is best OBTAINABLE FROM ALL LEADINC WATCH DEALERS a
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    • 438 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Faik and Phil Davis j STAR I \w&™j\'s8F-®t\\ fik^wxs&gn i^^K^wi E^&ssrarcnlcL r 1 THEM TO IN THE BOX WITH THEM PITCHED. J TEN WlLLON? GOT IT? r~ 7=^ thought and a< lion. >„_, are lOGK.MSTFA KERN, /Gu PAD TEN ALr^onnW* f V kClLL* I AN EiGHT- DAY
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 121 7 ■BJBJBJBJBJBJBJBJBJBJBJJ Vb_-\ xti^W llwfe*iii7.t -it"' NEW YORK. Jan. 27. Previous Today li\ < traits spot and nearby • • 83 50 nom. 88.25 nom. UN futures «**•*• •• • • 88 00 nom. 4-88.00 nom. -f Expired at noon Fee. • • 88 10 bid 88.00 bid
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    • 31 7 7 Atloats at 46 lampong spot 46'4 cents per pound • 44' March 44. .sellers ex-dock. trail spot 45 and 1 Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per lb
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    • 30 7 NEW YORK. Jan Prrvious Today 27. 401 97 402.60 II Railroads ***** 142.22 100.71 100.70 [5 1 tilities 62 55 62.33 ti Stocks: Composite Averages 148\42 148.74
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    • 121 7 ■__§**-* Pliat 4 ;,''-4 Baesaeaßeaaes*a_ sjajfejarar 1 Jan. 27. COPRA Philippines cai. UK/North 1 areptaa delivered weight per r**af ion Feb. Previoi *207^ value $207' j sellers COPRA Philippines f.o.b. Manila, delivered weight, per long ton COPR.% Mraits c.i.f. 1 K/North Furopean delivered weight per 1
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    • 228 7 LONDON. Jan. PrevisHaS Today K no » KSS tU. E-ar-pea--3 0% buyers 30 7 h sellers 30 buy 30 H sellers K r£l* k's. IBSSeJJ.E-ar.pea. 30^ buyers 30 h sellers ■fl » buyers 30» H sellers BO No 1 S8 -J** l •* 30 buyers 30 buyers
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  • 195 7 'REPORT TO NEAREST SCHOOE' r pHERE are 167 vacancies in 18 Singapore schools for children who want to start their primary education. The senior Inspector ot Schools, Mr. T. P. M. Lewis, says preference will be given to Singapore children born in 1947 and
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  • 124 7 'GIVE YOUR BEST TO MALA YA INDIANS in Malaya are ambassadors at large and must show the best traits of Indian culture, the President of the Malayan Indian Congress, Singapore Branch, Mr. A.N. Mitra, told a public meeting held at the New World Park Singapore, to celebrate India's National Day.
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  • 83 7 Recruiting for the Federationtlon Engineer Regiment will start in Penang early next week. Enlistment is open to Chinese and Eurasians between the ages of 18 and 25. For the first .six months of service a recruit will receive $50 a month with free accommodation, clothing and food.
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  • 58 7 Col. W. A. Muller, Inspector General ot Police at the Colonial Office in l London, inspects the i Gurkha Police Guard of Honour at the Police Training School, SingaI pore. Accompanying him arc the Commivsioner of Police. Mr. M G. Morris, and O.C. Gurkhas.
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  • 151 8 Brewers call 'time' at old inn No. 2 ii Cow. i rid House at 1! ]u inns. d with clo that Ov 81, Owyn was selling orari Drui y-lane In the I7tn century when I He t Home built in the Hampshire trillPamber Oreen. it must clo "ii March 31.
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  • 301 8 CHURCHGOERS ONLY WILL GET BRIDAL MARCH A LONDON vicar is out to ban "those filmstar weddings." He has ruled that only those who have attended his church for at least a year may have organ music at their marriage services. The Rev Arthur Beale. Vicar of All Saints'. Hackrey ex-
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  • 86 8 A CIVIL Defence volunteer told the coroner at Beckenham, Kent, that his talk about atom warfare might have caused his 18--year-Old daughter's nervous breakdown. The girl. Margaret Goodey. of Eltham, "loved dogs and rats and birds and wa.s worried about them suffering in atomic
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  • 46 8 lIIROS of deer, descendants of a feu which escaped from private parkland a few years ago have so multiplied in the I neighbourhood of industrial Ipswich, that warning siKns to motorists are being put up on the outskirts of the town.
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  • 102 8 A WOMAN whose soldier husband disappeared in India is to receive a war widow's pension back-dated 11 years. It will mean 1 1,300 (§11,400) for Mrs. Louisa Devine. Ever since Private Robert Devine was declared a deserter in 1943, she has fought to clear
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  • 81 8 picture MR. ERNEST Trory of Brighton was 42 years old and decided to have his birthday party on the beach. He and his guests drank a glass of sherry and then dived in for a I swim. The sea tempera- ture was 39 degrees.
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  • 165 8 HE KNEW A LOT ABOUT GUNS A FOUR- YEAR -OLD boy with an extraordinary knowledge of guns shot his sister, an inquest was told. Mr. Eric Dyson, the Scunthorpe coroner, recorded a misadventure verdict on nine-year-old Cheryl Foster, of Barrow Haven. North Lines.
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  • 83 8 Metropolitan signs young conductor RUDOLF Bing, genera! manager of the New York Metropolitan Opera, has engaged a 24-year-old music... conductor for next season. The youngest man to conduct at the Metropolitan. Th< mas Schippers. is now on lease from the Broadway Operadrama "The Saint of Bleecker Street" to conduct the
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  • 35 8 Janet Bickerstaffe. 20 months old. was killed in her push- i chair by a falling tree at Barrowtord. near Nelson Lanes. The tree, which was being cut down, fell the wrong way.
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  • 297 8 (iHARLES BEDRICH, pioneer t sell -.service grocer, was invited to a Mm show at the Central Office ol Intonnation to learn about shook* ping in Denmark. And there, in the 40-seat Government cinema, he saw a film ol his OWN shop in West-bourne-grove.
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  • 81 8 A Frenchman thought he saw a flying saucer one night, shot at it and was fined AIIS. Farmer Marcel Faisant was walking in the fields, shotgun in hand, when he saw a "strange orange light" and heard an engine running. He fired three times and seared a
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  • 221 9 Yard is hunting for the 'perfect butler' ,TLAND YARD are hunting: for the •perfect the well-spoken, elegantly dressed serho they believe, has robbed his wealthy misr hundreds of pounds. investigations showed that he posed as a successon City financier. Army officer, and Canadian illionaire'to dupe his friends and employers. He
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  • 116 9 The crafty pike refuse to bite BIG pike, small pike, all sorts of Pi^. swim in tantalising abundance in the waters around Penkridge. Staffs but no one can catch one. So after five weeks of the local angling club's Pike Cup is still not von. Twenty- five members of the
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  • 45 9 r.uin, r^SSS 4 STEI L EMPSON. 4f)-vear-old widow of a u| 1(( and winner of a 1932 "Miss Venus" contest a «ain.st Mr I- dav awarded £2 000 damages and costs Ce€,j Montague E/ales, a 54-year-old businessman, for breach °f promise.
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  • 228 9 Mothers, you fret far too much OVER-ANXIOUS parents cause many of the pro blems of schoolchildren, even their illnesses. You can take that hint from Dr. C. C. Harvey. He shakes his head over unhappy households "where parents are terrified that i some mortal disease is threatening the tall or
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  • 45 9 Major, an Alsatian watch-dog at a building site at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, had his first flight otf lor over four months one week-end because ol the cold. In his absence burglars 1 ;»n--sacked the office buildings. But they found only £8.
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  • 74 9 picture. PAGER fans almost spill over the fence in their efforts to get autographs as 13 crooner Frank Sinatra and his daughter. Nancy, arrived at Sydney airport Nancy, who is 14. has been stealing the limelight from her famous father since Frank told of
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  • 379 9 MONKS FLING GOLDEN COINS AT PAUL THE WRESTLER PAUL BERGER, a wrestler with a taste for Chinese poetry, spread out a selection of gold coins in London and said modestly: These were thrown at me by monks in the Forbidden City of Lhasa." Not, it should be noted, in anger.
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  • 156 9 DRIVERS FEAR 'GHOST' OF ROAD CORNER PEOPLE of Birdham. West Sussex particularly drivers fear the "ghost of Dell Quay corner" where vehicles just slide off the road and crash There have been 30 major accidents on the 100-yard stretch of road In two years including two fatal ones. And local
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  • 29 9 Mr. Harry Cottrill, the former racehorse trainer, has died in Newbury, aged 72. H» hi the Duke of Windsor and the Duke of Gloucester to ride.
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  • 93 9 THE way in which Clifford Fox turned himself from a cashiered captain into a retired lieut. -colonel wai classically simple He printed a forged London Gazette. And he did it In 11k- woikshop at Dartmoor. 11, wa.s serving a tWO\>..i court-martial sen! there for lon-cry
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  • 597 10  - Why I tailed to make books pay DEREK VERSCHOYLE THE HAZARDS OF PUBLISHING by f FHE most dynamic of London publishers, when asked in 1952 on how much capital he would be prepared to start a^ain from scratch, replied £80,000 ($680,000) provided it was someone else's money. T started on
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  • 114 10 BRIGHT and skilled children often skim rapidly over too many books instead of absorbing what the books can teach. Mrs Alice Brooks McGuire, an American librarian, told a University of Chicago reading conference. Mrs McGuire said. "It is the job of the teacher to keep paee
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  • 176 10 f AWRENCE of Arabia A must have been an incredible man. judging by Richard Aldington's new life of him just IMiblished in I\iris. ft is called "Lawrence the I m poster" and Aldington makes it (lea. that he thinks Lawrence was one of the most brazrn bluffers
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  • 489 10  -  HAROLD M. HARRIS by I sank the Royal Oak, by Guenther Prien, Grays Inn Press, 15s. rFENS of thousands of Germans lined the streets of Berlin to acclaim Captain Lieutenant Guenther Prien when he drove to the Chancellery to receive the thanks of his Fuehrer.
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  • 209 10 G. B. S. WAS GENEROUS WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY CTORIES about G< Bernard Shaw, were told at a party on the stage of the Royal Court Theatre in London, to launch a new book about him: Miss Blanche Patch. Shaw s secretary for 30 years, recounted; The last time he
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  • 31 10 POM a publicity sheet: "Against a background of nostalgic, evergreen melodies, Valentine Dyall recalls precious and beathless moments which will awaken memories or arouse latent longings in every feminine heart
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  • 496 11 NO ONE lives in THIS "guinea-pig" village -BECAUSE AN IDEA'S BEING TESTED N latt eal area of 1 at Hclzkirthe Weal German nt has built a ig" village bo a* ideas for its new housing props Is a major Wesl German and with typical iugl ness, the '•tting rtain it
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  • Article, Illustration
    62 11 picture. Film actor Richard Burton is to play the lead R t sen's film "Alexander Tke Great" nWcll will be ma in spa J. starting next month. In London. Richard the in. ik .p and costume of Alexander and his Ij^nesa he l f r himself can be seen as
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  • 84 11 TWENTY five-year-old Mr. Morris Midgley, who one of the loneliest banks in the world in a village in British Togoland went to a party in London with comedian Jimmy Edwards and Mayfair hairdresser Raymond at Churchill's Club. Said Midgley, on leave a two vears In
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  • 375 12  - She ENJOYS being a SUCCESS MISS COOPER ALL ABOUT GLADYS— BY She is 66, and has been in her life the four things naott women wanl to be a world-famous tuty; a top-flight acti; a mother, and a grandmother. Gladys Cooper conductthe interview in her ring-room: intellectual ind Imperious, theatrical
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  • 112 12 They're missing out on those vitamins AMERICANS are not adopting ideal diets in -spite of the nation's claim to the highest-living standards in th. world, say the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Durum the past year, the avei Ami rican's diet showed deficiencies in several key nutritional elements. There has been
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  • 129 12 BLAME IT ON THE EGYPTIANS HIGH heels for women were condemned by a London osteopath Mr. J. Keith Blagrave in a talk on "Thr feel yoa 'and on" at the Alliance Hall. Westminster, London High heel he said, were Invented by Catherine de Medici, beca i had a fo<>t deformity.
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    50 12 Satan Hayward shows jjj oft' to advantage this love- H If evening tnwn in white I tulle with ofT-the shoulder j neckline decorated by j clusters of satin leaves on n shoulders and >kirt and pearl) drops sewn on to iji) top of the bodice set off with a medallion
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  • 76 12 Wedding pact keeps hubby fit MRS. Billy Butlin, wife of the British showman. at a Orosvenor in London, a hinl e M how to keep your husband At." She -aid: Bill and I made pa t when we married We that it ever it looked though a quarrel might occur
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    • 107 12 fHElhuzl' > BABY FOODS are alvvsatys pure. ..safe < (andNOO^MlM^ r^A A) v^^ y K^JM^r ooc^ s scientifically pre- m^^ pared to retain maxi- mum nutritive value. Their pure, fresh flavor makes them unusually appetizing, I and they are strained to a fine, even tex- J V ture, so it's
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  • 546 13 The Americans like their ponies small, elephants -big! THE "BIG TOP" BOSS TALKS TO WILLIAM HICKEY 4 I [NATING lunch, .v ing about one <i loves -the was at the in London, with j Jack Mills. burly circus from America. as soon as I saw was soing to tell had
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  • 67 13 Ready for the ballet but engaging in a little fun before going before the colour cameras for a lavish dance j number in "The Glass Slipper" are Leslie Carron (perch- j ed on camera boom) and Michael Wilding. Roland IN tit's Ballets de Paris company also shares
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  • 136 13 OUSSIAN housewives 1V should have a gay time while polishing their living room furniture or taking the ink spots out of their children's clothes. With manufactured polishes and stain removers still in short supply. Russian homemakers frequently prepare their own. And that involves repeated
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    • 256 13 I THE GREAT EASTERN LlfE ASSURANCE CO., LTD. EDUCATIONAL SfiKs»lflf mj&^ff^' m^m 9 9TmmtmmW*W SkJ -M- mMm Va^Rs^ I kW****^^ < s** j^rrt^^lH. 5 Premiums are paid for a number of years V 4&*¥imWß& I' 2 (say for 10 or 12 years and after that *^mWW* t 5 the Company
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  • 258 14 4 N INDIAN wrestler strode into the Free Press mm yesterday bristling with indignation. p er i readers will remember his late: he issued chl lenge in this newspaper last November Now Il.iri Prasad Pahalban his a urudgc. and it is against a man
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  • 866 14  - H-0-O-D-O-O-S ON THE GOLF COURSE HENRY LONCHURST By WE svere rem ting awing use Idenl i irnament the very playing of which, a* the enovdrif to pile up to Imprison hr bn -mr elevated horn* ttead, seetm more miraculous than ever that, while horses u>r courses" was certainly true of
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  • 276 14 WHEN Frank Leahy, the football coach at Notre- Dame I niversity in South Rend. Indiana, resigned last year because of ill health, the sports world was amazed and thrilled to learn Notre Dame's choice of a new coach to carry on its tradition of winning
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  • 38 14 Jean Behra of Fiance, No. 1 driver of the Italian Maseratl .table, set an unofficial lap record yesterday foi the 4. 70(i 92-metre circuit in speed trials for .Sunday's Buenos Airns mtv rir»n«-i Priv «<•«.* rasa. A.P.
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  • 130 14 'THE Japanese amateur boxer who caused tne Ceylon Ali a championships to be postponed 1 because they were unable to get there in time are still waiting t>: visas. The Ceylon invitation is *till open to them. Featherweight Tsutomu Van and bantamweight Wataru Blitsui the two
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    • 68 14 lon earn Phon® Your SMALL All*, to Singapore 2110(1 Ivl. 101. j MSUM"J|flaßaßfflBDqWlK^ '.^SSaSsHvw/iAi^SSSoSww^-'' W" -S3£. "^CMdilu. S BS^EjBSjSjBSaSaSXvS^K S£> -^n^^a^^y wKffrk9V mjw 'v^^w^»%?- 8 ''^^BSSEKW^SVJBDwSRHRBRnBHS mmf A*. yK l^^^^^^^!^^^^^^^^^^^ S^W9?S^' sfl 9nRS JSKP gF mMIjF^BL Hr I BB> W HkSw^^Bß&^rH vs&Br SmmTf a v vhrhL id BR. soßsSlßbbw liii
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  • 2102 15 Broadside and ktWM .V aW Cinema II are the dangers .kits l seveii-vear-o.d Denturius gelding is K 1 rhoiee to win the Class 1, Division 1 handicap milr at Bukit Timah tomorrow, the first day of Nn Ni.i"apore Turf Club's opening meeting of the u ar
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  • 45 15 Probable scratchings for tomorrow's races: Bearer Bond, Forest Beau, Gambar Mejayu, Another View, Roughnut, Abington, j Sky High, Asholme, Disney, New Year, Sunflower, I Jamaica ParK, Say-Try, j Tolyar, Fairy, Adonis, Scots Grey. The track was heavy this morning after all night rain.
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  • 150 15 BLEDDYN WILLIAMS, captain of the Welsh rugby XV which beat England 3-0 at Cardiff Last Saturday and holder of 22 international "caps." has lost his place in the team announced to play Scotland on February 5. His position at left centr. threequarter has been left open.
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  • 91 15 RON barton, the unbeaten West Ham boxer, took a tef nearer the British li^ht-hcavy-weight title last night when be outpointed Arthur Howard (Lon« don), over ten rounds ln an eliminating contest for Alex Buxton's British crown It WIS Barton's 13th. SUCO win. A fighter-boxer and one
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    • 100 15 t^^^Z^^mMmmmmmm^^ I -Mx^^^'' —ul.a-.BRsi ~rsffi-'$ RbssWrbT^l^Will *l mm NK Wl %k sLAesssß* i Pfca si aAjtetßßssfl BBffV Mi^fl gHrJa-^aMMjR^R sßr^^^b 9^ The weekly issue of the STRAITS BUDGET can fce 8 sent by Air Mail to any address in the tinted Kingdom E at an inclusive rate of r aW+'XJ
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  • 53 16 2U H .»/(/> $a (minimum) DI JONG On 2fth January, to Rita and Felix a 800 nohmam) ro Elisabeth and Murray, in Nairobi, Kenya, on the 18' li January. .1 .son. SKYUM: On 2(1) h January, at Johannesburg, South Africa, to Rosemary <nee collin<re>, wife of Frederlk Skyum, .1
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  • 120 16 'PONY TRABERT and Vic Selxas swept into the doubles finals of the Australian national tennis championships yesterday ln Ade laide by beaMng Mervyn Rose and Rex Hartwig of Australia. 6-4 10 12, 6-0, 6 1. The Americans will play Ken Rosewall and Lewis Hoad, (who beat countrymen
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  • 114 16 T AST nißht nearly 2.000 peopl flocked to see boxing am wrestling organised for the first tim< in Raub. The three boxing contests and on< wrestling bout were held at a temporary amusement park set up foi the Chinese New Year. Boxing results: Crostv Jones ol
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  • 17 16 Leicester beat the Royal Air Force 9-8 in a Rugby Union match at Leicester yesterday
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  • 58 16 picture. The flying fighter is Gunnar Anderson of Sweden. Row did he get up there? Your Kues.s is as good anybodj else's. Gunnar let fly with a two fisted .ntack on Konrad RudhtitT (Germany) during: a recent internation al match in Stockholm and next thing he knew
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  • 419 16 Singapore Civilians 4; Services 1. L^LOODLIT hockey could mark a srand future for Malayan hockey. The Civilian XI beat a strong Services team in a fast and thrilline; game at Jalan Besar last night. There is no doubt that the floodlights will mark a new
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  • 33 16 Keith Miller. Australia's all rounder, cut his hand slightly during net practice in Adelaide yesterday. "It la nothing," he said, "and I shall be abl<» to hmt »nrf awt-i tomorrow."- Reuter
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  • 62 16 INDIA'S touring cricket teas terday beat the Combm. versifies at Lahore by an < and ten runs, final scores Universities 69 and 85; India side 164 for nine declared. The Indians owed their victory mainly to the bowling of Pate took eight second innings wicket i I
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    • 305 16 CLASSIFIED ADS. ENGAGEMENTS 20 Winds S6 (minimum) tan NO: Joseph Tone Bean, son of Mr. and Mrs Tan Kniam Wan, and Lucy 800 Gnoh, second daughter ot Di and Mrs. Ng Bow Huah 25.1 55. NATHAN-MARY Tlie engagement was announced on 22.1.55 between Inspector A. s. Nathan, HQ Kuala Lumpur,
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  • Free Press RACE FORM Special
    • 9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Friday, January 28, 1955.
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    • 854 1  - THE KING OF HANDICAPPERS PUT LITTLE FAITH IN JOCKEYS J. W.TAYLOR m**** 1 H; CAPPING in any tis no sinecure for Tould f° r racm t g the relative merits gtofl on current there was a man of I whose genius for ping and shrewd of horses and created modern
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    • 722 1  - Can the Jockey Club go on? ROGER MORTIMER By IN Britain, the concept of government by the aristoeived a mortal blow tie .scandals and tool the Crimean War me generally known. Ne\ertheless, one hundred ter, halfway through so-called century of the man, the Jockey Club, a bastion of the old
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    • 12615 2 FORM GUIDE FOR SINGAPORE RACES rOI.MIUIM. .irr tin horses entered for the Singapore I ur. Clvb Jan i eh. Meeting. Class One \l)l I MIU I |1 MATCHED 8 IM 1 I II I II AA I II I II I < J- I I \A I I J ÜBMABK
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      • 139 2 »aw ROLEX r>^r f have the key to golden dreams vL—^ fed l.ds cover th. .r tim. -telling faces. Even thc kW M kmmm If B bands of these watches arc of gold kidskin or pure V i gold And when you lift thc lids you have thc most VI
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      • 128 3 vehicle that's never out of a jobt "■"•srHs! Jkmm al^3 H wk*~m tBb R§^^^ I TIM ELLER J 1 _^^aiii^iSBWSSgHBSSSWSSWSWSSSS*Bf The comfortable interior of this amazing Morris Minor Traveller I quickly converts to a roomy goods carrier. It embodies til the engineering excellence and operating economy of its companion car
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      • 246 4 is in I lie news uii n the new" Pathfinder" It's completely new from stem to *t«rn with extra power for high speed and performance, new roomier styling and generous luggage spate, new coil spring rear suspension and Torsionic front suspension, si* hydraulic brake*, telescopic damper*, new steering entirely free
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      • 12 4 J»V wrVmm STRAIGHT j£P Trom the l^L^^J^M horse's mouth Sg^/^^p m V
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      • 143 5 Your GuQrontGG <**. *<»*■ South Asia Trading Company, 339, Victor.a Street. The Emporium, 17/19. Battery Road. r^HnrnrPf^l United Radio Company, 118 120, Orchard Road, 1 Hi I I I I iHsKi Nachiappa Brothers, 88. Serangoon Road. h 10, Collyer Quay and Mival Base, Seletar. df Moutrie and Company (Mj Limited,
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      • 103 5 CHINESE NEW YEAR BALL under the distinguished patronage of H. E. Sir John Nicoll K CMC. y/ s /rst in aid of S. A. T. A. A at the VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL on Saturday, sth February, 1955. from 8.30 p.m. 1 a.m. Tickets:— $5.- per person Obtainable from SATA Town
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      • 214 6 here's the HILLMANrance B vjfMßßi^BiswßwaMaß?B<Bwfi2r« 4~* 1 VM (%L The llillman D« luxe saloon with more luxury, more power, more st>le. also the Minx Special Srlrrb powered Rf the m famous "kSconimaster" engine. pHJwaßsHß**^'*""*--a The new llillin.in 'alifornian with improvements in appearance comfort And performance will still further 9 increase
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      • 238 7 f^T' ~iz^ES^m%um''' The De Luxe Model of the Pye "Plack Pox W^mf'-'tL is designed to please the eye as well as the &lw^t* ear of the most exacting man of taste and VKE^" discrimination. It is fitted with a 3-speed record changer which will play mixed records "Hi-Fi" is High
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