The Singapore Free Press, 22 May 1957

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper No. *****- Singapore, Wednesday, May 22, 1!)57. Price 15 Cts
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    TENCKU GOES ON THE AIR
    266 1 Full agreement with U.K. Govt. 11ENGKU Abdul Rahman, the Malayan Chief Minister, will today make hi* lirst public statement after final agreement on j independence for Malaya. The Tengku, leading a Federation delegation to London is to record a radio broadcast to be transmitted in
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    Clean-cut admiration
    112 1 Teretu-e Devine, aged 1 1 of Brandon, Suffolk. England, tot tired of combing his lone hair. So he hail .1 "Yu! llrynner" ess-bald cut. Now he'i the talk of the town and number one target fur Brandon's young female population who have a dean-cut admiration for their very
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    TRADE WITH FED -A SPECIAL PROBE SOON
    384 1 Further representations to be made, says Mr, Lim Ede's questions on tariffs TE **'!°w' s*ii,,W,l in 11k- LenbUUve teemNj tato by Ihe Chief Minbier, Mr. Urn V™ Min l er ?iMr™mMEDTHATHE HAD RAISED THIS QUESTION AT THAT MEETING AND EMra/Jsram THE^YdVErIe™ flc/fEDERATION TARIFFS
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    Rubber price
    20 1 June first grade ru buyers f.o.b op tied In Sin ore this mornii cents a lb., up on
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    Lock icon Russia to lift Iron Curtain?
    60 1 Mr Yuri Zhukov, chairman of a newly-appointed Soviet State Committee for Cultural Relations said in Moscow yesterday: "Our task is to liquidate the notorious Iron Curtain." Russia wants to broaden her cultural ties with Western countries and has established the new organisations under the direct
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    FREE RECITAL
    60 2 A Chinese record recital of the latest popular songs will be held at the Hls Master's Voice" Studio, fourth floor, MacDonald House, Orchard Road, Singapore, tonight from 6 to 7 p.m. It will b e followed by an Indian record recital from 7.30 to 8.30 p.m. Free passes
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    TOMMY LANDS AMONG NUDES
    71 2 THE thirty-fifth parachute jump of Lance-Corporal Malcolm Davies. aged 19, set up a record for the British Army. He landed right in the middle of a German nudist camp. He found himself in the middle of a wood, with a nude woman screaming at him. A
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    GOVT. TO CARRY OUT A SURVEY IN SINGAPORE
    270 2 New cottage industries plan Japan is ready to help us THE Ministry of Commerce and Industry has set up a working committee to investigate the possibilities of introducing Jap-nese-type cottage industries in Singapore. The Permanent Secretary to the Ministry, Mr. K. M
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    Hands in pockets to keep decent
    45 2 "Take your hands out of your pockets," said a magistrate to a prisoner in a Nottingham court. The man replied: "My hands are in my pockets in the interests of public decency I have no belt and no braces."
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    TARIFF FACTS NEEDED
    196 2 TARIFF FACTS NEEDED Top level talks due to start THE Singapore Manufacturers' Association yesterday urged its members to co-operate with the Government in compiling tariff grievances against the Federation. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced that it would open negotiations with the Federation Government as soon as it
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    New deal soon for shop assistants
    120 2 THE newly -passed shop assistants and clerks employment ordinances will be implemented in about three months. The Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and Welfare, Mr. L. C. Goh told the Free Press that the Ministry was now drawing up rules to bring
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    Suez debate fizzles out
    135 3 AUSTRALIA SPEAKS HER MIND, BUT... THE UNITED NATIONS Security Council wound up its renewed debate on the Suez Canal question today With a suggestion that Egypt take .steps to remove Western doubts concerning Its regulations for the waterway. Ho formal action n. The French Foreign Minister
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    35 3 JILL IRELAND, 21-year-old film actress, and 23-year-old actor David McCallUm, who were married last week at a London =j Registry Office. This Popper picture shows the happy couple after g E their wedding. ■iiiiij:.!. Illlllllllllllr'
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    Lock icon WANTS JOINT H-TESTS
    298 3 WANTS JOINT H-TESTS U.K. bid to pool H secrets with U.S. rE Prim^ Minister of Britain, Mr. Harold Macmillan. said yesterday he would consider question of avoiding duplication of nuclear test explosions with the United States. He was givin» written replies to questions In the House of Commons. Mr. Arthur
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    Lock icon BOAC to order 30 new jets
    73 3 BRITISH Over i plans to order 30 r. medium range j- 1 airlli for it.s Comma and Asian routes aa soon as It eeta government approval the London Daily Telegraph terday. The now plants, built by the Vickera Aircraft pany, are still In the
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      146 3 mi k i mo to pearls a rv OiiitttOk v O fff ff forms tpf I 9) G. C. de Sflva Bros, c Vs Manufacturing Jewellers Y< 3, Rafiies Placs 3^\ Singapore- 1 Telephone ***** goddess figure control, us Goddess >t $^^^7 Srr.ipless Deep Plunge Contourerre «v in Embroidered Nylon
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. May 22, 1957. Opinion The idea is good, but...
    184 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. May 22, 1957. Opinion The idea is good, but... /THE Ministry of Com- merce and Industry has an excellent idea to reduce unemployment and under employment in Singapore. It is studying the practicability of introducing Japanese type cottage industries. Said a Ministry spokesman: "Once we
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    U.K. utilising radar for peaceful purposes
    469 4 U.K. utilising radar for peaceful purposes By a Special Correspondent IT WAS the birth of radar in 1935 that decisive ly determined the future character of the institute now known as the Kadar Research Establishment at Malvern, Worcestershire, England. One of the largest of the United Kingdom Ministry ol Supply's
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    CULTURE CENTRE TO OPEN IN JUNE
    227 5 CULTURE CENTRE TO OPEN IN JUNE New $500,000 building for the arts Films library and shows J'HE opening of the new Cultural Centre at Canning Rise is the first organised step towards encouraging international culture in Singapore,, said the organising secretary, Mr. I\ K. Hernon yesterday. Different consulates, he said,
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    Lock icon LOGIC AND THE LAW
    105 5 MRS. Marie Hagen, standing trial on a drunken driving charge, had an unusual drl. nee at Santa Monica, California, yesterday. The 24-year-old housewife testified that the car started moving when her husband got out and that she responded by putting her foot down immediately on the
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    AIDING 2 GOOD CAUSES
    182 5 Funds from Rotary bobbies show ALL proceeds from the Singapore Rotary Club's bobi hibitlon opening nt xt Tuesday will jjo to two charities. The funds for the Rotarians" Kampong Tebang community centre project and the Singapore Association for the Deal and Dumbs proposed oral school will
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    OFFER TO CATCH THAT SNOWMAN
    54 5 Puny a Bajra Lama, head priest of the Boudhnath monastery of Tibet, says he knows a place where an 'Abominable Snowman" family lives, on the Nepal border of the Himalayas. He adds he can catch a baby yet and bring it to Katmandu if the
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    Lock icon Beat his wife in city street
    88 5 A man who "thought he had not been doing anything wrong" when he slapped his wife on the face in a Melbourne street was convicted of offensive behaviour by Mr. A. R. Hill, In the city court. "Any decent person would I ended at
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    Lock icon Malaria promise
    27 5 President Eisenhower relay pledged the United States to join with other nations in a programme to wipe out malaria in the next five years.- U.P
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    Lock icon Brazil rubber up
    28 5 The Brazilian Govornment yesterday Increased the price of domestic rubber by 25 per cent in a move to deal with a serious shortage A .P.
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    CHARTER TRIPS DECISION SOON
    120 5 THE British European Association of Mm which is trying to arrange charter flights I >r members' children attending schools in Europe has ceivt'd an "encouraging" reply from the BOAC. The company has quoted figures for various types of aircraft for this year and 1958. The B.E.A.M.
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    44 5 picture. Mr. and Mrs Foo Chia Choon after their wedding at the South-East Hotel, Singapore. The bridegroom is a traffic officer with Malayan Airways. The bride, the former Miss Lim Ai Lan. is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lim Joo Luan. Free Press
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      228 6 >l \MMt \KI I»t Lee Talk and IMiil Davia K U CHECKMATE) v -"^7/ WOBR.EO etNTLEMAN IS IN^ TROUBLE CHAMPION kAPEACEPUU W UCHECKM^Ey >L/ A1 COULP TROUBLE AMP COULP AAV LIFE IS #^AME. WMY?^ J Alt/A\ b> rilijar Hire Hiirrouijlis *wwat else was sot^e^ec ffV-^ c^S^liSß(fc 5t —^i^^^ b-a^=^n *vssE7,we!"
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      469 6 BORN on this >y of the in- coming sign. Gemini, the twins, you have a certain duality in your nature which make* life difficult for r you. You are always being torn between your two selves. Literarv and artis- tic. you are also scientific and ini ventive. Ruled by Mercury,
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      181 7 LONDON, May 21 Previous Today RUBBER No. 1 RSS c.if- 26'4 buyers 26 I*.1 bin European ports May 26% sellers 26* sellers Jnn« 26^ buyers 26^ buyers sellers 26"\ sellers RUBBER No- 1 RSS Spot 26% buyers 26\ buyers 26 7 sellers 26 7 K sellers Rl
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      New York prices
      109 7 NEW YORK. May 21. Previous Today fIN Straits spot 98 OU nom. 98.00 nom. TIN futures Standard Contract May 96.50 buyers 96 50 buyers 97.50 sellers 37 75 sellers June unquoted unquoted TONE: Steady. SALES: Nil. Straits Contract May 97.25 buyers 97 50 buyer 9775 sellers 98.00
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      48 7 NEW YORK, May 21. Previous Today Industrials 505 98 506.04 20 Railroads 147 96 147 42 40 Domestic Bonds 89 54 89 52 15 Utilities 74 50 74 61 65 Stocks Composite Averages 176 70 176 62 Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per W.
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      84 7 LONDON. May 21Previous Today COPRA Philippines ci f U.K./ North European delivered weight per lonj ton May/June $171 sellers $170'. sellers COPRA. Straits ci.f. UK/North European delivered weight per lonr ton May/June £»>2 S buyers £63'. pom. £63tt selkra June July M** buyers £63 'i buyers
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      U.S. PEPPER
      51 7 Malabar/Lampong spot 29, shipment 26^4. June shipment afloats 28 "i to 28. Malabar 25 4 Muntok white spot 33 1 May tbipment 27%, Lampons afloats WH to 32, sellers exMay shipmeut 27' i, Sarawak dock, spot 28 nfloats 27 1 May Above prices quoted in US. cents per
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    ACROSS THE WORLD IN AN OLD JEEP
    170 7 SEEN in the picture above in London preparing for their unique journey to Australia —by an am- phibious jeep which is at least twelve years old—are 26 year old Mr. Dennis Reed who works for Associated Rediffusion; Mr. John Palmer, (21), a bank
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    Electronic brain for telephones
    95 7 AN electronic brain Is speeding up new-type telephone bilk at Canterbury All the calculating processes for trunk and local charges are carried out by a machine which can "read." Tlie machine "reads" in- formation on telephone call tickets and transcribes it into coded holes whiah operate
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      97 7 Today's Radio Programme for Singapore 115 p.m. Fc 'light Parade: 1 30 Time Signal and New*; 1 4;> Foot light Parade; 3.57 For Schools; 5.00 Songs from Plantations; 5.15 Hawaiian Blossoms; 530 Tea Dance; 6.00 <ie Announcement and Prorr.ire Summary; 6.02 Designed for Dancing; 630 Four Star Variety; 6.55 Announcers
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      60 7 jiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiihiii^ I SINGAPORE 1 I HIGH TIDES E TODAY: 5.21 p.m. E TOMORROW: 445 a.m. E and 6.25 p.m. FRIDAY: fJ.M a.m. and E 7.23 p.m. E E SATI'RDAY: 7 ">1 am E and 8.0f» p.m. SUNDAY: ISt a.m. s E and 8. IS p.m. E MONDAY: 9.41 am. and
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    800 CHICKENS FLY INTO SINGAPORE
    84 8 A CARGO of 800 baby chickens arrived in Singapore last week for Mr. Wong Gock Wah who runs a poultry farm in dementi Road. Brought from Australia by QANTAS the chickens were leghorn, cross-breed, and Australorp types. Mr. Wong, already has 2,000 chickens on his
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE SPOTI LIGHT
    1936 8  - SINGAPORE SPOTI LIGHT Qdelaide Eestley BV.. pRINTED in two edi- tions English and Chinese the Youth Sports Centre this week introduces its new bulletin "Youth and Sport." On its frontispiece appears the following editorial by the Chief Secretary, Mr. W. A.C. Goode: "Singapore, with its vast heterogeneous multilingual population, an
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    48 8 picture Mr. and Mrs V. Covindaraju seen after their wedding at the Sri Mariyamman Temple in Singapore. The bridegroom is the secretary of the Yadavakola Sangam (Union) Singapore. The bride is the former Mk* N Rajeswary. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. Nadason.- Free Press
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    THE BIG LIE-BY A MORBID WIFE
    243 10 THE BIG LIE-BY A MORBID WIFE JIDGE described a wife last week as "the most fantastic liar I have ever heard in the witness-box." He added; "She is one of the most extraordinary women I have ever come across." She had a morbid interest in cruelty and set the standard
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    ATOMS-DOWN ON THE FARM-BOOST CROPS
    198 10 ATOMS-DOWN ON THE FARM -BOOST CROPS BRITISH and American scientists have discovered that the atom can increase substantially the yields of crops. A new variety of bean which ripens earlier, is more plentiful and adaptable to mechanical har-vesting-has been grown. A type of barley with stiller straw and a higher
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    Lock icon To all SECRETARIES:
    636 10 CAN YOU TYPE THIS IN TWO MINUTES FLAT? IF SO, THEN WHY NOT ASK YOUR BOSS FOR A PAY RISE MEMO to all secretaries and to their bosses: If you count yourself a smart operator at the typewriter keyboard prop up the specimen test printed on the
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    HIS SHEEP ARE RADIOACTIVE
    330 10 ALFRED EDWARDS is a Welsh shepherd. He is a man of ancient craft, but the worry that sits on his brow is the very latest the world has got. For it is on his farm, and among his sheep, that scientists have found evidence of the
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    Scout jamboree to be on the air...
    292 10 tiALLING all Scouts! "If j you cannot be at the Boy Scouts' Jubilee Jamboree at Sutton Park England, in August, do next best thing; listen in daily for up-to-the-minute news of this unique historic event." This is the gist of a message directed
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    Lock icon ASIA'S LARGEST URANIUM MINE
    30 10 t uranium deposits bf'liovod to be the largest in Alt have been discovered in Ra.jfisth.Tn Province. North V. 'l f reliably learned in Jalour yesterday. Reuter
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      OFF TO A PARTY
      101 11 A BEVY of 19 beautif ul Norwegian girls received many admiring; glances as they walked along Park Lane, London, last week on their way to Park Lane House. A special 'sild' party was being held there and among those attending were the Norwegian Minister in London.
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      HUNGARY: WOMAN OF THE MOMENT
      90 11 a m^ MISS ANNA KETHLY, J formerly the Min- J ister of Stale in the 0 Hungarian (iovernment of tare Nagy, u'no escap- ed during the Hungarian revolution last October, held a press conference in London last week. Recently arrived in "i thi s country
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      REDS GO ON PARADE
      76 11 WEARING whit* i" TT gloves and unistriking simiI- larity to those of the Nazi Army, men of the \m East German C< munisi armed for C on tht m 6 dun a pu The hc\m ing held in I m to comrm m Hie tu of
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    Lock icon AGRICULTURAL CRISIS NOW FACING CHINA
    238 12 AGRICULTURAL CRISIS NOW FACING CHINA I?FD CHIW has admitted thai ft is suffering from a serious short :igc of draught animals which could endanger tins years ex |K( According to official Communist sources in Peking, tens of thousands of water buffalo, oxen and other beasts of burden have died through
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    Lock icon No talks with Reds —Chiang
    114 12 No talks with Reds —Chiang A HIGH Nationalist Chinese official has assured Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek's followers in America that there would be "n 0 compromise "in the struggle to regain china from the Communists. Mr. Cheng Yin-fun, who as chairman of the Commission for Overseas Chinese Affairs enjoys a
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    Lock icon 'PERSONALITY CULT' IN INDIA WARNING
    96 12 MR KRISHNA MENON, the Indian Defence Minister, has warned against the ''personality cult I and too much adoration of men at the top." i Mr Menon, in an address to college graduates at Ambala Punjab, said: "What is important is per- formance.'not the man who
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    Lock icon 'Red bloc no longer a single unit'
    174 12 THE New York Herald Tribune, in an editorial on recent breaches in the Iron Curtain areas, said: "It appears that Red China is diverging, at least ideologically, from the straight and narrow path. "Mr. Mao Tse-tung is reported to have made speeches questioning
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    Lock icon New trade talks
    20 12 North Korean Premier Kim II Sung said Indonesia and North Korea "would soon exchange trade delegations."- U.P.
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    Lock icon New Taipeh airport
    42 12 rE new 7.500-foot long runwaj of Taipeh's international airport has been officially inaugurated, the Nationalist Ministry of Communications announced. It is capable of handling the world's most modern aircraft, including Douglas and Boeing jet airliners, the ministry said.- Reuter
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    Lock icon Farmers 'well off' on 86.50 a month
    264 12 Farmers 'well off' on 86.50 a month Hill AP ...featuring news Mill \r and views iVLVb about Asia today rpHE average Chinese farmer living on mainland China makes 60 Communist yuan (about M577.05) per year M56.50 a month. Communists claim that the amount might seem "meagre" in a city dweller's
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    Lock icon Glimpses
    180 12 est watchdog organ, impeaehed 68 Government offieiah, including one with the rank of Minister between May 1 last year and April 30 toil year. Reuter THE 1957 ANNUAL MEET ING OF THE 19-MEM BER COLOMBO PLAN FOR ASIAN DEVELOPMENT WILL BE HELD IN SAIGON, THE CAPITAL OF SOUTH VIETNAM.
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    Lock icon Two more ships for Formosa
    38 12 Formosa will add two freighters to its small but growing merchant fleet be- fore the end of the month, —a 11.000 -ton freighter built in Japan and an American Liberty class freighter.- U.P.
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    Lock icon WORLD BANK CHIEF LAUDS CHIANG ISLE
    99 12 INTERNATIONAL BANK President Eugene R. Black said in Taipeh that the progress In the economic development of Formosa "is amazing/ 1 After a two-day visit to the Nationalist Chinese island bastion Mr. Black said he was very favourably impr. ed with accomplishments there "and
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    59 12 Mr. Hollington Ton?, j Nationalist China's Am- E bassador to the United j States, is introduced to I First Lieut. Chin-ming j E Wu, one of several For- mosa nurses studying at the U.S. Army MediC cal Service School in 5 San Antonio, Texas. Major David Wu S (centre) is
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    Back to those happy days— with Louis and the 'kid'
    516 13 Back to those happy days— with Louis and the 'kid' by Corelli from his Coiv certi Grossi op. 6 are played in classic style by I Muslci on Philips A ***** L. This is another important addition to the series Monumenta Italicae Musicae, which offers music lovers treasures from the
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    Four aces
    207 13 Four aces A PLEASING Contin i Cor Rhythmic Strin Uti Philips P ***** R. Cor prebt'iiio a wistful p of old favouritr.s whi< b he chills Love Is In The Air. Such numbers I Butterfly, o Sweetheart and Auf Wiedersehn, to name just D deliyhtful irditmcnt. I IN the French
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    This La Traviata is superb
    289 13 This La Traviata is superb ITALIAN OPERA ON AUSSIE PRESSINGS LAST week we annour, the news of the arrival in Malaya of the first Australian CETRA pressings. Which arc devoted in the main to the best from Italian opera. We have since had the opjxjrtunity of hearing ..<> further discs
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    BEST OF THE 78s
    176 13 BEST OF THE 78s I CAROUSEL IN ROME Fascinating is the only word that fits this melodious number on London HL L 8359 which is a product of David Seville and his Orchestra- It's backed by Armen's Theme, an I equally attractive ottering. Uighly recommended. ROCK, TRETTY BABY One of
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    All-rounder Worrell causes a collapse
    428 14 All-rounder Worrell causes a collapse MCC HOLD WEST INDIES TOURISTS TO A DRAW ¥7i:\NK WOWUBIX, the West Indies allT rounder, took six M.C.C. wickets for Uta their mutch ii Lord's yesterday, which ended 111 Worrell's flnc left-arm medium pace bowlma brought Ibout an M. C. C. collapse bet p,h Fniin
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    9 14 (rifciiw fctu> nu half-time In this Div. One match.
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    Lock icon Empire champ is outpointed
    70 14 GEORGE BARNES, Australia's British Empire welterweight boxing champion, was outpointed in Sydney last night by Clive Stewart, a promising middleweight from Brisbane. Stewart held the advantage in weight, reach anc age. over Barnes, who wa; continually booed by th( crowd for his lethargic dis play. Barnes
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