HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-02-01, Page 3He Fought A ENO
With A Turkey;.
Dirty Work On
Lirho British. Turf
•In every instance, the trainers
and stable boys had been thrown
off guard by an attractive blonde
who v. ore mink aver her country
tweet!, ,end spice with a bed-
roome Freneh accent.. • Arriving
In a F4rcl. Zediac-eonvertible, she
would talk knowledgeably about
horse and indicate she had three
of her own in Frame which she
was thinking of bringing to. Bat-
taint to train. Naturally., every.
one stumbled all over himself to
zlluty the irdly around.
Thereafter, it was the horses
who started stumbling around.
Since last September, at least
sixteen of Britain's finest Ulm-
oughbreds have been found to
have been "nobbled" (doped),
shortly after the engaging blonde
visited their stables. - One was
Punch Bowl Hotel, a weil-backed
second favorite which had to be
pulled up during a steeplechase
at Perth, The latest victim was
Hiawatha Il, faverite for the
Simonburn Handicap 'Chase at
Newcastle last month, who fin-
ished lasa . Others have rure their
jockeys reported, "as if they were
drunk." Two weeks. ago, a geld-
ing named Fresh Winds, an odds-
on favorite to win the Abbots
Bromley Handicap, was with-
drawn after his trainer found
him "half asleep' ,in his stall'
Later, the trainer said: "The
horse could not stand, His hind
legs were paralyzed,"
In a country that spends more
per capita on gambling ($35 a
head, or $1.8 billion annually)
than any other in the world, this
was too much. The Jockey Club
and the National Hunt Commit-
tee, which .control steeplechasing
and flat racing in Britain, called
in Scotland Yard. Detectives
quickly discovered that the
horses had been "nobbled" by a
tranquilizing drug called chlor-
butol, They theorized that the
mysterious blonde had worked as
an advance scout for two known
gamblers and a bookmaker from
near Manchester, who actually
administered the capsules.
Getting proof was another
question. Every bookie in Britain
atoodato make money from.races
where heavily backed favorites
were scratched or ran poorly, but
there were no discernible signs
of any "conspiracy" among them.
Neither could the blonde nor her
pals be tracked down, Some re-
ports the lady had dyed in the
stretch—through the ruse of
changing the color of her hair.
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transparent cement for glass?
A. One good one is made by
digesting together for about a
week one ounce of India-rubber,
67 ounces of chloroform, and 40
ounces of mastic.
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deflection contour wedge to
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MERRY MENAGERIE .
Whet would the farnous.dwari,
fift. Jeffery Hudson, a
oats( of Britain's smallest coun-
ty, Rthietel. have tbotoelt of the
rot...vat propo:.al, merge Rut-
land tote !A l r oy
Hudson:, Mu; lived in the stir-
IV.11 century; !won his.
strange career in a pie! He
braved piracy, poi nil. eleverY
and battle, and above ad, he
loved little Rutland dearly —
although it mi usurcs only fifteen
by eighteen note; and even today
has ft pepulatiun of only 23,950.
The amazing pie incident .octint-
rcd 'when Charles I and his
n, Henrietta Maria, were
visiting Rutland.
George Villiers, Duke of Buck-
ingham, derided to introduce the'
dwarf' to them in .e' novel manner
se he arranged a banquet in
their honour at. a Rutland man-
sion.
An enormous pie was. brought.
to the 'table and set before the
King.
When the pie was opened—by
the duke .with a silver dagger—
out stepped the dwarw immacul-
ately dressed,
He bowed to the Royal party
and then performed for them a
well-rehearsed cabaret which de-
lighted everybody.
Hudson fought as a Royalist in
the Civil War, was captured by
the F,rench and imprisoned by.
the English for alleged compliel.
ty in the Popish Plot.
lJp to the age of thirty he re-
mained only 18in. tall.
Then he started to grow and.
was 3ft, gin, tall when he was
captured by Turkish pirates and
sold as a slave in Barbary.
Later he was redeemed and
returned to England where he
-.settled down again for a time in
Rutland.
Adventures dogged him wher-
ever he went.
In one town he fought a duel
with a turkey-cock which is com-
memorated in a poem by Sir
William Davenant.
'Rutlancl'e people nicknamed
Hudson "the Queen's dwarf," be-
cause he was for a long time
Henrietta • Matia's plaything .and
confidant,
He was 'also known as "Stren-
uous because of his
energy and valour in the .field,
while after his knighthood many
referred to him as the dwarf.
cavalier—a title which he liked,
He was still under four feet
tall when he died in obscurity in
1682 at the then old age of sixty-
three. A number of friends in
Rutland had, helped to provide
him with a pension.
There is a striking picture of
Hudson, by an unknown artist,
in the National Portrait Gallery,
An old print shows him, cloak-
ed and hatless, with his royal
master, Charles I.
His waistcoat, breeches and
stockings used ..to be preserved
in the As.hmolean Museum, Ox-
ford.
For .some years a statue of Sir
Jeffery Hudson stood guard on
the archway of a warehouse near
Victoria Station, London. When
the owners sold the premises not
long ago they took the dwarf to
their north London factory.
Many people are saying that
the sheer pluck of this little man
—often described in his lifetime
as "the least of men in the least
of counties"---is reflected today
in the determination with which
the dwarf county of Rutland is
fighting against its present threat.
For Rutland has launched a cam-
paign against its dismemberment
and announced that it intends to
retain its independence.
Every year it seems to take
less time to fly across the Atlan-
tic, and longer to drive tb work.
other," the telegrapher's excited
lettee went on, "all shaking with.
emotion, these sturdy fellows.. ."
In Norwegian, Fram means
"forward," and there's something
altogether inspiring and purpose-
ful hi the good ship's name,
something that symbolizes the
high, invincible faith and cour-
age cf Norway's Fridtjof Han-
sen, He tried for Ninety North
and had to settle for a shade
over 86' degrees of dark and dan-
gerous latitudes. Still 226 miles
short of the -North Pole, Nansen
had to be the world's grandest
loser, ,That Nansen's "Farthest
North" is being remembered and
reread in this the centennial
year of his birth, writes its own
uplifting elegy to his .lifelong
service for Norway and for all
mankind.
He was a forward thinker and
a forward facer, was , this un-
flinching Norwegian who went
around leaving names of loved.
ones on the bleak and desolate
land masses he discovered on his
frozen journeys, His meticulous.
dedication to the science of geog-
raphy, the exactness of his jour-
nals and charts, made the arctic
way easier for such men as Peary
and Amundsen and Richer d.
Byrd, writes Harlan Trott in the
Christian Science Monitor.
He had trained in the snow
fields, of Norwegian schoolboy
athletics for his- remarkable ski
crossing of the great Greenland
ice cap. And when Eskimos on
the southwest Greenland coast
showed some whalers articles
found on the ice that could only
have come from, the Jeanette
Expedition which foundered in.
the New Siberian Islands in the
polar wilderness north of the
Lena Delta some years before,
the ice-age odyssey of the Fram
took shape in-Nansen's thoughts.
Yes, the Jeanette things showed
there must be a great west-going
polar drift across the icy rooftop
of the world far past Siberia's
Cape Chely u s kin,. down the
Greenland Sea past grim King
Oscar's Land and around lucky
old Leif's stormy Cape Farewell.
Nansen confirmed it in the epic
voyage of the Fram.
His matchless forward drive
swept him up in later years into
the League of Nations where as
High Commissioner for Refugees
he worked to relieve distressed
hordes turned adrift by war: He
won the Nobel Peace Prize, did
this strong, gentle fellow—along
with the biggest gold medal for
his "Farthest North" that any
geographical society had struck
off since the Venetian John Cab-
ot launched the centuries' long
search for the Northwest Pas-
sage,.
He had a "feel" 'for a ship, as
a sailor would say, and a heart
full of gratitude to builder Celia
Archer. "— To nay the truth,.
we all dearly love the ship,"
Nansen wrote in his journal, .`as
much as it is possible to love.
any impeesenal thing, , , How
often has my heart glowed with.
warmth toward her! To the
builder ... grateful thoughts .oft-
en. travel during the still nights
, and though all else lose faith
in her, he will believe that she.
will hold mit"
Aye, the Fram was a brave,
forward going ship — just right
for Fridtjof Nansen, ,and Hjale
mar Johansen and Otto Sverdrup.
and their 10 . Viking shipmates,
The world till remembers them
—these sturdy fellows!
Tomb Robbers Are
Plaguing Italy
A booming world Market "for
Italian efitiqueg is giving a big
boost to tOltb robbers. Oahu.
said to- 6 -td66ct over $3,006,000l
year result front sales of plun-
dered ixittery
.11., Carle teriel,. the wealthy'
industrialist behind the Leitioi
kettlidatidit et 11 flats end a dine
thiguished ar'cha'eologist, is att.,
pealing' to the goitertititelit to stop
tide ItteratiVe titaffle in. under-
gretitid treasure',
While it lasts, his' awl t tOtincia ,
tion's effortt to investigate anci-
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pile a national fedora lit their
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Admit Defeat
Members of an. American so-
ciety dedicated to the theory that
the earth is flat have decided
that they are wrong after all and
are considering the advisability
of breaking up their organization.
Said one recently: "Data al-
ready obtained through satellites
in space seems to prove pretty
conclusively that the earth is
round, so there's not much point
in our carrying on as a flat-earth
society," '
„ But there are still a number 'of
people in various parts of the
world who are convinced that the
earth is flat,
For thirty-five years an Illinois
man offered $5,000 reward, pay-
able in cash, to anyone who could
prove that the earth is round. He
said he Was sure that the earth
had always been "as flat as a
pancake,"
A Somerset man who died
some years ago, spent most of his
life advocating the flat-earth
theory," But he admitted he could
not explain why outward-bound
ships disappear below the hori-
zon or why it is possible to cir-
cumnavigate the globe.
The ancient Greeks seriously
believed that the earth was flat
and supported' by twelve cel-
tenns. In ancient Egypt there
was a Widely-held belief that the
earth was supported by four'
great elephants, eaeli of which
stood on an enormous tortoise
swirranhig in the seat
Some tribes of Indians in North
America believed 'that the earth
was floating in water and refer-
ter to It as "the earth Island,"
hi the mythology of the Nato'
Indians of California, the earth
is conceived as a huge horned
Monger eternally Wallowing
ScluthWard through the primeval
waters.
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layout and •contents, are made
,very 'Pt rae •! cut grave.
tbicvalg can rir„ an the
ap.dearance .411' anvient halal
sites.
Litthty• percent.. of alt the finds
Oct.% ated in Italy each year new
flow, the Foundation estiniates,.
into this illicit ehamiele
Large quantities of these rare
and perbaps unique objects of art
reappear at antique auctions in
Haste and Lucerne, Switzerland,
There, wealthy collectors .gather
to pay peak prices..
According to Dr. Lerici, the
robbers have taken at least 2,000
separate pieces of pottery, some
weighing over five hundred-
weieht, from ancient tombs at
Cerveteri, Central Italy, in the
last two years.
Mere revently, the have --earl,-
ed burrowing ".arrione the F,tru.
seen grave:' near Rome. which
date trout the seventh to third
century B.C. The ',Niel Founda-
tion has, through its own re-
searches, pinpointed 4,000 Etru-
scan tombs in the area.
Many, the more ornate, are
empty now. Others are wrecked
beyond recognition. The looters
step at nothing, They even carve
away and remove stone-wall
paintings and frescoes,
Such thefts prove, says Dr.
Lerici, that the crooks are work-
ing hand in glove with specialists.
When ancient tombs are hack-
ed about so crudely, their wallS
collapse, and soon the tomb it-
self is a monument only to
vandalism.
The way to stop the racket,
says Dr. Lerici, is for the govern-
ment to pay proper rewards to
archaeologists for discoveries,
and to see . that authorized bodies
only are permitted to "dig" on
ancient sites.
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Sturdy Fellows —
And A Sturdy Ship
During the brief gray span of
sub-arctic darkness in the wee
hours of August 20, 1890, a black.
bearded mariner beat on the door
of the telegrapher's house in the
whaling town of Skjaervo near
the North Cape of Norway.
A sleepy face leaned out of an
upstairs window and an angry
voice cried: "Hallo, what's the
matter? Deuce of a noise to
make at this time of night!"
"I come from the Fram," sang
out the cheerful voice below,
"Has Hansen arrived?"
Right off it dawned on the
man upstairs this must be Capt.
Otto Sverdrup. All Norway knew
of Otto Sverdrup, mate of the
Franz; and how Doctor Nansen
had purposed to turn the com-
mand over to him, and for
Sverdrup to let the Fram work
her patient, long-suffering way
out of the polar ice drift and,
once free, to head for home.
Meanwhile, Nansen and Lieuten-
ant Johansen were to strike out
alone over the polar sea with two
dog sleds in an efort to nail the
Norwegian flag to the North
Pole. My, what an age that was
—when men went places afoot!
After three years of arctic si-
lence the suspense was over, Sev-
en days before the skipper of the
'Pram woke the town, the Skja-
ervo telegraph had brought word
from Vardo, Norway, that Doc-
tor Hansen had landed that day
from the British Jackson-Harms-
worth Arctic Expedition's ship,
the Windward, and that all was
well with Hansen and Johansen
after their Homeric sledge jour-
ney over the frozen polar sea to
86° 14' north latitude.
The pair had lasted out the
winter of 1895-96, in a snow hut
on the northwest coast of 'for-
bidding Franz Josef Land in
their gruelling trek back to ci-
vilization. Sverdrup and the
other 10 Norwegians had snug-
ged it out in the fort-sided From
as she inched her way through
that third and final winter.
Caught in the implacable grip
of the polar pack, _the ice-fast
Pram drifted through 40 degrees
of high west longitude, almost
without starting a seam.
And now it was all over, here
in the town of Skjaervo where
Sverdrup and his men made the
birch leaves quake with hearty
Norse . cheers. Nansen and Jo-
hansen were home safe, too,
The telegrapher gathered up
their reactions and packed them
into a letter, to a Christiania
newspaper. "And did they re-
joice!" exclaimed the excited
corespondent up there under the
icy eaves of North .Europe, His
letter went on to quote frag-
ments of their pubilant remarks.
"'What a day this is! What joy!
And what a curious coincidence
that Nansen., should arive on the
same day that we cleared the
last ice and steered homeward?
And they congratulated each
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