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• •• Beyond the athlctio magnificence of
the British Empire Games, climal<ed by
the greatest mile race in history, there
glittered all the greatness anti the solid-
arity of the Empire itself. Fundamen-
tally, this was an Olympic Games among
friends, and the example of aportSmen-
ship is something I very much doubt the Olyunniea could
match, with or without Russia. •
Quite apart from record performances was the imposing
array of nationalities within the Empire that posted vic-
tories or scored points. England, .Jamaica, Scotland, Pak-
istan, Australia, Canada, South Africa', Uganda Hong Kong,
Northern Ireland, Trinidad, Nigeria New Zealand were
all on the list, which reminds you that the British Empire
and Commonwealth, despite economic ups and downs in
these troubled times, is still quite an institution.
this Anda it made you feel proud of the aport tradition of
BannisterraEnd Lend at with minions looking on, two runners,
Landy put on a miracle display of speed and
stamina. They might have loafed along, outside the 4 -min-
ute area, and still have won. But with -literally the eyes
of the world upon them, Landy disdained to withdraw be-
cause Of a 4 -stitch cut in one foot kept the injurysecret
lest it might be thought he was establishing an alibi. And
so, they put on a magnificent display of speed courage,
and class, the greatest cinder --path battle in world history.
These Games provided an added thrill to any thinking
Britisher, because Britatn is the cradle of sports, and can
boast that it was the original developer of more strictly
international modern sports than any other nation.
In the list we may include boxing soccer, footfall,
cricket, rugby, track and Heid, polo, thoroughbred horse
racing, tennis and golf. -
And the thought dame to us that if the far-flung Empire
and Conunonwealth countries could enter the Olympic
Games as a unit, instead of 25 or so separate countries' as of
today, it would be a major threat to the United States',
continued Olympic supremacy.
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BRING HOME THE BACON—Joseph Lengauer's 300 -pound pig
gave birth to a record litter of 21 pigs on his Seeshaupt, G6ir-
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Odd Reasons For
Rtdned Romances
Which would you prefer — a
life of luxury or regular meals
of fish and chips? An English girl
ebose the latter.
She was engaged tO a South
American millionaire, but on
hearing that no one in his court-
try could cook her favourite dish
she turned him down.
Differing tastes in food have
broken up many an engagement,
Three days before their wedding,
Raymond Fritsch, of Lille,
France, jilted Danielle Carter;
They would never be happy, he
decided, because she couldn't
prepare his favourite dish of
pickled calf's head.
When a man fails to pay suf-
ficient attention to his girl it's
not surprising that she throws
him over, One has every sym-
pathy with the Yorkshire lass
who refused to marry the young
man who'd been courting her for
several months. Be made her
sit on a wooden chair all even-
ing, so, as not to disturb his dog
which was lying on the only
comfortable seat. -
Surprisingly, a man caneon-
sider. his fiancee's tastes too
much. An aircraftman was jilted
by a girl who said he was too
silly for her, as he did every-
thing she told him,
A French student made the•
same mistake. To please his
sweetheart he spent"a year walk-
ing from France to India. On his
return he found she had mar-
ried someone not quite so oblig-
ing.
Sometimes, of course, it's the
person who imposes the condi-
tions of marriage who is left on
the shelf. There's a girl in Brit-
ish Columbia who is regretting
that she ever tried to test her
fiancee. Engaged' to a wealthy
young man, she doubted if he
could survive if forced to fend
for himself. So she promised to
marry him only if he managed
to exist for a month in a hut in
a pine forest, eight miles from
the nearest house,
For thirty days he did so, eat-
ing fish and game caught by him-
self. Then he returned to the
girl with the startling announce-
ment that, having grown used
to life on his own, he'd decided
he'd prefer to remain a bachelor!
If a man begins to lose his
hair he's just as likely to lose
his girl friend, or so a Wrexham
man alleges, When he went bald
he was left in the cold.
Yet few girls care for a man
who is over -fastidious about his
appearance. Of her ex -fiancee,
a Swiss girl declared; "He was
very attractive, but he spent
more time making himself
ready for a party than I did."
A mistimed joke has colt at
least one young man his bride.
AND ly'S ALL IN LONGHAND—Pfc. William D!Silvestro, stationed
in Osaka, Japan, is all wrapped up in this stateside communique.
The letter, sent to him by his girl friend, Anne Fiore, measures
35 feet, 7 inches long, and 18 inches wide. it supposedly took
the young lady two or three months to complete the letter.
A young couple called on a Cal-
ifornian court to inquire about
a marriage licence. Said an of-
ficial in tun, "It'll cost you
a hundred' dollars."
In the same vein, the bride-
groom -to -be retorted, "What? It
isn't worth it!"
His prospective bride's sense
of humour wasn't equal to his.
Taking him seriously, she walk-
ed out on him for ever.
Not every girl who jilts a man
is to be censured. A Lancashire
girl went to join her fiancee in
South Africa. Three months lat-
er she returned home. She had
lost too much weight through
worrying about the family she'd
left behind her.
And you can't blame the Rev.
George Harvest's two fiancees
for breaking their engagements
to him. He was an absent-mind-
ed clergyman who lived in
eighteen -century Oxford.
Twice he forgot to turn up at
the church, and neither lady was
willing to forgive.
Extreme meanness on the part
Of one prospective bridegroom
led to his wedding being can-
celled. The couple found a flat
and then the girl thought about
her bridal outfit. "2 want you to
have a train fifty-six yards long,"
he said.
Surprised, she inquired why
and was told that was the exact
amount they'd need for curtains.
Mystery of Human
ding -Machines'
King George II loved all
kinds of novelties and wonders.
When he was told of a marvel-
lous . calculating boy he com-
manded his presence.
Jedidiah Buxton lived in
Chesterfield. He could not read
Or write. His parents were poor.
"Ye'll have to walk to Lun-
non," they told him; and the
boy; eight years old,set out
He duly arrived at his desti-
nation, and the King questioned
him about his journey.
"I walked 422,411 steps," Jodi-
diah told him.
"Amazing!" cried the King.
"And how long did it take you?"
"Six days, eight hours, four
minutes, twelve seconds," re-
plied the boy.
"Bless lay soul!" cried the •
King.
"Aye, that were 547,452 sec-
onds it took me," added the
small human calculating mach-
ine.
The King gave orders that
little Jedidiah was to be given
a good time during his visit to
London. It was decided he should
go to see the great Garrick act
in Shakespeare's "Richard III."
The boy sat stolidly through
the performance.
'Did you like it?" he was
asked.
He shook his head, Then he
reeled off the total number of
words spoken by each actor,
though he hadn't the least idea
what the play was about,
Nobody knows how these
amazing memory marvels hap-
pen—least of all the people who
have the astonishing faculty.
Often they don't know the ordi-
nary rules of arithmetic. •Some-
times, aside from this power,
they are stupid.
Take the case of Zerah Col-
burn, At eight he Was question-
ed by a group of mathematical,
experts and gave at once the
square root of 100,292 and after
a second's rause the cube root of
208,330,125,
• The Duke Of Gloucester, who
was interested in the unusual,
asked him: "Multiply 21,794 by
643," Back came the answer,
"But how did you do that?"
asked the Duke.
"I multiplied 65,202 by 181,"
replied the calculating boy.
"But why did you change the
factors?" he was asked, (He had
multiplied the number by three
before completing the sum.)
"What's factors?" he inquired.
The Duke explained.
"Dunne," Zerah, replied.
His brain was a brilliant cal-
culating machine, but he knew
nothing of how it worked.
George Bidder, the famous
civil engineer who had so big a
part in the building of the first
British railways, was a calculat-
ing genius. Unlike many such
marvels, he was also a very
clever man in every way.
He began at the age of six
when he would love to count
aloud—to up a million.
When other boys played
around with their marbles or
bricks, little George Bidder
played only games with num-
bers.
He used to take a lot of peas
and build them up into geomet-
ric figures. He also used marbles
to make mathematical patterns.
Before he was ten he could do
the most intricate calculations in
his head, yet he was not inter-
ested in textbook rules of arith-
metic, but used rules of his own.
When the first British railways
were being built much private
land had to be taken by the
State. There was. fierce opposi-
tion in Parliament,
Parliamentary Bar counsel are
clever men. But when one came
up against George Bidder he
met more than his match.
Up he popped with a set of
figures. And before they were
out of his mouth Bidder had
turned them upside down and
inside out.
When was famous the Insti-
tute of Civil Engineers asked
him to give a lecture and ex-
plain his calculating powers,
Ile astonished them by saying it•
was not, as generally supposed,
a matter of having a photo-
graphic memory.
"My calculations," he said,
"are done step by step, in logi-
sal order. But how I do it, and
do it so fast—why, I just can't
tell you."
Vito Mangiamele, a shepherd
boy, was among the most
astounding of child, calculating
machines.
He was hauled before the
Academy of Science, in Paris,
as a scientific curiosity.—or a
fraud.
He was asked the cube root of
3,706,416, and he gave the ans-
wer almost at once. •
Then the scientists decided to
think up one that would baffle
him.
The problem they cooked up
was terrific. It began something
like this: "What number has the
following properties that if its
cube is added to five times its
square, and then 42 times the
number, and the number 40 to
be subtracted from the result
and so on."
The learned mathematician,
having outlined the problem,
said he would repeat it.
But before he got to the end
a shrill voice piped up: "The
number is five!" And that was
right.
Sometimes the child calculator
loses the faculty before he grows
up. The mystery lies buried
deep in the subconscious mind.
Now and then nature plays the
trick of bringing this faculty to
the surface. When she does we
get a calculating genius.
Beer -loving Pigs
Casual visitors to the res-
taurant "Schuetzenhof" in Bonn,
West Germany, sometimes get
the shock of their life when a
boar comes dashing into the
dining -room.
However, in spite of its
threatening appearance the 200 -
lb. animal does not attack any-
body. Humble and dog -like, it
begs for tidbits, and quickly the
horror of the people changes
to laughter.
It was just two years ago that
a hunter presented Matthias
Schulmeister, proprietor of the
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young wild' boar. The name
"boar" stuck, but Fritzi is actu-
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Matthias nursed the young
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and perfectly mannered. .As
soon as he whistles for her, up
she rushes to her master, greet-
ing him affectionately,
"Fritzi simply adores cake and
chocolate, the sweeter thebet-
ter," explains Herr Mattias. "On
the whole, her taste is some-
what out of the ordinary. The
other day, some skittle players
in high spirits offered her a
bucket full Of beer, and Fritzi
neatly finished it off in no time."
Fritzi likes to pay, regular
visits to the nearby bus stop.
Knowing . precisely when the
busses arrive and depart, she
manages to put in an appear-
ance dead on time, in order to
accept peanuts and other dein-
tics from the. passengers.
Friends of this outsize lady
sometimes worry about what.
will happen to her later on.
They are reassured by Matthias:
"Fritzi is faithful like a dog. I
love her, and 1 sball never have
her slaughtered," he emphasises.
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