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On his head visa bowler hat;
in his right hand was an elec-
tric razor; and with his left
hand a Swedish motorist drove
along a counrty road shaving
himself, with the razor plugged
into his twelve -volt car bat-
' tery.
A police official could hardly
believe his eyes, but stopped
him, pointing out that he had
33(11, proper control of the car.
"Nonsense," replied the mo-
torist, "there are one-arrnerl
drivers who drive quite safe-
ly, aren't there?" He was tak-
en to court, but was found not
guilty of driving without prop-
er control.
• A barber in Chailottesville,
Virginia, claimed the world's
shaving speed record in 1946 by
giving one of hi customers "a
perfect shave" in sixty seconds
without any cuts or nicks. But
forty-four years earlier, a Bel-
fast barber shaved six men in
two minutes. He also shaved
one man with a carving knife
in eighty-five seconds and an-
other with a penknife in forty -
Ave seconds.
It has been calculated that a
man shaves two square miles
ef. face during his lifetime and
cuts off 250 million hairs.
Bronze razors with ivory
handles were used by the an-
cient Egyptians for shaving.
Early men also shaved with
flint, iron and pumice stone.
The first safety -razor was in-
vented in 1762 by a master cut-
ler in Paris, Jean -Jacques Per -
ret. His was a straight razor fit-
ted with a guard. The usual
type of safety -razor, with a
blade at an angle to the han-
dile, was first patented by a
Londoner, William S. Henson,
in 1847.
daYscake, she climbed the dive
1 ladder, eet light to the pet.
efieaked pads on her ehOW.-
ertii said Made her usual dive
14 et tank Of flame.
Int nothing," she says.
InftY years ago Ella saw a
pester advertising a wild west
d'iow depicting a girl on a herse
..diving into a pool of water. "1
bet 1 could do that," Ella told
her s'school. friend.
In the circus manager's office,
however, she learned that there
were no vacancies for horse
divers, but the manager offer-
ed t, train her as a flarrie-diver.
Ella literally dived at the
chancel
Though most people think it
a wonder that she has lived to
be a grandmother. Ella scoffs at
the risks. She has been in hos-
pital 'several times for injuries
sustained when hitting the wa-
ter at the wrong angh... Only
last year she bumped the side
of the tank and was dragged
from the water unconscious.
Once she hit the bottom of
the canvas and metal tank —
and escaped death only by
twisting her body in the water
to absorb the shock of the im-
pact. And in her fifty years of
tame -diving she has never once
been burned!
earing Stars
By Telescope
e•",
Secrets of outer space will
be probed this autumn with a
'wonderful new $300,000 radio -
telescope — the largest in the
world which has been erect-
ed on a remote hillside in New
England.
This radio "ear" has a sixty -
foot antenna, a huge precision -
made aluminum bowl weighing
8,000 lbs., centred on a conical
pier set in a concrete founda-
tion twelve feet deep.
The telescope is designed for
listening to the faint crackling
of radio signals sent back by
the cosmic gases of outer space.
By studying these signals, the
astronomers will be able to
trace features of the universe
that are hidden from ordinary
•telescopes which work with
visible light.
The new telescope is control-
led by motors that car turn and
tilt it to face any part of the
sky and that can . drive it to
keep pace with the stars, As-
tronomers are already calling
it "a new window on the uni-
verse,"
They believe it will enable
them to study hitherto • un-
known heavenly bodies and fix
their position with certainty in
the sky and also, to measure
their radiations — those invis-
ible waves which reach our
ea:th from the Milky Way and
other great galaxies of stars.
Nothing more fantastic than
•this new instrument has ever
been conceived by astronomer,
for it will enable them to hear
sounds which occurred millions
of years ago.
MAYBE HE USES RADAR — Parading guard at Windsor Castle,
in England, provides much amusement for members of the
Bolshoi Theatre Ballet Company. The obviously humorous sight
leaves not a straight face among the Russians, who were
performing in London.
Only
41!
ne Swavi Cha nel In 1956
So the English Channel swim-
ming season which got off to a
record start and engrossed a
record rumber of challengers
finally fizzled out a flop. Only
oneman was successful, the
loyeest tally in ten years.
Even the commercially spon-
sored annual race drawing some ,
of the worlds greatest long dis-
tance swimmers was a failure.
Only ten of the 22 originally
entered actually started from
the French coast. None managed
to get across. California's Eng-
lish born Thomas Park who fin-
ished second in the 1955 race
and who was in the water 10
hours and 20 minutes got near-
est to the English coast to with-
in five miles of it. He received
4250 an amount which the
promoter also gave to Ireland's
Jack McClelland and New Zeal-
and's Diana Cleverley for what
were considered equally meri-
torious performances.
Exactly one month after that
race McClelland was among
those who challenged again pri-
vately. This time the 32 -year-
old Belfast engineering
draughtsman was in the water
only 21/2 hours before withdraw-
ing on account of severe jelly-
fish stings. On the same tide a
16 -year-old local Dover lad,
James Granger, set off to make
history as . the youngest -ever
conqueror of this unpredictable
• strip of sea water, 21 miles wide
at its narrowest neck, Granger
• gave up after 8 hrs. 25 min.,
having covered approximately
12 miles.
The solitary successful chal-
lenger among the 40 who pre-
pared was 31 -year-old Jacques
Amyot, of Quebec. The French
Canadian completed the France
to England route in 13 hrs. in a
calm but cold sea. Temperature
of the water when Amyot waded
through the rocks beneath
Dover's famous chalk cliffs was
58 degrees'fahrenheit, some two
or three below normal for mid-
July. • But it was the earliest
ever success in 81 years of chan-
nel swimming history: July 17
was the actual date 'viith the
previous earliest, and still the
first for a woman, being Can-
' ada's champion Marilyn Bell on
• July 31, 1955.
This record early start her
alded what was thought likely
to • prove an exceptionally good
channel swimming season. In-
• stead it proved exceptionally
bad. The coldest June for 25
years was followed by the dull-
est and dampest July and Au-
gust of this century. Seasoned
channel campaigners described
it as the worst swimming sea-
son within their memory and a
bitter disappointment to the
aspirants who came from more
than two dozen countries. Some
of them after more than six
weeks patient vigil for suitable
tide and wind had to leave with-
out even trying on account of
funds having run out.
Counting • both routes the
channel has now been swum 92
times. You will not find this
total in the recently published
Channel Swimming' Associa-
tion's booklet, The explanation
for this is that many swimmers
known to have been successful
have not bothered to claim the
CSA certificate and therefore
• cannot be "recognized" by that
eouitable body created by a
band of long distance swimming
enthusiasts with Lieut. General
Lord Freyberg as their presi-
dent. The former Governor-
General of New Zealand and
holder ef the Victoria Cross
made several noteworthy at-
tempts to Mini the channel in
the early 1920's,
DORS D'OR — Diana Dors,
Hollywood's glarporous blonde
British import, literally shines
as a fashion model. She s show.
In§ off a form -fitting gold bath.
Ing suit in ihe film capital.
swim to be officially recognized
the aspirant must "walk into the
sea from the shore of departure
and swim across the Channel
until his (or her) feet actually
touch the shore on the opposite
coast." Such a ruling summar-
ily disposes of doubtful claims
by characters who disappear
from one coast at night and bob
up the next morning on the
other side accompanied by a
motor launch.
Except to a. record breaker,
swimming the Channel has lit-
tle commercial value these days.
The majority of aspirants are
characters who swim long dis-
tances for the sheer satisfaction
it gives them and the urge to
pit their strength and skill
against the hazards of a very
historic strip of sea water. In
some cases funds are subscribed
to enable a local lad or lass to
make good but nearly all are
self -sponsored and will pay out
of pocket from $200 upward for
the privilege.
Objects of the CSA are "to
investigate the claims of per-,
sons to have swum the 'English:
• Channel and to assist with in-
formation and advice those in-
tending to make attempts." Its
honorary secretary is a Folke-
stone police inspector, Bill
Ploydd, who says that for a
The minimum amount that
can be spent on an attempt is
made up of $150 for the hire of
accompanying boat and pilot;
$45 for the boat during train-
ing swims; and $15 for special.
food, chart and covering grease.
If the aspirant desires the pres-
ence of a 'CSA official an addi-
tional six guineas must be add -
d. Only very occasionally do
swimmers succeed at their first
attemtps and only a -few at their
second. So it can be reckoned
that it costs these Channel chal-
lengers on average around $600.
for the satisfaction of doing
something the hard way in 10
hours or more which they could
do 40. times over the easy way,
by plane, in something like 10
minutes or less.
Fifty Years f
Flame -Diving
Slim Ella Carver ranks
among the world's most glam-
orous grandmothers. Yet at
sixty-four, when most women
are content to stay put, she
regularly climbs to ninety -foot
ladder, sets fire to herself —
and jumps.
Her four grandchildren think
that she ought to take things
easy, tending her little caravan
home and knitting. . But Ella
revels in being the world's•
champion flame -diver 'and says
.that she expects still to be able
to fire -jump, do the splits and
turn ,cartwheels at seventy.
Recently, this startling old
lady celebrated her 34,000th
flame -dive and her birthday on
the same day, Instead of light-
ing the candles on her birth -
ONE OUT OF 18,000 — Jean
Seberg, 17 -year-old, has won
the role of "Saint Joan" in •the
projected screen version of Ber-
nard Shaw's play. Producer -
director Otto Preminger picked
Joan after a 37 -day competition,
which called forth 18,000 ap-
plications from t he United
Slates and Canada. The film
will be shot in London, Eng-
land,..next January.
You natio
1.11UT
.) IF you fEel
LIAN
These days most people work under
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Today's tense living, lowered resistance,
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