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-s mi 4 wirthe PAO 4-rBVBNINa STANDARD MONDAY DECEMBER 31 ICON SKI-CAP BRIDE IS A FAIRY QUEEN 'been put on the British book market 4938 -were reprints and new 1 editions In the United States rather more of the handful hi become British during th Twar 1 1 "I aid TiaEL NICOLSON choice1 for Bournemouth Brendan Bracked seat was on a short list WM Pul -i Runper-up was Mr Joh Wyndham brother-in-law Lord Crantxvne MP t0 Bournemouth West Cranl borne exerted all his perl suaslve powers to get Wyndl ham the nomination: he a formidable advocate The also-rans The other contestants fa the nomination were: R01 'Harrod 11 rvlnnal rwSPP 'W 81 B52K Rochester and Chatham October Mr Grant-Ferris- who fought Wands-I worth Central in October I Both nurrM daughters! of Captain Valentine Mauricl Wyndham-Quin RN younger! son of garl of Dunraven 1 "VEARLY five years after' the death of the fourth Marquess of Salisbury the question of death duties is Still unsettled Lord Salisbury died in 1947 He Left only £317457 Reason for this was that In' 1936 he had formed a private company to manage his affairs It was called the Gascoyne Cecil Estates Com-? pany capital £3100000 Salisbury was governing director for life His son the present Marquess was the other director held one share each-All the other shares were held by another private company hlch Salisbury's two blethers Lords Cedi and Qulckswood were- the directors £400000 property sold It ls believed that the estate has received an unex-pec ted claim for death duties based on the fact that Lord Salisbury continued to direct the- management of the estate up to his death and to enjoy the benefits of It Under the Gascoyne Company's articles of association -the present Lord Salisbury1 was to become governing director on the death of his father In 1949 two years after his death this provision was deleted by special resolution Since his death Lord Salisbury has sold property totalling more than £400000 In value The bill A representative of Lord Salisbury was asked If the earlier sales were made to pay off death duties His answer was: They were not made for that purpose but subsequent events may cause the money to be used for death Duty paid on the Salisbury estate was £118826 If duty were assessed on £3100000 the estate company capital the executors would be liable to pay at the top 1947 rate of 75 per cent £2325000 Exit Gilbert Frankau 0" ec ember 22 last a woman died' In Cleveland Ohio She was a spinster 52 years old and dying gave her a distinction that she had lacked In fife Posthumously she became the millionth person to be killed by a car In the United States The fallen leaf Is soon concealed by others and Miss Million's place In the casualty list Is obscured already by the 900 further road deaths which have taken place In the United States since then But In the brier stir which her passing made it was noted that while It had taken from the Battle of Lexington In 1775 until the Korean war for the enemies of America to kill a million of her soldiers the Americans with the sole aid of the car had slaughtered an equal number of themselves since 1899 Here also in Britain we keep the score with adding machines The latest British million was reached in June 1951 being the total of all road casualties fatal and non-fatal during the preceding six years of peace This was some 50000 more than the total of war casualties military and civilian for the six years 1939 to 1945 Shambles of death The highway has become the shambles of western civilisation bloodier than the massacres of the barbarian world To face the fact Is half-way towards conquering it It means to suffer with the victims to be rocked by glimpses of the sorrow that bereaved parents feel to be tom In heart and conscience Until the people are so aroused In themselves road widening speed limits and all mechanical schemes for safety can ensure little It Is a question of morals and education And In this regard the British' 1 are immoral and uneducated The Chief Constable of a large city has said that a quarter of all the accidents in his area are caused by dogs and that It is the same in other towns Yet what has this same official to say about a proposal to make It unlawful to take a dog on the highway without a leash Why he is against It because It would be unpopular A guilty nation It would be unpopular and an Infringement on the liberty of dogs to prevent them running loose In the street It would be discriminatory and an Infringement on the liberty of cyclists to make them use cycle-paths It would be an Infringement on the liberty of pedestrians to restrict them to some parts of the road when motorists can use all of it- It is an Infringement on the liberty of motorists to make them go slow when they have bought cars that can go very fast This is how a guilty nation hides from the shame that should rend by making road-safety a battleground for sectional recrimination When will people make acknowledgment of common responsibility In this matter? How many will make it their New Year resolution that whenever the walk ride or drive they wl behave as a human being endowed with conscience and entrusted with another human happiness? than- 11000 books have appeared including about appeared in 2500 reprints Why do we publish more books than the Americans? Because oui publishing industry is not so highly geared as theirs for mass sales" 7 Canadians9 choice US book-production costs are higher UJS publishers must sell more copies than ours to make a profit' Average price of British books In 1951 -was Just over UIAIU UIIW WM JUSlK UTC1 13s American: books sell for about twice The price difference does at deter Canadians from preferring American books British publishers began to lose the Canadian market after 1918 it has never been recaptured Men from 2 1116 most success-' ful men In British publishing to-day Is a bulky restless man who came here from Austria to get married in 1938 He is Wolfgang' Foges who built up the Adprint undertaking from -a £1000 company to a £200000 group Mr Foges came here because he wanted to marry a German glrL laws forbade It he has some Jewish ancestry After their marriage he and his wife decided to stay In Vienna he had edited A fashion magazine Here he founded Adprint In 1937 and their first 'work was producing fashion catalogues British since 1943 Now their activities Include colour printing machines new methods of picture reproduction and new mapprinting processes Publications range from Illustrated essays to picture-books -with gramophone records attached When Adprint were given the monopoly of selling advertising space In all Festival of Britain official catalogues Mr Herbert Morrison was questioned In the House of Commons His attention was drawn to the fact that 81r Edwin Plowden the Government Chief Planner was a -director (without fees) of Adprint Foges Is 41 He and his rwlfe have a house at Hamp? stead and -one son An inveterate cigarette-smoker he has an electric lighter plugged-ln beside his desk He was naturalised in 1913 me more than any film I have seen since Best Years of our 1 ff Lives rrMPSON HARMAN fcVLNWC NtWS Brilliantly acted well written and vtrj human It is magnificently acted1 'J A i 1 1 i i I 1 A kiss for Jacqiielino St CIcro stage1 name of Jacqeeline Wadswertk after her marriage to-day to Mr Frank Staff 33-vcar-old ballet-master with a Paris company Miss St Clere who is 21 it the Fairy Queen at a West End pantomime For her wedding she were a woollen ski-P- charged 5s for 20 cigarettes which usually cost 3s 9d He protested He was told that nobody had complained before and that cigarettes were only stocked "for the convenience of customers" Too many restaurants put mis an exaggerated price on particular- Ivor flat TVOR NOVELLO died last March but I find that his flat In Aldwych is the same now as it was when he was alive old friend Robert -Andrews still lives there and Novello's housekeeper looks after It There too Is' the office of the company Novello formed to run his affairs and business manager works there Leslie Mitchell's income cut by 25 er cent of his contract as a regular interviewer in Picture Page means a big financial loss to tall suave Leslie Mitchell A quarter of his Income as a free-lance will go His other Interests are -sound radio broadcasting and commentat-lng for a newsreel Decision to drop Mitchell as a regular follows' the transfer of Picture Page oldest TV programme in the world to the light entertainment department Interviewers will be chosen for each subject in the magazine This does not mean the end of association with the programme He will be used occasionally Festival Hall drinks A DRINKS-ALL-THE-TIME licence Is being sought for the Festival Concert Hall Mr Lindsay Ring of the City firm of Ring and Brymer who handle the Festival Hall catering tells me: "The original limited licence was first granted to the LCC It was handed over to us and we shall make the new application In February" At present drinks can be served In the Festival Hall only on days when a concert Is being held His LCC contract If the new form of licence Is granted will the LCC profit? Mr Ring beyong telling me that his contract with the LCC runs for "a number of would only say It Is very complicated and when it conies to contracts I have learned to keep quiet" More British books 11RITISII publishers hold the lead over the Americans in the number cf fastenings of his patent shoes were jammed Falr-halred 26 year old Miss Hazel Staples senior assistant purser came to his rescue She took the shoe by taxi from the quayside to a shop The zipper wa? freed No charge was made by the shop when they found who owned the shoe In 40 minutes the shoe was back In Mr eabln and he was -about again as the liner moved away He sent Miss Staples -a message of thanks' Her home Is In Formby Lancs She has -been with the Cunard Line five years Lord I double There Is confusion on Queen deck (port side sunny exposure) In 60' Is Lord Ismay In Cabin 1071s his double Mr' LORD ISMAY His double en beard i -T mi 1 'A CHARLES PRIOR American leeks like peer Charles Prior deputy chairman of an American business firm Prior Is wearing a duffle coat It helps to avoid he said He added: I have been besieged by photographers mistaking me for Lord Ismay for 36 Ismay is 64 Prior 56 Restaurant cigarettes REPORTED recently that A one West End restaurant charged 10s a glass for an ordinary sherry A man tells me to-day that at another restaurant he was GILBERT FRANKAU has wJ roclortu resigned as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literal ture He prgpnsed Dennis Wheatley the thriller-writer for the Fellowship: but the Council turned It down offered Wheatley ordinary membership Frankau has left in a huff Said Wheatley to-day I told Gilbert not- to resign over me could not care The great unknowns Said Frankau About half- the FRSLs are people nobody has heard Said the secretary: agree there are many Fellows who ought not to be That Is why we are applying stricter standards Test Is: has the writer produced literature of value? The pres'dent Is Mr Butler Chancellor of the Exchequer Recent new Fellows include Aldous Huxley Pritchett William Sansom Agatha Christie Churchill flying back WHEN Mr Churchill returns to London from his United' States and Canadian tour he will not cross the Atlantic by steamship I learn that he and the senior members of his Sarty will fly from Montreal BOAC air-linen Mr Churchill got up this rooming aboard the Queen Mary and found the zipper QnrroniA 773 1 il 3 uuermrior I 2 The intelligence Department I 'w Urr! ANDREWS McGUIRE FARlfl GRANGER DOW it! 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