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PRESIDENTIAL CAROD-- Shown Eisêrihower's seoson's greetihg! Ietter;ng on the fronit arêemir downi the side of the cover. Beards Are Popular Over In Britain Whiy do 'beards and mnustaches atppear to bue mnre popular at prese'nt on this side of! the Atiani- ic than in the United States? Some days as 1I walk along Lonidon streets, it seems as if every l0th manl is sporting whiskers an his face. Not îust unIiversiýty s tu d ents, aithough tIhey h kave them. Not just artis- tic- types, or radiçals, or military men, ither. But ail sorts, tramn weaithy, distinguishied N, u b a r Guibenikian to the unknown mnan with tLhe recl bush who juist stral- led past our office. Yet whenever 1 arn stalking onre, ta illustrate my point, al Landon's bearded men suddenily seem to go into hiding. A recent Punch cartoon, how- ever, confirmis y suspicions about the growing prevalence - or rather, the prevalence of growing-of hirsute adornment. It shows a social gatbering where ail the men in the roomr have beards except one, Ad tow that one, who is looking very glum, a female is chirping: "I mrust say you look very distin- guished without your beard," Or take 'the case of a fellow hiaircuis rhes, ne cnavea Jas, 'How I re- p. Now tat bis ut of hîding, his ri on the street, es complain hza ýce apy' more. ýs made bis New rd and join the ly is that miaie, ir quest for tîdi- ýp their hiair cut ost Europeans- iat this zeai rau- to the adj'cent Thus Anicans îturdoveryhe c1ean-shmicn, !y 'l Brian, the abeinrquent. t as long as i cTbh é i flt le netstep for ýn is to ]et their down until they chin. explaidianfor pr-evaïlnce ,of iis a cp>'of Presideit and Mrt. gs card for 1960, The ecg-le and ibossed ini gold. A red boand runs a, nation where the men are imoted for their sartorial conser- vatism and coniformity. But cer- tain of rny Britishl colleagu-es as- sure mne it now has bec(,me, s-tylish to be di!! erent and that, one need no longer shaPve "to keep up appea"rances."' In this country, beards have been in and out o! fashion, from the earltest edayvS. When wigs came la, face bair went out, and vice versa. At the timie of Wa- terlua, only miiitary men had mnustaches, aa,-d a civilian mas deemed! a gay blade indleed i f ha let hîs lip-hair proliferate. Atter the CrnpmanWar, "howV- (ever, the custom becamue more genieral at homre, and in this cen- tury King Ed-ward VII nn& King George V were magnifici--ntly bearded Bitish m-onarchs. Th e 'Royal Navy historically bas been a strongha'ld o4' nonsbavers. At sýea, a beard m-ay be a matte, of warmrth and alwahrcnei exnce. More recently, Worl War il saw the evolution of' the bx'ist- ly buit colcrifl and p pudar RAF miustache. Ia a surprisiag am ber of cases tLhese ouitgrowths survive intact today. 1 personally have founi-d it pos- sible to grow, but imipossible ta retain, whiskers. Once when I returned after a ieng,_thy stay ini I Korea 1 boasted a commendable mustache. But my famiiy booed and boycotted me until 1 was. forced ta whisk it ofi. M\lore re- cently, m'y vwif'e and ehildreni 1have insisted I oughit to bave anl eiectric shaver for Christmaasa- tbough I1air quite satisfied with niy current brush and biade. Thiey seem to have a horror of, aaything growing on my fa.ce. Especially muittton -ichops. Uts rather od-ahod0f thiemi, dontyo thiak? Some Vagories 0f Lady Luck Lady Luck Nwas as !lfckie as ever in Britain iast rnonth, Two instances: A week after. he hadi playfully tossed 21 p>ound-notes (ot $58>into a blazing t ire, 18- mn-odPaul Co-xwa given a chaince to rde iel.Atter Putt'ing ,a crayon in liÈs hndhis mothier Mr.s. No111ma Co-, of Ox- ford-, Jet him mark upl a f ootbail- pool coupon. Paul put crayon marks againist. tbrames of eigbt teams, al 0f them on and the pool padc'£id f arcuord $1I21,192 forý a coupon that cost bis pa- runts a farthing (one haýif o! a centi),. On beave from a reform school five years ago, Dennis Bridges, 22, iost his let t leg rescuing a dag frorm in front o! an onrush- ing train. 1le was. aw-arded the animal VC nmedal and $2,800 ne- ward money. Last week, xhiie3 servig a tev-ot sentence for neceiving engos Bidges escaped tram aR prisoil olini e. Hli ad limped off ta wiýtiln- hait a 1Yile of wherebi fir.st accident occureýd wheen i- Cther train hi hlm Thie timle ho leÊt his rlght ioot, ori gin of iiunie" mng his troops in Floddixn Field in -to rally them wil 1. nre. "Home! Hlimel" Ail too w\illin,, the< warriors d liexlceIurtn, ui'ý rame " was ProL- vounced"hm . But Hilîmes is pronounced-(, "homeS." Namnes of French origin areý ai challenging lot anywhere in the English - speaking worid,' but here they get the n-o-non- sense treatment one would cx- piect from an insuflar peopiec .l-nowni for their phlegrn and s-elf-confidenec. Beauchampbe- Comes "beechamr," and Beauilieuý1, much in the inews recently as the acene of jazz festivals and ja)zz neats, is nothi-ng else but "bewvli." Aýnd where else would Bouchier cotme out "ace, as in "'V- cherý.," or d'Aguilar become d- Gillespie, Gilmour and Gjiroy a.re givTen the hard "G," as Jin "plliy," but Gillingham, is jil- iUnpm," as in "gee> ter," "Sissi Leominstei ter," and The Bri casual, toc in "bono siopes otf MarIborotq course wil Does th hias maste sider Han A citizen cat jme The figbhi ran over witb a truc lasted for ti slure of rïches of the de- Vrast unl- umnts cotý succelSs and sa- of mnr Sof the RI TRANSF New Nit US