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£ THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, April 15 1958 BRITISH JET BOMBER UNVEILS NEW BRAKE DEVICE A British Avro Defla-Wing Vulcan jet bomber i§ shown be- ing braked on landing at London with the new ribbon parachute that is released from a tail com- partment to supplement the bom- Some Sidelights of London + ber's regular brakes, which may | be seen extending above and be- | | low the wings. The Vulcan, a medium bomber.powersd by four | jets, has been called a "dram- | atic leap in British aviation.' Along the Coronation Route This article by Leomard Wib- berley, appeared recently in the Los Angeles Times. Let us, by way of amusement, desert southern California for a | while, and imagine ourselves to be comfortably part in the route of the coronation procession along which Queen Eli- zabeth will travel June 2. We might start at what is per-| haps the oldest stone in London. | It lies between Westminster Ab-| bey, where the coronation will take | place and St. Margaret's hard by. How this one cane to survive the vicissitudes of time is little short of a miracle. It is nothing more than a slab set in the ground ond on it 18 engraved the cipher "T H."" The stone was put there by some earn- est surveyor in the time of the Roman occupation of Britain and, according to antiquarians, it is 1000 years older than the oldest stone in the hoary abbey. Just what "'T H" stands for is hard to say, and what happened te "T I," M indeed there was such | Bat | 8 mark remiins a mystery. Ba there it is, 2000 years old, and it will Be there a thousand years from now, no doubt. cross over Parliament Square past the Houses of Parlia- ment, or, to give them their of- the close of the 10th eemtury, but was destroyed by fire more than 100 years ago. The Duke of Wellinglon is re- | sponsible for the present Parlia- | ment building being erected right | on the edge of the river, He ar- gued that in this way the mem- bers could deliberate ia security Down tie off st the lower is, of sourse, the resi. prime minister. It is to Perliament and R if the prime minister out of No, 10 twice during course of the day the effect on the stock exchange is catastrophic, HH HE IN has now been turned into a museum, and it was from a win- dow on the second floor that Char- les I stepped out onto a scaffold Jan. 30, 1649, to be executed. He was quite cheerful the morn- ing of his execution, walking Every 9 pause wrapped in heavy | coats and scarves and taking a briskly from St. James's Palace (London's full of palaces) and | calling to his guards to hurry up | as he did not relish the sharp nip in the air. Whitehall Palace seems to have been an ominous place for the Stuart Kings. On the roof of what | remains of it there is a weatiher- | cook. It was put there by James | II in 1688. He was the last of the Stuarts and was displaced by Wil- liam of Orange, who came over from Holland, James wanted the weathercock 80 a8 % know when the winds | were favorsble for ships to sail from Holland to England. Thus he | would have plenty of warhing on 'when to escape, and the weather- cock served him well, for he got got away in good time, | Whitehall leads into Trafalgar Square where dhe Nelson monhu- | ment--a huge column with a fig- ure of the admiral atop--domin- ates this part of London. At the | far side of the square is A one-man police station, I is nothing more than a cup- board of stone, with windows ar- ound it and a telephone inside con- nected with headquarters. Trafal- gar Square la a great place for mess meetings, and the stone cupboard allows the policeman to see what's going on without being crushed and eall up if there's any | trouble. : On top of the one-man police | staton is something far more in- teresting--one of the huge lamps off Nelson's ship, the Victory, on which he was killed at Trafalgar. onation route we have to turn_left now down Pall Mall. This at one time was & sort of court where a game called pell mell was played | (nothing to do with cigarettes) and past 8t. James's Palace. Bt. James's Palace was started lin the 16th eenwiry 8& & hopital. | Henry VEI (the man who had all | She wives) converted it into A hunting lodge for himself and Anne | | Experts say the ribbon type 'chute developed to shorten the landing runs of jets and bombers Projected Memorial To John McCormack lone, where the river Shannon flows, 4 monument may soon rise to keep the memory of John Me- Cormack as green as the sham- rock itself. It wa® At Athlone that "the finest tenor that ever came out of Ireland" was born 60 years ago next June, and here are plans to make the humble house of his birth a national memorial. In ad- dition, a scholarship fund is being created to train promising young singer's. That Jack McCormack remains a figure of legend and glamor in his native land seven years after his death will surprise no one of the millions who saw or hear dhim, writes Leslie Cross in The 'Mil- wattkee Journal. His incredible voice, with dramatic expression. as a florid, dark haired, rather haps too great a fondness for good takes the sudden opening shock load more efficiently and makes , a smaller and lighter pack. food and drink and gay compan- | ionship. Convivial and winning throughout his life, he was famous its eerie high notes, | gave Irish song probably its most Most Americans remember him | A8 he appeared late in his cAreer-- | portly Irish gentleman, with per- | Foley. A dark slender youth of 18, Me- Cormack landed In New York in 1904. A barber charged the young foreigner $1.75 for a shave and a | haircut--an exorbitant price that rankled. He sang at the St. Louis i fair for six wees, then quit be- cause he felt the Irish village there gave Americahs A misleading im- | pressiun of his native country. | Besides' he was dreaming of a | more ambitious career. He Went back to Ireland and with the help | of friends arranged to 'train in Italy {under Vincenzo Sabatini, a cele- [brated maestro and the father of | the future novelist Rafael Saba- | tini. Under the name Giovanni Foli (borrowed from Lily's surname), he made his operati¢ debut at An- cona in 1906 in Mascagni's "Ami- co Fritz." In the same year he married Lily, against her family's wishes, for he had ne money and only uncertain prospects. | The young couple found engage- | ments in England, and in 1907 John | sang at a gathering of colonial | premiers who were in London for | an imperial conference. Soon af- Central Press Canadian | for his friendships (they included |térward John made a sensational dilly and Park Lane to Marble Arch, which 'stands at the north- { ern corner of Hyde Park. It does- i n't really belong there for it was intended as an entrance archway | to Buckingham Palace commem:- | | orating at the same time Lord | Nelson. But it was moved from the palace to ils present site, some say so that people could see it from both sides. Marble Arch stands on what was orice Tyburn Hill where felons were hanged in public. A hanging used to be a great event attracting enormous crowds. The last hanging was in 1788, and although there is a triangular plaque in the ground marking the site of the gallows, most Londoner's don't know about it. OIL LINGO LINGERS ONCE YOU HEAR IT SASKATOON (CP)---Colorful lan: guage used in the oil-drilling busi- ness is enough to make a green- horn scratch his head in dismay. ing supplies firm here and hear & drill boss order some "mud," a | such sporting celebrities as Jack | Dempsey and Gene Tunney, and he had a quick Irish smile and an | equally quiok Irish temper. He had | Irish generosity, too, and his charities weré spectacular. But John MeCormack might easi- | Appearance at London's great op- era house, Convent Garden, And he was on his way. { OUTSOLD CARUSO | After a series of London success- | es, he returned to AmericA--this | times ae 4 star for Oscar Hammer- It's possible to walk into a drill- | {ly 'have missed being an Irishman. stein's new Manhattan opera eom- Not many years before his birth, | pany. Soon he appeared at the his parents had been living in 8cot- | Metropolitan, and there were bril- | land, and his mother was of Scotch | liantly successful concerts, as well, | blood. And John himself spent more | His phonograph récords sold phe- of his life outside of Ireland than | nomenally. His popularity among lin it. Durif} his last 20 years he | record buyers threatened to over- | was an American citizen. | whelm even that of the great Fn- | Bven more easily, John might |fico Caruso, whom he idolized. A | have missed being a professional | few years before he died John re- | singer. The McCormacks were a called: | singing family, but John's voice| I Touched my peak at cloge on | was not considered exoeptional. He | $300,000 one year, and that beat | was recognised as A bright lad at | Caruso. Eneico, when he heard of Bligo collegé, an unpretentious lo- |'it, spi with a laugh. "Oongratu- onl s0hool, Mut his father, an em- | lations, Mac, But don't let it hap- ployee at & woolen mill, could not | pen again!" | EHiond to pay for additional school= When talking piotures were de- | Ing. The president of the school | veloped, it was natural for Holly- | thought John ought to try for a wood to think of John eCormack. | scholarship at the Dublin Oollege | In 1020 he was paid nearly half a of Science. Thirteen scholarships | million dollars for his singing role were offered, and John, who hoped | in "Song o' My Heart," which was 10 become an engineer placed 14th. | filmed partly in Ireland and partly | WON NATIONAL 'SING' | in Qalifornia. | @o0 John, dwecouraged, wen{ to | Dublin to take an examination for he confined himself chiefly to the In the later years of hia career, | "Christmas tree." a 'boomer' and |® Sovernment clerkship. While he | concert stage. Then at 84, he re- maybe even a "pig."" | sbudied for the tests, he sang in | tired. His voice, th not inocon- All can be bought in Saskatche- | church and before small groups. | siderable. had lost the fine free- wan and if they're needed in a Mis singing helped him forget his dom it had in easlier days. Iaix- (hurty they can be flown to the buyer at no extra cost. ! t the original cost might strike the layman as fantastic. Mud rang- es in price for $1.70 a hundred pounds to $1.15 a pound. To regular customers who can't' do without it, the money 18 unimportant. | The price of Christmas trees will rock the steadiest nerves, runnidg all the way from $275 to $1,300. They'd neyer look quite right in the corner of a living room. The oil business understands mud as & mixture of betonite clay and rotary tools. The Christmas tree is a weird contraption of valves fitted on top of the production eas- ing in a flowing well. Oil flow ia controlled through it, The pig, also known a8 a "go- devil" is a cylindrical Apparatus [with blades fitted to the forward lend. It is forced through pipelines under pressure a8 & means of cleaning and scraping the inside. Boleyn and it is now the residence of the Queen Mother, | Buel Palace, across Mt. | James's Park, is the residence of | the Queen, and it is acclaimed the | coldest bullding in Europe. Fires won't warm #t and central heating | disappointment. | A leading Dublin musician, Vin- cent O'Brien, heard John. With | O'Brien's encouragement, John be: gan to drearh of a career in music: | After some weeks of training, he | entered a national singing festival, | the Feis Ceoll, and won first prise in the tenor class. A winnef in an- | other class was a pretty, dark hair ed girl named Lily Foley. In a | tirjous living had done him no good. | At one time he soquired a race | Ing stable, commenting: '"There's | more money in horse flesh than in singing. I read that in Ireland a race horse sold for £75,000, and what do you suppose I would fo a8 a tenor?" But his horses were | & singularly unlucky lot, and after | sporting them for a while he sold | them. Mis concert. income was once | few years she wae to become Mrs. | estimated at 878,000 a year. | John MeCormack. 'A year later,| John's last concert tour was in | another tenor tried for the Fels | Ireland. eners wept 4s he sang # we're going to follow the cor- chemical used when drilling with | Ceoll prise, but failed to win it. | "Farewel iy Gentle Marp." "The | He was James Joyce, to become | Star of Oounty Down" "I hear | famous as the author of "Ulysses. | You Ounlling Me" and other old | With his gold medal, John found | favorites. From one farewell audi- | | himself in modest demand at con- | ence there were cries of "Why? |oerts in Dublin and other Irish | Why?" | cities. Then one James Riordan, | "It's hard work for a grand- | recruiting talent for the Irish vil- | father," John explained simply. |lngd at dhe St. Louis world fair,| He bought a big house at Boot- | persuadéd John to try his luck in | ers-town in Oounty Dublin, and it America. Another singer who ' was there that he died in 1946. Trade in SALE we tum right up St. | | James's St. This is Where all the clubs are -- Boodie's, the Carlton | White's and Brook's. The fate of political parties and their leaders | has often been decided in their i decorous roomé. On then by the way of Picca- job needs for Coke ") NEW Miraculous Wringer! So Safel Jost pull bock en the clothes when you won 10 release it and i Hops quicker than thought, D.ominion WASHERS Just amived! Wonderful new Dominion Washers, exactly the same as shown here. And, you should see them! They've got everything. Looks... pod bad action . , , safety . . . ht a mesh running powerful mechanism. 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John reddened, "Who the hell," he demanded loudly, "is this major general? | And what does he mean by rush- | ing in here and giving his opinion | unasked?" : Other performers tried to quiet | him. "That's the famous COmpos- | er, 8ir Bdward Elgar," they whis- | pered. i "Thank God, his music is better | than his manners," John retorted. | John did not overcome ms an- | noyance until mutual acquaintances | [brought the two men together | #1 years later. Then they became | good friends. i | In his later years John felt that | | singing had declined since his early | [days as 'an artist. He told his | { ffiend and biographer, L. A. G. Btrong: | "In singing we have gone off the | gold standard where is there any- | | one to set beside Caruso or Plancon | or Battistini or Jean de Reske? Broadcasting has had a terrible | , effect on singing. Since broadcast- | ing has compe, you can never tell wheter a voice ia lyrical or dra- | matic. In fact, you can't tell whe- | ther it's a voice at all. The thin- | | nest of pipey little feminine squeaks | | ean be made to sound like a Ta- | | magno by electric energy over a loudspeaker and a pidnissimo can be produced by manipulating some | blasted gadget in the control room | The young singer of today doesn't UK Begins | Survey of 'A-Shelter Needs LONDON (CP)--A survey of the | | more vulnerable areas of Britain | is being undertaken by the home | office to determine shelter require- mente against A possible atom' | bomb attack in event of another | War. H In a pamphlet entitled, "Civil Defence and the Atom Bomb," it is disclosed that the general pro- gress of shelter planning already | is well advanced. To ensure that the best use is made of available | resources local authorities in likely | target zones have been asked to! formulate proposals on regional | shelter needs and suggest how they can be provided. | The leaflet primarily seeks to arouse keener interest in the coun-| try's civil defence organization and underscores previous assurances that there is a defence against atom bombs. | CONTINUOUS TESTS AREF STUDENTS HAVE THEIR DRY BY day in the lives of students at t e Agricultural School Col- | lege Royal at Kemptville, near Ottawa, is the annual show in which prizes are awarded. Rob- ert Bennet of Elginburg, Ont, have to study for years to acquire a vocal technique. is a microphone technigque--what- ever that ls One thihg more. Nowadays every- one seems to suffer from the imita« |. tion mania. The ambition of the younger singer of today seems to be that he should be claimed as a | second somebody or other. 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