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‘.. That was just one of the many unusual incidents that have inâ€" wolved . greyâ€"haired, yet . still sprightly looking, Dick, who is As they struggled to get the heavy case out, Dick‘s suspiâ€" cions were aroused by the sight of a jimmy lying on the back seat. So he made a note of the ‘man‘s appearance, the number, make and so on of the car, \and later gave these particulars to the police. Not lorg afterâ€" Wards the man was arrested; he had robbed a cinema of its takâ€" Angs and had pulled off a sucâ€" cession of similar robberies in "the district. The heavy case had ‘been loaded with his safeâ€"breakâ€" ing equipment. ‘fiâ€",‘\ man was leaning against e w about ten yards away om t stall. His paper was afolded in front of him, comâ€" Metely hiding his face. For a momen . the newsâ€"vendor was baffled. ‘Not many of his cusâ€" :‘;, ts left him with over two whillings change in his hand Acting on a hunch, he told a ceman who was passing. , The policeman approached the ma and spoke to him. There ‘Was a scuffie, then the man was ‘hustled away by the officer. Bater, the newsvendor, sixtyâ€" A â€"old Dick, learned that his unusual customer had escaped from a mental hospital. He had mthe policeman and had atâ€" 7 ted to hide behind the newspaper. > $0on retiring after selling papers for more than twenty years gan his pitch outside a Northâ€" West London station. _ On one occasion he was about #o close up for the night when @‘duxurious car drew up . A wellâ€"dressed man got out and msked Dick if he would give him @& hand in lifting his case from the trunk of the car into the ‘station. Supplying the public with newspapers is just part of Dick‘s working dayâ€"he is also regardâ€" ed as a walking information ofâ€" ficer and postman. One woman regularly leaves him all her letâ€" ters to post. She settles up the #tamp and paper bill at the end of the week. "I don‘t mind" says ‘Dick. "1 trust my customers completely." Then there‘s the customer who drives three miles from his home to the station by car. He doesn‘t like to leave the car in BACK ON A VISIT â€" Princess Grace of Monaco looks on as her husband, Prince Ruinier (left) shakes hands with her father, John Kelly, of Philadelphia. The royal couple had just arrived at Idlewild Airport. They will visit with friends in the U.S. before returning to Monaco for Christmas. _ Sleek new design for an allâ€"aluminum car of say, 1960, is embodied in the Pele (Payâ€"Lay), named for the goddess of wolcanoes. Body panels are of stamped aluminum shest with enameled finish. Side trim is brushed and goldâ€"color anodized aluminum while the bumpers, roof rails and roof are made of the same metal, utilized for lightness and strength. Shown ALLâ€"ALUMINUM AUTOS FOR 19607 Allâ€"aluminum car for the onidoccaman is the sprighity Panscie, _ Minleokain‘s novel design includes fallâ€"width stamped hood. the halfâ€"crown the man him, and reached for some ie. He turned with the v in his hand to find his .‘.. e Nte knan, _ Wakmes stnitie cegce choee : P had gone. _to the newsâ€"stand for a paper. The What is a man worth? The cshemist would say that the humâ€"» an body, if reduced to its prin« cipal chemicals, would be worth about 98 cents. But the Scripture raises a question. Our thought ior today is that question as created in the words of Matthew 10:31â€"â€"Â¥e are of more values than many sparrows. Thus mar may be worth more than 98 cents. comes home by a different route. So each day he leaves the car keys with Dick and pays him five shillings aâ€" week to drive it back to the house. The nuclear physicist would say that the atoms in a man contain a potential energy of more than eleven million kiloâ€" watt hours per pound of body weight. Thus a man would be worth about $85 miilion. Then again, in the realm of military might or political powâ€" er, a man might be worth the equivalent of a nation. One could go on and on and yet be unable to evade the truth* A man‘s worth depends on how we look at him. In the sight of God the true value of the individual is not measured by chemicals, kilowatt hours, or political significance. ‘Zod walues a man by his reâ€" .ationship â€" with destiny â€" and sternity. A man is worth very little if he is not in the will of God. He is worth very much if he is in the will of God. Ascertaining to the service of your fellow men, your worth is immeasurâ€" able. Jesus always measured a man by the services he might render which could extend the kingdom of God. . If you dedicate this day, your mind, your talents, and your heart to the purpose of God and Tonight it should be our reâ€" quest that our Father keep beâ€" fore as his estimate of our worth and that He help us live today and each as sons and daughters of a King. May He help us inâ€" clude that which is spiritual and eternal in our scale of values. â€"The Everett(Washington) Daily. "Kissing under the mistletoe is a custom derived from the druids. They thought the "sacred spirit" of the oak dwelt in misâ€" letoe because it usually clung to the oak tree. The druids heid their tribal meetings in oak groves and for this reason deâ€" rived the name from the Celtic word for oak. She: "Will you join n cup of coffee?" , He: "You get in first CASTING HIS VOTE â€" A disabled Frenchman, injured in the Algerian crisis, is shown in Paris as he placed his vote in a ballot box at a polling booth. French voters were electing a new National Assembly, the first shosen under the Fifth Republic. "When I was a boy I was stageâ€"struck. Later on I be came filmâ€"struck. So far I have never been televisionâ€"struck." This was Sir Laurence Olivier, "the world‘s greatest Englishâ€" speaking actor," only last sumâ€" mer. When he failed to get finâ€" ancial backing for his projected tilm version of "Macbeth," howâ€" aver, he reconsidered. "I thought to myself: "Ah, ah â€" this need:« a bit of thinking about.." sa‘d Sir Laurence last month. "Obâ€" viously I am not suddenly goâ€" ing to shoot up again in popu larity as a film star. I‘m 51 now inuchie ABadl wllhe senabi on oi . . So with ‘Macbeth‘ off, 1 thought I‘d taste something new Just a taste of TV. Try it here Try it in New York." Si1 Laurence‘s first taste of TV, a 70â€"minute production of Ibsen‘s tragedy "John Gabnel‘ Borkman" over the British comâ€" mercial network last month, was neither sweet nor particularly pungent. The play, notably bleak, cast him as a ruined turnâ€"ofâ€"theâ€" century industrialist, living iir grim isolation with his embitterâ€" ed w ife and â€" sistenâ€"inâ€"law (beautifully played by Irene ‘Worth and Pamela Brown.) He spoke his first line 30 minutes after the show began, much of the rest of the time he mereiy hovered in the background whila the wommen bickered The re: views were mixed. The show "aroused expectations of brilâ€" mance not altogether satisfied". said The Times. "Disappointment without dishonor," was The Daily Sketch‘s reaction. "It was not his greatest performance, but it was a compelling one, powerful, immaculate. and to my eyes without any . mistakes," wrote U.S. critic John Crosby who had jetted to London to see the show. Olivier, who had already conâ€" fessed himself "nervous, terribly nervous," _ commented | simply; "TV is a most exhausting meâ€" dium. One must concentrate much more than on stage, There is no audience reaction. I shall not do it often." However, New York was still likely to get a look at him. Unâ€" der negotiation arrangements for him to come over this spring to star in CBS‘s adaptation of "The Moon and Sixpence." â€" from NEWSWEEK. above is a thresâ€"sighthsâ€"scale model of the car which would have a 126â€"inch wheelbase, an overall length of 225 inches and a height of 52% inches. Frame, wheels and engine would also be aluminum. Production line changes would be minimal, according to the designer, Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Sales, Inc.‘Other designs are shown below. "My husband is certainly easy on his clothes," said Mrs. McVie ‘"He bought a bowler hat twenty years ago, had it cleaned twice and changed it seven times in restaurants, and it still looks as good as new." A Case of TVâ€"Fright s( "MOST VALUABLE" â€" Yankees Bob Turley is this year‘s win ner of the Cy Young Memo: rial Award as the major lea: gue‘s outstanding pitcher dur: ing 1958. Aquamarines > Become Popular * Those clear, seaâ€"green, semiâ€" precious stones known as aquaâ€" marines have rocketed to popu: larity since the gift a few months ago to the Queen from the Presiâ€" dent of Brazil of a $30,000 aquaâ€" marine and diamond bracelet with a clip. ‘"The Queen was â€"given the aquamarine because I found out that she loves it," Brazil‘s. Amâ€" bassador in London, Senhor Assis de Chateaubriand, revealed. The bracelet and clip match perfectâ€" ly a necklace given to the Queen by Brazil for her Coronation. The aquamarine has always been one of the favourite gems of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. It has been poetically described as looking as though it came "direct from some merâ€" maid‘s treasureâ€"house in the depths of a summer sea." Many of the largest specimens have originated from Brazil, but recently the sources of aquaâ€" marine there were reported to be rather low. In olden days it was worn as an amulet and was known as the "stone of safety." It was also said to bring the wearer solace and comfort in time of stress and trouble. Throughout the centuries women have worn aquamarine to ensure happiness in marriage. In Ceylon, the natives never take grievances to court but to a bandit tribe who offer to get them settled for an agreed fee, even if it means robbing, beatâ€" ingâ€"up, or murdering people to order. Heinz Randow, an animal colâ€" lector for zoos, lent a Sinhalese friend, "Mr Silva," a valuable fishingâ€"net which he repeatedly failed to return. , Knowing it would be useless to go to law, he got an introduction to the bandit chief, who explained that getting the net back might inâ€" volve bestingâ€"up Mr. Silva and leaving him half dead as a warning for the future. Bargain Rates For Murders This would cost ten rupees; a mild beatingâ€"up, eight, if Mr Randow thought that sufficient. Curious, Randow asked how much it would cost to have him beaten to death. The bandit beâ€" came _ thoughtful, â€" then â€" said: twentyâ€"five rupeesâ€"about | six dollars. Randow settled for a mild one at eight, paying two in advance. Three days later four of the bandits‘ men turned upâ€"two with long> scratches on their facesâ€"and handed him the net. There were three large tears in it, made during the struggle, but these were duly . repaired, and the balance of six rupees paid. Later Mr. Silva himself turnâ€" ed up, swathed in bandages and with two black eyes. He bore po malice for the lesson he had been taught and invited Ranâ€" dow to go with him to: the Wesak Festival of the May Full Moon in Colombo. He would have to dress as a native. beâ€" cause the festival always stirâ€" red up bad feeling against forâ€" eigners, and Europeans who valued their lives kept out of the way. A A European friends warned Ranâ€" dow that it would be madness to go anywhere near the sacred processional coach with its carvâ€" ed deities, which was drawn through the streets by richly draped temple elephants, escortâ€" ed by throngs of fanatics inâ€" censed by three days of mountâ€" ing religious fervour. - Randow, however, determined to go. He relates the dramatic sequel in a vivid account of his life there, "Zoo Search in Ceyâ€" lon". Silva got drunk, and in the crowed square by the Galle Face hotel, picked a quarrel with some Tamil youths who were watching the procession. She tried to dig her nails into his face. Flailing his arms like a windmill, he fought his way through the infuriated mob, fan down a road embankment into tangled undergrowth, and manâ€" aged to get away, with his clothes torn to ribbons, blood streaming down his face. But he‘d seen the fabulous procession, the jewelled, illumiâ€" nated coach with two caparisonâ€" ed white steeds mounted on a huge lowâ€"slung wagon drawn by elephants! A born adventurer, he conâ€" stantly courted danger. Penetratâ€" ing into the wild animal reserve beyond Kandy, he meant to get a look at the Veddas, a jungle tribe who carry bows and arâ€" rows and poisonâ€"barbed blowâ€" pipes, have no contact with the outside world, ‘and will barter goods only if you place yours After a fierce < struggle, he managed to pin it down behind the head with a cleft stick. He then held its head just behind the jawbone with both hands, to Instantly pandemonium broke loose, everyone around began shrieking. A woman, piercing his disguise, pointed at Randow and screamed: "A European!" under a tree on a river bank bordering their territory, camp some distance off, and collect in the morning those they‘ve left in exchange during the night. _ and zoo in a village upâ€"country beyond Wellawatte. A 25â€"foot python had to be deâ€"crated with the help of twenty coolies, who stood by, ready to seize its body as soon as he had secured its great hedd by flinging a sack over it at lightning speed. As he drew back the wire mesh covering the top, the head shot out, almost grazing his face with its gaping jaws, while its body hal uncoiled. He had some exciting. experiâ€" ences at his collecting station _ It writhed so furiously that it knocked : offt their feet; ‘od'_unhndtocllo.lndwlfi\ two eolls round his body, Ranâ€" dow, too, fell to the ground. w& he still clung to the and mvw‘-l‘yb:mpod beâ€" ing erushed to with great bloodstained bruises on his ribs. He had another tussle with a sixâ€"foot cobra, tackling it with snakeâ€"pole and noose, seizing it firmly behind the‘ jawhone to prevent >its ‘ fangs ‘biting his hand, then heaving it into sack and box. / Returning from Colombo one night with his oxâ€"carts, Randow shone ~his ‘torch â€"into tangled foliage to. see what had made the‘ oxen stop dead and refuse to go on. : About thirty feet above the! ground he saw, the greenishâ€"red eyes Of a‘large leopard, and at once switched off. Against the mooflâ€"light a dark form hurtled towards him He sprang to one side, raised his rifle. Luckily, the beast landed five yards short â€" of him. It . crouched, snarled _ viciously, ready . to spring again. But in that brief moment he fired. It jumped only a yard, then fell in a heap, dead. the coolies fought the monster, Randow _ relates these and other adventures against a backâ€" ground of native life and scenic beauty that sometimes made him feel he was in the Garden of Edenâ€"except for the venomâ€" ous cobras â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" With an appetite calling for anything between three and six hundredweight of foodstuff daily, it is little wonder that wild elephants find it necessary to feed for mt least 16 hours out cf every 24. And the elephant is as fond‘of variety as the most enthusiastic gourmet. > Elephant Never Forgot â€" His Beer ! A foraging herd in search of such delicacies as mangoes, planâ€" tain stems, maize or sugar cane will treat obstacles like teleâ€" graph poles or dam embankâ€" ments with complete disdain; but, writes Richard Carrington in his delightfully entertaining Look, "Elephants", they are exâ€" ceptionally wary of fences. The flimsiest type of barrier will cause them to walk long distances rather than (‘break it down. So suspicious are they of fences that, on occasion, they will even attempt to prevent the !erecfion of one. . The author rétells an auy;lsing incident which happengd in Kenya during the construglon of a fence to keep maraudi butâ€" falo off an estate. Hdles had been dug, fencing po erected and all the holes f7 in. All that remained to Tin he job was wire to. be stretched" beâ€" tween thg peosts. / Béefore this task could Je comâ€" pleted a small herd ¢f eldphants walked the whole lgngth of the fence, pulled up each post from its foundation and laid it neatly beside the hole! This fondness lgr something to tickle its palate éxtends to capâ€" tivity, and it flas often been noted that a captive elephant deâ€" velops a "thirst" after its first taste of alcohol. ‘"Nearly every elephant worth his salt," records the author "will knock back a gallon of beer with the enthusiasm of & cricket team after a thirsty match. But even an elephant has a certain amount of etiquette, as is proved by the story of one belonging to Pidcock‘s mendgerie at Exeter Exchange. It was the showman‘s custom each evening to treat himself and his elephant to a glass of spirits, and in this the animal took a keen interest. Usually, the elephant was given the first glass poured from the bottle; but on one occasion, when Pidcock‘s thirst was suen that it demanded urgent relief, he downed the first glass, statâ€" ing: "You‘ve been served first long enough; it‘s my turn now!" suns. Mild Showers: Cloudâ€"bursts Snow: Fair and warmer. The first lighthouse ever built, the Pharos of Alexandra . .. completed in 280 B.C. by the Egyptians, this amazing strucâ€" ture was built in imitation â€"of the frunk of the oak because even earliest man recognized the strength of this hardy Aree. So offended was the elephant by this unchivalrous action, that it is said he refused his glass of spirits and never consented to drink with his owner again. In 1926 a white elephant was brought to the court of Siam in a special train fitted with . a shower bath and an electric fan. Heat Wave: Cool and snappy. Cold Wave: All heat records for The author contributes interâ€" esting tales about the "white" elephant which was once venâ€" erated in the East Such eleâ€" phants were albino specimens, with pink eyes, white patches on the ears and trunk, white toeâ€" nails and red hair. Arriving at Bangkok the eleâ€" phant was conducted to its own speciallyâ€"built palace. Later, the anointing of the animal was perâ€" formed by the king himself. month broken. Fair and Warmer: Blustering rains followed by sleet. Cloudy and cool: Scorching WEATHER PROPHET‘8 DICTIONARY happengd in onstrudfion of araudigf® butâ€" . Halles had posé@® erected f7 in. All in /the job Poatn Nes "enplainet, thet ware scars, they were caused by rats biting them in Aociitine pey in °C Los Angutes boy in a Los Angeles barber ‘shop, he kept his ears ml:‘ndhudcm‘m- s of the San‘ Francisco around the shanties of San Franâ€" cisco in 1850, after jumping ashore from sailing ships. Los Angeles, on the other hand, had a surplus of cats. _ _ _ 7 Feeding them on hotel scraps, Peter Biggs rounded up twenty strays and shipped them to ‘Frisco. _ As he expected, they sold at over $10 each. __ _ Cat Kept: Going On ln.g'l:o O Warm cats, cats cold with hunger, Peter rounded up every one he could find, but still San Francisco wanted more. The only answer was to raise cals, soon Biggs was shipping hunâ€" dreds, and making a fortune as owner of twoâ€"thirds of all the cats in Los Angeles. 0_ That was probably. the world‘s first cool fortune in cats, but by no means the last. A type of curly cat is being bred at a Cornish farm where the first curlyâ€"haired catâ€"apparently a pure freakâ€"was born five years ago. Maybe the kitten was a throwâ€" back to a type believed to have existed centuries ago, but the farmer‘s wife immediately realâ€" ized its possibilities With tght astrakhan curls â€" and curly whskers to matchâ€"there are now fourteen of these cats, est!â€" mated to be worth $125 apiece. SHADOW OVER BERLIN SHADOW OVER BERLIN â€" West Berlin, some 100 miles within East Germany, is the latest pawn to be placed in play by Russia on the chessboard of the Cold War. Intimations that anâ€" other â€" blockade could occur raise grim memories of the days in ‘48â€"/49, when Berlin‘s lifeâ€" and wofld: peace â€" hung from the wings of the West‘s airlifi. OPERATION "VITTLES" â€" Câ€"47 Globemaster, above, joined th« ‘48â€"‘49 airlift to beleaguered Berlin, THE CHILDREN CAA_Q! OU‘I' â€" Thowe_g\dn of children, aged anc infirm persons and refugees were flown out ot Berlin ‘b'y the airlift. | SCORE FOR FREEDOM =â€" Men of the alrlift kept score. Torak 2,343,215 tons offood and supplies, April ‘48 Sept. ‘49. fat Mevetmeng s PRA TD 1 l were warranted born and bred in Cheshire: In fact, Cheshire: cats havs existed. A Cheshire cheese firm wg'llm mflm smmdth; & cat, ) phrase "grinning m Cheshire cat"‘soon became popular. One ‘dealer tried to pass off ordinary ‘cats as Minx cats, by cruelly docking ordinary cats of their tails On the Isle of Man Buckingham . Palace, » Anotrier flew the Atlantic to take part in a Hollywood : film. Oddly enough, black eats were once rare. â€" That‘s why it was originally considered such good luck to spot one. 6 The British Consulâ€"General g Bangkok first sent two home his sister. Their descendants are sought after toâ€"day as being the finest existing stock, Have cats nine lives? One cat was accidentally sealed in a crate with some engine parts and shipped from Detroit te Cairo _ After fortyâ€"one days without food or water, the crate was opened and the cat emerg. ed with four kittens. She had lived by licking oil from the enâ€" order purchases proved to b¢ ordinagry tabbies. Yet the cats rarerâ€"its however, was onte "Would you like a baby sisâ€" ter or a baby brother?" the exâ€" pectant mother asked her fourâ€" yearâ€"old son. gine parts. â€" "IHf it‘s not;:too much trowble," answered the boy. "I‘d like a cat is