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...Cairo, Colombo and Singapore he flashed ready cash, picked up all tabs, made a host of new friends, and moved on to Sydney, Australia. There he registered (as Hall) in the leading hotel and began entertaining lavishly. "The pound-a-minute bloke," his new friends called him. To the more sympathetic of them, Norman occasionally showed a picture of his wife. "My darling Barbara," he would say, "she died ten months ago." Sydney's ladies gave their sympathies. One of them was only too happy to have her picture taken with Morton-Stewart at a fashionable nightclub. The picture...
...prices, but the Ceylonese demanded an extra $50 million U.S. aid (in addition to the purchase price) as a condition of the sale. Washington demurred, and Peking closed the deal by increasing its price 40% and offering part-payment in rice. Last week the Polish freighter Mickiewicz sailed from Colombo with 5,600 tons of rubber for delivery to Shanghai. Presumably, a U.S. naval blockade of the Chinese coast would put a stop to the voyages of the Wiima and the Mickiewicz...
...from New York's Idlewild Airport last week roared a Trans World Airline Constellation, bound for a destination new to its crew: Ceylon. Some 41 hours and 10,000 miles later it put down at Colombo, the thriving capital. By week's end it was back with a cargo of 100 lbs. of Ceylon's finest tea, bandar Eliya (cost, $2.17 a lb.), a gift for T.W.A.'s officers for starting the first U.S. air service to the picturesque island. T.W.A. opened the route by extending its Bombay flight 1,000 miles to the southeast...
Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Lina Aymaro, Melchiore Luise, Scipio Colombo Juan Oncina; Vienna Chamber Chorus and State Opera Orchestra conducted by Argeo Quadri; Westminster, 2 LPs). This was Donizetti's 63rd opera, and it is a charmer with a quenchless flow of melody and fun involving the usual opéra bouffe case of mistaken identity. Beautifully sung and played, and resonantly recorded...
...China, which needs large quantities of rubber for the war in Korea, tempted the desperate Ceylonese with a proposal to sell Ceylon rice if China could buy more rubber. The government in Colombo, which has no ambassador in Peking, sent a trade mission to Peking, headed by Robert G. Senanayake, a cousin of the Prime Minister. In Peking, where it was lavishly feted, the Senanayake mission contracted to buy 80,000 tons of rice at the low price of $156.80 a ton; with the purchase money, the Reds would buy 22,321 tons of rubber. Last week the missioners were...