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PAQE6 DAILY MIRROR, Wedmsday, August 8,1979

the BbawANDREW WOOFSEN, Little Norton Way,Sheffield, S. Yorks, writes:R CENTLY I stated that when footballmatch es are being televised and membersof the crowd cha nt their own versions of well-- known songs and such like, they are, in fact,infringing terms of copyright.That being so, the football clubs concernedare liable to pay the necessary fee for publicperformances.

A friend said I was talking rubbish. A bottleof whisky depends on your answer.Sorry, but we have to scotch that one for you* ndrew! t first you had our l ad Ccorge worriedth at he might have to fork out- rdyalties for chanting"God Save Our Gracious Team" at the Cup Fwl.But the PerforminaRight Societ tells u i

I that footbalf groundshave to be licensed toblare out the latest popopus as pre-match orhalf-time entertainment,and this licence alsotakes care of improm tud'~oncerts,"with or whh-out the original lyrics.Mind you, it's only theclub and ground itselfthat's covered by thelicence: So if you shoulddecide that "You'll NeverWalk Alone" outside theturnstiles, you might REVALUED Ih a v e t o r u n f o r i tinstead! "PIN TA PETE," Wrythe

CARGO Lane, Carshalton, Surrey,writes: IDAVlD BUTLER, SnowdonGrove, East Boldon, Tyneand Wear, writes:- A M righ t in t h i n gthat when the hnerTitanic made its ill-fatedmaiden voyage, it was'carry ing an Egypt i anmummy?

T H E other evening in apubl i c bar I w ascharg ed 39p--nearly eightshillings in "old" money-for three small packets ofpeanuts.Never again will I .b eable to use !ke e xpr ess ion" p e a n u t s t o m e a nsomething of little value !That's right, David. Indeed, Pete. And ourf he mummy was * armer friends tell usth at of a prophet ess that the same fate hasfamed durin the reign of befallen that other time-Arnenhtep &, father-in- honour* dero gato rylaw of Tutankhamen. remark, chicken feed " !

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PA GE 24 DAILY MIRROR, Thursday, September 6, 1979LIVE GLettersMUMMYWAS AMYTH!JAMES B. ARCHER, Norton Conyers, Ripon, N.

Yorks, writes:R ECENTLY you told a reader that he wasright in thinking that the liner Titanicwas carrying an Egyptian mummy on its ill-fated maiden voyage. I'm afraid this is ah oldmyth. The object in question was a mummy-case of a priestess of Amen presented to theBritish Museum about 1889.This case has become the centre of manyweird s tories including responsibility forthe sinking of the Titanic!However, in 1934 Sir Wallace Budge, Keeper ofEgyptian Antiquities at the Museum, published adetailed refutation of all these tales. He ascribed theirorigin to the late Mr. Douglas Murray and the late Mr.W. T. Stead, who had said, in print, that the expressionon the face on the coffin lid was that of "a living soul intorment" and wished to hold a seance with the purposeOf remov ing the an guish from th e face.The story snowballed and it was rumoured that,because of the "curse" associated with it, Sir Wallacesold the mummy-case to a wealthy American who

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shipped it on the Titanic.Somehow the AmericanWas supposed to haverescued the case but itscurse cont inued so hesold it to a Canadian. Thelatest owner, experiencingSimilar evil happenings,decided to send it back toEngland but it was lostwhen the Empress of Ireland went down in the StLawrence River.That , roughly is thelegend. The fact is thatthe mummy-case neverleft the British Museum.It is still there. But themyth persists, for it issaid to give people an oddfeeling if they examine ittoo closely.In case you wish toexperiment, it is exhibitnumber 22542 in the Second Egypt ian Room.

Thanks, James, butwe ' l l t a ke yourWord for it!Another point which nodoubt contr ibuted to themy th was tha t W. T.Stead, a prominent journal ist and Spiri tual ist ,was himself drowned onthe Ti tanic .

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