24 DECEMBER 1954, Page 6

An unscrupulous friend of mine has evolved an interesti ng scheme

for crossing the Atlantic at a profit. You book a fir; class passage on one of the more expensive liners; you buy, on night when the bidding is high, the low field in the sweep °P, the next day's run; and then, making your way to a rerun° part of the ship, you throw your hat into the sea, follow it ilft with a life-belt and raise the cry of Man overboard I ' I d°11 see how it could fail to work the' first time.