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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-07-06, Page 6CLOSING• THE DOOR ON DRAFTS—Like a huge trophy mounted on the wall, the tail, of a DC-6B sticks out of the "Byrne Doors" - of new million-dollar hangar at San Francisco's International Airport. The modern doors close tightly around •the fuselage, keeping drafts from mechanics working inside the hangar. ANYTHING GOES t : SO E THINGS MONEY CAN'T BUY Not ,eVe it $200,000 will help four-yetar-old Patricia Por , right, jumj? rope like the other kids in. ih is' picture are doing, Pattty, 'lost her left leg wh n she was hit by a garbage truck. Her parents were awarded $200,000, largest individ- uallsettlement in`the state's history, but Patty w auld,ratber have her leg. 1 • MERRY MENAGERIE ,f4t.% AeProgY "I hate to say this, dear, but Junior looks almost HUMAN!" lOgrgiF: DES' BY NAPPENSTANCE-S• arne ,rncidern, sculptUre -looks like an accident, by desigh, bet this surrealistic bit on brief display was- created quite by actiddrilk ElettriCiciti used his kubber glove to protect connection to a power pole knocke(l clown by a motorist during of rainstorrn, „,,, EFFICIENCY : EXPERT This "temporary employe” Egypt's Ministry of Finance it at work reargciniiing the Archives Sec-. files hi Cairo. When regUlar einplciyes fled after, encoun ter' ing five snakes in the files, au'tho'rities Sur:kin -Oiled Snake .C.harrn , era, By Mitttlfh.g, cooin§ arid "tugging'iffead einliel'is Ma ne§ Oa to, Clear the files Of elarcitiedift 'Se pent rie 'i1ia1't~rr • Dainty pancakes relied around A tilling, make an unusual main dish for special luncheona or sup-. erS, For this purpose, you cart - ,se your favorite pancake recipe, or make the base from a recipe that requires very little flour, Just enough to hold the eggs to- gether, Both types of pancake rare baked on a griddle and fold ea around a rich filling, A sauce to pour over them completes this dish. CHICKEN PANCAKES IMPERIAL 3 eggs 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup milk 2 tablespoons flour Fat for frying Beat eggs with salt, milk, and flour until smooth. Pour 2 table- spoons batter into heated, lightly greased skillet to form a pancake 7 inches in diameter, Cook over *- medium heat to a light brown on one side only (pancakes are not turned,) Continue making pan- cakes, placing each, brown side down, on moisture-proof wrap or clean towel, GRAVY AND FILLING 1 tq ,-losnoon buttei ,or chicken fat I. tablespoon flour teaspoon each, mace and paprika 1 cup milk or chicken broth Salt and pepper to taste 2 cups finely chopped cooked chicken 1 cup grated or crumbled Cheddar cheese To make gravy; melt the fat Over low heat; blend in flour, mace, and paprika. Add milk or chicken broth all at once, stir- ring constantly until uniformly thickened and bubbly. Add salt and pepper. Remove from heat. For filling: add enough gravy to moisten -chicken. Spread about 14 cup of the mixture on each pancake. Roll tightly. Place in shallow baking dish, Pour rest of gravy over relied pancakes, and sprinkle,cheese on top. Bake- at 37&° 20 minutes Or until sauce, is 'bubbly, Serve hot, Makes 64 chicken pancakes * If you want to. vary this „chicken StUfling, add, chopped, ripe olives and chopped celery to the chicken. Or, add a little chopped onion (pan fry it first)* and about Y4 teaspoon curry powder to the chicken. • * * If you want to serve pancalces for dessert, roll and serve them with a sauce, or spread jelly or fruit on them before rolling them jelly-roll fashion. Here an, easy recipe, using a small am- ount of, your favorite pancake mix and a little bit of grated lemon rind, FRENCH PANCAKES 3 eggs, beaten cup milk cup pancake mix IA teaspoon grated leMon rind Conibine beaten eggs and milk; add pancake mix and, lemon rind, stirring until smooth. Place about a teaspoon of but- ter in a small frying pan and heat until butter bubbles.' Pour in enough batter' to coat bottom of pan with a thin layer. Bake until delicately browned on un- der side; turn and bake on other side. Roll up and serve with fol- lowing sauce, CHERRY SAUCE 1 No. 2 can dark cherries 3/2 cup Sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1 tablespoon lemon juice Heat cherries, Combine sugar o and cornstarch thoroughly. Add gradually to cherries, stirring censtantly..Cook until thickened. Add lemon juice. * * Instead of using cherry sauce, you can spread each hot pan- cake with tart jelly, roll up and sprinkle w h confectioners' sugar. Or, roll yOur pancakes around fresh di' frozen strawber- ries: Sprinkle with cOnfection- es' sugar and top with sour cream, Or, roll pancakes around a cream cheese filling—just add 1 tablespoon sugar, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 3/4 teaspoon nutmeg and a little grated lemon rind to softened cream cheese (8 ounces), and serve with thawed frozen strawberries. * * * Still another stuffing for des- sert pancakes may be made by combining chopped c ooked prunes and chopped walnuts moistened with a little honey to give spreading consistency, And here's another: COTTAGE CHEESE FILLING 2 cups creamed cottage cheese Y chopped celery 1/4 cup chopped green pepper Combine ingredients in top of double boiler over boiling water. Remove double boiler from heat; cover and let cheese mixture stand over the hot water while baking pancakes. Use 1 spoonful of this stuffing for each pancake, Roll and serve with fruit sauce. Try pulling a clumsy 23/4 -ton cutter two miles in the open sea. Yet a crack British Navy crew can speed over such a choppy ,course in less than ten minutes. The Navy's annual pulling regattas are' the chief • sporting event of each fleet's summer cruise. Everyone takes part, from the youngest rating to the Oldest officer, and the boats used range from a fifteen-foot skiff dinghy to the ten-ton latinch carried in a battleship and known to all as "Jumbo." , Racing crews are formed from seamen, engine-room ratings, artificers, artisans, w r it e r s, cooks, stewards and Royal Ma- rines. The Marine band make up their own crew, with the bandmaster wielding the tiller instead of the baton. There is a special race for "veterans" who, in the Navy, are men aged thirty-five - and over. In the small ship' regatta there is even a race for captains. Training starts at least six weeks beforehand, and the crews practise early and late. Excite- ment grows intense as the re- gatta date draws near, and rival ships note each other's form with the jealousy of Derby trainers. On the day of the event the- fleet anchors in two lines a- breast, and the course ,is marked o u t in between. Spectators clamber to every vantage point in their ships, and as many en- thusiasts WhO can find room crowd into the ahips' motor boats. These are the "chucking- up" parties who cruise behind their faveurites cheering them down the course. The winning post is abreast the flagship, from the bridge of which the results of each race are signalled. There is no attempt at style in a Navy regatta. By contrast with the Varsity boat race the rowing is jerky and the strokes Chopped. Por'the 'boats are heavy a nd deep iri the keel, `with a beam of nearly six feet. The stretchers , against which, the oarsmen's feet are braced are just above the bottom boards,- and the thWartS liked and un- yielding. The beats' must be just as they are on Service with all fittings intact. Sele concession is, that the oars may be cut or shaved to suit individual taste. Even SO, as these are Made of either ash Or fir and measure fifteen to seventeen feet in leittlt, they are no light Weight. Yet it is not infrequent for an oar to snap off in the Middle Of a race. At one time When this happened the luckless oarsman was requited to plunge bire-, board and thug lighten the boat of his weight. Nowadays a spare oar is carried. Before the first World War the rules covering the condition of boats were less strict, and elab- orate grooming preparations were customary. It was the aim of every ship to Procure a cutter built in the dockyards at Malta or Hong Kong since these were constructed of lighter woods. Every inch of paint was care- fully scraped off and the planks sandpapered to a v el v e t y smoothness. Then several gal- lons of white of egg were ap- plied. This special coating was said to reduce friction • and aid the boat to skim over the sur- face, In these regattas points are awarded to all boats completing, the course. Cups, trophies and, other prizes are' competed for, and the ship gaining the highest number of points wins a large Silver cock. This is a relic from older times when 'competing crews, actually carried "alive live cock with them. The bird was stowed out , of sight until one of the boats managed to get ahead of her rivals. Then he was brought out and Planted, on, the bow thWart to crow defiance all the way down the course: The system of awarding points to competing crews was once explained to a party of vigiting, Russian naval officers in Tsarist days. "Do you have the same system in your Navy?" the Rosr sian admiral was asked. "But, yes," the brasshat beam- ed. "In our regattcrs 'the winning crew receives fifty lashes per man, the second ..crew one dred lashesi, and the third crew —Siberia! Once when rivalry between two crack ships' of the flotitet Fleet, whose Crews hailed n&• spectively from the Portsmouth' and Chatham port diViSiOns, had been particularly intense, the Portsmouth ship's boats Scraped hetrie to victory fay a slender Margit-it " Circling in their drifter retina their deefated rival the Ports- mouth then let' themselves go with hurricatiea of coelccreWa. On the forecastle of the Chatham ship lay a consignment of bagged PotatoeS awaiting stowage. Tempted by the proXintity of the drifter, a Chatham marl Stict-; detilY seized a handful of Pieta= toes and hurled them at his gloating rivals.In a tried his triatea followed his d exaMplei and salvoes of it p shOwered athong the crowing sailers. Swiftly recovering, the Ports mouth itietith Merl broke Open t crate of new holystelies (sandstone used for scouring decks), and hotly returned their enemies' fire. For several minutes the air was thick with ,flying potatoes and holystones until the drifter's helmsman managed to steer his craft out of range. On another occasion during an "all-corners' " race the umpires were astounded to see a „battle- 4 ship's , launch streaking along at a spanking pace, her oars flash- ing up and down like sema- phores. Suddenly the clumsy "Jumbo" sheered sideways off the course, her oarsmen tumb- ling .over like ninepins, Only then did the solution dawn on the mystified officials. The crew had secretly fastened a practiee torpedo to the bottom of their boat. All went well un- til the rudders of the "tinfishP jammed and carried the launch out of the race. She's World's Most Fabulous Hostess Sitting on a beach with Prince Phillip of Hesse, the Maharanee Brinda Kapurthala noticed an inflated mattress floating ashore. Pointing it out to him, she said: "That's what I need. If I had one of those huge pink things to support me, I'd go in the water, too." "Heavens!" he exclaimed, "that's not a mattress! That's Elsa Maxwell " Not content with this story .against herself, the irrepressible Elsa also quotes a dramatic ell- tic who wrote of her perform- ance in the socialite production of "The Frog" in London: "Miss Elsa ' Maxwell, miming to a recording by Sophie nicker, flings her body about like a small, stranded whale desper- ately anxious to get back into the water." • Further, Miss Maxwell calls herself names like "the social bulldozer," "this prize pachy- derm," and is proud when 'Cecil Beaton says of her famous stunt parties that she is "never satis- fied until she has made the most distinguished people appear un- distinguished." No wonder this U.S:%eoltrinist and ex-actress is known as "the most fabulous society hostess of all time." For a party she gave for Lord Curzon she brought over from Paris an oriental magician, Gal- li-Galli, who drew out of his lordship's shirt-front three baby chickens; something no 'one had ever dared to do to hint befOre. She then made all the ,guests sit on the floor with a sheet drawn tightly up to their necks and try to blow a feather', Who- ever failed to keep the feather on the sheet was compelled to forfeit a small article of cloth= ing. Visiting Luxor, Egypt, with a party, she even arranged a na- tive dinner at a tiny village ten miles out, hired camels 'and .donkeys• to take shay guests' to the Meat; and as there was no wood there to build fires, had dead palin trees transported on camels for. fuel. Her brilliant autobiography "I Married the World" — spark- les , With stories of the lemons. When Danny Kaye came to the Palladium 1948, She says, Psereiriehei% Mtayrgatre8t. WAdattraksegri ticititoi., Lewis' Douglas; hiS Wife and daughter sharinari. Enchanted, she determined that the rest of her family atiOuld tee him, the, but could not ConVinee her pa-, rents; se adopted another' tack. Whenever ,opportunity offered She would mimic Danny's reu-g tine, and when they asked what in the World she was up to, re Plied: "That's Danny lt Tidally; ybu might to see hint:" Finally the 1'0.0 bed Was re# served, but she told her father. "Yeti can't see him properly from there, You must See him full-face really to appreciate him" SO the reservation was changed 'to the front row of the stalls. The Duke of Windsor told MISS Maxwell of an eerie experience when he was staying at piarritz just after the outbreak of war in 1939; "Listening to the radio one evening, 1, started turning the dials and came in= Lord. Haw-Haw's broadcast frpm Ber- lin. Almost immediately I heard him say that they knew well enough where the Duke of Windsor was' staying, lie is' at the Hotel du Palais, Biarritz.' And he even gave the number of Qur room, It was uncanny." Miss Maxwell herself had a strange, experience in 193] when she attended a dinner given be- fore the 6pera at the Festspiei. House, Bayreuth, by Winifred Wagner, the famous composer's daughter, She tried to make con- versation with the man on her left, but he was so rude and sur- ly that she gave up,. At the performance she was again next to him, and asked, him in German if she could look at his program-the for a.* moment. He shrugged, turned his back on her. She was so furious that she grabbed it, and ,after reading it, threw it back at him contemptuously. His name was — Adolf Hitler. Whales Commit. Mass Suicide Sixty-three pilot W.h ale s, many of them young calves, apparently committed mass sui- cide recently on this rocky shore of the island of Westray in the Orkneys, This is the second time in five years that such a large number of these creatures have chosen to dash themselves to death in this part of Britain. In 1950 no fewer than 100 pilot whales were found dead and dying along the ' coast of Stronsay Island. The sea was red with their lacerated bodies among the sharp rocks. Although they generally haunt the northern waters around Britain, whales have been found • stranded as far south ' as Kent, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall. In 1944 a herd of ninety were found dying on the coast of Wexford in Ireland. Not long ago a school of more than 500 pilot whales entered the harbour at Lerwick in the . Shetlands. So dense were they that they could not dive with- out colliding. Baffled scientists are reluctant to believe that whales deliberate- ly commit suicide. For the whale, they say, is not a stupid creature.* They rate its Intel-, ligence between that of a dog „ and a chimpanzee. Whales travel in herds under the leadership of an experi- enced bull. Experts say that the apparent mass suicide of a whole herd is really the result of accidental stranding, When hunting for food inshore these 'huge creatures' sometimes be- come trapped on a falling tide. As their bodies are oval in shape, with 'the blowhole, or nostril, on' top, they are unable , to remain upright in shallow water and fall over sideways. When the tide returns the water enters the whale's blowhole be- fore the creature can be refloat- ed and it suffocates. As recently as last century, stranded whales were regarded by. Coast dwellers as 'a gift from providence. On one occasion ,an Orkney islander deserted his wife's funeral half-way to the ' graveside on• hearing that a herd of whales had come ashore! lormosemereirerommorl: Blame Your Blues On The Grey Skies Can our aches and pains, our good and bad moods and Our liability to accidents be blamed. on the weather? That is what doctors and. weather experts in Germany are trying to find. out. They, hope soon to answer the questions: Does An aching joint or a tender corn really spell rain? How many of our health beliefs about the weather are superstition and, how many fact? Take, for instance, the grim • old saying that "a green Christ:, mas makes a fat ,churchyard." Is it really true that mild win- ter weather is unhealthy? Scientists have already de- cided that a blustery, rainy,' southwest wind is healthy in winter and that the dry, pierc- ing, east wind is not healthy in winter or spring. An American dcictor declares that cold weather inevitably means a shorter life, while hot weather often causes people to live to a ripe old age. Nearly all scientists agree that fog and smog are bad for us and that cold, damp air is nearly as bad. They also agree that over- exposure to continued sunshine may be injurious. One points out that the ef- fects-of the weather on the ner- vous system are well marked. Overseas visitors to. Britain who are accustomed to their native bright skies often become irri- table and melancholy after, a prolonged spell of dull, British weather with grey skies. las states. "Close-Shave" Elections Unique precautions were once taken by the authorities to pre- vent unscrupulous electors vot- ing twice during an election in Puerto Rico. When , each voter arrived at the polling station, he was required to stick a fin- .. ger in a pot of "indelible ink." But this proved ineffective. Many voters used a chemical antidote, to remove the marks so that they could,yote again. , The authorities went one bet- ter when the next election came round. They employed barbers armed with safety-razors to give each voter a close shave on the back of his right hand or behind his right ear as he left the polling booth. This was successful and no voter was able to get a double or treble vote. • LONG TALE -- Perhaps the largest trout ever- caught in western. Wisconsin is measured .fOr story-telling purposes by Yale Naset, Who landed' the 34- , inch, 12-pound, 14-ounce Ger- man brown 'trout on a -stream- • TABLE TAas dcme Andtiews., 'FIX MY PLANT? — Small „boy hopefully watches as Hans Gruhn, municipal "plant doc- tor" for 'Frankfurt, Germany, diagnoses ailment of the lad's favorite plant. As many as 100 persons bring ailing vegetation to his arboretum daily where The • fifth-generation horticul- turist conducts his "clinic." • •