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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-07-13, Page 6TIN COOL CUSTODY Guord 'RiChard Thomds glees himself up io "Old Man Snow," who keeps cool despite the 06-plus dgree sorrietirnes, recorded in toe Angeles. = Snowman, sponsored by the Water ResourceAUthorlity,li-kept under constant refrigera- tion. He reminds Angelinosf;Who_Visit the Museurrz of Science and Industry of theairtsportemce Of winter weather in the ;noun- tgins-:to their; Water supply, „ NIGHT AT THE oPEFIAt Opening.night n the televised) hOidhbatlioda .thetitrd itteen't had shouting "Bravo,"'' toMit NOT FORGOTTEN' tom SciVeyet mid Hock Finn still float 116)4 relive their legendary adverituret. lleady to shave off for a rain on Peachtree Creek are, from Luke turtia, 13; Jim Pink 10. The boys' pet pooch it seeing as Xt seers as through every year eating outdoors beCoMeS Mere vOpular — not only at regular &flies but in beck gardens and patios. as Well, :According to ideamQr TikheI .T9linst0111 nit» about such matters in The Christian Science IVIdnitor, a oeooks and - servedn-the-altillett" Main dish is .one of the easiest, le serve to your Outdoor Bath, luring. Here are some such dishes which may be served aver rice, noodles, spaghetti, /east or on buns, * * * Curried meats are always popular for skillet cooking. In ibis recipe beef, pork, or veal may be substituted fer the binlb if you prefer. CURRIED LAMB 3 pounds lamb shoulder neck 4 tablespoons flour 54 cup. butter 2 cloves garlic, minced 4 large onions, sliced 41 small apples, cored, pared and chopped ft tablespoons curry powder 4 tablespoons brown sugar 4 tablespoons raisins 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 2 lemons, sliced 4 tablespoons shredded coco- nut aa cup broken walnuts teaspon grated lime peel 1 tablespoon salt Cut meat in 2 - 3 inch evens. Dredge with flour. elt butter in large saucepan. Add meat, garlic and onions, zed brawn lightly, stirring con- lantly. Add apples and curry *maw: and cook 5 minutes *ore. Add 2 cups water and all :eonsaining ingredients. Bring to at boil. Reduce heat and simmer 1 hour, or until meat is tender. *reves six. Note: add almost any leftover vegetable during :teat 10 minutes of cooking, if desired. * * * If you have leftover chicken, :here is a dish for it with an Oriental flavor. Serve it over :wisp noodles. To prepare these, ;place a small amount of fine, -nucooked noodles in a flat- bottomed wire basket and fry in deep, hot fat (365° F.) until ;Olden brown (abOtit-? 2 "min- utes), Four ounces of noodles Will be needed. Drain and sprinkle with salt. CHICKEN CANTON 3,4 pound bacon • ./fi cup chopped celerY 34 cup chopped onion-,1 14 cup slivered almonds teaspon salt 1 cup chopped, cooked chicken 1 tablespoon cornstarch 114. cups pineapple juice and water * tublesPeen soy sauce J. teaspoon lemon juice 1 cup cooked julienne carrots ai cup pineapple chunks Fry bacon until crisp; drain on absorbent paper, 'Pour off all but 2 tablespoons drippings from skillet. Add celery, onion, and almonds, and brown light- ly. Add salt, then chicken. Com- bine cornstarch with pineapple juice and water, soy sauce and lemon juice, mixing until well blended. Add to chicken mix- ture in skillet, cooking until thickened, stirring constantly. Stir in carrots and pineapple chunks, Cover. Reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes. While chicken mixture is simmering, prepare noodles as described- above. Serves 4. * * * If you'd like to bring an old- time dish from the pages Of history to your modern patio, try the Stroganoff pictured. - Once this dish simmered on Russian cook stoves in the days of Tolstoy. Later it graced Eu- ropean dinner tables — and now it may grace yours. Serve it as sandwiches on buns, if you like, or over rice for a sit-down meal, Use 10 sandwich buns for this amount Of Stroganoff. SKILLET STROGANOFF 2 tablespoons butter 34 chopped onion 1 teaspoon finely chopped garlic 1 pound ground beef 2 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon salt IA, teaspoon each, paprika and nutmeg 1/2 cup chopped, cooked mushrooms 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup 1 cup sour cream Melt butter in skillet; add onion, garlic and ground beef, and sauté until browned. Com- bine flour, salt, paprika and nutmeg; sprinkle over meat mixture; blend. Add mush- rooms and mushroom soup. Simmer 10 minutes over low heat. Pour sour cream over top. Cover and simmer 5 minutes longer. If used for sandwiches, use cup for each bun. * * * SPANISH, PORK SKILLET 6 pork shoulder chops lh inch thick (or 11/2 lbs. diced pork shoulder) 1 cup sliced onion 21/4 cups cooked tomdtoes 14 cup diced green pepper 1/2 cup diced celery 1/2 teaspoon chili powder Ph teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon sugar 1 tablespoon flour. 2 tablespoon water Brown pork in skillet; add onion and brown. Add remain- ing ingredients, except flour and water. Cover; cook slowly 1 hour. Make smooth paste of flour and water. Stir in tomato mixture; stir until thickened. Cover and simmer 5 minutes. Serves 6. * a * And, in conclusion, let me say that even if you don't go in for outdoor eating, there's no reason why you shouldn't enjoy these fine dishes indoors! ' Is This The. World's Most Honest City? Should you ever visit Denver, Colorado, and chance to drop your wallet within sight of one of the city's boys or girls, you needn't worry. You can be dead sure it will be returned to you with its contents intact. For Denver, you see, is one of the most honest cities in the world. Most of its youngsters belong to its unique Honesty Club, members of which are pledged to return anything they find and to act always with scrupulous honesty in all cir- cumstances. Those who find money and return it receive a gold pin from the club in recognition of their honesty, plus a brand new bank book filled with a one dol- lar deposit. One ten-year-old girl who found a pocket-book on a Den- ver bus questioned verybody seated there in efforts to find the Owner. There was no claim- ants, so she opened it, found the owner's address, and 'phoned him at once. She got her gold pin. An urchin who found a wal- let in a gutter traced the owner after two days. He, too, quali- fied for a gold pin. Every year the holders of gold pin awards gather for a banquet in one of Denver's plushiest hotels. They are fed royally and are addressed by famous personalities who con- gratulate them on their honesty. down dreamy rivers as small gdod, old-fcishicindd Session my' Geisler, 6, and brother Lawrence of Arabia In The Air Force In 1922, when R.A.F. training and discipline were much hard- er than now, Col. T. E. Lawrence of Arabia joined up as Air- craftsman Ross to escape the blaze of publicity created by his war exploits in the desert. His astonishingly frank account of his experiences at Uxbridge Depot — "The Mint" — has only just been issued publicly because of "the horior the fellows with me in the forge would' feel at my giving there away, at their 'off' moments, with both hands" if it appeared before 195:0a Once, after church parade, the commandant ordered a march past in slow time, though the parade included recruits whose drill instruction had not begun. As a result, flight, tangled with flight. Some dressed right, some left,' with' the' flight command- ers doubling this side and that like hares. Lawrence's lot burst into the ranks of another flight. Their oficer had a piping- voice, so the distant men obeyed the roaring officer of the flight behind. The press got so tight that they could move only pace by pace. In the end the commandant handed the mix-up to the drill adjutant, and vanished in his car. For swill-cart fatigue — col- lecting waste from the cook- houses — orders were that a tarpaulin covering the wagon should be kept tightly down. So, thigh-deep in swill and ashes, the four men inside had to thrust their gasping heads through a crack in the curtain if they were to escape the stench and get a breath' of fresh air. At the finish, Lawrence says, the :ashes had caked with sweat in- to every wrinkle of their bodies. Seeing his books at kit inspec- tion, an officer remarked: "Oh, you read Danish: why did you join the Air Force'?" "I think I had a mental break- ,down, sir," Lawrence replied. "What, what?" exclaimed the officer, "Take his name!" Lawrence, duly marched into the 'office under escort, was in- formed that the flight-lieuten- ant could give him only seven days, insolence to a senior Offi- cer demanded extreme rigour, so he would be remanded for trial by the squadron-leader he had insulted. When finally he was brought in front of him, the latter laughed at the charge. "Bless my soul!" he roared. "I • told you to take his name in case we wanted an intellegent seat for a job. What damned fool drafted this charge? Cet out! Once a sergeant instructor stopped in front of Lawrence; wrinkling his nose with disgust, and asked: "When did yeti last have a bath?" "Yesterday, sergeant." he re., aor every Thursday and Monday a tea house in the vile, loge found him a hot bath. "Open your collat,4 the Set- geent ordered, and thrust hie hand roughly inside, 4 tettsYl ft he announced with 0 roar, and ordered two men to march Lawrence away and scrub him,. Furious at the sergeant's bul- lying, a pal Of. Lawrence's said; "But mate, yOu let the flight clown when he takes the mike Out Of you every time," And he advised him to use his education and squash the sergeant with weeds, epr So, the next time the sergeant raked Lawrence with questions meant to humiliate him, he drawled; "Well, sergeant, speci- fically, of course, we can know nothing — unqualified — but like the rest of us I've fenced my life with a scaffolding of more ,or less spetulative hypo» theses." The rear rank deflated, So did the sergeant, He stared, swore to himself, then — as one of the men let out a loud laugh — called the flight to attention and resumed the drill, gingerly, Another sergeant, who was reeling drunk, one day muttered desperately to the leading files: "Look after yourselves. I'm that drunk can't see where you are." And they carried their drills off so well that the officer in charge never spotted a thing wrong. The night o the sergeants' mess dance a bucket of beer was car- ried to the guard-room for Taf- fy, one of the sergeants on duty, and Jock, another old sweat, too tight to dance, came over to help him drink it. The two war- riors sat by the stove swapping tales of campaigns in India and France, as they gulped the beer down. After 4 a.m. rounds they sang for thirty minutes the marching songs of all the regiments they'd met, then stood up to drill. A moment before they'd been swaying drunk, but now they went through the manual from A to Z perfectly. Auld Lang Syne . then Jock staggered away to sleep it off, Taffey fell down on the sleeping bench and was off in a moment. COAL MINE EMPLOYEES 13,278 of the 18,050 persons employed at coal mines ladt year worked underground. The 4;772 surface employees worked an average of 237 man-days during the year; while under- ground workers averaged 191 man-days. By. Dick Kleiner NEA Staff Correspondent New York—At the moment, there's a lot of sound and fry about pay-as-you-see television.. But hardly a word is being spoken or written about another offshoot of TV which could, in the long run, have an even more profound effect on the whole structure of the amusement business. That is theater television. And there's a good reason why there is little in the way of public de- bate about it — it doesn't need FCC approval. It is already here, it is being usecla its potential is recognized. There's just one-little thing standing in its way — public acceptance on a big scale. And there are those who say the public acceptance will come. Among this group is, of course, the, chief spokeaman and chief proponent of theater TV, Nath- an L. Halpern, preident of The- ater Network Television, more comfortably known as T-N-T, Here's- how theater TV works: an event is televised to a net- work of movie theaters. The pic- ture is projected on a movie,- sized screen. The audience buys its way into the theater, as they do to see a movie. The theater owner pays a percentage of his take to the television people. That's all there is to it. * * * The disadvantage is obvious— will the people go out to a the- ater to see television? "Yes/" says Halpern, "if the attraction is good enough." And he has past evidence` to prove his point. T-N T has tele- vised many title fights, blacked- out on home TV, The Marciano- Cockell fight, for example, was theater-televised. And, while fur from a howling success, more people saw it in the 83 theaters that carried it than were in San Francisco's Kezar Stadium. And the price's weren't cheap—they ranged from $2 to $5 per head. "Sonic people, Halpern says, "would rather watch in a thea- ter than in the stadium. It's like being on. the 50-yard line. It's often much better than in the stadium—you can be blocks away there." One interesting psychological' development is• that people watching on a theatet TV screen will often react at though they wete'there in persori: At theater- casts of the opening night of the Metropolitan (Vete, there Were shouts of 13raiTep." And kV fans fetirid the theatereast of the Mar- tiatiO-COckell bout so eetithig: they began to yell and boo and `silent "Stop it" just as the fans' at kezar 8taditi7i Enough Was .Plouty laid Broad was a tough Kittle lighter who was famous, for his ability to take punishment. ire was Often knocked, dewn by an Opponent, but there was no one who could keep him Own. Whenever he hit the canvas, the Kid used to give himself a sort of pep talk, audible to many alt. ting at ringside. "Come on, Kid," lie used to say. "Get up! YOU Mustn't get yourself knocked out, Take a beating if you have to, but don't get knocked Out, Your father back in Cleveland wouldn't like it!" And with those words, Kid Broad used to stag- ger to his feet and go ®on- with the fight. * One day, however, the Kid was matched with Aurelio Herrerra, reputed to be the hardest hitter in the lightweight division. The first, blow of the fight was a ter- rifle smash to the jaw landed by the +Mexican and Kid Broad went down, Baffle shaken, he groped on all fours and began to mumble his usual pep talk to himself, "Come on, Kid, get up. Your father in Cleveland wouldn't like it if you lost this fight," Kit broad staggered to his feet and walked into another terrific blow, Again he went down. And again he talked him- self to his feet. The Kid took a terrible beat- ing through the first four rounds of the fight. The fans marveled at his staying power, In the fifth round, the Mexican landed the hardest blow of the fight, Down went the Kid.. Weakly he rolled and raised himself to one knee, mumbling through bloody lips, "Get up, Kid, get up" As the fans held their breath, the Kid started to get- up. But just as it seemed that he was going to make it uagain, he flopped back to the canvas, put a hand under his head like a pillow, and shouted angrily, "I'd heck with the old man in Cleveland! This crazy guy will kill me if I get up again!" Bread: Average factory selling price was at an all-time high of 10.6 cents a pound in 1952, nearly five cents more than in 1945, over double the 1939 price. Halpern sees theater TV be- coming a part of a new kind of double-feature for movie thea- ters. "Nowadays," he says, "the movie theatres aren't producing enough pictures for the double- features houses. Already, the theater owners are crying for more product. I see a time when every, day we'll put on a vaude- ville show, with only the top names, and televise it to theaters all across the country. They'll program one top Hollywood film, with our variety show as a sec- ond feature." This isn't as far-fetched as it might seem. Already, Halpern's company has 112 theaters equip- ped for receiving telecasts with another 50 mobile units avail- able for other theaters. And the vaudeville and actors' unions have discussed this plan and found it workable, * * * - Some nights theaters might show full-length Broadway plays *unexpurgated versions, which home TV can't show—and some nights title fights and some the opera and some other top sports events. And, Halpern says, the people will come because "they like to go out once in a while and, too, the picture is, so much larger than that they get .ate home." In fact, he gets a big kick out How Can ? a, How remove ink .steins from mehoggny? A, Put 4 or 0. drops of :nitre in a teaspoonful. of water. Di*. a feather into this. solution and touch it to, the stain. 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Sponge freely with car- bon tetrachloride and then wash in warm soapsuds. This shonld. be done as soon as possible. Q. How can I make a glue that wily stick paper or cloth to metal, wood, or glass and leave no stain? A. By dissolving 1 tablespoon- ful of ordinary gelatin in 2 to 21/2 tablespoonfuls of boiling water. Boil a few minutes and then add a little sugar while still hot, Q. How can I make an ash Mix 1 quart of boiled lin.. stain? dnl .oil, 1 quart of turpentine, I pint of whiting, and 1 level tablespoonful of raw sienna. of TV set manufacturers adver- tising 21-inch sets as "giant screen," The smallest theater TV screen is 12 by 15 feet. And most are much larger. The FCC has no jurisdiction over theater TV -because this is transmitted over private wires, leased from the phone company. The FCC just controls publicly-. owned channels. So, Halpern points out, "Theater TV doesn't -take away free TV from any- one.' '" More theaters are expected to equip their projection booths with TV machines as soon as the cost comes down. Currently, it will run a theater between $15,- 000 and $20,000 to get ready. That's expected to drop soon, with mass production of projec- tors. One or two problems still pre- sent themselves—on an outdoor event, like a 'summer title fight, there's the weather to consider. The contract nowadays reads for seven days, in case of postpone- ments. Then there's the problem 'of line failure which, Halpern says with a quiet rap-on-wood, so far hasn't happened. "But the only thing we could do," he says, "is give everybody their money back." And that's the theater TV pic- ture now. give it a few years, and it may change the whole en- tertainment picture. SLOW DROPPER — A new type of parachute is demonstrated by Stiles T. Burke, left, of the Radioplane Company. Called a Rotafoil chute, it rotates from a low-friction swivel. Centri- fugal force flares out the skirt, causing much greater drag and increased stability. A four-pound Rotafoil can handle a falling object weighing 6000 pounds, the makers say. The chute is not intended for human escape, but for slowing down fast- landing planes and dropping supplies with greater stability and accuracy. Assisting in the demonstration is Marilyn Carter. What Is The Future Of "Theatre" Television