The Brussels Post, 1957-01-02, Page 2Messy or Wet,
'They Both Lose
`Pie-eyed" or wet feet, it's the
choice of the lesser of two clts-
comforts, Geoftline Johnson,
right, is, vicepresident of the
UCLA sophomore class. She's
shown with, the remains of pie
and mud on her face, after she
and, her classmates met the
freshmen in a pie-eating con-
test. Georgine reallj, tasted de-
feat. 'F; James Bnfnesil,
isn't much better off, as he
slips into the watery depths of
a Daytona. Beach; Fla., pool.
'Barnes was on-the weaker side-
of a tug-of-war, at a convention
of the National Association of
Travel Organizations.
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THEY COULDN'T HAPPEN—BUT DIDI—The goofy, things that can
happen to people! There's a flock of freak accidents every
year and, about this time, the National Safety Council rounds
them upfor you. Below are illustrated a few of the Council's
1956 collection of cockeyed catastrophes.
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VENETIAN SCE E Look ng like a visa along the Grand Condi iii'Vahlte is this picture of
-flooded street iri Port Said, Egypt. Civilians fry' to larviifb from wrecked,
biiikfitigg While' a British tank stands :guard:
Queer Quirks of
Great Authors
Some authors are queer coves.
Arnold. Bennett once told Frank
SW.411104104 that he had a weak'
..4.:fer buying pictures, bi. t his
)'tench wife Objected, so lie
.w.0.41.4. bring a new one •home
secretly, hide it under the bed,
arid: six months later bang. it
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"Marguerite sees it, and
'Oh, you have. a. new picture I'' I
say: `No, I'ye had that .,. for
' "
But it. wasn't as pox* as he
tifhotigh for within twenty-four
hours Mrs. Bennett was telling.
Swintiertont. "Yon know what
Arnold; does? He buys a picture.
Be hides, it under his bed, Soon,
he hangS it on the w11,. I say:.
'Oh, Arnold, I. see you have a
new picture.' Be says, very in-
nocent; That? I've had that a
long time!' But I know!"
John Gaisworthy„ author of
t h e famous "Forsyte Saga,"
wrote, a short story, "The
Stoic," in which an old, sick
man, who knows that a single
meal of rich food will instant,
ly kill him, eats a suicide din-
nee.
Soon after the story appeared.
he met Bennett, who said: "That'
• meal was a meal!' Galsworthy
at once asked, him to dinner.
and gave him, in miniature, the
very meal described in • the.
story,
When they were both waie
correspondents, H. W. Nevinson
• demanded of Sir Philp Gibbs
that he should accompany him
on a walk up and down an open
Belgian esplanade under . Ger-.
man fire, to. show that they
were not afraid. "But I am
afraid," Gibbs protested —
vain; they had to parade until
Nevinson decided they had
proved their courage.
H. M. Tomlinson, as a young
journalist, was told by a friend
that a big ship was to sail a
thousand mike up the Amazon
into the heart of South Ameri-
ca. Incredulous,' Tomlinson said:
"A ship with that draught can't
do it."
The friend replied: "Come and
see for yourself. We, have a
spare cabin."
Accepting the offer, Tomlin-
son recorded what he saw in his
successful book, "The Sea and
the Jungle."
Swinnerton says in a well-
written literary memoir of the
past fifty years — "Background
with Chorus" — that poet Rob-
ert Nichols rarely completed
the masterpieces he planned.
He once confessed that he had
seven desks in his workroom,
each with the beginning of a
potential classic; but although
lie paused a while at each desk,
savouring what he'd written,
he eventually found he did not
Many a golfer shoots a. birdie,
but not as literally as 1:2-year-
old Rick Pickard of Baldwins-
ville, N.Y. Young Rickie, play7
leg his first golf game, did the
first two holes in routine fash-
don. At the third hole, he teed..
otY, hit a whizz& down; the fair-
way, hit a bird in flight and
tkilled it.
tieharil Fleming, of Woodland,'
had reason for losing His
]read While driving. A woods
neeker was necking away at IL
'The bird, :a family pet, *as In
his son's lap when it mistook
Fleinitig'S skull fOr a tree and
went to work. The car left pie
highway and tolled over twice.
Neither Fleming ivaa hiirt, The
WOOdpecker fotind a tree.
have suftelent talent tO finish
them.
HarryLawrence and, A,
Pullen, former publishers,. once
imported French, Plates for a
luxury erprint of a certain
bawdy work, but before they
could dispose of the edition they
received, to their dismay, a
letter from the secretary of a
league for the protection of
Public morals, saying he bee
lieved the book to be highly ob-
jectionable and hie chief inspec-
tor would therefore call on a
certain day to inspect copies Of
the book,
Frantically, they had, the
stock crated and sent to France
at considerable expense, but
no inspector arrived on the
stated day, The next morning
came a further letter saying
he'd been prevented from call-
ing as arranged but would come
a week hence.
When he did arrive he proved
to be an old playwright friend,
who had sent the letters to give
them a fright, Delighted with
the success of his joke, he re-
funded all expenses.
A tragic life-story was that of
novelist George Gissing. Lonely
as a college boy in Manchester,
he picked up a young, loose-
living girl and, to save her from
ruin, bought her a sewing ma-
chine taking money from the
overcoat pockets of fellow-stu-
dents.
Found out, he was sent to the
U.S.A., where he spent long
months in semi-starvation. Re-
turning to England, he married
the girl and triedeto keep them
both by such work as a boy of
twenty-one could do, but she
vanished and went back to the
streets.
When she died he was touch-
ed to discover that she had kept
to the last his photograph and
a little picture he'd given her.
He wrote "The Unclassed,"
based on the experience, and
other novels about the London
poor.
Desperate again with loneli-
ness and overwork, he ran out
into the street one day and ask-
ed the first girl he met to mar-
ry him. It was not a happy mar-
riage; illness eventually robbed
the wife of her reason.
In addition to anecdotes of
famous authors, the book con-
tains criticism and inside stories
of Mr. Swinnerton's own life as
an eminent bookman.
FELL IN LOVE
WITH A PICTURE
Holbein's portrait of Anne
of Cleves was so flattering that
when he saw it, Henry VIII at
once became eager to make her
his queen, and sent his ambas-
sadors to escort her to England.
But her appearance did not live
up to' the .portrait and Holbein
— a man of many ups and
downs -- was once more in dis-
grace.
'Mrs. Mary Hastings Bradey, of
!Chicago, is a noted author and
big gaMe hunter. She has sur=
vived six African safaris with-
out injury. But in the calm of
the trophy room of her own
tripped over a lion's
head and broke her arm. It
wasel , been her lion—it had
been shot by her husband.
Golden Gibson, of Itrioieviile,!
Tenn., is now a hearty suptiort,
ee Of theee states that peOlebit
the indisekiminate safe of fire7,
crackers. One day lie reached!:
nbSentmindedly for a. cigarct!
and' stuck a two-inch firectaeker;
In his mouth and lit it. teeth
his hospital bed, Gibson mum
hied
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through his handageS4 "I
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Shivers in Store.
For Movie-Goers
Aobert Palmer, Universal-
International casting director-,
bad some fun, at the expense of
willowy brunette Mara Corday
when he called her into his office
to tell, her that she had been
given the leading role in a new
pictnre-
"Congratulations, Mara," he,
said, "I know you are going to
like YoUr leading man."
Mara leaned forward expect-
antly, "Who is he?" she asked.
Bob grinned. "He's sixty feet
tall, fifty feet wide—and covered
with bristly hair. Iii short, he's
a monster tarantula!" Then, as
Mara screamed her dismay, he
reassured, her on one point; her
love scenes would be played with
hanclosme John. Agar, though the
giant tarantula, creation of a mad
scientist, is really the focal point
of the film "Tarantula,"
And no fewer than sixty small
life-size tarantulas are also in the
cast—theyeare real live ones. from
the desert.
The giant monster, howeyer,
is the latest—and one of the
finest — in a series of fantastic
horrors concocted in the last few
years by U-I's creative geniuses,
So the decorative Mara Corday
joins the ranks of many other
lovely actresses, including Fay
Wray, Valerie Hobson, Phyllis
Kirk, Lori Nelson, Leigh Snow-
den, Beverley Garland and Mari-
anne 13rauns, who have been
saved in the fifty-ninth minute of
the eleventh hour from the dead-
ly embrace of a monster.
"Beauty and the Beast" is a
theme that never fails.
It began with the "Franken-
stein" series and "King Kong."
In "Frankenstein" a scientist and
his horribly deformed accomplice
developed an unpleasant tech-
nique for bringing stolen corpses
back to life by means of secret
light rays.
Though their monstrous crea-
tion perished in the flames at
the end of the picture, he was
brought back to life to terrorize
the beautiful Valerie Hobson in
an equally horrific sequel, "Bride
of Frankenstein," and a number
of others.
Mightiest of all those early
monsters was King Kong, the
fifty-foot high ape that sparred
with prehistoric creatures in his
jungle island home, crushing the
life out of them to the accom-
paniment of eerie death wails,
and then escaped and ran amok
in New York.
The climax came when King
Kong towered over the Empire
State Building, the frail figure
of Fay Wray grasped in his huge
paw, his eyes flashing fire and
hatred, his fearsome jaws re-
vealing huge fangs and emitting
unearthly noises.
From "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde," "Dracula's Daughter" and
"The Vampire Bat," all "beauty
and the beast" stories of the past
we come to the modern type of --
horror science - fiction and the
invaders from other planets .
One of the most horrific of re,.
cent monsters is the Gill Man—
_ half-fish, half-man—who terror-
ized Jill Adams in "The. Creature
from the Black Lagoon," and
then, in "Revenge of the Crea-
ture," captured Lori Nelson and
dragged her, shrieking and ter-
rified, back into the river with
him.
Now this monster appears
again, in "The Creature Walks
Among. Us," but this time he has
lost his gills and becomes an air
breathing animal. After capture
he is seen clothed in a sailcloth
suit—but even this does little to
make him an the less alarming,
either to audiences or to his
latest feminine victim, Leigh
Snowden.
Bud Westmore, U-I's make-up
chief, and his assistant, Jack
Kevan, say that more "blood,
sweat and tears" went into the
designing of the Gill Man than
any freak of nature in the studio's
long history of shockers.
Experiments went on for six
months and Westmore and Kevan
studied twenty-five volumes on
strange creatures of the deep,
ancient mammals and eerie draw-
ings by some of the wo.;ld's great
artists who dabbled in such
fantasies.
No fewer than seventy - six
sketches of the body and thirty-
two of the head were finally
sub/bitted to Producer William
AlIand and Director Jack Arnold.
They used a total- Of 167 pounds
Of rubber and plastic to make
life-sized models of the tfionstet°s
sea-green "body," a covering for
an actual than who was cast to
size after the creature was per-
fected.
Now that it has also come
ashore for its latest exploit, the
creature has to be played by two
different actors. Rieott Brownlee,
the skin-diver, gets inside the
Monster Under the water, , and
DotiMegowan plays him during
the land scenes.
Drive With Care
Europeans often use fruit with
ice cream in the opposite way
from which we use it. Instead
of putting it on top of ice cream
and calling it a sundae, • they
place the ball of ice cream on the
fruit and use many different
names to describe it. In one of
the S.S. Queen Elizabeth's re-
cent trips to Europe we were
served crushed pineapple topped
by chocolate ice cream: Almost
any variety of fruit is used,
either alone or mixed with any
flavor of ice cream. Inevitably,
it is topped with whipped cream
and served with a little wafer.
In England a dessert that ap-
pealed to the 20 members of the
party I am travelling with was
apple -and blackberry pie. The
fruits were combined, the liquid
thickened and then put between
crusts. I had this combination
in a pie in the world-famous
London restaurant, Simpson's-in-
the-Steand (I had roast saddle
of mutton with red currant jelly
first), and also at Old House in
Windsor where it was served
with clotted cream — a full
pitcher for each diner, writes
Eleanor Richey Johnson In The
. Christian Science Monitor.
In Switzerland, thickened
fruit was topped with a meringue
instead of crust for a dessert that
was popular with Americans.
The dessert that 11as brought
more oh's and ah's than any
other in my several weeks of
travel. on the continent was a
refrigerator pudding we had at
the Hotel. Metropole in Brussels.
Ladyfingers had been used for
the base, lining a bowl, and filled
with a combination of custard
and whipped cream. It was
served with a scarlet sauce that
was half crariberry and half
strawberry. It was served quite
cold, and was frothy, sweet, and
satisfying.
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The bread puddings of today
are often rich and fancy• — a
far cry from those bland affairs
that jokes were made about a
few' decades agol For instance,
the following one should be
served hot out of the oven, all
puffed up with its exciting new
macaroon tepping.. This 15 a
ruby-red pudding: a' thickened
cherrY sailed is blended with
bread crumb meringue and gaily
topped off with great snowy balls
of the same Meringue. It la
flavored with almond extract.
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CHERRY 'MACAROON
I;READ' PUDDING,
4 cup' butter`
2 table:0011S flour
Dash salt
1/4 call6it
Sugar
1l 2)r SOur pitted red'
Hittites, Water packed
teaspeoii keit food coloring
4 egg *fillet
1 cup sugar
I teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon ainiand etttriet
qiiitrt coarse; "dry bread
&iambs
Melt butter in saucepan. Blend
in flour and salt. Add sugar.
Drain cherries and add 3/1 cup -
of juice (add water, if neces-
sary) to the butter mixture in
saucepan. Add cherries. Bring
to boil, stirring constantly. Re-
move from heat and stir in red
food coloring, Cool.
Beat egg vvIiites until foamy.
Add 1 cup sugar gradually, beat-
ing after each addition. Beat
until mixture is shiny, and stiff
peaks are formed. Fold in van-
illa and almond extracts and
bread crumbs. 4 Reserve 1 1/2 cups
of meringue. Fold remaining
meringue mixture into cooled
cherry, mixture. Place in bottom
of an 8-inch 'square baking pan.
Drop 9 mounds' of egg- white
mixture on top of pudding. Bake
at 350° F. for 25.minutes. Serves
nine.
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Here is a "nobody'd-guess-it-
was - a - bread - pudding" recipe.
Serve it with hot butterscotch
sauce for a new, rich, taste.
PEACH CUP PUDDING
With BUTTERSCOTCH SAUCE
5 canned clingstone peach halves
2 eggs
'1 cup sugar
Ye teaspoon cinnamon
3 cups soft white bread crumbs
2 tablespoons melted butter
Place 1 peach half, cup side
up, in each of 5 well-buttered
custard cups. Beat eggs; beat
sugar into eggs, a little at a time.
Add cinnamon, bread crumbs,
and butter and blend well. Pour
into custard cups on top of
peach halves. Bake about 25
minutes at 400° \'. Remove froth
cups and serve warm, peach side
up. Serve sauce separately.
SAUCE
1 cup peach syrup
3/2 cup sugar
Few grains salt
2 tablespoons cornstarch
tebtesPeens better
teaSPOon cinnamon.
Combine all ingredients and
stir until, well blended. Bring to,
boil and stir until thick.
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If you'd like to combine fresh
pears and, apples with whole-
wheat bread in a baked Pudding,
try this apple-pear bread des-
sect,
APPLE-REAR BETTY
2 cups soft whole-wheat bread
crumbs
1,4 cup melted butter
3 cups (3 large) tart sliced
apples
3A cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
3 cups (3 large) firm sliced
pears
34 cup boiling water
Combine bread crumbs and
melted butter; place 1/ of mix-
ture in a 1 1/2 -quart buttered cas-
serole. Cover with all the sliced
apples. Combine sugar, nutmeg,
and lemon rind; sprinkle half of
this mixture over apples, Cover
with 1/2, of crumbs. Cover with
the sliced pears, then add the
remaining sugar mixture. Pour
boiling water over all. Top with
remaining crumbs. Cover. Bake
30 minutes in a preheated 375°F.
oven. Remove cover and bake
20 minutes more, or until brown.
Serves 6.
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For the men in your family
who always want chocolate des-
serts, here is a choColate bread
`pudding.'
CHOCOLATE BREAD
PUDDING
1 cup dry bread crumbs
1 square baking chocolate
shaved or grated
2 cups milk, scalded
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup sugar
34 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg, ivell beaten
Mix bread crumbs with shaved
chocolate and add toscalded milk
in saucepan; stir over -low heat
until chocolate is melted. Add
butter and cool slightly. Add
remaining ingredients and mix
w ell.
Pour into well-greased 6-cup
casserole and bake at 375°F, for
1 hour, or until a sharp knife
inserted in the centre comes out
clean. Serve hot with slightly
sweetened whipped cream or
hard sauce. Serves 6.
LEMON HARD SAUCE
34 cup butter, softened
1 cup confectioners' sugar
3/2 teaspoon granted lemon rind
1-11A teaspoons lemon juice
3/1 teaspoon lemontflavoring
Work butter until light and
creamy. Add other ingredients.
DEAD HORSE KICKS MAN
"Never say die until you're
kicked by a dead horse!" is an
old Australian saying. A far-
mer, near Bellingen, New South
Wales, felt a little strange about
the saying recently. He shot a
horse, cut its throat and was
skinning the left leg when it
jerked loose and whacked him
on the chin. The farmer had to
have six stitches taken.
Institutes' Head Backs
Attack On Accidents
"Heartbreak Or happiness
the choice is often up O. the
hostess who entertains during
the Christmas and New Year's,
holidays", declared Mrs. T.
Adamsr Ethelton, Saalc„
dent of the Federated Women's.
Institutes of Canada in a pre-
holiday statement,
"Canadian housewives must
realize the heavy responsibility
which rests on their shoulders
during this holiday period", she
said, "and they must accept this
responsibility and 'act accord-
ingly,"
Traffic fatalities during this
festive period have been on the
increase in recent years, Mrs,
Adams pointed out, and many of
these accidents could have been
avoided if more thought had
been put into the planning of
holiday parties and the refresh-
ment served at theni.
In the 'gaiety and warmth of
family reunions, and the visits
of dear and old friends, caution
is sometimes "flung to the
winds" and what started out td
be a wonderful evening often
ends in tragedy,
In concluding,' Mrs. Ad am:
suggested a few simple rules tc
be followed by the Canadian hos-
tess this year in order to ensure
a happy and safe holiday season
for all:
1. Always have food avail-
able for your guests. Tasty
spreads and dips for crackers and
potato chips, cold meat cuts and
a variety of cheeses are always
welcome and easy to serve,
2. If you are among many
Canadians who serve alcoholic
beverages, keep the safety of
your guests in mind and be mod-
erate. Give them a cup of hot
soup, chocolate, coffee or other
alertness beverage before they
leave.
3, Night driving in the win-
ter on icy roads or in the glare
of snow packed roads is hard on
the nerves and the eyes. Suggest
to the wives that they take a
spell at the wheel if any distance
is to be covered.
4. Listen carefully to weather
reports on your radio before
your guests leave and invite
them to stay overnight if a snow-
storm is predicted. Saving their
lives is worth any inconvenience
to you.
5. Suggest to your guests that
they carry with them a thermos
of coffee to provide a break
when they have to 'travel in iso-
lated areas." This will help them
stay alert and alive.
With road conditions the way
they are at this time of the year,
a driver needs all of his facul-
ties, says Mrs. Adams. Not only
must he take utmost care with
his own driving,, but must con-
stantly be on the watch for the
often hazardous driving o f
others.
Isn't it the truth? "The driver
is safer when the roads are dry.
The roads are safer when, the
driver is dry."
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