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trail and •mustering all the cour-
age at our 'command. could we
take the finel steps that put us
aboard.
The writer does nut know
which was the more thrilling:
to launch aboard .or to stand on
the shore and watch the vessel
glide into the water, Whether
the sensation was one of sight
or feeling, it was sublime! The
tense throng, the curt•conneads,
the' concerted action of the mere
the frenzied knocking out of the
blocks, the sudden quiver of the
ship's whole frame as if the
breath of life had been breathed
into her, and a movement that
seemed to, say "when 'tis
then Wei e well it were' done
quickly," and with one majestic
plunge, ,the WAS in the foaming
waves, Whistles blew, shouts and
cheers rent the air, Proudly rid-
ing the churning waters which
enfolded and caressed her, she
seemed. like some animate thing,.
And, indeed, she was somethagig
more than a hulk of wood and
iron; far had not the thoughts-
and the plans, indeed the very
lives of dozens of men gone into
the making of her graceful
frame? — From "A Town..• That
Went to Sea," by Aubigne, Ler-
mond, Packard,
Canadian Writer
.criticizes the
While Vice President Rich,:
Nixon was mending American
fences to the south, Preeldent
Eisenhower was getting ready to
do the same in the north, The
White House announced that On
July 6,10, he and Mrs, Eisen-
hower and Secretary of State
and • airs„ Dulles will visit Ote
tawa, where the President will
address a joint session of the
Hinge of Commons and the Sen-
ate. Na reason for the visit was
given but it is known that the
Ambassador to .Canada, Livings
AMP T. Merchant, who is one of
Mra Eisenhower's favorite en-
voys, has been urging him to go
math.. And because Oanade has
just wound up an election cam-
paign in which anti-Americanism
played a large part, this seemed
A propitious time,
What do the people of Canada •
think of Mr, Eisenhower?
One' man's opinion, appearing
in Canada's Mass-circulation
(543,924) r •Maclean's megezine,
has caused comment from -IVIOnt-
eeale Que., to Yenceaven B.G.;
and lifted eyebreves all the way
,eepa Washington, The broad-blade
article, benehe journalist 'Brace
Hutchison, ,was called "The'
Eisenhower Tragedy." • „
. "The tragedy of Dwight ,-D.
Eisenhower is dart in at'claesic
-mold," Hutchison wrote., "Like
every tragic hero, this man at-
tempts a 'high 'purpose, 'succeeds
at first and then is overwhelmed
by forces within and. without
•himself."
, How did it • happen? "Ereen-
hower Was elected for the wrong
purpose;' at 'the wrong moment,
wth the wrong policy." In 1952
the American people were sick
of war, crisis, scandal, and in-
flation. "They • enthusiastically
elected. Eisenhower to get the
country back on a straight,
eniobth road. His friendly, boy-
ieh .face looked. like the cone,
temporary image of ",the old
American Dream."
But then: says Hutchison,
came the McCarthy case at home
and • troubles abroad, "Three
years after his election Eisen-
hower appeared to be in perfect
health and was enjoying a 'Popu-
larity accorded no predecessor,
but as a statesman , began to
wear, under the boyish grin; the
first faint tinge of tragedy."' His
policy was proving not to be
the policy of his party and he
was not a successful party man-
ager. He depended "too much
for advice on the professionals."'
In September 1955 •came his
beart attack—its "immediate ef-
fect was to .fraciaire not only the
President's bodily strength but
his Executive power." He re-
covered sufficiently to seek 'a
second term. "That was his
greatest mistake and assured his
ultimate tragedy," asserts Hutch-
ison, After his re-election he
"appeared to be a well: man and
a regnant leader until the sum-
mer of 1957. Then four events
engulfed him": His stroke, the
recession, "sputnik's glare," and
the turning .against hirn of "the
intransigent elements of the .Ree
publican Party. In combination,
says Hutchison, they left him *e.
broken man.
"Dissolution was far advanced
in Washington when I visited
that sad and angry town a few
weeks ago," Hutchison reports.
"But the vital ,news of, the day
takes time to seep through the
nation and the'worldeThe simple
fact is that the . Presidency has
ceased to function as the ful-
crum of domestic and .foreign
power. It is never likely to func-
tion thus again as long as an
ailing man sits in the White
House." —From NEWSWEEK,
The Launching
Of A Ship
'Everybody in town followed
the progress of. each vessel with
great interest. All knew when
the keel was laid, when the
frame was up, when she was
veiled and planked„ when she.
was when the masts were
set, when she was rigged, when
the water line was drawn and
the painters were at work,
To be sure the men did the
actual work, but behind the lines
were the women and children,
each helping directly or indi-
rectly to bring the vessel to
completion, Boys tended the
steam-box, girls carried their
fathers' dinners to the shipyard,
wives and mothers cooked and
washed and sewed to feed and
clothe the men who were work-
ing so feverishly from sun to
,sun, Captains' wives and sweet,
hearts anxiously Waited the
day when . the vessel would be
finished and, ready to sail. If the
maiden voyage were to be a
honeymoon voyage the whole
town breathed one great lover's
sigh... .
As the day of the launching
(pronounced ."larnchirig") drew
near everybody was on the qui
vive. In the• yard all was abustle
and astir for the vessel had to
be greased up the day she Was
to be sent down the ways., en
olden, times all sorts of grease,
even goose grease. mixed With
flaxseed was sometimes used. In
the writer's day rancid lard, tat-
low, pogy poil, sett soap, .hard.
soap, seal bluntee and "New
York launching grease" were
used, Whatever' it etas, it had to
be put on withoat stint and the
ways had to be so very slick
and slippery that when the
blocks and wedges were knock-
ed out the vessel would glide
-smoothly into the water.
The launching, . always took
place at flood tide and about
noon, in those good old days
anybody who 'wished could
launch. aboard. We children
would climb the long inclined
staging leading from the ground
to a point opposite the vessel's
rail about midships. That was
comparatively easy; but when
we , reached the narrow plank
bridging 'the gap between the
staging and the rail, although
there was always a friendly hand
outstretched to us, our. knees
trembled, our legs grew )imp and
Our purppse faltered Only 4' by
keeping our eyes fixed on the
TINNED T1MEe-Clock-eye,d shoppers will scion be able to buy
tinned time' at the grocery store. Packaging of one-day and
• electric `alarm .clocks rings the bell for a tomorrowful of mer-
chandise, ,hermetically sealed in tin, that will be available in
your grocery store. Secacise of the protective, cushioned pack-
aging, clocks won't suffer atmospheric-or other damage. They'll
carry a one-year guarantee rather than the conventional 90-day
warranty.
she went from strength ha
strength.—till December, 1930.
It was then that three plain.-
clothes detectives ordered drinks
in her club on 58th Street, They
put all the waiters and barmen
ender arrest, then went Upstairs
to the third floor, where Belle
Livingstone was in pyjamas, in
readiness to go to bed,
Belie escaped out of the win-
dow and slid down a rope, which
was hanging there in rcsactioes
for such emergencies. For half
an hour the police pursued her
otter the rooftops, finding her
an easy quarry in her bright
red pyjamas. At last she man-
aged to get into a near-by house,
and thought herself safe; but
when she let herself out into
the street, two policemen were
waiting to arrest her.
Her trial was the talk of the
city. She appeared ,in court to-
gether with scores of cases, of
"hooch", brought as evidence,
But although she yehemently de-
nied every charge, claiming,
among other things, that she had
been educated at Oxford and the
Sorbonne, Paris, she went to
prison for .30 days, When she
was released she was banned
from opening or running any
more "ebbe" in the city of New
York, et- • -
Nothing daunted, she morel''
her headquarters to Renege bur'
:the repeal of Prohibition finally
put an. end to her fortune. Faci e,
ing in Reno, she tried and failed
again in California. • a
Poor, lonely and friendless, she
'eeturned -to New'York 1937;°
but her old admirers had for-
gotten her.
Foes- the twenty years before
her death, the' woman' who 'had'
blazed a trail across' Europe and'
Amerida lived in wretched povt
arty in a bleak Manhattan base-
ment,
SHALLOW REMARK
One day .Lefty', Gomez! turned
around and „saw Joe •DiMaggio
playing an 'excessively shllow
centerfield. 'With Reidy York
coming up, Gomez .blanched and
waved DiMag, back. After the
game, 'he asked -Joe •why he had '
moved in so close.
"I'm supposed to make people
forget Tris Speaker," DiMag said
with a grin.
"If you play in far guye like
Gork, you'll. 'make, them .forget
omez," retorted Lefty.
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Away Up intigh!,
The earth's atmospheric veil
which gives the ,etars theirescin-
Onetime or twinkle-twinkle, de-
lights dabblers in dreams, but
has always hindered astro-
nomical observations. Beeently,
after 22'yeare of frustrated star-
gazing, astronomer Alfred, H.
Mikesell burst into the clear to
become the first astonoiner to
behold non-twinkling, stars, His
observatory: A 2- by 4-foot, open
air glass-fiber platform ifted
8 miles high by a hellennefilled
balloon and held reasonably
steady in the high-altitude winds
under the experienced hand of
the veteran balloonist„ Malcolm
Ross,
Bundled up in Navy cold-
weather suits ("They looked like
a couple of Teddy beats," a
launch crewman remarked), the
two men rose slowly shortly be-
fore sunset from an open. iron
mine' near Crosby, Minn.
"I'm not comfortable a t heights,"
• Mikesell, 44-year-old. father of
eight, said in his understated
manner, "but I had great s faith
in Ross as a pilot, and once night
came, the work kept the mind
occupied. The stars were 'start-
ling. Jupiter looked as big as
e weather balloon. It, certainly
wasn't like the observatory.'
While Roes maneuvred to five
pre-selected altitude observation
points arid kept on a south-south-
easterly teurse ("We didn't want
to, come crown in Lake, Mich-
igan"), Mikesell worked with his.
31/2 -inch telescope with a photo-
tube attached to pinpoint just
Where the twinkle ends: Tenta-
tively he estimates 36;000 feet.
The balloon's ,landing just east
of Dubuque, Iowa, was' "text-
book perfect", according to' Ross.
But the real high spot was
Watching Mikesell watching the
stars. , "We, got 'an astronomer
above ,most of the atmosphere—
it was just'wonderful seeing him
at work there." '
—Fr nn. • N away e
•
OLD SPANISH CUSTOM
Mrs. Carinen • Rivera, of Pas-
ajes de San Juan, Spain; is pretty
certain that, her ;next child —
the,26th —'will be a girl.
So far her children have been•
born in stria rotation — one
year a .son, the ,next a daughter..
Of her 25 ehildren, 13 have been•
boys and 12 have been girls.
Mee, Riyera, thereforee confi-
dently predicts: :"This year it
will be a* girl!"
ISSUE 23 — 1958
2 egg whites
3 cups confectioners' sugar.
Cream shortening, salt, vanil-
•Ia, and 1 cup sugar until light
and fluffy. Beat ,egg • whites
with 2 cups eugar until stiff.
Combine the two mixtures.
When well mixed,• place in cake
decorating tube and decorate
cake,
To make rosettes, use fluted,
.attachment. Place against cake
and squeeze just ,enough to make
rosette. Place silver candy• in•
center of each 'rosette, Edge
each layer,. 'using the same tube
attaphment, but allowing' frost-
ing to 'overlap every half inch
or so. . • *
If- you want 'to serve punch
at the wedding reception, here
is a recipe that ,is .easy. It uses
frozen fruit juice concentrates.
Wedding Punch
3 6-ounce cans frozen ,orange
juice concentrate •
1 6-ounce'. can frozen grapefruit
,juice coneentrate
1 quart ginger ale
• Prepare concentrates accord-
ing • to can directions; peen. into
peach bowl' with ginger ale.
Add ice. Cut limes in .very thin . ,
'slices and float on pinch. Thir-
ty-two Vg -cup .Seiw't
haye two 13x9 cakes. Then ar-
range theta like this:
1st layer:
One•13xa cake,
2nd layer:
Cut second cake into ' two
pieces; 7X9 and 6x9 inches. Place
the 7x9-inch piece lengthwise
on the first layer.
3rd layer:
Cut ,the 6x9 piece into ' two
equal pieces, 6x41,e-inches, and•
place one ' piece lengthwise on
second layer. ,
4th layer:
Cut the remaining piece, of
cake into two equal piecei, 3x
41-inches' and place one piece
-on top of third layer.
The last 'piece is for 'the bride
and bridegroom. Freeze it and'
wrap in aluminum foil. They ,can
eat it on their 'first month's 'an-
niversary.
Fleiffy Boiled Icing•
1% 'Cups sugar
1,6 cup water
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
Ti teaspoon salt
2 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cook sugar, water, salt,l and
corn syrup in saucepan over low
heat, stirring until sugar is dis-
solved; cover pan and boil ,for
about 3 minutes. Boil evitlieut,
stirring until' a small amount
forms a firm ball in cold water
(242°F.-244°F.). Uncover; beat
egg whites stiff. Remove syrup
from heat and pour slowly over
beaten egg whites, beating con-
stantly., Add vanilla, , Continue
beating until leing is of consis-
tency to. spread.
Use the above icing to ice be-
tweet. layers, on sides, and top
of cake, Make this recipe twice,
It is not possible to double the
recipe because the icing becomes
unworkable.
Ornamental Icing
1
•1A1''
shortenin g
nrtesenlint
1V2 .tcaspoOns vanilla
Some day this year may be a
wedding day in your family.
'It :'may be a church• wedding
that you are planning, or it may
be. a, home wedding, or it, may
be a wedding in a garden — but
whatever kind of a wedding it
is, there must always be a Wed-
ding cake!
There's something about wed-
ding cakes. For years on end one
hardly thinks about them ,and
then, suddenly, when it's time for
.one to be 'made or ordered' for
someone in the family, the cake
assumes an importance almost
equal to that of the bride's: dress
or. bouquet.
Shall it be a square one, a
round one or an oval one?, With
what shall the cake be topped—
, a miniature bride and beide-
-geoom, decorative wedding bells,
sugar flowers, or a pair of alu-
minum foil wedding rings?
I've just been' to a beautiful
hone wedding. It perhaps yield-
ed ideas for the one you are
playing. A simple wooden altar
was placed in front of a fire-
. place and covered with white
stocla• carnations and lilies,
writes Eleanor Richey Johnston
in The Christian Science Moni-
tor.
The mantel behind the 'min-
ister was banked with ferns and
white 'blossoms. Three-foot high
candlesticks, each holding five
large, white candles, stood ;one at
either side of the altar.
Wide white satin ribbons iron'
the altar to the foot of the
stairs made an aisle for mem-
bers of the bridal party after
they descended the stairs, Guests
stood on both sides.
In the room next to this, a
table holding the wedding- cake
had been placed across one cor-
ner. The cake was oval,, ,four-
tiered, and decorated with sugar
gardenias, the bride's favorite
flower.
It was topped by a clusrer of
three sugar gardenias, and each
tier was decorated with them
in graduated sizes. The entire
cake was elevated slightly above
the table, leaving space for a
Wreath of fragrant live gar-
denias around the ban, It made
a beautiful picture to be re-+•
membered always.
*
If you want to make the cake
for your own family wedding,
here are directions, Your will
need to make the recipe twice,
and you can bake it the clay
before and ice it the Molting
of the big day. • •
Four-Tiered White (lake
2% cups sifted, cake flout
1% cline "sugar '
56 clip shortening
1 teaspoon salt t
1 cup milk I •
41/2 teaespeeetie double acting bele-
hig peeedee (5te teaspoons
of .regular)'
1/.6 OUP milk '
5 egg whites
1 teaspoon flavoring`
Measure first 'five .1rigrediente
into mixing howl and Mix there
Otighly for tWO minutes e Stir ire
baking powder; Adds, the iz cup.
egg, Whites, acid flavoring
and tribe thorotighly, for ttWO
Minutes. Grease. 13kiA=ineh
loaf pan and line bottom With
heavy Wasted paper or dust With
tititte. Peer in better" end bake'
at .160'P lor 40-4t initattet.
Atok,e recipe agent tie :hat yeti,
SKY SENTRY—Set SENTRY—Set to start scan-
ning the skies in the near 'future,
d giant radar tower nears com-
pletion in Munich, Germany.'
The tower features a 23-ton an-
tenna which will rotate six times
a minute from ifs 70-foot-high
,perch. It is capable of "view-
ing" all air traffic for a radius
of 330 miles and up to 13 miles
altitude.
Vast 0 Princes
Died Penniless
Recently, a 95-year-old woman
died in a New York hospital,
Where site had been brought
from a tiny, squalid room. Few
would have recognized leer as
Belle Livingstone, once the toast
Of princes and Millionaires, later
the eirterOwned queen of
the New York dives.
Thus tended a remarkable life
.F.1011 had beg= when her up-
lcnoWn mother abandoned her on
ft doorstep in Emporia, Kansas.
The tiny eland was found by
k newspaper editor, John Ran".
say Graham, who took her home
and adopted her,
By the time she was 20, Belle
had already made up her mind
that life in a small provincial
town was not for her, She told
Graham she wanted to become
a dancer, an ambition which he
sternly opposed.
Almost immediately, B e 11 e
went out into the street, stopped
the first likely-looking passer-
by and asked him to marry her.
agreed—to a marriage of
convenience—and Belle confront-
ed her foster-father as a mar-
ried wdman; free to do as elle
irleased,
Soon after she had gone to
New York, where the critics
hailed her as "the girl with the
poetic legee. her'husband, Rich-
teed 'Waring, died. Since there
had been no time to Obtain the
divorce they had arranged, Belle
Inherited his fortune of $150,000.
Ai year was 1897, and she left
flew York in search of adventure
'iii the Old World, •
For five years she roamed
between Londan, Perla and even
Arabia, where she pitched her
tents in the desert in an unsuc-
cessful attempt to work a mine.
Then she lost all her money, on
the stock exchange and she was
back where she started—or so it
seemed.
But fortune took a hand again.
ghe bet a London millionaire,
Charles Ansell, that the could, go
round the world on a mere $25,
lising her personal charms to
Make up for her lack of money.
The two signed a contract. If
Belle lost, she must marry a
man she had previously rejected.
But if she won she would be
about $25,000 better off.
She got as far as Japan, where
%he met and fell in love with
srn Italian count.
Cabling Ansell to ask whether
the terms of their bet permitted
her to marry, she received the
answer, "Take..*he man and the
Money, too. •
A countess, now, Belle return-
ed to America for a visit. But
while she was there the count
b
fed and, since the marriage had
een in Japan, she could, not
'legally inherit as his widow.
There followed a providential
third marriage, to a Cleveland
Millionaire, a fourth, to an
English colonel who left her in
Order to live a quieter life with
]his sisters. After that, Bello
tried the tables of Monte Carlo,
where she lost everything.
In 1927 she again returned
do her native America, where
Prohibition was in full force.
With money she had earned by
publishing her memoirs she
opened a chain of dives where
customers could buy bootleg
liquor—at a price.
They paid more than $130 a
year membership fees for what
Belle Livingstone liked to de-
scribe as her "clubs", and a
glass of very dubious synthetic
alcohol could cost up to $5.
She was frequently arrested,
but invariably discharged, since
the police had to prove that she
was the proprietor of a dive, and
that she herself organized the
sale of alcoholic drinks. Her
"cl u b s" became fashionable
among New York society,' and
ARRESTING REMARK
These Treats Make Hot Weather Bearade One year in Washington, a
famous woman opera star sang
"Salome" in a daring costume,
and police raided the show.
Some time later the White Sox
came to town with ancient Frank
Isbell at second base. E'rank was
quite bald and kept his cap
tightly over his head,
On this particular afternoon,
Isbell tagged out a runner on a
vital play — only to hear the
ump call the man sales _Isbell
went into a tantrum. He jerked
Off his cap, hurled it onto the
ground, and jumped on it.
From away out in the bleach-
ers floated a voice: "Put on that
hat — they pinch opera singers
for less than that hi this town.'
BY EspReArtlY
Foe a hot-clay luncheon, frozen
fruit salad serves as a combina-
tion main dish and dessert. Of,
course, a pitcher of iced tea goes
with thie luncheon, too. ,
Ice Tea Recipe (10-12 servings)
Preineaeuee l cup loose tea
(or remove: tags from 15 tea-
bags). Bring 1 qUart df fteshly
drawn cold water to a full"rolling
boil in a satidepati, RemMie ftom
heat and while water is still bub-
bling, add all, the tea' at one
time. Stir, Brew 5 minutes, ime
coveted. Stir = and strain'into'
pitcher holding an additional
qUart of freshly ,eirawnn cold evaa
ter, (Do not refrigerate;) Serve
in ice-tilled glasses, with letribii
end eugerette taste,
Vitiate 'PrUlt,Salad
servings)
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from. fruit, 1 tetelespoOn eager;
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cheese.. 2 tablespoons theytitie-
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