The Brussels Post, 1958-07-23, Page 3Odd Twists, Of. Fate
When police fished a hody out
of the Thames they little dreepit
they were playing. the 43PeOing
scene in one of tile weirdestIr
ever twists of fate,
A woman who read of the
discovery feared from the des-
eriptian that the body was that
of her long-missing brother. She
went to the mortuary where an
official lifted the sheet for her
to view it. Yes, it seemed to he
her brother, even to ' the scar
on his forehead. She wept Wt.-
terly,
While walking away from the
auilding, she gasped and turned
pale, thinking she was seeing a
ghost. For advancing towards
her was a tall, dark-haired, man
with a scar on his forehead.
He was her brother -- very
much alive, lie, too, had read
newspaper descriptions of the
body and was so intrigued a-- it
seemed to be so like him—that
he was curious to bee his dead
"double."
That is the only known in-
stance of a eorpse causing the
reunion of a brother and sister
in a mortuary.
When the liner Titanic sank
in mid-Atlantic after colliison
with an iceberg, a Chicago man,
James Kruck, escaped death.
Years later he was in the Lusi-
tania when she was torpedoed,
but was saved for the second.
time. But not long ago Kruck
was crossing a tiny stream in
Illinois when he suddenly col-
lapsed — and was drowned in
eleven inches of water.
When a New Yorker'went to
hospital for treatment follow-
ing a bout of influenza, he was
allocated a bed adjoining that
of a man whose face looked fa-
miliar. He gazed at the man's
face for ten minutes and sud-
denly realized the identity of
the owner. He asked a nurse
to telephone the police telling
them that fate had caught up
with a thief they were seeking.
The man turned out to be a
crook who had assaulted him
some time before and robbed
him of thirty dollars.
Then there was the man who
laughed at death by walking
across Niagara Falls on a tight-
rope — yet never recovered from
a‘bad jolt he received when he
stumbled over a doormat outside
his own home!
One of the last of the famous
French• duellists, Labertesque,
was said to possess such strength
that he could carry a fully-
grown horse on his back, An ex-
aggeration? Probably, but he
was a wonderful fighter and took
part in more than 200 duels
with pistol, sword and rapier,
narrowly dodging death scores
of times. - *
Fate then killed him in an un-
expected way. He was on his
way to the opera when the
carriage wheels struck a bump
in the roadway in Paris in 1914.
He was found dead when the
carriage stopped.
Man With Money
Few characters in American
journalism have occupied quite
the position of brash, Bessara-
bian7born Sam Bronstein. He at-
tained his special fame by being
a 'moneylender to newspaper-
men.
Arriving in St. Louis as a pen-
niless young immigrant in 1891,
Sam peddled papers for fifteen
years, then began making small
loans to his newspaper friends.
He charged ample interest, but
required no security—and con-
sidered himself a benefactor to
his clients.
By the time the depression of
the 3'Os came along, Sam had
acquired a modest stake and a
taste for higher finance, He in-
vested some $3,600 in securities
of the Missouri Pacific Railroad,
then deep in bankruptcy. By
1956 his holdings had become
worth approximately $970,000.
Gratefully remembering t h e
profession that had made pos-
sible his stake in the first place,
he arranged for most of his
money to go eventually to the
University of , Missouri School. of
Journalism.
Last month, when Sam Bron-
stein died at 81, few of his old
clients were still around, But
11ewSrbOin stories still recalled
his special relations with the
press, as, for exemple, the time
he was telephoned at 3 a.m. by
a newspaperman who thought
he held a winhing poker hand
but lacked the cash to prove it.
"What have you got?" Sammy
promptly asked,
'Feet deuces," the newsman
s
ai'cl`What's the other guy got?"
"Aces full, I think."
Sam pondered arid said:
with yeti. If we lose, ti ll be
right Over With the itioneY,"
They Wen the -pet — $200.
"Eine," Sam said, "send me 10
per cent,"
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How Can I?
By Anne Ashley
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A. Try rubbing a fresh lemon
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then rinsing it several times in
lukewarm water. It will become
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Q. How can I waterproof
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A. Apply castor oil to the
shoes about twice a week, and
they will be waterproof.
Q. How can I remove grease
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A. By rubbing with a mixture
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A, Beauty of finish and the
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linseed oil applied directly to the
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Q. How can I remove blood
stains from fabrics?
A. Soak in cold water for
about an hour and then wash in
warm water and white soap. If
the stains are old, they can
sometimes be removed by wet-
ting with cold water and cover-
ing thickly with powdered starch,
Allow to stand for several hours,
then wash. If this is not effective,
it might be necessary to use a
bleaching solution after soaking.
Q. How can I clean a white
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A. Use a suds of white laundry
soap, adding ammonia until the
water feels soft; then add for
each pint of suds one tablespoon
of glycerine. Wash the hat in
this, using a soft brush, lay on
a board and dry in the shade. Or,
clean it by rubbing with a cloth
saturate' with peroxide of hy-
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ISSUE 29 — 1958
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"IRELAND'S MAGAZINE"
Monthly Illustrated digest of Irish life
News, articles, pictures of past and
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Mimi Arnold, 19; Of RedwOOd;CaliC, Ciarots the net in Winablee
tiara, tridleirid, Miss Arnold had feet defeated the tall
tritith girl` ter their ladiee Singles Me:tithe 10-8 acid 64‘•
YOU'RE JOKING — An Eskimo
would .seem to have more use
for an •icebox than two-year-
old John W. Jacobi Ill would
have for that' big comb he's
wielding. .
tifled in truating hirryWith a
special mission.
Pierre was to capture the
girl's interest, make love to her
a little, so that Henri. could then
denounce Pierre as a scoundrel
and thus, as hes loped, win her
affection through his goodness
in rescuing her from a young
blackguard.
All seemed to be working out
extremely well. Pierre, a charm-
er, quickly set Michele's heart
fluttering. He was enjoying a
secluded picnic with her, actu-
ally had his arms about her,
when Henri suddenly popped
out from behind a tree, accom-
panied by Josette, Pierre's fi-
ancee,
"That man's a rogue!" he
shouted, Josette leapt into ac-
tion.
"You rat, kissing other girls!"
she screamed, rushing at Pierre
and kicking him. "And as for
you, you wicked husband-steal-
er!" she shouted at Michele,
seizing her by the hair and kick-
ing her ferociously, until the
two men intervened.
Henri then told the truth
about the masquerade. But Jo-
sette, having witnessed Pierre's
ardent "play acting," was furi-
ous. As for Michele, she thought
Henri the most loathsome man
on earth and Pierre, who kissed
het so softly, the deafest.
Sp, finally, through this mis-
carriage of a love plot, Pierre
married the pretty cake-ahem
girl. And Josette, when her
rage cooled, found Henri's rov-
ing eye on her. "You've saved
the from an unreliable man, per-
haps you'll prove truer," she
told him.
When an elderly bachelor,
from Sydney, suddenly felt ro-
Mantic he joined a Happiness
Club and met a 71-year-old
Widow, He married her, but
within four thotithe she left
He never bothered to look for
her, and when recently awarded
a decree nisi because of her de-
Sertion he bluntly told the
judge: "I'd fall for anything
Once, but I won't rejoin a
piness Club and I Won't te-
marry."
TO THE EARS
Rarely did a Brooklyn _Dodger
dignify an enemy by calling him.
a Wm. This elegance Was jeal-
(Maly reserved tet home Wetoee,
But # even the Getvanias Cellal
diehards had to go for Stan
Whe was simply' murder
at Ebbets Field,
Bellowed a nodgee "tote"' dui-
ing a vfosial field day ageinst
the home Wain,. "Hey,,
beX, how hi tie woild Orly-,
body rub so fast end 'see so
good, e'en butt yuhe
A NEW RECORD—MAYBELtierb Elliott, Australia's geti
P hi, "Queen of the Meet'i, after he cracked kissed by EvOl'n
the. eeethited Mark for the Mile with a> diatkliia of 3:57.9. The
record is 3.55, by another Australian, Jahn Lattly, It it expected.
that Mel Rave stinie trouble getting' recagnition becaUse
the• fifties ore taunted by fiNlt of a seciand instead' Of tenth':
Counting by fifths, 'Elliatt's wbuid be the same as LOhcty
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Fight To Death
Is "Just Acting"
A small bat, without thought
Dr danger, is happily playing
with a cuddly bear cub he has
Sound in the weeds when the
weber bear rushes forward,
growling angrily.
dust at that terrifying moment,
iR big yellow mongrel, dog bounds
to the rescue of his little master
— Straight at the mother bear's,
throat, The fight that follows is
full of snarling, howling fury
as bear and dog slash at each
other with bared teeth and, farigs.
How on earth, you wonder, as
you watch that dramatic scene
in Walt Disney's f i 1 m, "Old
Yeller," could two animals be
made to fight to the death be-
fore the cameras, presumably
without hurting each other?
The answer is that both are
experienced actors who knew
just what to do! They rehearsed
the scene for months, kicked up
a terrific commotion while they
were enacting it, but when the
dust died down, neither bore so
much as a scratch.
Spike, the 115-pound shaggy
;nongrel who plays the title role
in "Old Yeller," spent weeks
on a leash getting thoroughly
acquainted with Doug, a nine-
year-old bear owned by a pro-
fessional trainer, Byron Nelson.
Each animal learned to appre-
ciate the other's advantages.
Spike had agility. Doug was su-
perior in brute strt ngth. With
this knowledge they went into
the scrap with the utmost enthu-
siasm, each knowing exactly
what to do. And they came out
of it the best of friends.
Four years ago, this lop-ear-
ed yellow mongrel with lolling
iongue and bright eyes was lan-
guishing in an American d o
p o u n d, unwanted, unknown,
homeless and without a future.
There he was spotted and bailed
out by Frank Weatherwax, one
of the Hollywood family of ani-
mal trainers who made Lassie
into a world-famous film .star.
"He was two months old, all
head and feet," says Weather-
waX. "Bait he looked smart, so I
decided to give the little guy a
new lease of life." At the Wea-
therwax kennels Spike grew into
e big, affectionate and highly
$ALLPARK BALLET—Making` like
a .Nijinsky of the diamond is
Milwaukee Braves player John-
ny Logan as he throws to first
to complete a double play.
Dust-eater below him is St.
Louis Cardinal Gene Green,
who was forced out on the play.
intelligent dog.. Put becau$0 of
his mongrel et:poem-ice be Pt
few acting tabs.
wasn't'much in the gle-
Maur line," says Weatherwax,
who on do more to win friends
influence animals than meet
pee* can with people, "but he
had brains, I couldn't help think-
ing that some day he'd get has
break."
When Walt Disney started -his
search for dog to play the
animal, hero in the film version
of the, novel, "Old Yeller,"' Spike
landed the part. He was a na-
tural to play the lovable stray
clog who attaches himself to a
young boy struggling to protect
his mother and small brother
against all manner of hazards
m an untamed land, and helps
him through them all.
So Spike moved into the Dis-
ney Studios in company with
eighty-four assorted 'a n i in a 1 s
which appear in the film. He
found himself in a very differ-
ent world from the dog pound
of his early youth. Spike, film
star, was provided with a shoot-
ing brake, chauffeur driven, to
himself, a make-up man, hair-
dresser and a stand-in,
Disturbing Facts
In The U.S.A.
"The sharp rise in the num-
ber of young 'unwedenothers in
the U.S. is one of dur most tra-
gic and disturbing problems,"
Katharine B. Oettinger, chief of
the Children's Bureau in Wash-
ington, D.C., said recently,
In 1940, there were about 00,-
000 children born out of wed-
lock. During 1950 the figure
was 141,000. This year, it may
reach 200,2.000, "Two out of five
of these births are to girls un-
der 20," said Mrs. Oettinger.
"There are nearly 5,000 illegiti-
mate births a year to girls under
15."
Government statistics show
that the Southern states, and
some of the large Eastern and
Midwestern states, notably
Pennsylvania and Illinois, head
the list. A recent study by the
Washington, D.C., Health De-
partment reveals that the Dis-
trict has more' babies born out
of wedlock than any other large
city. The figures are higher in
city than in rural areas, with
the Negro rate two to three
times that for white girls,
Wherever she may live, fa-
cilities for helping the unwed
mother are woefully :few. She
may 'turn to a state public-wel-
fare agency, the Salvation Army,
or a Florence Crittenton home
(an organization of residential
homes for unwed mothers, with
some 55 branches), However, a
Children's Bureau report polhts
out, "invariably, voluntary and
public agencies report inade-
quate funds and insufficient
staffs to offer medical care and
social services needed by the
unmarried mothers and their
children," —From NEWSWEEK
"POLISHED"
James Rinaldi is probably, one
Of the most popular bootblacks
in the world. He is also probably
the most learned in languages.
Jimmy can shout "Shoe shine,
sir?" in twenty-seveis languages
including Bur mes e, Swedish,
Arabic, and Indonesian. He is a
bSotblack at United Nations'
Building, New York,
TWENTY,-ONE YEARS 'LATER—On Aug. 22, 1$51, the schooner
"America" defeated yachts from all nations in a race around
the Isle of Wight to take a British silver cup valued at 100
pounds. The owner of the yacht presented the cup to the
New York Yacht Club which, put it up as the prize in the.
America's Cup Race, a two-boqt, 30-mile race off Newport,
R.I, The British tried repeatelly and unsuccessfully to win the
cup back until the competition was discontinued in 1937. Now,
21 years later, she will try again, with a new, streamlined
yacht, the "Sceptre". Seeking to race with her in Septern.ber
are a number of U.S. boats, including the "Vim", shown above
off Newport. The 19-year-old craft will race aginst other U.S.
12-meter boats in elimination, races.' .
A Love-Piot
That Miscarried
All of a sudden the woman-
hater felt romance stirring in
his blood. "I've quite a bit of
money put together," he mused.
"Why don't I go and get myself
a wife, instead of carrying on
alone and friendless?"
So Stanislaw Tiborsk i, a
seventy - fiVe - year - old Pole,
locked up his house in Detroit
and set out for Chicago, with the
aim of finding a beautiful, lov-
ing wife. Booking in at a mod-
erately priced hotel, he enlisted
the hotel porter's aid in his
quest. "Sure, I can fix you up,"
said the porter. "I know plenty
of nice girls."
Very quickly he introduced
Stanislaw to , a woman, but she
disappeinted him — he wanted
someone younger — and, to
make matters worse, she stole
some of his money. He com-
plained to the porter. "There's
plenty more fish in the sea,"
the man assured him,
Potential wife No. 2 then
came on to the scene. But 'her
face didn't appeal, and, like her
predecessor, she showed light-
fingered tendencies. Stanislaw
felt slightly peeved.
Yet, curiously, despite these
two disappointments, he.still be-
lieved the porter would be able
to find him a captivating wife.
At the third introduction,
Stanislaw's naive faith seemed
justified, for now he met a beau-
tiful blonde — tall, willowy,
full-lipped, blue-eyed. He loved
her instantly, but it was she who
proposed marriage within twelve
hours of their meeting,
His new-found fiancee then e.
introduced him to her brother,
a slick, worldly type. Gushing
goodwill, he insisted on taking
Stanislaw for a ride in his lux-
ury car to see the sights of Chi-
cago. The girl excused herself,
saying she felt ill. Before going,
Stanislaw left in her charge his
entire savings, $7,500.
After cruising around for some
time, his fiancee's alleged bro-
ther suddenly wanted to, know
the latest stock market prices.
"I'll stop here," he said, as they
neared a railway station, "and
perhaps you won't mind buying
a paper."
Stanislaw got out and walked
to the nearest newsagent, but
hardly was his back turned than
his "chatiffeur" slipped the car
into gear and drove Off,
Of course, when Stanislaw
reached his hotel, the beautiful
blonde had vanished with the
cash.
After reporting the trick to
the police; he reterned to De-
trait, a sadder, 'poorer and wiser
man. Above all, he :vas irked
at having parted with $7,60
'without receiving more than half
a doten kisses in exchange!
Many men, despite great dis-
Appointtnents, remain incurably
romantic 'to the last. Cupid
smiles on some, but mocks
others.
A 58-year-old Freildh teldoW-
er Henri Thetmonceduk, of
Nafitea, devised a fhhtastic plot
to win the love of a pretty
'aliclidiee WHO worked in a local
'pastry thole, Aittacted to- ladle
he began to buy more cakes'
than he really needed, and timed
his 'visits carefully, Whet' etas
toraieta were few and the girl
diseilgaged,
tent loyal to her employer
Mid a good salesgirl, Miehele
did not choke him off. Heine
then worked out• his plan by
enlisting the aid of his nephew,
Pierre; gond-looking young
was going steady with
it vivacious girl, Jesette, Since
he'd promised Pierre a stil,Asiti-
tial legacy, he felt perfectly
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