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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-10-01, Page 64%.•:1-0.1ree'. HRONICLES 1,1191RF4c1,4c,ei ,t •,I.r..\ tit• ,....- --. t, ...... ..,„....- ',— ..-- AN NE: 11,0444 fa4141 IRST ...C.,414414'_g,e44. By DICK '14,EWrR NY4 Staff cprresp9ndeni, Tvgly YORK Chet Huntley, NHG-TV's newscaster flew to Paris to interview de Gaulle's minister of information„ Jacques Soustelle, And, after they .ex,-• changed, hellos, the first thing Soustelle said was: "Tell. me, M, Huntley, what's happening tp those quiz shows in America?" That, as they used to say in. the old daya„ is the $04 ques- tion. 'It's a question that carries an answer worth millions salaries to, quiz show employees, fees to quiz show producers, commissions, to quiz show ade vertising agencies, profits (or losses.). to quiz show sponsors, Since "Dotto" lost its spots, the fat quiz shoW industry has been shaking on the edge of disaster, Its leaders. are watch- ing the ratings with the eye of • a sick man reading a. thermo- meter, If it seems that the pub- lic has lost faith and interest in the cmizzes, they'll be through. If, on the other hand, the pub- . lic seems to be •to for- give and forget, the quizzes will continue. In the quiz show factories, producers and others await their fate with a mixture of anger, stunned silence and confusion, They don't seem to know what hit them. Some will tell you, with bra- vado; "This is a nine-day won-. der—it'll blow over." Others try to fight back, talk- ing about the quiz-show accusers as "blackmailers" and the inves- tigating New York district at- torney, Frank Hogan, as a "po- litical opportunist" — he's run- ning for the Senate this year. And some just shrug their shoulders and say, philosophi- SHIP SHAPE — A sight to make a Venetian blind is Hollywood's Mamie Van Doren as she waves hello to the canal city from a motorboat. She was in Venice for the 19th International Film Festival after finishing her first European movie, "The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina," shot in Rome. "Dear Anne Hirst:. For three years I went with a widower who has three email children liv- ing with, a relative. (My hus- band had died four years earl- ier) He made all sorts of plans to marry me so we could all be together..and now I get the shock of my life! "Three months ago his busi- ness took him to another city. I wrote regularly, but heard no- thing. One night a month ago a woman called long distance and told me not to write him any snore; that she had been his wife for feur months! (He had been away for some weekends but I never suspected anything.) "Why didn't he tell me the truth? I love him dearly, he was always so kind and, 1 thought, so good, "Shall I write and ask him why he did such a cruel thing to me? I am at a loss to under- stand, and perhaps if he explain- ed I'd not feel so hurt. AT THE. END" MEN ARE COWARDS • How one man can possess so * many ,,admirable qualities and stoop to deceive a loyal woman * like you, is one of life's mys- * teries, You and I can only be- * lieve he was sincerely in love * with you, but got involved * with a determined woman and • could not resist her. What * cowards men are! The least he * could have done was to tell you * the truth himself. * What more could he want * than you gave him—all your * love, your understanding, all * your leisure? You would even * have raised his children as * your own. Well, if it is any * comfort, already his conscience * must be reproaching him and * always he will have to live * with it. Preserve your own * dignity, send him no questions: * he must know what you think * of him. • I know how bleak the future * looms, but knowing you were * guiltless will comfort you. You * have the sympathy of all \roue * friends, which will help Cling * to your church for the peace * you need and for a faith in * yourself to cope with this * sorrow. * * OFF AGAIN—ON AGAIN? "Dear Anne Hirst: Last year I was going with a boy, and he told me how much he loved me. I really cared for him a lot. Then his cousin invited him up for a vacation, and— "When he came back he said he had met a new girl and he didn't like me any more. Around Knitted Treasure rovoskt,290, February he said he liked me again, and told me how much. 'Vow his .cousin has invited bint..to visit him soon, Is, this. going to happen all over again! Will you please tell me what to do with him? AZ44 .1)10.'gro.. * Do without 1' The chances are that the same • thing will happen during his. coming visit, and probably not * with the girl he jilted you for. t Such ..a lad falls for the last a girl he was with—until another * one comes along, then he is gone again, *.. Why join the line-tlp? 1` Don't be his, latest toy. Let him play with a few other sus- * ceptible youngsters, .then you * won't be hurt again, One dictionary takes 33 lines * to describe the meanings of * the word "love." One of them 4" is "takes a liking to." Maybe 4' that is as far as he got with * you. * * * Sorrow is always hard to bear, but telling someone who under- stands can lighten your grief, Anne Hirst is here to read your problem and offer comfort and guidance through trying. days. Address her Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth St,, New Toronto, Ont. Where Doctors. Have It Tough Doctors working among the colourful blanket-wearing Ban- tu tribesmen have a much harder task than. Western practitioners to inspire confidence in their patients. For these tribes, as Dr. Nkama pointed out recently to the South African Institute of Race Relations, are obsessed by weird and almost ineradicable .superstitions, For instance, a man with ac- tive T.B. believes that a bird has entered his chest. Whenever it flutters, he feels he must wriggle in discomfort. He is convinced that no relief can be gained until the bird flies away. Such ideas make modern cura- tive methods very difficult to carry out. Victims of pellagra quite openly attribute the disease to black magic. They believe that when they're delirious it's some dire punishment working inside them. Because of this primitive conviction, they refuse to eat the food that would cure them. A great deal of Bantu illness could be averted if the tribes would only reform their ancient feeding habits: Because of tribal custom, only women and children are allow- ed to eat vegetables. Starved of vital vitamins, the men are thus exposed to killing diseases. This dietary discrimination pro- bably explains why Bantu women are tough and extremely hard workers. A man working in a factory got his coat caught in a revolv- ing wheel. He was whisked up and whirled round and round till the foreman managed to switch off the machine. The workman fell to the ground and up rushed the foreman. "Speak to me, speak to me," he entreated. "Why should I?" said the workman, "I passed you six times just now and you didn't speak to me!" dHIPliElt. At. 87 trini and chic of 81, famed 'opera Singer Mary Garden waves a greeting on the. 'Champs ElySeet, it Parit,..'Darling', .6f opera' feint. generation. ago'? she hatiett givers her approval to the film , Ing Or her life story,. WIN ELLIOTT. "TA • thought never passed through my mind." cally, "For a year or so, any quiz show firm would be wise to diversify." Many of them feel that they have been trapped into this grim position by accident. They all profess innocence of rigging or otherwise influencing the out- come of their shows, of course, and claim that anybody who did rig a show was just plain stupid. "What's to gain rigging • a show," one producer says, "com- pared with what's to lose? So you keep a popular contestant on for another week—in the long run, it isn't any one contestant who makes a show a success or not, it's the cumulative impact of a lot of contestants." Over at "The $64,000 Ques- tion," the first and most popu- lar for a long time, they claim they've lost many potentially popular contestants on the very first question. There was Ran- dolph Churchill, who flubbed right at the beginning and a par- doned murderer who was mak- ing "terrific copy" but bowed out at $8,000. And, they say, they had one very "dull" contestant who went all the way, To them, that's proof that not only didn't they rig their show, but they didn't even try to con- trol the contestants, They put their faith, they insist, in pick- ing out the best contestants pos- sible before the show goes on the air, Others echo that sentiment "Rig my show?" says "Win With a Winner's" Wm Elliott. "The thought never passed through my mind. Maybe my Mother brought me up right, hut it just never occurred to me And it hurt us that we didn't have a contestant hang on long enough for the public to get to know him," So they all claim to have been clean as amateur tiddley-winks. Consequently, they're Unhappy over somebody elae's sin settling grimly on their shoulders:. "A, great many of us," says Joe pates, onetime "$64,090 Ques- tion" producer, noW handling "Haggis-Baggis," "are unfortu- nately effected by all this, For one thing, the climate for' selling a show is very bad. And hun- dred$ of People will be intern- Ployed wheh they look for work, there'll be a lot of feeling against them, just because they once worked for a quit show., Today this column is being written under difficulties so if it appears somewhat disjointed I hope you will excuse it. The reason? Well, we have another addition to the family. The, ad- dition is "Taffy," a five months old Welsh Corgi. He arrived yesterday, much to the surprise of Ditto, who, until then had been the only member of our pet family. For the first hour or two • her hair bristled like a hedgehog but she has now reached the point where she is half on guard and half anxious to play: Taffy wants to play too but already he has learnt to keep a discreet distance. It means that every once in a while we have a sort of proces- sion through the house—Taffy in the lead,, Ditto trailing him and I bringing up the rear making sure that Taffy doesn't get his eyes scratched out. Partner comes in for his share too, going out last thing at night and get- ting up earlier than usual this morning to take Taffy out on a lead. It's a great life if you don't weaken but in the early stages it can be a bit hectic. Hectic . . . we should be get- ting used to it by now. We have had quite a week. My nephew Klerni was here the early part of the week after spending six weeks at the Banff School of. Art. After that we had unex- pected Calls on our time—baby sitting and short trips here and there. A neighbour-couple had to make a hurried move to Re- gina. The husband has been transferred for an indefinite period so his wife advertised their house for rent—furnished —for three months. By Tuesday it was rented, occupancy to take place the following Friday. You can imagine what a busy time the young wife had getting everything ready for her long drive west, plus the care of her sixteen-months-old daughter, who naturally got into more mischief than at any other time. They finally got away Friday after- noon and, the new tenants ar- rived about midnight after driv- ing from Montreal. Isn't it the limit the way people get around these days? any quit ahOW." Steve Carlin, who's boon as sociated with Many quizzes, says he "feels like a guy defending a fort with a B-B gun," But they are beginning to fight back, The ekperienee of Jaek Barry and Dan Enright in thrn- nig around and accusing their accuser, has sparked their at- tack. Many quit elieW diktats! say that the crux of the whole problem is "disgruntled eX., einPlOydea and sorehead losing contestants; " and from now on they'll take 'efts to tee that there are witnesses at every atage of their operations: But they're privately afraid that "froth now on" may be tea lete. The future, for 'quip shows, is right nolV., Next day we were doing what we could to help neighbours across the road who were mov- ing to a newly built home on another street. We all had more work than we expected. The moving van was supposed to arrive at one. It didn't show up until five o'clock and then one man walked off the job—said it was quitting time anyway. The other two men took one look at the stuff, said-it would take until midnight to load; suggest- ed setting up the beds again and coming back Monday to do the job. That made everyone mad. Dr. and Mrs. . . . said no, all arrangements had been made and they just had to move that day. So the whole family pitch- ed in and Partner and I helped too. By nine-thirty everything was off the van and set down in the new home. When we left beds were made, stove and frig connected and, some of the dishes and kitchenware unpacked. Before this moving fiasco got underway Johnny blew in with his truck to take Partner up to Ginger Farm to get some stone we had left there until we were ready for it. We wanted it front of our front porch to lessen the depth of the steps. We also wanted that particular stone be- cause of its association with Ginger Farm. It had quite a his- tory. Originally it was one solid piece of field stone 7 feet by 3 feet six and 3 inches thick. It had been brought over to the old house by the original home- steaders—the MacNabbs—prob- ably by oxen, and used for the top of the front doorstep. Even- tually the framework of the steps collapsed under the weight of the stone, It was then hauled emu), and used, as a bridge across the ditch at the back of the house. During our time it cracked right across the centre and collapsed into the ditch, There it stayed until hauled over here, Believe me, it was no small job, getting it off and on the truck was the worst as eaels, slab weighed at least 500 Peunds. The first slab .broke; In half diagonally as it was low- ered from the truck. Then I ran to the' house and, got cushions to prevent any further break- age. By the time the job was. finished Partner felt as if he had already done a day's work . . . and then came that moving job for our neighbours, It never rains but it pours, Speaking of rain, we had our share of that terrific storm that did so much damage at Bolton. Here, however, it did more good than harm — and drove away that awful hot, sticky weather. It was just after the storm that Taffy arrived and we have been on the go ever since. At the moment there is peace in the family. Ditto is in her usual place op the chesterfield; Taffy is asleep on the front door mat 'and Partner is away mowing the lawn for some friends holidaying in Europe. And now this is fin- ished I'm going to call it a day. They Don't Worry About Dates - — If you happen to be a calen- dar manufacturer, you've got a good market possibility in some villages high in the mountains of northern Luzon, in the Philli- pines, The Igorots in this re- gion, evidently a rather vague people, don't bother too much about numbers. They don't reckon their own ages, never know how long it's been since Aunt Mary fell down the well, and can never remember which child was born first. In the village of Bontoc, rice farmers start planting when a baby Idling bird says "ki-ik." When this bird grows up it says "kiling." And when it says "kiling" is the time to set out the rice plants. In Sagada, however, this sys- tem is not appeicable, because they have to plant a month be- fore the migrating birds arrive, owing to the altitude. So in Sa- gada sowing starts on the day she sun rises in line with two rocks known to the inhabitants. Nearby villages have neither idling birds nor rocks in the right places; they just plant when Sagada plants. "FARE" WARNING — Siren =inted near the seat and a spike-loaded, syringe - equip- ped club' are Paris taxi driver Pierre de Vitry's defenses against would-be burglars. The syringe can be loaded with am- monia water. Searchlights go on when the siren howls, and immediate attention is guaran- teed because of the no-horns rule that is rigidly enforced by French gendarmes in the na- tion's capital. Modern Etiquette by Roberta Lee Q. Is it Proper always to seal a woman at a table to the right of her male companion? A- When Practical, yes. The few definite rules, about this in- clude the seating of a ,guest- .of-honour on the right of the host or hostess or chairman, and the military rule by which the senior officer walks as well 1.1,1 sits on his junior's right, Q. Should birth announce- ments be mailed to everyone, In- cluding those whom you have already told over the telephone? A. No; only to friends and rel- atives whom you have not told. Q. Is it proper to answer for- mal invitations on the type- writer? A. Answer formal invitations by hand, always. Q. When a person who is mak- ing an introduction does not speak a name clearly, and it is very important that you know the name, of whom do you ask that the name be repeated? ' A. Ask the person introduced, not the one who has made the introduction. Q. When ,passing a cream pit- cher at the table, or any other such article with a handle, should the handle always be turned towards the person who is receiving it? Q. Is it proper to decorate a dinner table with candles, if they are not to be lighted ? A. Yes; candles a r e always correct on the dinner table. Easy, Easy Sew PRINTED PATTERN ea.4 Cole 2/cia 35 " • 4859 ONE SIZE MEDIUM 441pLie, --Alsiesef Just ONE yard 35-inch fabric is all you need for each of these pretty serving aprons. They're budget - wise beauties, sew-easy, too ... make them for yourself, bazaar best-sellers. Printed Pattern 4859: includes three styles, all jiffy-cut in one piece. Misses' Medium Size Only. Each: one yard 35-inch. 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