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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-03-12, Page 6,7, ters gtettSse 4Veroh l.,ptewpt,eacipe;1. oTdh eospeo ri4,0te50t by the exchange, Above ,cbant, hers Street there arc 2,000 more tickers owned by Western Union and leased by the exchange; these tickers use a canary yellow tape "Nearly all the tickers in this country are located in broker- age houses, Others are in banks and newspaper offices. We often have to refuse .reqUests for the ticker service, We turned down a restaurant in Philadelphia and also a hotel in New Hampshire which wanted • to spruce up its lobby with a stock ticker." But even the "Big Board" makes concessions with its stock tickers, Two s 'small restaurants near the exchange buildings at 11 Wall Street are allowed tick- ers, These are I-largus and klber- lin's, eating places patronizedAsy Stock, Exchange personnel, Evan when dallying over a ham sand- wich and apple pie, it seems, the brOker wants to know what the stock market is doing, writes V, G, Vartari in the Christian Science Monitor, Veteran New York photog- raphers say they spot a trend to- ward •less ticker tape in the parades. "Nowadays, we've got to look for ticker tape to frame a good picture,' says one camera expert. "And, of course, today's parades are nothing at all like the Lindberg parade," • For ticker-tape tonnage, the frenzied welcome on June 13, 1927, for air hero Charles A. Lindbergh takes the prim 'Lucky Lindy' motored up Broadway in a blizzard of ticker tape (the stack market was booming merrily, too, in 1927), He sat hatless on the back of an open touring car beside Mayor James J. Walker, Four million persons lined the streets and, after the parade, the city appro- priated $16,000 to remove the 1,800 tons of ticker tape, con- fetti, and other paper. Brciadway saw its first ticker- tape . parade in 1919 when Ame- rican troops returned home from World War I. Grover Whaen, then famed as Gotham's official greeter, is credited with the ticker tape idea. For the Lindbergh parade, an. extravaganza before the days of television, airplanes also drop- ped 50,000 flower blossoms, then spelled out in smoke the greet- ing, "WelcoMe Lindbergh," Aside from its parade poten- tial,, the ticker tape can serve other uses than telling • stock- holders 'what, their shares are selling for. One couple, unable to find a baby sitter,. took the chil- dren along for a visit with the broker, While the parents talked about stocks 'and bonds in the Wall Street board room, the youngsters found a new toy; they played with handfuls of used ticker tape, No man goes before his time —unless the boss has left early. Ticker-Tape Parade Technique Willy Brandt the Mayor of West. Berlin, rode in what all the newspapers called "the tradition- al ticker-tape parade," The hat- less smiling Mayor stood in his flag-decked limousine and waved to the lunch-hour crowds, Scrape of. stock tape, floating down from the skies, came as a free gift from Wall Street, The ticker-tape parade has become as much a part of America's cul- ture as the hot dog and the dOteble-feature movie. Only a select few ever ride the "magic mile" from Bowling Green to City Hall; the parades skirt Wall Street at its intersec- tion with Broadway, Last sum- mer, pianist Van Cliburn was ac- claimed with a tick-tape recep- tion, The honor list for previo4 ticker-tape parades includes the Prince of Wales, Georgee Clemenceau, Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, golf- er Ben Hogan, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Queen Marie of Ro- mania, and Gertrude Ederle, the English Channel swimmer. The New York Stock Ex- change, which supplies blank tape for stock tickers reports: "We get a hurr,y-up call for more tape right after a big pa- rade, Most brokerage firms throw unprinted tape out the windows. It's too much trouble to save up the baskets of used tape for a parade." Long curling ribbons of ticker tape give a parade much of its festive atmosphere. For optimum results a slight breeze should be blowing, The term "ticker-tape parade," els all-inclusive for scraps of paper. Enthusiastic onlookers also tear up telephone directories (much to the dismay of the Bell System), old bills, office station- ery, and even cardboard. Veterans of the financial dis- trict say there even is a proper way to dispense a tight roll of ticker tape: The spectator pushes the spool from the center of the roll and holds the outer edge as the wind catches the tape. (One excited secretary, the Wall Street story goes, simply held the end of a hard tape , roll and let it drop — like a rock — to the sidewalk three stories below, narrowly missing a pedestrian and causing a fresh crack in the pavement.) .Exactly what is ticker tape? Its prime function, of course, is not to festoon parades but to provide up-to-the-second trans- actions on the stock market, "The , tape itself is three- -quarters of an inch wide," ex- plains an official of the Stock Exchange. "It is- 35 per cent sul- phite and 65 per cent wood pulp: the sulphite give it strength; "Below Chambers Street in lower Manhattan all stock tick- Most Dangerous Profession Teachingls the most, dangerous profession. It deals with our chil- dren, the most precious of our natural resources. It refines them into brave and wonderful adults or it grossly degrades them into dull; overaged acloleseents, Its results color, mold, and deter- mine the shape of our nation and the character of our people. If our teachers lack luster, fewer of their charges will be as bright as they might have been. If our teachers are cowards, they will teach their cowardice, If teachers are net respons- ible citizens, they will produce political idiots. If teachers be- come the tools of any pressure group, rather than the prime arti- sans of a creative society, then we will all shrink into a nation of domesticated, two-legged cat- tle. If teachers do not earn and keep the status and the respect which their profession requires, their role will be captured by the practical, committed, dedi- cated members "of hte industrial and commercial - communities, who can train people very well, but who cannot afford the ex- pense of the humane adventure. Thus, teaching must forever live in creative danger, but teachers must hold onto the pro- tective warnings of these terrify- ing ifs, lest these warnings be come irremovable realities. It is our great good fortune that in most of the schools in this country many pupils are met by a peason for whom. the magic of real respect and true love can quickly develop. This is so whe- ther that teacher faces a kinder- garten of five-year-olds or a semi- nar of graduate students, , . . The child learns many things quickly a n d permanently. Throughout childhood he is learn- HIS HOME AWAY FROM HOME — Ricky Noel, 2, is back in the hospital for the seventh time in his short life. The hard-luck kid, son of Mrs. William Noel of Cleveland, Ohio, tipped a pot of scalding coffee over his legs and right arm. Once he dived off his bed and cut his head; then he fell in a wash bucket and knocked out a tooth, etc., etc. His father figures he's had 16 stitches taken in his head and face so far. in. compounds surrounded by, ,strong mesh wire ,camouflaged • with bushes and trees to re- semble the African wilds. The cameras are set up behind the wire, or even iron loars,. and the "brave" photographer gets a plc- ture of the beast "ferociously • charging" in answer to its name being •called!, While some faking may be ne- cessary, within reason, Ker con- siders that educational films of natural history should be free from sham, It is a pity that pre- ducers are not forced by law to declare whether their films are part faked or wholly genuiee, and that all natural history films for the general public are not certified by a Board of Natural- ists and any fakes disclosed, Re has seen many films of big game, tribes and African life in general so badly faked, and with such misleading narration that they give an entirely false impression, The Martin Johnson's, whom he knew well, were among the first to take excellent pictures of game in their natural hibitat. Their first, he thinks, was the best — =faked and genuine, with no tame or zoo animals brought into it — whereas in some later pictures captive ani- mals played a large part. The rest of Ker's book is a vivid account of his own hunt- experiences, with intim at e studies and photographs of toe wild game he knows so we.l, Tricks Of The Movie Camera. Who Started This Trouser Business ? T IRE TALKS it e A a eiaae Ankbehrs. Donald I, Ker, a Well-known hunter who has conducted ssafaeis for filming units in East Africa, was once a lion! The script called' for One charging the cameras — a difficult shot to arrange — so the director de- eded that a long shot of Ker Springing out of a bush horizon- tally into tall grass would make a good fake. Three men, placed at ten-foot intervals in the low bush, were ordered to shake each bush in turn to make it appear that the lion was charging through the scrub, With a khaki jacket over his head, his arms outstretched through the sleeves, Ker dived on to cushions hidden in the grass. The "white hunter" fired, The "client," supposed to be a coward, ran off down a rocky slope. But during several rehearsals and takes Ker's limbs became bruised, the "client" sprained an ankle, the onlookers couldn't restrain their mirth at the un- realistic scene, So permission was obtained to locate a real lion and film it close up, well within the 200 yards legal limit from a vehicle, Some film companies, Ker says, in "Through Forest And Veldt" spend huge sums sending a unit out, take up to 200,000 ft. of film, then probably use only about 1,000 ft. of it. The rest of the film is made on painted screens of "Africa" in the studios, or "African" settings outside Holly- wood or in Mexico. Where stampeding zebra had to jump over rooks sheltering the heroine, the "zebras" were Mexi- can mules painted with black and white stripes and worked into a frenzied panic. Tame African elephants are rare and difficult to obtain for films, so an Indian one from zoo or circus is often used instead; but as its ears are much smaller artificial extenhions are added. Once he worked with a photog- rapher who wanted a lion kill- ing a native. They concentrated on a pride of lions Which, after some weeks, became tame and accustomed to them. Then they stuffed a pair of Ker's old khaki bags and shirt full of zebra meat, to resemble a human body, and drove with it to the pride which "Were sitting waiting for the daily meal they had now come to ex- beet. The "native" was thrown to them from the back of the truck, end one of them pounced on it, shook it, and ran off into cover. Later, the bloodcurdling death cry of the "man" evidently strug- gling in the lion's jaws was add- ed in Hollywood. Ker once lent his second gun- 'bearer, a Masai, to a film com- pany which wanted him for a. leading part in a picture being ehot partly in Kenya. Later, he had to go to Holly- wood for six months to complete It He then returned to Nairobi with much money, six well-cut lounge suits, two gold teeth, a command of U.S. Negro's Eng- lish, and some incredible stories of what happened there "The bwanas made some big rubber things," he said, that looked like hippos. They were inflated and pulled under water by wires. A eanoe carrying people was pad- dled down-river, and as it floated over the "hippos" the wires were released, they bobbed to the ipurface, upsetting the craft, and. Iverrne swam to the shore in The crocdile"-infested waters. In recent years some profes- nal photographers have mad. of captured animals living Printed Pattern 3 cups hot cooked seasoned green beans 3 hard-cooked eggs, coarsely chopped 1/3 cup chopped onion. Make cream sauce with butter, , flour, and milk. Add three- fourths of the cheese and stir until melted. Season. Place hot green beans on a platter and cover with the cheese saude. Sprinkle with chopped egg and onion, then with remaining shredded cheese. Place under low broiler, heat just long enough to melt cheese: Serves 6-8. PEANUT CREAM PIE 3 tbsps. cornstarch 2 cups milk cup sugar 3 eggsyolks, slightly beaten ye cup, peanut butter % teaspoon vanilla 1 baked pie shell Meringue: 3 egg whites 1/4 tsp. salt 6 tbsps. sugar Mix 1/2 cup of milk with corn- starch until smooth. Add this to remainder of milk in top of double boiler. Add„ sugarand egg yolks and mix well. ,Cook- over boiling water until mixture be- gins to thicken. Blend 'in peanut butter. .Cook until smooth and thick. Add vanilla. Allow to cool and then spoon into pie 'shell. Beat egg whites and salt until frothy., Add sugar gradually, continuing to beat until stiff and glossy. Pile meringue onto pie filling 'being careeul to seal the meringue onto edge of crust to prevent shrinking. Bake 12-15 minutes at 350 de- grees . F. or 4 minutes at 425 degrees F. Cool before, serving. Serves '7-8. "Daisies" of peanut halves and chocolate bits for centers, may he used as garnish. OVERHEAD BOOTSTRAP — New accessory for the tired executive is the straphanger-like device pictured in use, above. It's a prize-winning gadget invented by Jack Waldheim and Earl Koepke. First installation: in model "Inner Space Office". CHAMBER Mutt tleyeiard Orchestra's piotee "Roberts toot hit .sousaphones to the tune 0 ii*.• rock-and4olt of the New yiok City it,b4.0ye, Note "Chaffin too. Ilk." sign Members' of the iiloti4f hid orchestra hour to do enticigeniefit in Hatti.gb6004 « ipeCIOC Stuffed peppers are good any time. If they seem expensive now, use a half a large pepper for each serving instead of a whole one. STUFFED PEPPERS 6 green peppers 1 cup ground beef (1/2 pound) 3/4 cup whole grain corn 1 cup corn chips, crushed 1/4 cup onion, chopped 1 egg 1/4 cup milk % teaspoon salt Vs teaspoon pepper Corn chips for garnishing Remove tops and centers from peppers. Mix beef, corn, corn chips, onion, eggs, milk, and sea- sonings. Fill peppers. Arrange. whole corn chips around top of peppers. Place in pan with .1 inch of water, Bake at 350 de- grees F. for 1 hour. Serves 6. STUFFED SQUASH 3 acorn squash ,Salt, pepper 1/2 cups chopped cooked ham 1 cup chopped tart apples 2 tablespoons chopped „onion 1/4 teaspoon monosodium glutamate 1/2 -1 teaspoon dry mustard Cut squash in halves length- wise; remove seeds. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and mono- sodium glutamate. Place pieces, cut side down in baking pan. Bake 'at 425, degrees .F. for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees. F. Turn squash halves cut-side up. Combine remaining ingredients-. fer filling, adding mustaed, to taste. Fill cavities. Bake again' for, about 30' minutes. Serves 6. • Note: Chicken or sausage may be substituted for the ham .and chopped Celery for the apple. In this case use much less mus- tard and use a pinch of your favorite herb, or' omit the Mus- tard entirely and use curry powder for epicing. * * In his cookbook, eturtains Up at Sardes," written by the fa- mous Vincent Sardi and Helen Bryson .with a foreword by Vic- tor Borge, there are .almost 300 recipes of dishes regularly serv- ed in the ,restaurants. Here, for instance, is Sardi's way of pre- paring broccoli from the eook- bookBtoct OL1 PARMESAN 1 buneh broccoli weighing about .2 pouinds 2 teaspoons salt 1 quart boiling water 3 tablespoons butter 1/4 cup grated Parmesan 'cheese Trim broccoli heads, Scrape 'stalks, retrieve tougTi parts; wasp carefully grid drain, Wrap heath iri brown or parehment paper', and lid with string below head. Put into salted, rapidly boiling water and cook ' covered for, 15 minutes; Take out and drain thoroughly,• Melt 2 tablespoons "knitter, in frying pan. Saute cooked broccoli lightly: in the pan.. Cary e r with ParmeSan cheese and dot with remaining butter,. under broiler until, light brosen. Serve at once, Settee STRING etANg WITH (McFall 4 tilikkiooliii butto 44 tttibleepbonsii flour ‘. cute oirso - 111oli Mkt *POO .MORNING'WHItIte,-Ceel, crisp ancl•,fresh.iii the eladsie shirtwaist biidetetteri iiitereseeevith awicle-away,eollari narrow Whig, tippling An taeee tb-sew Made doubly siplple with TatoiN newt Magid Zip dress tipper',M inches) that' Zip to put in^ iDt- Ca'USC"Of the' new woven sewing; guide the, Printed Patten 4750 ete available in. Misees' Sizes 12. 14, it; to *Order, teed. 40 tents (Stathps iiine,6t be ateePteCh use peettil note for safety) for thisPettete, Please print plainly YOUI NAi1tE, AD 8t2^ rhtt sttLiO tend your Order to . Alt\lt ADALS, 12a lilighttclith Ste New Tdreiiiterf ing to be at home in this world, learning to read its signs and portents, learning• its firm, un- shifting names and the volatile, shifting symbols, learning to listen and to know and to under- stand, learning to act less on em- pulse and more with purpose. And of course it -is true that he begins-to.learn all this at home The true -teacher joyfully ac-, cepts the call of strange torpor- rows, finds security and irnmor- tality in the healthy, happy, and intelligent citizens he has helped:• to shape. — Frank dr, Jennings in the Saturday Review. Attempts are being made by a group of social historians in France to discover the identity of the first man to wear trousers in Europe. They believe it was a French- man, but no one can say for cer- tain. What is certain is that it was not an Englishman. One learned professor who has done months of research into this question has found that leg-wear of a trouser type — not trousers as we know them to-day -- was introduced to Western civiliza- tion by the northern tribes who breke up the Roman Empire. Up to that time men were trouser-less. The man who went about in a short skirt and bare knees reckoned himself well dressed. Trousers were first worn in England about 160 years ago, Those early English trousers, in- troduced by the dandies of the period, were terribly tight — so tight that men attending social functions in them for the first time complained that they could not sit down. An unsuccessful quest was be- gun in Britain six years ago for the name of the first man to turn up his trousers permanent- ly. Sir Henry Bashford, a one- time physician to King George VI, even suggested that there should be a permanent memorial to his great feat. "No philoso- pher, hero or statesman can ever have set an example so long and so fervently followed by so, many millions of men," he remarked. A man who lost his trousers flew into London Airport from Ceylon not long ago and stepped on to the windy tarmac after flying 6,000 miles in pale-blue, swimming trunks, white plim- solls and le thin nylon shirt. The temperature was round about the 100 mark when he stepped aboard the 'plane in Col- ombo, so he put on the trunks for the first stage of the journey, Intending to change into his trou- sers as the weather cooled down. But when the airliner reached Rome he found he had left his trouser' in his registered luggage in the freight hold underneath scores of their suitcases. There was no time to get them before the 'plane took off for London. ISSUE 11 — 1959 OH Rush North .8. The news burst like a gusher and splashed through the indus- try! There's oil in the' frozen north, The word came froth new surveys showing signs fo oil be- neath Canada's barren ,pOlar wastes, and last. month the rush was on full blaet. Plane after plane set down in Ottawa, being- irig Canadian, American, and British oilment to pore over gee., logical maps and stake prelim inary claims in Canada's Arctic Archipelago, By last week Texaco, Califor- nia Standard, Sun Oil, and seven Other companies had spoken for more then 50 Million acres Of is- lands and Water front Banks in the west Baffin in the east, and north almost to the Pole: none of the eartibirde asked for less then a acres' *Moll, at 5 cents en Ord, involvespayment of $60,0* refundable against oz.. PlotietiOn costs, Oilmen realize they face fro-, Mentions engineering problenii* iskOotiog and exploiting the "frigid arctic. tint one Of thentokt eoiilldentlyt if vve fled oil flier, in' large qiiitrititioS, Weil rat 'Oat," toNd. 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