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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-05-07, Page 6DO YOU RECALL? — Reminis- cent of the 1920s is this bead- fringed dress, in a green-and- pink satin print. iiigh-Wcilsted reen sash forms a trailing back panel, The dress is o f e'- a spring colleCtiari by a tendon deSigner, N.....1.••••••••••=1. BRIDGING THE GAP TOWARD A "SUMMIT" — Picturqd, above, are the West's "Big Four" as they conferred on plans for the May 11 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Geneva over the Berlin srisis. From left: Heinrich von Brentano, West Gsrmany; Selwyn Lloyd, Great Britain; Christian Herter, subbing for John Foster Dulles for the United States; Maurice Couve de Murvi'lle, France. so BLE TALKS 6arvt, Andoews. F. SUCCESSOR? Ludwig Erhard, 112,• above, might well • succeed West German Chane-ellor Icenrad Adenauer, who will soon step out. Erhard is at present econo- mics minister and vice chancel- ** ,Mencluer, 83, 'Is almost:: eertain to be elected to th.- less pefltkably sensitive post of president"•;in September. themselves, Were eNaVt terparts of each other, "Let's make the experiment — it cat* go wrong," they decid- ed. When the news got around, nearly fifty bachelor pairs of twins wrote to the sisters, en. closing their photographs and 'mentioning their hobbles and other interests, The girls even, tually chose Ray and. Roy, and the double wedding took place secretly to avoid too /web pu b_ licity, The experlment started smoothly enough. "Everything was fine till the boys learned "to, tell us apart," Louise later revealed, "Until then they were kind of embarrassed because neither was ever sure he hadn't whispered words of love into the wrong ear, Bilt when they discovered I weigh two Pounds less than Lois and am a quer- ter of an inch taller, they began to order us around.", There was such a clash of masculine and feminine wills after that that the two mar- riages were dissolved and the young wives returned to show business. The life history of 3,900 twins. was investigated by a university -profesSer. He found that hands. and even "fingernails, eyelashes, eyebrows, lips and noses, all tended to be identical "to the point of sharing the minutest irregularities." He quoted the case of twins who "got the same answers in written' ,examinations so regu- larly that they were accused of Cheating. Even when they were _ given a rigOrous test their an- s er s were similar and, the wording of sentences identical. Scientists are puzzled by the• fact that so feW twins ever be- come -famous. Throughout his- tory, said one, there.; are 'only ,a few isolated instances of twins who lived exceptional lives — though you get outstanding **- envies -in sport like the Sedsir .(cricket).,, and 'Rowe '<table tee- pis) -twins. He stressed that this has -nothing to do with differs artea ,in intelligence because usually there is nothing' %-te chaos* between the intelligence of average twins and that intelligence other people.., ' An authority on eugenics, Nit Francis Galion, verified end ,publishad the story or twin tors in Edinburgh who wanted to buy "surprise" birthday gift* for their 'mother. The girls were anxious to outdo each ether, so each• girl said nothing to the- other as to her choice. Eventually it was found that the twins had bought china tea. Services of Precisely the same patterns- shape' and- colour, al- though _they had made the puts- 'chases in - shops miles apart ! Why She Hod -Her. Nose •Reshaped. • Finishing her .afternoon. shot?. the shapely, an usual,. b wife decided tF:r:lizc tollecia house a brief call on her equally attractive' married ,sister, • Jill rang the door-bell of the flat and, waited, 'he ring was answered by her- sister Joan's stalwart huaband, "Darling!". he exclaimed hap, "1: managed to_ get away early from the office and T'in going to take you. out to din- ner and then on to a show." And, drawing the astonished girl to him, he hugged her -before she could, utter a word, times, her, ardently several "What on earth's. some over you, Bill?" gasped his sister-in, law, putting h e r smart little navy-blue and white hat straight. "Where's Joan?"- It was. Bill's turn to gasp as he realized that he had, mistak- en his sister-in-law for his wife. The girls were -identical twins and- often wore similar clothes- Joan,•who, had popped down in the .elevator-.of her New York flat to do' some shopping in the. store came in efew- min- utes later .and grinned goad- • humobrecily when she heard of the rapturous greeting her hus- band had given her Sister-. "But don't let it happen again!" she exclaimed in -mock reproof. Marriage is a 'lottery — and -the man Who, marries a twin. sister sometimes _ ,:ehance. of Winning permanent wedded bliss unless he can dis- tinguish -.his wife from his sis- ter-in-law,... ' ; A 'German" twenty-three-year- old blonde named Harbleen Kramer, found her husband. kissing her`-terits'aiSter -by.,M1F take, Harblean didn't like the. .idea of her sister enjoying kisses, which. -were intended for her. She deCided -that one Mis- take 'Was r eithilgii'-'-fOr a 'lifetime The following' day she • ,Went to a plastic surgeon him to alter the. shape of her . nose, making it retrousse. No* there can be no mistaken identity plea from -her .husband if she ever catches him kissing her. sister again ! Two. -loyely. Californian siti- ,ters, Loh! and Louise, "who were identical twins, „lived happily as single girls; btit when 'they turn- ed' their thoughts to -marriage their troubles began. They had argued that an ideal matrimonial 'arrangement .Would, be for them • to. 'marry good- • looking twin, brothers "who, like Did you know •that you can make a very delicious Chinese- styles Chop Suey at home? It's a very good way 'to use up the last of a roast of pork and if you don't Want to Serve it right away, you can store the Chop Suey: in your home freezer for a few weeks. Although this recipe calls for canned mushrooms, you may Prefer to use the fresh. If so, simmer them along with the other . vegetables and the meat instead of adding them later. For 1 can of stems and pieces or sliced -mushrooms, substitute lh pound of fresh mushrooms and use 1/2 cupn of water in place of the mushroom juice to mix with the cornstarch. CHOP SUEY 11tablespoons r lard or cooking oil 1 3/2 cups diced cooked pork 11 tablespoons Soy Sauce cups sliced celery 1 cup chopped onions ti cups chicken bouillon or soup stock 1 can (10-ounce) mushrooms (drain, reserving juice) 1-can (20-ounce) bean sprouts, drained Salt and pepper 1 tablespoon Soy Sauce 2 tablespoons cornstarch Heat the lard or cooking oil in skillet; add pork and 2 table- spoons Soy • Sauce. Brown meat slightly, then add celery, onions and bouillon. Let simmer about 20 .minutes. Add mushrooms and bean sprouts and simmer about 5 minutes "more. Mix Soy Sauce, cornstarch and' the • 'juice off mushrooms. Pour it into the Chop. Suey and reheat, stirring, until sauce is thick and clear. Serve with fluffy' boiled rice. Or, let cool, package in freezer - cartons and freeze. Fleagle, who had, in fact, writ ten the. note. While a hue and cry went out after Clinton, a genuine clue turned up, Wineinger's car had been wiped over with an oily, rag, but one clear fingerprint on the rear window remained, A'photograph of the print was sent to the F.B.I. at Wash.. ington, In the meantime, ano- ther discovery linked the met- der of Wineinger with the out. rage at Lamar. The body of the bandits' second hostage, Kes- singer, was found in a desert- ed shack not far from the gulley into which the doctor's corpse had been thrown. Messinger had also been tied up and shot to death — the fourth man to die because the Fleagle brothers were short of money, In the end, the death roll was to be doubled, The gang, having divided the loot, had dispersed, and it was still not known who they were, There were then no single fin- gerprint files at Washington, and to search tens of thousands of forms bearing ten finger- prints was a long process. Charles Clinton, the ex- preacher, was run to earth, and three other wanted men with him, but though witnesses from Lamar confidently identified all four, they' had been far away at the time of the raid. It was- chance that speeded up the investigation,' in the form of a batch, of fingerprints forwarded to the F.B.I. by the police of Stockton in California. The offical classifying the batch recognized the print of a s.ngle finger belonging to• one Hoiden, "arrested for the, train robbery ,„AlreadY Mentioned, but released fOr want' of • evidence. His print', was identical with, the print„ left On -Dr. Wineinger's car. Reference, to the index turned up' "Holden's" printa, filed:An 1914. after receipt train Oklahatria. They were Jake Fleaile's. „ There we ftr e now a firm start- poinf - Wintry—the rib agles T farm Info gained there and from neigh- botirs, put the 'police of yet att-4, other state Illinois, °nth* track of Ralph Fleigle Tern"' years -had Ms by since the raid on the bank at Lamar, btit Jake Fleet's, the moving spirit in the robbery, remained at large. ThiVpolice of *Very state in the Union were looking for him. Four states had already figured in the case; it was in a fifth, Missouri, that at long last, in October, 1930, he was run clown as- he was about to board a train at the town of Bran- ston. He was made of stouter stuff than his accomplices, and he fought it out in a gun battle un- til he was killed. Paid Doctor By Shooting Him! The 'leagle brother's,.Jake /And lialPh, were hard up, Their /arming gamble hadn't paid off, tla there was Only One solution: sack to their old business — 3rObbery with violence. Jake had already served a term of impriarennent in Okla- theme and narrowly escaped a limo longer one in California for train robbery, This time the brothers decided to tackle a bank robbery. Their target was the National Bank in the Small town of La- snar, in Colorado, not far inside the state boundary with. Kansas. Although this bank did not rate errned guards, some of the staff carried revolvers, so the irleagies decided, regretfully, that they would need help for the raid. They enlisted another pair, named Royston and Ate shier, as reckless and callous as themselves. In a stolen car, the bandits drove up outside the tiny bank. Swiftly they strode inside, post- Id-one meal at the door as look- but, "Reach for the sky!" rasped ,Take Fleagle. The bank staff were taken completely by sur- prise. With a few customers they raised their hands. Grabbing fistfuls of notes and *loins, the bandits rammed them into holdalls. About "050,000 was collected within a few min- utes. It was only as the robbers were leaving that the elderly :manager, A. N. Parrish, plucki- ly pulled out a revolver. 'He shot Royston in the jaw, but was 'himself shot,,dead. NiS sons-a •eaihier, fell wound- ael on his; father's body, The bandits then seized as' hostagiS another cashier named Lungren and• his assistant, Xessinger, and trove ott with them towards /tenses. Lem tail 2rdel' 4ataliir Ip still frpreienteciby & sheriff and his deputies. The sheriff, without waiting to cot-- 1W e posse, pet off with one T!nan' in pursuit. The fugitives' car was heavily laden and he soon began to overtake it. Some of the raiders got out and opened fire with efles. Before a bullet disabled filie sheriff's car he was with- in revolver range, and, z the fusillade, ,,Lungren, %he bank cash)er, was killed. His body was thrown out on the road as the •gang drove awfy. They were tnaking for the Fleagles' farm. Rcyston's shat- tered jaw urgently needed at- tention, and late that• night the brothers reached the Kansas town of Dighton, rousing •Dr. W. W. Wineinger from his bed with a story of a. farm hand injured in a tractor accident. The doctor was presuaded to accompany them in his own car. He did not return to Dighton. Two ,days later his body, bound. blindfolded and riddled with• buckshot, was found beneath his ear in a gulley. The car was: spotted by an aircraft taking part in the search. A note in the doctor's pocket suggested from Its wording that the writer was one Charles Clin- ton, an unfrocked preacher with. an, insane hatred of medical men. He was known to Ralph Murderers Were Serve either warm or cold with whipped cream.. Serves 9, • * "Children enjoy these spinach pancakes," writes Mrs. Minnie D. Feldman. "They are good served with cream sauce, grated cheese or bacon. Serve them either .as the main dish for a meal or as a vegetable." SPINACH PANCAKES 1 pound cooked spinach drained and chopped 2 soda crackers 1 egg, slightly beaten Salt and' pepper Combine ingredients and drop by large- spoonfuls in hot Short- ening, being careful not to burn. ("You may use bread or un- cooked cereal in place of crack- ers or you may add chopped onion or bits of fish or meat," says, Mrs. Feldman.) • Keep Fit By Skipping, • If you want to be fit — skip. ,That's what the health' experts are saying. Skipping is one' of the best possible ways of toning up the system if you di it In moderation, they declare. Children .are skipping more and feeling all the better for it; so are adults. Farnons men, 'in- cluding stars of the entertain- ment world, find skipping bene- ficial. .Down in Sussex there are more regular adult skippers than there are anywhere else in Brit= ain, especially at Easter time. The village of Alfriston, for in- stance, has an Easter skipping custom that dates back many years. Good Friday was known a century ago' as Long Lines Day. The skipping in Alfriston lees back to the ancient fertility rites when men and women jumped up and down on the ground to make, the crops grow again. Early On ..Good Friday,these enthusiastic Sussex skipprs' of to-day walk six miles over the downs from Newhaven to Alfris- ton carrying a 'long rope. Outside an inn they start skipping in twos and threes. • When somebody " drops out through lack of breath, there's always another villager or• visit- er to take his place. Fancy skipping 13,265 times in an hour and five minutes! That was the achievement of a-Mr, H. George, of Neath, an April 23rd, 1921. Five years later he set out to beat the one and a half hours record of 15,600 set up by an- other enthusiastic skipper. He did, too, and achieved 17,727. ., * Just Five Minutes Mad. A Difference Checking the records of his HO eighth-grade pupils at the tLitlo School in Long Beach, N.Y. recently,, social-studies tea- cher Leonard Remo, broke into a grin. His five classes, Remo happily discovered, were, from three to four weeks ahead of where his students were at this time last year. Mathematics teacher Donald E. Carcich was pleasantly surs prised, too: Before the end of the year he will be able to teach his 90 eighth - graders enough ninth-grade algebra that some of them will be able to pass directly into tenth-year geo- metry, 'What's behind this special surge -in learning? Nothing more than an extra five min- utes per class. Ever since. Sputnik I, Long Beach's high-pressure; 45-year- old superintendent David Salten —like a good many other edu- cators — had been ruefully aware that the nation's schools simply weren't keeping pace with the rapidly advancing frontiers Of knowledge, After long mulling, Salten hit on a solution: Lengthen Long Beach's seven 45-minute class- periods to 50 minutes, making a total in- structional d a y of five hours and 50 minutes (national aver- age: a little more than five -hours). Two benefits were immedi- ately realized. First, teachers able to give more attention to each student. "Last year," Remo recalled,. "ther'e were always a couple efzlinies still up at the end of :,:t:See";:tieriod with- unan- swered lueetions. This year, with juge .f'it's more minutes, there never= are" Second, more subject Mattel: was covered. In college- conscious Long Beach, where 80 per cent of high-school graduates continue their education (national aver- age: 51 per cent), approval of the plan by parents, Salten says, has been "beyond our fondest dreams," As for the kids, the eart -neat of blond, 9-year-old Linda Spadaccires daughter of a florist, was typical: "When you have more time to work, you get better marks — and you have a better chance to get into college." —From NEWSWEEK. When the congregation knelt to pray the little fellow on his first visit to church wag puzzled, and asked, "What ate all these Penple doing, Moran-137V' 4-they're saying their ptayerS,, dear," was the whispered reply, "What! With all. their clothes on?" HIDDEN TALENT -- Revealing an 'unpublicized talent, Gina lollobrigida places finishing touches on a clay bust of her nearly 2/ear-old son, Milko Jr. Between movies she praciices. Caught By Mud If enough mud is slung,- sonie of it will stick. Even without being flung it will. stick — look how it sticks to a criminal! A murderer denied that he had ever been in the district where the murder was 'commit- ted. Yet a tiny piece of mud con- taining rare earth from that very district was found on his shoe — under the blacking. In another case, all a murder- er's movements were traced back by examining the different layers of damp earth caked On his shoes. A man who was suspected of having broken into a flour mill had his shoes examined. The mud on the soles was in two layers divided by a white ma- terial, It showed clearly that the man had walked over muddy ground, then over a starch deposit, and again over the muddy ground. But earth clues are not only found on the feet. A man was murdered, in the Ruhr, Germany, - and the killer got clean away. Months later and more than 100 miles away a man was questioned because he was thought to have known the victim at one time, He denied all knowedge of this, but the police noticed a small scat on his thumb. This was examined and in it were found niintite particles of coal and earth which could have come only from, the mining district where the murder was commit- ted. ti ' a BLINKING GOOD 10E11 After working late in his of- rice, David Camp locked up his desk and made his• way to the main deers. Unfortunately they Were barred and bolted from the outaide, He attempted to- 'phone for assistance, but the line WAS dead. Remembering his Morse code, he returned to his office and blinked lights oil and off in a succession of SOS talk. His dis- tress signal was' anotted by 0 patrolling policeman, who rititi, lied the 'owner Of the builduss, Camp was released sOrrie tiaineteS later, KIDDY SUMMit' the trb Curtain Means nothing to 0,nd Attierittln yoUngritere at a kindergirten party in MOSCOW- U.S. youngsters Ladle MailiOdeltioW on table at right) end foot.ieao-old skater Rabbi La Londe, bOttOin rights They're With 1.1,t'iati show. EGGS DE LUXE 2 tablespoons butter tablespoons flour I. cup milk 1/2 teaspoon salt cup grated cheese 2 English style muffins 4 eggs 4 slices Canadian bacon or boiled ham Blend butter and flour to- gether. Gradually pour in milk and cook until sauce thickens, stirring constantly. Add salt and grated cheese. Cook until cheese melts. Keep warm over hot wa- ter. Poach eggs by sliding them into 1 inch of gently boiling water and cooking '3-4 minutes. Split Muffins and put on broiler rack with bacon or ham. Broil 3 minutes, on one side; tittn and" broil 2, minutes on other side. Butter muffins; top each With bacon or ham and poor cheese sauce- over then-t. Serves 4, * UPSIDE-DOWN PEACH CAKE 1/2 eup butter 3/4 cup stigar •!/.2, teaspoon salt 2 teaspoOtrS baking powder 141 fcritti p . rililee.k dime, peeled and sliced (or ;canned pcactioS) 3/t alp brOWii sugar 1. egg well beaten 1 cups take fleet IA teaspoon vanilla 'teaspoon almond flavouring Melt clip butter stick) in an 8-inch Square pan. Stith), kld with brown` sugar; 'arrange peadi Slices in roWs Set aside. Cream reitaining better iii sugar; add beaten egg and fla- voutirigs: MIX Welli, Sift dry ins gtediehts and add, alterhattlY With milk. Blend well and pour' over peaches Bake at 376 de- grees' .20i, 46' ininuio. turn -out at once On serving plate.