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Police Drank
All The Evidence.
When the North Queensland
Country beyond Cairns was be-
Mt opened up more than half
a century ago, only picked Men
were sent to police the campe-
timber, gold; silver, copper,
wolfram and tin - that sprang
up‘ like magic. And they had to
be bruisers to "get their man.
A typical pair Sergeants
Ilauldy Smith and Walsh, were
each described as "a cross be-
tween a' gorilla and Old *Nick,"
Taking a man, out of any navvy
camp always meant a fight, 'for
when either sergeant strode in
and called for him, the growling
reply would be; "Come and
b— well take me - if you
can!"
The sergeant would then strip
to breeches and, singled and ham-
mer it out with the wanted man.
If the evildoer was no match, the,
sergeant would flatten him with
one merciful blow, then coolly
wait for the "gorilla" of the
man's gang to "object"!
The sergeant would then take
on the gorilla, and the two men
would slog away at each other
until the sergeant "knocked"
his man. Then, spitting blood
from his mouth, the policeman
would hitch up his breeches and
demand, "Anyone else here ob-
ject?"
If anyone did, the sergeant
would take him on, too, while
the crowd watched quietly,
When all was finished„ the
sergeant would pull his tunic
over his fight-weary body, nod
to his "arrest," and both would
stroll from the camp. If the
wanted man had put up a sav-
age fight and been badly knock-
ed about, his mates would carry
him from the camp.
If, on the other hand, the
wrong-doer won the fight, the
Law and he would shake hands.
But if he.demanded a fight and
was beaten there was no chance
of his mates rushing to his aid.
The crowd demanded fair play.
Recalling vividly his early
days as a prospector in "Back o'
Cairns", Ion L. Idriess tells of
police raiding a camp shanty in
the Herberton area as a crowd
of navvies were sampling a sup-
ply of moonshine whisky obtain-
ed from a secret still in the
hills.
After arresting the shanty-
keeper, the sergeant put the
moonshine in a buggy with two
policemen and sent them off to
Herberton. Then he set about
"cleaning up" with his remain-
ing men.
The road to Herberton was
long, dusty, and hot. The two
constables mopped their brows,
blew the dust 'from their nos-
trils, and coughed. With every
movement of the vehicle the
bottles in the buggy tinkled, re-
minding them how thirsty they
were. Just one little drink
wouldn't do any harm, surely.
But one nip led to another,
and it was deadly moonshine.
When the sergeant rode back
to Herberton thaat evening, he
found the capsized buggy half-
way down a cutting, the horses
broken loose and grazing near-
by, and the constables snoring
off the effects of the "evidence"
by a tree!
At one camp pub, the men
used to make a billygoat tipsy
with beer, then "bullfight" with
it.
One evening Idriess waited
until, sadly drunk, the goat fin-
ally lurched from the bar on to
the quiet back veranda. Then,
with a loaf thickly plastered
with jam from the kitchen, he
lured the beast to the cubicle
which a buddy, Old Mick, had
hired for the night to sleep off
his evening's celebration with
the boys, "Otherwise," as one of
THREE-EYED - Penny Griffin;
glens a monocle designed 'for
feminine wear Popular With
•
:lashing inert about townlie
ano'4es fire inoeidel
,
e is claimed
tett correct near-sightedness' in •
'one eye. Meetly, it terefee as
tareeelletiete •piece',
them put it, "he'd end up in the
creek in the middle of the night
and pole= all the fish within
Felling the blankets back,
Idriess dumped the smelly old
pat on the far side of lefiek's
bed, with its head on the pil-
low, tucked it in, and etole out.
At about Midnight, Mick retie-
ed, singing and sozzled, to his
cubicle, He sprawled on the bed,
and *snored off ,eo sleep,
Idriess thought the joke had
misfired - until he heard what
happened in the morning. Mick
awoke to be greeted by two big
green eyes staring into his, a
long scraggly beard tickling his
chin, and a nauseating smell.
Mick yelled and Billy jabbed
him under the chin with a horn
while struggling to get out of
the blanket, Both went rolling
to the floor. With the blanket
caught over his horns, Billy
charged the wall, then bolted
through the door and down the
back steps.
Mick leapt up, yelling blue
murder, and when the crowd
came hurrying along, pranced
around, waving his arms and of-
fering to fight any man who
said he hadn't been wrestling
with the Devil!
Idriess also tells the story of
a 'fellow nicknamed Billy the
Hum who once slunk blear-eyed
into the bar of a Herberton ho-
tel and croaked: "Will you give
me a long beer for six stamps,
Mr. Bradshaw?"
"Oh, all right," agreed the
publican distastefully, "then
clear out before someone sees
you and feels ill."
Billy quaffed the beer, put
down the glass, then proceeded
to stamp on the floor with his
heel, calling "One! Two! Three!
Four! Fi—" Before he could
complete the count Bradshaw
was leaping over the bar, but
Billy escaped.
One lonely pub was run by an
Irish woman, Mrs. Reynolds,
who kept her "trusty shillelagh"
behind the bar. Idriess had seen
the bar packed with riotous nav-
vies returning from a spree at
Herberton who just had to "up
and break something" - until
Mrs. Reynolds went into action.
Homer Says He's
King Of The World
The tubby little man in the
front row was so short that his
primly polished brown shoes
barely touched the floor. Eyes
blinking behind rimless glasses,
he strained last month to catch
every word at the U.S. Senate
Communications Subcommittee
hearing. There was much at stake
for Homer A. Tomlinson, 66, the
general overseer of the Church
of God sect and self-proclaimed.
king of the world. He intends to
run for President of the U.S.
again in 1960 (his big white
Panama campaign hat was at his
side), and the subcommittee was
etruggling to find a way to keep
Homer and other splinter candi-
date from claiming- and get-
ting - as much time on news-
casts as Republican and Demo-
cratic candidates.
The startling new problem of
keeping farout canditdates like
Homer out of newscasts arose
because of the Federal Com-
munications Commission's overly
cautious interpretation of the
Communications Act, which de-
clares that any station that lets
any legally qualified candidate
use its air time must give equal
opportunities to competing can-
ditdates. Until last February,
this provision was interpreted
to cover political campaigning,
Then a perennial also-ran in
Chicago hamed Lar Daly, claim-
ed that it also governed straight
newscasts, charged that WBBM-
TV had violated the act by not
giving him equal time after
showing film clips on a newscast
of two of his opponents, includ-
ing Mayor Richard J. Daley, Re-
reading the law, the FCC agreed
with Lar Daly, 4-3, and last
month, after the networks had
pleaded for a recoesidefation,
the FCC stubornly reaffirmed its:,-
opinion.
To President Eisenhower ehe
ruling was still "ridiculous" Bute'
the FCC lamely argued that thee.
letter of the law left no other
choice, said that it was tip to
Congress to put some common
sense, into the law, Hustling to
do just that before the 1060
presidential campaigns begin in
earnest, the senate subeorrimit-'
tee took under consideration
eleven bills to keep splinter cae-
didates from shagging newscasts,.
heard CBS President Frank
Stanton declare that' it would
have been impossible to give
equal-tinie coverage to all candi-
datee of the 18 patties in 1956.
If the rule is hot changed, 'said
Stanton, "simple mathematics
establishes that we will have no
choke but to turn out micro-
phoriee and cameras' away from
all Candidates during campaign,
periods."
Oldest living thing on earth
is believed te be a pine tree;
located neat Loa Angeles, Calif,
in t h Nye National Forest.
Tree eXpertS estimated that it
about 4,600 years Old.
Boys Finally
Outspell Girls
For four feminist years sharp
tongued girls have speared the
prize at the Scripps-Howard Na.
tional Spelling Bee, It looked
that way again last rrienth at the
32nd annual spellbinder In the
ballroom Of Washington's May-
flower Hotel, The girls marched
past progressively tougher words,
from heroine, blossom and denti-
frice to operose, miscible and
quadrumanous, By the end of
the first day, there were six girl
contestants to five boys,
Ratiocination, On the second
day, the tide rurried. As news-
men sneakily cribbed from one
another • at tables covered with
green (baze? baize? beise?)
cloth, the girls were toppled by
persiflage, ephelis, additament,
cacolet, In the 22nd round, 13-
year-old Elaine Hassell of Dallas,
the last girl survivor, fluffed on
Porphyry (she guessed porfiree).
Three boys remained; Allan L.
Kramer, 13, of Lake Worth Fla.;
Robert Crossley, 13, of Norris- ,
town, Pa.; Joel Montgomery, 12,
of Denver. And down went Kra-
mer in Round 24; after negotiat-
ing quidnunc, eclectic, and sar-
cophagus, he missed ratiocina-
tion. The mellifluous pr no
("I give full value to each of the
diacritical markings in Webster")
was so overcome that he nearly
left the stage himself.
For ,five more rounds, the ten-
sion made an ordinary TV isola-
tier' booth seem like 'a rest Cure.
Closing his eyes and moepirig
his face, Bobby Crossley deliver-
ed terricolous amid wild ap-
plause. Seventh Grader Joel
Montgomery coolly rapped out
pastiche, prolegornenous, success-
INDIFFERENT - Television star
Joyce Davidson munches a
piece of fruit in Toronto. She
created an uproar when she
declared on a U.S. TV show
that she was "indifferent" to
Queen Eliznbeth's visit to
Canada.
fully spelled susurrus when Bob-
by shakily flubbed it Then Joel
missed vinaigrous, and so did
Bobby, leavieg the game at
deuce. In Round 30, Joel grace-
fully pronounced gracilescent
and Spelled it correctly; it was
Bobby's chance to hold the tie.
As he stood under the tall micro-
phone, pondering fanfaronade,
Bobby's long trousers seemed to
sag. Out came fanfetanade. All
Joel had to do to win was spell
catamaran, the 594th word. He
did it without batting an eye.
A calm champion- the first
boy to win since 1954 - pudgy,
pink-checked Joel slung an then
around tearful Bobby and quiet
ly allowed that his only real puz-
zler had been intitule in •an early
round. Joel came equipped to
win. The son of a lumber sales-
man, he reads four or five hooks
a week, is starting Darwin's
Origin of Species. And his spell-
ing coach at Denver's Byers Jun-
ior High School is Teacher Ted
Glim, producer of a co-champion
'two years ago, who shuns rote
memorization, Glim starts with
accurate pronunciation, "Then
we go thoroughly into roots, pre-
fixes and suffixes. We learn the
story behind words, their mean-
ing and use today." Run-of-the‘
mull samples: tenebrous, caehin-
'eatery, sorbefactent. Says Glim-
trained Joel, whose $1,000 prite
would go toward his college edit-
cation as a forestry scientist:
"I'm interested in words. They're
fun," - Prom TIME
A reveller went into a restatir-
en in Now York where you put
a coin in a slot and food comes
Out of a rriadhiee.
He put a coin in into one of
the slots died a pieee of pie elite
out, This went on until he had
and another piece of pie barite
out. This went ant until he had
shoot fourteen pieces Of
Whet another customer ate
preached him and said: "I say;
don't you think yott "ought to
'stop"
"What" said the ie'veller:
"'When I'M witiriirige e
Fish is more often overcooked
than undercooked. You will find
it at its best if you cook it only
until it's tender - no longer.
Fish makes a nice change on the
menu - try some of these
recipes and see for yourself.
BROILED PICKEREL
6 tablespoons butter, melted'
1 tablespoon finely-chopped
onion
2 tablespoons lemon juice
let teapsoon salt
pepper
'teaspoon tarragon (optional)
2 pounds pickerel fillets
paprika
2 tablespoons finely-choped
parsley
Combine butter, onion, lemon
juice, salt, pinch of pepper and
tarragon in small bowl; mix well,
Arrange pickerel, skin side
down, in buttered broiler pare
Brush fillets with half the but-
ter mixture; then sprinkle gen-
erously with paprika. Place pan
in 'preheated broiler, about 3
Inches below source of heat.
Broil fillets for 6 to 10 min-
utes, depending on the thickness
of the fillets. Baste once during
broiling with remaining butter
mixture,
Do not turn fillets. When it
flakes easily with a fork and be-
comes milky-white in appear-
ance, transfer to heated platter.
Garnish with parsley or water
cress and 'serve with green beans
and buttered noodles. Makes 4 to
6 servings.
* *
FRIED SMELTS
2 pounds smelts
% cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon gait
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 egg, beaten
1 tablespoon lemon juice
% cup finely-crushed soda
crackers
Ye cup grated cheese (optional)
fat or 'cooking oil
Trim heads, tails and fins from
smelts, using a pair of kitchen
shears. Slit open and remove en-
trails; wash fish under cold run-
ning water.
Loosen and remove backbone
from each fish. (This is easily
done by working the index or
first finger, or• a small knife, un-
der the bone, starting at the head
end.) If care is taken, very lit-
tle flesh need come away with
the bone. Open and flatten fish.
Combine flour, salt and pep-
per; coat fish with mixture.
Blend beaten egg and lemon
juice. Toss soda crackers and
cheese together.
Dip coated fish in egg mixture;
then roll in cracked crumb mix-
ture',
Place enough fat or cooking
oil ih earge frying pan to make a
layer about Vs-inch deep. Heat
fat or oil until it is very hot, but
not smoking.
Fry smelts over medium heat
for about 2 to 3 miutes or until
they ate nicely browned; then
turn and brown on other side.
Place smelts on- heated. platter;
kcoeoekpedwarm until all the fish are
Garnish smelts with parsley
and wedges of lemon and serve
With spinach or chard, Makes-6
servings. *
FRIED FILLETS OF CO' o
2 cups canned tomatoes.
2 tableSpderiS finely-chopped
onion
1 bay )eak
1 teaspoon Sugar
1.1/2 teas/Mon salt
4 to 6 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons all-purposehind
' 1 to 2 teaspoons finel ,thOPPed
Parsley
i~ `teaspoon PePpek
2 pounds cod fillets
1 -egg; lightly beaten
1 tableapoon /rink or water.
Clip fine bread or cracker
'Crumbs
Combine tornatOeS, Onion, I*
leaf, sUar 14a. 'iWpoori -salt
in saucepan; Via Bring
mixture to a boil. Lower heat,
cover saucepan and simmer 3
minutes.
Melt 2 tablespoons butter in
saucepan. Add flour, stirring con-
stantly with a wooden spoon.
Cook over low' heat until frothy,
stirring continually.
Add simmered tomato mixture
slowly, stirring all the time. Cook
over medium, heat, stirring con-
stantly, for about 2 minutes or
until thickened. Stir in parsley
and le teaspoon pepper; keep
hot.
Cut fish into serving-size por-
tions and sprinkle with remain-
ing 1 teaspoon salt and remain-
ing lie teaspoon pepper. Mix'
beaten egg-and milk or water.
Dip fish in egg mixture; then
roll in bread or cracker crumbs.
Melt remaining 2 or 4 table-
spoons butter in large frying pan.
Place coated fish in hot butter.
Fry fish slowly, over medium
heat, until it is nicely browned,
about 5 minutes, Then turn care-
fully and' brown on the other
side, about 5 minutes. Cooking
time is about 10 minutes alto-
gether, depending on thickness of
the fish.
Serve cod with hot tomato
sauce and buttered green peas.
Makes 4 to 6 servings.
PICKLED MACKEREL
2 pounds fresh mackerel
1 cup vinegar
V: cup water
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon mixed pickling
spices
2 thin slices of onion.
Clean mackerel and remove
heads and tails, if this has not
already been done. Fillet and
skin fish and cut "into serving-
size pieces.
Place mackerel in a baking
dish. Combine vinegar, water,
salt, •pickling spices and onion;
pour over fish, Cover baking
dish: (If dish doesn't have' a
cover, use a piece of aluminum
foil.)
Bake in moderate oven, 350 de-
grees F., for 15 minutes. Remove
from oven and allow fish to cool
in vinegar mixture; chill.
Drain mackerel and serve on
crisp salad greens, accompanied
by cold potato salad and gar-
nished with radish roses. If you
wish, top mackerel with sliced
green onions. Makes 3 to 4 serv-
ings.
TOO 'DISGUSTING
Two cockroaches lunched,in a
dirty sewer and excitely discus-
sed the spotless, gleaming res-
taurant in the neighborhood.
"I hear," said one, "that the
refrigerators shine like polished
silver, the shelves are clean as a
whistle. The floors' sparkle like
diamonds. It's so clean . ,"
"Please," 'said the second in
disgust, nibbling on a moldy roll,
"Not While I'm eating."'
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Chat With a Beauty
through the cool ,shadows Of
colored
re/ie. gidthhtd
dress,
longssa, Skui tomboyzl1:wFiie rle et mla do° neV ed
New York's St. Regis bar one
afternoon recently, sat down at
a center table, and ordered a
vermouth and Campari to the
silent aPpreval of several dozen
pairls of appreciative male eyes,
Here was the beautiful and
much-publicized "bachelor girl."
(It had turned out that she was
married to Frenchman Pierre
de la Salle,) Here was Ameri-
ca's top fashion model ($100,000
annually), who had survived the
auto crash that killed her father
last June; and here was an act-
ress ,(with red hair).
Suzy, who has a seven-year
contract with Twentieth Cen-
tury-Fox, is now making her
third movie, "The Best of Every-
thing," about the days and
nights of New York office
girls. As yet she has not made
much of a mark as an actress,
but she feels she is improving;
"On this one," she told a re-
porter across the table, "I don't
want to make a jackass of my-
self. So. I'm working like hell.
I play Gregg, a smart-aleck role,
a girl who is an extremist, a
person who moves at break-
neck pace, She's all for love. She
raises her glass to men and
says; 'Bless their clean-cut faces
and their dirty little minds!' "
She toyed with' a glass swiz-
zle stick and began to pop pop-
corn into' her mouth. She took a
breath, then took off: "I'm not
a burning, driving actress, but
I have pride. For instance, when
I polish shoes, I polish hard.
And when I make movies I do
the same. But. 'I won't go as far
as washing dishes,"
'What did it mean to be on a
national magazine's cover at 19?
To become, at 23, top fashion-
photographer Richard Avedon's
favorite model; to be given a
screen test and then a featuee
role in "Kiss Them for Me,"
with Cary Grant? To be, in
short, a spectacularly beautiful
girl?
"I don't know what success
means, do you?" asked Suzy,
"As for looks, I'm very Cyni-
cal about them. At one time,
my sister Dorian Leigh, a
model, was the most beautiful,
most coveted, and most desirable
woman in New York. Now
everybody's 'forgotten her. All
beauty means is that you hold
an extra ace in your hand,
"Usually when I talk and a
studio publicist is sitting next
to me, he keeps kicking me, This
afternoon I wore sharp, pointed
shoes so I can kick back." She
smiled broadly, enjoying it, and
her attentive publicist smiled-
a bit.
"I have absolutely no ambi-
tion," she rattled on. "Marilyn
Monroe lives in my building
here in New York. She has to
come down in the freight ele-
vator. Who wants to do that?
I also have my doubts about the
tAhto cs,
the
IsaEyedvt deaetmbno a e uet us. e dA
wicked
w hair
ar Awards," s .
around" usnclhe"
ally a woman will be
Ptesident of the United States.
I don't want to be here when
that happens. I'm for no votes,
no taxes. I want to be a fragile
flower. I'm the most quiet per-
son I know."
She paused and looked at the
reporter. "We're playing a
game, aren't we? That game is
called movies, "It's `family fun.'
"Now' there are movie boys
and movie girls, and there are
a great many of them. I'm a
movie girl. The difference be-
tween a movie girl and a movie
actress is that the actress can
act. Here's the whole formula:
One movie girls plus one movie-
goer equals 'movies are better
than ever,'
"In movies, all cars are slick,
and they whizz. My eyes are
grayish but in Hollywood
they're blight 'blue. Out there,
they Wanted to make my hair
palomino pink; my hair is real-
ly reddish brown.
"What will I do in the fe-
,
shook
Her care_
ISSUE 28 - 1959
ture? I'ln movie property, yon
knew. I have a contract, So
when I finish this film in Holly-
wood, which should take A
couple of Months, I'm left in
the hands Of Fox,"
She paused, then said: "Why
does everyone analyN them,
solves into a baked potato? It's a
24-hour job trying to be simple,"
From NEWSWEEK
Heart Attacks
And Their Causes
Looking for causes of "coro-
naries," medical men point ac
,casing fingers at heredity, high-
fat diets, emotional strain. Last
month the American Psycho-
somatic Society met in Manhat-
tan, heard a panel of experts
examine the kinds of personall-'
ties most prone to heart attacks,
re-emphasize the dangers of
stress. Even the "lethalness of a
high.fat diet in our society,"
noted Dr, Henry I, Russek, con-
sultant in cardiovascular re-
search for the U.S. Public Health
Service, "seems to be dependent
on the 'catalytic influence' of
stressful living."
The "stress-blind" personality
cannot recognize his own stress
limits. He is usually compulsiVe
about time, overworked, burning
to be recognized, restless during
his leisure hours, and guilty
about not working during them.
A perfectionist, he is impatient
with subordinates, overmeticul-
ous, prefers doing work to dele-
gating it. His job alone does not
produce the stress; more fre-
quently, stress comes froth mul-
tiple goals and his attitude to-
ward them. To compensate for
his anxiety, the stress-blind p ,r-
sonality overeats, smokes and
drinks too much, commits him-
self so heavily that he has no
time for exercise.
What happens then? The or-
dinary cocktail-hour psychiatrist
will have no difficulty under-
standing the professionals' ex-
planation. The stress-blind per-
sonality creates for himself a
"maladaptation syndrome," theor-
rizes the Upiversity of Okla-
homa's Dr. Stewart Wolf, in
which increased blood cholester-
.ol is a, "biological adaptive
mechanism for providing the
body fuel for extraordinary
effort. Beause the stress-prone
individual is constantly striving
and constantly frustrated, his
body reacts as though he were
constantly carrying a burden."
The rise in blood cholesterol and
lipides (fatty molecules) may in-
crease the danger of thrombosis,
particularly when other factors
(heredity, diet) are already
present. - From TIME
Researchers at the Jodrell
Bank radio telescope installation
in England have been able to
"bounce" musical broadcasts off
the moon which have been
picked up recognizably in Bos-
ton, Mass,
GOING OUT - After almost
half a trillion printings this face
of former New York governor
Dewitt Clinton soon will go out
of circulation. Reason: U.S.
Treasury Department has freed
tobacco companies from plac-
ing on cigarette packages the •
tblue tax stamp bearing his
picture,
and cross cat make. to' "strange Oak"
rill oddities- Despite' the cat's grunt ikpreSsion, the creatures
Mre, Isabel Cole, of Winton, England,. who 'hiekee the papers
of her Wefed. pet.