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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-05-05, Page 6GINA AND' FAMILY — Italian film star Gina Lollobrigida and her husbond, Milko Skofic, (arrive in New York. Milko, Jr., pro- tests. The family may become Canadian citizens clue to a feud with Italian officials over the citizenship' of 'Yugoslavia- born Skofic. TABLE TALKS dest Jam Aadvews. Royalty Often Goes Unrecognized On the balconies et Coleshill Buildings, among the back- doubles of Pimlico, the neigh- bout's were arguing — and it has taken, the engagement of Prin- cess Margaraet to Mr, Anthony ArmStrOnggenes to settle the riddle, New the local folk know that it was the Duke of Edinburgh they saw crossing the pavement to the photographer's studio bee tween the laundry and the old- clothes shop, The Duke was pay- Ing a friendly call on Mr. Jones, But the people in the Buildings scarcely gave a second glance to two girls they sometimes saw walking through the courtyard towards Mr, Jone's back door. Was it Princess Margaret and her lady-in-waiting? It's. known now that the Prin- Bess and her fiancé explored ristol together while spending a week-end with friends in the West Country- last autumn, No one recognized them, In a river- side pub among the dockland streets of Rotherhithe, Antony Armstrong-Jones sometimes used to pop in for a meal with three or four gay young people. Was Princess Margaret in that happy, laughing group without anyone spotting her? Far more petite than most peo- ple expect, and not afraid to vary the tone of her hair for the sake of fashion, it has often been claimed that Princess Margaret is the least easily recognizable member of the royal family. At 0, party once a young man felt that he knew her face but could not quite place her. In the hope of settling her identity he asked: "And how is your mother?" "She's very well," "I haven't seen your brother lately." "That's not surprising. I laven't one." "I must be thinking of your ;Oster, then," the young man blundered on. • "Yes, a lot fa people think about her," said Princess Mar- garet, impishly, "She's the .4Aueen, you know," The proof of this story was undelined when. Princess Mar- garet once arrived twenty min- Axles too soon for a ceremony in northern town, As Her Royal ighness first stepped from her ear, officials paid her little atten- Ilan. They imagined that it was a pilot car with a lady-in-waiting. Strange but true, we are so accustomed to seeing photo- graphe or TV pictures of royalty in black and white that they can pass unrecognized in real life. In the side streets of Slough a green Lagonda knocked into a little pre-war Morris. "Some clot's hit me," the Morris driver thought — then recognized the Duke of Edinburgh. He did not recognize the lady :lifting beside the Duke — and only afterwards realized that it was the Queen "I have only seen pictures of her Majesty smiling," the Morris driver confessed later, "and she certainly wasn't smiling then, She looked as disapproving as any wife would!" Princess Alexandra of Kent used to stroll out of Kensington Palace and take a bus. No one recognized her; and her younger brother, Prince Michael, can still do so to-day. When the Princess came of age, however, and the publicity intensified, she risked being spotted. Soon it happened. All eyes were upon her as the passengers whispered a n d nudged. Shyly, the Princess was forced to leave the bus and take a taxi, Sometimes, however, she visits e. local shop to choose gramo- phone records and the assistants know that she likes to be treated like any other customer, Yet they find it amusing at times to see eecorcl addicts listening moonily to Marty Wilde unaware that they are sitting next to A. prin- cess.. The Queen Mother is probably the most readily known mem- ber of the Boyal Family but it depends where you expect to find her. A keen angler, she was once Ashing on Deeside when a fellow woman angler inctaired, "How's sport? Would you like to borrow one of my flies? The Queen Mother said sh4, would. Then the woman recog- nized her, tried to bob a curtsey and promptly tell into the river. Later she revived a letter from the Queen Mother, thinking her for the fly and commenting that the curtsey had "not gone un- noticed!" In Berkshire two hikers were testing at the roadside when a, chauffeur-driven car stopped and a lady inside asked if they would like a lift. While they were de- bating, the chauffeur opened his nearside door. "Hop in," he said. "You're keeping the Queen Mother waiting!" Queen Mary used to give a lit- tle souvenir medallion to scores of service men and women to whom she gave lifts in war-time. On average, one in three failed to realize her identity. On Coronation Day our present Queen found that children whom she had known all their lives fail- ed to recognize her in her crown and robes of state. "They've al- ways known me as someone or- dinary," she, said. "Now I sup- pose I look like a queen in a fairytale." When the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were in New York, the Duke had great fun, one day, walking' incognito through the crowds who had turned out to cheer him. The Duke had kept an engagement at the American Physics Institute when the peak rush-hour blocked his car and detectives had agreed that he could walk the half-mile to his hotel. At the hotel, where the crowds were thickest, the Duke found he could not get through without a pass. Finally he announced to a policeman, "It's me!" but was still unrecognized. Panting be- hind him, State Department offi- cials had to help get him through, For two years the Queen and her husband enjoyed a favourite picnic spot between London and Bandringliam where they used to park for lunch. A local farmer passed them many a time with- Out seeming to pay any atten- tion. One day, however, the farmer. brought his wife along. Both were dressed in Sunday best and they .tfuietly placed. a little posy on the bonnet of the car before walking on. It was a charming gesture and, thanks to the farmer's „discretion, the royal couple still occasionally enjoy .the pleasant spot. During the war the Duchess of Kent was able to work in a hospital ward as "Nurse Kay" — and' the nearest she came to recognition was when a patient murmured, "You remind me of someone." In school holidays, Prince Charles is sometimes taken shop- ping. Passersby have said. "He's almost the Prince's double!" without suspecting. Would you recognize royalty if they lived next door? When the Duke ,of Windsor, as Prince of Wales, went in for steeplechas- ing, he took a flat at 'Melton Mowbray. It was some months before his neighbours knew, The Princees Royal, similarly, took a suite of rooms in Bays- water not so Very long ago and her neighbours learnt the truth only when the story leaked into the newspapers. By presenting its slightly false black and white picture Of royalty television may be a bless- ing in disguise. Members of the Royal Family can . often move about unrecognized and taste the enjoyment of feeling "ordinary." Corrupting Ta4te, Over The Air „. "Qive nu the making of the. songs of a nation, and l care not who make its laws," So said Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun. in 11Q3, and it 114.a been Accepted as a truism ever since, Tarn the dial. Sometimes you. never find .a 'program of =Sic fit to listen to. Always such 'programs will be hard to find. There are many causes of juv- enile delinquency. One of them is the so-called music. Too many of the popular songs express low tastes and vulgar ideals, if any, end are demoralizing, Some ex.- • press the standards of the night club And dive, and are down- right immoral: Yet this is what youngsters listen to es they get their lessons, Adults didn't like it, but they reflected; "The boys and girls are fine, clean youngsters, and if this is what they like, it must be all right," Now we find it was never what youngsters chose, It was chosen for them by unscrupulous adults willing to corrupt taste, manners, minds and morals for a. dollar, Payola. While we have spent billions for an educetional system to de- velop, guide, mold and inspire youngsters, we have permitted this vast anti-education system to exist, negating the contributions of taxpayers and the efforts of dedicated teachers. What do we do now? Who-shall make the songs that will make this nation? What kind' of music shall go out over the nation's: airwaves?' What kind of records shall come into the nation's homes? Somebody will choose! What is played is no accident. Who shall do the choosing? IOW CHOW HOUND — Stephen John Walters, 4 months, seems sur- prised at his mealtime visitor. The payola crowd — stopped in one trick, but turning to some other? The unformed minds of adoles- cents? Greedy adults, catering to the "teen-age market"? Leaders in education and citizenship should assert them- selves, assuming the responsibil- ity they have dodged. Every city should have a board, consisting of a majority of adults — a large majority — and a minority of youth, to select an Ought-to-be-a-Hit Parade. No record ought to be per- nu itted to come into any home unless it has the approval of the adults as well as the youth in that home. Records should be sold on approval — approval of the parents. If this seems like a radical proposal, it shows how far we have got off the track, Radio stations should select with care and parent8 should de- mand that they do. Music publishers' and compos- ers should have a session With conscience, They should be un- willing to be "pushers" of habit- forming musical dope, "And whosover shall offend one of these little ones . it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were east into the sea," Censorship? That's not the right solution. But someone is going to choose what songs are written, published, bought and played, Who shall make the choices that will make this nation what it is to be? And what do you who read this choose to do about this situation? Mettiphis Ptese,Scimitar. "If you had hydrophobia, what would you do?" "I'd get Mysell a pencil and paper." "What for?" "To Make a, list or the people Want to bite." iiht,y the tr,Iffit sight ate pined there' tar V Ott It SAIetr•TY. Soon fresh rhubarb season will be here, and you may want to try this deep-dish rhubarb and banana pie with a meringue- like crust, RHUBARB and BANANA PIE 3 cups rhubarb, cut small 5 tablespoons sugar 1 egg white, beaten stiff 4 small bananas 16 blanched altnonds Put the cut-up rhubarb and a (tablespoons sugar in bottom of a deep - dish glass casserole. Crush bananas and mash to a pulp with 2 tablespoons sugar; beat in the stiff egg white, Spread this mixture 'over the rhubarb and sprinkle the blanched almonds over the top. Bake at 350 degrees F. for about 45 minutes (you can see when 'rhubarb is, done by looking through glass of the baking dieh). Serve hot with cream, While on the subject of pies, this recipe is well worth trying. CHERRY MERINGUE PIE FILLING: 1 quart red pie cherries 1 cup sugar Pinch salt 1 teaspoon buttter 1. teaspoon alniond extract 2 tablespoons corn starch, Combine cherries, sugar and salt and, cook until sugar is dis- solved. Add butter, Mix corn starch with a little water and add to cherry mixture, stirring to thicken. Add almond flavour- ing. Set aside to cool. CRUST: 1 cup flour 2 tablespOOns shortening IA teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons ice water Sift flour and salt together; add shortening; mix lightly with as little handling as possible. Add ice water and mix. Roll on 'floured board and line a 10- inch pie pan. Bake at 350 de- grees F. Cool before filling with the cherry filling. MERINGUE: 2 egg whites ,2 tablespoons sugar Almond extract Beat egg ,whites With the su- gar until stiff; add alntOnd ex- tract: Continue beating until whites stand in peaks. Cover cherry pie with this and bake until meringue' is brown * r * Peach season is just around the corner, too, so you may Want to know how to make an upside-clown peach cake UPSIDE-DOWN PEACH CAKE cup butter 14 clip brown Sugar 4-W fresh peaches (canned peach slices may be Used) cup butter I egg, beaten % cup sugar Clips Cake flour 1: teaspoon salt teaspoons baking poWder IA cup Milk teaspoon vanilla teaspoon almond extract Melt 1/4 tup totter in art 8e inch pair; sprinkle With brown sugar. Arrange sliced peaches over this mikture. Set Cream 1/4 cup butter With the 1'4 cup stiga4 add beaten egg and flavourings; tribe well Sift dry ingredients and add alter- nately With milk. blend well and Phut evenly over peaches'" Bake at 375 degrees it for 4t. minutes. Tittn: out erfeeake Plate at Mee: serve *thin et with. Cream or plain, Sevves it-th 11 Every. housewife has her own recipe for potato salad; but pos- sibly for a change you would like to try' this one, which is highly recommended. POTATO SALAD 3 pounds smalUpotatoes J.!i cups warm vinegar ,1 egg yolk - Salad Oil 1 large onion, grated 1 pcaiercrelsmall cut into very 5 stalkspieces celery, cut into small . 3, tablespoons mayonnaise Salt, pepper and paprika Boil potatoes in 'salt water, peel, and cut -them thin; add .the warm vinegar while potatoes are still hat, Set aside. In another bowl,' place egg yolk and thin' out with salad oil, stirring slowly and constantly until you have 1 cup of the ,mixture, Add onion, carrot, cel- ery, mayonnaise, and season- ings. Pour • all 'this over the potato-vinegar mixture. Veiled Men Who Never Wash Would you like to meet the world's only veiled men — a dwindling race of strange and fierce - looking warriors who wear swords and whose faces are never fully, visible? Yes? Then go to Timbuktu, in French West Africa. Many of these proud men live in this arid town of mud buildings, wide sandy streets and, ancient mos- ques. These restless, warlike people are members of the tribe known ,as the Tuaregs. Born in the 'Sahara, they know the' secret places of `the great desert as do no other race in the world. When a Tuareg man's wife wants to kiss him, she presses her lips against, his nose, She must never kiss him on the lips because traditionally no Tuareg man ever uncovers the lower part of his 'face, He never washes, he never shaves. Tuareg women are often beau- ties. Yet they grease their dark hair frequently with rancid but- ter, the scent of Which is regard- ed as an exotic perfume. "They seem to flaunt their beauty, but no man ever ven- tures to play a Tuareg woman false or to harm her in any Way," reports one traveller who was in Timbuktu a short time ago, It is feared that these faseinat- leg people may did eta altogeth- er within the next hundred years. Only about 180,000 Tua- regs Are now left in North Africa. Many Of the Men are camel breeders and traders, And they have long offered reefs-fence to French subjugation of the Sahara, The Tuaregs eve Mohammed- MIS but ate less strict than most followers of that faith. Arabs sometimes call them "the. pied people" because` of their peculiar ways, but no one really believes they are mad. taiikegs merely —believe,' passionately and With treat sincerity; that they are the blest superior peeple on carthi ' sticky dates, raisins Or figs tvili part company easily if pUt iii the Oen for a few minutes. Mgt* fose .Makirm Teen-Alte rs Really liarcl4lailpd Aer eto .lealnolip slAoetheir v beingthe . enenur-ag schools and to challenge their Youngsters with higher stand- „ealratra000dm,bibliers dmelict,igides in the body gets imbeed with a "zeal not according to knowledge,' Members of Congress have noted the article by Dorothy Thompson in. the February issue of the ..Ladie,s Home. Journal, criticizing the dissection cod ex- perimcntation practiced on live (though anesthetized) animals in high school, What is the need • for this kind of advanced biology at this impressionable age? Miss Thompson asks with some in- dignation. And she quotes a sur- prising report on the practice by a biology teacher, who says; "Surgical procedures are es- pecially thrilling to. pupils, After the first few weeks there is an. amazing absence.. of squeamish- ness and fear. In fact, it fre- quently surprises me to see the avidity with which pupils plunge into the dissection of rate, mice, rabbits, and dog sharks,” The National Science Teachers Association in Washington main, tains that Miss Thompson is be- ing unfair. The association main- tains that classes employing advanced • dissection and experi- mentation with live animals , are usually reserved for gifted stu- dents. Moreover, it is said, the rules followed, which have been set up by the National Institute of Health, National Cancer Insti- tute, and related agencies, intend that such experimentation shall at all times be "humane" — meaning that the animal is fully anesthetized and is dispatched promptly after experimentation. Anyway, concludes the NSTA, if classes didn't progress beyond the one-celled creatures to some- ' thing -more .ambitious, students would lose interest, writes Wil- liam H. Stringer in the Christian Science Monitor, - Miss. Thompson, however, points .out that Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, assistant dean of Ohio State University and president of the American Academy . for the Advancement of Science, re- -cently wrote: "It seems to me that it is wise to avoid getting. our youngsters so enthused over biological sciences that they rare anxious to undertake _extensive animal experimentation . without the background, ,the experience, the judgment, or the wisdom ;that is necessary. . ." It • is even argued in some quarters that, except .for the pre- , medical 'student or the candidate for. the natural science labora- tory, the average student would , gain more - information about animals that would be useful later in life if he studied them in their. native habitats. The question really. raised here concerns dissection and experimentation which advances beyond the oldtime examination of pickled frogs to such things as depriving kittens of balanced diet to see what happens, dosing mice with high-voltage radiation, or blowing tobaeco smoke into animals', lungs. Is this a vital part of biology or is it, as .Miss Thompson contend's,. a batch of ."scientifically worthless Cruel- There is a laudable effort 'to- day to modernize the teaching 'of biology, as well as of physics and Matheniatica and other 'sub- jeets, But some capable biolOgy teachers who are making ti.s effort say 'that this .advanced Animal experimentation not only is not necessary but is actually a diversion from the really significant la b o rat ory work Which youngsters Can perform. Many public schools require 119 such advanced .dissection and .experimcntation. Yet there is .enough earelessness in the sche- lastie indoetrinatien of young people today--the animal dissec- lieu, perhaps callous And prying questionnaires, the detaile d teaching of disease symptoms, the .psyhiatric-laboratory experi- mentation—so that parents need, to keep a sharp watch, indivi, dually and through parent - teacher associations, on what their gamesters are being taught. Miss Thompson warns about building a calloused mind and observed that "callousness is not A synonym for bravery; if it were, our "beatniks" and delin- quents would make the best soldiers, instead of being imme- diately classified as unfit for service," Round Up Stock With Motorbikes Horses are disappearing today even from. Australia's relatively wild outback. Meelcatharra, .500 miles. north of Perth, " Bill Lacey owns • two sheep stations cov- ering 1,000 square miles, Until recently he and his stockmen used horses to round up his flecks. But now his men. mount motor-cycles, and he pilots an old Tiger Moth air- craft 'to guide them to scatter-, ed flocks. The pilot goes up with a supply of maps and canisters, Having spotted • a flock graz- ing in some remote valley, he marks its whereabouts on his map, and estimates - how many sheep are there. Then he stuffs the map into a canister and from tree-top height drops it to 'the stock- man concerned. The stockman roars off on his motor-bike to round up his charges at the spot mentioned. • In this way, Bill Lacey claime,' he can muster 15,000 sheep in three weeks, whereas the old method would have taken two months, QUAKE TOWN — Survivors of two temblors which struck Lar, Iran, (X on Newsmap) are re- ceiving aid from !the Red Lion and Sun, the country's equiva- lent of the Red Cross. The or- :ganiZation estimates 400 per- 'sons killed and 450 injured. . . SAY "UNCLE" = It looks as though the robdta 'have taken over iH .Mose.OW, The- Weird device is tied to trace small radioactive perfidies' injected into hospital patients under examination: Highly .tentitive, it reaistere data -an through' aright parts Df the body, wrtfin4 the data 'ON a proper tibbcitti4 YAWN, ANYONE? -= COndutt your own experiment into the phetionietten of yaWnhid. Try' Staririej dt this picture of 0 sleepy polar beat' in a Paris,- Fratite, led -- arid See what happens.