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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-05-19, Page 2Reochfresiaent de Gaulle In.Wash- ington on. pets5urprolt, yisits 'APRIL 2.3 —ave. eatassirst • se 4-year-old heir of Peugeot auto lama kid., eased; later returned alive, --aaese APRIL 13 Have you ever seen a big, clear crystal bowl filled with many shades of greens ready to have the dressing added and be tossed, for a mixed salad? When you do see it, you will immedi- ately want to discard your old habit, if you have it, of using only head lettuce — there are some 20 alternatives. * r. Head lettuce is bland in taste and, of course, does go well with practically any other ingredient, Watercress adds a little sweet- ness, escarole is somewhat sharp in taste, and mustard greens are somewhat bitter, Collards taste a little like cabbage and of course scallions are actually green onions. Some of the other greens available to us are' French endive, beet tops, ro- maine, spinach, Swiss chard, broccoli, sorrel, parsley, Belgian endive and four types of lettuce: leaf, iceburg, Boston, and curly. * French dressing is best for a tossed salad, and doubtless you have your favorite recipe. The usual proportion of oil to vin- egar in this type of dressing is 2 or 3 parts of oil to 1 part of vinegar. Add salt, and some like a little sugar' and paprika, and 'shake well. There are many dressings that can be made in a jiffy, from a basic French dress- ing, writes Eleanor Richey John- ston in the Christian Science Monitor. For a lighter dressing for summer days, use 1 tablespoon less vinegar in basic recipe and add 3 tablespoons pineapple juice, 3 tablespoons orange juice, and 1 teaspoon sugar. This is only a starter when it comes to possibilities for varying your French dressing. CABBAGE SLAW 3 cups shredded cabbage (use part red cabbage) 1 bunch watercress aae cup slaw dressing Shred cabbage fine. Add dressing and mix lightly but well. Cut watercress coarsely and add to cabbage. Toss liglatly and serve immediately. Variations: Add any of the fol- lowing ingredients to the cab- bage — 11/2 cups shredded car- rots; 1/2 cup diced Spanish on- ions; 1 'cup diced unpeeled apples; 1/2 cup seedless raisins. SLAW DRESSING 11/4 cups mayonnaise 14 cup vinegat 1 teaspoon sugar 3 tablespoons grated onion 1 tablespoon salt 1f teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon celery salt Blend together all ingredients and store in refrigerator for use as needed. Makes 2 cups. SALMON SALAD LOAF 1 poUnd can salmon 1 tablespoon (1 envelope) un- flavored gelatin 1/4 cUp cold water cup lemon juice 1/4 cup mayonnaise 2 ,tablespoons pickle relish 1/2 cup chopped cucumber 1/2 teaspoon, monosodium gluta- mate a4 teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon pep ter Drain sahnon, remove skin and bones and save liquid. Soften gelatin its the cold 'water, Add enough water to salmon liquid to Make nag- cup and bring to' boil, Add softened gelatine; stir Wail dissolved, Y Combine ed. It will be softer than knead- ed dough, Place in greased bowl; thins once to grease surface. Cover and store in refrigerator or other Old place at least two hours. Shape into two loaves On a Wells' floured surface, Place, iii 9et51/4et 21/2 loaf pans. Cover and let, rise about two hourS in warm place, till double in bulk.. Bake one leoer in 375' W oven, the Wears: O.-veld in Italy, as fits their status) lees) to their feet in protest; the judge of the court pounds in vain for order, A witness for the .prosceutioo, Salvatore Esposito, appealing to another witness to disregard the law of oim.rti\, sinks. to his knees. with his arms outstrelehed implores hale; s, God, tell the truth!" AO again the des-ens e lawyare ten in all) shout; "M'yst'ical midget!" • "Mueical-comedy steer Carlo Levi, • Mee is' observing the trial, murmured to :JEWSs WEEK correspondent Curtis C, Pepper; '1 'This s isn't only a couatroom. It's a theatre and before us iS a hoevible tragedy," The trial is more than theatre for Italy. There is more than murder involved. The Mafia has also been effectively sabotaging the land-reform program in Si- cily; it has begun to infiltrate the ranks of the Christian Democrat- ic Party, A few yens ago Pas- quale Almerico, local party 'see- retary in Camporeale, was shot 'down in the centre of town at dusk 'for publicly protesting the Mafia infiltration; • last month, Cateado Tandoy, a Rome police official, was similarly shot dead in the streets of Agrigento be- cause he was slated to testify in cases. against the Mafia, Yet whatever eventually hap- pens to the four defendants (Giovanni Di Bella, Antonio Mangiaariddo, Luigi Tardibuono Giorgio Panzeca), the eyes. of Italy are on Carnevale'e mother, Levi said of her:. "You see there a woman trans- formed by the death of her soh.. Before that she was nothing. a woman without culture or ideals or a concept of society, an ob- scure farm woman. Out of her pain and sorrow she has emerg- ed as one of the great heroines of our time — fearless, determin- ed, unsleeping, sustained by this, one drive alone. Her son's death is a price paid for a passage. to a better world in which she alone is en uncorruptible witness." —From NEWSWEEK BAR-BELLE — Sun and ..sea at Nassau, Bahamas, have appal-, ently lured this young tourist from lifting cocoanut-bamboe bar bell. it's too nice a day. ii'AUTOGRAPH`, MR. PRESIDENT?' — Former chief executive Hasty Truman pauses during a morning 'stroll in New York tla sign his photograph on the request of a resident. VAST 'MONTH ”'1N• RISVAY se In Wctst flood in 13 years, Mississippi Rivet forces thousa nds stool homes in Midwest, APRIL 4. ' Film actors cod strike against studios. APR L 8 Weeks of rioting over elective I frauds in Korea culminate in revelOtion; death toll reaches 130. PRILa2? down after 12 years as temporary government takes over, President Syngman Rhee st P esAPI0 28 Vice President-elect Lee Ki Poong and family die in suicide pact.' Balla armed rebetlien in Venezuelo quickly put down, esas,`11---France . explodes seeend .nuclear bomb in Sahara,. I White farmer veneids SouthaAfrican Prime Minister Henrik Verwoerd in attempted assassination, I APRI •APRweall. theelr satellite teSclittoeuTnichroes Pioneer navi, gation satellite Transit I-B is orbited, Broadway Star al cannot remember a time when 1 did riot think. I would go cn the Stage," Allyn Ann Mc- Lerie aernarised, Such a &okra- 110n would be nature* enetign tOming from the child of a theatrical family, But the danc- ing star Of "West Side Story' (just reopened. in New York at the Winter Gardens) is the first of her family to contemplate a thespian career, Being staunch in her ideas she added, "I will never leave the theatre unless the theatre .leaves. hie." Her Scottish forebears would have applauded the corn- anent, if not the pursuit that oc- casioned it, These ancestors emigrated from Scotland to Canada, but in doing so refused to abandon patriotic identity. All of them married other Scots, thus main- taining a national enclave within, the Dominion. All of them, that is, until Allyn Ann came along, She was born in Grand Mere, Quebec, but grew up in Brook- lyn, Indeed, she almost for- got her Scottish background un- til she visited the land of gran- ite and oatcakes a few years ago, The rugged determination of the Gaels lived on in Miss Mc- Lerie, however. Her first depar- ture from the traditions of her progenitors came very early when she began to prove herself a deft dancer. Her mother nei- ther permitted nor hindered her daughter. "She decided, I be- lieve," the star remarked, "to open all doors and see what hap- pened." So Allyn took piano lessons at five, dancing lessons with a friend a little later, and ballet when' she was 11, making her professional debut at 14 with the San Carlo Opera Co. By the time Allyn saw the Scottish highlands and heard the brogue she was so "far out" she had married George Gaynes, of Dutch and Russian parentage. Their two 'children, Iya, five, named for her Russian grandmother, and Mat- thew, 18 months, look Gaelic but express a very American sense of freedom. "I believe Matthew thinks Thelma is his. mother," Mrs. Baynes commented, "but fortu- nately I'm not jealous." Thelma is the housekeeper, and in that tentence Allyn McLerie sum- med up a great deal about her two-angled life. A devoted wife and Maher, she is equally at- tached to her stage career. Thelma is the ball bearing on which the two worlds revolve imoothly. This is a harmony the star has sought and she is well reontent with it. "So far," Miss McLerie re- marked, "it has worked out that, when I am busy with a show, George has been free to be with the children. When he has been in a production (Mr. Gaynes is an actor) I have been home." "I am an actress who sings and dances. I am not just a dancer," 'the hazel-eyed, creamy- skinned lass pointed out, tossing her mop of red hair to empha- size the point. On: stage as Puer- to Rican Anita- 'she wears a coal-black wig. Her present fiery topknot was acquired for her stand-by role in "Redhead," in which she replaced Gwen Ver.- don 40 times. "But I think I was meant to be red," Miss McLerie said. "When I went to Scotland and saw all the auburn thatches there, I realized why my skin freckles so easily in summer. Now, with this hairdo, I don't try to prevent it." Reverting to her roles on stage, she added, "It is so difficult not to get typed as just a dancer." She has proved herself versa- tile, however. In the production of "Bells Are Ringing" with which she travelled to England, her husband played the lead, and Miss McLerie was a comedienne. Similarly in "Time Limit," there was no dancing nor singing in her part, writes Nora E, Tessler in 'the Christian Science Monitor. This lissome young mother has been seen in ajong list of plays and films since the day in 1943 when Agnes de Milk chose the 15-year Old girl to dance in "One Touch of Venus:" ISSUE 21 1960 A list of the shows that fol- lowed reads rather like a run- down of Broadway through the years. It includes: "On the Town" (Miss McLerie replaced Sono Osato), "Finian's Rain- bow," "Where's. Charley?" "Miss Liberty," and "To Dorothy a Son" (in England with Richard Attenborough in the lead). Films have included "Where's Char- ley?" "Calamity Jane," and "Bat- tle Cry." Reading off productions, how- ever, is just skimming the sur- face of the endurance and vir- tuosity that go into such plays "I really don't know how she kept it up night after night," Miss McLerie commented of Gwen Verdon in "Redhead." "I did it for five days at a stretch one time," and that, she said, was probably among the hardest dancing roles she has sustained so far, In "West Side Story" (for which the management invited her to audition) she pointed out that difficulties increase because there is so little space in which to maneauver. Dancers are crowded together, and violent movement must be indicated within the compass of a few feet. Despite the handicaps, Miss Mc- Lerie was acclaimed by Leonard Bernstein, the composer, for her work as Anita, Mrs. Gaynes's dual role is a constant presence with her, and when talking of her work she refers very easily to the family. When I visited with her, her husband and lye had just been in Boston to watch "West Side Story," The first time Iya was to be in the audience, in Phila- delphia, "we wondered," Mrs. Gaynes said, "whether the clas- sic violence would prove up- setting, so we explained that it was all make-believe." The lit- tle thing said she understood. "But," said her mommy, "you don't like it when something happens to Lassie." "Oh, but that's more real. On the stage I know it's not real!" was Iya's comeback. And, after the performance, the sunny-haired, four-year-old proceeded to mimic the dances she had seen, and to tell her mother, "That's the way the boy does it when he comes from the right to speak to Bernardo," She was right, too. Besides her remarkable mem- ory, Iya has, her mother be- lieves, a natural flair for danc- ing. She is graceful, moves from the hips, and instinctively uses her head and arms as she sways, "But I am not thinking of training her as a ballerina," Mrs. Gaynes continued. "She goes to dancing classes with a little friend, as most children do. We will just see what develops in the future." Then she added thoughtfully, "I rather hope she won't want to be a ballet dancer. In my own experience I found all they could talk of was ballet, and more ballet. They seemed un- aware that there was a world outside the theatre." And What of the future?' "I don't worry about what's next" Miss McLerie declared. "A new role comes along at the right time." And she looked down fondly at the color snapshots of her children scattered over the table. APRIL 13 kalaivsmap ESCAPES — Cheryl Crane,.teen- age daughter of Lona Turner, excaped from a California home for juveniles. Recalling Some Memorable Breads I remember being in England at the time bread was removed from the ration list, and a friend and I made an entire meal on the high, firm loaves together with. cheese and marmalade, I remember, too, a later stay in the mountains of - Haute Loire where each day began with the slicing of bread shaped like enormous doughnuts. These thick, dark slices plus a daub of honey and a cup of steaming chocolate sent us out to do a day's work, Long, crusty Italian bread served as a mainstay in our diet during a five-day Mediterranean voyage where, traveling third class, we were obliged to provide our own food. Still later, in Turkey, how often I was grate- ful for the little village bakery with its wood-shuttered windows where we bought for a few pen- nies delicious• brown dome-shap- ed loaves! One night after a heavy snow- fall had caused transportation and business to founder all over Istanbul I trudged down through knee-high drifts into the village, hardly hoping for success in my search for food. The grocer and the coffee shop were closed, but I had hardly finished knocking at the bakery window when the shutter was pulled back and our "ekmecki" appeared. "Of course," he grinned when I asked if he had bread, his tone implying that, come what might, anyone ought to know bread must be baked just the same, writes Dorothy Noyce in 'The Christian Science Monitor, Bread iS, quite literally, the staff of life over much of the world, but in calorie-conscious America it is often given short shrift. I recall how a small Turkish child, shown a picture in an. American magazine, re- plied, "No, that's not bread; that's cake." Perhaps part of our willing- ness to forgo nutritious bread comes from our having made it too much like cake. Perhaps we have paid for its soft whiteness with. Beeson Here is a recipe for bread that is both quick, since it requires no kneading, and richly flavor- ful, Wonderful for a dull day, it warms you both in the baking and in the eating. 0;141.110A Bread 2 Wogs. active dry yeast cup lukewarm Water lea cups belling water 1 cup qtdekscoOkings Oats 1,4.1 Cup shortening Ja cup light itecikeees tsp, salt • 2 beaten eggs 5ne-6 cups sifted enriched Heise Soften yeast in water Wale f'). Combine cups boiling water, oats, shortening, melatsete arid salt. Stir until shortening. dissolves, then' cool to Add softened yeast; mix well, Blend in cgs. s aloe?. Mix thoroughly until is blends' NEWIEW100 university students riot against Turkish gov- ernment in litanbuls •• ' '' ' " salmon and gelatin mixture; add remaining ingredients, Fill a 1- quart dampened mold; chill until firm, Unmold on bed of shredded lettuce and watercress. Garnish with cream cheese for c ed through a pastry tube, if desired. *. A meal-in-one salad is the Ha- waiian chicken salad. This recipe makes 5-6 servings. CHICKEN SALAD HONOLULU % cup packaged precooked rice 1/4 teaspoon salt % cup boiling water Yi to 1 cup mayonnaise 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon grated onion 1/4 teaspoon curry powder 1 teaspoon. salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper 11/4 cups diced cooked chicken 1 cup diced celery 1 cup drained diced pineapple 1/4 cup flaked coconut Add packaged precooked rice and 1/4 teaspoon salt to boiling, water in saucepan. Mix just enough the moisten rice, Cover and remove from heat, Let stand .5 minutes. Uncover and let cool to room temperature. About .1 hour before serving, combine mayonnaise,, lemon juice, onion, curry powder, teaspoon salt and peppers mix- ing well. Combine chicken, celery, pineapple and coconut in a bowl. Stir in the mayonnaise mixture. Add rice and mix light- ly with forks. Chill. Serve on crisp lettuce leaves with a dish of extra mayonnaise. . Stuff tomatoes with any favor- ite fish or chicken salad. Here is a simple recipe that is equally good with crab or lobster instead of the shrimp. SHRIMP SALAD IN TOMATO ROSETTES 2 cans (41/2 -5 ounces each) de- veined shrimp 1/2 cup Mayonnaise or salad dressing 1 cup chopped celery 2 tablespoons chopped onion 2 tablespoons chopped sweet pickle 2 hard-cooked eggs, chopped 6 large ripe 'red tomatoes Lettuce Drain shrimp, rinse in cold water and drain again. Cut large shrimp in half. Combine all ingredients except tomatoes and lettuce. 'Chill. Wash toma- toes; remove stem ends and centres; cut tomatoes almost through into sixths. Place on lettuce. Spread tomatoes open and fill with the shrimp salad, • Serves 6. How The Marmalade Business Began On a stormy day, so' it-geeg, toward the close of the eigh- teenth century, a ship from Spain took refuge in Dundee Harbor, and its cargo Was offer- ed for sales on the, quayside, Mr. John. Keiller, a grocer in Dun- dee, could not resist the teiniata" tion to buy the' Seville Oratigee and sugar being sold off so cheaply, and to his wife's con- sternation he had them delivered to his hoests Now Mts. Keiller had been naught by her mother to make "SYlarrnalet," the quince jelly, She decided to,, boil the'Se- ville oranges with the sugar in the same `Way as the quinces, and. so was horn what the House . of Keiller proudly declares Was the first Orange Marmalade Mrs. Keiller distributed mar- malade from this windfall cargo among her friends, go spontan- eously popular was her new pre= Serve that she and her son qattes tested it out commercially, It was not long befdre Mr, Keiller could afford to dose his grocery busi- ness, and the 'fat-Oily went in for making marrnlade in a big way. In 170 the House of Jaanes Keg- ler & Son Ltd., of Dundee, was founded, and its Orange MarnSee lade, was put up in the clistince Live glazed White pot in which it is still distributed worldwide An. Italian Mother Defies The "Wk., wynt up. through thistles and prickly grasses until, Weller up, we came into corn again and at last reached a horizontal path, visible a long way off, on that flat ground, owing to an upright ..tone landmark, It was here that Caerevale died . • The corn is eau now end the eye card„ see tag sa along; the a _ pbaat half (th are h hour's f\vraoln1). y NL lol f le:nreheCrearmoevioa.l tellew'sot toilleedcl, la11311. t when, at dawn on the sixteenth of May, his murderers waited for him here, the .corn was high and covered them. They must have stopped and waited for him here for a long time; you can still see traces of footmarks here and there on the ground above the path. And they idled away this hpur of waiting, before they. shot him, by eating beans; there are still dried up pods, lying about On the ground." So the Italian author cart Levi (in "Words Are Stones") des- mined the murder of the Italian. labor organizer Salvatore Carne- vale at the hands of the Mafia in 1955 near the tiny, poverty. ridden village of Sciara in Sicily The Mafia, in Sicily, is a tight- knit collection of gangsters prey- ing on the peasants. So great is its power that, ordinarily, Carne- vale's murder — like any of the scores the Mafia commits every year—would have been accepted with no more than a shrug of the shoulders, a few tears, and the sign of the cross, But in Cernevale's case, one person, one person in all Sicily, refused to accept the crime, She was Car- nevale's mother, Francesca, in Levi's words "still beautiful , *with her sharp black eyes, the brownish white of her skin, her black hair, her pale, thin lips, her tiny, ;harp teeth, her long, expressive, speaking hands ." Solely because of Carnevale'ee mother, the trial of four alleged Mafia thugs, 'accused murderers of Salvator Carnevale, is now in its ninth' week in a court. near Naples, (The -trial was moved to the mainland to try to get away from the -influence of the Mafia.) Alone, Signora Carne- vale bad broken the Mafia's deadly law of omerta (silence) and by-passed the local Sicilian police (who reported 40 labour organizers killed in the last ten years — but convicted not one murderer ). Francesca's one- woman outcry against her only son's murderers has become a national sensation. It is not only a test of strength between Italian justice and the Mafia; it is the human drama of a devoted mo- ther pitted 'against some of .the most ruthless thugs of the Wes- tern world.- "I curse you, murderers!" the mother shrieks in court, and the Mafia's defense lawyers (among in company with a whole range of British rivals. Oddly enough, the word "mar- malade" shows signs of staging a limited 'come-back to its older, wider association with jam. Mar- malades, so called, are now be- ing made from both sweet and bitter oranges, from ,ginger, tan- gerines, grapefruit, lemons and limes, — From "The Good Fare t and Cheer of Old England," by Joan Parry Dutton. con- gci ross rpa ight sse sb s ill first vil % in 85 years„ litiyi At least 500 die in earths quake at Las, Iran, 11 LE, T olam At\dve,ws. S A CAKE FOR NEWLYWEDS — Staff Sergeant Neil Smith of the- tiritith Army catering corps, puts final touches On a huge wed- ding cake for Princess Maagdret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones. It corisists of 24 pounds of icing, 10 pounds Of flour -bed 04 eggs.