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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-06-30, Page 2HRONICLES PARFAR,k14.1 Stephen and Bobby Schnitzlein, fore and aft, evacuate their wading pool. Crawling technique enables them to explore the surrounding area minutely. everybody .outt W1' A Kid That wwer Grew Up The author, „ who had Written his beela in Verse., was reading, it aloud, rather nervously, The • listeners who had gathered in. his publisher's office in New `York were laughing at him. It was not ridicule, however.; the iauthor was that =della classic. Dr. Seuss„ who was reading from "Green Eggs and Nam," latest of the children's books with which the. doctor of humor in pie vete, 'Ted. Geisel has been.cli- yerting tots (and also their pops) for twenty-three years. A. tall, tanned fellow of 56, Geisel presented his book to Random. ,house insiders in the form of art boards get up on a bookcase, each board with its epeeial Geisel cartoon and. verse. The story, to be published next fall, is written entirely in 50 primer words for beginners, and concerns a bug-like character,. who attempts to serve up "Green Eggs and Ham" to a sourpuss in a stovepipe hat. When Stovepipe refuses, Sam, the super-salesman, keeps after him, trying to sell him, the idea of green eggs and ham in boxes, trees, houses, cars, and even un- der water until Stovepipe gives in. Do you like Green eggs and ham? I do not like them Curves of Glamor PRINTED PATTERN Dazzle your after-five audience in this willowy sheath that curves gracefully away from your shoulders to bare a beauti- ful neckline, Make it in shan- tung, surah, cotton — NOW Printed Pattern 4805: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. Size 16 takes 31/4 yards 39-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send. FORTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. it'lease print plainly SIZE, NAME ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New 'Toronto, Ont. Sam-i-attl 1 do ,opt. like Green eggs and hank — .do ,,not like them bare or there T. do not like them anywhere . This sort of catchy yeve, ge- comparded by his wildly comic and imaginative illustrations, has brought Geisel impressive suc- cesses. In. the children's book field. Recently he had five books On the best-seller list of juven-, iles .—a phenoMenal record for one author,. Besides reading his 64-page jingle to his publisher, he was also getting together a big one-man anthology of .car- toone and stories, tentatively. titled "Dr, Seuss Treaeury." Geisel, who is now just about the undisputed king of the kid- dies' end of the bookshelf, set out as young man to be a teach- er of literature — he hoped at Dartmouth, his alma mater. "The whole project, though," he re- called after his reading recently;. "came off a very shaky launch- ing pad, so I guess it was never meant to be. There was this Campbell Fellowship to Oxford open to Dartmouth students, and. I thought I had it practically in the bag. I called up my father (who at 81 is still superintend- ent of public parks in. Spring- field, Mass.) and told him so, and Pop called the local newspaper. The next day, there was my Mc - tun on the front page of The Springfield Union, with the story that I had won the fellowship. Well, it turned out I didn't. To save his pride, Pop dug up the money and sent me over there anyway." At Oxford, he met his future wife, Helen Palmer, an attractive school-marm-to-be who occupied. the seat next to him at a Shake- speare lecture. They now live in La Jolla, Calif. Ted started car- tooning for a living before he did his first kids' book, and sold cartoons to most of the big maga- zines. He also got into advertis- ing (his cartoon slogan, "Quick, Henry, the Flit," was a classic), and finally movie-making (he wrote. the Oscar-winning "Ger- ald McBoing-Boing"). But his No. 1 enthusiasm is still chil- dren's books. His wife explains: "He's a kid himself. He has. never grown up." — From NEW S WEEK. Mixed Reaction "I don't care whether our kids are black, white, or polka dot — just so long as they call me daddy," said jubilant Sammy Davis Jr. in London, where the Negro entertainer and blond May Britt revealed that they will marry (after the Swedish film star's divorce from her pres- ent spouse, Stanford student Ed- ward Gregson, becomes final). Jarred to tears the next night by Fascists who carried placards ("Keep Britain White," "Sammy Go Back to the Trees") and shouted insults outside the caba- ret where he was performing, Davis rallied when other Britons wrote to assure him that the demonstration was the work of a lunatic fringe. "Ninety-nine per cent of my mail since the incident has been from people saying: 'We're appalled, we're ashamed, we apologize, and may we congratulate you both'." Presiding at the wedding of Negro songstress Eartha Kitt, 32, and white real-estate man Wil- liam McDonald, 30, Los Angeles judge Elmer Doyle told the pair: "I am a judge in the divorce courts, and in most of my cases I try to salvage a marriage. I don't want to see either of you in my department." Seeing. Smells Twelve people were asked: "What smell do yott like best?" Nine unhesitatingly picked out foods or drinks. The tenth re- plied "New-mown grass," The eleventh plumped for the musty odour of old books. And the twelfth said a railway tunnel. Some like the smell of tar, but others hate it. Other smells which many find pleasant or un- pleasant according to their temperament — are those of camphor, musk, carbolic, fund- ture polish and fresh . paint, re-. ports a scientist. He says the oldest "man- made" smell en earth today can be sniffed at in a Rome anti- quarian museum, It is an odour more than 1,500 years old — the acrid smell of charred wood which survived the sack of Rome by King Alaric in the year 410, The wood came from the foundations which were burned during the sacking, Archaeolo- gists say they are mystified as to why the odour has lingered so long. The world's smelliest • sub- stance is a chemical called vier- captan which is occasionally used in the rubber industry, So strong does it smell of garlic that you- can detect it when there is only a single 460,000,000th part of a gram in a noseful of air. Scientists can now in a k odours visible by chemicals • — the first practical step towards measuring the strength of smells. NEAR ATHENS — Princess Soraya leaves the waters of the Saronic Gulf near Athens, Greec. She is the ex-wife of the Shah of Iron. Old Records Leiter Than Money Current coinage among Cape Town teenagers is a black disc with a hole in the centre — the long-playing record. Girls now measure their wealth in this new coinage, and their stock is also a guide to their popularity, for the gift of a disc is rapidly be- coming-the price of a date. Boys are complaining that the town's girls expect them to give a long-playing record in return for an evening out together. Some mercenary-minded girls are even making reditced "terms" for suitors, For ten records they pronlise to go out exclusively wi h the donor. Some youths approve the idea aaey now are able to date the town's loveliest girls, for they don't mind the boy's looks so long as his record is acceptable. Main complaints are the local music stores which are suffet- ing from a wave of disc pilfering. Inevitably, men's, of the rec. erste are finding their way into Cape Town's pawnshops, where South African "uncles" are pre> pared to lehd 5s. on each disc. Discs are never turned away by these pawnshops — for after a year in pawn they are easily marketed at 6s.. each—to would- be suitors who` cannot afford to pay the price of a new record. Teenagers say that a eerie:as "Sugary Sylvia" is the 'champion disc-for-a-date-dame, Sire has over 600 records, each one auto., graphed by the donor". "When I marry, t guess I'll have to get rid of my record Player," shd complains, We drove up to Shelburne one day last week and what we saw worried us quite a bit. Hardly any spring grain sown at all and fields that were meant to be sown now so overgrown with grass and weeds it will mean twice the work if the farmers ever do get them worked up for planting. The friends whom we visited generally have a won- derful garden. This year cab- bage, broccoli, tomatoes and even beans are still in boxes e waiting to be set out, while the garden patch has yet to he dug. But they have a terrific crop of black-flies and mosquitoes which we did our best to avoid. Partner and Mr. X were setting out to look over the farm when I sug- gested they take insect repellent along with them, "We won't need it where we are going," . said Mr. X "I have the names and addresses of all the flies and mosquitoes around here and we are not calling on them today!" Sure enough they came home without a bite, Mrs. X and I were not so lucky, We wandered around in the garden, looking at the gorg- eous iris, and we found plenty of the pesky things waiting to welcome us. Partner and I also found other inconveniences on the way up. We ran into a road construction job on the highway — six miles of it. Eventually we turned on to a side-road to get to the farm, There we found the road com- pletely torn up, with bulldozers and graders blocking the way — and without a detour sign to warn us. We had to back up quite a piece before there was l'00111 to turn around. And that didn't please me at all as I hate backing up. However such con- ditions are part of the hazard of summer driving. The best thing to do is hang on to the wheel, grit your teeth' and remind your- self, it is going to be a lovely road wheel it's finished — good driving for years to come. Another day we were over to Melton airport to bid "bon voy- age" to a young neighbour and her two boys real/hi/1g to Eng- land, Visiting Melton is always a thrill. We hadn't been there since the big planes started using the airport. Our young friend was going by jet and to see a jet take off is really something No whirling propellors; no vis- ible mechanism at all as the huge meehine taxies' along the runway to a spot wheee, it waifs for the signal to take off, Pres- ently comes a teerific roar. l'Oia see the Iwo rolchine suddenly sit 1--0; it: kennehes, as it Wer,4 ths. „r: liPis and a mat- ter of seconds the plane is air- borne, carrying aloft the pas- sengers and crew who have en- trusted their lives to its intri- cate mechanism and the skill of its pilots and navigator. Going over to Melton we again noticed bare 'fields along the way. Bare? I shouldn't call them bare. I never saw so many flour- ishing weeds. By "bare" I mean they hadn't been sown. Market gardeners and nurserymen too must also be having an unprof- itable season. One nursery, near here was offering annual bed- ding plants last week at two boxes for the price of one.' And they were not going very fast at that. I didn't buy any. Pet- unias I set out three weeks ago have hardly grown at all so I am filling up the borders by transplanting self-grown seed- lings — poppies, cosmos, snap- dragons and burning bush. In dry weather we can save plants by watering but there is no sub- stitute. for sunshine. And I don't need to tell you it's been cool, hardly a night but what the furnace has come on even with the thermostat set back to 62. And you remember the fore- cast for this summer was hotter than last year! Of course, there is plenty of time for hot weather yet, but not in June -- not with the month for weddings and roses already half gone. Remember I will quoting last week from a new book entitled "Valk Medicine"? Well, the other day there was a short write-up in the "Globe and Mail" contra- dieting whet Dr. Jarvis had said. According to the American, Medical Association no curative value can. be attributed to a mix- ture of honey and vinegar, as claimed by Oarvis. So there You,b,Aye two opinions and how agee, wese to know who is right? But at any rate we can't do any harm by eating honey, On the other hand,. according to English folk lore vinegar has a tendency to dry • the blood. Just what Was meant by "dry blood" I don't know but.I remember as a child I was not allowed vinegar for that reason. As you know any Medical As- sociation is against any new drug treatment until its worth has been proven by years of re- search, But we might also re- member that Pasteur, Lister and many others were ridiculed for years before their life-saving theories, were accepted by the Medical Association. Photographing Pope John The slight, graying photogra- pher with the bushy mustache scampered around the book-lin- ed Vatican study, kneeling and twisting as he clicked away at Pope John XXIII with the three cameras around his neck. As the cameraman zeroed in for a close- up shot, Pope John joshed him: "You photographers really get around, don't you?" The words couldn't have been more apt in describing Tony Spina, the wide- ranging, 45-year-old chief pho- tographer for The Detroit Free Press whose exclusive color shots of the Pope were spread across many recent roto sections. To obtain his unusual pictures (few photographers are permit- ted professional audiences with the Pope), Spina flew from Lon- don (where he covered Princess Margaret's wedding) to Rome armed witha wide-angle Panon camera and two Japanese Nikons and an advance letter to the Vatican from Detroit's Arch- bishop, the Most Rev. John F. Dearden. After a four-day wait, Vatican officials wangled Spina, who speaks fair Italian, a ten- minute audience with the Pontiff in his study, "The Pope was dressed in a cream-colored outfit with a cream skullcap, and looked to be about five-feet-seven and about 200 pounds," Spina said. "He has a very nice smile. I took a pic- ture and the Pope said: 'Don't you need lights?' I said no. He said that was good: "I don't like artificial lights'." When Spina's ten minutes were up, a sculptor came in to finish a bust of Pope John. "The Pope motioned to me that it was all right to stay. After a few shots the Pope asked 'Would you like me to put on a red cape?' After I made a good color shot, he took it off. He was real obliging." "He asked me 'Where are you from?' and I told him. Detroit, He said 'Where does it get its name?' I told him it was French and meant a narrow strait. I said 'Do you really focus with one eye for profiles?" 9.1at'5 the automobile capital .of the world' and he said 'Oh yes, linow that very well,' Ife geld, 'Spine — that's an Italian naMe • I told him my father had come from 'Cosenza in Italy in 18011 and he said, 'Oh, that's fine." "Once, he motioned that I Was, going to get his double chin, t told him I • wouldn't, that the. light coming. IA from the Win- dow wouldn't accentuate it. He was relaxed and seemed. to be enjoying the whole thing, At one time, be put his hand On his, stomach and mailed when I had moved low for a different angle. I got the idea." Spina indicated delicately that Pope John pre- . ferred not to have his substan- tial girth emphasized, "We talk- ed in Italian the whole time, A monsignor told me the Pope is taking English lessons from an Irish priest and they're all won- dering if he'll speak it with a brogue." • T h e scheduled ten -Minute audience stretched out to near- ly two hours and, at the end, the Pope gave •Spina a hand- somely boxed silver medallion. bearing the Pontiff's likeness, In. turn, the Detroit photographer is sending Pope John a leethers bound volume of the pictures he took. The Pope, said Spina, com- plained to "him; "Nobody ever sends me pictures." Patient: I'm worried about my memory, can't remember my best frieticis' names, telephone numbers, streets. Doctor: And when did all this begin? Patient: When did all what begin? Sun-Day Prettiest Daughter will love this breezy pinafore for summer play or parties. Gay huck weaving. A snap to sew—a prized pina- fore. Pattern 583: directions: pattern pieces; buck weaving charts. Child's size's 2, 4, 6, 8 included. Send THIRTY-FIVE, CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New To- ronto,• Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. New! New! New! Our 1960 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book is ready NOW! Crammed with exciting, unusual, popular de- signs to crochet, knit, sew, em- broider, quilt, weave — fdshions, home furnishings, toys,' gifts, bazaar hits. In the book FREE — 3 quilt patterns. Hurry, send 25 cents for your copy. ISSUE 27 — 1960 liONNOE tift,:i0dEAN Dark-.'haired' ,.Bonnie Lean, prOv.es, 'there's something in a tiainie as she helps Mather Nature „dec- larant' a beach. WAYWARD BUS DRIVER Whote ijutiodd of tourists front West Virginia keep their 'Spirit% high outside Washington; d,C, They were stranded On lifer wary to the nation's cciFiildi when their 'driver suddenly 'deSerte-d.. One poiSsenda r',S didiet..know th way' and Want .tell