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To the bright strains of "Clap
Hands, Here Comes Rosie," Rose-
mary Clooney bounced up to the
bandstand of the Empire Room
at. New York's Waldorf-Astoria
last month,. With hardly a pause
for breath, the blond. singer belt-
ed out "Ev'rything's Coming Up
Roses," and then moved into the
seductive, husky-voiced rendition
of "Tenderly," which has become
her theme song. Before the roar
of applause died down,* she
abruptleli threw off the white
ostrich-feather coat which had
enveloped her like a tent.. "I'll
ibet," she told the packed room,
g'that 50 per.cent of the audience
'was saying .. 'She's pregnant
again!' I fooled you, didn't I?"
What else could '-a, Clooney fan
think?' Since she married' mar-
ried Jose Ferrer seven years ago,
she and the' actor-directorhave
produced, five children in relent-
less succession: Miguel, Maria,
Gabriel, 1VIonsita, and Raphael.
While this domestic bliss has af-
forded scattered opportunities
for Rosie to appear on television
("When I walk onto a TV set,"
she said, "I automatically look
for the highest piece of furniture
to hide behind"), it has confined
her personal appearance's to the
environs of Los Angeles, where
she and Ferrer live in a big
rambling house in Beverly Hills.
Rosie's four week run at the
Waldorf, for example, marks the
first time she has sung on a New
York stage in nine years-or
since she played the Paramount
after her record of "Come On-a
My House" made her a `Star. And
she confesses that she would not
even be in New York except for
a directing assignment Jose had
on Broadway. After the Waldorf
she will tape two TV shows and
and then, says Rosie, "I will be
finished until the first of the
year. Christmas shopping alone
will take up all of .my time."
The Clooney formula for hav-
ing her babies and a career too
is simple and direct, like Rosie
herself. "I'm not an actress who
has to have a play In New York
or a movie in Hollywood in or-
der to function," she explained.
"If Joe has to be in New York
or England, I can take what I do
along under my hat. I know the
songs I sing, and there are mu-
sicians anywhere in the world."
Although Ferrer's play was
postponed, he has kept himself
occupied in New York while
Rosie is thereby continuing his
new operatic career. At the
Brooklyn Academy of Music fast
month, he performed the title
role in Puccini's "Giana Shic-
obi," the part in which he made
his debut last•summer at Santa
Fe,N.M.
When Ferrer went to Santa
Fe, Miss Clooney and the kids
tagged along. The two oldest
were taken to hear one of the
opera performances. "In the so-
prano aria when she sings 'Oh!
My beloved daddy, won't you be
kind arid help us?'" Rosie re-
called ruefully, "Maria, the 4-
year-old, said in a very 'loud
voice: 'He's not her father, he's
my father,' Everyone could hear,
It. T could have died.'"-Yrem
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with the air. 'Whert '3.tmosphere. k4t,
no longer breathed, this radio
active element slowly decroaleg,
and this aatea tail.object.
' There are 40 of these Carbon
1,4 - laboratories throughout the
' world with about this
country, Miss. Ra1.1:!#74iit' sched-
uled part of her flti5d7,,flitis fall
developing u q w ,f11;lottt*Tinielli4.
TWO- of many llel4g11.cines. now
in existence are ;1,11e,r'ealstivitY
instrument Used to test disturb-
ances of the aoll, caused by
buried objects and. the proton
• magnetometer used to .detect
burled kilns, pottery, or iron ob-
jects,
Modern Etiquette
fly Anne Ashley
ee :
Q, When a boy with whom a
girl has ; been going for some
time invites her to his lome tor
dinner and for the Purpose of
meeting sor itt o ispgarisetn?ta, is it proper
for the girl to take his mother
sorti e
A, No; in fact, it would be in
bad taste,
Q. My parents are planning an
engagement party for me, should
imy, fiance ftresent my rino we
,at this .pa`rty, befOrelia?
A, 'This is personal natter,e thG
,and i your -fiance should p esent
;you' with' your ring bete].
;party.
VERY HIGH FASHION - This moon suit is being tested at Re-
public Aviation's space laboratory. The aluminum garb would
weigh
,
only a few pounds on low-gravity moon. Tripod drops
down to permit astronaut to rest on a small suit inside,
66-Inch Cloth
iltpciret Of •World's
Most fa.mOys .smile, ..,,
A Parisian factory making
epeciat glass has just delivered •
the most. exacting order in ins
history, an extra fine and thin •
bullet-proof pane, thirty-one by
twenty-one inches.
The glass was ordered bee .the '-','
Louvre authorities to proteethe i
Meet famous smile in the world ,
e---that of Mona Lisa, the famous i
pOrtrait. by Leonardo da Vinci Mona already has two •uni-
termed attendants and a plain- .!
clothes police inspector to guard l
her, as well as a fence to keep ..
Ppeople off. The glass, it is hoped, i
will prevent damage from kni-• .1
ves and 'stones which people.
have been known to aim at the i
canvas. Not long ago a Bolivian. 1
visitor to the Louvre was :ar-
rested after he had hurled a j
stone at it. •1
Of the 100,000 foreign visitors i
to the Louvre each year, nine ;
of ten come primarily to see the ;
Mona Lisa, - On days when the
light is good, scores - of people
are packed around the immortal
painting. One man arrives each morning
before the doors are opened and
stays until closing time. He has ;
been doing this for six years.
. The Louvre receives a film
.star's fan mail for Mona, . Some
people write to her as if she
were a living person. Many
young and ardent students dedi-
cate poetry to her,
Adoration of the Mona Lisa
has been going on for more than
400 years, ever since the time in
Florence, about 1500, that Leon-
PIER - T h a.,,Lvampire
gets a new -,trist as
dancer Lily Ni agrq
a provocative pose. She
at the rail of, the liner
Statesi 'at a, pier in New
VAMP
look
French
. strikes
stands.
United
York.
HRONICLES
°F6IN6ElitailM.
Five Children, I
Don't Slow Rosie
Guessing 'Ages
Heir f40.541.0SS,
Elizabeth Ralph Can take a
piece of beam from .an. old.
temple„ the hide front a walrus,_
or the charred: remains of an
ancient camp site and toll you
how old. that, temple, that wax,, -
rus or that camp alto is, She •
can. do this up to 40,000 years
with. A margin of error of ..only
,1 or 2 per cent,
Miss Ralph is head of the Car-
bon 14 laboratory of the 'Univer,,
sity of PenniYlyania and re,
ceives material ..from the Arctic,,
Central and South America, and
• the. Near East, wherever the
'University museum's archaeolo-
gists are working.
"In the Arctic this dating
process helps us learn more.
about the migratory habits of .
the ancient and. modern •Eski
moa," said Miss Ralph. "This is •
also the area which gives' us the
most trouble, .Eepause of the
frozen ground :t our men world
quite close to the. surface, Bones
and antlers they dila are often
contaminated by ground Wet r.
"Carbon is • only a nnal1. fr e-
.tion of the total element, of a
bone and is held in a loose mole-
cule easily replaced. The ground
water may contain dissolved
limestone. Unless all of this is
removed from the object, it will,
appear older than it is. Or the
water maY'eonarn-htuture
would suggest'a yOunger Me,"
Clrbori.' 14 .laboratory- played e;
an gnportent? part I ire thet uni-
versity museum's diggings at
Tikal, Guateinala, Here there
was dispute between the his-
torians and the astronomers.
They were trying to correlate
the Maya calendar with our •
own. Through counting the. Car-
bon 14 content in a temple beam,
Miss Ralph was able to say;
"This calculation is correct." '
An interesting task is yet to
come from the Near East where
university scientists are working
on a sunken Bronze Age ship off
• 'the coast of • Turkey. Word has
come back that the riggings are
still intact so it is hoped that
there will be enough to place the
age of this ship, writes Erma ,
Perry in The Christian Science
Monitor..
It costs about $150 to -date
an object. The material must be
treated first with acid to remove
inorganic carbon, if -limestone
has been washed in, When sodi-
um hydroxide, .clidOlvel humus/
or other intrusive particles.
After washing and drying., the
Material is," burned. Gasea, are
run through.A. ''long of
traios„Which";')Colleet
betheleC/tro negAtiveancTqadio. ,
active. The presence of • other
gases is then reduced to one part
per .million. This very pure car-,
bon dioXide then"put Mho::
proportional idoirriterj: and -7 t11.0:
amount oftarbOn 14 is reCOrdedi
Miss Ralph points out 'that
every, living substance has Car-.
lin it" Whichtis • in 4O'alaiibeq
ardo da Vinci, then aged
received a. visit front the eity'4.
magistrate, Francesco di Bartol„
011ie° del Gioconda. He Asked
Leonardo to paint a portrait of
his wife in an attempt to console
her for the loss of a little daugh-
ter.
The artist Was reluctant. Ile
did not paint portraits and he.
Was very Intsy But he changed'
his mind the moment's he saw
the magistrate's wife.
At the age of twenty-four, She
was the opposite of the slender
women with delicate features
end narrow shoulders, then so
much in vogue. Mona Lisa was.
a woman of full contours, Above
all, she had a most captivating
smile.
To fix the smile; he Staged an
unusual setting. In his etudhe
musicians played instruments
which he himself had made;
singers and clowns performed
while idona Lisa posed. The pos-
ing session lasted a year-then
de Vinci Was ready to begin
work.
A few years later, Francis I
of France bought the painting
from da. Vinci far 4,000 gold
crowns. But it was not merely a
portrait of the wife of a Floren-
tine magistrate that he bought,
Mona Lisa had become an ideal
imcge of beauty,
An Italian art historian wrote:
"At one and the same time,
gentle and perverse, cruel and
compassionate, gracious and fe-
line, she smiles."
Many people have attempted
to solve the mystery of the Mona
Lisa smile, • .Every da,y ,the
Louvre permit's artists' to. •espy`
the treasure, confident that a.,
perfect imitation is impossible.
Shortly after da Vinci's death,
the Florentine masters of his
school believed that -by unveil-
ing the Mona Lisa they would
rob her of her secret. So they
painted the magistrate's wife in
the nude.
Dozens of these pictures were
painted and sixteen are in exist-
ence to-day, but not even the
best-in a museum at Chantilly
-has succeeded in' revealing the
secret of the 'magnetism of da
Vinci's masterpiece.
The Marquis de Sade said of
her: "The Gioconda is the very
essence of femininity; she shows
reticence and spirit of eeduction,
devoted tenderness and avid
sensuality."
Whatever she has, Mona Lisa
Certainly impress es tourista..
When viewing, any other picture
in the Louvre they comment
freely. But when in. front of the
Mona Lisa they remain silent, in
awed admiration, .•
sltnes
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ISSUE 45 - 1960
the wife of a retired man-bus-
inessman or farmer-often finds
it difficult to get used to having
a man around the house all the
time. That used to be my trou-
ble too. Not that one really
objects-it's just hard to get
used to. On the farm when
Partner started chores I knew
he would be gone a couple of
hours. Out in the field he would
be away until the next meal.
Since we retired, although busy
most of the time, he is often in
and out of the house. That inter-
rupts my work as we stop and.,
talk, maybe just about the work
he is doing outside. It just means
that I accomplish less now than
I did on the farm. But how I
longed for those interruptions
when Partner was in hospital
just recently. At a time like that
you wonder why they ever
bothered you. Anyway I never
did share the sentiments of a
friend of mine whose husband
is reaching the age of retirement.
She ,-Says-"I'm dreading it. I'll
just go crazy with Jim around
the house every day. He has no
hobbies-I know he'll be bored
and miserable." Incidentally,
I'm going ,to phone my friend
arid SUggest she read the book..
I' have mentioned.
•. Well, we had an unexpected
pleasure yesterday-Sunday. We '
went to see the March Past of
the Girl Guides, South-East Tor-
onto Area, at Withrow Park, It
was the first time we had seen
'Daughter in her official capacity
as District Commissioner - and
we were proud of her. She join-
ed the Guides when she was
about twelve and her interest
has grown with ' the years.
Among the companies taking
part yesterday there was a small
group at the end of the parade
that brought a lump to
throat. . . a group of deformed
arid retarded children of various
agqs, most, of them in wheel
chairs. Dee'isays some of these
unfortunates are as keen on Girl
Guide activities as normally ac-
tive youngsters. Obviously cour-
age can sometimes be of the
spirit more than the flesh.
"Nature't works her own won- "
ders," says a professor. Yes, who
else .wontd have thought of -
griowing a fly swatter at the end
of a cow?
'So you're making up for
weekend. 'shall 1, wake yon
Monday morning?"
11
Purple No Longer
Only For-Big Shots
Purple is popular thi s fall.
Coats, suits, dresses - even
underwear - are-appearing in
this colour once reserved for the
Roman emperors.
Symhol of pomp and power,
this ,.irnperial colour has a long,'
history.
Fifteen centuries B.C. the
Phoenicians made purple dye.
They had discovered the secret
of a Mediterranean shellfish.
When its yellow juice was ex-
posed to the sun it changed
through all the colours of the
spectrum till it finally remained
a brilliant and unfading purple-.
But they had to crush so many
thousand shellfish for so little
dye that purple was only for
the rich and mighty.
The high priests in the tem-
ples of the Israelites wore pur-
ple robes and so did the Greek
generals. The Roman emperors,
Caesar and Augustus both de-
creed that none but the em-
peror might wear the purple.
Under Nero, the wearing and
even the sale of purple were
punishable by death.
In those earlier centuries there
were only two authentic shades
of royal purple - a dark bluish
shade, and the deep red. Tyrian
purple.
Today the world of fashion
has at its disposal a variety of
shades from the palest cyclamen
to the most vivid fuchsia.
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The corni iS 60 feet long and rises 1.6 36 feet in lielg.ht. Face of
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ruck; headlamp ssawlifids: starter motor litilt4
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Mire CadeliwOrk, flame atid' skin Of the ;tar ara
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Was there ever a nicer Indian
summer than this? Here we are
into Oct: with roses still in bloom,
to say nothing of petunias, snap-
dragons, salvia and other sum-
mer blooming annuals. Wonder-
ful weather for working outside
too, although in some ways it is
a hindrance. Flower beds need
to be dug up and bulbs Planted.
But who wants to pull up plants
by the roots while they are still
• in bloom? So, in company with
a lot of other home gardeners we
are letting nature take its course.
Not that I worry about "outside
work just now. I am still paint-
ing. I told you, didn't'I, it would
be like a serial story? I have
" got three rooms done, finished
the spare room Saturday. Now
I'M reedy to start on tl dein,'
With all the', bboks 't andi,:oapers
I've got,in itAthat's going to be
'quite a job. •'However, Partner
is always on hand to help-with
everything except the painting.
Shifting furniOre, cleaning floora
and Windows ailed putting rubber
feet on the stepladder so I don't
larealo• .my neck! Last week,
working, part-time in the house,
alst5 gave him a chance.to watch,
the World. Series. He-probably
would have done that anyway
but/ with indoor work to do he
-"Was able to make a virtue of
necessity.
My, how time goes when one
gets enthused with a job. I was
ten days overdue with my li-
brary books and didn't even
know it until I got a reminder
card, I took them back in a
hurry-and brought .out four
more. One in particular I find
most interesting. It is called
"The Nature of Retirement" by
Elon Moore, PhD. I .can
heartily recommend it to. all
thinking persons before, and
after, they reach the age of
retirement. It deals frankly with
the many problems that confront
people who, after working hard
all their lives, have finally,
reached the stage when they can
take life a little easier. Having
more or less passed the crisis of
adjustment ourselves we can
recognize the wisdom of the
advice given in this book-and
wish we had read it sooner. It
sort of explains us to ourselves.
Sometimes I have felt a little
guilty that we have been able
to settle down so happily in a
new environment. I felt it sav-
oured a little of disloyalty-to old
times and old friends. But ac.=
cording to this book it is the -
only sane approach; that the
older one gets the More it is
necessary to make new friends
and yet not forget the old. It
cites the case of a woman still
living at 98. By the time she
was 70 all the intimate friends
she had kn.rwn at 50 had passed
oh. So, at 80 she would have
been a very lonely person• had
she not made new and younger
friends. But she did, and they
helped her to maintain an inter-
est in the present and to main-
tain a cheerful and -uncomplain-
ing outlook on life. Her story
reminds ine of a cousin I visited
in England five yearA ago. She
was 86, living es a paying guest
in a home for the aged. It was
a beautiful piaci, with aecont,
modetiOn for about 20 guests.
My cousin's only complaint was
that she got so tired of living
with old people all the tinier I
knew that T also have readers
of this column who are itht
iWado iri4.erftil as these two elderly
O.- Is "Viitere welcome" still
eritisldered ot fit and Orbiter t'e-
s;tiotrse to *Thank 'ytiti?" '
A. 'Yes. . "Yifitlt.re welcome at
quite elf tight' are at'
ways Good. lir', Moore also points out that
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car being' 06464 by aWhee tohn. The a
neth tadlne; 7.5 liter 6 6 ,soyCe :fire f
itirgs :Frain German jet aircraft; engirie Magnet
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datiSteUtteict of unused aircraft rriaterialS:
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