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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-03-22, Page 2MUSSOLINI WEDS—Romano Mussolini, left, son of the late Italian dictator, places the wedding ring on his bride's finger. The bride, Maria Scicolone, 24, is sister of actress Sophia Loren, shown in first row right in white hat, BEADED BEAUTY— Ten- strand crystal and pastel bead- p4l, Cleopatra necklace, shower earrin:g§ and bracelets are -,Sliown -. in New York. Lincoln High, School in San Fran- cisco. Another Bay Side teacher agrees. "It really was never a problem. Only once did I have to speak to a girl— and that was because the boy sitting behind - her couldn't see the teacher." However, where botIffants •are big, they are sometimes ,seen as symptoms of other problems. "There is a correlation between extreme hairdos and low grades," says a Los Angeles teacher. "Some just want to excel at something." To hairdressers, who generally take a dim view of engineering such complex styles for young girls, the issue is also one of health. "It's a shame what they are' doing to their scalp," sighed a Chicago heauty-salon operator. "It can't breathe properly with this kind of hairdo." But such breathless conformity across the campus shows little sign of sag- ging. "We will always wear our' hair just like this," pledged Helen. Alceer, 13, of Ferndale, Mich. "Or at least until everybody else changes their style." From NEWSWEMK "Men have 'poorer sight than women," says a woman, optician. When they're choosing mates? Careless Talk Cost A Porton* Hatton Garden in London has become synonymous with dia- monds, Rut in addition to the bignh ly respectable and respected diamond merchants in Hatton Garden, there are some slightly less scrupulous people whose re- cords are not quite as sparkling as: the stones they handle— al- though their faces are every bit as hard. These people are the hangers- on of Hatton Garden, Few of them are dealers—they are lay- abouts — information hunters. And information—good, reliable information—is vital to the un- derworld. During the war they used to say that careless talk costs lives. Well, one piece of careless talk which floated over a cafe table one summer day in 1956 cost the insurance companies more than $300,000. A small-time mobster was sits ting in that cafe, near Hatton Garden, at. the time, And his ears flapped, when he heard that a big Holborn diamond firm sent a woman every Monday, unguard- ed, to collect diamonds from the Hatton Garden safe deposit, The following Monday he kept watch on the safe deposit build- ing. He saw the woman arrive in a chat ffenr-driven Rolls- Royce, ca,riaillik a small leather case. . She entered the building and. emerged a few minutes later, still carrying the case, got into the car and was driven off. Having verified the cafe con- versation, the mobster made con- tact with "The Boss." The Hatton Garden safe de- posit ; is a grey stone building hougiiig the world's greatest dia- mond.strongroom. The strong- room is in the basement, protect- ed by a six-foot iron door weigh- ing ten tons. Safe deposit boxes, which may contain at any one time as much as $15,000,000 in diamonds, line the ;walls which are built of 150 tons of reinforced concrete. And, of course, there are guards. Every Monday morning for six years Mrs. Alida Mullem, secre- tary to Mr. Moses Wijnberg, .a Holborn Viaduct diamond mer- chant, had, called at the strong- room to collect the weekend deposit. Since she was so well known, she was not always asked to sign the collection book. Once the mobster had inform- ed "The Boss," the movements of Mrs. Mullem were carefully watched for the next few weeks. When the pattern had been es- tablished, "The Boss" decided to act. On Monday, July 16th 1956, at 10.45 a.m., Mrs. Mullem arrived as usual at the safe deposit. She eollected several hundred cut stones, worth more than $300,000, from safe No. 401, Then she went into one of the five counting boxes to check the stones. She put them in a briefcase settees seems "My, but you, sir, are an in- quiaitive"onel" and then took the lift to street level. She walked out to her car in which chauffeur Frank Ralter Was waiting. The ear drove off. felluwing its usual route. Up Hatton Clanton and then right into St. Cross Street. Normally the or would then have turned right into Far- ringeon Road, left into Snow Hill and then right into Holborn Viaduct. But at the bottom of St. Cross. Street, it got held up by traffic —as it often did, As Mrs. iViul- tem sat holding the briefcase in the back of the ear, a man wear- ing stew overalls and a peaked cap raced round the front of the car, opened a rear door and grab- bed the case from her hands, writes Jack Spot in "Tit-Bits". He then ran off along Farring- don Road towards Clerkenwell Road The chauffeur left the car and rushed after, him—but just as was gaining on the man, he tripped and fell, The snatcher raced into Clerk- enwell Road and jumped into a waiting black Zodiac car. The car pulled away with a jerk, scraped the side of a passing trolley-bus, collided with another parked car, Later it screeched into a cut-dc- sac. Both men jumped out, the snatcher still carrying the brief- case, and disappeared into the crowd. Once again a stolen car was used. And once again "The Boss" had luck—and public apathy—on his side. Mr. V. R, Ball, who worked nearby, told the police after- wards: "The chauffeur was gain- ing on the man, and if he had had any help from the other people around he would have caught him." A description of the missing diamonds was sent to all air and seaports. Detectives from Gray's Inn Road police station and Fly- ing Squad officers made a series of raids in several parts of Lon- don. Dozens of shady places in the East and West End were visited. Mrs. Mullein and Mr. Baker were taken to Scotland Yard to study the "Rogues' Gallery" and the abandoned car was dusted for fingerprints. The stones, which. came from one of the biggest diamond firms in. London, had been cut in the firm's, High Wycombe factory and. were, to be made up into jewellery. Assessors off ered $30,000 reward for their recovery. In September the reward was raised to $45,000—but by that time the stones had been bought and sold many times on the Con- tinent. But this time not all the luck went "The Boss's" way. The po- lice had some, too. They made arrests and in November two men went down—one for seven years and one for three — for their part in the raid. Another man gof three years for receiving stolen property and stealing a car. But the master-. mind couldn't be touched, and the diamonds—sold for $200,000 —had vanished without a trace, This shows how dangerous it is to indulge in careless talk in cafes. Where big money is con- cerned,, experienced crooks can almost smell it. Q. Do you now of any way in which I can deal with some worn spots on an otherwise good rug? A. Try buying a package of dye the colour of the background on your rug, mixing this with enough hot water to form a thin paste, and applying to the worn spots with a small brush, This should help lets. Many a man has lost control of his car when his wife and son passed the driving test. If this column doesn't get into the paper it will be because the printers can't, understand my handwriting! Generally speak- ing my copy is typed — but not this time. You see my portable typewriter is at the "cleaners"— and so am I! In other words am occupying a much sought af- ter hospital bed which I have been waiting for since Christ- mas. That doesn't mean I am sick it is just that my doctor wants a few tests and- X-rays taken and so on — and appar- ently it can't be done effectively unless I am completely inactive --- and you all know how inactive a woman is likely to be in her own home. And so does my doc- tor. However, what I did for a couple of hours before I got here was just about equal to a week's work. Partner and I were just finishing a leisurely dinner — it was twelve-fifteen to be ex- act — when the telephone rang. This is part of the conversation that took place. "Is that Mrs. Clarke?" "Yes, speaking." "This is your local hospital calling. We have a bed for you now, Mrs. Clarke." "Oh, you have — and when do you wan tme in?" "We would like you here by three o'clock today!" "Holy smoke! Is that all the time you can give me?" "I'm afraid so. Do you want to come in or not, Mrs. Clarke?" "I don't want to come in but since my doctor thinks I should suppose I'll have to." And I did. I had a bath, packed a bag and by that time Partner had a cup of tea ready and wait- ing. Then he phoned for a taxi to be at the house by twenty to three and there was still no taxi. I phoned again. Yes, a cab had gone out but as it hadn't arrived another would be sent—it would be there in ten minutes. While 1 was waiting I phoned the hos- pital that I was ready but the taxi had got itself lost, I finally got here and I've been having a good time ever since, An elderly lady that I knew very well is on the same floor so she and her name came to visit us after sup- per. I say "us" because I am in a semi-private (:)0111. My,room- mate is a lively young girl a mother who has left two small children at home. Not ordy that hut she is of the speciet that one rarely meets with these days , a girl who neither "drinks nor smokest Lately I had aitnost carne to the conclusion the spe-, cies was practically extinct, It is a joy to find there are a few survivors. Well now, since we are on the subject of hospitalization I won- der haw Many people saw,the an- nouncement put in the papers last week by the Ontario Hospi- tal Corrimissidn that arrange- ments had been made so that in future Hospital Insurance would cover net only hospitalization lea also out-patient treatment see that is In specified cases, Whether a pettOn should be treated as an "in-patieitt" or an. "Out-Pa, tient"' would be at the'discretion of his or her doctor. Thank good. ness the. Commission has final, comae tip with a SUggestion that Should ease the hospital bed ' Shortage considerably. I ant quite sure there are many pad- pie occupying beds these days because only in that way could they be sure the cost of necessary treatment and diagnosis would be covered by Hospital Insur- anee. In fact, directly I saw, the announcement I thoughtthat lets me out — I won't need a hospital bed after all." My doc- tor thought otherwise, so here I am . . . and with 'all the corn-. forts of home — a telephone and radio beside-my bed -- the only thing I Object to is. the bed it- self. I think when I get home I'll put-my wits to. work and in- vent a bed that doesn't throw you down to the floor when you' wind up the head, Of course I have been in touch with Partner and the only thing he complains about is that he hasn't anyone to grumble at, at home, that Is, no one other than Taffy - dog and Ditto - cat. Way-Out Hair Style Wows The Teeners Hold the hair straight out, tease it With a comb until it gets frizzled, then comb some of the outside hair over this big mess of frizzled-up hair and set it in place with a cloud of hair spray. This creates the bouffant, a hair- do filched from eighteenth-cen- tury France, whose tortured var- iations — mushroom, flip, French twist, chemise, French roll, ar- tichoke, and bubble — began sprouting a few years back. In the adult world, which has moved on to the Cleopatra look, it's now a bite passé. But among U.S. teen- agers, bouffants are proliferating as fast as the toadstools they re- semble.. . „. . "This is so much of a craze that it's practically driving us crazy," reports Bertha Standfasi; Hollywood High School's dean of women. In, Chicago, goggle-eyed. teachers suspect that as many as 10 per cent of teen-age heads are bouffant-crowned. The souf- fle-like coiffure has risen -as precipitously in betrOit. "We have tenth graders who find.' it hard to get through the door- wayi"? mutters a, counselor at De;! troit's Mumford High School. Many New York salons, which Once seldom coiffed yotingsters,- now tease the locks of 25 to 30 a Week. The lad.,inevitably made the hair of many a parent stand on end, "I'm fed up with it," snapped Mrs. Judy Merck, mother of a 13-year-old Atlanta and. "She starts working on it when she gets hOrrie from school, rolls it up before she goes to bed, skips breakfast 'to cortila" some there, If it rains she has a heart tatk.'. But teen-agers toss their heads at such criticism, even suggest that their own. ,parents like bouffants fine. As Victoria Scrutort, 18, of Los Angeles, puts it: "they think it's very regal," Boys are ambivalent, "I don't mind thein if they're' riot too wild," says Jef Hartenfeld, 16, of Chicago. "By wild I mean' one "'that high and real gray," In isolated spots, of course, Many girls' have brushed' off the bouffant" 'Who' can, wear such a hairdo in our Wind and fog? asks the girls' dean at Abraham 1. -- 1115i wPehpiilles Le They arn Wow, children, before we be- gin the next lesson, I want you all to go to sleep," says the schoolteacher, The lights dim, MASS hypnotism ' gets to work and, satisfied that his pupils are all peacefully asleep, the teacher introduces his stibject. This may be common proee. clure in the school of the future as a result of the researches of a Soviet scientist, Professor Abram Syvadosheli. For twenty - six years he has, been studying the reactions of the human brain to external in-- fluences when its owner is sleeping, Hypnopedia . is his word for these studies, He finds 'that dur- ing sleep, children's memories • •can lie very greatly improved by suggestion and auto -niggestion. • Such influences can penetrate their heads, forming .a memory aptitude while they are fully asleep. Good results are also gained, says the 'Professor, when pupils are aroused for a brief period and then lulled back to sleep by long-playing records. Sleep time instruction causes the brain less fatigue, in his view, than when the, whole body is awake. By working on children's brains at night, teachers and par- ents may succeed, one day, in turning out much brighter chil- dren and so more useful citizens. Popular Song Hit Comes From Moscow Vacationing in Brussels last summer with his blond wife, Bet- ty, British bandleader Kenny Ball heard a catchy tune with in- sinuating, Slavic overtones which momentarily halted his holiday- making. He couldn't understand the Belgiun who announced the title, but.the melody pouring out of Ball's transistor radio ,an- nounced itself- as a song to re- member. Reaching for the' near est piece of paper — which just happened to be his airlines ticket — Ball jotted down the notes of the main theme. "A Hungarian goulash band was playin' it," ,Ball recalled the other day: "I .was gassed!" the aid of experts back ••'home in London, Ball found out . :thit the tune which had, caught 'fancy was none other than- "Moscow: Nights," a long=stand- ing popular song hit in the U.S.S.R. where it has always been treated as a dreamy ballad in slow,,, dance tempo. But this didn't bother' Ball at all. "I knew from the first it was a solid trail jazz number," he said. "Trad," as might be guessed, is British musical slang for tradi- tional, or in the New Orleans or Chicago style. Trumpeted Ball's specialty is that same kind' of jazz, and so he promptly record- ed the song In a'rousing Dixie- land arrangement. Under the title of "Midnight in Moscow," Ball's record on the Pye jazz label ,was listed, among Britain's tOpften hits last NoveMber and Deeember.'NoW it lookg, very 'much -as if 'this suc- *cess story will be repeated in the U.S, .Ball's original versian,. re- leased by Kapp, has sold ore. than 300,000 copies and jumped into the tope ten on the" trade popularity -charts. Before .long it is expected ta,clirrtb, up, ,a,m7 „, ong the top three. There are three Other different instrainen- tar -versions-{available (on the' London, Epic, 'and, United-Artists - labels) and Kapp has also rush- ed out a vocal rendition by Jul- ius La Rosa with 4merian:Made words bY"Oscar Brand ,and Paul' Nassau titled "You -Can't Keep, Ma Front Loving You." The publishers of "Yon Can't Keep Me From Loving You," Hollis want to shire, their royalties with the two Russians who wrote tho original "Moscow 'Nights" in 19511 'Vasiii Soloviev-t-,3ed,oi, who composed. the music, and N. "Matusovsky, the lyricist. So far, however, the, .firm has had na answer to its letter offering .paymen I, in return. for some kind of -reciprocal ag- reement covering the Amerieatt • popular music which is openly pirated by the Soviets and never paid foe. With the possible ex- eeption of Kbachaltiriatts "Sabre Dance" in 1948, no Soviet music has ever even threatened the 11.3, Hit Parade. The success of a jazzed--up "Moscow Ni'gh't, . may Make the Russians changer their. tune, Modern Etiquette fly Anne AshreI- Q. Does it really make, any difference whether one sits down fronr the right or the left side of the chair at the dinner table? A. No; whichever side offers the easier and' quicker access is the one for you. Q. Is there any way that one ran posibly rinse one's fingers at the table if no fingerbowl has been provided? A. It is permissible to tip the water glass against the corner of ,the napkin, and then wipe the fingers on this dprnp corner. • • ° ACCORDION' LOOK — Youtl and femininity keynote the pretty collection unveiled fat spring in Paris. "Lanterr skirt" fans from hip to kner with crisply pleated cerisi chiffon; 'has tucked .bodice, titArS OVER HEELS These ladies (from left to right), Edith rpec!ley, Jody Langley itind Bdirbdra orcutt, give the topty-furry k §yMriosium bcfri at the Morddti Park High 8chool, On way to keep fit WELL NAMED Ocean City, Md., is boths,.4 sea Water following the storm Which lashed the coast. Sortie 1,200 residenis Led t0# high Water Caused MilliOnS Of dollars' worth of damage.