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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-05-10, Page 6iuper Snoops in sunny Italy A red jeep loaded with riot police raced through the predawn streets Of Borne, Its tires scream, ed as it wheeled sharply up 'to 13ricktop's famous nightclub On the star-studded, scandal-hauri- ted Via Veneto. The jeep screech- ed to a halt, A. Man and Woman emerged from the club, 4rrn in arm, She wore a leopard-skin coat; he had a rumpled head of hair, Once again, the running story of Liz and Diokie was in high gear, And in. high gear, too, was the flamboyant, fast-moving band of news photographers known as the paparazzi, Before the ear- abinieri could jump from their jeeps, the paparazzi surged for- ward. Flashbulbs blazed from every angle, "Come on, let's get out of here fast," said Dickie to Liz, "Easy, easy now," said Liz to Dickie. They pressed toward Dickle's gray Cadillac, more flashes light- ing the, way, As the police kept the paparazzi at bay, the Caddy roared off through the sleepy streets, The car eased to a stop at Liz's place Except for the chauffeur, they thought they were alone. But as Liz and Dickie stepped from the car, they found com- pany. From the bushes, cameras flashing, leaped more of the peppy paparazzi. Everywhere, the press rang the Liz and Dickie and Eddie tri- angle. To news columns and gos- sip columns, this was The Affair, The big news — official word Liz and Eddie would part — didn't stop the news flood, Mopping up, New York report- ers noted that Eddie never really suspected that his marriage was on the rocks, ("He must have 'been getting his information from the CIA," said comic Dick Greg- ory,) And the day alter the split, reporters reported that Dickie left Liz's villa at 8.30 a.m, "after entering sometime earlier, unno- ticed by watching photograph- ers." When the paparazzi spotted him, Dickie dropped the Siamese eat he was carrying. Suzy, New York Mirror gossipist, promptly revealed that Dickie's male Si- amese had a thing about a fe- male cat of Liz's. Meanwhile, back at the set of "Cleopatra," a movie Liz and Dickie are making in Rome, the show went on: "The Unsinkable Liz Is All Biz as She Sails Into Orgy Scene," was the way The New York Daily News head- lined it. But one Italian news- paper broke into the set's biz. The paper said it wasn't Dickie at all that caused the breakup. It was Joseph L, Mankiewicz, director of "Cleopatra." Liz was in love with Marikiewicz. pickle was a cover-up. Mankieveicz par- ried the report: "The real truth is that I am in love with Burton and Miss Taylor is the cover-up for us," Eventually, the papers were reduced to guessing where Liz would go for the divorce — probably Las Vegas, site of the marriage three years ago. Everybody had a gasser, but no group got more fun out of the shenanigans than the paparazzi, the scanvengers named after a photographer, Paparazzo, in di- rector Federico Fillini's film "La ALLY'S SALLIES Modern Ftiquerrq By Mine AslileY Q. i's; it alisol'utelSe necessary arknDwIeWge• tile' reetiPt' of a Mini. announcement with some' ADO of gift for tile, tufty'' A. While 'a popular custom, itt I's not an obligatibm A. little note' of congratulatfore liepv,reewere. would'he- ih good' order if no gift' is sent, Q. If a man is standing on a crowded' bus near his fitincee,'',* who is seated, and the seet'next. to 'her is vacatedennay tproper- ly seat himself next to here or is he supposed to allow one of. the • standing women nearby ttn take- the seat? A, He should certainly allow a nearby woman to take the seat. Q. What rules do you think': girls should observe when,. at spectator sports with , boys? A. First, there's nothing cute about, the "what-are-they-doing- • now?" females at football or any other games, Learn about the • game before• you. go,. or pre- tend y o u understand while- youlte there. Pay attention to the game AND' your date, and let him watch the game, Don't. contihually take out your. com-• pact to, repair your nose or. stibk. Theneighbor,wholdiSlikes,gay.- deniiig . and acquired his green' thumbein a:careless painting job, thinks,the'frost shoud'stay.in the' ground' until'Aeiguse—at lLast. 0+.11,..b• HRONICLES NiNGERFAR14 emozerleeLtne D Clelziur. 111 li ' I I II 111111' I 1111' 011111 Ill14.1111 I t„ I I „,1 - •4, II 111 1 , I 71,1,1 10 „ II 1 '1"1111t 'Pt IL I IN 75711 III''' 1 1 • EVEN IN RUSSIA — Mody, a Leningrad fashion magazine, shows a sketch bearing a fa- cial resemblance to Jacqueline Kennedy. It highlights a puffy skirt arid ruffled bodice dress. And just' look at that, bouffant hai rdo • is it a good thing, or isn't iti• I am referring to .the number of families where the father is away from home so much — calling an clients all day and • getting 'home late at night, or working in a-different 'district entirely and lust getting- home weeler,encls e Ien,otice in such cases. Daddy makes a practice of bringing home something for the children each week-end., And I rather fancy, because he sees so little of the kiddies he is inclined to be a little- lax on discipline, Children are quick to, take advantage of such a situa- tion so it generally means that mother gets left with most of the training to do, Alter all a man must go where his work takes him and he naturally wants to make up for lost time with his children when he gels home. I mention it just because• it may not have occurred to, Daddy that in spoiling his, chil- dren over the week-end he is, making it more difficult for his wife during his absence. How- ever, there is one thing any young mother appreciates, and that is for Daddy to take the children off her haz,ds for awhile, Do I hear a chorus of approval? Well, we are almost to the end of Easter Sunday — and we had our Easter Bunnies — three of them. One full grown and two juniors having a grand old time on our back lawn. Now I'm going to watch the hockey — sixth game in the finals. Next morning. Well, we watched the hockey all right — and what a game it was! Leafs finally won in Chicago—shorter ice, white sweaters and all! Three cheers for the Leafs yes, and the Hawks too. It was a well fought series from be- ginning to end, But of course We are glad the Leafs Won, WHY TIIE IIOLE? Ottality paint brushes general- ly have a small round hole near the end of the handle so that the brush can be suspended in a Sol-, vent for 'aidabing Perposes, A brush should tot stand on its bristle tips because the bristles Will acquire a permanent bend which cannot be removeci,,, if there's no hole in your brush handles, you scan easily make one With a hand or eleLric Parents that never „Sean to tide soitie looms have 'children that slant doors: $A14b DoiN1 With summer just around the tomer, thil 11each sand of the. French Riviera is Screened to g ef if ClOblie Oteporirl fotr the' ninny holiday and vatation suribathert4 POlee Vita'," Faint devised the name, he said, because it made him "think of buzzing, darting, stinging insect," Some Roman pbotegraPhoM of whom, perhaps 40 specialize in. invading the privacy' of eelebri, ties-, resent being lumped with the paparazzi, "I am no papar- azzo," said Dmberto Spagna, 'a free-lance who sells his shots 'to weekly magazines and foreign press agencies for $5 to $300 each. "They are burns, and I am, a professional," Spagna, the pro- fessional, boastat "I was. the pho- tographer • who hid, under Filip pine Orsini's. bed for seven hours waiting for him to enter with. Belinda Lee, When I allot the picture he hit me over the head with a chair, but I got my cul- paccio," A culpaccio is a big scoop! e: ekeee -.4;04e PLAY YARD — Star attraction for egg rollers on the White House grounds was,Caroline Kennedy's, back yard, Her play area was fenced off but here two children get a , close-up view of play,house, swings, a slide which goes from' her tree house, ,and punching, bog. Hair Sprays ,-. Are They Dangerous? Nair sprays, which have be- come nearly as indispensable to. •well-groomed women as bobby pins, coat the hair wife a thin layer of resin, designed to make permanents m ore permanent. • 13t.a, three St, Louis physicians last month produced evidence that the handy sprays good for • the coiffure, may, be bad for the lungs, In the, current issue v,f the re- speeted New Hogland Journal of Medicine,'Des„ Jerome Fiance, and Herrnan Blumenthal of St, Loma Jewish Hospital report, an twelve eases, of Icing inflammation fn women\ who use hair spray, 'The inflam- illation, the physiciarrai berievee was caused by inhalatrop of spray particles, S h inflammation', they think, can be fatal. Nine of the women discussed, in the' article were treated by' Dr, Bergmann and his colleagues., All suffered from lung inflam-- mation„ and' some had coughs; and shortness of breath. "In near,. ly all cases, theinflammation appeared when' the women stop- ped using hair spray," Dr, Berg- mann sand. Besides. their own patients, the Louis investigators studied Pun g-tissue samples taken from three women whose cases were brought to Dr, Bergmann's at- tention by doctors outside St. Louis, These three women had all died with evidence of acute lung inflammation. Under the microscope, the tis- sue samples showed the kind of inflantenatorY damage patholo- gists usually find' in patients who have inhaled "foreign" irritating, material, Dr. Bergmann explain- ed. More important, the. investi-• gators also saw tiny granules in the diseased tissue which they.. believe were particles at the. resin , fixative from the. hair spray. The investigators tefused to say categorically. that hair' spray caused' tile three. deaths. One of the' women, for example, had a, heart conditions which might have. contributed' to' tier death;: in an- other case,. a complete medicai history was- unavailable Yet in, the third case,, a, 20-year-old' girl! who' had used hair• spray as 011tem as. fifteen times, a -d'ay, "the) pill- menet, changes see= to have' been . the . primary cause of death," the St. Louis .doetor.s.re ported, The findin gs. do not mean that everyone slintlid stop wipe' hair sprays. The sprays, Dr, Berge. Mann noted, are probably haz- ardous only for a relatively small: number of "susceptible" women. The doctor also pointed out that present laboratory tests are not accurate enough to prove cones' elusively that the Pextieles' served in the .dairraged lung, :Lis- sue were the hair-spray resins', "Nevertheless," said 13"r„ mann, •'.'the. fact that symptoms. disappeared when these, wortrefe • . stopped using hair' sprays per- snits us to make' astrong assump, don" The New II:agreed Jout'nalt sounded' its own warning. ire. ant editorial'; "This dangers' matst: taken: Mtn' aceourrt," Front ,NEWSWEDIC; Prefer 'Brandy Dogs' To Helicopters. The mountain folk 'o'f French Savoy prefer dogs - to' helicopters- as a means, of rescue. They' claim. that St. Bernardo are more effice Tent in rough weather. These famous rescue dogs — traditionally equipped with a small - barrel of brandy — are now making a comeback after having been in danger of becom- ing extinct. A Frenchman,. M. Charles Cle- ment,, and his wife, who' own five dogs, are opening' a breeding farm at Bourg St. Maurice, In the Savoy. This picturesque village is near Petit St. Bernard, and its now - abandoned monastery, one, of the passes across the main. chain . of the Alps, The monastery was once the, centre for these• massive dogs• which stand up to twenty-seven- and-a-half inches at the shoulder:. St. Bernards have' been kept by monks at the Hospice of St. Ber- nard in the Swiss Alps since the latter part of the seventeenth century. But over the years work for the dogs has been reduced by the building of new roads and railway tunnels. • Monks still keep, some St, Bee wards today. But there are only about 100 left in France and less than fifty in Switzerland. There are just two breeds of dogs whose task is saNkrig life — St. Bernardo and Newfoundland's., St. Bernard's,. a cc omp a ny ing monks, have saved hundreds of lives, partici/lei:1y w o rk m en trapped by snow or storm, St. Bernards are faithtful, gen- tle and highly intelligent, The original breed is extinct and the present breed was produced by, crossing Newfoundland with Py- renean sheepdog, • The Only training puppies need its to run with the older dogs ore patrol tours. They are difficult to rear, but it is untrue that they can be raised only Switzerland, There are a few breeders in America and elsewhere. St, Bernardo can be trained to become. good "nannies' — they will' look after children with great care and tenderness, Much of the St. Bernard's. res- cue work is legendary. People• in the French Savoy district talk of the famous "Barry." He once carried food and drink to eighty-five people overcome dur- ing storms,. hut he died in the snow leaking for his master SYMBOLIC OF THINGS TO COME? — "There's, something that doesn't love a wall," said the poet Robert Frost, and that "something" has toppled 90 feet of the Berlin "Walt of Shame," as it is called. Many in the free world hope the fall of the wall, above, will be symbolic of things to come. Obey, the traffic signs — they are placed there for YOUR SAFETY. Truth Slow To Overtake A Lie Like many another company, E.I. du Pont de Nemours has been dogged for years by a dam- aging rumor about one of its products, As usual, the canard was as indestructible as it was inaccurate, The fiction: "Teflon," a tough, nearly frictionless ,plas- tic used in a variety of indus- trial tasks, emits lethal fumes when heated. The rumor gained currency about the time du Pont started using Telfon as a non-stick lin- ing greaseless frying pans. The company introduced the pans in Europe, delayed selling them in the 'U.S. while three French lab- oratories, in separate scientific studies, checked out the story and found it baseless. Even so, the rumors and the frying pans hit the domestic market simul- taneously. Unlike most victims, du Pont chose to leap out of the frying pan. In a pamphlet it was distri- buting to customers and news- papers last month, the company outlined the history of the rumor and its' own dogged, fruitless efforts to scotch it. The story apparently started in the mid-1950s after du Pont warned that under extreme heat and .poor ventilation, Telfon fumes could produce mild efforts similar to symptoms of flu, The fiction spread mainly through military and industrial safety bulletins—usually with a grue- some little anecdote about a ma- chinist who allegedly died after smoking a cigarette contaminated with Telfon. In every case, du Pont got a retraction. As one case history shows, the retrac- tions never caught up with the rumors. An Air Fore., publication in Texas printed the rumor last May. It apologized a Month later, but the May story was picked up in the bulletin of an Air Force base in Michigan; the base's fire chief took the story to a fire chief's convention in Detroit; shortly thereafter, the British Columbia Fire Chiefs Association printed the report, and a doctor in Kitmat, B.C., wrote about it in a letter to the Canadian Medi- cal Association Journal. Wistfully, a du Pont official said recently that the pamphlet was issued in the beliee that "people are essentially fair, and when they know the facts, they will give Teflon fair play." John Zapp, du Pont toxicol- ogist, was less sanguine, "One company quite recently copied the story," Zapp wrote in the pamphlet, "and sent 137 copies of its version to locations in the United States, Canada and Mex- ico. And while this company states that each of these locations has since received a retraction, one can predict that the original will live longer than the retrac- tion." "For two dollars you calbe either tillining or exotic," Pessimist — woman who fears she can't park in a small space. Optimist man who figurel she Won't try. Good Friday, as everyone knows, was a beautiful day — and were the neighbours ever busy in their gardens! And so were the fire-reels. Three times in this district bonfires got out of control; three times fire sirens came screaming along the highwaY. Twice they turned down the road leading to our little subdivision and in a short while each fire was subdued, leaving only the charred ground. Thank goodness no buildings were involved — but there could have been an odd shack or two except for the prompt action of the fire department. What would we do without 'it? There is a lot of waste ground around here and of course it is infested with weeds, Naturally the owners get busy at the first opportunity, cutting, raking and burning, not realizing the ground is unusual- ly dry for this time of the year. Needless to say the fires created plenty of excitement for the children. Like everyone else we have been poking around in the gar- den, looking to see what trees and shrub$ have survived the winter. Actually they all look pretty healthy. The rabbits didn't get a chance to nibble at the roots as Partner had a tar- paper wrapping around e a c h shrub. Our biggest surprise was inside the house, not out. Our Christmas cactus, that was in full bloom at Christmas, is now blooming'again for Easter. I had that happen once before. Seems to me the cactus is a tempera- mental sort of plant and just blooms when it feels like it. More power to it anyway. Yes, a cactus blooming out of season is all right but oh dear, how much better it would be to see the bare trees coming into leaf. But, of course, you know hew it goes — late Easter, late spring, Well, there have been more arresting topics for conversation this last week than gardens and bare trees. The dissolution of Parliament for instance and the promise of a Federal election on June 18. One thing you can be sure of . . . this column will not indulge in one-sided politics. It is bad enough to think of two months' political propaganda, without adding to it. Anyway, Partner and I have never been biased to the extent of saying— "This is my party, right or wrong!" We think there is al- ways good and bad on either side. Naturally when it comes to a vote we have to,make a de- cision. And then if We lose our votes we don't immediately think the country is doomed to destruction, nor that former friends automatically become our enemies. This is still a free country so why shouldn't we admit that we don't all have to think Also last week there was plent y of excitement about N,H,L. Hockey especially about. those two unpredictable games in Chicago a n d Toronto. Everyone wants to know why the Leafs do so badly in Chica- go and play such a good game on home ice. Partner has an idea it is because Toronto ice is twenty feet longer, I say the Leafs never play well in white Sweaters! Anyway, by the time this column gets in the mail we may know who has won the eoveted Stanley Cup — and then the suspense will be Over. Another little Matter, of quite different nature, really has me Puzzled, -.4 purely on a dentestic basis. It to this, I often Wonder about the Unsettled lives of so than yourit married couples o 011 ,, „„41,ii, I P11, • I , • ..,. , 1'11 • 164ii% 1" 11114 t • . 0.: , 4,11t,„ I,. • , VILA ALL AND SI*ES 11Adbe the .Greeks have word for if but' WbUld i 1'7 0'011! -.';',;11? 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