HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-08-02, Page 6from correspondence on file at.
Beetiester bank, copying the
name and making the plate —
work that ordinarily would take.
several, days — had to be clone
in. 24 'hours. Utmost secrecy had
to be maintained so a serious
stock fluctuation "would not take.
place.
A Ford courier picked up the
signature plate — on schedule
ea and delivered. it to the proper
parties, in Toronto. Not one Todd
employee, who, by the nature, or
his job knew of the .tranaaetton„
let the information leak.
Mesdames Welfoad and Judd
take a good dealing of teasing
about their . jobs as 'forgers."'
But in their business, whi,:h
deals in honesty, especially the
protection of other people'a bank
accounts, the girl "counterfeit-
era" are understandably respec-
ted. TOYING WITH A HEART
Barbara Wicks eyes a plastic,
seesthrall9h
model of a heart at a NeW
York City toy show, A squeeze-
bulb pumps a red-colored li-
quid through the channels and
the chambers, OPEN AIR — Mrs, Clara Girard is shown at work in her
"open air" kitchen in Chicago. Kitchen was converted to
this type, when a baby tornado swept through the area,
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Girls po Forge ry
Quite Legally
Most, people who make a living
by copying other people's signa-
tures for cheques are police tar-
gets, and practically all of them
Are men. But in Tioeheater. N
are two pretty girls, Helmi Wol-
toed and •Carmella Judd, who
make a perfectly legal living out
of forgery.
The girls' jobs are identical
p:Ty131g. Agil4ttkrea. of httah1045
executives and government of-
ficiala .so. expertly that the Mates
can be used, in cheque-signing.
machines. Their employer is the
Todd Division of Burroughs cox,-
peratipll, Ws a leading designer
-and manufacturer of cheques,
forms, and machines for dis,
bursement protection in business
and banking,
The copying technique, routine
to the girl "forgers," is interest-
ing to watch, After studying. a
name, they write it in very black
ink, and with frightening accur-
acy, on a white card. They en-
large this signature three times
so minor blemishes can be elim-
inated, then reduce it to its or-
iginal size and make a printing
plate from it.
When, placed in. a cheque-sign-
ing machine, the plate can "sign"
thousands of cheques while the
person who owns the signature
can attend to other jobs.
To insure absolute protection
for clients, the girls work in a
cage — /literally. The only door
to their wire-mesh enclosed
studio is, locked, and no one can
get in without a special pass,
writes James N. Miller in the
Christian Science Monitor,
Just recently, when the Ford
Motor Company in Detroit
bought up Canadian Form stock,
several Todd offices could have
been the setting for Hitchcock.
thrillers, It all started with a
phone call from a top Ford ex-
ecutive. The deal was going
through — tomorrow.
Arrangements were made to
obtain the official's signature
Stealing Art
Is Big Business
The thieves climbed a fire,
escape, moved single file over a
narrow parapet, and scurried
across a network of flat roof-
tops. When they came to an in-
ncr patio at the C'Hane art gal-
lery in London's IVrayfair, they
dropped clown. 10 feet and within
minutes had jimmied a simple
lock on a glass-paneled door and.
walked in. Waiting for them
was the gallery's summer exhibi-
tion of French imprersicnist mid
.modern paintings. Their value:
More than a million dollars.
Ignoring heavy bronzes and
minor works, the 'thieves cut
some paintings from t h e i r
frames; they took others, frames
and all, There were 35 of them,
including some of the best of
Renoir, Braque, C6zanne, Picasso,
Utrillo, Toulouse-Lautrec, Sisley,
and Vuillard, The most valuable
was a, Vuillard ($840,000), Ali
were taken . back over the roof-
tops and down a fire escape to a
getaway truck.. When the theft
was discovered the next morn-
ing only one clue was left—the
imprint of a- rubber sole,
The robbery was the biggest
art theft in history and brought
an immediate reward offer
$56,000 from the firm that had
insured the paintings for $560,000,
It also brought the total value of
art treasures stolen in the U.S.,
Britain, and France during the
past twelve months to $7 million.
Surveying barren walls, the
gallery owner, Jacques 011ata„
62, Spanish-born British subject,
explained that the front entrance
had been strongly bolted. It was
SG much like "a little fortress,"
he said, that it had not been con-
sidered necessary to put strong
doors on the inner patio. For
those who enjoy collecting fa-
mous last words, he added: "I did
not imagine anyone could get in,
that way."
What Do You Know
About
SOUTHEAST ASIA?
CRAB MEAT MOLD
3 large packages cream sheese
la cup lemon juice
1 tsp, Worcestershire sauce
Tabasco sauce, red pepper to
taste
3 cans crab meat and juice
tsp.: onion juice
2 envelopes gelatin in 1/2 cup
cold water: dissolve in 1/2 cup
boiling water
2 tsp, salt
Stuffed olives
Soften cheese with a little
cream; add other ingredients
except crab meat. Beat thor-
oughly. Add crab meat. Line
mold with, stuffed olives. Pour
in crab meat mixture. Makes 2
ring molds. Serve with crackers,
*
CRAB MEAT IMPERIAL
1 green pepper, finely diced
2 pimientos, finely diced
1 tbsp, mustard
1 tsp. salt
• tsp, white pepper
2 whole eggs
1 cup mayonnaise
3 lbs. lump crab meat
Mix pepper and pimientos, add
mustard, salt, white pepper, eggs,
and mayonnaise. Add crab meat,
mixing lightly so lumps are not
broken. Divide mixture into eight
crab shells or casseroles, heaping
it in lightly. Top with little coat-
ing of mayonnaise and sprinkle
with paprika. Bake at 350° F.
for 15 minutes. Serve hot or cold.
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OUTDOOR HAMBURGERS
1 lb. ground beef
1 egg, lightly beaten
nA tsp. salt
aa tsp. garlic salt
1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
Vs tsp. pepper
Prepared. mustard
Chopped onion
Small cubes of cheese
yet anethea kind.
Voices begin to pierce through
the Wall of sound, the voices of
street criers, hawkers and ven-
dors who are, in the nature of
of troubadours bringing us the
poetry of Egypt that has aur-
ViVed the fiercest onslaughts of
every kind, of destructive devices
of modern life,
My first awareness of this po-
etry came to me through the
deafening roar of trafic in Qser
el Nile Street, one of the busiest
thoroughfares in the heart of the
city, A plaintive, tremulous voice
crying "Laym000n, laympooen
," lingering en the second syla
lable and the rest of the sentence
was lost in the general cacophony
of klaxon; bells, wheels, and
shouts, The owner of the voice, a
frail old man in an off-white
gellabiah stood on the curb on
the opposite side of the street,
carrying a basketful of bright
yellow lemons the size of eggs.
With his head raiaed, as though
he were imploring the heavens
to witness the quality of his
lemons, he sent his cry floating
over the deafening din of the
flow of traffic ("lemons, oh lem-
ons, God make them easy to
sell").
My lemon man reconciled me
with the chaotic noise of the
city by opening in it a door
through which. I glimpsed the
poetry of eternal Egypt. I went
around with ears strained to
catch the street criers' voices,
slender threads linking the
present with the past.
"Oh, my sugar cane, it has no
spots, see it is like the cheek of
a beautiful girl, oh my sugar
cane" cries the seller of pale
green or mauvish sugar cane
while the banana merchant
knows full well - that the com-
plexion of a good banana is far.
from flawless. "The father of the
spots, the father of the spots" he
calls, offering the succulent fruit
whose skin is mottled with small
brown spots, The fruit of the
vanilla is compared with a beau-
tiful maiden and the vendor's
cry is addressed to the boys; "the
vanilla, cheek of a beautiful girl
. . . awake, oh boys, take your
pennies and come to me, come
buy this beautiful girl's cheek."
It took me a long time to dis-
cover why the man who sells
tomatoes cries "Tomatoes, buy
my crazy tomatoes" and I was
given the choice of two explana-
tions, The tamato is so red, so
round, so beautiful that it might
well drive one crazy with plea-
sure or again, the price of toma-
toes fluctuates so unpredictably
that this might drive one to dis-
traction.
The rag and bone man's cry is
a litany: "I buy old clothes," he
chants, "I buy old iron, I buy old
brass, I buy old books, old shoes"
and then, summing up in an ear-
splitting cry "I buy all old
things."
"The best, the most excellent
onions come from the seaside,"
while "my 'radishes are fresh
from the islands," cry the vege-
table merchants in the market.
Okra, known here as ladies'
fingers — "buy my ladies fing-
ers, so slender, so delicate, oh
my ladies' fingers." The guaVa.
is "like the cream of the milk"
and the roasted sweet potato
"roasted in the oven is as sweet
as honey."
The traffic rushes and crashes
and roars and screeches, but
nothing can drown the cries of
the Cairo streets "oh, oranges,
of honey"; "oh barbary figs,
sweeter than grapes" — "God
make them easy to sell."
Cars, buses, lorries, trams, taxis,
tumbrels, horse- and donkey-
drawn carts tear along the streets
and avenues at hair-raising
speed and in such an apparent
state of confusion that it is amaz-
ing any vehicle is left intact,
In these circumstances there
is only one way to avoid knock-
ing down pedestrians like so
many akittles and that is for the
drivers of vehicles to keep one
hand firmly clamped on the
klaxon, This sends dawdlers and
jaywalkers scuttling like fright-
ened chickens in all directions
and clears the way for the on-
rushing traffic.
Bicycle bells, the shouts of cart
drivers and the clatter of wheels
and hoofs complete this gigantic
orchestra whose daily perform-
ances begin shortly after dawn
and end after midnight, with a
pause in the afternoon for the
siesta.
Egyptians are great lovers of
music and there is hardly a
shop, stall or restaurant — es-
pecially in the popular districts
— that is not equipped with a
radio and sound amplifier.
Being exceedingly generous by
,nature, no Egyptian would think
of enjoying the music provided
by his radio set without sharing
it with as many neighbors as
possible. He therefore turns it
on at full volume to make sure
that all may enjoy it over and in
spite of all the other sounds
coming from neighboring radios
and, of course, from the traffic,
writes Irene Beeson in the Chris-
tian Science Monitor.
At first one is simply over-
whelmed by the sheer weight of
the noise which seems to be all
of one piece, like a blanket of
fog or the pitch dark of night
when one emerges from a lighted
place, After a time when one's
ear has grown somewhat accus-
tomed to the brouhaha one be-
gins to perceive that there is a
scale of sounds with an infinite
variety of notes. Through the
roar and massive wave of sound
produced by large vehicles one
distinguishes the note of the
tumbrel wheels from those of
smaller , cars, the jingle of a
horse's harness from the bells of
bicycles or carriages or of the lic-
orice man's cymbals which also
haye a bell-like quality but of
Ancient Customs
In Modern Egypt
In. Egypt, the superlative apt
plies to a great many things,
The monuments, of its past civ-
ilizations -- the oldest in the,
world ,— are not merely big, not
even Mtge, but gigantic,
The Nile, the most wonderful
Of rivers because it alone, with
out the help of rainfall, givee
Egypt to the world, is also one
of the longest.
Egyptian landscapes are veal,
stretching, from horizon to hor-
izon, unbroken by hills and
Mountains so that they call to
mind words like infinity or etera
nity. The deserts of Egypt axe.
vast too, engulfing practically
the whole country, leaving only a
narrow strip free from, its burn-
ing embrace.
The sky over Egypt, seldom en-
cumbered with cloud, offers a
wider expanse of clear blue than
in most countries, increasing the
impression of immensity.
This munificence,. this largess
is found too, in the Egyptian
people, in their unbounded gen-
erosity and hospitality, in their
gaiety and the Sit de vivre, in
the way they express themselves,
When two. Egyptians greet
each other they do not merely
shake hands and pass the time
of day by inquiring after each
Other's health and that of their
families. Greetings, no matter
how often they occur in the
course of a day or how brief the
Meeting, are elaborate, even
grandiose,
Abdel Mawgud may have met
Abdermrahman only yesterday,
they may work in the same of-
fice and see each other every
day, but when they meet, in the
office or in the street, an on-
looker — especially a Westerner
— would be convinced that they
were long lost friends reunited
after months or years of separa-
tion. "Peace be with you, wel-
come, welcome, a thousand wel-
tomes" they both exclaim warm-
clasping hands and shaking
em enthusiastically, This open-
ing greeting is followed by in-
quiries concerning each other's
health and well-being, mutual
congratulations and further ex-
pressions of welcome. When they
part, even after a brief conver-
ration that may have lasted only
three or four minutes, the leave-
taking formula is just as warm
find elaborate, In any other part
of the world one would be con-
vinced that the two friends were
parting for a very long time.
Walking in the countryside
with a friend recently I was sur-
prised to find that all the people
who greeted us on our way
through the fields used quite a
song formula, of which I did not
understand the words. I was en-
ehanted when my friend trans-
lated them for, to our brief
"good evening" these simple pea-
sants, returning from a day's
toil in the fields, replied; "You
have brightened the fields with
your charm" or "You are wel-
tome and have made the fields
lighter by passing through them."
In a country where every-
thing, whether it is built by na-
ture or man is on a vast, gener-
ous scale, it is only logical that
noise should be in proportion to
the rest of the scene.
This is certainly the case in
cairn where the amount and dif-
ferent kinds of noise surpass
anything one can imagine.
The main source of noise in
gypt's capital is the traffic,
Tips Or Gifts
It's Still Money
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ISSUE 31 — 1962
A salad loaf is always both
good and decorative for a buf-
fet, Here is one using either
chicken or turkey. Slice it as
you serve it.
SALAD ▪ LOAF
1/4 cup vinegar
cup salad oil
4 teaspoon salt
Pepper and paprika
3 cups chopped cooked turkey
or chicken
2 tablespoons unflavored
gelatin
ai cup cold water
21/4 cups hot clear broth
2 hard-cooked eggs, sliced
1/2 cup cooked or canned peas
6 stuffed olives, sliced
1 teaspoon onion juice
la cup finely chopped celery
Mix first 5 ingredients and
pour over turkey. Let stand in
refrigerator 1-2 hours, stirring
occasionally. Sprinkle gelatin
on cold water and soak a few
minutes, Dissolve soaked gelatin
in hot broth. Add salt and cool
until slightly thickened. Make a
design of sliced eggs, peas, and
olives on bottom of salad mold
and cover with a thin layer of
the thickened broth mixture.
Chill until firm, Mix onion juice,
celery, and drained turkey or
chicken with remaining thicken-
ed broth, Carefully pour this
mixture into the mold and chill
until firm. Unmold on crisp let-
tuce Serves 6.
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Potato salad is popular for
picnics, and here's a variation
you may like.
POTATO SALAD
3 cups cold potatoes, cut in
cubes
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
3e, cup chopped celery
3's tabelspoon chopped onion
6 radishes or 2 pimientos,
chopped
Mayonnaise
Mix potatoes, salt, celery,
onion, and radishes (or pimiento)
and parsley. Add enough mayon-
naise to misten. Place in the
refrigerator to absorb some of
the dressing and to chill, Arrange
on lettuce leaves to serve; top
with more mayonnaise,
4, *
Its "cawn puddin" time in
Dixie! When summer steals laz-
ily over that land of plantations,
the aromas from the kitchen be-
come even more tantalizing.
Cooking in the Deep South is
considered a fine art, but we are
often accused of living in the
past. Culinarily speaking, this is
an understatement; grandmoth-
er's and great-grandmother's re-
cipes are used for every occasion,
In. some places it is considered
distinctive to speak with a Sou-
thern accent, and it is always a
mark of distinction to cook with
a Southern accent. Today's re-
cipes have been tried and tested
in the kitchens of Jackson's most
prominent matrons and career
women, writes Madora Hall
Sharp in the Christian Science
Monitor. There are also recipes
from restaurants, such aa.the Old
Southern Tea Room in Vicks-
burg, Allison's Wells at Way,
Miss., and recipes Obtained from
fine New Orleans cooks,
4' 4," *
AUNT"ELvittik,S "CAWN
rtnfaig"
1 No. 2 can cream-style corn
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tetiono. salt
3 tablespoons butter, Melted ,
6 eggs well beaten
3 cups intik
teblessiedit eistristekch
t tableSPOon cold water
Combine torn,, sugar; salt, but-
ter; eggs, and milk. DiatttIee
cornstarch in Water and stit into
corn thatture. 'Pour into a gteasa
ed shallow 2-quart baking dish.
Bake at atitl° about S hour or
until the custard is firtn.
I to S iotittiehl:
In a familiar ritual, the groom
slips the gold band on the bride's
finger, the couple hurries hap-
pily back up the aisle, and the
best man slips the minister a
white envelope. Last month, this
old custom of handing over gra-
tuities to clergymen for con-
ducting weddings — as well as
funerals and baptiams—was un-
der fire in the official weekly of
the United Lutheran Church in.
America. "No matter what you
call them," the Rev, Dr, Edgar
S. Brown Jr. writes, "they are
tipe." Payment for such services,.
says Dr. Brown, fosters the im-
pression that the services are
"commodities that can be pur-
chased just as one buys furniture
and clothes."
Not all ministers (who must
pay taxes on the honorariums)
wholeheartedly agree with Dr.
Brown: "The notion that the fee
is a tip is unfortunate phraseol-
ogy," says the Rev, Richard W,
Cain, superintendent of the Loa
Angeles Methodist Chili-tiles.
"Maybe it betrays a sense of
guilt on the part of the minister
involved." Dr. Jesse ft War-
wick, associate pastor at St.
11Ierkat Methodist Church in At-
lanta, says the voluntary
buttons "always Manage to vend
Up' with the tiiiitiaters' 'wives."
A loftier view' Conies front. New
thgland. "I find rid fault With
these contributions and. certainly
don't think that they, are tips,"
SAYS' the Rey. Paul Wa Brater,
Pastor of tai elargeat Lutheran
church in Boston. "They are tae-
vial gifts to Goda'
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TABLE TALKS
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MILES
0 100
Sweet pickle relish
Melted butter
Mix beef, egg, salt, garlic salt,
Worcestershire sauce and pepper
together lightly, Divide mixture
into halves. Draw a 9-inch circle
on a piece of waxed paper (a
cake pan is a good guide) and
pat , half of the mixture out
lightly to fit the circle. Do not
press hard. The circule of meat
will be about 1/4 inch thick.
Leave a 1-inch margin around
the edge of the circle for sealing
and spread half the patty with
prepared mustard. Then sprinkle
with a little chopped onion, some
cubes of cheese and spread with
relish. Lift up the waxed paper
at the opposite side of the patty
and fold the meat over like a
turnover. Pull off waxed paper
and seal by pressing around the
edge. Repeat with second half of
meat mixture. Brush both sides
of patties with melted butter. Put
in vVire toaster basket. Broil
slowly over coals. Serve with
toasted buns if desired, (Serves
2.) * *
CHOCOLATE ICE BOX CAKE
7 blocks unsweetened chocolate
8 tbsp. water
9 tbsp. sugar
Pinch of•salt
6 eggs
Ladyfingers
Macaroons
Melt chocolate, water, sugar,
salt over hot water, Add yolks
of 6 eggs, one at a time, beating
well between each, Fold in the
6 stiffly beaten egg whites. Line
ring mold with ladyfingers;
sprinkle crumbled macaroons on
bottom ot mold; fill with choc-
olate mixture. Serve with whip-
ped cream,
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if it's less than one
car length for every
NO miles per hour