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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-10-27, Page 7THE Nut, SPORTS COLUMN • 13ritish people aro ahnast Proverbi- ally sporting, traditionally addicted to the side of the underdog in sports con - teats. There's something fine and sin- cere about this, and it's doubtful that British sentiment ever reached a finer pitch than when ail. England's tennis worhl rooted with feverish acclaim for daroslov Drobny, a Czech oxiie,.to win the Wimbledon Challenge Cup the past summer. This was amazing, in view 6t the fact that Drobny was playing Ken RaseWell, a crafty, speedy and young Australian who had just knocked the last hope of the United States, Tony Trabert, out of the running. Not even could the Hollywood wizards of film have planned a final fade-out more dramatically — for a king, a princess, dukes and duchesses and masses of commoners screamed and applauded and actually wept with sheer joy as "Old Drob" at last attained the goal for which he began striving as a boy of 18 in 1938, Since then he has been in the finals twice and always in the quarter -finals or semi-finals. He played first as a Czech, then for a time as a man literally without a country as he fled the Communist regime which had swallowed his own country, a regime he found distasteful. Knowing all this, appreciating a background not un- touched with personal heroism, and scenting that, perhaps, it was now or never for this quiet man, his final victory in a long, bitterly -fought match was greeted by a most extraordinary scene of genuine tribute and congratulation. Here was a man who had overcome all the vicissitudes of fortune to become champion. Six times in nine years Drobny had reached the semi-finals at Wimbleton. And at this, his third final, be was champion at last. So, even though he had defeated a Britisher to achieve the goal at last, sporting England rose to give him a tremendous ovation. The self -exiled Czech, now a naturalized Egyptian but married to an Englishwoman and living in England, had everybody but the most loyal Australians on his side. Even the Duchess of Kent told him as she presented the glittering silver challenge cup that she had her thumbs crossed for him. All this, the think, rates as one of the finest sporting gestures of a year which has had a great many of them. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calved House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. Catvett DISTILLERS LIMITED AAOiERSTBURG, ONTARIO .. PLAIN HORSE SENSE .. By F. (BOB) VON PINS Our article on the confused thinking on Liberalism, Social- ism, Capitalism and Democracy, as manifested in a recent edi- torial in Saturday Night, appar- ently aroused considerable inter- est. Mrs. Winifred M. O'Rourke, Wexford, Ontario, writes: "I read with interest your syndi- cated column in which you take totask the writer of an editor- ial in a recent issue of Saturday Night, I think it is the first time that I have ever seen St. Thomas Aquinas referred to in a secular paper, and I congratu- late you on it. Mind you 1 won- der just how many people would know to whom you were referring." Angelic Doctor In a period of worldly think- ing, like the present, which concentrates all efforts on tech- nological, i.e. material progress, and which has banned all spirit - nal influences from our daily life, it is quite likely that a large number of people would never have hcard of Thomas d'Aquinas. Thomas was born over 700 years,, ago five miles north of the little Italian town Aquinum; hence the name d'Aquinas. Like all young men going to univer- sity in the middle ages, his edu- cation included philosophy and theology. He joined the Dom- inican Order and wrote a num- ber of books. Isis best known and universal work was the. Summa Theolo- gian in which he treats of all aspects of life, material as well as spiritual. The Summa forms the basis of all teaching of the Universal Church. Thomas wrote it within a Jew years, but was prevented from finishing it by an early death at the age of 49. He was canonized by the Church and is also known as the "angelic doctor." Social Justice A large part of the Summa is devoted to the defiinition of Justice and it is Were that he warned against secularization by the commercializing influen- ces of trade and finance. He dealt extensively with the natural right to property, dis- cussing the possibilities of com- mon property and private use, or private property with com- mon use. He came to the con- clusion that private property, limited by the demands of the common good, was the better solution. However, he pointed out that this was a question of expediency to avoid strife with- in society. St. Thomas was quite out- spoken in his condemnation of the profit motive unless direct- ed to an :intrinsic good as the maintenance` of a family or the improvement of society as a whole. The inclusion of the teachings of the angelic doctor in the cur- ricula urricula of our schools would cer- tainly go a long ways to make this a better world to live M. * * * This column welcomes Briti- cism, constructive or destruc- tive, and suggestions, wise or otherwise; it will endeavour tp answer any questions, Address mail to Bob Von Pills. Whitby, Ont. iV*PHONE — This now video phone being demonstrated by pretty Hope Ryden, Tots the talkers see each other on the television screen. The device was developed primarily for inter - Mice communication, How "Oklahoma" llecamle, A Hit There is a legend to: the effect that Oklahoma! narrowly; Mimi - ed eluding before coming into. New York, the implication. be- ing that its audiences didn't like it. On the contrary, it had en- thusiastic houses from the start. There is this much truth to the, legend When Oklahoma/ opened in New Haven the money to meet its production cost had not yet been fully, subscribed The remaining necessary funds were raised during its stay in Bos- ton. Just what is Oklahoma! Lewis Nichols calls it a folk opera. In its flavour and mood, possibly yes. One factor that serves to inte- grate the action of Oklahoma! that makes it seem "all of a piece," so to speak, is the han- dling of the lyrics and music, The score of Show Boat con- tains twenty musical numbers, all different — a feast of lovely tunes that punctuate the action without necessarily advancing it, It is almost too tuneful. The score of Oklahoma! comprises just twelve basic musical num- bers. But these twelve are not just — to use a fancy English adoption of a French word that doesn't exist — reprised. They are woven in and out of the story, sometimes under dialogue, sometimes quoted briefly, at others repeated in various guises (the -Dream Ballet is built out of sixof those numbers). AU in all, this treatment of words and music allows them to function almost as leading motives, giv- ing the story extraordinary unity and plausibility. From 'Some Enchanted Evenings," by Deems Taylor. All The Time in The World The most incredible clock of all times is now ticking away in Paris. It is not very big -39 inches high, 27 inches wide, and 15 inches deep. But it gives the time in every country, the days and months •of the year as well as the dates of Easter holidays. Besides this it indicates the movement of translation (what is known in astronomy as the lunation or synodical months), the effect of night and day on the globe, and the real. time (solar) and the mean time (which is given by our clocks) and also the times of the eclipses of the sunand the moon. Lastly, it is self-winding. T h e creator is F. J. Senac, who spent ten years in its con- struction. It is made entirely of rock crystal, and he alone knows the secret of its intri- cate workings. An artisan clockmaker, Senac declares that his art is a voca- tion, not a profession. "I was four years old when I started to take clocks and watches apart, The sight of a watch which did not work made me positively unhappy," he says. Really Fat ! While the radio blared its incessant bleating about over- weight, the chap sitting in the Elks Club hoped his mother-in- law might be listening. "She's so fat," he explained, "that whenever she falls down she rocks herself to sleep fry- ing to get up. When my father- in-law was courting her one night he thought he was really necking. But all the time he only had hold of her finger." "She was really that fat," eh?" "When she got married," he rambled on, "she weighed 300' pounds. It took her six brothers to give her away. I took her out one day to play golf, and what a problem! When we put the ball where she could hit it, she couldn't see it And when we put it where she could see it, she couldn't reach it to hit it. Shele even afraid of her sha- dow. She thinks a crowd is fol- lowing her." "She ought to reduce," we sug- gested, "Yeah," he agreed, "if s h e could only cut out the soldier food." "Soldier food?" "Yeah, everything she eats goes to the front. She asked her doctor for a diet and his main suggestion was to stop eating bread. 'Cut out bread,' she snarl - ad, 'how am I go4ti. soak up the gravy?' When she was seri- ously ill she turns "my fa- ther-in-law and sa`t, "'14f I die and I find out you're runnin' aroun' with other „women, Pll turn over in my grave.' He look- ed at her and said, 'Mollie, even then the exercise will do y011 hood,' n IF THE SHOE FITS . , . The occupants of this structure in a red- wood forest, give some living proof to the legend about the old woman who lived in a shoe. This shoe was made of a redwood log and carefully decorated by its occupants. These Girls Really Go After Their Man June 24th is the, shortest day of the year for feminine crown- ing glory in Brazil, for at dawn on that day Sao Joao girls cut their hair as short as their vanity will allow to make it grow lustrous and beautiful, and at night they put three red roses under their pillow so that they may dream of their future hus- band. • If they can't find three red roses, they write a selection of names on pieces of paper and put them, folded, in a bowl of water- They are sure to marry the one whose name is on the piece of paper which has open- ed most by morning. It is the season of Festas Joaninas, a time of revelry aI- most the match of the famous Carnival in Brazil. Parties go on all night, gay parties with dancing, bonfires and fireworks, lasting altogether nearly three weeks. The bonfires are in memory of the fire lit by St Isabel, mo- ther of Sao Joao, to signal his birth to her cousin the Virgin Mary. Coins are thrown into it and are collected afterwards for the poor. And couples leap over the bonfire to bless their marriage. As the night wears on it grows chilly and the merrymakers drink pinhao, a hot drink made from sugar -cane. But for all this, it is really the `season of the maidens, who in addition to the hair cutting and the red roses often go to great extremes to "get their man." They write his name on a piece of paper and put it under a statuette of Santo An- tonio, patron saint of marriage, If the man does not propose within three days, a girl may put the image itself in a coffee strainer at the foot of her bed or even down the well of her loved one — that is, if he has a well She can go on doing this at three-day intervals; then, as a last resort, she may take the boy Jesus from the statue's arms. Sao Joao is credited with hav- ing power over the future, and the season is accompanied by much fortune-telling and super- stitious rites. Spent Years Looking At Hole In Moon Astronomers are saying that 69 -year-old Roland Clarkson, who died not long ago in Suf- folk, achieved immortality for himself and his name because he spent all his spare time after dark gazing intently at the moon through a portable tele- scope on the lawn of his bun- galow home. For twenty-nine years he studied specially one of the moon's many craters, then known as Crater 2412. What he observed was so important to astronomical science that it is now renamed Clarkson Crater. "When the first landing party is completing its plans for reaching the moon, it will cer- tainly have to make a special note of the Clarkson Crater." one astronomer said. Since the seventeenth cen- tury, more than 600 men and women who have helped to in- crease mankind's knowledge of the moon have been immortal- ized by having craters, walled plains and mountains on the moon named after them. Some years ago their names were compiled in a unique Who's Who of the Moon. 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