Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-08-01, Page 7WEDDING DAY — Cleveland Indian's pitcher Herb Scoreand his bride, the former Nancy McNamara, smile after their mar- riage. The southpaw's right eye showed no signs of the injury he received when he was hit by a line drive in a game with the Yankees. Secret of The Fabulous Lady Decker "I haven't a million," claims Lady Docker, "I never have had a million!" Once, when asked bow much money she had, she confessed, "About £150,000—and that's better than a slap in the face with a wet fish." Of course, nobody is particu- larly interested in the precise sum lovely Norah Docker is worth. The world is content to have her just as she is -ecstati- cally demonstrating how to play marbles slapping faces at Monte Carlo and always fabulously blending caviare and contro- versy, It is common knowledge, how- ever that her first husband left £177,500 and that her second husband left £955,000. Death duties depleted these fortunes, but they may have been re- trieved since then by shrewd. investments. Twice widowed, Norah Docker has known heartbreak as well as happiness. She also has known what it is to toil in a shop, sel- ling hats, for fifty shillings a week. Maybe that is the secret of her vivid appeal. Even before she had money, she was afraid of nobody and nothing. Now that she has cash, her unconventional fun daunts the acid brigade. There was that wonderful oc- casion when Lady Docker visited a coal mine and afterwards told the miners, "Now you must come to see me!" Sure enough, thirty - three Cloth- capped straight - talking colliery workers were duly ush- ered aboard Sir Bernard Dock- er's luxury yacht Shemara, the largest British private yacht registered at Lloyd's. "It's a simple ship, really," Norah Docker explained, as she showed her guests around the opulent staterooms, the seven tiled bathrooms and the deep - carpeted lounge with its huge, open fireplace. She knew they would thoroughlyy enjoy this private peek. Liberally they feasted on sal- mon and lobster, cold roast pheasant, three saddles of lamb, A baron of beef, game pie, chick- en and duck. The English Chan- nel was afterwards littered with scores of empty champagne bot- tles. Perhaps the highlight of the Occasion was the delightful spec- tacle of Lady Docker herself, in bell-bottom slacks, dancing a hornpipe while the guests roared applause and Sir Bernard beam- ed bland approval. She made a host of friends, also, when she answered the chal- lenge issued . by the girls of a Yorkshire factory's marble team. Wearing a glamorous gown of peacock blue for the "reet do," Norah showed unexpected abil- ity _to bil-ity-to win a decisive nineteen points to twelve, and became un- official women's marble cham- pion of the world. One can have nothing but ad- miration for the way Lady Doc- ker rallied to her husband's cause during the B.S.A. contrb- versy. She autographed more than ten thousand photographs of herself to accompany letters she sent to stockholders. The fabulous Norah gained immense popularity but shock- ed the snobs by signing auto- graph -books at the Royal Ascot race meeting. "If it gives a little happiness," she said defiantly, "I don't care what some people think." And she startled millions of viewers when she appeared on the tele- vision screen wearing jewellery that looked like a queen's ran- som. "What do you think?" she bubbled. "It cost only £3, 4s. 3d." Lady Docker believes that a woman's first duty is to be a woman, and look as glamorous as she can afford to. Most people find her gaiety quite infectious, and she makes it very evident that she thor- oughly enjoys being a Cinder- ella of real life. To understand Norah Docker you have to remember that her fatar died when she was only sixteen, and that she and her mother faced a bitter struggle to keep things going. They had to move from their big house at Edgbaston, and young Norah Turner helped her mother run a small hotel. Hard times continued and Norah thought they could do better in London. It was during the dance -mad 'twenties, and Norah fancied her chances as a professional dance teacher. She spent far more than she could afford on a course of lessons with Santos Casani. "Norah was my best dancer," he recalled. His ambitious • pupil, however, soon discovered that there were far too many dance teachers and too few' pupils, Living with her mother in a tiny flat in Bayswater, Norah knew what it was to be uncom- fortably poor. She took a job in a big department • store, selling hats, with a sales commission of a penny in the pound. She was told there was a store rule that girls of the staff should wear brown. dresses. De- termined to look smart, Norah splurge 1 on a brown satin frock — only to discover that store dresses had to be of brown cot- ton or wool. "You will have to go unless you fellow ;the rules," Norah was reminded. I've gone!" she retorted. For a time she worked in a little gown shop in Birming' lm, and. maybe she was just one of many girls, dreaming that one daythey might marry million- aires. Norah didn't marry a million- aire. She, was twenty-eight when, at a party, she met Clem Callingham, a director of a. wine firm. The couple fell deeply in love, and soon were married. Theirmarriage lasted for sev- en years, affording perfect hap- piness, and they had a son, Lance. During the war Norah drove an ambulance, but apart from that her only interests in life were her husband and her son .r Norah was stunned with deep grief when. Clem died. But he had told her: "If anything hap- pens to me, you should realer - He had introduced her to Sir William Collins, who had lost his own wife only two years before. The widow and the wi- dower found companionship, in their mutual grief, and they were married; but the union of these two lonely people was to prove tragically brief, for Sir William died a year later. The gay Lady Docker remem- bers how, in those days, she used to cry herself to sleep. Her life entirely changed once more, however, when she met Sir Ber- nard at a charity dance. The Collins money had come from jam, pickles, tobacco, a department store and other in- vestments. Bernard had inheri- ted an estimated £3,000,000 from his father, chief of a railway car company; and he had mar- ried a film actress, but divorced her in 1934. Thus Norah had not always been rich and Bernard had not always been happy. Norah knew that Bernard was the man for her when she saw him come home one day from a shooting expedition, with his arm affectionately round her sons' shoulder. It was the boy himself who asked them whe- ther they wanted to marry. To -day young Lance is the fo- cus of the family. Lady Docker 'Is not ashamed to live the full life that is every woman's sec- ret dream. And Sir Bernard in- dulgently shares the fun with the air of a man who knows deep, inward tranquility. One For The Book Authors pften conceal a "story" in their book dedications. For, as Robert Louis Stevenson said, every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of the person who writes it. And on this the public is but a generous patron who pays the postage. Perhaps the luckiest author ever, through his choice of dedi- cation, was Joao de Barros, a sixteenth - century Portuguese historian. In dedicating a book to his royal master, King Joao III, he received as his reward the entire province of Maranhao, part of Brazil. Thus, through a stroke of the pen, he acquired lordship over a territory 177,000 square miles in extent, approxi- mately the size of France. Not even the richest -paid authors of modern times, like Ernest Hemingway or Somerset Maugham, have even got within shouting distance of earning a kingdom for a book, much less for a dedication! WINNER AND: LOSER—Mrs. Jackie Pung (left) sits with her head in her hand as she watches Betsy Rawls receive the trophy after the final round of the Women's National Open Golf. Touranment at Mamaroneck,' N.Y. Mrs. Pung •ter ,. �. • CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING PERSONAL air AGENTS WANTED BE YOUR OWN BOSS! ' MEN or women, can workyour own hours, and make' profits up to 500% selling exclusive houseware products and appliances. elo competition, not available in stores, and they are -a necessity in every home. Write at once for freecolour catalogue, show- ing retail prices plus confidential wholesale price list. Murray Sales, 3822 St, Lawrence Blvd„ •Montreal. ARTICLES ;FOR SALE SALE Fencing games, safe,,' different and exclusive $1.98, Soccer. Football games $2.98. Helicopter, flies up to 60 feet $2.98. Small compact Portable im- mersion heater with case $1.98. Post- . paid. Guaranteed, Romeo Sales. 5135 Bellechasse, Montreal. BABY CHICKS ORDER ahead for your broilers. Or for Ames 'In -Cross. Have wide choice started chicks, prompt, shipment. Bray Hatchery, 120 John N„ Hamilton. ' IT'S not too late to order your 1957 Chicks and Turkey Poults and it's not too early to order your Chicks and Turkey Poults for 1958. We hatch every week in the year and hatch only top quality chicks, for eggs or meat. Catalogue. - TWEDDLE CHICI{ HATCHERIES LTD, FERGUS - - ONTARIO BOOKS PLUME Annual, 1957, -Illustrated. Big- ger and Better. 70 pages. Exhibition Poultry, Wild Birds. $1 Postpaid. Plume, Iroquois, Ontario. FARM. MACHINERY FOR SALE NEW Mildmay Threshers, used thresh- ers, grain throwers. Patent straw cut- ters and shredders, fits all makes- of threshers, your grain and straw put in the barn at less cost, 85 years of pro- duction. Get our prices and terms de• livered anywhere in Ontario. Lobsinger Bros., Mildmay GRAIN AUGERS Save labour with a 4 -inch SUPER SCOOPER. Basic length 11 ft. with 5 -ft. 10 -ft. extensions to make 16 ft, or 21 ft, or longer. For further information write., or phone Lorne A. Downham, Box 166, Woodstock, Ont. Phone Lennox 7-6773. FOR SALE GENERAL Store for sale, $15,000. South- ern Ontario Village. Brick. Corner Lot. Business in operation. Owner retiring. Terms. Box 161, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, Ont. SACRIFICING complete business, home, ear trailer. Retail stock, furniture. No special training needed. One or more families could make good living on spare time. No competition, Prices ridi. culously slashed. Going to coast must sell by September. Write or phone, Alvin Keen, 58 Nelson Street, Barrie, Ontario. r. CAVE MAN —George Kendall stores some records in a file 205 feet beneath the ground in a former limestone mine at Butroom, Pa. The atomic -age record room has been made for storing records of the Westing- house Electric Corp. Kendall and three other workers care for some 105,000 file boxes. EASY ANSWER A man browsing in apet shop was asked by an attractive young clerk if she could assist him. "Well," the customer replied, "I'm thinking of getting a pet for a client of mine. He is a semi -invalid; can't go out. Man about 60; very wealthy; nice chap. He has no relatives — so the idea of a pet came to ,me." • The girl considered — then brightening, said, "I think I have just the thing;" , "Good!" said the man. "What kind of pet do you suggest?" Replied the young lady: "Me!" "A little over -weight, dear?" inquired Mr. Henpeck of his wife as she stepped off the ma- chine, "No," she replied, "it's just that according to this chart I should be six inches taller, MERRY MENAGERIE - "Look, dear -I've had a per- =anent:" FOR SALE MODERN GENERAL STORE and home. Thrifty business, paved highway, Hydro, telephone, Bus Services, School, Down Payment $4,000. Sacrificing owing to health condition. Apply E. Buckley, Redbridge, Ontario, GOATS PUREBRED SAAEN GOATS import. ed sire. - JOHNSTON BROS., R.R.2,. MITCIHELL, ONT. MECHANICAL PARTS, REPAIRS MOTALOY RING AND VALVE JOB While you drive for only $8.00. For cars — trucks — tractors, etc. Un- conditionally guaranteed. Effective for life of car. Motaloy saves you money. Motaloy Sales Co., 34 West Street, Goderlch, Ontario. Dealer inquiries Invited.' MEDICAL PROVEN REMEDY — EVERY SUFFERER OF RHEUMATIC PAINS OR NEURITIS SHOULD TRY DIXON'S REMEDY, MUNRO'S DRUG. STORE 335 Elgin, Ottawa $L25 Express Prepaid POST'S ECZEMA SALVE BANISH the torment of dry eczema rashes and weeping skin troubles. Post's Eczema Salve will not disap- point you. Itching, scaling and burn. ing eczema; acne, ringworm, pimples and foot eczema will respond readily to the stainless odorless ointment re- gardless of how stubborn or hopeless they. seem. Sent Post Free on Receipt of Price PRICE $2.00 PER JAR POST'S REMEDIES 2965 St. Clair Avenue East TORONTO OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEN AND WOMEN EARN big money. Sales background. essential. Exceptional earnings pos- sible to qualified men or women, No investment. Write your qualifications fully for free details. Acme Distribu- ting Service,. Washburn, Illinois, LEARN professional "Fioristry" and Greenhouse" by mail. Complete courses; 10¢ brings literature. Write Walter Giessler, E anviile Ontario BE A HAIRDRESSER JOIN CANADA'S LEADING SCHOOL Great Opportunity Learn Hairdressing Pleasant dignified profession; good wages. Thousands of successful Marvel Graduates.. Illustrated Catalog Free Write or Call MARVEL HAIRDRESSING SCHOOLS 358 Bloor St. W., Toronto Branches: 44 King St. W.. Hamilton 72 Rideau St., Ottawa EARN more ! Bookkeeping, Salesman. ship, Shorthand, Typewriting, etc. Les. sons 50¢ Ask for free circular No. 33. Canadian Correspondence Courses, 120 Bay Street, Toronto, EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY OILS, GREASES, PAINTS AND Colloidal Graphite Additives, Dealers wanted to sell to Farmers, Fleet Owners and Service Stations, Write Worco Grease & 011 Limited, Toronto 3, Ont. PATENTS FETHERSTONHAUGH & 0001 p any Patent Attorneys, Established 1890, 600 University Ave., Toronto. Patents, all countries. SLEEP TO -NIGHT AND RELIEVE NERVOUSNESS MIZDAY TO -MORROW SEDT CIN tablets taken according to directions Is a safe way to induce sleep or quiet the nerves when tense. m $1.00-$4.95 SEDICIN Drua Stares Only, CIGARETTES! Tar and nicotine cot/ - tent. Your brand revealed by scientific laboratory report. Sendbrand name and $1.00. Researchers, 210 Grove, Clifton,: New Jersey. 51.00 TRIAL offer. Twenty-five deltute logueninclu edge Thes Medico st Agency Box 22, Terminal "Q" Toronto, Ont. WHY Become Bald -Headed? Guaran- teed preventive.. Mali 4 hairs 'for ode.. roscopy, 47 years experience. Full charge only $LOP. Dr. Cotnam, 1006 Beech, Cisco, Texas.. - - MEN save money. Hygenie Supplies.. Write- for our price. Answer sent by First Class Man privately. No oblige. tion. Send name, address, age. Must be 21. Write .Rainbow Sales, 171 Harbord Street, Toronto 4, Ontario. SWINE gINDROCHET Imported Landre4" for quality, and•. type, for the new breeder we can supply unrelated steak and for commercial try a Kindrochet Boar • and see the difference. Apply, Joseph Bernard, Waterford, Ont.. MANY have asked us if it is true that Landrace have more ribs than other hogs. Yes, it is true. Most other breeds have 14 ribs. Average for Landrace 16, and some with 18. Even in crossing in- volving Landrace the higher rib count prevails consistently. It means more poone ofk the and s rrthe best cass. We fthelImported herds of Landrace in Canada. Wean- ling, four month old, six month old sows and boars, guaranteed in pig sows, Serviceable boars for immediate delivery. All stock registered. Cata- logue. FERGUS LANDRACE SWINE FARM FERGUS ONTARIO TEACHERS WANTED HAWK JUNCTION, Algoma Central Railway, Ontario, requires 2 teachers, male or female. Principal to teach Grades 6, 7 and 8. Min, salary 53,000, Teacher for Grades. 3, 4 and 5. Min. salary $2,600. A pleasant railway com- munity 164 miles north of Sault Ste. Marie. Apply to Mrs. Ed. 112etvedt, Secretary Hawk Junction, Ontario. Please state age, experience, qualifi- cations and any special interests. Nosh of Insect CHBites— HeaWAash QuicklStep itching of Insect bites, heat rash. eczema, hives, pimples, scales, stables, athlete's foot and other externally caused skin troubles. Use soothing, ealantiseptic ss stn nlesss. Stops money RRN.tdgntt has D. D,DPESCRTIO1.9 HOUSE OF CARLO INTRODUCES FOR WOMEN OVER 30, NEW LIFE and vi- tality 1 Feeds lifeless skin, feels, looks younger. Fades away telltale wrinkles, crows feet. NEW LIFE: Firms flabby throat, chin muscles, Send for a 3.05. lar, 53.00, plus $1.00 postage. New quick 3•minute facial pack — MiNT KOOL 3.oz. lar $3.00, plus $1,00 postage. MINT KOOL Face Lotion, 51.50, plus 500. SUMMER SPECIAL 1 Get all three for 58.00 complete. MADAME JAYE'S, 141.35 • 72 Gres., Flushing 67, New York, When Skin Itch Drives You MAD Bare is a clean stainless pene- trating antiseptic—known all over Canada as MOONE'S EMERALD OIL ---that dries right in and brings swift aura relief from the almost Unbearable itching and distress. Its action IS so powerfully pene- trating that the itching is prompt- ly eased, and With continued use your troubles may soon be over. Use EMERALD OIL night and morning as directions advise for one full week. It Is safe to use and failure is rare indeed. MOONE'S EMERALD OIL can bo obtained in the original bottle at any modern drug store. ISSUE 30 — 1957 A Family Adventure Plan now to enloy one of the greatest events of your lifetime ... theCanadian National Exhibition, the larg- est annual exhibition in the World, opening August 23rd. Fourteen glorious days of exciting entertainment for the whole family.. BOB HOPE, World -famed comedy star, headlines the lavish Evening Grandstand Spectacular every night at 8:15 p.m. ... climaxed by a gigantic fireworks display. ORDER YOUR TICKETS NOW MAIL ORDERS CLOSE AUG. 19, 1957. RINGLING BROS. and BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS The exciting Afternoon Grandstand Show. FIRST WEEK ONLY Aug. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31, et 2:30 p.m. NEW MULTi-MILLION DOLLAR QUEEN ELIZABETH BUILDING OPENS THIS YEAR IRISH GUARDS BAND, World -celebrated band from Eng- land daily on the Bandshell. INTERNATIONAL AIR SHOW Sepi. 6 and 7 only. SPORTS GALORE -Canada's Olympic training plan. VISIT CANADA'S SPORTS HALL OF FAME WORLD'S LARGEST AGRICULTURAL BUILDING NATIONAL HORSESHOW Aug. 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITS—The famed products of coun- tries all over the world. MILE OF MIDWAY WORLD OF WOMEN FOOD PRODUCTS BUILDING — Centre of attraction for almost three million people every .year .. . AUGUST 23 TO SEPTEMBER 7 CANADA ON „DISPLAY FRED. r. WAWA, President HIRAM E. McCALLUM, General Manager