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The Seaforth News, 1959-09-17, Page 7• Sherlock Still • Very Much Alive Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, born in Edinburgh a century ago, was an earnest, simple man Whose hope was that he would lie remembered, not for his mys- tery stories, nor for Sherlock Holmes, whom he came to hate, but fez' his historical novels, which nobody reads now at all. Doyle died in 1930, but Holmes lives persistently on. In edition After edition, and virtually every printed language, and in many native clialeets, the thin, hawk - nosed, pipe - smoking sleuth wages his battles with Professor Moriarty, and three generations of his admirers have learned to live with the insuf- ferable eminence, consum- mately expressed in the line, "Elementary, my clear Watson!" In a fusty, stone -faced build. Ing which occupies the site Le what would be 221b in Baker Street, London, Sohn Greaves, who works for the Abbey Ha - tonal Building Society, oalls in his secretary several times a week, and soletrinly dictates re- -plies to the letters that still come in from all over the world to Mr. Sherlock Holmes, at that. address.' In the 11.S., for 25 years "The Baker Street Irre- gulars" have gathered for din- ner from time to time and read papers on such subjects as "Did Sherlock Holmes T a h e Dope" and "Was Dr. Watson a Philan- derer?" Obviously Mr. Holmes is very much alive, In celebration of Doyle's nen- tennial year, the British Book *Centre, has brought out "Great Stories by 51 r Arthur Conan Doyle" selected and introduced by, John Dickson Carr, whose own sinister Gideon, Fell and jovial Sir Henry Merrivale are among the best of old Relines' god -children in deviltry. Instead of limiting himself to Holniesl- ana (of which there are two ex- cellent samples in this volume) Carr has selected pieces whinh , represent something of Doyle's literary range —• science fiction, historical advenure, a boxing story; a pure horror tale, and two of the Brigadier Gerard ad. ventures. As a straight writer of unmysterious fiction, C 0 n a it Doyle turns out to have grown a little bit stiff with age, but his detective stories, full of the triumphs of deduction, stand up to the toughest modern stand- ards very well indeed. * Visited last month in a com- fortable old shingle -style. house in Mamaroneck, N.Y., among his hundreds of heady books on p o i s o n, hangings, witchcraft, ghosts, and murder in all forms, tam a slight, trim, mustached man, remarked of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: "He's still awful- ly good, you know. He plays fair with you most of the time; his clues are all there. It's ter- ribly hard to criticize him. If you exclude Poe, he was really the first." He added a little am- biguously: "You can't very well call a man offside in a game he invented himself." How Can 1? By Anne Ashley Q. How can.! remove rust spots from a ceramic -tile floor? A. Dissolve one part of sodium citrate with six parts of commer- cial glycerine; add water to thin this mixture, then mix with 'sufil- . cient whiting to form a paste, Spread, this over the spot in a thick coating. After it has dried, remove, and wipe off the surface. Q. Row can 3 rid my house of crickets? A. Apply insecticide around baseboards, in closets, and any cracks Where a cricket could hide. Effedtive insecticides are Z -per cent DDT spray or 10 per cent DDT powder. Q. Row can I remove indelible ink stains from fabrics? A. Use one - fourth cup tur- pentine, one-fourth cup ammonia. Dip the fabric into this solution, and let soak. Follow this with e rinsing. in warm water, 1SSISE 39 — 1959 NEW ROYAL TUTOR — Princess Margaret leaves Ballafer sta- tion, Scotland, to join the "royal_ family at Balmoral Castle. With her is Canadian Army Lt. Jean La Jeunesse,the • new French tutor for Prince Charles. • Prince Charles To Learn French So Prince Charles, 10 -year-old heir to the British throne, is hav- ing special French lessons for part of his summer vacation in Scotland! His French tutor, Lieutenant Jean Lajeunesse, a French Cana- dian Army officer, has just traveled to Balmoral from Lon- don, after making the journey here from Canada. With memories of my Own and any children's resistance to vaca- tion homework I phoned Buck- ingham Palace to hear how Prince Charles had reacted to the idea. It's one of the pleasant aspects of relations with the royal family these days that a reporter can phone Whitehall 4832 and have an., intimate chat with one of the press secretaries. Not so very long ago palace relations with the press were very formal. The reporter was sometimes even given the feel- ing of being an upstart prod - nose. Today things are very dif- ferent. The lady at the other end of the phone gave the im- pression she really wanted to talk about Prince Charles and his French. Incidentally it's rather strange to find in the London telephone directory that Buckingham Pa- lace is listed in the smallest print, while big heavy print inakes it far easier to Spot the Buckingham Hotel. and A. r. Buckingham Lt., makers of bed- ding in Bermondsey. But then Sir Winston Churchill is also listed in the smallest possible type. Presumably it's because neither Sir Winston nor the royal family are in business. The press secretary at the Pa- lace assured me that Prince Charles' stunmer vacation isn't going to be spoiled by French lessons. Lieutenant Lajeunesse is at Balmoral not just to teach French but also to tell stories and information about Canada. Prince Charles and Princess _ Anne are bubbling over with' questions about the great domin- ion which their mother and fa- ther have recently visited. Queen Elizabeth II foresaw this when she was "in Canada. She asked whether it would be • possible for a French-speaking officer from the Royal Vingt- Deuxierne Regiment, of which she is Colonel -in -Chief, to stay at Bahnoral this summer to act as French tutor. The suggestion was readily accepted and Lieut- enant Lajeunesse, 27 -year old • graduate of Montreal University, was chosen, Prince Charles has already made a good start in French at his prep school at Cheam, in Berkshire. And during the Christmas vacation at Sasidriiig- ham 1958 "French days" were introduced when the Prince and Princess spoke and were ad- • dressed only in French. • Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, are fluent French speakers. Princess Philip, father of Prince Charles, is pro- ficient. So one way and another it looks as • if Prince Charles should escape that silly Anglo- Saxon self-consciousness about speaking French and other lan- guages. I remember my generation of boys at school saying, "I couldn't speak a language where you have to throw your arms about so much." This is complete non - Sense because when an English- man gets excited in conversation he articulates as much with his arms and hands as does a Frenchman, writes Peter Lyne in the Christian Science Moni- tor. Americans on the whole are almost as bad as Englishman abOut speaking foreign lan- guages. They don't have to be- cause more and more people speak English. This is a pity be- cause much is lost, especially in travel, by not speaking lan- guages. What we Anglo-Saxons don't seem to realize is that our bad French accents may sound as at- tractive to French folk as Ma- , urice Chevalier's French accent sounds to us. Sir Winston Churchill has an atrocious French accent, But that doesn't prevent him from bursting into French at times. When he ad- dressed a Paris liberation com- mittee in November, 1944, he warned .his audience "prenez- garde, je parle Francais" (look out, I am going to speak French). It looks as if the royal parents are going to see to it that Prince Charles will be able to speak French naturally. And that will be a fine thing if anything ever comes of the idea of members of the royal family going to live for a time in the different do- minions, as has been suggested. Prince Charles might become Governor General of Canada be- fore becoming King. Then it would be a feather in his cap if he could speak French as fluent- • ly as English. Q. Hew can I restore the orig- inal whitness to discolored china or earthenware? A. Scour it with baking soda or vinegar and salt. MERRY MENAGERIE ,54/V1,9•5 vi4oleatv TnO going to a masquerade party!. SEA OF .OBSTACLES interpreted by the co memo lens, rows of hurdles emerga as c noer- ous pnssoge indeed for American and Soviet trackman in o FhilrdeIphi msr Vosily Kuz.- mesa.% second from lefl, front Russia, won this 110 -meter event. Winner Or Loser Bill is Gotne On a V001 February night near Berkeley, Oe1l2,,iIl ItigneY was fighting drowsiness as he drove home with his wife, Paula, asleep in the front seat beside him, It was after 2 a.m. and Rigney had made his tenth public-spealcilfg appearance in fourteen nights before dropping in to an asse- ciato's home for a nighteap. Sud- denly, he dozed at the wheel. When Rigney woke up, his car Was smashed against a telephone pole and he was lying on the ground, conscious of pain. "What happened?" he asked a state trooper who stood over him. "Your throat's cut,! the trooper said. "Oh, great," Rigney muttered and blacked out, Actually, Rigney suffered a fractured jaW, •a series of deep cuts on the neck and chest, and lost seven teeth. Mrs. Rigney was so seriously injured that there was some question of her walk- ing again. But from last win- 'ter's utter bleakness, the Higneys have moved to a summer of sheer delight. Last month, Bill's • jaw was fine, Paula was almost ready to discard her crutches, and the San Fransisco Giants, under the brilliant and battling leadership of Rigney, had be- come the most exciting team in •baseball, A spring -training choice for no higher than third or fourth, Bill Rigney's Giants beat the Milwaukee Braves' great Warren Spahn, then caught a midnight flight to Philadelphia. "We didn't get to the hotel until 4 in the morning.' Johnny Antonelli, the intense left-hander, said s few hours later near the batting cage , at Connie Mack •Staditun, "and I'm an oldfashioned guy. I wear pajamas. So I waited for my bags and I didn't get to sleep till S." Then Antonelli went out and pitched an old-fashioned eight - hit shutout as the Giants swept a twi-night double-header from the Phils and built their lead to two and a half genies. How do Rigney's driving yining Giants play ball? In Phila- delphia recently, they were lead- ing Robin Roberts by two runs in the sixth inning, with itlays on second and rookie Willie Mc - Covey on first. Each time Roberts wound up,, Mays stared hard at • catcher Valrny Thomas, an ex - Giant, and then tipped off, or pretended to tip off, what Rob- erts would throw, Abruptly Roberts wheeled and marched on Mays. Umpire Jock., Conlan cut him off, but Roberts was still furious when he re- sumed pitching. As he did, Mays stole ,third. Then as Mays work- ed his way into and 'out of a trap between third and home, McCovey stole second. Roberts was thoroughly .rattled • And Daryl Spencer doubled to left. Usually the Giants give the opposition the Willies — Mays and McCovey. At other times, though, it's Jackie Brandt and Orlando Cepeda, who team up' to drive NationalLeague clubs frantic. Whenever the Giants play, there is a fire and a dash that may well be the mark of champions. "They think they can win it," Rigney says, "and they act that way and they play that way. What about the manager? Well, maybe I'm a little better than I was when I started. You learn what . you have to do." What Rigney feels he has to do now is let the young hall players know he stands behind them, so this, gray, spectacled, rather scholarly -looking man of 41, al- ready has been thrown out of four games this, season. It's, not a question of fighting with Um- pires; it's a. question of fighting for a pennant. And at a Eine when the Giants were supposed to fold under pressure, the players boarded a ball -park bus in Philadelphia thought they were going out on a company picnic, "I got two pay - .checks .since my last hit,' said Dusty Rhodes, a veteran pinch - hitter, "but the kids are going so great that I ain't worried," Then Mays walked aboard ancl spotted some New York sportswriters. "Front-runners," Willie squeak- ed in great glee. "Front-runners. Where was you when we were sixth? Come on? Where was you guys then?" Rigney sat quietly as the bus left for Connie Mack Stadium, grinning easily at the babble about him. Then he began to whistle. "You know," he said, "the accident messed up my mouth so, this is the first time I've been able to whistle." 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