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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-05-18, Page 2He Makes Clothes For Cowboy Stars The sight-seeing bus had just disgorged a gaggle of tourists at Hollywood's Revue Studios when all heads turned, "My God," one. of the tourists gasped, "what's that?" "That," it turned out, was a big white convertible with huge silver -tipped steer horns .mounted over the grille,a sterl- ing -silver Buntline Special on the hood, silver horses on all four fenders, and six-shooters for door handles. There was more— an elaborate Western saddle be- tween the two front seats, fancy holsters and cartridge belts hang- ing over the rear of the seats, three rifles mounted aft, and a hand -tooled leather and unborn calf interior encrusted with 125 silver dollars and a 10 -gallon hat'. fol of halves and quarters. "Nudie, the Rodeo Tailor," Hollywood's top designer of Western clothes, had come simp- ly to deliver hand -braided horse- hair hatbands to television's Western hero Robert. ("Wagon Train") Horton, one of the latest In a long line of hot -shot cus- tomers ranging from cowboys Roy Rogers and Gene Autry to singers Dean Martin and Elvis Presley. "Yeah, people look pretty hard," Nudie observed recently, "And they should. There's $15,- 000 in this baby. But peopie talk about it. It's good for business." So good, in fact, that the short, gravel -faced Nudie — using more conventional lures, as well — de- signed and dispensed more than $250,000 worth of Western gear last year to actors and "civilians" alike in his luxurious white -stuc- co North Hollywood trading post, The man behind the man be- hind the gun was born Nudie. ("I don't know what the hell it stands for") Cohn about 57 years ago, he isn't quite sure of the date) in Brooklyn (he still re- tains the speech). Apprenticed to a tailor as a child, he later work- ed his way to the Coast as a fly- weight boxer, eventually turn- ed to the movies as an extra. "I was one of them peanut eaters," he recalls. "You know, you'd be in the crowd watching a fight or the races and eat peanuts." By 1926, Nudie had settled down to tailoring, primarily for the vaudevillians and movie ac- tors of the day. Except for a brief fling at designing costumes for strippers — "Nudies for the Ladies" — he was still an obscure tailor twenty years later when the Western inspiration hit him. He has been riding tall in the saddle ever since. His prices, of course, depend un the needs and tastes — and resources — of his customers. Hugh O'Brian, TV's Wyatt Earp, might get a relatively plain out- fit, for example, for about $400. Hip -swinging singing idol Pres- ley, on the other hand, once paid $10,000 for a gold lame outfit. Nudie's biggest current project is the concoction of a white gabar- dine suit embroidered with base- balls sprouting wings — for Gene Autry, new owner of the Los Angeles Angels baseball team. Nudie's customers swear by him. In fact, almost every avail- able foot of wall space in his office holds the autographed pic- tures of stars he has served. His favorite is one from stripper Lili St. Cyr. It's inscribed: "Dear Nudie: If I ever wear clothes, they'll be yours." From NEWSWEEK ISSUE 19 — 1961 ELECTRONIC CURTAIN — A new television studio at Elstree, England, seems hidden by a curtain of metal rods, The curtoinlike complex is for camera lights. TABLE TALKS ti JamArarews. This lei cake may be made with batter from 2/4 package of cake mix or from a cake made by the following recipe. In either case, you'll need the same topping, Pineapple Upside -Down Lei Cake 5 pineapple slices, drained (reserve syrup) 5 red maraschino cherries, drained Y4 cup butter ',e cup brown sugar, packed Grease 8 -9 -inch ring mold; gently bend and arrange drained pineapple slices in bottom with cherries in centre of slices. Heat and stir butter and brown sugar in small saucepan until well blended, then carefully pour into. areas between .slices. Cover this with batter made from 3h package cake mix — or with this batter: Cake Batter 1,cup sifted flour 1/ teaspoons baking powder r/a teaspoon salt ry cup sugar r✓ cup shortening (room temperature) vs cup milk 1 egg, unbeaten 2 tablespoons syrup, from pineapple Set oven at 400° F. Sift flour before measuring, then sift all dry ingredients together into mixing bowl. Add shortening and milk and beat for 2 minutes in mixer at medium speed (or 300 strokes by hand); then add egg and syrup from pineapple and beat 2 minutes more. Pour Into greased ring mold over "topping" and bake for 30 minutes. Loosen edges, cover with plate, and invert. Let stand 5 minutes; shake pan gently and lift off. Serve warm. Makes 5 generous or 10 small servings. d • Want to serve a ruby red cranberry cake baked in a 9x9x2-inch square pan? Serve it warm for a dessert, topped with whipped cream or ice cream, writes Eleanor •Richey Johnston in The Christian Science Monitor. Cranberry Upside -Down Cake 34 cup packed brown sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch. ?:e teaspoon allspice 1044 FROM ANOTHER AGE - The bunch of bones above once belo.iged to ocrcadure - the gorgosaurus -- which roamed the ea ill about 75 million years ago. But things hanging around that long get dusty so Steve Kovar uses a fe t:' - l,rrtrr ":1 this sp.:cimen in c::ricago Natural History Mu cum collection. 1 cup orange juice 1 cup canned whole cranberry sauce 2 tablespoons butter t.z teaspoon shredded orange peel Several drops red food color- ing. Blend brown sugar, corn- starch, and allspice in a small saucepan. Add orange juice. Cook, stirring constantly until mixture reaches boiling point. Reduce heat to very low. Con- tinue to cook and stir until clear and very thick. Add remaining ingredients. • Heat 'mixture to boiling point. Rub bottom of 9x9x2-inch square pan with shortening. Pour mixture into pan, Cake Batter 141 cup shortening 2 cups sifted flour 3 tablespoons sugar 3 teaspoons baking powder rte teaspoon Salt V cup milk 1 egg, slightly beaten •Sift together dry ingredients. Cut shortening into flour mix- ture with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture is consist- ency of coarse corn meal. Com- bine milk and slightly beaten egg. Add to flour mixture all at once. Stir with fork until batter ,is just blended. Spoon over cran- berry mixture in pan. Bake in 450° F. oven about 12 minutes, or until golden brown. Turn up- side down on serving platter. Cut into squares and serve with whipped cream- or ice cream. r M * Use a yellow cake mix to make the following cherry cake, and serve it with a hot cherry sauce.. Cherry Upside -Down Cake 1 yellow cake mix (prepare ac- cording to direction on pack- age) 2 tablespoons butter 3_ cup brown sugar 1 can frozen cherries (canned cherries may be used), drab. and save juice Grease a 12x8x2-inch pan. Sprinkle brown sugar over bot- tom of pan. Add drained cher- ries. Pour cake mix batter over cherries in pan, Bake in preheat- ed 350° F. oven 35-40 minutes. Turn out with cherries on top. Serve warm topped . with hot cherry sauce. Cherry Sauce 34 cup sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch 11,4 cups, cherry juice (add water to juice to make this amount) 1 tablespoon butter 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon vanilla Combine s u ga r, cornstarch, and juice in saucepan. Cook un- til thickened, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and add but- ter, lemon juice, and vanilla. i * + Would you like to make an upside down cake with ginger- bread? If you'd like it with mixed fruit, try this one using canned fruit cocktail. Fruity Upside -Down Cake )4 cup melted butter va cup brown sugar, packed 115 cups canned fruit cocktail 1 package gingerbread mix Combine melted butter and brown sugar in 9 -inch square pan. Arrange well -drained fruit cocktail on top. Mix gingerbread by package directions; pour on top of fruit in pan, Bake at 350° F, 40-45 minutes. Invert over serving plate. Allow pan to stand over cake I minute before removing, Serve warm. Q. is there any way I can re- pair some of my wooden salad bowls which have cracked? A. You can often effect a good repair by first cleaning the cracks as thoroughly as possible, then filling them with shellac, Use only enough shellac to come flush with the surface, and wipe off any excess, Smart Kiddies Hah I Hah ! Hah From a mass of people who are merely intelligent you can pick out the highly creative 'types by their sense of humor. Well, it seems to work with kids, anyway. This is according to a couple of psychologists named Getzels and Jackson, whose probing over a four-year period was recently reported by the B.C. Teacher. Problem was how best to pick out the gifted children. You can't do it just by IQ and teacher evaluation, say G and J, because teachers have a clear-cut preference for kids with high IQ's, who have a strong con- forming tendency. "The emphasis on sense of hu- mor is so marked," G and J re- port, "that it is one characteristic that sharply sets apart the high - creativity group from all other groups." Asked to do a story on "Face cream and divorce," as part of the tests, one creative child wrote: "She wore so much cold cream on her face at night that her head would skid across the pillow and hit him on the head. He is now contemplating' a new skid -proof face cream." Left out of the study were chil- dren who rated high in both in- telligence and creativity, since the problem at this stage was to isolate the two qualities and find distinguishing tests. Study of this group is now being done. DRIVE WITH CARE I Why The Cubans Turned To Communism. "How is it," II asked, "hint Cuba has gone communistic when the Roman Catholic Church was so strong, there and so forcefully opposed to corn- munism?" One of the Cuban refugees said: "I will tell you, Father. The church was only concerned for itself— for building expen- sive and beautiful churches, "The church was identified with wealth and power and not with the needs of the people, When Castro crone in, he said: 'What has the church done for you?' "He showed them the cancel- led checks from the wealthy that had gone to pay for gold inlay in the churches while the people. struggled to exist. This is why, Father, the Communists have taken Cuba. and the church. has failed." This strong indictment against churches in Cuba is printed by The Palm Branch, official • publi- cation of the Diocese of South Florida of the Episcopal Church This indictment comes from the church people themselves. They admit failure — but as they admit failure, so cio we all. The Palm Branch article goes on to review the failure of the church in Russia and in Africa. The Communists say 10 the underprivileged: "You pray . to your God, 'Give us this day our daily bread.' Does He answer' your prayers? Pray to us. We will give you your daily bread" The horrible truth of the mut- ter is we have no answer that is meaningful. People who are well fed, well treated --, people who have medical care -- these are not the people who turn to communism. It is where there is privation, unemployment, any kind of human suffering — this is where communism speaks with power. In Russia the church was weal- thy and identified with all of the injustice and suffering of the underprivileged. It was easy for the Communists to turn the peo- ple against the church. It is the same in Africa today. Here is a land of great contrast — wealth alongside unbelievable poverty. There are many dedi- cated Christian people working to spread the Christian faith in Africa, but their efforts are so inadequate because they simply do not have the resources. Malnutrition is like a scourge, we are told by two lay represen."- latives; Prem South Africa wh(h are "heroure insuppSouth' ortof Floerida, cthutseveh; ek+ g . thk inwork- In South Melee. "In our church: schools in South Africa we can give the children a healthy nutritious mealfor only a penny and a half a day per child. but we are not able to do this 'because we simply do not have the penny and a half a It is far better, say these rep- resentatives who have come tp us, for relief to come to those• people through the church rather than through economic aid from. our government because this Identifies the love and concern• of Christians a meaningful way. We mustin translate our Christian faith into terms that are understandable to the people of South Africa and this is best done in terms of their urgent human needs,. — Orlando (Fla.) Evening Star Apparently overlooked. in the economy reports were the 50,- 000,000 special type automobiles sold last year. The fact they were in 49 cent do-it;yourself kits, as against the standard average $2,500 model may have had something to do with it. "KING" GABLE'S SON — John Clark Gable, two weeks old, makes his photo debut in arms of mother, Kay. His father, ac- tor Clark Gable, died last No- vember. ° The Search For A Cancer Antigen — Chemical Is Key To A Vaccine By DR. A. CLARK GRIFFIN Head, Department of Biochemis- try, 51. D. Anderson Hospital, University of Texas. (Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn.) HOUSTON, Tex. — (NEA) — An antigen is a chemical so foreign to us that our systems produce antibodies which neutra- lize or destroy it. Infectious bacteria and viruses contain antigens, so our systems destroy them and prevent or cure the diseases they cause. If all cancer cells contained a common antigen and if we could obtain it in reasonably pure form, we could use the antigen as a vaccine, Vaccine then might prevent cancer as it does smallpox. Or the vaccine might be used to rouse our natural 'defenses so our systems could cure cancer as they do the common cold. Or we could inject the antigen, or . vaccine, into animals and have them produce the anti- bodies against it. We could then treat cancer as diphtheria and tetanus are treated — by in- jecting the antibody -1 o a d e d watery part of the animal's blood into patients. Antiserum, they call it. Theoretically, a common anti- gen could be the answer to can- cer. Theoretically. Actually, we now know that many cancers — possibly all of them — contain antigens. But the most familiar anti- gens are not common to all kinds of cancer, And they often are (1) too impure and weak to cause the system to reactor (2) so strong that they themselves cause cancer, Recent reports from research centres as widely separated as New York, Tokyo, Moscow and Stockholm have revived hope that many or all cancers may contain a common antigen, In these centres, scientists have described chemicals — still in an impure state — that they find in several cancers but not in. normal tissues. At this stage, there is con-, siderable conflict in identifica- tion of the basic vaccine ma- terial. One hopes that purifica- tion evenutually will indicate that all these vaccines contain the selfsame antigen. Dr. K, '9'unoki and Dr. S. Otsuji, Japanese scientists visit- ing in my laboratory, and I have attacked the problem from a different angle. We have sought for a "toxohormone" — a poison that we felt might be produced by tumors to paralyze the body's defenses. The cancer cell does produce poisons apparently in the same manners as infectious cells do. Anthrax, some tuberculosis bacil- li, typhus, cholera and plague organisms release poisons which harm the host. We have found a specific toxohormone in every human tumor so far examined and never in normal tissues. We have purified it to a point where it is now 50,000 times as concentrat- ed as it was in the crude toxo - hormone with which we first began to work, One -millionth of a tumor is toxohormone. Toxohormone lessens the Iiver's . ability to produce ceta- last, a substance which builds hemoglobin for healthy -red cells and neutralizes poison cencentra- tions. In the livers of animals and humans with advanced can- cer, catalase production is re- duced and the host often deve- lops anemia. • Is this what paralyzes im- munity? Toxohormone from the tumor? We do not know yet whether toxohormone is antigenic — whether its debilitating effects can be counteracted with a vac- cine or antiserum. This possi- bility — and the designing of drugs which may counteract toxohormone — are under con- sideration, however. Dr. ,Terome H. Sacks at the Medical College of Virginia has isolated an agent which he calls FHA (filterable hemolytic agent). When he injects it into rats, it destroys their red blood cells and causes an anemia similar to that which occurs in cancer. When the rats recover from their anemia, they aro immune to cancer transplants, to which they otherwise would be highly susceptible. . This is exciting work. At last report Dr, Sacks' agent had im- munized rats to a significant degree against eight different kinds of transplantable rat can- cers. It will be of considerable interest to learn whether, FHA. immunizes other animal species against transplanted cancers and, eventually, to spontaneous cancers which susceptible ani- mals develop with predictable regularity. Throughout the world the search goes on• for the common cancer antigen that, some clay, may take the terror out of hu- man cancer. (Next: Human Cancer Vaccines.) MEASURING THE TAKE: A scientist checks the size of the reactions to injection of cancer cells at the Ohio State Penitentiary.