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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-01-04, Page 7Nat4o Gert Ile Art Of Self -Defense People come to learn judo for their own reasons, In Bruce Teg- ner's Judo -Karate School of Self -Defense in LOS Angeles, there is a priest who wants the exercise, a bank vice .president who was tired of feeling shy and insecure — and Is now the picture of self-confidence.—and a lab assistant whose co- ' workers, just for fun, had . been pushing his head into the chemi- cal vats each time they passed by. Across the country in similar schools charging three or tour •dollars an hour, an estimated 250,000 men and women, marieu- vering around the mats in the traditional loose robe s, are learning the ancient techniques of the Buddhist monks for toss- ing opponents into tailspins. Some months ago in Los Angeles, Mrs. Virgil Marks came marching into Tegners school at the head of a column of chil- dren. "This," she announced, "is the end." All five offspring had been coming home from school, bruised and battered — not only the four boys, but the 10 -year- old girl, too. After the sibling clan finished the seventeen- lesson course,, the mother com- mented: "They're certainly not•. what I would call experts, but. I'm sure they could defend themselves in most situations " •In New York, recently, a 26 - year -old construction worker ap- peared at Jerome Mackey's Judo, Inc., with ,a large pur- ple bruise on his tipper arm. "It was this fella I work with. I mean, he's going to a psychia- trist, but even so he just blows up, every now and then. He tried to gouge my eyes out last week. And now this, I mean, he bit me. So here I am." "They come," said Jerome Mackey, "thinking about self- defense. But often they learn to appreciate judo as an art. The better the judo man, the more docile he becomes — because he knows what he can do, and he doesn't have to prove it all the time. 'Judo' means 'the gentle art.' It's a modification of the old jujitsu techniques. There are jujitsu tricks, for example, that break a man's arm. But in judo, the trick is modified, so you can do it over and over again, with- out hurting your opponent . . unless you need to." Are there courses specifically icor self-defense in street fight- ing? "Let me put it this way, I could teach you a hundred tricks that you could use, but they'd only be as good as you are in applying them. In aconfronta- tion with a thug, you're likely to freeze. In judo contests, one simulates .that pressure in the studio, so you learn to think under stress. Judo is all applied physics. The Japanese can be devilishly clever, a n d they've worked to perfect these tech- niques for some two thousand years." There are fads and specialties in Oriental fighting methods; yawara (stick fighting), aikido (joint twisting), and karate (open hand and foot fighting), but it is judo which is themost general and generally applicable system. Mackey indicated a sign in Japanese which hung in a cor- ner. "It means maximum effici- ency, minimum effort, And it's a friendly sport. Look at those two men there. They're smiling!" The first Indian pipes and to- bacco in England were probably brought in by Sir John Hawkins when he returned from Florida in 1565. Q. Is there any way 1 can re- pair a hdle that has been burned into a leather -covered table top? A, You can sometimes hide $his by melting some candlewax of a matching color, pouring into the hole, and smoothing this out while it's still soft; INSIDE OUTER SPACE — What goes up will come down when a space capsule like the one above is fired 1,165 miles into space. Part of BIOS I, the first U.S. space project devoted almost entirely to, biological experiments, the G,E.-built capsule will be packed. with biological specimens to investi- gate the effects of space on living tissues. The capsule pro- tects the experiments during shock of re-entry. Art Treasure Found After 17 Years One of the longest and most intensive art searches in history came to a happy ending early last month. For on Oct. 6 there was dredged from the mud of Florence's Arno River the some- what battered head of a statue, which experts immediately rec- ognized as that of the famous Primavera (Spring), which had been lost since the German Army leveled part of the city on Aug. 4, 1944. Never, perhaps had there been so intense a world-wide search for a mere fragment of statu- ary. But the head of Primavera was something far from ordin- ary. Of the statues of the four seasons which adorned the beau- tiful Holy Trinity Bridge across the river, that of Spring was held by Florentines to be the finest. Thus there was city-wide mourn- ing when it was learned that Primavera's head was missing when the river bed was carefully gone over. Many recall the succession of thunderous explosions and. the crash of falling buildings, and, next morning, the desolation of the architectural glories of cen- turies lying in piles of smoking ruins, among them the 600 -year- old bridge. The four statues were set at the corners in 1608 for the mar- riage of Maria Maddalena of Austria with the Grand Duke Cosimo II. That of Primavera, by Pietro Francavilla, stood at the northern end of the bridge. The statue itself ultimately was found among the debris, the head and one arm hissing; and for long it was surmised that, unless shattered at the time,or lying deep in the river bed, the head had been carried off as a souvenir by one of ' the Allied soldiers to some remote part of the world. Tireless exploration was car- ried out in the river by divers and dredgers; inquiries pursued by diplomats, demobilized 'sol- diers, and police: a spectacular publicity campaign organized, with rewards offered throughout the world. Conspicuous in this was the Parker Pen. Company, which, its sympathies enlisted by its Florence agent, set its 35,000 representatives all over the globe at work in the search. Placards were put up practi- cally everywhere: "Have you seen this woman?" printed in English, German, Arabic, Japa- nese, Spanish, French, Hindu, a hundred languages, under the photograph of the head. "She is about 350 years old; color white marble; weighs 20 pounds. Three thousand dollars reward to whoever gives news of her." From Tibet to Patagonia, from A SNAIL'S PACE—Jonathan Burke, 7, registers delight with this new children's toy—an artificial snail. This spotted epi- tome of the take -it -easy school has a plastic shell in mother of pearl finish, o velvet' body -and leatherette underside, plus a rkish=ontennoe expression, the Fiji Islands to the Canaries; ' in Afghanistan and New Zealand, Canada and South Africa; from the Arctic snows to the equator- ial heats; by land and water, throughout the six continents, the placards appeared, the ap- peal was spread, abroad Over the radio and through the press, with a persistence, zeal and uni- versality perhaps never previous- ly devoted to any search. A11 this effort 'arose from the tenacious determination of the•` Florentines to recover, were it humanly pos- sible, that fragment of marble so familiar to them and their forebears through some. three - and -a -half centuries, and to have their beloved bridge restored to them "where is was and as it was," This determination led them, indeed, not only to insist oh every possible fragment of the original stone being recovered from the river arid utilized afresh, but also on all additional material needful being cut from the original quarry in the Bohai Gardens, and, even by means of the traditional methods and tools. And, when the reconstruct- ed bridgewas inaugurated three years ago, it appeared as a faith- ful replica of the original, save only that Primavera, restored to her place, was without her head. The idea of a substitute head had, assuredly, been considered, and, could a plaster cast have been discovered, one might well have been made by same skilled Florentine sculptor. Indeed, from Amiens came the • suggestion, from the Compte de Franque- ville, last descendant of the sculptor of the Primavera, that' this should be done. Those in favor . maintained that such a solution, proposed by Franca - villa's own descendant, might well be acceptable. But, despite search in the 'Florentine muse- ums and art institutes, and fur- ther search in collections of plaster casts in many European cities, none came to light; and the authorities decided against any new head for the statue. "Either," they decreed, "the old, or none." So, since the inauguration of the rebuilt bridge, the Prima- vera has held her place, headless, a tacit reminder of -tragic events, writes Dorothy Neville Lees in the Christian Science Monitor. Now, 17 years later; the head . has come to light, following operations for cleaning the river bed initiated by the Canoeists' Club of Florence. Tinaoteo Lucaroni of Piacenza, a workman operating a 'dredger, finding his machine involved with a hard mass, halted it, and, on investigation, found this to be a marble head, embedded some 385 feet down the river from the bridge. Save for his alertness, the head might have been crushed, and then carted away, with the stones and rubble destined for the foundations of a superhighway now under con- struction, Borne to the Piazza Vecchio ' and examined by experts in the presence of Professor Filippo Rossi, Superintendent of Galler- ies, and of Dr. Ugo Proceed, Superintendents of Monuments, the head was readily identified. Various signs and details con- firmed the verdict. Among these ,were traces where a new tip was applied to the nose in the 18th century, a bluish mark on one cheek', the notable sweetness and gentleness with' which Franca - villa had imbued the face, and other characteristics. To render identification yet mote sure, however, a plaster oast of the neck -fracture was taken, and, when applied to the neck of the statue, found to fit tightly, Florence is one of those uni- versal shies with which all the - CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING • AGENTS WANTED SALESMEN DEALERS AGENTS WAN- TED to sell. merchandise. Hundreds of outstanding ii os. For details, apply Box No, 242, 123 - 18th Street, New Toronto, Ont. HUNDREDS of part-time agents want- ed, ono or more in every community, to handle sensational new ppatented winter sports item, SICEESTER, the ski•with-a-seat. Now ALL can SEER. Initial inventory as low as $60,00 will bring a small income with lot of fun. Please write for agency details giving your age. occupation, and bank or other business references, to SKEE•SPORTS, Box 171,. Postal Stn, B, Hamilton, Ont. world feels a sympathetic link, and what happened to it on that remote August night of 1944 stirred wide echoes of compas- sion and regret. But with courage and resili- ency the Florentines set them- selves, after the war, to restore and rebuild the shattered areas of their city, their towers, pal- aces, bridges, streets and stretch- es or riverside houses, and have successfully achieved their pur- pose; but the lack of those few pounds of marble which consti tuted the head of the Primavera, the uncertainty as to it fate, rankled. They preferred to look up, not down, when passing the corner of the Santa Trinta bridge, Now, however, that the head, little damaged by shattering ex- plosions and long immersion, has emerged from its water bed and will once more stand forth, crowning Franeavilla's statue, against the pearly tints of dawn, the azure of midday, the golden glow of sunset and the starry profundities of night, it seems that, for the Florentines, the war is really over. How Can I? By Roberta Lee Q. How can 1 improvise a glue, when 1 have run out df the real thing in my house? A. 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