HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-08-11, Page 2TkI:LE TALKS
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Too, hot right now to write
'my lengthy introduction; too
bot, in fact to think of eating
smytlling more substantial than
a nice cool salad. So here are
:some salad recipes you may find
easeful.
SALMON SALAD
2 half this Salmon, Staked
1/ cup vinegar or lemon juice
ye cup mayonnaise
/a cups diced celery
14 cup sliced stuffed olives
ye teaspoon salt
Dash of freshly ground
pepper
f.eeled tomatoes
in Lettuce
Mayonnaise
Sliced and whole stuffed
olives
Gradually add the vinegar to
the mayonnaise, blending well
after each addition.
Lightly toss together the
stalmon, celery, 1/4 cup of sliced
Olives, and seasonings. Add the
:mayonnaise mixture, blending it
in lightly.
For each portion cut a toma-
to into three ecresswise slices.
Place the stem hied slice of
tomato on crisp lettuce, add a
Idling of the sa`hiwn salad, then
ghe centre slice of tomato, an-
other filling of 'salad and the re-
maining tomato slice. Top each
with mayonnaise and a slice of
t3tuffed olive. Garnish the plate
with two whole olives,
* * *
Here is a new cold salad
which wit ladd enjoyment to
your outdoor meals:
MACARONI SALAD
/ cup ripe olives
cup macaroni
1 green onion
xi cup chopped green.
sweet pepper
1 cup sliced celery
lye cup diced ham
a/s cup shredded processed
cheddar cheese
3/s cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon vinegar
'•4 teaspoon prepared mustard
:44. teaspoon salt
Cut olives in large pieces.
Cook macaroni in boiling salted
water until tender. Drain and
e'inse thorougly with cold wa-
iler. Sliee onion thin and com-
bine with olives. green pepper,
celery, ham, cheese and maca-
ses
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11YS COOL — Next time the
torrid summer weather gets you
ttown, recall this picture—and
serol off. These men are scant
feet from the boiling hell of
metal pouring from an open
Itearth furnace. At the time
iiicture was taken, it was a fri-
gid (inn comparison) 94 degrees
outside the plant,
roni. Blend - mayonnaise, vine-
gar, mustard and salt, and toss
lightly with macaroni mixture
until well blended. Chill before
serving.
Make 4 to 6 servings.
TOMATO ASPIC RING
1 tablespoon =flavored,
gelatin
19a cups tomato juice
1 teaspoon minced onion
1 teaspoon salt
Y8 teaspoon pepper
're teaspoon celery salt
1 tablespoon ..tarragon .vine-
gar
Soften gelatin in 1/4 cup of
tomate juice, Heat rest of juice
to boning; dissolve gelatin in it.
Add remaining ingredients. Pour
into 1 pint or 4 individual
molds, Chill until firm. Makes
4 servings. Fill with chilled
fresh or canned shrimps.
ONE -MINUTE FRENCH
DRESSING
ee cup apple cider, distilled
white malt, salad or tar-
% cup salad oil
34 teaspoon paprika
Se teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sweet; pickle
juice
Combine ingredients in flask
or jar. Chill. Shake before serv-
ing. Makes 1 cup.
NIPPY FRENCH DRESSING
2 tablespoons minced onion
2 teaspoon prepared mustard
1 teaspoon prepared horse-
- radish
IA cup basic French dressing
Combin ingredients. Shake
well before serving over tossed
green or shrimp salads. Makes
3i cup.
DEVILED EGGS
6 hard -cooked eggs
34, yup hot dog relish
3 tablespoons mayonnaise or
Booked salad dressing
3e teaspoon. salt
Slice shelled eggs in half
lengthwise; remove egg 3rolks
and mash. Combine egg yolks
with remaining ingredients. Fill
egg whites with this mixture.
Chill. Makes 6 servings.
EGG SALAD
6 hard -cooked eggs, chopped
3/ cup hot dog relish
3e teaspoon salt
ee cup chopped celery
3 tablespoons mayonnaise or
salad dressing
Combine . a 11 ingredients.
Chill. Spoon onto beds of green
lettuce. Makes 3 to 4 servings.
Laundry Lament
Nine times out of ten, when
you think your favorite televi-
sion actor is wearing a white
shirt, it's actually light blue or
some other neutral color. The
color white reflects a glare from
the powerful overhead lights and
casts an unflattering shadow
over the actor's neckline.
With that thought in mind,
Paul Hartman, who usually per-
forms his burlesque routines in
white tie and tails, ordered two
stiff -bosomed evening suits in
blue. The mystified shirtmaker
followed instructions—at $25 per
Instruction.
Hartman used the shirts with
conspicuous success, and then
consigned them to the laundry.
But they didn't come back with
either that week's wash or the
next. They finally were deliver-
ed, accompanied by a note from
the unhappy laundryman.
"We scrubbed and scrubbed
these shirts," it read, "and final-
ly succeeded in getting most of
the blue out of them. If they
are not absolutely white, please
don't blame us."
Biscuit production soared to a
record 115,364 tons in 1952, 55%
more than in 1946, over double
the 1938 output.
DUCK SOUP—That's what it is for the gosling, even though 1t
might have been a nice snack of dog food for the puri. Despite
his sad expression, the two are really fine -feathered friends,
s
Real Old -Timer Farm Exhibits --
The history of harvesting, from cradle to combine, is graphically portrayed by students from
Michigan 'State University's agricultural engineering and drama departments. The students
highlighted the role- of power farming euipment on the efficient farm in a five-day Centen-
nial of Farm Mechanization.
HE HAS A SWELL HEAD -With heads together are 5 -year-old
Charles Epochs and a 13% -pound cabbage.
Tallest Pe pie
Big Beef Eater
Who are the world's tallest
people? The distinction doesn't
go to a white race, but to :the
Nilotics of Africa, though no-
body knows for certain why
these peoples should outstripall
others in stature.
The Nilotic tribes are tall,
dark and very slender. They
live in an around the basin of
the Upper Nile—hence the name.
While the average height of the
men is about five feet ten inches,
many tower a lofty seven feet
and more. Their womenfolk are
likewise tall and slender, with
figures which would be the en-
vy of many a white girl.
Like the men, they are on
average from one to two inches
taller than average members of
white races.
Two of Nero's centurions are
credited with first "discovering"
the Nilotic tribes late in the
first century A.D. Anthropolo-
gists say the Nilotics consist of
twenty-seven tribes, who dwell'
on the banks of the White Nile
and its tributaries, being found
as far east as Kaffa and Galla-
alnd and as far south as Uganda.
The tribes have odd -sounding
names, among the Shull, Kon-
jak, Soli and Jibbe.
Though of different tribes the
graceful Nilotics have many
characteristics in common. The
womenfolk carry their babies on
their backs and enormous loads
of brushwood on their heads.
They wear little, if any clothing.
They have an inborn love of
dance ceremonies, in which they
leap and stamp with astonishing
agility, flaunting monkey fur
and tossing bright head-dresses.
At their ankles bells jangle mu
sieally.
From these dance ceremonies,
held frequently, comes no doubt
their amazing ability as high
junipers. Using a foot -high ter-
mite mound as a take -off, they
Can clear a .bar easily at seven
and a half feet, They are skilled
hunters.
Scientific evidence suggests
two major reasons why they
grow so tall.
The one first comes from sci-
entific belief in evolution, and
puts forward the theory that in
the course of centuries the Ni-
lotics have evolved long thin
bodies because they are better
adapted to dissipating heat in
the dry tropic regions of the
Niloticsupland home country,
The second theory is they
have grown tall because, as great
cattle raisers, they are also great
beef eaters. And the high proms
teen tralue of meat is believed ttt
have helped thenyl to achieve
their; lanky stature,
This theory is supported by
the fact that . when peoples of
races characteristically small go
tolive in countries where food
is both plentiful and varied, they
grow taller. This has been par-
ticularly noted of Mexicans, Chi-
nese and Japanese who have
gone to live in Canada or the
United States. On average their
height is greater than that of
their kin at home.
Scientists of the Smithsonian
Institute have investigated this
subject of increasing stature,
using as a yardstick the records
of the physiques of soldiers and
students of the two world wars.
They have found the American
student and G.I. of to -day are
taller than their counterparts in
the early part of this century, a
fact which they believe is due
to better and more regular
meals, including a more ample
share of meat.
These investigations clearly
suggest that Nilotics owe their
greater height to their habit of
eating greater quantities of
meat.
And, incidentally, isn't it odd
that the world's smallest peo-
ples—the pigmies who live in
the Ituri Forest region of east-
ern Belgian Congo—are near
neighbours of the world's tallest
peoples, the southernmost Nilotic
tribes?
Did gt,.;1 n Die A
Natural e1. th?
Did Stalin die a natural death?
Or was he killed by one of the
younger men anxious to topple
the aged, sick dictator from his
throne?
This question has interested
most secret services in the world.
Was Beria, the chief of the So-
viet secret police, directly con-
cerned in this killing? Or did
he know so much that he had to
be got rid of like his master
Stalin?
The shadow of this unanswer-
ed question will haunt the new
boss Nikita Khrushchev who
pushed the Soviet Premier Mal-
enkov from the limelight some
months ago. He may find that
a bullet-proof car can as easily
be turned into a hearse by some
ruthless rival .
Consider some of the facts
which lead a well-known Rus-
sian neuropathologist, Professor
A. K. Stankevich, to put forward
the Stalin murder theory.
The day before Stalin died,
Moscow radio announced that
he had suffered .from a brain
haemorrhage, which not only
tendered him unconscious, but
paralysed halt his body and
trade him incapable of speech.
Now, asks the professor as-
tutely, could anyone know that
Stalin's speech mechanism had
been affected if he was uncon-
scious?
According to the brain specia-
list such a diagnosis would be
possible if Stalin had received
a heavy blow from a hammer or
some similar object on his left
temple. In this event one may
say that the right side of the
body would be paralysed and
the organs of speech disturbed.
Another point: Stalin's body ,
was immediately subjected to a
post-mortem. But the results of ,
this post-mortem were not pub-
lished. And the specialist who
conducted this operation on the
body, himself died two days
later. . ..
In these circumstances, Pro-
fessor Stankevich says, the pos-
sibility of murder cannot be dis-
missed.
Leaving out the moral issues
involved one • is reminded that
Stalin himself was no mean
- master of = the "sudden death"
technique,.allhough he had an
almost pathological fear Mas-
sassination- and took 'the most
hysterical precautions:
During my recent travels in
Europe I met a woman who had
once been a librarian in the ex-
tensive but private Kremlin
library, writes David Tutaev in
"Answers".
One fine morning quite sud-
denly, without any warning, she
and two other assistants were
arrested.
The fantastic charge against
them was that they had sprink-
led some kind of deadly poisoned
powder between the leaves of
.books destined to, be read by
the Great Chief himself.
Sitting in a Mexican prison, in
a luxurious, well-appointed cell
with central heating, a radio and
a well -sprung bed, is a stoutish
forty -five-year-old man in pink-
striped pyjamas.
On a warm evening in May,
1940, he entered Leon Trotsky's
study and drove an ice -pick into
the head of Stalin's Enemy No.
3.
Sentenced to twenty years
(there is no death penalty in
Mexico), Jacques Mornard (alias
Frank Jacson) refuses to leave
the prison walls on parole.
He spits and snarls whenever
anyone tries to question him
about the murder. He hugs the
prison walls like a drowning
' man clutching 'at a straw. He
fears tobe released. He knows
that the Soviet secret police
silences any man "who knows
too much." Once a man sent to
clean out his cell made an at-
tempt to strangle hint.
And Trotsky is not even secure
in .death, His ashes lie in a safe
in an Alcazar undertaker's of-
fice. Trotsky's wiaow says she
is afraid to keep them at homer
in case someone might attempt
to steal them.
Every week, a "mystery" wo-
man, believed to be French,
comes to see Mornard in his
comfortable cell, These visit
help to pass away the tedium
of hi s self-imposed imprison-
" znent She brings him books,
money, flowers, and pipe to-
bacco.
Meanwhile, Mornard's mother
waits for her son iin Paris. Hers
is a tragic patience.
But those who enter or are
forced into the Soviet spy -net
never know release from fear
and anguish. "No one ever re-
signs from the M.V.D." is the
proud motto of this grisly serv-
ice.
Ignace Reiss, a former Soviet
agent, tried to break. the bonds.
On one occasion a Soviet woman
agent was sent with a box of
poisoned chocolates (faced with
strychnine) to give to Reiss and
his family. But some element of
human decency held her back.
She cduld not bring herself to
offer the chocolates to Reiss'
wife and young child.
Reiss' body was later found.
with seven bullet w 0 u red a
through his head in a gutter in
Lausanne, Switzerland.
Another ex -Soviet citizen. Di-
mitri Navachine, was shot down
in broad daylight in Paris. A.
former Soviet military intelli-
gence officer, General Krivitsky,
was found dead in a Washing-
ton hotel room, leaving a fake
suicide note. Another ex -agent's
headless body was found in the
River Marne.
So the killings and kidnap-
pings go on. The F.B.I. not so
long ago found instructions for
manufacturing home-made
bombs from sugar and simple
chemicals, obtainable at any
chemists. The instructions were
written in Spanish for South
American "sympathisers."
MORE PLATE GLASS
Canadian factories shipped
$3,512,629 worth of plate glass
in 1953 as compared with $2,-
929,950 worth•in 1952.
WHEN iN ROME — Play clothes
in the popular toreador styling
are fashioned of silk shantung
in this design from Rome. Uni-
que collar border comes down
as sash, tucks in belt.
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