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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-08-11, Page 2TkI:LE TALKS °Javta.Andcews 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 ri 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. NOW! 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