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TNECalvert SPORTS COLUMN
4 , et 9evadea
as Mention of Last year's Grey Cup game,
in which the Edmonton Eskimos Literally
Snatched the Grey Cup victory from the
Laws of defeat by Montreal's powerful
4ioaettes, always recalls the picture of
an athlete who sat sobbing, inconsolably,
on a dressing -room bench.
That was Chuck Hunsinger, a hard-boiled, hard-bitten
old pro, who for two seasons hacl battled gamely and well
for the Montreal team; leader, the previous season, in touch-
downs for his club. Suddenly, he was a broken man, who
sat there sobbing, with tears seeping through his mud -
grimed fingers.
He paid no heed to team-mates who patted his heaving
back and told him it was just luck of the game., With mere
minutes to play, the ball had slipped from his hands, gone
spinning off wildly, was caught up by Edmonton's fleet -
footed Jackie Parker who raced 90 yards for the touch -down
that won the Cup for the west by a scant point, 26 - 25.
It had been 25 - 20 for Alouettes after the desperately -
fighting Eskimos had crashed through for a late touch -down,
cutting down an adverse margin of 25 - 14. And even then,
it seemed as though the east must triumph again. For the
Alouettes were stung. They turned on their power, savagely
smashed the ball back to the western 10 -yard line. A pass
was thrown to Hunsinger, he started to race, head -down,
toward the Edmonton line.
Big Rollie Prather dived at him, the ball flew loose from
fIunsinger's hands. Whether it was an attempted pass, or
just a fumble, doesn't matter much. The ball rolled loosely.
Parker swooped it in, sprinted over the Alouette line and
so turned defeat into victory.
That was tragedy for Hunsinger. A few weeks later, over
20,000 Montreal fans signed a telegram urging him to return
the next season. But we doubt even this overwhelming vote
of confidence will ever efface the memory of that tragic
split-second in which he lost the ball and his team lost the
coveted Grey Cup.
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PLAYED HOOKEY FOR A WEEK
RICHT UNDER TEACHER'S DESK!
When three-year-old Johnny
Johnston returned, safely and
unhurt, after disappearing from
Ikome and spending three nights
en Salisbury Plain, it caused a
national sensation in Britain.
Understandable. Yet, as any
parent will tell you, . children
do the `most amazing things, run
.risks which would give their
elders a heart attack, and yet
romehow escape unscathed.
Take the case of the kiddy
who had a passion for trains.
He would spend every spare
Element watching what he ob-
viously considered to be fasci-
nating but harmless monsters.
One day he became more yen.
tiresome. He wandered on to
the track just as a train was
*bout to leave Blackburn for
Zouthport.
Fortunately he was spotted by
Vie engine - driver. Frantically,
the man sprinted a couple of
hundred yards along the line. It
was a near thing. As he snatched
the youngster to safety an ex-
press train roared by—on the
Imes where thekiddy had been
playing.
An equally adventurous spirit
was displayed by a couple of
WOWI—That's what Mrs. Helena
iclrrar's visitors say when they
come to her home in Southport,
England. For greeting them at
the door is Mrs. Farrar and
Rajah, a 250 -pound lion, Rajah
was brought home by Mrs. Far-
tart, a zoo keeper, because the
)tan was ill and needed more
*Mention.
lads who played truant from a
home in Croydon and took ref-
uge in a school of all places.
But they didn't go there to learn.
Instead they hid beneath the
platform used by a teacher, And,
almost unbelievably, they stayed
there for six days.
Their "refuge was ';a mere. foot
high, but it provided plenty of
floor space. At any rate the
boys, aged eleven and thirteen,
made themselves comfortable.
When everything was quiet,
they "borrowed" an electric fire
from the building and plugged
it in. They did the same with a
radio. Bedding didn't stump
them, either. Odd clothes left
about the school made a good
substitute for blankets.
How about exercise? Here
again the answer was easy.
After all, schools . are open for
only a certain number of hours
a day. The lads slipped out at
the appropriate moments during
the morning and at nights.
And, when the teachers and
pupils had departed, they cooked
themselves wonderful meals of
fried bread and eggs scrounged
from the kitchen.
Even more enterprising—and
on a very different plane—is
the Swiss girl of seven who
wrote a book for children. It
was published recently and sold
15,000 copies in a fortnight. Now
she is writing another.
And for courage, many chil-
dren put grown-ups to shame.
Imagine yourself, if you can, in
the position of little Jean Daw-
son. She was ten. Her bungalow
in Kenya was attacked by Mau
Mau terrorists. One of the de-
fenders was wounded. Jean
tended him while the crack of
her father's rifle echoed in her
ears.
But the little girl did far more
than that. Shetelephoned the
police, listened carefully to their
instructions on the best method
of holding off the gang, and
lucidly and calmly passed on
"Their lives depend on me."
Fire, when it runs riot, pro-
vides perhaps the most terrify.
ing ordeal. Yet when a Clapham
girl Of seven awoke and found
her bedroom full of smoke, she
remained perfectly calm. "My
father and mother, my sister,
my little brother," she thought.
"Their lives depend on me."
And so she hastened to the
bedrooms where the rest of the
family were sleeping. Thanks to
her coolness they escaped in-
jury.
FELDSPAR ge QUARTZ
There were some 29 mines in
Canada shipping feldspar and
quartz in 1953, five less than in
1952, but the gross value of
Shipments was higher at $3,-
994,052 as compared with $3,-
606,085,
BIG OKRA FROM -LITTLE ACRIES. — in a plot 41/2 by 6/ feet, L. E.
Slawson, has harvested more than 3500 pods of okra. And the
vines were still sprouting okra when this picture was taken in
Slawson's back yard.
They refused to accept
a penny in payment.
A small boy was standing in
the middle of a busy road in
Nottingham directing traffic.
Held up by his admonitory hand,
cars and buses stretched in a
long line.
"I'm a Sea Scout," he proudly
told a somewhat shaken police-
man who rushed up to straighten
out the muddle. "My scout-
master says we should help
people at zebra crossings."
But there was no zebra cross-
ing there!
Children have a sense of hu-
mour, too, and it is not neces-
sarily of the infantile variety.
A traffic was erected in a New
Mexico town. "School zone," it
warned motorists. "Don't kill a
child."
This was too good an oppor-
tunity to miss by the local
youngsters.. One of them 'added
in juvenile scrawl: "Wait for a
teacher !" Even the parents—and
the teachers—smiled at that.
Moder f Etiquette
By Roberta Lee
Q. Isn't it improper for two
persons who are introduced at
a dinner to reach acrosee the
table to shake hands?
A. Although not exactly im-
proper, it does create an awk-
ward situation, and it is much
better to refrain from shakllg
hands and merely nod your
head in acknowledgment of a
table introduction. If, however,
the other person does reach
across the table to you, you
must not hesitate in accepting
it.'
Q. After finishing a glass of
sherbet at the dinner table,
what should one do with the
spoon?
A. Place it on the saucer
which holds the glass.
Q. When settting the dinner
table, should the cutting edges
of the knives be towards the
plate or pointing away from the
plate?
A. Towards the plate.
Q. Is it possible to correct
someone's grammar without be-
ing impolite?
A. No one likes being cor-
rected in group conversation,
and efforts at improvement of
grammar and diction had bet-
ter be reserved for members of
one's family or very close
friends who may consider them
as favors, and not insults.
Q. Should a hostess take the
men's coats when they arrive
at her home, and there is no
servant?
A. No, If the host is not pres-
ent, she should provide a place
for the men to leave their
wraps as they arrive.
Q. Should the napkin be held
above the edge of the table
when unfolding it?
A. No; the napkin should be
unfolded in the lap.
Q. Is it preferable to write
a business letter in short sen-
tences and short paragraphs?
A. Yes. Brevity is preferred in
a business letter, though it takes
real ability to "tell a story" in
a few words, It is often more
difficult to write a good short
letter than a lengthy one.
Q. Is it necessary to mail en-
graved wedding. invitations to
close friends who have already
been invited verbally?
A. it is always correct to send
the engraved invitations -- even
to members of the immediate
families.
Princess Breaks
Ali The Rides
In a flat in the heart of May-
fair most mornings England's
oldest princess spends an hour
or two dictating her reminis-
cences into a modern recording
machine.
Royal advisers were startled
when they heard that Princess
Marie Louise, Queen Victoria's
grand -daughter, was writing her
memoirs. She has been behind
the scenes at four coronations
and forty royal weddings Now
in her eighty-fourth year, she
can saltily recall all the royal
family crises of her amazing life-
time. Yet her secrets have never
. been told.
Few people realized, for in-
stance, through all the years
that barred divorcees from the
Royal Enclosure at Ascot, that
there had been a divorce in the
royal family itself.
' The divorced, both guilty and
innocent, were rigidly excluded
from Court. Yet Princess Marie
Louise sometimes appeared smil-
ing on the balcony at Bucking-
ham Palace -and staid chamber-
lains had to admit that Court
rules need not apply to near
relatives of the Blood.
Though divorce meant social
ostracism, they inevitably had
to make Princess Marie Louise
an exception. So she continued
to go to Ascot and stroll in the
Royal Enclosure whenever she
felt like it.
In 1891, when she was a girl
of nineteen, Princess Marie
Louise occupied much the same
position in royal popularity as
the nineteen -year-old Princess
Alexandra does today. When her
engagement was announced to
Prince Joseph of- Anhalt, one of
the richest duchies in Germany,
public opinion rejoiced.
Royal guests from all nations
flocked to the wedding in St.
George's Chapel, Windsor. But
the last echoes of the wedding
bells had scarcely died away
when the Princess endured deep
humiliation.
After nine years of unhappi-
ness and heartbreak the mar-
riage was dissolved. Quietly the
Princess returned to England
and began devoting her life to
helping others. Even now, at
eighty.three, she works with
amazing vitality for dozens of
organizations ranging from dis-
trict nursing to the Docklands
Settlement.
Whether for a charity mati-
nee, a ball or a fund-raising
speech, good cause organizers
know that the Princess will
oblige. Almost alone among
royal princess, Marie Louise has
her telephone number in the
'phone book.
No other royal princess lives
in a flat. To be sure, it is a grace
and favour residence, the lavish-
ly equipped fourteen -room flat
in Curzon Street which was in-
tended as George VI's H.Q. if
Buckingham Palace had been
wrecked in war -time. But hide-
bound aristocrats still frown at
the thought of the daughter of
Queen Victoria's third daughter
looking down on the cafes and
oyster bars.
But .Princess Marie Louise is
nothing if not unconventional.
It was shocking when she danced
the lancers with a pearly king
at Hoxton Carnival thirty years
ago -and just as shocking to
some when she accepted an in-
vitation to a Coronation tea with
the same pearly king in 1937.
She was the first princess of
the blood royal to smoke in pub-
lic, the first to join a Women's
club, the first to Sly in an air-
craft.
Early this year her doctor de-
creed a rest cure. Whereupon
the Princess murmured that a
change was as good as a rest
and went off on a startling ex-
pedition through central Africa,
travelling 2,500 miles, wearing
breeches and living under
canvas,
It seemed to be something of
a record when, at the age of
eighty-two, she flew over 'Vic-
toria Falls. But the Princess
flew over the same Falls thirty
years ago in 'planes that un-
doubtedly looked — and felt —
much more hazardous.
All her expenses, incidentally,
are always met from her own
purse, for the Princess has never
enjoyed any provision from the
civil list. No doubt she owns a
considerable fortune. (Her kins-
woman, Princess Victoria, left a
quarter million some years ago.)
She is the fortunate possessor of
the world's first pink mink coat.
On gala occasions, when a dia-
mond tiara glistens above her
grey curls and she wears her
famous rope of pearls, no one
looks more royal,
By virtue of years, indeed,
she is now Britain's senior prin-
cess. She is also the oldest of
Victoria's six surviving grand-
daughters. Incessantly she works
hard at the tasks of royal tra-
ditions, demanding homage not
for herself but for the royal
idea.
It caused all the greater flurry
in official dovecotes riot long
ago when she mentioned that
one royal duty had never come
her way, and added that she
had never launched anything—
"not even a dinghy."
The First Lord of the Ad-
miralty undertook to repair the
omission. Within a short time
the Princess travelled down to
Portsmouth and launched a de-
stroyer.
Then, almost in the same
week, there were dinners, a ball
at Claridges, a calypso ball at
the May Fair, speeches for the
National Polio Research Fund.
And besides this, the Princess
gave a sherry party. "Blow in
fart a sherry," she informally in-
vited her friends.
"Don't you ever want to go
to bed early?" a friend once
asked this intrepid lady.
"Never 1" she firmly replied,
But in one of her straight-
forward speeches she confessed,
"I've lived a very long life, You
all know my age. I have far ex-
ceeded my span of three score
years and ten. But present-day
youth—so gallant, so valiant is
the way they cope with the dif-
ficulties and problems of every-
day life. It makes rine sad when
I look back on my youth when
we seemed so safe and secure.
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hairdo contest in Berlin, Ger-
many. The crazy coiffure was
created by a hairdresser from
the Soviet zone in just one hour.
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