The Brussels Post, 1955-06-29, Page 2f"3:"*""4*Notugto,
Thrilling Tales Of
Great Speed Demons
N. .0 Fashion Hints TABLE TALKS
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black country roads with all his
lights turned off. Then suddenly
switched them' on when he was
within foot of Varzi, dazzling and
blinding him. as-he went blast-
ing past him to win by 500
yards,
One of his last races was the
1950 Monte Pellegrino, when he
was fifty-eight, He went into a
skid and One of his tortured
tyres spun in empty air over a
precipice: but he fought for
control, got the car back, and
then went on to win,
Another time he had to quit
a blazing car. He -got his speed
down to 100 m,p.h. Then jumped
. . and within two weeks was
back 'at the wheel. Some drivers
used to say that in a race against
the devil they'd have bet on
Nuvolaril
He lived for racing. But the
fumes, that continually rasped
his lungs finally finished him.
His doctors told him he would
have to stop driving. So he tied
a cloth around his mouth and
carried on. The great blow came
when his entry in the 1953 Mille
Miglia was rejected. "He had
nothing to live for then. He went
home to his bed and died—some
say of a broken heart.
CUM
1 can frozen. orange jidee
1 can frozen concentrate for
lemonade
1 can, (IS ounce) pineapple
juice
Dilute frOzen orange juice and
frozen lemonade concentrate ac-
cording to a direction on eons.
Combine 2 cups of each with the
pineapple juice. Combine these
mixed juices with the spiced
sirup, Chill ,Top with pineapple
sherbet when serving,
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For punch in a bright pink
color, try this refreshing drink
which has cranberry juice add-
ed to lemon and orange juice.
Chill it with ice and decorate
with mint.
PINK PUNCH
3 one-pint bottles cranberry
juice
3 cups strained orange juice
11/2 cups strained lemon juice
214 cups light corn sirup
'3 cups carbonated water (ice
'cold)
Combine sirup and fruit
juices; stir until well mixed.
Chill thoroughly. Add carbonat-
ed water just before serving.
Serve over ice. Makes 1 gallon.
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Here's a punch made of dried
apricots, cooked, ' sieved, and
mixed with honey for a special,
delicate sweetening. Garnish it
with orange and lemon slices,
APRICOT AMBROSIA PUNCH
1 pound dried apricots
-1 cup honey-
2 cups. •orange juice
2 cups lemon juice,
2 cups apple juice
2 quarts .rice cold: sparkling
water.
Cook apricots until soft; press
through 'sieve. Add 'honey and
- mix well. • Combine fruit juices.
Add to ,apricot-honey mixture.
Mix well. Chill. Pour over ice
in punch bowl., ,,,lbst before
serving add sparkling water,
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Perhaps you like the sweet
taste of marshmallows in your
drink. Here is a punch which
uses them,
• FRUIT MALLOW FLIP
2 cups boiling water
',/2 pound marshmallows (about
32)
11/2 cups lemon 'juice
1 cup orange `juice,
1/2 cup unsweetened pineapple
juice
In a saucepan, combine boil-
ing water and marshmallow;
stir until marshmallows are
completely dissolved. Cool. Add
fruit juices andwater; mix well.
Serve over ice,
Far summer receptions, par-
ties or family get-to-gethers
nothing is more attractive than
a. punch bowl filed with, a color-
ful, cooling beverage, The fol-
lowing recipes, all non-alcoholic
.of course, may give you some
ideas the next time you — or
your committee — are called
on to. entertain. The quantities
may be varied to suit the num-
ber you expect to serve,
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If you like decorative ice
cubes, fill cube trays about 1,11
full of water. Add a maraschino
cherry or a wedge of lemon or
orange or a sprig of mint /M
each section .and freeze. When
firm, fill rest of tray with water
and •continue freezing, A satis-
fying lemon flavor may be
added to your drink with lem-
onade cubes made by pouring
plain lemonade into ice . trays
and freezing it.
This coo], tangy Orange Blos-
som Punch is • easy to prepare
and serve. It serves 25-30 guests,
ORANGE BLOSSOM
PUNCH
6 cups fresh orange juice
1 cup fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup maraschino cherry juice
4 ,cups ginger ale (water may
be used instead)
cup sugar
2 quarts orange or lemon.
sherbet
Combine all ingredients ex-
cept sherbet. • Just before serv-
ing; put sherbet in bottom of
punch bowl. Pour chilled punch
over Sherbet and garnish with
orange blossoms. Serve immedi-
ately.
This punch contains the fruit
as well as juice of the shredded
pineapple and fresh or frozen
strawberries -from which. it is
made. '
Making Enda. Meet
With Soldier
oceEpionally there cosV.l3 up
the need for a spot of soldering
in the home, Either you join the
ranks of these who can tackle
it themselves-,-Or pay for an ex-
- pert to do. the job.
The majority of metals met
with in and -around the house
and garage—lead, zinc, tinplate,
-mild ,steel, bronze,- etc,—can be
effectively joined with ordinary .
solder. Don't tackle cast-iron,
however.
°poinirs
the me
oo solder-
impor tant
ing is tit thoroUghly clean up
the surfaces to be united, All
traces of dirt and grease must
be removed, and, that goes for
rust, ,too. It's no Use tackling the
jab . half-heartedly:
,To assist the flOw of the solder
yoUll need to buy flux, obtain-
- able at the local hardware,
and a tin of its laSts a long time.
Now for the solde1ing iron.
These arefnade in a number of
sizes, and naturally the size of
, the iron used will depend upon
the job to be tackled. It is not
so much a question of the size
of the iron as the size and weight
of 'tile copper bit inserted 'in the
iron—for this is the part that
does the work. A small bit will
not retain the heat long enough
to "run" a long strip of solder-
ing.
The bit itself must be kept
properly "tinned"; i.e., all four
sides adequately coated with
solder. A simple method of do-
ing this is to heat the bit until
it will melt the solder, then dip
it into some flux along with
some small blobs of solder. By
easing the sides of the bit on
the solder, tinning will form.
This requires a little eXP'erience,
but the, knack soon 'comes. Wipe
off any surplus flux while the
iron is warm.
Care is necessary in the heat-
ing of the iron, for if overheated
the tinning will eat into the
copper and cause erosion. Heat
the bit until it will just melt the
solder. Practice is necessary to
gauge the right temperature,
but a useful guide is to heat the
bit until it colours quickly after
wiping it with a piece at clean
rag. Apply the flame just, above
the point of the copper bit—and
don't use a coal fire for the
, heating.
The next step is the actual
soldering. Having ensured that
the surfaces are clean, apply
flux to them. For a small job
take the solder 'from the stick
by way of the tinned surfaces
of the heated bit. The bit is
then brought into contact with
the joint and held there for a
moment to allow it to warm
up.; If the .joint is really clean
the solder will run from the tip
of the bit on the job, it can then
be "wiped" over 'with the bit to
make a clean face.
For ,a joint of any length, run
the iron and the solder, along the
seam, keeping the bit flat on
the metal and slightly ,in ad-
vance- of the' solder. Don't lift
the bit from the work while
soldering a seam.
FASHION:IN,MOOk Town or 'travelling`iuit in -red and whi
,w lightweigiP ool tweed. The straight jacket has a lbw yoke
effect and buttoned half-belt, in the back.
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9,821 Coins in, the
Fountain'
Aussies Hit. Right
Note With "Enemy
Choir
The Guide-Dog Association , in
Johannesburg recently hit upon
a .novel.-idea to make money. ,
City people, were told to throw
a coin into the fountain in the
foyer 'of *.l'ohanesburg's railway
station and` to make a .wish.
SPARKLING FRUIT
PUNCH
1 cup hulled strawberries
1 cup shredded pineapple
6 tablespoons lemon juice
1 cup sugar
1 bottle (quart) ginger ale
Place strawberries and pine-
apple in bowl; add lemon juice
and sugar; crush berries slight-
ly. Let stand half an hour. Add
ginger ale, stir well, and pour
over ice cubes in punch bowl.
Garnish, with lemon slices and
whole strawberries.Makes about
16 punch cups. * * *
Spices added to fruit juices
make a delicious beverage. It is
simple to make spiced sirup in
advance and store it in a tight
screw-top jar for last-minute
mixing. Add to the spiced sirup
whatever fruit juices you think
taste best with it.
The 'following recipe makes
14 punch cups. ,
SPICED FRUIT JUICE
SIRUP:
1' cup, sugar
1 cup water
1 tablespoon corn sirup
1 tablespoon whole cloves
2 pieces stick cinnamon (1
inch long)
Combine water and sugar; stir
until sugar dissolves. Add sirup,
cloves and cinnamoii.'Simmer 15
minutes. Strain; cool.
9,321 eeints were found in' the
fthintain in 'ten days.
The total 'collected .,was 8150
18s, 8d. A tally •of heads-`showed
that dust; over 3,000 people threw
...in coins; sabconSCiously perhaps
fallowing 'the' old Rottiair. custom
of throwing three coins in -the
Trevi fountain, to make a wish.
So, the- Guide-Dog Association
netted: a rich -harvest,
Casserole Kiss
Novel publicity stunts are the
order of the day in every line
of business. The exclusive and
ultra-expensive Paris restau-
rant, Laserre, where diners have
an automatic chance to win an
invitation to another meal on
the house, or a number of bot-
tles of champagne, on certain
days of the week, certainly had
an original idea when the
"Lucky Dove" formula was in-
stituted.
When the room is crowded
with elegant diners and cham-
pagne corks are a-popping, the
chef brings in a giant copper
casserole and lifts the lid . . .
Luck Doves
No succulent smell escapes,
but a flight of doves. They cir-
cle the room, unflurried by
their suroundings, and soon set-,
tie on an outstretched arm or
friendly shoulder.
Those upon whom the doves'
choice falls are winners in the
"free dinner and champagne
game" and a scrambled hair-do
is a small price to pay for the
chance to enjoy the hospitality
of this famous restaurant. (The
winner in our illustration is
thanking her dove in an ap-
propriate fashion — with a kiss.)
So rich is the cooking, so
heady the wines that many
have come away in the evening
to suffer next morning. To
regular customers the house
offers a charming and practical
little token in the forth of a
tiny silver casserole to hang on
a charm bracelet, watch-chain
or key-ring. Lift the lid and in-
side you will find two aspirin
tablets -- the, management feels
you may require them next
morning! But to every holder of
the silver saucepan it offers a
free drink at the bar while you
wait for your lunch or dinner
date.
Parisian Model Hits The Silk Two Ways
Destiny travelled in Decem-
ber, 1938, with the world-tour-
ing Mozart choir of Viennese boy
singers. Aged between nine and
fourteen, the boys, under their
choirmaster, Dr. 'Georg Gruber,
embarked on` their trip, and ful-
filled engagements in the United
States; Hawaii, New Zealand
and , Australia.
On reaching Perth, Australia,
in September, 1939, they found•
the Conilnonwealth at war with
the Axis powers, Their choir-
master was interned.
The youngsters were in despair
at their plight. But thanks to a
sermon ,on neighbourly love
preached by Archbishop Dr.
Daniel Mannix, in St. Patrick's
Cathedral, Melbourne—a sermon
designed to help their nineteen
"enemy" boys—the good people
in the locality found each lad a
home.
Growing up in Australion sun-
shine and the invigorating free-
dom of that country, a kind of
magic worked within these young
Austrians, After the war they
were, of course, free to return
home.
Yet, today, so far, one only
has done so, Several of the oth-
ers h avemarried Australian
girls, or become AuStraliOn cit-.
izens, earning a good livelihood
now in such varied occupations
as' aperetie p r o rl u e e r, clerk,
ere ftsm 6n,
MERRY MENAGEN!:
HITTING THE SILK 'AS COlette gets ready to collapse
parachnte on wbith She rode tO a women's recard, delayed drop.
powered, engines snarling
lo the distance above the seetn-
hios of rain, the fast-growing
dots that were the leading, ears
bobbed towards the big double
bend in the Grand Prix of Monte
Carlo, The spectators Craned,
forward anxiously, seeing the
u•ly spread of oil that a broken-
dov.n ear had dumped on the
c:cherous track,
As the leader shot into the
mend he slithered wildly, out of
control, and crashed into a smok-
ing heap, The second car fol-
lowed suit . . then the third,
whiett took the grinding tear-
ing impact of the next two. The
sixth car was already on top
of the corner. Its driver, his foot
hard clown, was making no at-
tempt, to slow.
Slamming his wheels from side'
to side faster than the eye could
follow he not only sent his scar-
let Alfa Romeo thundering and
sliding safely throUgh the oil,
but mirculoulsy missed the five
wrecks that were piled up all
around him. Those who saw it—
the year was 1935—vow there
has never been such a display
of racing skill and daring, But
they'll also tell you that the
driver was the greatest ever.
The magnificent "Il ,Maestro."
The Flying Mantuan.
"Nobody who knows anything
about it will argue the proposi-
tion that Tazio Nuvolari was the
greatest driver who ever held
the wheel _of an automobile,"'
writes Ken Purdy in "The Kings
Of The Road", an absorbing
book about great cars and
drivers.
He was never smooth and im-
perturbable like Caracciola and
Louis Chiron and' the other
fabulously good drivers 'who
came up against him. He yelled,
shook his fist, bounced up and
down like a jack-in-the-box
while he drove with one hand
and beat on the side of the car
with the other. But none of them
could get around corners like
him.
He broke all the rules. He
would go into a ,corner straight
and come out sliding—or power-
slide the whole way through. He
could corner without touching
his brakes, using only gears and
throttle. He could skid a car
through a curve at 150 m.p.h.
with his front wheels inches
from the fence all thew way
round.
Born hi 1892, little Tazio Nu-
volari first showed his contempt
for danger as a boy when one
.of the early wood-and-wire
IplatieS crashed near -his home in
the tiny village of Castel d'Ario,
in the province of. Manua. He
salvaged the wreck, . rebuilt it,
then hoisted it up to the roof,
tied it to the chimney, and
cranked the engine.
When the prop was turning he
tut the rope and took off. It was
* dramatically, short flight —
straight diiWn and little Tazio
was picked up with a broken
hack, the first of seven major
smash-ups he was to. have.
As a young man., he worked
Off MS passion for speed on
motorbikes,. winning some 300
races in Italy and abroad. Once
at Monza he was in plaster on
The day of. a race, forbidden to
move for a month. But he made
his friends carry hiM on to the
track and strap him to his bike.
He knew he could stay on once
he was moving. He did. And
won.
In 1927 he won his first car
'race, and from then on domin-
ated the tracks, the only driver
to win every grand prix in the
calendar. In 1933, a typical year,
he entered' fifteen races and .1:-.7ati
ten of theme--=including the Mille
ifielia and Le Mans.
He was ruthless in his me-
%oda. One of his tricks was to
Make fades in .tlie mirror of the
man in front. ,,When he, looked
round', Nuvolari *odd slim his
foot down and go thundering
past -him. He, even adinitted to
distracting another ' driVer'S at-
tent by; ;throwing. crackers
behind hiS.cat! —
To win his second Viihe Mie
lia—toughest.,,of , them all—he
linew he had' std laass Athille
Varzi in 'the „lest 100, ,miles. To
outwit hiS great rival,' he droVe
sixty' iniye • ciler' the pitch,
Saurs-.. SALLIES
HITTING THE SILK AS A-MbibEto Colette Duval gets ready
ge to' Work Parts fashion salon to pay for hObby She iotiet
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DRESSED FOR JUMP, Colette•
holds equlpnient she designed.
By itOgEtit,liAlidittiVit
NEA Staff Correspondent
PARIS—When she Wet Ei little
girl in Normandy, Colette NI,
val was Considered all itrePres‘'
Sible, tomboy. For six months
during the War, she 'Was- the mas-
cot of a French infantry tiniL
At 16, she took up gliding; at
20, she Made her' firk Parachute'
juniPo
vit014te-it, looks is if you had
lotirlitettire 'Ct the
blatigtiOri Salon in Paris, Every
Sunday front
salon.,,
to peteher',
She spends "gfteni"'
explains`Colette, "I. have been
10' bldck Arid bite I could hardly'
shoal evening
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Colette • is (Me' of Shalt 1,000-
chtitists in Prim* where it t
Olnilati iport,,altong:
ista from *Very Soda). ellisk (hitt
in Russia the 'cbutint,
Today'; at 24, ,Collette hifilde the
women's *COI record for de-
10.061-drOli jiiiiiping and the ree;,.
Okd for jumping: with an Oxygen
both accomplished in
free tall. frerii 22,000
biet to 000 feet, where she pti11,
cif the rip Cord,
'Since parachuting is a
ii1:56r4 Colette earnaLthe MOW
tOpby for -it by Modeling Piffle,
creations -t swank Avenue "."4dit just nibbling for' "te.
taitic OC iitsti,* And theii theY
-threite It at :yotilo'
Mete:, altimeter, oxygen tank
and SPare parachute.'
A year ago she turned profeS•,
Menai and gets from $15 to $100"
per jump at meetings all over
France, But her, big dream is to
jump from 32,506 feet she Can
break the World reciril, new
held by a
"It's'' so much ti'eer. UP' there
than on the ground," 'SOS CM=
ette.
ticed on a wider scale as ti•SPOrt,
Despite her success as a medel,
COlette has no interest in chi-thee,
Tor; is she interested lit de-mettle
life. "If I married- I- would hatte
Weird up parachuting," she ex-
Plains: Her parachute, *filch hat
seen' her through 150 Sumps, is
her' bed . friend, She has detign,--
ed ind4itented friend
aPpitriiipi she-6'410e wtth her.
OH JUMP* that combines` ehretie,