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The Brussels Post, 1955-11-02, Page 6" R71.ht MEV 10 Ca 009 .t. !I PRESEtITS,,:ccvg§ts-7,!Princess artibte tc (left)'74resenl colort 16 1:i.-D.,E4,9Visq,le(r ig h 0 of tile f.ki,ittiglilang:tiofil..0 at, Bu!fci'rd comP,SOlisbury, Plain4 En,lond.. . ' , • r ••••,••••••,,.... ► BLE TALKS LoTtrririgricnial TV ToothpaSte, baking powder, cocoa, and petrol gently assailed the viewing public. as Britain's first commercial television ef.,, fort skimmed through its open- ing night, Eininent. people like Sir John Gleigntlx Dame Edith . Evans, Robert Morley, George Formby, John Clements, and Nay Ham- mond appeared in sliest extracts from well-known plays in order to give the Independent Televi- sion AOtherity's first program a flying start, while a middle- weight boxing fight was fea- tured as the evening's main event. The program went on the air at 7:15 the evening of Sept. 22, and was heralded by one of the biggest electric storms seen in or around Landon for a leng time, In London and the subuabs, and even as far as a hundred miles away from the metropo- lis, reception was of nigh quali- ty. Everyone was *asking 'the morning after whether the Brit- ish Broadcasting Corporation's television service would be able to stand up to the competition of the new commercial televi- sion. It is generally recognized that the new ITA program set itself a high standard, bringing famous players to the screen in filmed scenes from "The Irrmnrtange of Being Earnest" a»d Noel elow- ard's "Private Lives," and shnw- ing the Lancashire comedian ARTERY K • •,.• Attoics removea rum the bodies of young PerSerw who die as the result. of accidents are to, be stored for use in emergency grafting operations in the Nothr erland's first-ever "artery' bank, An average of 1150. artery graf- ling operations are carried out by Dutch surgeons every year, The supply of .available arteries is often short of clemaod,. A "bank" on which doctors can draw in cases where. a person's. artery has become affected, enough to interfere with the proper circulation of blood will save many lives and prevent un- necessary amputatiOns, it is claimed, Dutch law permits post mor- terns on anyone provided per- mission is obtained from the. deceased's relatives, and already. a nation-wide campaign \has been launched appealing to young people of the Netherlands to donate their arteries to the "bank" should they meet with sudden death. Medical' direction has set the age limit for donors at 25 years. Arteries of older persons, s.ay.the surgeons, are • ineffective for grafting. Preservation of extracted as- teries will. be by deep-freezing as used for plasma in blood "banks." • For this purpose the artery "bank" is to have the use of • . the :deep-freezing plant at the Dutch Red Cross blood trans.- fusion centre. wares Vttpn shy away from attempting me- )thgues, but they are easy to make successfully and. firm the base for Many attractive and, colorful dessert& Slow cooking in a 250.275".F. oven is one way to have meringnes tender and crisp, From 40-60 minutes is the usual cooking time, but each recipe has exact inatructiens for proper cooking, * * Top meringues with pepper- mint ice cream and dribble thick chocolate sauce over them. rill meringues with vanilla ice cream and top with red rasp- berries, strawberries, sliced peaches, or any favorite fruit writes. Eleanor Richey Johnston in The• Christian' Science Moni- tor. Canned fruits, too, may be used with mer4ngues. Canned pear halves may top chocolate ice cream that is nested in me- ringues. Peach halves, apricot halves; dark red cherries, blue- berries, crushed, pineapple — any favorite fruit may be com- bined with your favorite ice cream for completing a me- ringue--based dessert. • * * PEAR A LA MERINGUE 3 egg whites 'A teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vinegar VI': teaspoon lemon extract 1,,e2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 can (No. 2Y2) Bartlett pear halves 1 quart chocolate ice cream Beat egg white and salt un- til very.stiff. Add sugar, 1 table- spoon at a time, beating thor- oughly after each addition. Add vinegar and extracts when about half the sugar has been used. Continue beating until stiff and glossy. Grease a cookie sheet and make 8 *meringue mounds with a tablespoon, indenting centers. Bake at 375° F. for 40 minutes. Run a spatula under each meringue as soon as they are out of the oven. Cool on reeks.;. When ready to serve, place a scoop or slice of chocolate ice cream in center .of each me- ringue. Top each with a drained pear half: burn_, directOr or the Roston Museum, "He, must have flown over the Amne Machin Range!" No, said Reynolds; "We were on our way to India, Then we realized we didn't have the ne- cessary visas and carne back," Dr, Sall, however, did some simple arithmetic and found that the 'plane's 'cruising speed of 200 rn.p.h, was just about right to get from Shanghai to the Amni Machins and back in fourteen hours. He charged Reynolds with violating his agreement, said he would , pro- test to the U.S, Embassy, and later told Reynolds: "We do not feel you have conducted your- self as a leader of a great ex- pedition should," Admitting "negligence" in taking off without informing them, Reynolds offered to set up a ball-point pen factory, all pro- fits to go to the New Life Move- ment Association for the better- ment of China, and said he'd gladly lead a new expedition of Chinese scientists. It was of no avail, for at the airport he found 'plane, pilot and crew impounded and guard- ed by Chinese with tommy-guns. His passport was taken from him, 'he was ordered to report to the local police station, and thotight he was about to be shot. Then he .got an idea—would- n't the guards like some pens? Could he enter the 'plane to get them? Yes, • they said. So he climbed in, hurled out handfuls of gold-plated ones, and as the guards scrambled for them, slammed the door, told the pilot to gun the engines, and off the 'plane roared for Tokyo. He then flew back to the U.S. pursued by cries of "Imposter!" from the Chinese press, and later admitted that he had flown over the Range, as Dr. Sah sur- mised, "The mountain was there, all right," he said. "It was cov- ered with snow. A magnificent sight! .,We were flying at more , than 27,000 feet and its peak disappeared into the clouds at 31,000 feet." On less exuberant occasions, he confessed: "I lost face." He certainly lost 25,000 dol- lars, the cost of the whole crazy jaunt, and gave away in all 10,- 000 pens. The story typifies the fantastic stunts disclosed in thi's ballyhoo sage, illustrated by Robert Osborn's funny drawings. HONORS SAINT — This new Ital- ian stamp honors St. Francis, founder of the Monastic Order of Franciscans. Depicting the Basilica of St. Francis in Assissi, Italy, the stamp is fawn and black. , COME-BACK * * * If you like more "body" to HONORED—Sir Winston Church- ill will be the first recipient of the newly established Wiliams- burg Award for "outstanding achievement in advancing basic principles of liberty and jus- tice." The 'award, to be given in London probably in December, consists of an honorarium of $10,000 and a symbolic town crier's bell. It was established by trustees of Colonial Williams- burg, in Virginia. A fraternity house had sent its curtains to be laundered. It was the second day that the house had stood unveiled and that morning the following note was received from the sorority house across the street: "Dear Sirs: May we suggest that you procure curtains for your windows? We do not care for a course in anatomy." The chap who left his shaving to read the note promptly an- swered: "Dear Girls: The course is op- tional," immediately arrived in China ,,Reynolds met difficulties, for the Chinese demanded that a most unreasonable number of their scientists accompany him. He aired his troubles to the press in Peiping, dressed in blue man- darin costume, as he handed out pens to Chinese reporters, some of whom at once sold them on the black market. When one Shanghai' journal urged him to hurry up, find the world's highest mountain, and name it Mount Reynolds, he was delighted, for he • planned to issue a special Explorer pen if he found the peak. Off to the editor went a ball-point perfume dispenser (a Reynolds side-line) guaranteed to exude "Trois Fleurs" scent for five years. Reynolds himself smelt 'Over- poweringly of it, Whiteside says, for he carried dispensers in his pockets. Finally, with difficulties all straightened out, off went the heavily loaded "Explorer" down a Peiping runway, all set for the great .adventure. Suddenly it tilted, its right propellor touched ground, its nose wheel collapsed, and it settled gently in the mud. No one was hurt, but Reynolds gravely announced, "The expedition is over. Captain Everest has won again." Two days later, having dum- ped the scientists to find their way back to Shanghai, he landed there himself, telling reporters that "Erplorer" had been re- paired at Peiping by Chinese Air Force mechanics and he was leaving for the U.S. via Tokyo, Fourteen .hours later he was back again, without explanation. "Well, I'll curl up and die!" said one of the scientists, Dr. Wash- Ballyhtit - Stunts In Adeimiiting Hats off to Milton Reynolds, U.S. millionaire manufacturer of ball-point pens! 'He'd' always believed 'in aeroplane flights to stimulate sales publicity. -- In 1948 he said he'd lead a large expedition to China to find and measure a peak--in the Amne Machin 'Range near' the Tibetan border, rumoured" to be 'higher than Everest. He would also ex- plore the unmapped sources of the Yellow River. In a ''plane chriitened ""Ex- plorer," he'd 'fly over With`geol- ogists, meteorologists, photogra- phers, physicists, radar, and height - measuring equipment, cameras, thermometers, bare- meters and what have you. Okay, said the Chinese gov- ernment — provided you take some Chinese scientists with you. Dr. Sah, head of the Academia Sinica in Nanking, said Okay too. But pointed out that Chin- ese geologists already had the Yellow River sources well in hand and had determined that the highest Amne Machin peak was only 20,000 feet, about 10,- 000 less than 'Everest. All the same, off went Reyn- olds to President Truman to re- ceive his best wishes for suc- cess and assure him in return that he would do his utmost to keep the U.S. in the lead of sci- entific research—and, incident- ally,- have him supplied with more pens. And off from Oak- land, California, soared the ex- pedition in early March, Thomas Whiteside records in a brilliant survey of U.S. advertising bally- hoo: "The Big Puff." ' ,„ At Last !The Truth About Paris Models By Rosette Hargrove NEA. Staff Correspondent George Formby singing his fa- mous song "Leaning on a Lamp Post." At the same time, those who expected commercial television to bring in new and unexpected talents, to open up a "hew era of entertainment, saw nothing to give them encouragement. Fa- miliar faces doing things the public has been acquainted with for many years — that was the characteristic feature of a pro- gram that had many of the BBC's most amateurish qualities in a pronounced degree. The general opinion is that the advertisements were in good taste and inoffensive. They were accompanied by tinkling little songs and in some cases by car- toons or pictures of the English countryside. They came at fre- quent intervals and lasted for a few seconds only. Under the system established by the ITA, the advertisers do not promote the program them- selves any more than advertisers Write the editorial matter in newspapers. The programs are arranged by contractors and the advertisers have no control over what goes into them. The opening night's program contained no American acts nor material. "I Love Lucy" is among. the Americans items scheduled for the near future and it is possible that when American influence increases the ITA en-, tertainment will attain a slick professionalism of which it showed, no sign in its opening session. This program and the ITA network itself have been estab- lished in the short space of 10 months, an achievement of which it sponsors are justifiably proud. Some of them came on, to the screen Sept. 22, but seemed un- able to decide whether to con- gratulated themselves firmly or to express a modest deprecation of their efforts, with a hope of doing better° in the future. The news was read pleasantly by champion distance runner Chris Chataway. Mr. Chataway was preceded by the director of news, Alden Crawley, who de- livered a formidable address didating that the ITA news serv- ice aimed at being both serious and light. For the first time in televi- sion history hi Britain, a televi- sion news screen proceeded to give .an account of a trial at the Old Bailey, YQUI," :Meringues, try these, with rolled saltine crackers as one of the ingredients. ,Shape them into hesrts for a special Oeca- Sian. . SWEETKEART MERINGLTES 3 egg whites cup sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon haking 'powder 1 teaspoon vanilla saltine crackers finely rolled 1 quart strawberry ice cream Strawberry sauce Beat eager whites with rotary beater until they form soft peaks. Gradually beat in sugar and baking powder; mix in va- nilla. Fold in cracker crumbs. Using a pastry tube or spoen, shape meringues into 8 hearts on brown paper on cookie sheet. Bake at 300° F. for 45 minuutes, Life meringues off paper and cool on wire rack. Just before serving, top with strawberry ice cream and serve with straw- berry sauce, * Meringue may be cooked with flour, arid then it becomes an angel cake. ANGEL ICE CREAM DELIGHT 11.4 cups egg whites 1 teaspoon cream of tartar teaspoon salt '11/3 cups sugar 1 cup sifted cake flour ..1A teaspoon almond extract (or 1 teaspoon vanilla) 1 quart ice cream Beat egg whites until frothy; add cream of tartar and salt 'and continue beating until whites hold points. Gradually add 1 cup of sugar, a table- spoon at a time, beating after each addition. Add almond ex- tract; fold in flour into which remaining Y2 cup of sugar has been mixed. Pour into un- greased tube pan and bake at 325° F. for 50-60 minutes. When done, invert on cake rack and allow to cool before remov- ing frem pan. Fill center with ice cream.`Makes a 10-inch cake. * BAKED Af.ASKA Baked Alaska is often thought of as the most glamorous of all desserts, but it, too, is simple to make if you follow the rules carefully. The trick with this is fast cooking in a hot oven (450- 475° F.), to prevent the ice cream under the meringue from melting. A simple Alaska may be made by using a sponge or other plain cake for the base; cut it a little larger than a brick of ice cream. Top this cake with a brick of any flavor ice cream. Have your ice• cream very firm. * Spread top and sides Of both the cake and ice cream with meringue and slip it all into a hot oven for delicate browning. For special occasions, top your almonds or shredded, coconut before baking. If you want to eliminate the cake, make your Alaska with a fruit base. Sliced pineapple is a good base for individual Alas- kas. Drain and chill the pine- apples Slices and place on a board. Top with scoops of very firm ice cream and top with this simple meringue that is suitable for any Alaska, MERINGUE FOR BAKED ALASKA 3 • egg whites (room temperature 6 tablespoons sugar. 3,g teaspoon salt Add salt to egg whites and whip until they stand in peaks. Add sugar slowly as you con- tinue beating until egg whites are stiff and glossy. This arhount covers 6 pineapple Alaskas. HOODOO-IT-YOURSELF — Herne- made robot outfits cause these frauleins to make an apprehen- - sive detour on the stairs of a Frankfurt, Germany, school. The children are dressed for their parts in a pageant: fitters 111 their turn spend as many hours completing the ere- ation. ManneqUitis are, fact, the "apeed-up" girls of High Fash- ion, 'Vet the basic salary is only from $100 to $150 a month. Star inernieqiiitia can double, even' triple this suit by posing: for fashion nictureS,, bat this rep- resents only 16 weeks in the year, In between they are in great deniarid to appear at balls, gales' arid exhibitions, for which they receive a fed ranging froth $15 to $30. Then there are visits ho the larger provincial eitie§ and, since the War, trips to the four 'air/left of the world. FOR siiCitroMARS Mrt, Myrie Gunsodlus, puts this mincer Itire of an old-fathiOried range to good use.. Its electrically 'heated , oven it jutt the thing far making breEikfast feast, end Ivio-elorreent fdp can be used rah'lathe-fable cooking, content to remain a mannequin 'until she married or became too old for the job. Often ahe be- came a saleswoman in the same house. Today modelling is considered by many as a stepping-stone to another , profession. In recent years two have graduated to well-paid jobs on fashion maga- zines. Bettina, once' Jacques Fath's top model, is now de- signing pullovers, Sylvie, who made her debut with Dior, is now married to a successful young French Movie star. What are the qualities re- quired of a Paris mannequin? "First, a great deal of stamina," says Lucky, "Next comes poise, personality and of course, the right silhouette, all three much more iniportant than a pretty Pierre Balmain always re- minds his mannequins they should wear a mink coat as cas- . ually as a sports coat and vice Versa. Free-lancer Doudette Ron- selet says a definite understand-, ing exists between creator and Mannequin. "You must feel and' love clothes to be a successful model," says she. As for Bettina, she compares the job to the theater. The Same period of rehearsals, then the thrill of tfie premiere` and ftom then on, .you play the, part of the woman for *hero' the- dress was created—sports lover, ingenue, sophisticate and qUette)" she eXplainS, Ali agree there is mighty tie retriarite in the working life Of even the most glamorous; model inociel. The men who etterieti collection are either'' buyers or men accompanying a' wife tiX girl friend: The first are d0/11 , pietely killed/Mena to Sex4ippeal, are only interested in the, clothes, tined Bettina received from i"4 but never saw him again. Most ef the fashion queens haVe that. tied trieri cvhei have interest Nib' the Mile world CatitittO, wear any one of the creations they model if they are invited to a private party. It is no Wender therefore that' only about 10• of these glartiOi girls OWit a ear- Neither do they think in terms' ot .inink many wear ready-to-wear clothes out-, Side of business, hours. 20 mannequins at the top, there are more than 1,000 pretty girlseiiiploy .cd by the teadyLte-wear trade or sp:e. oialty shops who live for the day When they will be singled out by a Dior or !q In a category ail their own ate about a dozen. free-lance' modelS, the aristocrats 'of the hrbf&sioili,ithey are .yety Much in"demand by milliners, hair- dresser's', accessory creators and thoenialterS. Their fees range from $45 for' a shoW"ii (Nit' hours' work) to $J26-. an; cut-of-lawn job, all 04/elite§ Yenta ago' Mantietftliti was, Finally, , inarifieqUit: gets 6 small percentage on the sale of every dress she Models,' but this rarely' represent§ mote than an- other $20 a tribilth. Most of the houses give their thantieqniiis two dresses 0 year,: but they Can PARIS—Most people tend to think of Parisian mannequins as glamorous playgirls, whose main job in life is to present beautiful clothes in luxurious salons. The president of the Manne- quins' Association, Jany (Lucky) Fourman, has written to Minis- ter of Justice Robert Schuman to register a protest on behalf of all' her colleagues. Underlining the fact that "mannequins are not dolls," she pointed out that whenever one of the group petitioned for' a divorce most lawyers represent- ing the other party were prone to cast aspersions on, and hint at, the problematic virtue of the profession. "Fifty per cent of the mem , hers of our association are mar- ried women and mothers," wrote Lucky (who has a daugh- ter of 12). "While the job car- ries some prestige, it is poorly Ipiareid• in return for hours of ex- hausting and,strenuotts work in- compatible with a dissipated "For this reason I beg to reg- ister a protest against an atti- tude which tends to discredit our profession." * There am some 200 young women employed by the top= ranking fashion creators' whit/ Of- ficiate as the short-lived priest- esses of the goddess Pashidii. Twice yearly, when they pie- Sent the new spring and fall styles; they are envied by WO- then the world over. Fe* tea-, line what has gone On behind the scenes before the velvet cur= tain is raised. For the girls who show the clothes and On Whoin depends the bread arid butter of hundreds of obscul'e Midinettes, it repre- sents hosts of gruelling work. It is nothing for a mannequin 'to stand as long as 16 hours With scarcely a break While a crea- tor tries Out hiS new ideas. then DEFINITION The origin of the word "incom- patibility" is perfectly clear to doineclian Abe BUrrOWS, "When a husband loses` his ineotne," points out Burrows, "you'll no- tide hoW protriptly his wife loseS her patibility."