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The Brussels Post, 1956-05-02, Page 6When. ,Death Loomed at40 Below u e Ellington Discusses slozz One of the delightful features Oat small cakes and cookies is their versatility. The young yeople away love to receive them from the home folks, They're indispensable for pic- nics, and, great Stand-bys for after-school snacks and for whipped-up-in-a-hurry suppers. They're equally at home at ela, berate teas and, in the good old- fashioned cocky jar. In some households, lunches for school Or shop are packed everyday. Small cakes and cookies fit neatly and, appetiz- ingly into lunch bOxes. a n .,p thousapd miles froth: civilization„ in his desolate Eskinaa "pratt4e",, in the Catla- dlini Eastern.- Arctic, young ..leSePh P. Mooy got a radio„message that was to send himA T „a fantastic adventure. Two Eskimos, had vpnisbed from a' camp • near 'Fuller on. to tfia north- east, and•theylhaci to be found becRpse3 they , were carriers of dangerous. contagious Idisease Which could menace the health Orthat: section of the 'ArctiC. eathet-wasninpredict- abie,r .‘iith leinPerltures around 40 :below, . snowstorms: and bliz-, 'Nza0s.-The.oRly• safe ay would „ ,.bc.,ifrig t but m 4low could the'''y:cturig•CleRter „clime wander- ' ring EskimOS over several hun- dreMScitlarEinilbs of rock,' snow and ice? LATHER .UP WITH,LONG NOSE2/Turnbcir,"Onl efej4Iaritwiti 'the Circus Roland in Berlin, is nonchalantly latherirtg:t hiss .keeper with plenty of soap and a big brush. He isn't allowed to wield the razor, however. It isn't that the keeper thinks "Jumbo!' is clumsy or unsteady—it's just an old Bavarian supers'fitiCon: never Jet on elephant shave you. full. Bake in moderate oven (350° F.) 20 to 25 minutes, or until done. Makes 1 dozen. When cakes are cool, remove cone-shaped piece from 'center of: each cup cake. Fill hollow with Je11-0 Butterscotch Cream Filling and replace top. Other fluffy fillings or soft frostings may be used to fill Surprise Cakes; or these choco- late cup cakes may be served plain, frosted, or • topped with a sauce. Don't Disdain The Lowly' Catfish ,Then'te Alibught Of a'man he'd never met, one of, the first to fly a ,plane in. midwinter into the East:Arctic, — gunner Ingebrig- sten, nicknamed "Fogbound," who was .building up the first • Arctic airline,' !'Arctic Wings" and alsothe legend of a, fabu- lous, character. , Doc Moody wired him at Churchill, Manitoba: Could hp possibly land at Chesterfield and fly hirn•,north over the Fullerton Point area? The next day Fogbound came droriping•out of the sky to make a bumpy landing on the bay'S roUgh'ice with his frdgile craft. mIt'S,a deadly disease these Es, kimos have," the Doc warned him.- I can't guarantee that you won't catch 'it." 7 Off they 'flew' over nilles of rocky, wilderness, skimming low, straining eyes for two black spickg,then with darkness fal- ling, • headed back home. Sud7 denly Fogbound whistled and pointed ahead. A storm was bear- ing ,down "on them. * * * CHOCOLATE SQUARES OR COOKIES eops sifted flour 1.% teaspoons Baking ToWder % teaspoon salt squares Unsweetened Chocolate 4 tablespoons butter or other shortening 1 cup sugar , 1 egg, unheaten lit cup milk % teaspoon vanilla. - Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift together three times. Melt chocolate and shortening over hot water; cool to lukewarm. Add sugar and mix well. Add egg and beat thoroughly. Add lour, alternately with milk, stirring Only to blend. Add va- nilla. For squares„ spread in two greased 9 x 9 x 2-inch pans and bake in moderation oven (375° F.) 12 minutes, or until done. Let cool in pan; when almost cool, cut in squares. Remove from' pan. Makes 50 squares. For cookies, drop from tea- spoon on ungreased baking sheet. Bake in moderate oven (375° F.) 9 minutes, 'or until done. Cool slightly; remove from pan. Makes 3 dozen cookies. - * BROWNIES 2A cup sifted flour % teaspoon Baking Powder 1/, teaspoon salt Wcup butter or other shortening 2 squares Unsweetened Chocolate 1 cup sugar 2 eggs, well beaten 34 cup chopped walnut or pecan meats 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour Once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift again. Melt, shortening and chocolate over boiling water. Add sugar gradually to eggs, beating thoroughly, then add nuts and vanilla. Decorate with whole nuts, if desired. Bake in greased pan, 8 x 8 x 2 inches, in moderate oven (350° F.) 35 People used to do a lot of walking, And they'd Whis- tle, You'd ask someone, 'What is that you're whistling?' and he'd say--nothin'!" It was more fun, composing in the, early, days, paid Mr, Elling- ton, whose career goes back to the time when jazz;:was estab, lishiog its traditions,, There were great playeq, he, said, but "some.wpre rather limited." Ile recalled a trombone player, who had "only six good notei.4 Mr. Ellington's problem was to use those six notes to advantage. It has long been observed by critics that Mr; Ellington's works seem , to have been done with particular musicians in mind. Though some jazi purists insist that no orchestrated mu- sic is. jazz, a .case has often been made for Mr. Ellington's orches- trated music on the ground that when it is performed• by niusi- clans attuned to it, -it become jazz. Mr. Ellington doesn't care What you 'call it. In fact he would jt1St as' soon remove the word "jazz" and its various categories- from the language. "It drives people away," he said, "I don't see a necessity for it." As Jor bop,- cool jazz,, and progressive jazz, Mr. Ellington said: "There are no- new melo- dies, no new harmonies. It's"" all a matter of perspective — and piabliCitY, I' think. Categories are unnecessary.. If ,it sounds 'good, it ,sounds good:" ,Assnming there. is suer, a, thing as jazz, Mr. Ellington made a seldom'-heard claim for the East as, 5a ;pioneering 'area. He said that there was an east- ern movement independent from the New Orleans origins, and it involved particularly string players and "two-fisted pian- ists." They had, extremely in- dividual styles, they were so- phisticated, and they had ex- cellent taste, he said. One of the pianists could "only play in F7sharp, but. man —!" The sentence broke off in silent admiration.. "F-sharp's a wonderful key." - In Boston Mr. Ellington took time to encourage a young pianist who can play in more- than one key. She is Toshiko Akiyoshi, whose story illustra- tes the way jazz is crossing 'and recrossing boundaries these days. She has, cotne from Tokyo on a scholarship to increase her technical knowledge of music, so that she can return ,better 'equipped' to further jazz in Japan. Already she has called forth praise„ from American jazz. enthusiasts. Some members of Mr, Elling- ton's current band started with him in the twenies. The group is on a tour,' that' will eventual- ly take it to Colgate UnIVersity, the University of ,Virginia,-'the Uniyersityr of ;;;North Carolina, and the ,17riiversity- of Missis- sippi. The band was playing fn Ala- bama during the ,rAutherine: Lucy situation, Mr. Ellington pointed out, and he was asked' by a school, reportei -if ,he ,Was "going tp,:do anything about it." Mr. ,Elligten said that he .re- plied, ,"If our performance com- mands respect, I think ghat's a major contribution," ► /3 aJA!..rPove,,, 349 "They're getting desperate:" Duke Ellington genially at-, tacked "roMantie wstories" about jazz even though, he said, "I've cashed in on a let of them." Ile was talking in Boston, where, among other things, he was in- yited to become an honorary member of a' national music -ti4.4ernity,-,Kappa .Gamma. Psi. He told how someone in the twenties had started a story that "Ellington never writes music' on paper;" a story that has been perpetuated• vari ous degrees ever since, With onomatopoetic humor, he de- scribed how he was, supposed to convey to his musicians what he wanted them to play. Let the romantics now be advised; Duke Ellington writes music on paper, In fact he challenges the whole hazy idea that jazz is the 'impromptu eNpression of an untutored people. He recalled the story of "The Boy and the Black Stick" in roughly this 'fashion: "There's this little il- literate boy, you See, ragged as a can of spaghetti, and he's walking along through the grass, and he finds a black stick. Well, you and I know it's a clarinet, but to him it's a black stick. So he sits under a tree and blows on the end of the stick and ,out comes ;music. (Mr Ellington paused momentarily, possibly for an imaginary dra- matic chord.) ,And that's jazz!" Mr. Ellington laughs at the story, but" he feels it illaStrates a Widespread mistaken notion about jazz. "I don't believe a man plays the blues because he . has the. blues," he said. "It's like any art-,sculpture, for in- stance, A sculptor can carve a figure of a crying woman with- out being a crying woman." * * c Thus, Mr. Ellington suggested that jazz may, ,be more .conscious and :less, spontaneous than "ro- mantic stories" would suggest. 'Ton have t- have some .kind of arrangernent," 'he said, "if you have more than' two peo- ple playing." At the moment he has a /16-piece band. Jazz isn't just , improvisation, Mr. Ellington said, In, the .first place, it takes five or 10 years for a -Musician to learn' 'his in- strument, .whether he studies -formally, or on his own. Where the conservatory student might work on exercise sheets, the would-be jazz player listens to recordings. Instead of scales he learns other players' bits of in- vention, arid' when he becomes professional he has these "licks" to draw on for his improvising. At least this is the' way it used to be. Mr. Ellington told of his town early days as a pianist in Washington, D.C. "You- had to get yourself a cat to answer your questions," he said. ."When .a man ,finds out what he "wants to learn, that's the beginning of education." (Like most' musicians, Mr. El- lington rarely uses in ordinary conversation the "jive talk" that jazz men are supposed to favor. The word "cat" was an excep- tion. It is an all-purpose term, usually with a favorable conno- tation; here it probably meant simply "musician.") In jazz today, Mr. Ellington continued, "you need every- thing you can get. You need the conservatory—With an ear, to what's happening in the street." The latter phrase turned out to have a specific reference in. Mr. Ellington's case, as he de- scribed his approach to compos- ing. "I •tried to write what I I heard people whistling in the street," he said. Was thiS a kind• of folk mu- sic? "They might have heard it from an old person," he said,' `but,it was just whistling to' be, Minutes, While 4ti11 warm, cut in rectangles, Remove f rom pan and cool on Cake rack, Makes , 2 dozen brownies. For Indians, use 3 eggs in above recipe and add 1/2 cup cut dates, Spread In two greased 8 x 8-inch pans, Bake as directed, C * * woAsTED, COPQNUT BROWNIES Use recipe for Brownies (above), omitting nut meats. Add 1 cup Shred Coconut, fine- ly chapped, to batter. Cover with topping made by mixing thoroughly 3/4 puP coconut with 1 tablespoon sugar and 2 tea- spoons melted butter. Bake as directed tor, Brownies,„ jogEtox COOKIES c'urpi:'siftedlc flour 3% teaspoons Baking Powder 1% teapoons salt 1 Cup ,or other l 1i 41,K4411.41, " ettys vsngar Z eggs, ' 'unbeaten 4. squares ilInsweetened Chocolate,. melted 1 teaspotin euis broken Walinit meats Sift flour price, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift again. Combine shortening; sugar, eggs, chocolate, and va- nilla, beating with ,spcion until blended;, add nuts. Add flour gradnally, mixing well after each addition. Divide dough in two parts; shape in rolls, 2 inches in diameter, rolling each in waxed paper. Chill over- night, or until firm enough to slice. Cut in 1/2 -inch sliCes; bake on ungreased baking sheet' in moderate oven (350° F.) 10 minutes,, or until done. Makes about 13 dozen icebox cookies. * * * PINWHEELS 2 cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon Baking Powder % teaspoon salt % cup butter or other shortening .34 cup sugar 1 egg, unbeaten 1 tablespoon milk 1 square Unsweetened Chocolate, melted Sift flour once, measure, add baking powddr and 'salt, and sift again. Cream Shortening, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add egg and milk; beat well. Add flour, in small amounts, mixing well after each addition. Divide dough in two parts. To one part, add chocolate and, blend. Chill until firm enough to roll. Roll each half on floured waxed paper into rectangular sheet, i/8 inch thick. Chill. Place plain sheet over chocolate sheet; then roll as for jelly roll. Chill overnight, or until firm enough to slice. Cut in 1/2 -inch slices. Bake on ungreased baking sheet in moderate oven (375° F.) 10 minutes, or until done. Makes 5 dozen pinwheels. BUTTERSCOTCH SURPRISE CAKES 1% cups sifted Cake Flour 1% teaspoons Baking. Powder % teaspoon salt cup butter or other shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs, well beaten 2 squares Unsweetened Chocolate, melted % cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour °nee,. Measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift together three times. Cream shortening, add sugar gradu- ally, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well; then add chocolate and blend. Add flour, alternate, ly with milk, a small amount at a 'time, beating after each addi- tion until smeoth. Add vanilla. Turn into' greased large cup- cake pans filling them about % WEDDING AHEAD—A ceremony and wedding bells are at ,the end Of the bus ride for Peggy Ann Garner. The former child, oar is touring 'Whit the play "BUS Stop." She'll wed Albert Sialthi when 'the tour toticiudes He's'i,her onstage hero, as well. '; ► popular. These are usually compounded of ,Wheat flour and corn" meal •NVeil laced" with time-ripened' flavoring,''-such as cheese, inglass,es,- vanilla, clam juice, and ,even ,bourbon., Coagulited blood mixed with limburger cheese is another po- tent attractor, as are night- craWlers, reliable as any bait fo" all breedi'i of catfish. • 'Put on' a Sinker and let the bait rest on, the bottom with just enough tension so that you can feel a bite when it comes. It won't be long before the , slow tap, tap, tap 'of an exploring catfish vibrates through, the rod. Let hini have the bait for a few seconds 'and then set the hook smartly. ' Natural baits, such as worms or small, shiners are also tradi- tional in 'fishing "fOr bluegills, crappies, perch and other pan- fish, but youlye got to use light tackle if you want any'lun out of it, for the scrappy little pan species can' put up -a rampage comparable to .that of a trout. If ,you like, you can troll, es- pecially for , perch and crap- pies, and you'll get some of the faStest action of all. At this time of year deep trolling is the secret of success. Get your bait riding along .' .me bottom and troll slowly. One day on a Cape Cod pond a friend and I 'rolled small mummychubs• for big yellow perch. The methods which paid off in ,summer were no good in spring, but we kept op experi- menting: with different rigs. It was only when we got the bait down 'tb the bottom ' with a sinker that we began to get re- sults. Natural bait is good, but ar- tificial litres are effective for panfish: and offer more fun and wider opportunities 'to' the ang- ler. Besides, they give the fish- erman:Ills ,first-chance ,to try out sOine, of his Christmas tackle and to sharpen up his techniques. Small spoons, spinners 'and spinning „lures the same OneS you will use for trout are all good medicine for bluegills, crappies and perch. They Can be cast from shore or' boat, or they can be trolled with equal ease and effectiveness. Each year about the time, the first hylas began to peep, I ,O'ed to go to a nearby millpond and cast a spinner and fly combina- tion for yellow perch. I'd cast as far out from shore as I could and let the lure • sink to the bottom. Then I'd retrieve' it slowly with short twitches Of the rod, keeping the lure deep. I seldern came home withoul an eatin' string of perch. Incidentally, the spinner and fly combination, good for most panfish, is one of 'the best of all artificial lures for perch and crappies'. Pearl, gold or nickel are good colors for the spinner; and the flies should be gaudy red, orange, blue, yellow or green, The Many new spinning lutes along With a spinning red are almost unbeatable'for spring panfishing. The rod is ideal, for it will 'put a lute Where you want it, and its lithe sprifigin- ess enables even a artiall panfish to put up a creditable battle, Yon can get more practice out of .your spinning, outfit on the, patifish ponds iti spring. than you can an entire season on the trout streams, Fogbound nosed the; plane clowri, straightened out for a landing on ice close to the edge' of open' Water:. This impact of their forced landing was so great; that they bounced• off again nearly 390 feet into-the air,- and' after series 'of acrobatic ;jnmps came to a stop.,, "Quick—get outl"rFogbound yelled,' and they tumbled out on to -the ice, First, Doc struggled to breathe and keep his footing.,A 80 m.p.h. wind 'was slicing at them across the ice, flinging dense snow tin their ,faces, at' times blinding them., Grabbing rope and an ice chisel, Fogbound tied the plane to the ice. Beck they went into the air- craft. 'The 'cabin grew unbear- ably- cold. 'They ' warmed their noses ponstantly with their hands for, fear they would freeze. Fin- ally they covered, themselves with a few hides and managed to sleep. But not for long, for the plane hadfstarted to dance on the ice. A slight increase in the gale velocity would lift it free and pound it to bits. Fogbound now insisted that they rope them- selves to the fuselage. This posed the Problem: Would it be better to get blOwn up into the sky dangling frem, a runaway plane or, unattached, take a chance of staying on the ice by them selves? Fogbound solved it by drag- ging out a steel cable and two ice chisels. Still tethered to the fuselage, keeping their feet with difficulty, they cut two deep parallel slots in the ice, dug a connecting tunnel two feet be- low the surface; and through it pulled the sable, fastening it securely to .the plane runners. They had just gotten back into thz (Thin when a thunderous roar; followed by ear-splitting explosions, tient them outside "pin. The ice on which they'd landed had broken loose, leaving a foot7Wide gap. "Our ,rtinners are five feet bri g," Fogbound screamed. "Maybe I can taxi her across. You don't have to get in, Doc. But if the impact of 'my take- off pushes the ice farther out to sea I can't pick you Up again." "I'm with you. Get in!" Moody shouted back. ' They released the anchor ca- bles and taxied slowly towards the gap, which had now widened to two feet. Fogbound opened the throttle . a,, bump and they were across. • In the morning they discovered that their taiti-ing through the snow during the night had.run them almost into a lit.= tic snow covered; tent only 100 yards Or so away. In it .huddlecl the two Sick: Eskinicis they were seeking: After trying' to' 'evade them; the Eskimos now piled, gratefully into the plane and Were flown,. to a .hospital.- Dec Moody says that Fogs bound' wrote in the IdOe's guest book: 'We never 'Stagger; we never fall, we fly' at any extirSe atallt ''' . Hu Fogbound always return., id, master of the elements defied, and in time' became the Doe's trusted companiot'' on' Marty expeditions and patrols, GRATITUDE' Mrs. abinith: "Are :you the young man who jumped, Off the bridge into the river and sa.Ved fry soh from drowning?" Modest hero: 'Test madam;." IVIrs, Smith: "Where's', his mit- tens?" Is your pulse rapid, your, throat dry? Do you find your- self staring vacantly ' out the window? Do you spend your lunch hour mooning, in front of fishing tackle displays? If so, brother, you have a severe case of piscalitis, or fishing fever, a mysterious malady that attacks males from 5 to 90 annually at this' season. It is rarely fatal, but its thou- sands "of victims suffer intense- ly froin 'the onset of the disease in March until trout season opens sometime between the middle of April and the first of May. Fortunately, there is a remedy! The treatment consists of liberal doses of pond fish- ing for bluegills, crappies, perch, catfish and other varie- ties of game and panfish fre- quently neglected at this sea- son in favor of the aristocratic trout. Early spring is a good fish- ing season, Added to the Wol- fish hunger of the fish is the post-winter shortage of natur- al feed to compete with the angler's Offerings, The new crop .,of small forage fish has not yet hatched, and frogs and insects are still absent, so that any object which looks even remotely edible is sure to be in- vestigated by a hungry fish. How do you tell when the' fish have throWn off their win- ter drowsiness and are ready to come out fighting. Some say: "Watch first forsythias bloom I" They claim that you can fish from ice:out on, but won't real- ly start doing business until the first forsythia bloOm. An old angler of my ac- quaintance had a more occult method. On a oft March day aftet the ice had gone, and the first robin had come, the old gent would sniff the spring air. "I smell bullheads,". he Would proclaim With solemn certain- ty, and, sure- enbugh, that very night the horned pout would, begin biting the millpond. -And. for minloney 'those first potifiof' the season,' taken from f'1611 Waters 01 springtime, are-tho best pout of all They're red scrappers,' too, at this time of year, and if you' fish for them with .a, four-ounce flyrod, ktioW.-you'Ve been in a rhubard before o'id ameirus' comes thil4sling over the gunwale. And ) he Sara goes for his' rani- ' 14c5Otts relative, the scrappy c114111,ei cat. It had better be an old'' ifyr6c1) though, fear' these critters' tactics are apt to put iC-eorksereW in the finst barn- bed after a feW nig5ts' use, Writes Ted Sands in: The ?elide dazette, OCcaSional/y you can . take channel cats on artificial fureS, but both the horned pout , and his larger' dbuSin are 'best caught with bait, as are the blue, yellow and other catfish. It doesn't matter what the bait is SO lone ag thd right Site fci? a catfish's ample ' Maw, Shiners, 'clams', burger, kernelt of corn arid pieces of Other fish are all okay, Dough baits have long been — GO.OU IVrEDICINE--SUre help. 'foe thd doCtor, and. patients Suppltod by' the cheeery 'faces of Bella Lyall, 18, arid" Gwen ta-riar, #611-i- ttkiftio, 4.oitt„ They .are flatfeet 'aides medical slotted in 'CC+ thbridge ?ay, , add, SPRING IN HIS HEART — George Maynard, chairman of the British MarbleS Board of Contra!, IS 84 years old in body. But he's. no ,older at heart than the lads Of hit left, who are taking a lesson in knuckling under cluernd the World Marbles Charn, pionshipt of trisley Green, tildlarid, H.