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The Brussels Post, 1959-10-08, Page 2Great Opera Star Biows Top Again '4xy best hours are in bed, 1)(1 they are my best work ..hours, too, There 1 study the scores. With my dog cuddling beside Me, and my husband fast *sleep." This cozy scene was once des- gibed by the usually tenipestu, OS, New York - born Maria Callas, while discussing her ten- GZeal' Marriage to 62-year-014 feelovenni Battieta Meneghini. An opera patron and sponsor of bung divas who finally found Otte with a voice, Meneghini trimmed Maria down to size (from a slab-sized 202 pounds to a nicely rounded 130) and took over as her manager,. It was no easy chore, In the grand tradition of such luridly temperamental sopranos es Geraldine Farrar and. Mary Garden, Maria whooped it up, She brought glamour — and sensationalism—back into grand opera and while doing so walk- ed out on performances ("bran, thitis") and split spectacularly With La Scala in Milan and the Met in New York. But on other stages, when she soared up to high C or raged through her favourite role as the Greek en- chantress, "Medea," she brought her audiences cheering into the aisles. Through it all, including court battles, upstaging assorted ten- ors and baritones, and a running feud with her mother, Massager Meneghini stood firm. In quiet counterpoint to her fieriest out- bursts, he bought the travel tickets and 'handled the family checkbook. "I would give my life for this man," said 35-year- old Maria. "He owns me as a husband." But apparently this wasn't quite true, The other day la Callas sent Menegliiiii packing , "with a terse suggestion that he ,go live with his mother. At her aide as she dismissed Meneghini was "an old frierel," Aristotle $ocrates Onassis, the fabulously Wealthy Greek tanker tycoon, who reportedly was ready to 'bankroll a spectacularly new movie film for her, The blowup came duiing an August cruise on Onassis's yacht, Christina. Aboard, besides Ones- els, his beautiful blond 29-year- Old wile Athina, and the Mete- eihinis, were Sir Winston and 'lady Churchill. So was Greta Garbo but somewhere along the 3 oute, she had picked up her :sunglasses and gone ashore. As the seas ran high, tem. pers on board ran higher. The husk y, 53-year -old Onassis prowled topside. Below decks, Maria grew "more tigerish" by the hour, as Meneghini put St. She flatly refused to sing for Sir Winston who chomped down on his cigar and huffed: " I un- derstand." By the time the yacht reached Istanbul, both Onassis and Maria were ready for a fling. They had it together, hitting the night spots and drinking champagne until the wee hours. This annoyed husband Mene- ghini to the point that he call- ed his lawyers — and they soon were shouting it out with Maria's lawyers in a Milan hotel 3 oom. Meanwhile, Onassis (in- sisting that Maria is "like a sister" to him) returned to the Christina off St. Mark's Square in Venice, and held a solemn eonference with his wife. She headed for Paris, installed the A machine capable of produc- ing a jet of energy three times hotter than the surface of the sun is being used by an aero- space company in its research program, What Are Your Secret Fears? Have you ever been seared. by flowers? Do you teethe. lilies? Does the sight 13:pa smell. of violets upset you?. Silly qttestions? Not at all, All over the world are men and • women Who have strange .pho, bias — .queer fears they find: uncontrollable and can't ex- plain,. • And the phobias most .comrnonly encountered are those associated. with, flowerS, Most of us love roses and their sweet scents, but, incre- dible though it may sound, some. People are filled with dread of them„ • One of the fleet Queen Blize- beth's ladies-in-waiting, we're told, shuddered every time she saw a rose, Many famous people have had similar aversion, Francis Bacon, the great es- sayist, never saw roses growing without complaining that they made him feel "indisposed." Cardinal Olivierius Carassa had such a horror of roses that forbade anyone to introduce them into his palace. °retry, composer of fifty comic operas,. detested ail. roses. One, well-known bishop of Bohemia is said to have been poisoned by the mere smell of a ease. Ancient chroniclers re- cord that- the perfume of roses was fatal to every member of a famous Venetian. family name ed. Barbarigi, They were oblig- ed. to remain in their home throughout the time roses were in bloom. Her strange feareof roses led to the death of a French queen, Maria de Medici. She became suddenly ill ,after looking at a .painted rose in a portrait: She went to bed and never got up ,again. -- You may laugh at the exag- . • .HE CAN BLAME MR. K An- toine Sinibaldi, 44, left, is in custody as an mdirect*reeult of Soviet Premier„Khrushehev's sfay in San ...F.ranciscid An employe security check, in- cluding fingerprinting, turned up Sinibaldi, waisted -11w Enies- tioning in Paris, France, in con- nection with a 1 3-year-old mur- der and quorter-million-dollar bank robbery. A kitchen helper at the hotel, Sinibaldi denies any connection with the crimes. gerated, apparently unfounded fears of others, but psycholo- gists say that everybody has a pet aversion. T h e imagination and emotional sensitivity of civilized men and women ex- pose them to extraordinary fears. A submarine commander who made jokes while his vessel was being depth-charged by an enemy destroyer is today terri- fied of taking even a short journey in an underground trains Supporters of the theory of reincarnation believe that some. people's trivial but uncontrol- lable dislikes are vestiges of some happenings in a former life. A Frenchman says he is al- ways stricken with fear when lie sees a pig. The Duke of Epernon was terrified by the sight of a hare, while a mouse made the Itallen writer, Carac- doh, ill for a week. People can be allergic to al- most anything and not neces- sarily to things they don't like. The case is quoted of a young American soldier who could not kiss because he Was allergic to powder and lipstield He could hardly ask his girl friends to stop using these beauty aids, so he went to a doctor who had (Weed many other allergy cases. "My treatment is thaj you must kiss in small doses,* said the doctor, "a little kiss Ofie w e e k, two bigger kisses the week after Aid, so on,” This advice proved medically kound. The Man reached full kissing eapaeity in abbUt six vT;eelts, ti ftlAit WITH tAktli KHRUSFICflEV TASTES HOT DOG — Soviet -Premier Nikita Khrushc66, tastes 'his firif American hot slag, complete with mustard.' After' finishirifthe hcir dog, the Communist boss said It was "wonderful," and cieiPped, "We have beaten you to the moon`but yde have beaten us in sausage-making." children,. Alexander, 1.1, and Christina, P, is school, and eon, ferred with her wealthy pare eats, 13ackin Venice, Onascis wait- ed until Maria showed up this time without Together, she and Onassis board. ed the ?heist/Ise and Sailed Oft down the Adriatic, Coast, into a purple sunset, any a sailor, amid t h o ae things happen to sailors"- w a s .0nassis's parting shot. A gondolier leaned sweep and. commented:: "Well you know how • it is, when Greek nieets Greek," This Time Father Didn't Know Best His neighbours know Charles Butts as a good provider. No one doubts his love for his fa- mily, particularly for his raven- haired daughter, Charlene, But he rules his own with an iron hand; his will is as unyielding as the austere horizon of his Southeast Kansas I a r m. Thus, when Butts decided against an operation for Charlene, noth- ing the doctors could say about the tumor that was threatening her eyesight could sway him. But Charlene, 19, has a will of her own, As a minor child, she began a court fight to overthrow her father's decision — and per- haps save her life. About a year ago, Charlene, a Kansas City, Kans., clerical worker, had started suffering dizzy spells, headaches, and im- paired vision. Then, about two months ago she began to black out. At the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, brain specialists told her she was suffering from a tumor of the pituitary . gland, Without quick surgery, they said, Char- lene would go blind and, in five or six years, she would die. The girl wrote to her parents. They seemed to agree that sur- gery was required, and brought her home while the hospital prepared for the operation. "On the way home," Charlene said last week, "Daddy said to me, "You know, I think take you down to Oklahoma to see Doc Hunt. I think if he can heal you, he will say so'." So they took Charlene through the rolling countryside to the small white house where "Doc" Hunt lives. There, H. C. Hunt, who claims only to be a masseur, gave her steam baths and exposed her to a device labelled "ultrasonic." Charlene said: "He told me my sight wasn't damaged 40 per cent. He told my parents I had an excess of water in my system, and it was filling up my lungs and head. I think my folks paid him $81 for the eleven treatments." "She had a kind of scum over her eyes," Hunt himself told a reporter. "I'd hesitate to r e - commend an operation. What I mean is that understand the chances are one in nine of sur- viving an operation." Back in Kansas City, Char- lene's headaches and dizziness became snore frequent. Still, her father refused to permit an operation, Charlene went to an attorney, Emil Anderson, who started proceedings in the Wy- andotte County District Court to remove her from her father's guardianship. Late last week, before the court acted, Charles Butts fin- ally bowed to pressure from his daughter's lawyer and doctors: He agreed to the operation, and it was set for this week. "Of course, we're not sure about re- storing all Charlene's sight," said Dr. Vernon E, Wilson of the Medical C e rnt e r. "But at least, the operation will prevent it from getting worse." OlittlING THE FUTURE Winkler, 5, peers into a Pocks 660 box lined with 6 mesks for Hallowe'en, in a spooky fitakeVieW of fun 3p tome. If —you want ,a variety of cookies for school lunches and your cooky jar with some left over to freeze for another day, here ,is a recipe that makes seven kinds of cookies. They number about 18 dozen, depend- ing, of course, on the size of those you make. Bake at 425° F. SEVEN-FROM-ONE 1 COOKIES 2 cups shortening 3 cups sugar 4 eggs .144.. cup milk 4 ,teaspoons vanilla 5 cups sifted flour . I-teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt Mix shortening, sugar, and eggs thoroughly. Stir in milk and vanilla. Sift dry ingredients together, and stir into first mix- utre until well blended. Divide dough: 32/z to use as plain dough, 1/4 as spiced, as chocolate, • .Plain dough: Divide into 3 pore tions: wrap and chill. Scalloped Cookies: Roll and cut. Decorate with small col- ored candies. 'Bake about six minutes. Crescents: Work into' dough 1/2 cup moist coconut, Shape small portions of dough into crescents 1.114 inches wide in center. Chill. Bake 8 minutes, Trim with tinted 'uncooked icing, if desired. Nut Wafers: Sprinkle dough. with chopped nuts or mace- room crumbs. Roll; cut into desired shapes. Bake 7 min- utes. Spiced Dough: Mix 3/4 teaspoon ground cloves and 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon into basic dough, Frosted Spice Cookies: Chill half of spiced dough. Roll and cut. Bake 7 minutes. Cool and frost, Cherry Drops: Soak 20 glazed cherries in warm water 5 minutes. Drain. Cut in quar- ters: Work cherries and Ye cup chopped nuts into remaining spiced dough. Drop by tea- spoonful onto cooky sheet. Bake 10 minutes. Chocolate Dough: Pour 1/4 cup boiling water over 1/4 cup co- coa, Stir to blend, Mix into remaining 1/4 of basic dough. Pecan Crisp: To 1/2 the chocolate dough add 1/2 cup chopped pecans and 1 cup GOING STRONG Mrs, Annie Mary. Rob ertson, above, known Mose s" lands of primitive art erithusl, bete, celebrated her 90111: births' clay' Vecerifty, corn flakes. Drop by teaspoons onto cooky 'sheet. Top each with pecan half, Bake -hall 13-10 minutes. Date WrapsUps: Use a rounding teaspoon of chocolate dough to completely cover a pitted soft bate: • Bake' On cooky sheet-10 minutes, ,-Cool; - speinkle with confectioners' segar. HONEY RAISIN NUT BARS 2 eggs 3/t cup honey lei cup sifted flour 1 teaspoon baking powder IA teaspoon salt -3/e cup ready-to-eat bran 1 cup seedless raisins tax cup nutmeats, chopped Beat eggs until thick and lemon colored; beat in honey, Sift together flour, baking pow- der and salt; add bran, raisins, and nut meats. Acid to honey mixture; beat well. Spread bat- ter 1/2 inch thick' its greased shallow pan 10x10 inches. Bake at 375° F. about 25 minutes. Cut into bars while warm and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Makes 40 bars 2x11/4 inches. * * No matter how cookies are made, that sugar-and-spice smell that comes from the kitchen is the same in every generation and forms an attraction kitchen- ward. that never fails. Molasses cookie's, especially, give off a wonderful aroma, writes Eleanor Richey. Johnston in The Chris- tian Science Monitor. If .you've lost Your grandmother's. recipe for these childhood delights, here is one you may want to use, Shape them like footballs if. you want to make a real hit with the young aspirants for the back- yard team. MOLASSES FOOTBALL COOKIES VS cup shortening •- eel. cup mssulphured molasses 2 tablespoons sugar . ,..,, 2 cups sifted flour M teaspoon salt ' -. 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon Cinnamon M teaspoon ginger Ye teaspoon cloves 1 small egg Melt shortening in sauce pan large enough for mixing cookies. Stir in molastes and sugar; cool Sift together -flour; salt, ,socia and spices. Stir a ainall,emounts of dry sifted., elotteespile V ,e ble, into molasses mixture, teat' in egg. Add remaining flour, blend- ing until striooth. Chill dough about 2 hours, Shape into II/2- inch balls; form into oval shapes. Place on baking sheets, about.11/2 inches apart to allow cookies to Spread during. bakieg. Bake at 350' F. 15-20 minutes.. de-„ sired, putt "lade" do "footballs" with the folloWing frosting; Frostifit - jar` i cup confeabilistret ettgete-- ee teaspoon' creates 0,0144e-race . s I egg white , ▪ teaspoon vanilla Sift together the sugar and cream of tartar; add' egg -gate and vanilla, 13e6 t "Cvitir ratdiFy — beater until frosting holds its shape, Covet with damp cloth until ready to use. NO SITTING ON THE JOL1 Employed as an attendant in a museum at Belgrade, Yugo- slavia, Rudolph Z:ird iS:,,able to walk arid lie down, hut cannot bend sufficiently at the waist, to sit, AS a result of an injury to his spine during World War I, Zorc hat been unable to sit down for Wet forty yearS. Better Paddies. And Butter Making __- A lady from ,Georgia passed this way the other day, and she contributed to our stUll She had been on a puffin, hunt up around the Gaspe, but had. incidentally garnered a few antiques, for that is her business and she buys and sells, The only antiques we have around here are some fine old pieces I made myself, so our interview was wholly en the intellectual side; and she said she could • sell every butter paddle she could lay e. hand on, Inasmuch as the gentle art of spanking butter is not on the increase; this becomes an inter- e s t i n g commentary on the mores of America, which has some pips. The importance of butter paddles in Georgia •aston- ishes me, This lady also said there is a definite difference between a northern butter paddle and a southern butter paddle, and with all due respects to the Confederacy she had to admit the northern butter paddle is superior, and there is more call for them in Georgia. This seemed to me, to explain many things, I remember "The Tarheel Cow" by Bill Nye, in which he said if the Carolinians would work their cows less and their butter more, they" would confer a boon on the consumers of. both. Now we learn that. the rank -quality of southern butter is the'. fault of the paddle and its structural design, rather than of the citizenry, and we may have fought the war over the wrong cause. A southern butter paddle is straight from handle to blade, requiring an open or forthright approach, and - gives the operator no leverage advan- tages. A, northern butter paddle, which -- we always called a spherker; had an offset to it, so the wielder sneaked up, sort of, and worked at a helpful angle. This,. if nothing else ever did, shows the superiority of the North, and shows who woo the War. Even Georgia, this late, now recognizes that we were right. I have not only spanked Union butter, but .1 have' made. Union spankers, and if the South grows as an outlet for northern butter paddles, I could take down a maple and get to work. Maple is the proper wood. It grows wild in these parts. 'Tis true a .new butter .paddle, made a-purpOse for the southern trade, would not have the patina and sheen • the antique shops prefer. I doubt if it could be simulated easily. New maple, no matter how _artfully , sanded down, becomes a butter paddle only through the Making 'of but- ter. Butter is not much of an abrasive; and smoothing some rock maple n by rubbing it on butter takes a long time. It also takes a • kit .of rubbing to make butter, You spank and pat, turn and push, sad w44. and rinse, and gradually 'mock: out all the buttermilk. Then you. have to work it quite a bit more just to be sure, after which you work in the salt, A paddle thus, after many years, gets its pores filled, and feel friendly and smooth as silk, It would be nnagi a project to start from. the log and make northern butter pad, 'dies in quantity for the .discri- minating southern trade, This lady said she could also sell any number of butter bowls. She seemingly MODS '"wooden bowls" a n d •`"chopping bowls," which . we also used for making butter;. Lately we hear people eall them salad bowls, I neglect- ed to ask if there is any market down there for the butter board, I • suppose . a modern people knowing only fission and space hydraulics' would find it hard to understand the peculiar me- chanics of a butter board, It was a device .an four legs, a kind of table, with a rack and pinion, a crank, and a roller that came and went, You slob- bed your butter from the churn into the thing, and as you cranked the roller belabored the butter wondrously. This dis- entangled the buttermilk, which ran off in channels and dripped into a pail on the floor. This p at e n t butter-working. • • machine had • numerous disad- vantages, Usually in the exer- tion of cranking • you. Licked over the pail. There was also a stormy-weather reaction, 'some- times you cranked in a deluge of buttermilk. If anything stuck, and it sometimes,. did, you could crank the thing so it would climb right up your back, Also, they .invariabley "travelled," go- ing back and forth across the floor as you worked. Our womenfolks dismissed the • butter board as inefficient, tend- ing to make the butter "strong," at least after a time. Certainly it couldn't das as well as a pad- dle, with muscle attached. I didn't find out; why Geor- gians want butter paddles, pare ticulatly those from the uncul- tured North. It would help if 1 knew what in the -world they do with them .nowadays.--By John Gmooehlidtdn The Christian Science - It Happened In In Jackson, Miss., after his home-was invaded by a swarm of bees and his family severely stung by bees while on a picnic, Alon Bee mused: "We'd change our name if we thought it would give us any rellete - 4 In ComptenS Calif., when. burglars held up Liquor Store Owner -Max Stanman, and in- vited the half a dozen customers in the store to help themselves, customers ande.c r e.o,k s alike marched' out "with,'arms full. ISSUE 41 — 1.959 For the "Junior Miss" Chanel-inspired suit with easy-tit jacket over scoop- t d blouse, arrow-U-4in skirt. Note Trimtex,rayon fold-over braid: that gives a catturier look when applied -to edges of jacket, Printed F'etterri 4076 in JuiSioe Miss Sips 11, 13, 15,.:17. 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