The Brussels Post, 1960-08-18, Page 6HUMAN FERRIS WHEEL — The world's original human ferris
wheel reaches speeds up to 150 turns a minute at a festival in
Papantla, Mexico, Six men, wearing costumes originated by
their Totonac Indian ancestors 1,500 years ago, make the wheel
turn by shifting their weight.
TABLE TALKS
night, and then comb.
it. i,ut into a Citify frizzled hair.
• in the morning. Then with
the Renaissance came new
styles and fashicus,
The curling, tong .continued as
the principal grooming aid,
Augmented at times by clay'
pipes, which were also 'heated
And applied to the hair. Pads
and wire frames were used as
tiaseS for the scaring coiffureo,
which were held in place with,
gum or a paste made of starch
mixed with pomade,.
There was one other grooming
aid of those times we can he..
thankful not to have.
Dee to the extreme elaborate-
ness of the hair styles, which
took up to five hears, to pre-
pare, the hair was dressed for.
a period of from two to nine
week s, Understandably t hiss
could cause the wearer saint
discomfort SO a daintily carved
stick with a hook at one end
was carried at all times and
was conveniently e a 11 ed a.
"scratcher!"
Many of the hair styles fea-
tured flat ringlets. These were.
made by applying a paste of
flour pomatum to the hair and,
twirling the curl over a flat
black taffeta cushion. This par-
ticular look was called the "Pat-
ted Coiffure" and was popular
in England during the mid
1700's.
Arranging these elaborate •
hairdos was beyond the knewle
edge of most women and it is
interesting to note that in the.
year 1769 there were 1,200 hair-
dressers in Paris alone.. Making
curls was a big business even
then!
During the 19th century the
famous Marcel wave came intoe
being, named after a Paris hair
dresser who used his curliri
tongs to make evenly spaced
waves on the fashionable heads •
of Paris. This style continued in
popularity for in a n y, many
years.
A big first in hair curling
news came in 1906, That was
the year that Charles Nestle.
gave the first permanent wave
in London, England. In these •
days of home permanents it is
hard to imagine that those first
permanents took from eight to
12 hours to complete and cost.
$1,000, Women had come a long -
way from "setting" their hairn
with braids.
Jumping to conclusions is not
half as good exercise as digging
for facts.
lays She She Had To
111q4tray Her Friends
Mathilde-Lily carre, known. as ...mw cat," French spy Of the
secret leterallie network serve
t.feig Britain during the German
pecttpatioa, had to return to her
*ormer villa at Montmartre,
whatever the risk, Among her
personal belongings still left
there was an important file
given her by a eelleague. It was
essential that she recover it,
On her way to the villa she
noticed groups of men hovering
*bout, obviously waiting for
+someone. One of them approach-
ed and said in. French: "German
police, Your papers, please!"
She showed him her identity
card, which was in order, He
stared at her intently, handed
it back and saluted. It was mere-
ly a routine check.
But as she approached the vil-
la in the rue Cortot she realized
she was being followed and
made for a print shop in the
Place du Tertre — only to find
It closed.
She retraced her steps towards
the villa. There were now men
in mufti at every corner. Mlle.
Alice, her lodger, was standing
et the door. What should she do?
Ignore her, or say "Good morn-
ing" as she passed? Why had
she returned to this street when
she could have taken the oppo-
site direction?
"I have no idea," she says,
telling her own sensational story
In "I Was the Cat" "My mind
was a blank. I was like an ani-
mal hypnotized by the head-
lights of an oncoming car,"
Mlle. Alice approached, her
haggard face betraying that a
tragedy had occurred, and em-
braced her, A German N.C.O.
sprang out of the villa:
"Madame Mathilde Caere," he
cried. "Come with me, please ,
I suppose you know what you've
done?"
"Naturally," she replied. "It
was a great gamble and I have
lost. But I'm a good gambler."
She was taken to a military
gar and driven off. It stopped
outside the secret H.Q. of the In-
lerallie network, and she saw a
fellow-spy, Violette, on the pave-
ment with a man in mufti, look-
ing in their direction. He was
obviously asking her, "Is that
The Cat?" for she nodded, and
the car continued on its way.
Mathilde knew then that all
was lost. The N.C.O. told her
frankly that the whole organiza-
tion was in their hands,
They drove to the Hotel Edu-
ard VII, the German H.Q. She
was questioned for an hour, then
taken to the Sante prison. That
day in 1942 was the most fateful
and tragic of her life since, early
in the Occupation, she had met
in Toulouse a Polish fighter
pilot, Roman Czerniawski, who
had built up a spy system for
M.I.5 in the free zone and in-
duced her to start one in occu-
pied Paris.
She had helped to develop it
into a complicated network
which sent valuable information
back to London and sabotaged
German plans,
One of many ingenious ruses
employed, for example, was to
send secret reports by train from
Paris to Marseilles by unscrew-
ing a plaque in the lavatory
nearest the dining car which
read, "It is forbidden to use the
toilet while the train is station-
ary," inserting the report behind
it and rescrewing it.
At Avignon, another agent
would board the train, unscrew
it, extract the report and replace
it with another to be collected
on the return journey.
Another ruse was to demolish
the underground aircraft hang-
ars at Villacoublay by eroding
the walls with acid-diluted
water, introduced with the con-
nivance of workers there. Noth-
ing could be more dramatic than
her account of the way the Re-
sistance agents outwitted the
Xazis, and the risks they took,
Mathilde was duly taken back
to the enemy headquarters and
confronted by a massive Ger-
man, Hugo Bleicher, who told
her: "We have decided that, you
are far too intelligent to remain
in prison, YOU know everything
and will be of invaluable assist-
ance to me in winding up the
Interallie case, We are in pos-
session of all the documents but
we need one of you to facilitate
arrests,
"I have read in your diary
that on Wednesday, 19th Novem-
her, you have an appointment at
eleven o'clock at the Pam PaM
bar where you will be meeting
an agent. You will keep the ap-
pointment and I shall be with
you, You will introduce me as
one of your band and, when the
agent has committed himself. I
shall arrest him,
"If you play DO tricks you can
be assured that you will be at
liberty this evening. If you
double-cross me you will be shot
immediately without trial."
She was horrified at the
thought of being a decoy to trap
fellow-agents, but says she had
no choice. She was in Bleicher's
power, he was virtually her
jailer, even sharing quarters
with her, The only alternative
was death, so she complied.
But she played a cat and.
mouse game with them and plot-
ted to get to England by trick-
ing the Germans into believing
that she would act as their agent
there while seeming to be loyal
to the British. To this end, her
captors allowed her to be pick-
ed up by a British vessel on the
Brittany coast under cover of
darkness and taken across the
Channel.
After a brief spell of freedom
in London, helping the Allied
cause, she was arrested on or-
ders from the French and im-
prisoned for three years in
Aylesbury and Holloway. When
the war ended she was trans-
ferred to prisons in France, and
in 1949 tried for betraying her
colleagues before a jury consist-
ing of members of the Resistance
Movement. She was sentenced to
death, and, committed to the con-
demned cell, chained by her an-
kles night and day and under
constant obrservation.
Later the sentence was com-
muted to tewnty years' hard la-
bour from 1942, the year of her
last betrayals. When finally re-
leased she had served twelve
years in prisons and found ref-
uge as a convert to religion.
Her lawyer, Albert Naud says:
"The Cat no longer had a choice
from the moment she had pas-
sively and .under duress assisted
in the first arrest of her com-
rades. Compromised, once these
unfortunate tragedies began, she
was destined to be a traitress.
She tried desperately to find an
opportunity of regaining her
freedom, to serve once more the
cause of France, And she was
successful."
The "diabolical spy with the
green eyes," the most notorious
since Meta Hari, was a woman
caught up in the toils Of war
and doomed to suffer. That
makes her own story of her pa-
triotism and enforced treachery
all the more pitiable and tragic.
"I tried, against public opin-
ion," Naud says, "to show her to
the jury naked and trembling, as
weak and feminine and as pathe-
tically human, as the real Math-
ilde Caere."
How Hit Records
Get Produced
Like old-time vaudeville book-
ing agents, presidents of small
record companies have to be a
little crazy to survive, Hence,
Al Kavelin, head of Lute Re-
cords, never batted an eye when
a bearded 22 - year - old named
Deltas Frazier walked into his
Los Angeles office recently and
began to chant, in a slow, re-
lentless beat: "He rides through
the jungle, tearing limbs from
the trees — Alley Oop, Oop,
Oop."
"I think this would be a gas,"
added Erezier. a former Bakers-
field, Calif., disk jockey turned.
songwriter. Kaeelin agreed and
went into production, immediate-
ly with the comic-strip-charac-
ter tune, By July "Alley Oop"
was No. 1 on many platter
sales charts. Lute's version had
sold more than 700,000,
A Mane Crash
That Was Manned
Admiring Californiaria hailed
James. Heith Gibbs,• 32-year-old.
World War II pilot and movie-
stunt flier, as a hero three years
ago when he crashed and died in
the flames of a Mosquito bomber
in brushy Las Virgines Canyon
rather than the heavily popu-
lated surrounding area of the
San Fernando Valley, His em-
ployer, president Richard E,
Loomis of Trans-World Engin-
eering Co„ was applauded too
for offering $5,000 to a fund for
Gibbs' 11-yeaneeld son, David.
Last month, Gibbs was depict-
ed as being far from a hero. He
was described as a conspirator
who arranged with. Loomis to
crash the plane for $50,000 in-
surance. And the suave, 45-year.
old Loomis, a former Air Force
major, was accused of sabotag-
ing the plane so that Gibbs
could not parachute to safety
and collect his promised fifth
of the loot,
The strange story unfolded
before a grand jury in Los An-
geles recently. It began in Janu-
ary 1955, when Loomis formed.
Trans-World Engineering with
labour hoodlums Anthony Doria
and Earl Heaton to bid on gov-
ernment aerial photography.
Doria, a pal of New York racke-
teer Johnny Dio, lent $25,000
to Loomis,
Loomis bought the twin-
engine Mosquito, a plywood
craft known to World War II
pilots as a "flaming coffin," for
$8,000, For two years, the plane
sat at Lockheed Air Terminal
In Burbank. Then, in June of
1957, Loomis and Gibbs signed,
contract, now in possession
of Los Angeles police, which
stated that if the plane •crashed.
Gibbs was to get 20 per cent of
any insurance collected.
Two days after the agreement,
Trans-World Engineering took
IMP
SWEET SUCCOR — Swimming
perils oan hold no terror com-
parable to the pleasure of being
fished from the dri nk by Ann
Hornsby, 18, who rules the life
guards' roost at the Hilton Ho-
tel swimming pool in San An-
tonio, Tex, Blonde Ann, city's
only gal life guard, is Rogers
Hornsby's grand-daughter.
out a $50,000 policy on the Mos-
quito. Four days later, Gibbs
went to Burbank to check out
in the plane, the first time he
had ever flown one of its type,
Loomis went along.
Richard Cauble, a 35-year-old
former mechanic at Lockheed
Terminal, testified that he saw
Loomis, screwdriver and pliers
in hand, worked on the landing
gear, "I would say that he spent
at least two minutes longer in
the right wheel well than he
did in the left one."
Gibbs then took off. "I notic-
ed that only one of the landing
gears was retracted," Cauble
said. Twenty-five minutes later,
the plane crashed, Gibbs was
found inthe wreckage, hatch
open, with his parachute strap=
ped on.
Police charge that Loomis
rigged the hydraulic system so
the right wheel of the plane's
clumsy Irnding gear could not
be retracted, That dragged down
the piano's speed, they theorized,
overheated the engine, and pre-
vented Gibbs from gaining eiti-
tuck.
What's more, say those fanui'-
iar with the "flaming coffin,"'
the bomber has a tendency to
dive when a pilot drops the con-
trols — to slide out of the hatch,
for example. "Apparently," said
Detective Sgt. Pierce Brooke,
who conducted a four-month in-
vestigation, "Gibbs just didn't
get a chance to jump;"
Within 30 days of the crash,
Loomis collected $47,500 from
the .underwriters at Lloyds of
London and paid off the $17:500
he still Owed Doria. When sut41
for Gibbs' share, Loomis settled
With the pilot's heirs for $9,000.
As for the $5,009 promised young
David Gibbs — Loomis neve
did put up the money —
ialaer SW Ea.*,
Literally as cool as a cucum-
ber is this molded salad cool
and thoroughly delicious, Soften
1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin
in 1/4 cup cold water and dis-
solve in % cup boiling water.
Add 3/4 cup sugar, Se teaspoon
;oak, 1/4 cup vinegar, and 1/4 cup
juice drained f r o m canned
crushed pineapple. Cool until
mixture begins to thicken, then
add 1 cup diced, drained cucum-
ber and 1 cup drained, crushed
pineapple. Pour into a 1-qt.
mold or individual molds. Cream
French dressing is just right on
this: blend 1 3-oz. package cream
cheese, softened with 1 table-
spoon milk, with 1/2 cup French
dressing, and beat until fluffy.
* • *
Would you like to serve, for
dessert, a• pear dusted with
sugar and spice and stuffed with
an exotic fruit mixture that
gives it an Oriental turn? This
is the way to fix it.
Stuffed Fears
Core a fresh Bartlet pear for
each person to be served. Peel
and simmer in a syrup made
with 2 cups sugar with 3 .cups
water. Cook until just barely
tender. Cool and stuff with a
mixture of chopped apricots,
prunes, nuts and orange marma-
lade. Dust pears, after you have
fitted the halves together, with
a mixture of cinnamon, ginger
and sugar. (If' your family es-
pecially likes ginger, try half-
end-half ginger and cinnamon.)
Serve immediately with thick
cream. Serve a cooky as a crisp
go-along.
Other Stuffings
Stuff pears with a rich vanilla
ice cream and roll in grated un-
sweetened checolate.
Soften sharp Cheddar cheese
with a little cream; whip until
smooth; stir in chopped nuts.
Stuff pears with this mixture
and roll in coarse sugar.
Stuff pears with mixed cand-
ied fruits, roll in a mixture of
coarse sugar and grated lemon
rind.
Perhaps you'd like to have
baked stuffed apples for your
next dessert. Try them with a
peanut topping for an entirely
new taste.
Baked Apples With Peanut
Topping
To serve 4, core 4 medium-
sized apples without cutting
through the blossom end, Pare
apples 1/2 the way down. Using
1/2 cup of raisins, stuff apples;
place in baking dish arid pour
mixture of 1/2 cup orange juice
and 1/.4 cup water over apples.
Then combine 2 tablespoons
flour, lrs teaspoon salt, 1/4 cup
sugar, -1/2 teaspoon cinnamon,
teaspoon grated orange rind, 1 1/2
tablespoons butter and 11/2 table-
spoons peanut butter. Mix until
crumbly, Stir in 1/4 cup chopped
salted peanuts, Spoon this mix-
ture over the raisin stuffing, pil-
ing in a mound on top of apples.
Bake at 375° F for about I hour,
basting with the liquid every 15
minutes. if you want the top
toasted, place under broiler for
the last '5 minutes.
The season for Concord grapes
is just around the Metier so
you'll probably want to make
some of them into a pie, Here is
one way to do
COWCOittta GRAPE PIE
tittstry fdr 2-ertist 8-irieh Pie
0 'Otis etenteted Ceiitinet
gropes
1/2 cup cornstarch
leas cups sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons grated orange rind
Wash grapes thoroughly. Slip
skins from pulp, reserving skins.
Beat pulp to boiling and rub
through coarse sieve to remove
seeds. In a large saucepan,
combine cornstarch, sugar, salt
and orange rind, Add grape
pulp. Bring to boiling and cook
until thickened, stirring con-
stantly. Stir in skins and cool.
Pour into pastry lined 9-inch.
pan, Arrange top pastry over
fillings; seal and flute edges. Cut
design in top pastry to allow
steam to escape. Bake at 450°F.
for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to
350°F. and hake 25 minutes
longer.
For variety try a crisp or a
Betty made with fruit—here is ,a
rhubarb crisp that is easy. Serve
it hot.
RHUBARB CRISP
4 cups diced rhubarb
1.4 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
ee, cup flour
3/3 cup butter
Mix rhubarb and sugar and
put into a greased baking dish.
Combine brown sugar and flour
and cut in the butter. Sprinkle
this brown sugar topping over
the fruit. Bake at 350°F for 35
minutes.
*
Serve this cranberry Betty
with whipped cream. It serves 6.
CRANBERRY BETTY
2 cups cranberries
1 cup water
1 cup sugar
2 cups soft bread crumbs
2 tablespoons butter
le cup seeded raisins
Mix cranberries, sugar and
water and cook 10 minutes,
Place .a layer of breadcrumbs in
a buttered baking dish, then a
layer of raisins, then the
stewed cranberries; dot over
with half the butter, Repeat, and
cover top with bread crumbs,
dotting again with butter. Bake
at 375°F. until brown, about 1/2
hour. AO 4,
Here is a banana sponge that
First Permanents
Cost $1000 each
Not all .of us are born with
naturally curly hair and from
the beginning of time this seems
ID have been a challenge, The
female of the species has been
particularly inventive in find-
„i.tlnghwoayaaairn:o.d means to. "put curl i
Over 3,000 years ago Egyptian
women were putting up their
hair in many tight braids, which,
when combed out, left the hair
waved and slightly frizzled..
However, at around the same
period, Babylonian women were
using strange devices known as
curling term. or crisping irons,
These were heated over open
flames and then applied to the
hair. Curls were literally "bak-
dpv” the women probably
discovered these early hair
grooming. .aids, the men were
quick to take over, In fact, it
wasn't until the end of the 19th
century that men stopped curl-
ing and waving their hair too..
Throughout the early cen-
turies and the middle ages both
,men and women wore their hair
long and elaborately arranged.
Waves, braids, spiral curls, were
all incorporated into intricate
coiffures. For instance, in the
14th century long braids at
either side of the -face were
turned up and coiled at the face
like horns. A hundred years la-
ter, it was fashionable to wear
shoulder-length hair, braid it
serves 8. Whipped cream im-
proves it,
Banana. Sponge
Mix 1 envelope unflavored
gelatin and 1/2 cup sugar in top
of double bailer; add aL4 cup
water. Place over boiling water
and stir until gelatin is well
dissolved. Remove from heat.
Add 1 teaspoon grated lemon
rind, 3 tablespoons lemon juice
and 1 cup mashed bananas (2
medium). Chill until mixture
mounds slightly when dropped
from spoon. Add 2 unbeaten
egg whites, and beat with rotary
beater until mixture begins to
hold its shape. Spoon into des-
sert dishes, or into a 4-cup
mold. Chill,
Q. How can I create my own
warning device that the water
in the bottom Of my double-
boiler has boiled away?
A. A few marbles placed in the
bottom of the double-boiler will
raise enbugh racket when the
water is gone to summon you
to the rescue.
MIRACLE BOY — Seven-year-old Rodger Woodward receives
fatherly kiss as he recuperates in a hospital from a plunge over
Niagarct Falls. He survived the 161-foot drop in good shape.
01AMILY CIRCLE Made for people, not locoieotives, these round
heuses 'stand o an old titeet in Brieeklyti,
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