The Brussels Post, 1960-12-15, Page 6Glamour Is a Lonesome Thin
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Curves that Ilk has pitched -don't
show in the well-rounded figure that
is Marilyn Monroe to the moviegoing
public. Born in Los Angeles in 1926,
her childhood and teens were spent in
12 foster homes and an orphanage.
Her dream: to become a movie star,
It took stardom in the '50s to boost the most famous piece
of Monroe "cheese" into the collectors' item class, Taken in
'49, the calendar pose is shown, ,above, with lace overprint.
Whistle stops on Marilyn's way to stardom -were the uncounted
cheesecake pictures, which ranged from "cute to "wow!" She
became a photographer's model at 19, during her first marriage.
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A few banana recipes might
not be out of order, It's one fruit
available, in most places, the year
'round; and although the teen-
agers will probably doubt this,
it can be used in ways that the
soda fountain maestro never
dreamed of,
"most invasive weed" celandine,
providing a light green carpet,
out of which grow very many
gay and colourful polyanthus.
As the celandine dies away com-
pletely in summer, Miss Sack-
ville-West finds that the poly-
anthus „plants do not make it
difficult to collect the nuts,
which command quite a good
price on the market when there
is a big crop. . . .
Miss Sackville - West suggests
',that by far the most practical
way of growing these nuts is to
keep them down to a height of
about 6 feet, when they are quite
easy to pick off, but this involv-
es training from the word go."—
From "Nuts: Britain's Wild Lar-
der," by Claire Loewenfeld,
flour plus 1 ea cups milk. Salt
and pepper to taste (about 1/2
teaspoon salt and pepper, I'd
estimate). Add 3 eggs beaten
well and 2 cups of cooked corn,
fresh, frozen, or canned. Blend
thoroughly, pour into a well-
greased baking dish and bake 13/4
hours at 375° F, or until the top
is light brown and it looks firm.
In case you're in. any doubt,
corn pudding is generally served
as a vegetable, but it can be used
with other foods as a supper dish.
There's another version which
has been created in more recent
times, for it uses canned cream-
style corn. In this one the cream
sauce is made of 1,e cup butter,
3 tablespoons flour, and 2 cups
milk, The eggs are separated,
and the beaten yolks added first,
then a No. 21/2 can cream corn,
salt, pepper, and then beaten egg
whites. Cook this one at 350' F.
about an hour in a pan of hot
water. This will be something of
a corn souffle, as you can see.
Other variations: add crisp ba-
con pieces, with pepper, onion,
and celery which have been sau-
téed in butter before adding to
the pudding. Pimiento is also a
corn pudding ingredient, and
sometimes bread crumbs are used
for thickening instead of flour,"
Happy Ending 'For
The "$oap 'Opera*" •
It all,vame lo a. happy
As the lust faint strains thgo
electric organ softly melted into
the background at 1:56?'g
our .afternpon -recently, an erg
in network radio broadcasting
!panning three decades 'faded in-
to the past.
But not soon to. be forgotten
are downs of daytime serial
dramas, known in the trade us
"soap operas" which entertained
millions of housewives with
omen agonizing episodes.
Ma Perkins, 4oung Dr. Ma-
lone, the Second Mrs, Burton,
Right to Happiness, and Whis-
pering Streets, the last of the
"soaps," bowed out graciously
with "and they all lived happily
Val' after" type endings,
Problems which had been de-
picted as insurmountable to the
heroes and heroines of .„these
dramatizations Tor decades, -aid-
denly were solved and the not
infrequent pessimistic atmo-
sphere gave way in the last in-
stallment to optimism,
At one time more than aim&
dozen of these daytime tears and
slides apectaettlars filled the air-
ways -on Pie three main net-
works, but during the past dec.,
ade these slow-moving pro-
grams, with their lengthy flash-
backs and unhappy characters,
began to lose their grip on the
American housewife.
They just could not meet the
competition of television with
its carnival-like daytime presen-
tations, and the super person-
ality disc jockeys whose patter
and stacks of recorded music
now saturate but in no wise Im-
prove the radio air waves,
For years the Columbia
Broadcasting System refused to
give up, or was it the sponsors?
But as ratings dropped and
sponsors became harder and
harder to find, the fate of the
soap opera was sealed, writes
George B. Merry in the Chile-
lien Science Monitor.
Ma Perkins, oldest of these
slow-moving installment dram-
as, which in 28 years and in
about 7,200 installments never
permitted the 'heroine, a kindly
elderly lady who operated a.
lumber yard, 'to be without a
problem, may be the most lam-
ented,
But there have been other
well-known soap operas which
also will be missed, These in-
clude Stella Dallas, Young Wid-
ow Brown, Backstage Wife, Hel-
en Trent, Our Gal Sunday, and.
Pepper Young's Family, All
have left the airways within the
past few years.
DOUBLE EXPOSURE — The bi-
kini goes convertible in this
new model for next year's surf
set. Sashed cuff can be rolled
down, as at left, for Riviera
bathing, or rolled up Ameri-
can style.
Train Your Kids
In Gun Safety
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For flainbcrw pow
Two Rumanien peasants, an
.elderly man and his younger
'wife, were feverishly digging
the groend at the foot of a .sps,7
eially vivid rainbow recently.
• When a curious passer-by ask-
thorn what they were doing.
the man said: "We're digging
gold."
Tne .coteple• found nu gold.
'71:.: y Were two of the dwindling
ntrelser of European peasants
in rariotts countries who still eee
;- Ate' the age-old legend that
there is always a pet of Old.
or some other kind Of treaatire
to be found where a rainbow
erds. •
In Silesia country folk beliesee
t. et angels put the rainbow gold
there and that only a nude man
can obtain the prize.
Perhaps it's only natural that
rainbows — the phenonerna we 5.
KO in the part of the sky oppo-
site the sun after rain — are
the subject of colourful beliefs.
There are seven colours in
each bow — violet, indigo, blue,
green, yellow, orange and red
— but they so overlap that we
rarely distinguish more than
lour or five. What isn't gener-
ally known is that the space 11
occupied. by each colour depends
upon the size of the raindrops•
in the bow.
At one time children in pats
0f northern California were
warned by their superstitious •
parents not to count the colours
in a rainbow or to point at it.
Why? Because a child's finger
would become permanently
crooked or even drop off,
Equally stupid were the be-
liefs that dreaming of a rain-
bow meant evil for the dreamer
and that the man who ran
trough a rainbow would be-
come a good doctor.
Yet . a Yorkshire couple vow
that a rahakew brought them
happiness which continues to
this day,
"We were driving along a
eountry road during a sudden
shower on an otherwise lovely
day when we saw a gorgeous
rainbow just ahead of our car."
they say,
"Within seconds we were pass-
ing right through the rainbow,
with the colours suffusing our
faces and giving the interior of
the car an unearthly glow.
"As it was the very first day
of our honeymoon, we took this
es a sign of good luck and so it
has proved. We've never had a
rious quarrel throughout cur
arried life, thirty-eight years."
Country dewllers along the
eunsex Downs declare that rain-
eows observed there are the
finest in Britain. They are at
their best because the wide ex-
panse of sky gives the oppor-
tunity of seeing many double
rainbows.
In 1924 Britain had a summer
of rainbows. Day after day of
sun and shower was marvellous-
ly illuminated by rainbows
which where unusually vivid
because of the size of the reel-
drops.
MONEYED MUMBLER
Arresting George Norman for
robbery, members of a police
patrol car escorted him to a pol-
ice station in East St. Louis, En
route the policemen questioned
Norman, but were puzzled by
the incoherence of his speech.
On arrival at the station they
discovered why his speech was.
difficult to understand, His
mouth was stuffed with one-
dollar bills, part of his loot,
which he had been trying to
chew and swallow,
Food Delivery
By Eagles!
Ulster's rarest baby has a sharp
beak, a body covered with white
fluff and taloned feet. This gold-
en eagle was born high up on a
massive cliff face, on the Antrim
coast.
A fortnight after its birth, a
party of naturalists, with ropes
and mountaineering gear, set out
to climb to its aerie, photograph
the new arrival, and fix a British
Museum identity tag to its leg,
Fortunately, the parent bird,
though much agitated by this in-
trusion, did not attack when Alec
Johnson of Coleraine slipped his
ring over the baby's left leg.
This event has delighted Nor-
thern Ireland bird lovers, who
hope that golden eagles will once
again freely range through An-
trim's wild glens,
Eagles feed their youngsters
lavishly, a fact of which a wily
Glenariff (Co. Antrim) farmer
took advantage. Whenever an
eagle nested in his neighbour-
hood, he seized one of its young-
sters and tethered it beside his
homestead.
As he hoped, the older birds
dropped abundant supplies to it.
So not only was the captive bird
satisfied, but the farmer and his
family got all the rabbits and
hares they needed, delivered
free.
Among The Nut Trees
Of Great Britain.
Which are the commonest. nuts
in our countryside of which we
can make good use? Hazlenuts
and the selected and improved
forms ofthe wild hazel, the cul-
tivated cobnuts and filberts. , .
We meet the hazel mostly as a
bush in a hedgerow or thick gar-
den hedge. When we find hazels
in woodland and corpses, where
they grow — as trees — they
may reach a height of 10-12 ft,
and about the same width.
It is not difficult to recognize
the hazel at any time of. the year,
In. January, while the tree is
leafless, long brown catkins
hang on the twigs. They have
changed from the tiny green
stamen catkins which have been
growing since the previous sum-
mer — hardly visible —"between
the foot of the leaf stalk and
the branch. , . . As spring ad-
vances, the covering of the seed
hardens like a nut; first it is
,pale green, but then becomes
glossy brown. The scaly leaves
which covered the young bud
have become large, tough and
leathery a n d, according to
whether the nuts are cobs or fil-
berts, they either form a cup or
cover the nut, . . .
The hazel grows, wild all over
temperate Europe and in many
districts of 'Asia. It grows in
damp light soil, close to quar-'
ries; in fact on nearly every
kind of soil except dry sand or
extremely wet marshy ground,
It can be found everywhere in
corpses, on banks of rivers, in
hedgerows and in many other
places.
"Nut walks," consisting mostly
at hazelnuts, and "walnut *v-
enues" were once very popular
features of the English garden.
and are still to be found in or
near old gardens, . .
A most charming, and appar-
ently also useful, example of
how a "Nuttery" can be laid out
in a garden and be a thing of
beauty, with the added asset of
satisfactory crops, can be found
in Miss Vita Sackville-West's gar-
den in Sissinghurst Castle, 'Kent.
Her fluttery, a rectangular
piece of ground situated near the
herb-garden, looks like a small
wood in a fairy tale. The five
avenues of low nut trees — Kent
cobs and filberts. which are now
about seventy years old — with
their upstanding stems and their
thick ceiling of green branches,
look like a child's wood, In May
the ground is covered with that
BANANA CHOCOLATE
PUDDING
1 package chocolate pudding-
mix
e cups milk
30 vanilla wafers
3 medium bananas, sliced
lse, cup heavy cream, whipped
1 tablespoon sugar
14, teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Combine pudding mix and milk
in a saucepan, Stir and cook over
medium heat until mixture comes
to a full boil. Remove from heat,
Pour into a bowl. (Place waxed
paper directly on surface of hot
pudding to prevent a surface
film.) Chill. Line the bottom of
a 1-quart casserole with a layer
of vanilla wafers. Top with sliced
bananas. Cover with a layer of
chocolate pudding. Repeat until
all ingredients are used, having
pudding as top layer. Chill un-
til ready to serve. Just before
serving, sweeten whipped cream
with sugar and add vanilla, and
spread on the top, 6 to 8 serv-
inge.
BAKED BANANAS
6 firm ripe, not too soft,
bananas
2. tablespoons fresh loner), juice
VI, teaspoon salt
le teaspoon ground nutmeg
!e teaspoon ground cinnamon
Via. cup honey
tie cup maple syrup
:1 tablespoon butter
thin slices lemon or lime
Whipped cream, optional
Peel and split bananas in half.
Brush with lemon juice. Place
in buttered baking dish. Mix
salt, spices, honey and maple
syrup and pour over all. Dot
with butter. Top each banana
with lemon or lime slice. Bake
in a preheated moderate oven
(350 deg, F.) 20 to 25 minutes.
Baste bananas with spiced syrup
during baking period. Serve as
dessert with whipped cream or
serve plain, 6 servings.
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gun in the house is only creating
a dangerous situation. "After all,
it's not logical. Boys learn to con-
trol those -dangerous pieces of
mechanism' — motor-cars — and
they should also learn how to
control a gun," •
"A boy who is either ignorant
or afraid of guns is a potential
danger. Since about one in three
people in Canada handle. guns
the chances are that a boy will
take an interest in them. So
what do you do? Forget that
guns exist? And then run the
risk of your son picking one tip
and nervously point it in the
wrong direction. He only needs
to make a mistake once."
About 10 is a good age for a
boy to start formal instruction. ,
"Shooting clubs throughout the
country are doing a great job,"
said Lea, "And they're the an-
swer for the boy whose parents
know little about shooting,
"What I've said applies to girls
too, In fact, girls -ere.good shoot-
ers once they overcome their ini-
tial distrust of firearms How-.
ever, they're not so interested in
hunting trips,
"My eldest boy, Wayne, comes.
on trips with me, and is as reli-
able as any' adult. I know that
I can trust him to use his head —
and not e trigger-happy 'Niger:"
THIS HAPPY DRAGON - dragon balloon has an anticipatory
smile Ori its big inflated fctee„ possibly, becauqe if was to be a
feature of the New York T hanksgiving bay
,
parade. The l'itillaort
is 70 feet tong and has winOs 32 feet wide, h's trek-ie r. tioated
rtylor, tob,'I'd and is filled with 'helium,
"There's no danger in a gun,"
said Les Morrow, hunting editor
of "Rod and Gun" and one of the
promoters of Doininion Marks-
men. "The danger lies in the man
behind the gun — and he iney be
your son."
Les has three sons, Wayne, 13;
David, 10; and Jamie, 2; and he.
is convinced of the value of early
training in handling guns He
feels that it helps children over.
come the twin evils of ignor-
ance and fear and also gives
them confidence and a sense of
security as they grow up. Moth-
ers could do a lot to help their
children gain knowledge of the
right way to treat firearms.
"Even before a child is old
enough to learn how to fire a gun
he should be instilled with a
healthy respect for it, Just as he
is told to keep away from • the
switches on the electric stove or
the blade of a knife so he should
be taught not to point his. toy
gun at people. In his games he
can bang-bang at the garden
fence and still have lots of fun
pretending he's shooting Indians.
"When a child is four year's old
he may be shown how to hold an
•airguri. If you want to impress
him with the fact that it could
hurt someone shoot a pellet into
the side of an orange crate and
let him see the gasli it makes."
One of the main needs of a
child according to psychologists
is a sense of security. "And
think shooting can help here."
said Lcs. "Parents should en
courage children to take part in
sports and learn to do something
testily well. In my work with
sports clubs in various parts of
the city I've seen some amazing
changes in boys' attitudes when
they've organization . joined an
where some adult • is interested
enough to coach them in hockey
or football.
"Shooting is an activity iffy
which a boy can reach this sense
of achievement, and., contrary to
popular notions, is one that al-
most any boy can enjoy safely.
He doesn't have to have 50-50
vision or the eagle eye of Mg-
felt) Bile
"Coordination betweet eye and
hand is something that can be
improved by practice. even
dren with physical defects —
polio or a heart "condition — tan
teem to 'eseeell at shooting,"
tea feels that 'the nervous
niether who refuses' err heve.'
BANANA GRIDDLE CAKES
1 la caps sifted pastry flour
teaspoon salt
I a teaspoon ground black
pepper
eta teaspoons doubt acting
baking powder
1 tablespoon sugar
1, eggs, separated
1 ,e cups milk
lablepsoons shortening,
Melted
1 cup flee medium) thinly
sliced baintries
Sift first 5 ingredients toge-
ther. Thoroughly combine pgg
yolks, milk and shortening. Add
to flour mixture stirrieg tally
enough to dampen flour. Sta ti
bananas. Beat egg whites until
stiff and fold into toe mixture
Cook on a hot, lightly greened
griddle allowing cup batter
for each pancake. rum to brown
other side when bubbles form ors
the surface. Serve hot with but-
ter and honey or maple rup
with sausage or ham. Mainn les
dozen griddle calves. ft GLITTERS - Miehael Dreyte
'ank° stacks gold bars in a
ydolt of the Federal Reserve
Bank in New York City, 80 feet
below the pavement. This gold.
T— worth t/.16 065 711 — be- " r
On§i 16 72 foreign govern -
Merits. To this vault comes wit-
Wally oil of the gold that is
'flowing abroad" to meet the
<country's g balance-of-
Oayments deficit, Ortyfreriko
Wears steel shoe guards to pro-
tect his feet if a bar font.
1$S1* 51 1900
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LADIES WEAR THE PANTS Pants stride int& the Rome fashion
world with these'effort's by Baitilocchi. Puffy black orgarita,
tet4 and dropped-waistline of futhsict brocade, right, are fn'
toired by hartef4 'panic
In past genetelions yore pee-
ding was an economical, popular
dish. It had many variations end
Was called corn scallop, morn
custard, corn casserole and
countless other names.
Gertrude P. Lancaster' of the
Christian Science Monitor has
been doing some research on the
subject and here is het report,
"I believe that the eoltowing
will give you a fair approxnea-
tice of the earliest farms of • .rn
pudding: Make a cream sauce ni
tablespoons of butt,,r and 2' of