The Brussels Post, 1961-01-12, Page 2Graham Cracker Pudding
20 graham crackers, rolled fine
(save out 1/2 cup)
2 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons melted butter
3 egg yolks
le cup sugar
21/s tablespoons flour
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 egg whites, etiffy beaten
3 tablespoons sugar
Seasoned whipped cream
Mix. cracker crumbs with 2
tablespoons sugar and melted
butter. Pat down gently in bot-
tom of square 9-inch pan (or
smaller), Combine egg yolks,
sugar, flour and milk; bring to
boil; add vanilla. Cook until cus-
tard thickness is reached. Pour
in pan over cracker mixture,
Cover with the reserved IA cup
cracker crumbs. Make a me-
ringue of the egg whites to which
3 tablespoons sugar have been
added. Spread over pudding
evenly. Bake at 325, degrees F.
for 20-25 minutes, until nicely
browned Cut in squares and
serve topped with seasoned
whipped cream.
Digs. Coal
In Own Garden
Whenever Mrs. Gladys Wer-
rel of Staffordshire, England,
wants coal for the fire she just
,goes into her front garden and
digs a few lumps.
Handy — and economical —
for her and her husband, a
clerk, who has done most of the
mining for the past 13 years.
Their coal seam is only about
30 inches below the surface of
their garden.
The Coal Board, which offi-
cially owns all coal in the
ground, got to hear of Mrs, Wer-
yell's private mine and Sent two
officials along.
At the front door they told
her that technically she was
stealing the Board's coal. But
when they had a look at the
mine — a 25 yard trench partly
covered by brambles — they
laughed,
"They said I wasn't doing arty
harm and left chuckling. I told
them I did not sell any of the
coal which, by the way,„„is very
soft — though it burns nicely
ite my grate," said Mrs, Weerel,
ew sees
MISCELLANEOUS
s423,737 (10%)
SNOW AND
ICE CONTROL
52,461,203
PAVEMENT RipAIRS
1209,866 (4.5%)
MAINTENANOVATROL $r42,528 (Sa%)
SLOPE REPAIRS
S50,006 (1.1%)
DRAINAGE REPAIRS
6103,123 (11%)
CLEANUP
$120,091 12.6%)
GUIDE RAIL
& FENCING
S25,220 (2%)
MOWING
3260,428 (5.6%)
TRAFFIC CONTROL
& SIGNS
sit0,060 (3,t%)
BRIDGE REPAIRS
5286,341 (6%)
SHOULDER REPAIRS S197,04 (4.2%)
-4011440*-
YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN — Sir Winston Churchill,
86, holds a freshly-fired cigar as he leaves his London home
Pec. 23 to spend Christmas at his country mansion. He defied
age, accidents, doctors and chilly weather to make the trip.
It was his first outdoor physical exertion since' he broke a small
bone in his back in p fall Nov. 15.
/TABLE TALKS
A Royal: Romance.
!teaches Climax
Until three menthe ago, no one
outside her Own fenillY and :.a.
eleele Of friends in Medricl sod;
Pt)P, knew anything about Doea
Fabiola de Mora y Aragon, She
didn't smoke and she didn't kick
up her heels at cocktail perties,
but she did go to mass every
gi°r-all.8 and She el teted
elothes from her rich friends and
distributed, them to the Peer, At
32, allo' had gone through a
phase of planning to eater a
nunnery and she had written
some fairy tales 'foe children
"Two Pretty Snails," "Little
Lilies of India," But with three
sisters already xnarried and no
caballeros paying steady court to
slier, it seemed. that Fabriola, was
destined to live out her days as
a epinster,
Enter Prince Charming, the
most eligible bachelor in Europe.
lie was temperamentally as shy
and withdrawn as Fabiola, and
he himself had once considered
:becoming a'Trappist monk, Some
ssay they met casually while ski,
ing in Switzerland; others say it
was at a party arranged so that
the bachelor could meet one of
the Spanish princesses (to whom
Ire paid little attention), The
people's popular version is that
a mutual friend introduced him
as "Count X" and that not until
he and. Fabiola had fallen in
love did he reveal that he was
Baudouin, King of the Belgians,
However the romance started,
the whole world knew last
month that It had been consum-
mated in marriage — at the first
wedding of an European king
since World War IL It cost the
B e 1 gia n Government $150,000
and it brought together the
greatest pack of kings and
seueens (crowned and de-crown-
ed), " princes, princesses, dukes
and duchesses, and other nota-
bles ranging down to mere Fore
etign Ministers and envoys extra-
•erclinalTe since Queen Elizabeth
1I's coronation. They came from
00 countries and at one point ar-
rived in such profusion that an
airport of f i ci a 1 commented:
"We've got one queen, t h r ee
princes, and a couple of dukes
stacked up."
For the glwf4c1,1hA raitte of I
tel.OPeali teyaltse it Wei a
chance to wear their medals and
uniforms and to sort out who
was still who. But for the people
at Belgium, it was an event of
far greater significance. Just as
Queen Elizabeth's coronation had
somehow symbolized the end of
Britain's postwar austerity, so
the Belgians hoped that their
royal wedding would salvage the
Injured pride of a nation that
had just been shorn of its most
magnificent possession — the
giant Congo.,
It would be no easy task, For
rancorous debate about the royal
family has become a national
pastime in Belgium. Both gov-
ernment and needle were still
worried that Baudouin's father,
the brooding Leopold III, who
was forced to hand over his
throne h 1951, might still have
too much influence on his dot-
ing son, And there remained the
beautiful commoner Leopold
married after Astrici's death,
Princess de Beaty, whom Bau-
douin also adores.
In such an atmosphere—and
when Balenciaga's w e d ding
dress didn't arrive until 24 hours
before it was to be put on— any
bride might have been excused a
small attack of hysterics. Fabiola
'was no exception. She could be
cheered by the wild reception
given Spain's visiting flamenco
dancers — even though Belgian ,
schoolboys are still taught that
Spaniards are those wicked peo-
ple who ravaged the country in
the fourteenth and fifteenth cen-
turies, And the syrupy waltz
tune "Fabiola," composed by her
own offbeat brother Jaime, was
the nation's top nine.: Rut when
the great (WY 11011411.)! arrived,:
Vabiola's hands were trembling
so much she couldn't hold onto
.all the flowers in the bouquet
she carried at the preliminary
civil ceremony demanded by
$P4144. law. She also had"tron-
ble eignieg eheafe of . official
papers and with the 20-foot-long
train of her boat-necked,.. erg
mine-trimmed gown of eeeeially
woven Catalonian -satin,
eventually, all was ready, and
with Baudouin at her side, the
bride .got into a bubble-topped'
Cadillac for the Church drive to
the Collegiate Ste
Michael and Gudeile, .
Escorted by • prancing horse-
men wearing high bearskin caps
and carrying pennanted lances,
the royal couple were cheered,
along the entire route„ A 101-
gun salute thundered • and bells
peeled, Entering the church, the
couple were greeted by Giusep-
pe Cardinal Sine who gave a
special blessing from Pope John
XXIII, While this was going on,
Fabiola rubbed her nose and at
• one point her eyes filled with
team She gave Baudouin the
wrong -hand when the double
ring ceremony was about to
begin and later seemed about to
faint, Baudouin murmured, "je
Vairrie, cherie" and passed over
a bottle of smelling salts .which
he had concealed in the gloves
he carried,
When at last the- ceremony
ended with Bach's "Magnificet,"
the bride and groom had spent
three and a half hours getting
married. And it was then that
Fabiola won the hearts of her
• new people. With .a radiant
smile, she blew kisses to the
waiting crowds. From the crowds,
there rose the cry: "Long live
the King! Long live the Queen!"
—From NEWSWEEK.
Strung Together.
They Make Nonsense
From Mad Ave. to Sunset
Blvd„ the word in the fun-and-
games department this season
has been Kookie Korporations.
KK is dedicated to the proposi-
tion that the names of celebrities
when strung together can lead to
weird effects. Launched only a
year ago by The Hollywood Re-
porter's breezy TV columnist
Hank Grant, KK's are currently
pouring in on Grant from all
over• the country.
Some sample Kookiana:
Edith Head, Mae West, Loret-
ta Young, Delbert Mann, The
KK: Head-West-Young-Mann Co.
Kay Starr, Richard Spengle,
Bob Banner. The KK: Starr-
Spengle-Banner Co.
Eva. Marie Saint, Karl Coombs,
Frederic March, Bob Ching, Jack
Ging. The KK: Saint-Coombs-
March-Ching-Ging Co.
George DeWitt, Mary Ure,
William Self, Earths Kitt. The
KK: DeWitt-Ure-Self-Kitt Co.
Rosemary DeCarnp, Dorothy
Town, Aldo Ray, Ted Sears. The
KK: DeCamp-Town-Ray-Sears
Co,
Julie London, Lloyd Bridges,
Bob Fallon, Hugh Downs. The
KK: London - Bridges - Fallon -
Downs Co.
Chances Are
You'll Get There
When you board an airliner,
what are your chances of reach-
ing you'r desination safely?
Statistically, they are very good
— at least-200,000 to 1,
Furthermore, the odds have
been getting better. In 1940,
there were 3.0 passenger fatali-
ties per 100 million passenger-
miles, In 1950, the percentage
was LI. In 1959 the percentage
was 0.7. The year now ending
will show a slightly higher rate,
possibly close to 1.0, Trains were
safer: 0.5 in 1959, But motor ve-
hicles were keg safe: 2.3.
Some Hot N.ey0
A4.evt. Pepper
Here's spicy nev.'s! Men With
nitre...developed senses of smell
And taste are this year scouring.
the continents in search of new
And .exciting spices with which
to season, our foods and titillate
our palates,.
In „lungle and forest they hope
to discover fresh pungent, Arom-
atic,. vegetable prod-Pete which
may prove as useful to mankind
as .such w.e.31,141awn spices as
pepper, nutmeg, ..eloves, ginger,
mustard, cinnamon and rallspice,
People in most civilized lands
are tending to-day to sprinkle
more pepper on their foods—the
sharp, biting taste of pepper is
due chiefly to en acrid resin and
a bitter oil, Pepper plants
climbing shrubs cultivated in the
East Indies and other tropical
regions — bear small berries
which are gathered just when
they begin to change colour from
green to red.
In drying, the berries turn
black and, when ground and
sifted, form black pepper, White
pepper comes from the ripe ber-
ries of theeame plant.
Taxes and tributes were often
paid in pepper in the past. And
when the Genoese captured Ca-
esarea each soldier received two
pounds'of pepper as his share of
the spoils. When the Goths cap-
tured Rome 200,000 ounces . of
pepper was one of the principal
items of the ransom demanded.
Rents have been paid in pep-
per in Great Britain, - and the
Pepperers' Guild is a reminder
of the days when pepper was
considered at least as valuable
as precious metals.
Pepper was used to buy land,
to pay marriage dowries, to pur-
chase the freedom of a city.
CONTESTANT — Nancy Hom,
19, is the first contestant ac-
cepted in the "Miss Chinatown,
1961" beauty contest. Winner
will be crowned during Chinese
New Year, Feb. 18, 1961.
Nancy is a recent graduate of
City College of San Francisco..
Paris Goes For
Fortune-Tellers
All Paris seems to be consult-
ing a fortune teller these days.
Priests and politicians, sports-
men and stars of stage • and
screen, hard-headed business-
men and society gadabouts are
spending large sums to find out
what the stars, tea leaves and
crystal balls have in store for
them.
, Keeping up with the trend, the
Parisian fortune tellers have
done away with the old mumbo-
jumbo about long voyages, hand-
some strangers and unexpected
legacies _andare concentrating
on day to day affairs.
If the client has business Wor-
ries, there are experts in com-
merce to give advice after, of
course, consulting the oracle. A
speeialist .in affairs of the heart
is available for those with love
problems, and a medical man
gives advice and treatment for
those with health Worries.
The famous hairdresser, Alex-
andre, is also known to have
regular sessions before practis-
ing his art on his distinguished
clients, among whom are the Be-
gum A.ia Khan and the Duchess
of Windsor.
Ae unkind critic of the French
Government has said that during
a recent crisis Several statesmen
were actually queueing up to
find out on which side of the
fence they should jump.
The level=headed President de
Gaulle has no use for palm read-
ers, tea-leaf sorters, erystal gazs
ere' or astrologers, He recalls
what happened to a certain
Adolf Hitler who used' to pin his
faith on the stare.
The most thoughtful tnae we
know hes just departed this
snowbound area for the Season
in Florida, Why thoughtful?
Before leaving, he distributed his
show-fightuig equipment erernig
his neighbors. Every time they
use the eeteprnare, thoy thinlr of
hire—reclieing under s, palm
tree,
Have you ever thought of hav-
ing a cooking club? Here, in this
busy city of Witchita, Kansas, I
talked to a young wife, mother
and homemaker, Mrs. Nancy
Mattingly, who, for several years,
belonged to such a club of eight
members, all good friends , and
busy , homemakers, and who is
now in the midst of forming an-
other one like it.
"We have learned from ex-
perience that six is •about the
right number for a cooking
club," Mrs. Mattingly said, "The
way'-we work it out is to divide
ourselves into pairs — the corn-
-bination of partners changes after
each round — and cook that way.
"We demonstrate the prepar-
ing and cooking of at least, one
dish, so the others can see how
it's done. For demonstration
we.choose such things as a jelly
roll and how to make it roll
Tight, dainty little pancakes to
serve for, dessert — the kind, you
roll around jam, meringue and
how to make it stand up—things
like that,*'
The club meets at the home
of the member whose turn it is
to cook that day, so an early
start is easy. Another member
types copies of the recipes used
and a copy is given to each
member, writes Eleanor Richey
Johnston in The Christian
Science Monitor.
After lunch, when the time for
leaving approaches, what do you
suppose " these well-fed home-
makers talk about? The subject
usually gets around to "What
shall we have for dinner tonight
for our hungry husbands and
children?" ,,
Nancy gave me a couple of
recipes that had been used in
her cooking club, Here they are:
Chicken Divert
4 chicken breasts
package frozen broccoli
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons flour
2 cups chicken broth
1/2 cup heavy dream, whipped
de cup Parmesan cheese plus
more for top of casserole.
Cook chicken breasts until
done; remove meat from bones
and slice. Boil broccoli until
tender. Melt butter, stir in flour,
add broth, and stir constantly
until sauce is smooth and hot;
cook, over low flame' for 10 min-
utes. Fold in 'whipped cream;
season to taste, Place cooked
broccoli in a casserole, add half
the sauce, cover with chicken.
Add cheese to remaining sauce
and cover chicken with it. Sprin-
kle more cheese over top. Put
in a 350° F. oven until it bubbles
all over, *
Cheese Salad
I package lertionsflavored gels-
tin.
2 packages pimiento cheese
1 cup boiling water
14 cup light Cream
1 cup niaYonneise
Vs cep Onion&
l cup heavy cream
1 green pepper, grootel
Dissolve gelatin in the hot
water; beat cheese with the may-
annaise; add the mayonnaise=
cheese mixture to the gelatin ,
Vold in other ingredients, fold-
ing in the heavy cleans last Let
set to hattlett Serve with your
favorite fresh fruit. * a
From Citteitiriati, Ohio, Mrs,
Iradley W. Baumeister sent
some recipes you May ;fled Dee-
NI for this holicleY season Here
is One of theft "The grahehe
cradket pudding, a recipe I re-
teleed from my 1i-tether, is out of
this world," she writes. "Eve*,
One Mete it — and it is eery easy
to melte, It's good #a to cool,
or next day,
iC there'e arty letV,'
Her Costs O .0p
And $.nte$ Go flown ...„
The n owspeper ••6eller ou tat&
Waterloo was' resigned but un-
complaining, She was well wrap-
ped up against the sleet in sever-
al scarves and overcoats She had
got the better of the weather
after 17 years at eveninee 011
this pitch,
"Lots of my regulars just wall
past now, you know," she said,
"They look ahead of 'cm and just
walk on, straight past. Wouldn't
believe it, would you? But they
de, You know, They do. I get
more for me papers, deer, end
then sell fewer of .'em, it don't
know, I really don't know. Me
fares here used to cost me ten-
pence: now it's three and a -tan-
ner. And they're going to put
them up again soon. What am I
going to do. I'd like to know?
Her regulars walk past these
nights because London evening
newspapers (the two that are
left) have gone up in price one
halfpenny.
"Threepence a week, deer," the
newspaper woman said, with that
inimitable cockney look on her
motherly face that made further
comment unnecessary, h r e e-
pence a week!"
It is a sign of the times, And
very odd times they are — far
newspapers.
Last Sunday the Sunday Gra-
phic abruptly ceased publication.
It had been going for forty-five.
years. Recently it had been gain-
ing circulatien. But its new pro-
prietor Roy Thompson, neverthe-
less, faced . "heavy increases in
costs and mounting losses." He
made a decision and stopped the
presses the next Saturday night,
Graphic subscribers found on
the Sunday morning threshold
instead of their favorite tabloid.
the wide, handsome, but some-
what heavy poundage of the
Sunday Times. People already
subscribing to the. Sunday Times
were, in most cases, sent by the
news agents copies of the Sunday
Pictorial, on the principle that,
although they had not asked for
it, the :"Pic" at least is tabloid
in size and might be expected to
make up a little for the absence
of a familiar face.
And, of course, with papers
folding, and big changes coming
to Fleet Street, this is the ques-
tion that holds within its answer
the .futute of the • daily printed
word, what newspapers do peo-
ple want? Why do they buy par-
ticular,•newspapers anyway?
One hears so much about
preens that stop lLorlino
those of the Grepitie, .and the
News Chroniele, and the Star—
that it is easy to fOrgyt the new
preseese and the nnes that ave
running fester, writes John Al-
len May in the Christian Science •
Monitor,
Thu Sunday TiMeI now, and
its competitor or companion, the
Observer, ere enjoying a bootie
They are making money. And,
einee they are serious, geality-•
newspapers this surely is a highs,- •
ly significant happening.
A new sz.'rioUS, informative,
bulky Sunday paper is about to
be printed, the Sunday ',Pelee
graph,.
Superficially lees Important,
but not actually, is the clipping
a Northern. Ireland correspond-
ent sent us, by coincidence, in
the mail today, It was from the
front page of the Partedown
News (and County Armagh Ad-
vertiser), .and recorded the im-
pressive launching of a new
newspaper,' the Lurgan Herald,-
at a ceremony attended by twa
mayors.
He had written across the top-
In blue ink "Are provincial
newspapers making a come-
back?"
The answer is, yes. For this is
another part of the big change in
the newspaper world, Provincial •
and locel newspapers are grow-
ing.
Stores and shops and theatres.
being local, increased prosperity
brings increased local advertis-
ing,
When other papers get fat, like
for instance at Christmas, na-
tional newspapers tend to get
thin. There is ldss nationwide
advertising.
National morning newspapers,
however, although paid for by
advertising are usually bought
.for their news.
Evening newspapers tend to
be bought by men for the sports,
pages, crosswords, something to
read in the erain, and as fashion-
and-party papers for wives wait-
ing at home with the supper in
the oven.
An increase of .a halfpenny can
make it seem to be not, worth
while buying, particularly if it's
sleeting. But not, one hopes and
imagines, for more .than a week -
or two.
"Threepence a week! . I've got
to have a raise too sometimes;
you know, 'aven't 1? Threepence
a week!"
"I ask you,"
ISSUE 2 — 1961
MAINTAINING A TURNPIKE -- What does It cast to keep
rhader:li toll F60 in' good shape the year Welf,the
NOW York 8teite ThreWay Authority sPedi $4,673,0 in 1959,
ar and away the biggest item for the 486-rnile road was snow
eitid ice control (See Newithort). t6r eioaniple, clUelt0 the '050,
60 winter Seasons 83,822 tons of safes mid 50,000 toes of
ebratives were used to Make the pavement safe far the 66
rn.p.h. limit, Jurnpike authorities say these 060 ;end others
help the road maintain a sa•fety record far above the national
*Nen:40.
WILL HEAD UN: FORCES IN CONGO — Irish Army Maj. Gen,
Sean MacKeown, named as replacement -for Swedish Gen, Cart
van Horn as head of the U.N. forces in the Congo, stands out-
side the United Nations Building in New York.
WAit,t61014. cAktAL OF LABS — thie tdeerit •tahatateelek• thaw -afferehaik, of Street
frghtrntd •1-e• vrehtf4.:thei. -Labe, The .Nghtlitg elided • when proe•Wesfeeel forces' ..1:01-g„ 'or ert,
. „
Filiarra NoleiVan ,draVe pro-Corririiunist traaps .frogs the'eflye Dec.• 21 Red Chiriete Defees:si
Minister Litt Pisa pledged that Comnitliiitt t flied will- ek4 tart is "put .a- ttap.• to U.S.
arid aggression fia'4L'aeseli