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Prince Philip Is.
A Two-Finger Typist
later reunited. "1 wanted to help,
ohticiren understand' loneliness.
and •'friendship," site said,
'Naturally, the ehildren are the.
final judges of a story's merit.
When asked, 0V-el:leaked Arnie
Haworth, 4, whose mother dials
20. for him„ sang out: "1 like
the. ,fines about animals and VA-,
titer ,Christmas," More ,sophisti-
eated, Sue Richardson, 7, who
dials her own, said'. unecitiivo/
oily:. "I like them because they
don't have those old-timey.
words you get in Clrimms' Fairy
Tales."
Can you use a typewriter? The
Queen pan and does but only
occasionally, nowadays. When
she was Princess Elizabeth she
often typed notes tel. hee'..fei004)
0110wing the example Of her
mother, The Queen Mother still
types some of her own letters
said has always enjoyed using a
typewriter,
Prince Philip is a keen typist,
Ue owns a lightweight portable
machine and uses only two fin-
gers of either hand, but can type
quickly and accurately.
Before her, marriage, the Prin-
cess Royal (then Princess Mary)
often typed letters for her mo ,
;her, the late Queen Mary. When
the Princess Royal's two sons
were quite young they were giv-
en a typeWriter-as a present and
used it to produce a magazine
which they called "The Hare-
wood News." '
First ruler to admit a type-
writer to a Royal household was
Queen Victoria. In 1890 she read
a newspaper article which said
that women were specially suited
for typing.
She. got into touch with a Mr.
W. J. Richardson who was then
introducing typewriters into
England and he took one of the
machines to her at Windsor Cas-
tle. After 'examining it, finger-
ing the keys and studying a
specimen Of typewriting, the
Queen asked him to leave the
typewriter at the castle.
A, man's life span: years of
hearing his mother ask wbero
he's going, years of haying his
wife ask where he's going, a
day or two having the mourners
wondering the same thing.
'You're .Ahnorrnot
Maybe 'Ws. Genius
What .makes a pane?'
'14 41$0.111e, Reflections erk. Gen-
lee," his tielr book
Bsays, Sir Russell Brain, the
arley Street neurologist, turns
to his own specialty fora. fee,
einating interpretation of the rea,
On for 'super-intelligence,.
""Man's nervous system con-•
lists of millions of nerve ,cells
which , are very much alike,"
writes the . neurologist, . "The
genius is net necessarily endow-
eci with a greater number of
nerve cells than the non-genius.
What is important is the organ-
ization of these cells, Nerve cells •
ere grouped into functional pat-
terns . and it is quite possible •
for the cells of the genius to be
:arranged in complex patterns
whieb, would account for the del-
icacy of perception and imagin-
ation that distinguish genius
from talent,.
"His specific nerve-cell pat-
tern probably gives the genius
a memory capable of retaining
relevant data, and associative
processes of exceptional richess
by which the data can be brought
together to evoke images, to
arouse feelings, to produce new
combinations o f. words, or
thoughts which will shock his au-
dience into new experiences, or
revivify old ones." Sir Russell
suggests William Shakespeare as
an example: "How rich must
have bcee the arrangement of
his nerve centers to have en-
*asiest Ever !
abied him to find words for ev-
ery nuance et love and bate, pity
and terror!,
Because of his lmma near-
010 e04), IPAttgrnel ,geniusheM'
easily veer into Mental ahem'.
inelity, instability, or even in-
sanity, writes Sir 'Russell. "The
form of insanity most closely re-
:Wed to geniue is the manic,
depressive state". (with, its cyclic
swings between frenzied elation
and sodden depression).
Mood Madness: Among the
noted manic depressives, who
did their best work after one of
these insane episodes, were. Wil-
than, Cowper, the poet, James
George Fee:, the foun-
der of Quakerism, Julius Robert
Mayer, the German scientist who
discovered the law of conserva-
tion of energy, and Isaac New-
ton,
"Most geniuses are perfectly
sane," Sir • Russell assures his
readers. But as a diagnostician,.
he finds it interesting to relate
the genius of Jonathan Swift
with a neurological disorder
from which he suffered,— Me-
niere's disease, a serious ailment
of the inner ear, marked by diz-
ziness and deafness. Also, he
attributes Dr.. Samuel Johnson's
eccentricities, as well as his pro-
digious memory and spurts of
genius, to obsessions and com-
pulsions arising from guilt feel-
ings which tormented Johnson
all his life,
'or today's sensitive genius
tottering between black confu- •
sion and creative output, Sir
Russell's book offers comfort in
the knowledge that other great
ones have suffered in the same
way„—From NEWSWEEK.
HE SKIIS ON GLASS — Famous 0 ympic skiier a nd movie -star Tony Sai er us after he arrived
via a Lufthansa Jetliner, to attend a Winter S ports Show in New York City. Mr. Sailer, in
addition to his skiing performances, is head of a factory which manufactures skis mode of
fibre glass. Photo courtesy of Lufthansa German Airlines
They Play At Work
And Work At Play
Rated against other nations
past and present on their fond-
ness for parties, the modern
Thais would doubtless come in
first, with the Greeks of Homer's
time and an the rest of the field
strung out far behind along the
track. While it is perhaps not
true of Thais, as has sometimes
been said, that they play at
work and work at play, it is true
that they get fun out of both
forms of endeavour and that
this fun has in it a large element
of the gregarious,
As good an indication as any
of the way in which Thais con-
'trive to enjoy whatever they
may be doing is presented to
any passerby by the sight of a
road-gang at work. More than
half of the workers in such a
gang are likely to be girls or
young women whose costume
consists of huge straw sun-hel-
mets and dark pesins 'fastened by
the heavy sold-gold belt which is
at once a Thai working-woman's
major investment and adorn-
ment. The work consists largely
of carrying dirt or gravel about
in shovel-shaped wicker baskets
to the accompaniment of so
much chuckling and joking that
the passerby may jump to the
surmise that very little is being
accomplished.
When it became necessary to
repave a major Bangkok traffic
artery a few years ago, a project
which also involved channeling
two major klorigs into oversized
sewer-pipes and then laying a
concrete surface over them,
many irate auto-commuters voic-
ed irritable opinions that the job
was taking too long. A foreign
engineer was finally consulted
and his opinion, handed down
after earnest cogitation, was
that, using American earth-mov-
ing machinery and the same
budget, the work would have
taken about 50 per cent longer.
— From "Thailand," by Noel F.
Busch.
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Your Kids To Sleep!
For any tot in Hull, England,
fairyland is as close as the tele- •
phone. Just dial 211. A sweet
feminine voice answers — she
could be the good fairy herself
— and she tells a bedtime story
aboht Father Christmas, or a
goose, or a pony, or almost any-
thing from the land of never-
never.
The local telephone company
since last December has been
providing each night a differ-
ent, original, three-and-a-half-
minute, tape-recorded bedtime
s t or,y 'for its subscribers. The
stories have .become so popular
that one recent week the com-
pany logged 12,000 calls to Hull
211 — some from London and
Glasgow, and some from as far
away as Norway, West Germany,
and France. Perhaps of most in-
terest, all of the stories were
written by einateurs — students
in the creative-Writing course of
the local Kingston upon Hull
(teachers) Training College,
Last fall, Mrs. Mary Y. Sower-
by, a 34-year-old Scotswoman
who lectures in education at the
coeducational school (314 stu-
dents), offered original bedtime
stories by the college's novice
writers for the phone company
to transmit to subscribers, as it
does cricket scores 'and cooking
recipes. Telephone in a nag er
Hugh V. J. Harris accepted, and
the bedtime story was made a
regular weekly assignment- in
the creative-writing course.
Student Wendy ;Richards, 19,
was able to dash off a story in
three minutes — about a ,Teddy
bear and. a candle, separated and
SIGNS UP — Italian singer An-
na Marie Alberghetti applies
for American citizenship,
presently he came limping into
the houie and called to me —
"Get a doctor, quick — I've
chopped my foot!" I jumped out
of bed and ran to the phone:,
Fortunately there was no "an-
swering service" in those days
so I got the doctor on the line
right away. Then' I collapsed at
the phone. The doctor was soon
on the scene. I forget what he
was driving but I do know he
walked through our long snow-
filled lane. I wonder how many
doctors would do it today. Part-
ner, had gashed the instep of his
foot right to the bone, It re-
-quired several stitches to close
the wound, That night he. had
to- milk the cows just the same
— there was no one else to do
it. Before the foot healed infec-
tion set in and the wound had
to be lanced.
Happily we all survived but
as I lopk back I wonder how we
did it. Maybe it was a case- of
"as thy need so shall thy
strength be".
This baby set has everything
—it's lovely, practical and, best
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Jacket and cap are crocheted
In a straight piece. Boy's has
plain bands at neck, sleeve, cap
edge; girl's has ruffles. Pattern
770; crochet directions.
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High-Fly:mg Boy
A small boy has been recover-
ed from space in Launceston,
Tasmania. A man scrambled up
a building and hooked five-
year-old David Ankers out of
the sky with the handle of his
umbrella,
The youngster had been hold-
ing a bunch of ballobns at the
Launceston fair when a gust of
wind lifted him high off the
ground.
Another youngster from "(Diet-
er space" broke up a mission-
ary's outdoor meeting in a vil-
lage e a r Pietermaritzburg,
South - Africa, recently, The
preacher was telling a spell-
bound audience that the great
day would come when angels
would appear in the sky and
gather all of God's children into
Heaven:
In pious gesture he upraised
his arms—and then screamed
with dismay as a tiny coloured
child suddenly dropped into
them, the force of the youngs-
ter's "arrival" knocking him to
the ground.
He was able to smile, later,
when he learned that the boy
had climbed an overhanging tree
to listen to the preacher, but had
fallen asleep during the sermon,
lost his balance; and dropped
into the waiting arms,
Partner is feeling very pleased
with himself right now. He is
reaping the benefit of all the
hard work he did last fall in
raising the le'iel of the ground
at the back of the house. With
a higher level rain now has a
chance to run off. Snow, when
it melts, will do the same thing.
Thus it will save a lot of winter
digging and shovelling and pre-
vent slippery patches from form-
ing around the back of the
house.
Our Toronto grandsons have
just started a round of chicken-
pox. Dave came out with' a rash
last Saturday so I suppose the.
other two will get it everatfally.
In the meantime Dave ie capital-
izing on the satiation, getting his
young brothers to wait on him
while he stays in bed or on the
chesterfield. He really keeps
them busy as lie isn't the least
bit sick, nor has lie too many
spats to worry him.
This deep snow arid the boys
having chicken=pox reminds nee
of One time on the farm many
years ago wheri our two children
had red ineasles, Bob so badly
you 0.ouldn't put a pin-Point
down ;)etween The spots, Even
the doctor had to. laugh when he
saw him. And then I came down.
with tonsilitis at the same tithe
and rah a very high teittpera-,
tore. We were all in one twenty-
by-twenty bedroom. I can see
us yet. Then carne a heavy silOW,
fall, about the seine as We lad
just recently, There was no need
to clean out the lane because
there were no ears on the road
— 'lust horses, sleighs and 'cut-
ter Partner was out at the
i mine: wood to keep the
tiirt„ fires going..- we didn't
nese a furnace at, that time.
Nearly everyone these days is
worrying about the high cost of
drugs. If you are one of the
worriers I've got news for you
— good news. There are certain
persons — far too many, unfor-
tunately — who must take drugs
all the time, maybe for rheuma-
tism, a heart condition, asthma,
or whatever your special com-
plaint may be. These people are
used to buying "repeat prescrip-
tions" so they are the ones who,
by using their heads, can save
themselves a little money — as
I have found out from experi-
ence. Tablets that I take—under
doctor's orders — come at $10
a hundred. The other day I
needed a fresh supply but think-
ing the prescription might pos-
sibly be changed before too long
I thought I might as well order
fifty. I asked the price
16.25 for 50," replied the
druggist.
"But I've always paid $10 a
hundred."
"Oh, yes, but that's just a spe-
cial price for buying in quan-
tity." I quickly changed my
mind, took a chance and ordered
a hundred. Later I was relaying
this information to a friend who
said, "Well now, inquire
about that What my husband
gets' for his asthma are 36 cap-
sules for $4.35." The next day
she phoned me back with the
astounding news that Fred's cap-
sules were $7.25 a hundred. And
they had been buying thirty-six
at a time for nearly a year! So
by figuring things out from the
two instances I have given you,
you can easily see how you can
save a little money. Of course
this is only possible when drugs
are more or less a part of your
regular diet, as it were. For
emergencies when antibiotics
may be necessary the doctor wilt
order 'only enough tablets or
capsules to take care of the sit-
situation. Such medicine cannot
be ordered in bulk,
Well, we seem to be having
a little snow — and doesn't it
look nice for a change — so
clean and sparkling, Some dis-
tricts evidently got more than
others. Friends phoned us from
Milton oh the Thursday night of
the storm. They had started out
to pay us a visit; got as far as
the Derides Highway; rat, into a
blinding SnOWatertri; found even
transports were getting stalled
so they tanned around and went
home again. That was the same
night Ed Sullivaree plate was
unable to land at Melton, The
next morning Partner was busy
from nine o'clock until four ie.
the afternoon, diggiti r shovelling
and scraping away snow from
the house and garage to the vied.
When he got through with our
own driveway be got busy for
a grass widow who live:4 rit.%t
door,.
ISSUE 7 1961
Q. Does a man who is travel-
ing alone prefix "Mr." wizen
registering at a hotel?
A. No; he merely registers as
John B, Green, Peoria,
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TASTES SWUM Tiny refugee from 'Tibet eats CARE lunch
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"Do Mit. Roosevelt or politi-
cal poitetere ever 'Omit liege?"'
MANNOLIINS ee Likenesses of President Kennedy o'r' his wlfe,
Jctqueline, receive" final touches in New York, Tho tharine-
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