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The Brussels Post, 1961-05-11, Page 6Tribute. To A Second': Fiddler tative e from South Africa vho are here in South. Florida seek., ing our support of ..the church's work in South. Africa, "In our church schools in South' Attica we can give the children healthy nutritious meal for only a penny and a half .a clay per child but we Ara Pot 0)10 to do this .because we simply do not have the penny and • half a, day." It is far better, say these rep, eeseetetives who have come to us, for relief to come to those people through the church rather than through economic aid from our government because this. identifies the love and .concern. of Christians in a meaningful way. We must translate our Christian faith. into terms that are understandable to the people of South Africa and this is best done in terms of their urgent human needs, — Orlando (Fla.) Evening Star ELECTRONIC CURTAIN — A new television studio at Elstree, Englund, seems hidden by ca curtain of metal rods, The curtainlike complex is for camera lights. BLE, TALKS ‘v cum Any.ews. Apparently overlooked in the economy reports were the 50,- 000,000 special type automobiles sold last year. . The feet they were in 49 cent do-itsyourself kits as against the standard average $2,500 model may have had something to do with it. riay. "The main thing," he ad- ded, "is that 1 play well enough to surprise people. The rest is. humor. A lot of people think I can play better then I dei and then there are people who are surprised that I can ialay any- thing at a1L'' During a luncheon break at a nearby Russian restaurant, Ben- ny — who looked tanned and fit and far from his 6.7 years — seemed eager to talk about the. violinist he might have been, "The violin is the greatest thing that ever happened to me:" he said. "I. can have the worst atom- och or a headache, and, I pick up the fiddle fur an hour and 1 feel like I've just had a wonderful nee.. "There are two reasons why like these concerts," he confided, ""The first is that it's the highast -class background a comedian could possibly have — with the finest conductors and the finest musicians. The second is that the particular kind of thing I do doesn't fit anybody else -- the satire where I think Fri the world's greatest violinist." "Sometimes when you are. backstage and you see the sym- phony orchestra waiting for yeu," Benny said wistfully, "you think you have suddenly become a great 'violitiest, It's almost path- etic. I wish I could be cured some way. But my wife, gave me some good advice, I wondered what would have happened if I had practiced the violin and had never become a comedian. She said: 'You wouldn't have been good enough to be a great violin- ist and you wouldn't be bad enough to do what you're doing now. You'd be right in the mid- dle'." It Was time to return to the re- hearsal. When Benny walked in- to Carnegie Hall, Stern's warm. golden tones filled the house with Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole."• Jack Benny, comedian, was back in 'business immediately. "I've. heard him before," he snorted. mThe big show-off." Smart Kiddies Hah ! Hah ! Hah "KING" GABLE'S SON — John Clark Gable, two weeks old, makes his photo debut in arms of mother, Kay. His father, ac- tor Clark Gable, died last No- vember. date) in Brooklyn (he still re- tains the speech). Apprenticed to a tailor as a child, he later work- ed his way to the Coast as a fly- weight box1r, eventually turn- ed to the movies as an extra. "I was one of them peanut eaters," he recalls. "You know, you'd be in the crowd watching a fight or the races and eat peanuts." By 1926, Nudie had settled down to tailoring, primarily for the vaudevillians and movie ac- tors of the day. Except for a brief fling at designing costumes for strippers "Nudies for the Ladies" — he was still an obscure tailor twenty years later when the Western inspiration hit him. He has been riding tall in the saddle ever since. His prices, of course, depend on the needs and tastes — and resources — of his customers. Hugh O'Brian, TV's Wyatt Earp, might get a relatively plain out- fit, far example, for about $400. Hip-swinging singing idol Pres- ley, on the other hand, once paid $10,000 for a gold lame outfit. Nudie's biggest current project is the concoction of a white gabar- dine suit embroidered with base- balls sprouting wings — for.Gene Autry, new owner of the Los Angeles Angels baseball leans. Nudie's customers swear by him. In fact, almost every avail- able foot of wall space in his office holds the autographed pic- tures of stars he has served. His ' favorite is one from stripper Lili St. Cyr. It's inscribed: "Dear Nudie: If I ever wear clothes, they'll be yours." From NEWSWEEK Why The Cubons Turner! To Communism "Hew is it." 1 asked, "that Cuba has gone communistic when the Rieman Catholic Church. wits so strong there and so forcefully opposed to vont- numism?" One of the Cuban refugees said: will tell you, Father. The (thumb was only concerned for itself for building expen- sive and beautiful churches. "The church was identified. • with wealth cud power and not with the needs of the people. When Castro came in, he said: 'Whet has the church done for you?' "He 'snowed then), the eaocel- led checks from the wealthy that had gone. to pay for gold inlay in the churches while the people struggled to exist. This is why, Father, the Communists have taken Cuba and the church has failed." This strong indictment against Churches in • Cube is printed by The Palm. Branch, official publi- cation of the Diocese of South Florida of the Episcopal Church , . . This indictment comes from the church people themselves. They admit failure — but as they admit failure, so do we all, The Palm Branch article goes on to review the failure of the church in Russia and in Attriea. The Communists say to the underprivileged: "You pray to your God, 'Give us this day our daily bread.' Does He answer your prayers? Pray to us.. We will give you your daily bread." The horrible truth of the mat- ter is we have no answer that is meaningful. People who. are. well fed, well treated — people who have medical care — these are net the people who turn to communism. It is where there is privation, unemployment, any kind of human. suffering — this is where communism speaks with • power. In Russia the church was weal- thy and identified with all of the injustice and suffering of the underprivileged. It was easy for the Communists to' ure the peo- ple against the church. It is the same in Africa today, Here is a land of great 'contrast — wealth alongside unbelievable poverty, There are many dedi- cated Christian people working to "spread the Christian faith in Africa, but their efforts are so inadequate because they simply do not have the resources. Malnutrition is like a scourge, we are told by two lay represen- The Search For A Cancer Antigen — Chemical Is Key To A Vaccine The alligator violin case ea the chair looked much too costly eor the average concert violinist. But then its owner was hardly an average fiddler, "Aren't violins nettled after all the great people Who owned thern?" 'leek Benny asked, as he carefully tucked his highly polished Stradivarius into its luxuriotas nest. "Then I guess this will be known as the Benny :Strad," The comedian had just come offstage after rehearsing "Car- negie hall Salutes Jack Benny." a television program that was taped one night recently before a invited audience, but which CBS will not telecast until Sept, '27. With Isaac Stern and Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Oreheetra, he had successfull navigated a run-through of the Bach Concerto for Two Violins, end now he and Stern were ex- ehanging the banter that has be- come associated with Benny's many appearances with the na- tion's symphony orchestras over the past five years, "Jack has raised more money (more than $2 million) for orchestras than any single individual," said Stern. "That's why this salute." Then, with a grin, "I taught him to see the light" "Isaac is one of the few who knows bow much I positively wish I could play the violin," • said Benny, "And how pathetic. It really it." "He said it," Stern retorted. "I didn't. One of the reasons I'm so fond of jack," he added seriously, "is that he's never made fun of music, only of himself." Benny seemed grateful, "All kidding aside," he said, "if. I had Aladdin's lamp I would want, to be a great violinist for one year. Then I could go back to comedy and be happy. I would love to play all those great numbers. "I started playing the violin when I was a little kid," he con- tinued. "I stopped when I was 15 years old. It's as if I were a golfer and loved to play and didn't want to practice the hard shots. I was past 62 when I start- ed practicing again, It gets tough to move the fingers. I started practicing when I made up my mind to do these concerts," How much does he practice? "As much as I can," Benny re- plied. "Half an hour, an hour, two hours, or even three hours I day." At first, he, confessed, he had done the wrong thing. "I didn't know that you had to practice very slowly," he said. "I practiced by playing the way it was supposed to be played when you are actually giving a etencert." Now he devotes more attention to scales and exercises than to the actual music he will MINS By DR. A. CLARK GRIFFIN Head, Department of Biochemis- try, M. D. Anderson. Hospital, University of Texas. (Written for Newspaper Enterprise. Asen.) and serve it with a hot .cherry sauce. Cherry Upside-Down Cake '1 yellow cake mix (prepare ac- cording to direction on pack- age) 2 tablespoons butter la cup brown sugar 1 can frozen 'cherries (canned cherries may be used), drain and save juice Grease a 12x8x2-inch pan. Sprinkle brown sugar over bot- tom of pan. Add drained cher- ries, Pour cake mix batter over cherries in pan. Bake in preheat- ed 350° F. oven 35-40 minutes. Turn out with cherries on top. Serve warm topped with hot cherry sauce. Cherry Sauce 1/.2 cup sugar 2 tableepoons cornstarch 114 cups cherry juice (add water to juice to make this amount) 1 tablespoon batter' - 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon vanilla Combine suga r, cornstarch, and juice in saucepan. Cook un- til thickened, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and add but- ter, lemon juice, and vanilla. * * * Would you like to make an upside down cake with ginger- bread.? If you'd like it with mixed fruit, try this one using canned fruit cocktail. Fruity Upside-Down Cake 1/4 cup melted butter • 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed Lee cups canned fruit cocktail 1 package gingerbread mix Combine melted butter and brown sugar in 9-inch' square pan. Arrange well-drained fruit cocktail art top, Mix gingerbread by package directions; pour on top of fruit in pan, Bake at 350° F. 40-45 minutes. Invert over serving plate. Allow pan to stand over cake I minute before removing. Serve warm. °When the box's empty you have a nice heuse for your dog." From a mass of people who are merely intelligent you can pick out the highly creative types by their sense of humor. Well, it seems to work with kids, anyway. This is according to a couple of psychologists named Getzels and J a c k s o n, whose probing over a four-year period was recently reported by the B.C. Teacher, Problem was how best to pick out the gifted children. You can't do it just by IQ and teacher evaluation, say G and J, because teachers have a clear-cut preference for kids with high IQ's, who have a strong con- forming tendency, "The emphasis on sense of hu- mor is so marked," G and J re- port, "that it is one characteristic that sharply sets apart the high- creativity group from all other groups." Asked to do a story on "Face cream and divorce," as part of the tests, one creative child wrote: "She wore so much cold cream on her face at night that her head would skid across the pillow and hit him on the head. He is now contemplating a new skid-proof face cream." Left out of the study were chil- dren who rated high in both in- telligence and creativity, since the problem at this stage was to isolate the two qualities and find distinguishing tests. Study of this group is now being done. Otsuji, Japanese scientists visit- ing in my laboratory, and I have attacked the problem from a different angle. We have sought for a "toxohormone" — a poison that we felt might be produced by tumors to paralyze the body's defenses. The cancer cell does Produce poisons apparently in the same manners as infectious cells do. Anthrax, some tuberculosis bacil- li, typhus, cholera and plague organisms release poisons which harm the host. We have found a epecific toxohormone in every human tumor so far examined and never in normal tissues. We have purified it to ,.a point where it is now 50,000 times as concentrat- ed as it was in the crude toxo- hormone with which we first began to work. One-millionth of a tumor is toxohormone. Toxohormone lessens the liver's ability to produce cata- last, a substance which builds hemoglobin for healthy red cells and neutralizes poison cencentra- tions. In the livers of animals and humans with advanced can- cer, catalase production is re- duced and the host Often deve- lops anemia. " Is this what paralyzes im- menity? toxohormone from th4 tumor? We do not know yet whether toxohormone is antigenic — whether its debilitating effects can be counteracted with a vac- cine or antiserum. This possi- bility — and the designing of drugs which may counteract toxohormone — are under con- sideration, however. Dr. Jerome It Sacks at the Medical College of Virginia has isolated an agent which he calls FHA (filterable hemolytic agent). When he injects it into rats, it destroys their red blood cells and causes an anemia similar to that which occurs in cancer. When the rats recover from their anemia, they are immune to cancer transplants to which they otherwise would be highly susceptible. This is exciting work. At last report Dr. Sacks' agent had im- munized rats to a significant degree against eight different kinds of transplantable rat can- cers, It will be of considerable interest to learn whether FHA ianmunizes other animal species against transplanted cancers — 4nd, eventually, to spontaneous canders Which susceptible ani- m,als develop with predictable regularity. - Throughout the world the search goes on for the common, dancer antigen that, some day, may take the terror out of hu- man cancer. (Next: Hainan Cermet' Vaccines.) He Makes Clothes For Cowboy Stars The sight-seeing bus had just disgorged a gaggle of tourists at Hollywood's Revue Studios when all heads turned. "My God," one of the tourists gasped, "what's that?" "That," it turned out, was a big white convertible with huge silver-tipped steer horns mounted over the grille, a sterl- ing-silver Buntline Special on the hood, silver horses on all four fenders, and six-shooters for door handles. There was more— an elaborate Western saddle be- tween the two front seats, fancy holsters and cartridge belts hang- ing over the rear of the seats, three rifles mounted aft, and a hand-tooled leather and unborn- calf interior encrusted with 125 silver dollars.and a 10-gallon hat- ful of halves and quarters, "Nudie, the Rodeo Tailor," Rollywood's top designer of Western clothes, had conic simp- ly to deliver hand-braided horse- 'hair hatbands to television's Western hero Robert ("Wagon Train") Horton, one of the !atoll in a long line of hot-shat cus- tomers ranging from cowboys Roy Rogers and Gene Autry to singers Dean Martin and Elvis Presley. "Yeah, people look pretty hard," Nudie observed recently. 'And they should. There's $15,- 009 in this baby. But people. talk about it. It's good for business." So good, ing fact, that the short, gravel-faced Nudie — using more conventional lures, as well — de- signed and dispensed more than $250,000 worth of Western gear last year to actors. and "ciVillatis" alike in his luxurious white-stuc- co North 'Hollywood trading pest. The men behind the Mari be- hind the gun was born Nudie ("I don't know what the hell it stands for") Cohn about 57 years ego, he isn't Vile sure Of the HOUSTON, Tex, — (NEA) — An antigen is a chemical so foreign to us that our systems produce antibodies which neutra- lize or destroy it. Infectious bacteria and viruses contain antigens, so our systems destroy them and prevent or cure the diseases they cause. if all cancer cells contained s common antigen and if we could obtain it in reasonably pure form, we could use the antigen as a vaccine. Vaccine then might prevent cancer as it does smallpox. Or the vaccine might be used . to rouse our natural defenses so our systems could cure cancer as they do the common cold. Or we could inject the antigen, or vaccine, into animals and have them produce the anti- bodies against it. We could then treat cancer as diphtheria and tetanus are treated — by in- jecting the antibody-I o a d e d watery part of the animal's blood into patients, Antiserum, they call it. 'Theoretically, a common anti- gen could be the answer to can- cer. Theoretically. Actitally, we- now know that many cancers — possibly all 'of them — contain antigens, But the most familiar anti- gees are not common to all kinds of cancer. And they often are (1) too impure and weak to cause the system to react or (2) so strong that they themselves cause cancer, Recent reports from research' centres as widely separated as New York, Tokyo, Moscow and Stockholm have revived hope that many or all cancers may contain a common antigen. In these centres, scientists have described chemicals --- still in an impure state — that they find in several cancers but not in normal tissues, At this stage, there is con, siderable 'conflict in identifica,. tient of the basic. Vaccine irta- terial. One hopes' that purifica- tion everiutaally will indicate that all these vaccines contain, the selfsame antigen, Dr, 7c, Yunoki and Dr. 8, T88itI1 lft ,•—• 101 MEASURING THE TAkE: A Scientist checks the site of the ter c,;utt. to inietliati of cancer cent at The Ohio Slate Oeniteritleityi This leie:'cake may be made with batted from 3h package of cakee, mix or from a cake made by the following recipe. In either case, you'll need the same topping. Pineapple upside-Down Lei Cake 5 pineapple slices, drained (reserve; earne) 5 red niaeaschino cherries, drained la cup butter 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed Grease 8-9-inch ring mold; gently bend and arrange drained pineapple slices in bottom with cherries in centre of slices. Heat and stir butter and brown sugar in small saucepan until well blended, then carefully pour into areas between slices. Cover this with batter made from ae package cake mix — or with this batter: Cake Batter 1 cup sifted flour teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt $4 cup' sugar ees cup shortening (room temperature) V2 cup milk 1 egg,•unbeaten 2 tablespoons syrup from pineapple Set oven at 400° F. Sift flour before measuring, then sift all dry ingredients together into mixing bowl. Add shortening and milk and beat for 2 minutes in mixer at medium speed (or 300 strokes by hand); then add egg and syrup from pineapple and beat 2 minutes more. Pour into greased ring mold over "topping" and bake. for 30 minutes. Loosen edges, cover with plate, and invert., Let stand 5 minutes; shake pan gently and lift off. Serve warm, Makes 5 generous or 10 small servings. * * Want 'to serve a ruby red cranberry cake baked i1 a 9x9x2sineh square pan? Serve it warm for a dessert, topped with whipped-,cream or ice cream, writes. Eleanor Richey Johnston in The Christian Science Monitor, Cranberry Upside-Down Cake ae cup packed brown sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch 1/8 teaspoon allspice Ma cup orartge'juiee 1 cup canned whole cranberry sauce 2 tablespoons butter laz teaspoon shredded orange peel Several drops red food color- ing, ,Blend brown sugar, corn- starch, and allspice in a small saueepan. Add orange juice. Cook, stirring constantly until Mixture reaches boiling point. Reduce heat to very low, Con- tinue to cook and stir until clear and very thick. Add remaining ingredients. Heat, mixture to boiling point. Rub bottom of 9x9k2-inch square pan with shortening. Pour mixture into pan. Cake tatter IA cup shortening 2 cups sifted flour tablespoons sugar I teaspoons baking powder laa teaspoon. salt 414. cop 1 egg, slightly bcatett Sift together dry ingredients. Cut shortening into flour mix- ture with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture is consist- ency of coarse corn meal. Corns 'bite milk and slightly beaten egg, Add to flour MiXtute all at once. Stir with fork until batter is just blended, Spoon over cran- berry mixtare in pan. Bake in 450 ° F. oven about 12 minutes, or until golden' brown. Turn up- side down on serving platter, Cut into squares and serve with whipped cream or ice cream. Use a yellow cake Milt in make the following cherry take, FROM ANOTHER AGE — The bunch of bones above once belonged to ct fearful creature — the gergesaurus — which sreatileci the eorth about 75 &inhale years :age. But iftiege incingirag •cirotelet that long get dusty, so Steve kovor uses ri feather duster on Hite spetitaitti Chicano Netural History ' Museum tellettiteri,