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The Brussels Post, 1961-06-08, Page 21.;2• .• R141:4;• ,gr R3n RONICLES clOINGERFARM evigeulatir.* 0 Cteaka • r. TAKING IN THE SIGHTS — Princess Grace of Monaco appears 34) hove only eyes for President Kennedy as he points out .something of interest outside the White House. The President and his wife gave a luncheon in honor of Princess Grace and her husband, Prince Rainier. •Liz's ittosh.o.n0 Humble Or No "What I am trying to. do," Ed- die Fisher confided, "is to present A sophisticated show. I am doing ,mois sophisticated songs and 1. am giving them more sctphisti- cated treatment, The whole preach," he concluded with em- phasis„ "is More eophieticated."' On this worldly note, Eliza- beth Taylor's husband prepared for his opening at Las Vegas last month,. his first profogsionni. • appearance in more than a year. To lend him a hand, the 32-year- old singer enlisted the aid . of various experts and. loyal friends. Win Romoff, a voice coach and song stylist from New York, was brought in to run the musical end of the show. Mel Ferrer, the actor director, volunteered to stage and light the program. And Mrs. Fisher could be count- ed on to supply that really sure- fire asset—her wifely presence at a ringside table, Eddie rehearsed zealously for. a month. The only hitch occur- red when his "official" opening had to be postponed for a night so thet celebrities like Ferrer and Audrey Ffepbut a, Tony Cur- tis and Janet Leigh, Bob Wagner and Natalie Wood could attend Gene Cooper's funeral. But the great moment finally came, and lines of .curious tour- ists fought to get into the Deseet Inn along with the guests from Hollywood. One couple, Mr. and 1VIrs Earl P. Good of Chatta- nooga, Tense, was asked which of the Fishers they had come to see, "Are you kidding?" Good answered. "Liz—who else" Promptly at 11:45, five min- utes before showtime, Good got his money's worth. Liz swept in, a dark-haired vision in white. Moving languidly to the front- carter of the room, she took her seat at the head of a table, stuck a ciearette in a long holder and chatted with Curtis and Miss Leigh. After a procession of show girls and a comedian, Eddie came on. By song No. 3, "Never on Sunday," sung in Greek, Mrs. Fisher's boy had it made, The audience cheered, and Liz beam- ed happily from behind her cig- arette holder. After song No. 12, a relaxed Fisher began thanking all who had helped him. "Well," Fisher concluded, "that's all. I quit, I think I've introduced everybody." "No, no; no," came the yells. "Who else?" asked Eddie in mock surprise. "Liz, Liz, Liz," they howled. Then Eddie looked down, and the audience hushed. "I'm so proud," he said hesitantly. "No, I feel so lucky .that she's here tonight. I think you know how I feel. I'd like to present—Mrs. Eddie Fisher." To cheers and whistles, a radiant .Liz stood and ED Delight Mom — Baby It fectehtt ltat'at Here's fun for you — a great attraction for baby — apprecia- etien of Mom—this covir of pets, All of these animals are babies, too Do lazy-daisy flowers in blue or pink, or in variegated colors, Pattern 781: transfer of 9 motifs 51/4 X81/2 inches. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Latira Wheeler. Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. JUST OFF THE PRESS: Sand now for our exciting, nevi 1961 Needlecraft Catalog. Over 125 designs to crochet, knit, sew, orribtoider,• quilt, weave .es fash- ions, hornefurnishings, toys, gifts, bailer hits, Plus FREE—instate- tioriS for six smart veil caps. Hurry, send 250 new ! „ . ISSUE — 1981 He. Cleans. Up On Others' Inventions Giant research labs cannot wither nor electronic ooinputers stale the infinite variety of America's do-it-yourself inven- tors, This year, as every year, countless thousands of would-be Edisons will spend their spare hours tinkering with the girn- micks and contraptions that are sure to revolutionize the U,S. economy, or at the very least make them rich and famous. "Always, the idea is going to make a million dollars," says John B. Tigrett, who has amass- ed a comfortable fortune of his own by licensing, marketing, and sometimes manufacturing home-made inventions. "Very seldom mere than that, but never a nickel less." Tigrett aught to know. As the country's leading invention bro- ker, he gets between 14,000 and 1ll,000 ideas submitted to 'his of- fices at Jackson, Tenn e and. Zurich, Switzerland, every year, of which about two or „three turn out to be marketable and make any money. He has even dreamed up one lucrative idea himself — the Play-a-round, an immensely popular, collapsible net playpen. A jovial, courte- out man who is neither an en- gineer nor a patent lawyer, and who admits that he is "not even very good mechanically," Ti- grett says his main qualifica- tion for the job is that he is "the greatest sucker in the world, bar none." The toy that walks up walls, the bobbing bird that drinks wa- ter from a glass, the Zoomerang (a gun that "shoots" a roll of tightly furled paper) are a few of 'the more successful devices that Tigrett had been sucker enough to handle. "That little walking toy was developed in the B.F. Goodrich labs," he re- calls. "Fritz Wigal, one of the staff, couldn't see why a suction cup had to be stabile. So he worked out a mobile mechanism —five suction cups on a dowel with a spring. Goodrich studied it, and said there was no use 'for it. We put a mouse body on it, and in various forms we've sold 25 million units." These are t h e goofy ideas, which go in the toy department. At the same time, most retract- able steel measuring tapes are Tigrett-licensed, and nearly every gas-station pump in' the world has a Tigrett-licensed hose retractor. "I've written more licensing agreements than anyone else in the world, too," says Tigrett. "I never advertise, People just hear about me. I think the only kind of person we haven't had submit an idea is a President or an ex- President. We've had senators, judges, and high executives. Onoe the president of a textile firm that grosses maybe $30 mil- lion a year called up to tell me he had a terrific idea. I assumed it was for some new spinning process or something, Instead, it was a balloon with a ball and ring inside that you fastened to your knee with a garter; then you tried to make the ball go through the ring by jiggling your leg, Ridiculous!" Perpetual-motion machines are perpetually coming in. "We've had over a hundred submitted," Tigrett says. "They all almost worked, The drinking duck, I guess, was closest. I'm still hop- ing," Undying hope is what Tigrett shares with his numberless Olt- eats, "I still believe in the base- ment," he says. "The basement inventor doesn't accept what can't be done, Most of the time, that's only because he doesn't know anything, but morally it's a good starting point "You stand in any groua of people," he added, suddenly -teri- ous, "and you can be pretty ure that almost every person there has some pet idea, some little gadget, something. It's not true of the Swiss mind, or the French, or the English, but somehow it is of the American, It's an ()nen society wet have here, Wert, all convinced that tomorrow We're somehow going to be doing something else, That's what sti- mulates the inventor's imagina- tion." — Prom NEWSWEEK. Old age isn't 80 bad wilt:vs• you consider the alternative, Maurice Che If you don't like washing dishes try putting a bird-feeding station within range of your kitchen 'window. You'll be so busy watching the birds you'll forget to get bored with the dishes. For instance last night I had quite a pile of dishes to do — we had been busy, in the garden so the dinner dishes had just been stacked — but I didn't. mind a bit because the birds were so interesting. I also no- ticed a few things about them I hadn't realized before. To my delight I found the red-wings were bossing the starlings — and I had thought it would be the other way round. On the other hand, the bluejay, for all his belligerent appearance and rau- cous voice, is a solitary feeder. He doesn't approach` the station unless it' is empty and if another bird comes when he is eating — even a little sparrow — he flies away. My greatest pleasure last night was in seeing a Baltimore oriole come- to feed every so oft- en. It was the first time I'd seen that happen. We also see mead- owlarks and flickers but they feed mostly on grubs especially after Partner has been cutting the lawn. Yesterday I saw a little chipmunk running along the branch of a tree and today there was a •cinnamon-brown bird I hadn't seen before. From my birdbook I gather it is a hermit thrush. So we see plenty of nature from our one-acre lot and all the little birds and beasts are wel- come except for rats and rab- bits, We get rabbits but it was a neighbour who was visited by a rat, He didn't actually see it 'but it made its presence known by digging out dirt from, the stone wall of his garage. Partner was called in for advice and to- gether they found a runway from the garage to a hole at the edge of the veranda. Poison bait was put well back into one hole, and the entrance and exit filled in with stones, And that was the end of the rat. I suppose there are dozens and dozens of people who read this column, who, just like us, have been busy in the garden the last few days. We found a number of our shrubs had either been nibbled or winter-killed so we were busy getting replacements — and also a few extras, We both like flowering shrubs so we are trying to get a shrubbery well established, but with the shrubs far enough apart to be distinguishable, We put in a few trees and shrubs every year hep- ing a fair percentage of them will grow, Yesterday we plant- ed an eight-loot mountain ash near the bird-feeding- station. Won't the birds have a great thee with that in a year or two? For shade trees we nave locust, weeping birch, three different "Charge this visit to my tetycho-inctile!ii ei peri3e palluy," TV STARS WED — TV's David Nelson, 24, and 'his bride, ac- tress-model June Blair, 19, are shown following their wedding in Hollywood. David is the eld- est son, of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. like to have a morain locust on her front lawn. "All right", said Partner, "if you 'get it I'll put it in for you," Quite .unknowirigly he took on more than he knew. To dig the hole he had to go through 18 to 20 inches of solid clay — just dumped over the ground when the house was built. It all had to be taken out and replaced with good top soil and peat moss otherwise the tree would never have lived. 'It took two hours of hard work to plant that one tree, Yet under the clay the soil was fine. I sup- pose when the foundation of the house was dug nobody cared where the dirt went, It has hap- pened before.. Generally the clay is covered with a layer of top soil — just enough to make the grass grow. What is under- neath may never be discovered — unless, as in this case, tjees• are planted. Well, while we have been busy in the garden, Dee and family made their first trip to the cot- tage this year, hoping to have a long weekend. They took a bag maples and two cotton-tail pop- lars, At the back and front of the house there is a good stand of native black ash. This year we have also invested in ever- greens for the front of the house under the livingroorn window — three sabinas and two pyramidal cedars, That is quite a gamble because our -windows have a six- foot overhaste so the borders don't get any natural moisture at all. Of course. we keep them but well water can't compare with rain water for life- giving qualities, And another thing, it is too cold. Our neighbours have been busy gardening too. Next door to us we have a temporay "grass- widow" who decided she would of coal along With them!' A wise precaution. I wouldn't want to be without heat here either. This morning when I woke up the furnace was going full blast. Oh well, some day we'll get hide, warm weather — Maybe'too much., And then you'll heat complaints coining from this quarter. I never did like hot weather and never shall, Last summer, in my estimation, was just perfect, If it is repeated this year be well content, "The day will come When girls will take the initiative in propos- ing marriage." says a psychia- trist. Where has he been? PlonundA Dirt Cheap IC a clearing among sum'.' tiYra. More trees. two, young men placed. a 2-by-4 board over a barrel three-quarters filled with water. On the board, they deposited a container with a cubic centimeter of -smooth black graphite — about the amount found in an ordinary lead Pencil- Then, on top of the graphite, they put a 1-pound charge of explosive. Their rig set qip, the pair crouched, down in a dugout and, without benefit of a countdown,, triggered the blast, The shock wave drove .the graphite into the barrel, compressing • it with A force, of 3 million pounds per square inch. in less than a second, metallurgist Paul Pe Car- li of the Stanford Research Insti, tute, Menlo Park, Calif., and geo- physicist John C. Jamieson of the University of Chicago had pro- duced diamonds with an ease that would make a medieval alchemist turn green. The diamonds, admit- tartly, were not the kind. that any- one would give his wife. But they promised' to be of important use in industrial cutting and grind- ing tools, At the same time, De Carli and Jamieson had produced some- thing else: An experimental dem- onstration of where meteors may originate. Scientists have long been divided on 'this question,. One school maintains that mete- ors are the debris resulting from collisions between cosmic bodies as large as our moon. The other school holds that they are frag- ments from small bodies. When diamonds were found in meteors that had crashed into earth, bath schools used this as evidence for their positions. Nobelist Harold Urey argued the diamonds had been formed under the high pres- sures, in the interior of a large body, and had later ridden to earth inside the meteor. Dr. Ed- ward Anders and Michael Lip- schutz, colleagues of Jamieson,. held the diamonds were formed on earth under high pressures at the moment of impact. In part to test this impact the- ory, De Carli and 'Jamieson, un- dertook the water-barrel experi- ment, creating, in effect, a mete- or impact. Their results, which will be reported in-the forthcom- ing issue of the journal Science, neatly supported the Anders-Lip- schutz position. The successful.experiment also means that the United States might some day have another means of making industrial dia- monds. in addition to the process — which requires a catalyst metal -- developed in 1955 by the General. Electric Research Laboratory. Patents have been. applied for and will be held -through the institute, a nonprofit corporation. And though mun- dane dividends are still far off, the scientists concerned are not unaware of the possibilities. "Graphite is dirt cheap," one said. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. I've been criticized for 'knitting while guests are present. Have I really been discourteous? A. If you are skilled enough to knit while at the same time giving every indication of close attention to What your friends are saying (and if they are close friends), it is quite all right, Q. Is it ever proper to use the knife for cutting the salad when dining? A. If you can manage it easily, use just your fork. However, there are times when lettuce proVes too 'tough for the fork and, in that case, it is quite all right to call upon your knife, Q. I am always uncertain just what to say to a beremsve4 .C1111. 1'911 11011) nle?' • Upon the occasion of death,. some .esspression of sympathy is always appre Hated by the family,' but the less elaborate tha expression the better. .A simple "I am sorry. Is there anything I tan do?" sincere and suffi- eient, proper to abbreviate the name 01' the month on the date line of a 'business letter?. • A. No. Neither the month nor the name of the state of the .ad- dressee is abbreviated—even of 'the states of Mississippi or Penn- sylvania. It is considered better form to write them out. Q. 'am always nocertoir.A. about the lettuce on which, salad is served. I like lettuce but. wonder if it is really proper to eat it. A, Since the. lettuce is as muck a part of the salad as any other' of the ingredients, it is perfectly proper for you to eat it. Q. does one properly le- move the bones from a fish at. the dinner table? A. Lift the end of the bone with the fork, and then pinching it between the fork and the knife, lift it all the way out, in some stubborn cases, you may have to use the fingers, and this is quite all right if you do not allow the fingers to touch the fish. To Size 48 PRINTED P,VITF-RN 44hotio 44,4 Over skirts, dresses, slacks — there's nothing like the easy grace of this cardigan jacket. One will never be enough, sew several in cotton, silk, wool. Printed Pattern 4858: Women's Sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48. Size 36 takes 21/4 yards ,35-inch fabric; Vs yard contrast. Send FORTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety). 'Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS. Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. ANNOUNCING the biggest fa- shion show of Spring-Summer, 1961 — pages, pages, pages of. patterns in our new Color Cata- logue — just out! Hurry, send 350 now! waved to the audience, bleu. Eddie a kiss, .acid sat down. This was the cue for Fisher to cap. the, sophisticated evening with his. second rendition of °That. Face," singing straight to Liz "Those ; eyes, those lips, that fabulous smile," • If the businessman from Chat- tanooga bed. had his glimpse. of Liz, his wife and e friend, Mrs. Hugh Hannah, were just as happy with what they heard frem Eddie, ""Great, great,' great," exuded Mrs. Hannah, "With so many arrogant singers around, it's nice to see someone, who's humble for a change." From NEWSWEEK About 'Living Within One's Means 'Since the early clays o.f this republic, one economic philos- ophy defies contradiction: Wise Americans live within their means. Yet in this age of easy credit, fewer persons are adher- ing to this time-proven policy. Personal bankruptcies, for ex- ample, have increased more than 300 per cent in the past decade —reaching a total of 114,166 in 1960. Contradictory as it may seem,- the average American's personal income in the same 10 years has risen 50 per cent. Total personal savings in the United States have nearly doubled. The statistical breakdown of personal bankruptcies is interest- ing. Nine out of 10 bankruptcies filed are the personal, non-bus- iness kind. Of the total 127,722 bankruptcy filings reported by federal courts for the year end- ing Dec, 31, 1960, just 13,566—or 101/2 per cent—were business bankruptcies. T h e remainder were non-business and of these approximately nine - tenths are classified as worker-family cases. The dominant, year-in-year- out reason for debt-ridden fa- milies is simply incompetent management .of a "fair-to-mid- dling" family income. Bankrup- tcy is inevitable when a family not only' lives up the ,salary check but also mortgages it to the hilt with no margin for emergencies, One credit counsel- or declares: "We rate mismanagement as the cause of 75 per cent, and misfortune as the cause of 25 per cent of family debt troubles." The consumer, market today indeed is tempting. And certain- ly Americans are entitled to the better things of life. They should always 'remember, however, the admonition of our forefathers: "Save a little for a rainy day." The "rainy-day" reserve is. worth' mentioning because it can soften ,the shock of 'minor finan- cial setbacks. It definitely would reduce the alarming number of insolvent families in the United States.--Evening Telegram (San Bernardino, Calif.) "What's the difference if I say bad or badly?" asked the stu- dent. The professor pointed to a shapedly girl: "Son, tell me, are you looking at her stern or sternly?" NO DISTRACTIONS PLEASE Just to keep distractrans at a minimum, lUddes of this University "Of South Carolina beauty ciontest decreed that the ftidet of tbnleskinis Would be kidder* With paper bags. Winner Wdi Masked coed stanclirio tecdtid the left r.