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The Brussels Post, 1961-06-22, Page 2NOTABLE VISITOR MAKES BRIEF VISIT — Winston Churchill,, 86, surveys New York harbour from the deck of the Christina, left, as two nurses los+, on. Church:2, cruising aboard the yacht owned by Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Oness",s, made a one-doy stop at the port following a tour of the Caribbean and a she t stop in Snosida. An impromptu welcome by harbor firebeets greeted the grand old man of England's finest hour. GREAT RECEPTION. TO GRAND OLD MAN — U.S dignitaries visit Churchill' aboard ship. Churchill's quiet return was in contrast to a previous visit over nine years ago. in Jr:mut:try 1 9.5 2, the then Prime Minister received a standing— ovation, right, as he addressed a joint session of Congress in Was Churchill announced he had come "not for gold but for steel" as Britain in those days sought to relieve an economic crisis, seee' steselessesse R. ► ► too ► ► ► ► ► ► ► ► to ► ► • • • He 'cut Ingrid Down. To Size, • know it will seund Odd," neald, the prettsr Swedish girl. "But, Doctor, can you. make Me. abOtet 4 inches shorter?' When she walked into the Ors ;Eke of surgeon Lars Unender- Scharin in Harttoe:and, Sweden, ' back in 1959 and made this bi- :aim request, 16-year-old Ingrid .Westman was 6-feet I-inch tali and utterly miserable because she "felt like a big bear" among her smaller clesernates. Today, however', after having undergone two of the most centroversiae operations in Swedish medical history. Ingrid te 2 (not 4) ..toehee shorter. And while a couple et, inches might not seem like *notch. • She is happier than she has ever beet before. The unique operatien was pet- torrned east summer when Vr. ; Vneeder-Scherin cut 2 incises (more he thought eveulti have made heeled edisprepertienatens from the per thigh bees: in Is.er lei: hse te:d jelned 'nee pieces wit: a silver p:atte Six weeke later he did the same thing le hOr right lea The Plallt,:i:1QS were left ui Wehed and greditelly edits:F.1'er,', by thereeetves, When the store- cf the ca=-e• : Was pub, en the Sweente prees.. the !is reetel eeriteeverev sgan. The diseeele Was sin:"' -Ting :e t.. we: "'Veers,. et:erste oittere experis enee d;-`%ettity in se aryl;?,, ttleereensei. a' they Lee." stene Ds• eSerdlurad: a .psemi- ne::. S: -plastic stireeett. Z.hiS is tear:;..,: stage:* Die „ertheet. eine' the Rtgal Me al Beard, which has siethorety ever ell of $w c"r;" ni02 pit: dais, in- s;tt teat e decter Must not act t -seers:Me to :a patient's re- geese.. el.': be motivated by his own exesertenee." In defence, the 43- ^e•t chief surgeon • at the I: tell Per the Crippled in Hareoeand ta lumber port in nttehern Sweden) points out that he •delibeeately waited two years .before • performing the operation to see whether Ingrid . would change her mind. But even Dr. Unander-Scharin is having sec- ond thoughts. "It was a danger- ous operation and I hope I will never have to perform another like it," he said, Ingrid, herself, is undisturbed by the flurry of controversy.. Back home in the small northern. town cf Ornskoldsvik, daughter of a local grocer, said that she "feels no pains" and has even gone out on the slopes to ski. Does being 2 inches shorter really make a difference? "When I used. to go to a school dance," the attractive young brunette recalled, "the boys sel- dom asked me to dance. But at the last party I had a partner for every dance. Jiffy Halter tty reat46 13Aiktgz, Varied flowers lend colorful touch to this jiffy-wrap halter that tops shores, slacks, skirts. 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There was the usual feminine comment on "what to wear," how to reply to the invitation, and so on, "Never use a ball point pen," advised one purist— the implication being that this would be as gauche as using a pencil. Almost at the fast minute, a rumor swept through the Press Building that "the girls aren't going to wear hats!" There was consternation until, it became evident that the rumor stemmed from a small contingent averse to mussing their hair-do, most of vveicin don't wear hats anyway. One newspaper woman sport- ing a bright flowered number confessed she had bought it "about half an hour ago." There is a special aura about the White House. It is hard to define. It is not so much what one sees there but the way one feels about it. My first visit to the White House was during the war when I arrived in. Washington in time to attend some of Mrs. Roose- velt's last press conferences there. We congregated upstairs in the now off-limit family rooms. One has a feeling of awe on entering the White House for the first time. It is an emotion pe- culiar to Americans, I suppose. I don't know that I agree with Mrs. Kennedy that the White House has a "cold" appearance. She saw it first as an 11-year- old when she was taken there by her mother. She recalls it as seeming austere and lacking in warmth. That is why she is try- ing to make it seem more "home- like" now to the thousands of school children who tour the downstairs public rooms. In a recent television inter- view she spoke of her effort to make certain that there are flowers on the tables and fires burning in the fireplaces in the winter. Through her new Fine Arts Commission, the First Lady is hoping to recover for the• White House "more pieces of beautiful furniture that belonged to all the Presidents." The White House has very little antique furniture now. Most of its original furnishings were burned in the War of 1812. La- ter, Presidents who came and went disposed of the furniture as they liked. Some of it was even auctioned o f f i n Lafayette Square, across from the White House, Chairman of Mrs, Kennedy's commission Is Henry B. du Pont, director of the Winterthur Cor- poration. Winterthur is the famed du Pont museum in Wil- rhingtee of fine American furni- ture end decorative objects of the 1640 to 1840 period, "Anyone who has seen Winter- thur will tow that we are seri- ous in what we hope to da," Mrs. Kennedy stated during the television interview. "We don't really want to re- strict it' ,to any special period becauSe this house Can't he a rigid museum Everyone whO has lived in it is •a part 'ot it, W* just want Ito get the best things Living sir the White House has its prOblents, particularly whorl it one to teleirig children in HANDLE WITH CARE — "Crated for export/' Paris model, Janine, wears a new short spring and summer hair style of hairdress- er Henry Prevost. Prevost gives his creation a final check before Janine and other models de- part for the United States, the constant glare of publicity that surrounds the nation's first family, writes Josephine Ripley in the Christian Science Monitor. Mrs, Kennedy gave as an ex- ample her desire to take Caroline to the circus. She finally de- cided against it because she knew it would immediately focus at- tention on her daughter and spoil it all for her. So Caroline was sent to the circus with a friend where, un- recognized, she had just the kind of a good time any child would. "I worked so hard to make her little ballet school a private thing we could do together — and there were all the photog- raphers waiting there when we got there. So it is a little hard," So far she feels Caroline has not been changed by the atten- tion. "She is still too little," but Mrs. Kennedy confessed that she looks forward with eotne appre- hension to the time when her daughter will start going to school. As she put it: " . . if she is in the papers all the time, that will affect her little classmates and they will treat her differ- ently, That is why I am so anxi- ous—we always treat her the same, but it is how other people treat her because they have read about her." The Kennedy children's Play- ground, with the swing, jungle gym, and sand box, is , so close to the street press photographers had no trouble at -all snapping pictures of Caroline at play re- centiy. They have been especial- ly requested not to do this again, Caroline and her brother were nowhere to be seen when news- paper women arrived for their luncheon party. Panties at the White House can be exciting for those who attend ' theft But possibly young tenants peeping' out of upstairs windows may have a different paint of view'. The possibility of installing stainp-selling rriadhines On mail boxes inteigdes the U.S. Post Office: Sortie wives think the innovation needs a mechanical art. tie tap husbands on the arm to remind theM to also MAIL the letter. N HRONICLES INGE__R,FAR.Yi elvorid.ol.truz P Ctei.eti.a What a day — colts, )w and high winds; ditchce running and the backyard like a swamp. But thank goodness all the moisture is outside, not so much as a trickle in the basement, And speaking of moisture, we are now ,eble to drink water straight from th tap without that awful taste and odour of phenol that was with us for over a week. The township water commission still isn't sure of the source of the phenol. Wherever it came from we certainly hope 1K2 don't get it again. However, it answer- ed one good purpose — it mode us appreciate our usually good water supply. And yet I suppose we shouldn't let such trivial matters as wea- ther and water concern us when bigger events ere taking place — Russia , sending the first man into space; signs of more trouble in Cuba, and so on and so forth. By comparison' you and I are little people, aren't we . little people who understand our small everyday problems better than problems of space and revolu- tions. And isn't it better so — that is, better for our peace of mind? In our immediate family Jerry has developed teermae measles — right after the three of them had just recovered from chicken- pox. Gustav, the new pup, is still is still providing Dee with plenty of exercise in her attempts to get him house-broken. And we have had dog niffieultiee of an- other nature. Last Wednesday two black retrievors were frisk- ing around outside with Taffy. They were lovely dogs, friendly and full of fun but came to us directly when they were called, Obviously they had escapee, cus- tody from ' someone or some place, Between us Partner and I managed to catch them and tie them up — we were so afraid they wouet rt hit on the Teed. four' they ea-rte.! tags giv- ing the name, (dress ale' phone number of 114 it owne), - wise precaution — making it a simple ma, ter t' cones at them which we did The f vedom of the dogs was soon explained The lady of the house had gone shopping, lea ving the ten- months-old dogs in a fenced-in enclosure, They had climbed it and jumped over the top, To get here they had crossed the busy Dundee Highway, so you can imagine how delightful Mrs. — was to get them back again, safe and unharmed, Our next excitement was watching the ienale, hockey tele- cast. The finale were the most exciting of any series that we remember, Now hockey is Over for another season and in their play for the Stanley Cup, the Chicisgo Black Hawks have won a well-deserved victory, Workwise I have been busy catching up on household book- keeping, Which leads to a ern- eial question is it, or isn't it, worthwhile 'to keep track of day by day expenditure? One person *dime 'opinion I asked replied — "it is bad enough spending the money without worrying abo'ut where' it goes,"- Another couple 'told me they al- Ways live' on a tsar-balanced budget. At fee us we don't at- tempt le litoget, hut we di hoop- an it atltf ui. etc out or every- thing we spend. That way we know if we are spending too much in any one direction. I'm the book-keeper in our family. I find it fun and full of sur- prises, I have my own system. of book-keeping — which probably no one else would understand! I keep a rough, everyday record which at the end - of the week break down into separate head- ings and enter into a three-col- umn account book. It was with. the weekly account book 1 was behind, but it was quite easy to bring it up to date. And here is what I found. During the first fifteen weeks of 1961, in com- parison with 1960, we spent more on fuel but less en food, gas. and drugs. And Partner is strutting like a peacock because during that same period/ he has smoked 'one' can less of tobacco! Other thengs were more or .less equal stt, so that the overall picture show- ed a decrease 'of about three dollars weekly. Now, in view of all the public- ity there has been just lately about ,what it costs to live it might interest you to know that our total outlay for food each week averages $12.94, That in- cludes meat, groceries, bread, milk and eggs—for ourselves, one cat, one dog and any company that we may have. Last year it wee $14.44 so either we are eat- ing lese or the cost of some of the items we buy has' gone down. I try to buy economically but we certainly have all we want of good, plain food. We could live on lees if I did more baking, But at this stage of ,the game saving work is as important as saving money. The retest important thing 'He said he'd be better off dead and—I took him at his, word.," • as 1; .rtert i 1') live v oral's irecu.e --eand pae cash rO•thi across the board, Imlailinent buying is Fomething of which have never .approved. if we haven't got the money far what we want we do without it: Years ago I heard a lecture in which the speaker said - "If eeu yarn 95 cents and spend a dollar you're in :trouble." That is as true today as it Was then, and always will be; • How to Improve Orchestra Music The following is the renal of a Work Study Engineer after a visit to a symphony concert at the Royal Festival Hall in Lon- don: For considerable periods the four oboe players had nothing to do. The number should be reduc- ed and the work spread more evenly over the whole of the concert, thus eliminating peaks of activity. All twelve violins were playing identical notes; that seems unnecessary duplication. The staff of this section should be drastically cut. If a large vol- ume of sound is required, it could be Obtained by means of elec- tronic apparatus, Much effort Was absorbed in the playing of dernneemt-quay- ers; this seems to be an unneces- sary refineenent. It is recorns mended that all notes should be rounded up to the nearest semi- quaver, If this was done, it would be possible to use trainees and lower-grade operatives more ex- tensively. There seems to be too much repetition of some musical pas- sages. Scores should be drastical- ly pruned. No useful purpose is served by repeating on the horns a passage which has already been handled by the strings. It is es- timated that if all redundant pas- sages were eliminated the whole concert time of two hours could be reduced to twenty minutes and there would be no need for an interval. The conductor agrees in general , . but expresses the opinion that there might be sonic falling off in box-office receipts. . . . If the worse came to the worst, the whole thing could be abandoned and the public could go to Ilse Albert Hall instead, Harlequin (published by Atomic Energy Research Authority, Hat- welt, England). She Got the Dress That She Wanted All Paris is chuckling at the expense of a celebrated New York socialite who recently re- turned to the 'United States with an "exclusive gown" for which she paid $400, For the dress cost e2.25. It happened during the recent showing of spring collections by t h e leading French fashion houses. nice American woman had been an honoured guest at the fashion displays, but had failed to see anything she considered good enough for the party she was planning on her return home, She wanted something really "different," Famous le'a r is i an designers hissed around her with their latest creations until suddenly she spotted a vivid blue dress, in a silky material, draped over the back of a chair. "This is itr" she exclaimed ex- citedly, "But, but . . ." stammer- ed, the proprietor of the house, only to be silenced by his custo- mer who brushed away his pro- tests and demanded the dress. "I'll pay $400 for this one," she cried, and soon left, proudly clutching her purchase, And that evening, the shop's daily cleaner, who had "knocked up" the dress very cheaply, but left it over the back of a chair while' she did her cleaning in an overall, was $400 better bfft 4,..aupttP jty Q. it be elk right for girl to send it young Min .1,1, eirtinfey even though he. has never fleiti her u. card or giy, vat her a gift of any kind?' A. 'There k never anything wrong a• re attire ef th• 'tights full:NO • and friendship such 0: this. (1, Just what is a girl. sup, posed to. reply to it fellow when he says `41,11aulc you" after tbey :nave danced .to•gether?' usually say "You're welcome," A. Although "You're vol.. come" is correct enough, it rit-es sound a little trite. I tkiink it's • nice for a girl to say in differ- ( at wars. 41 cajood it, too," and to sound io Itteugh she meant it, elven the girl will doesn't .ciftc.ve very welt -can make the boy feel so.. rp7reiiated that he'll'o come bark for. 'another "go...• round." Q. When a woman is paying lies first call on a woman •what has recently • moved into the neigitharhooa, how long should site remain?. A. From 15 to 20 mieutes should be long enough. Usuilliy, a woman who has just moved Into a new home toss leads of work on her • hands arid she right resent quittifiabl) a too- lengthy visit. $4,11-5021011..Cli PRINTED PA'IlERN 4822 • itArLir.h 4/esees, Cool, pretty and quick to sew —it's the muu-muu! No fitting problems—pop it over daughter's head to wear as sundress, smock, beach cover-all. Pattern includes pretty panties, Printed Pattern 4822: Chil- dren's Sixes 2, 4, 6, 8. Size 6 dress, 2'i yards 35-inch fabric. Send MISTY CENTS (no (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Pit ae e print plainly SIZE, NAME, ARDRESS, STYLE NUMBER" Seed order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. ANNOUNCING t b. e biggest fashion show al Spring-Summer* 1961—pages, pages, pages of pat- terns in our new Collor Catalog-- just out!_ Hurry, send 35r' now! ISSUE 18 — 1961 HisrtiattAL MtJRAL Former P resident'Harry S. TrUniari and art'i'st Thomas Hart seers pase in 4rorit of Betifoh's large mural just 'completed in lobby of Truman Library at tric.e+ genderke, Mb, M6hinS of resedhal enid -ight months Of b club! paintinj went into- the project.