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Those 1,Q, Tests
May Be Deceiving
troubles — and the solution
lies within ourselves,
Well, there is one problem
ahead common to us all — the
problem of Christmas and, all that
it implies. The solution of that
problem too lies to some extent
within ourselves. Do you know I
am acquainted with two girls
married women now with grow-
ing families — who exchange
gifts every Christmas for them-
selves and all the children. And
yet neither mother would know
the other's children if she met
them on the street. Why do they
continue this farce — because
each mother is afraid it looks
mean to quit! How stupid can
one get?
Well, what should we do to
help make the festive season a
.little happier for those with
whom we 'come in contact —
children, adults and old people
too, We may have to stop and
think as it may not be possible
to be as generous as we have
been other years — times being
what they are. But we can still
be generous in our thoughts and
maybe a little more generous
with our time. Money isn't al-
ways necessary. Homemade gifts
are always welcome and a visit
to a shut-in or one living in a
home for the aged means more
than an expensive gift. In fact
a simple gift to anyone, young
or old, that shows an interest in.
that particular person is bound
to be appreciated. It isn't hard
to find something to please a
child but for a person in a home
or hospital it is sometimes a
problem. Here are a few sug-
gestions: A box of notepaper and
envelopes with. a book of stamps;
a special cake of toilet soap; a
pipe and pouch of tobacco; sub-
scription'to whatever local news-
paper the person may be inter-
ested in — those 'away from once
familiar, surroundings love to
read the local news. Those are
just a few suggestions but don't
forget nothing takes the place of
a visit — or if that is impossible
a friendly letter to prove our
genuine interest.
A better day may be dawning
for many a school child whet
makes average grades, lies an
average I.Q. and is Inclined
daydream or be bored. ISe ma
have creative abilities .which,
recognized and developed, coup
be of great value to society,
The big emphasis now is on,.
intelligence tests. The student
who rates high here usually geto
top grades and is singled out for
scholarships and special atten.
tion, But his inattentive class-
mate, who sometimes Incurs the
displeasure of his teacher and;
the ridicule fo other pupils with
seemingly irrelevant questions
and rebellion at the status quo,
may be somewhat neglected.
Dr. E, Paul Torrance, psychol-
ogist at the University of Min-
nesota, and his staff conducted
creativity tests among 120 mid-
die-class fifth graders—with as-
tonishing results, The two high-
est creativity scorers among the
top ten had the lowest I.Q.s and
their academic ratings were me-
diocre, They probably would be
kept out of most "good" colleges.
But they should not be, if ten-
tative conclusions based on these
tests are substantiated, If crea-
tive thinkers can be identified
and given educational induce-
ments, the rewards to the school.
system and the country will bs
abundant. For our very survival,
We can ill afford to submerge
creative thought,
—Turlock (Calif,) Daily Journal.
DRIVE WITH CARE!
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4905
FOR DOLL
14"-22"
TALL I
NEW MEDIUM — Successful
as a novelist while still a teen-
ager, Francoise Sagan is now
trying her hand at the stage.
Peering through scenery, she's
shown here backstage in a
Paris theatre where her first
play, "Violins, Sometimes," is
going in rehearsal.
"ROCKING COCKPIT"—Rock n' roll without music is what
takes place in this flight simulator moving cockpit mecha-
nism displayed in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Any type flying
condition can be tested in the mechanism which swings up
and down, from side to side, Does everything but the Twist.
Built The Room
Around. The Table
They Keep Twistin9
All Over The Map
In a few brief months the twist
has become more than a dance;
it has turned into a national ex-
cursion into no-mind's land,
In The New York Times last
month, a full-page, $6,000 ad.
seized a slack-jawed, public by
the lapel and proclaimed: "manu-
facturers, attention: A new na-
tionwide name to presell your
product . , The Twist with
Chubby Checker (the king of the
twist) who created the greatest
nationwide dance craze in years!!
LICENSES AVAILABLE! .
`BIG NAMES MEAN BIG BUS-
INESS' " jt concluded, quoting no
one in particular.
Harold Bell, Checker's agent,
reported that by the very next
day he had received inquiries
from makers of jewelry, hats,
scarves, sweatshirts, and blue
jeans. One lucky early bird was
the firm of Thom. McAn, which
won a license to make a line of
Chubby Checker Twist shoes,
Bell said he had turned down toy
manufacturers, not because he
was worried about the tender
sensibilities of the kiddies, but
because, "we have a symbol; it's
an image, and _I think we would
do harm to our image to get the
pre-juveniles in on it." Bell said
that he was hopeful this would
do as well as the Presley boom,
in which, at the height of the
craze, 42 manufacturers sold $30
million worth of retail rubbish
within a three-month period.
But there were others getting
into the sacroili-act. At New
York's Metropolitan Museum of
Art, recently, the fashion indus-
try's $100-a-plate Party of the
Year featured Joey Dee, Mr.
Twister of the Peppermint
Lounge. Dee and his gang played
for $150 an hour while the lead-
ers of fashion flung their forms
into the hip-hip-swinging ritual.
James J. Rorimer, the museum's
director, shouted vainly: "I did
Modern Etiquette-
By Anne Ashley
fallout Shelter
Debate Still Rages.
While President XennedY
giving a good part of his atten-
tion to the civilian shelter pro-
gran), last month, private debate
over the pros and cons of shel,
teas seethed across the land.
Unfazed by a searing blast of
criticism, the Catholic priest-
jeurnallet who stunned a good
many people recently by up-
holding the morality of defend-
ing private bomb shelters at gun-
point against intrusion last
month stood by his guns.
,In a sequel to his explosive
essay, "Ethics at the Shelter
Door," the Rev, L, C, McHugh,
S.J., of the Jesuit weekly Amer-
ica, acknowledged that he "gen-
erated much emotional revulsion,
especially among rabbis, Protes-
tant clergymen, and the gentle
souls who make too simple ap-
peals to the 'unequivocal ethic'
of the Sermon on the Mount."
But he wrote:
"I do not apologize for the arti-
cle . . Indeed, I am happy that
sny controversial discussion, by
evoking the unwelcome thought
that some of us may be driven
to liquidating our neighbor even
before Mr. Khrushchev's bombs
can incinerate him, helped to
highlight the essentially moral
aspects of the Great Shelter De-
bate
Rdached by Newsweek in re-
treat in Evanston, Ill, the Jesuit
editor said the only criticism of
his stand from within his own
church had been directed against
"the psychological prudence of
raising such a question in the
public area at this time."
The shelter debate also raged
on in the world of science. Seven
University of Iowa physicists, led
by Dr. James A. Van Allen, the
man whose studies gave his name
to the radiation belts girdling
earth, took. issue with Dr. Willard
F. Libby, professor of chemistry
at UCLA, for his recent syndi-
cated series of articles which car-
ried the title "You Can Survive
Atomic Attack."
"It is extremely dangerous,"
wrote the Van Allen group in a
letter to The Iowa City Press-
Citizen, "to give the impression
to the public that the building of
fallout shelters will enable the
average citizen to survive a nu-
clear war."
Dr. Libby replied: "It is a mat-
ter of judgment My message
is: It is well to have insurance
against fallout because it is a
great potential killer in case of
nuclear war."
What is believed to be the
world's largest one-piece table-
top has just been hoisted into
position on the twenty-fifth floor
of a new building being erected
in. Sydney, Australia,
The table top, which weighs
2,800 lbs., is twenty-four feet
long and nine feet wide,
It was made from a giant
Queensland walnut tree and is
destined to be the centrepiece of
the directors' board room of the
Australian Mutual Provident So-
ciety, an insurance company
which is building a twenty-sev-
en - storey skyscraper on the
shores of Sydney Harbour,
Being too big to go through
the doors of the completed build-
ing, the table top was hoisted up
twenty-five floors while the sky-
scraper was a shell, and the
boardroom is now being built
round it.
The hoisting was a tricky af-
fair, involving wind checks with
the weather bureau, as a breeze
of more than twenty miles an
hour could have sent the mam-
moth table hurtling to the
ground.
Small Girl Tells Tale Of Horror
You folk who read this column
— do you, ever feel sorry for
yourselves? When trouble comes
do you sometimes say — "Now
why should all this happen to
me?" I am •sure you have said
it more than once — just as I
have. But haven't •you also look-
- ed around and considered how
lucky you are compared with
some, of your friends 'and neigh-
bours? I hOpe so because that is
the best way to cure onself of
self-pity. And yet an interest in
other people's worries Sometimes
creates a problem for ,ourselves.
If you become too_ sympathetic
about the troubles of otherS you
may become so involyed they be-
come your troubles too! That is•
generally what happens to me.
A friend confides that she is
having trouble with her 'teenage
daughter and I lie awake at night
wondering what I can say or do There was nothing about the
taffy-haired little girl resting in
in Miami's Mercy Hospital last
month to hint that she had seen
her eleven-year-old world come
to an end in a welter of blood
on a night of terror aboard the
60-foot ketch Bluebelle. She ate
heartily — soup and scrambled
eggs for lunch—and slept nor-
mally. One day she wrote a let-
ter to a classmate, 11-year-old
Cathy Galloway, back home in
Green Bay, Wis., and reminded
her of a promised gift of a kitten.
"I'd like to have it when I get
home," she wrote.
For a child who had drifted
almost four days on a flimsy life
raft. Terry Jo DuperrauIt was
Gifts Of Luxury
snapped in a squall and the
yacht, under charter to • the Du-
perraults, caught fire and sank,
taking with it. Terry Jo's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Duperrault,
her brother, 14-year-old Brian
and Harvey's bride, Mary. Har-
vey escaped in a dinghy with the
drowned body, of Terry Jo's sis-
ter, ri-year-old Renee.
Not so, said Terry Jo; the mast
did not fall nor was there any
fire. She was awakened by
"screaming and stamping," went
on deck and saw her mother and
brother lying in 'pools of blood.
Harvey, she said, struck her and
sent her below. When water rose
to the levee of her bunk, Terry
4 went topside again to ask the
Q. Should a letter of applica-
tion for a position be written by
hand or typewritten?
A. Usually, a typewritten let-
ter is preferred. However, there
are some firms whidh stipulate
handwritten letters of applica-
tion, especially where the appli-
cant's handwriting is a factor
Q. Would it• be propel- for us
to send a wedding gift of money
to some newlyweds who live in
a distant city?
A, This would be quite all
right,
Q. Am I supposed to reply to
letters and notes of condolence I
have received?
A. This is only good manners
in return for such acts of
thoughtfulness. Your notes may
be brief, but they" should be
sincere and'they should be hand-
written.
Q. Is it still considered neces-
sary or proper that a woman
speak first when meeting a man
on the street?
A. No. In fact,. it is more usual
for the man to smile and give the
woman an indication that he has
recognized her so that she may
then bow to him. This is parti-
cularly true in business contacts
where it may be hard fora wo-
man to remember all the men she
meets during a busy. week.
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to help her. Or maybe a. young
wife gets word that her mother
living along across the sea, is seri-
ously ill. She wonders should
she fly .over to see what she can
do to •help. Another couple may
be having trouble with one of
their children at school. Accord-
ing .to the school nurse psychia-
tric treatment may be necessary.
Other friends maybe financially
embarrassed. They have a house
for sale on which they are pay-
ing mortgage interest. But the
present time is not a seller's mar-
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every day it remains unsold.• add-
ing to their difficulties,
Or again the problem of an
aging farm couple. The work is
too much for them but they can-
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session. His wife' wonders what
she had better do — persuade
him to sell out or try to carry on
herself after getting rid of Most
of the livestock.
These are all very real prob-
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not Invite them. I was, not
aware of this," while, at the
same.moment, Mrs. Rorimer, off
in a discreet corner, was learn-
ing how to twist. The party
raised $70,000 "toward a new wing
for 'the Museum of Costume Art..
Meanwhile„ moralists debated
the propriety of the danCe. in
her coluinn, Elsa Maxwell con-
fided that Princes§ Olga of
Yugoslavia had agreed with 'her
at the Polish Ball that • the twist
shouldn't be danced in public
places, but only at private par-
ties. Then La Maxwell went on
to confuse matters by making
public a private party—Afdere
Fonda's blow-out for her sister
Lorien and brother-in-Taw Loki
Gaetani. Describing the• doings,.
Miss Maxwell. carefully 'listed
who had and who hadn't twisted..
The derangement was hardly
confined to New York. Like an
epidemic, it had swept the re-
public.. In the White House, at a
dinner dance in honor of Mrs..
Kennedy's sister, Princess Racizi-,
will, Lester Lenin's orchestra
played the twist, to which Meg
Cassini and Mrs. Philip Geyelin
danced. Pierre Salinger denied
seeing it, but this Was the green
light for Washington society,. Fri-
' clgy night, Mrs. Herbert May
(Marjorie IVierriweether Post,
Pbst-Toasties heieess) gave a
party for Diane Dow (Dede)
BUchanan, debutante daughter of
eformer U.S. Chief of Protocol
Wiley Buchanan. Sidney of the
Mayflower played the twist,
which he said 18-year-old Dede
"loves to do." (Mrs.Buchanan
swears that she saw the Duke
and Duchess of Windsor doing
the twist in Paris.)
In Atlanta, 7I-year-old former
mayor William Hartsfield was
twisting at a benefit Soirée Ball
at the posh Piedmont Driving
Club. In the San Francisco area,
where the latest wrinkle is doing
the twist with a highball glass
balanced on one's head, there was
a twist party at the fashionable
Burlingame Country Club.
fashionable Hillsborough. And iri
L,A., where the Crescendo is the
locus of the fracas, the current
variations include the , Back
Scratcher (the twister stands
back to partner and pretend:4 to
scratch his back against an imag-
inary pillar), the Fight (boxer's
motions, set to music), and the
Oversway (the girl does a back
twist, and the boy a forward
twist, simultaneously),
By the weekend there were re-
ports from Los' Angeles of no less
than three twist movies ("Hey
Let's Twist," "Twist Around the.
Clock," and "Dole' the Twiet")..-
And there Was—naturelly—a re-
Cord celled"IVIerry Twietrnas."
—Erciert NEWSWEEit.
SOLE SURVIVOR--Terry Jo Duperrault, i 1", the only sur-
vivor among seven people who were aboard the ketch Blue-
belle is shown with a doll sent to her by crew members of
the Greek ship Captain Theo who rescued her.
doing fine, Evert %hien the gold- captain if the ketch was sinking.
braided men from the Coast
Guard come to ask her about the
sinking of 'the Bluebelle 125
Miles eortltwest of Miami, she
told her hair-raising story with-
out tears.
Terry Jo could not know, of
couree, that her account branded
ae a cold-blooded lie every ma-
jor detail of the story told by the
Bluebell's Capt. Julian Harvey, a
Much - married, much - decorated
Air Force pilot and adventurer
of 45. Nor did She know, as did
the toaSti Guard, that Harvey
had fatally.Slashed liis throat and
wrests just• after 'eel:MI.1g that
she too had survived.
Captain Harvey Staid a mast
"Yes," he replied, and boarded
the drifting dinghy. Terry 30
said that she freed the raft and
float.±d ewey in the night. Terry
Jo apparently did not see either
her father or Harvey's wife, but
the Coast Guard seemed satisfied
that Harvey had killed all three
adults and two children, either
in a niutderoue rage or pethepe
to collect $40,000 in insurance on
a policy he lied taken out on his
new
It wasret tieceetary to tell
Terri JO the Coast
theory Of What had haPperiedi
what she herself. had seen On Utak
mot would be elietigh of 1 herfa tot a histede,