The Seaforth News, 1959-10-15, Page 2Great Opera Star
Blows Top Again
"My hest hours are in bed,
And they are my beat work
hours, too, There 1 study the
scores. With my dog cuddling
beside me, and my husband fast
asleep."
This oozy scene was once des-
cribed by the usually tempestu-
ous, New York . born Maria
Callas, while discussing her ten-
year marriage to 62 -year-old
Giovanni Battista Meneghini.
An opera patron and sponsor at
young divas who finally found
one with a voice, Meneghini
trimmed Maria down to size
(from a slab -sized 202 pounds
to a nicely rounded 130) and
took over asher manager. It
was no easy chore,
In the grand tradition of su,'i7
luridly temperamental sopranos
as Geraldine Farrar and Mary
Darden, Maria whooped it up,
She brought glamour -. and
sensationalism --back into grand
opera and while doing so walk-
ed out on performances ("bron-
chitis') and split spectacularly
with La Scala in Milan and the
Met in New York. But on other
stages, when she soared up to
high C or raged through her
Favourite role as the Greek en-
chantress, "Medea," she brought
her audiences cheering into the
aisleg.
Through it all, including court
battles, upstaging assorted ten-
ors and baritones, and a running
feud with her mother, Managor
Meneghini stood firm. In quiet
counterpoint to her fieriest out-
burst
ut-
burst s, he bought the travel
tickets and handled the family
checkbook. "I would give my
life for this man," said 35 -year-
old Maria. "He owns me as a
husband."
But apparently this wasn't
quite true. The other day la
Callas sent Meneghini packing
with a terse suggestion that he
go live with his mother. At her
side as she dismissed Meneghini
was "an old friend," Aristotle
Socrates Onassis, the fabulously
wealthy Greek tanker tycoon,
who reportedly was ready to
bankroll a spectacularly new
movie film for her.
The blowup came during an
August cruise on Onassis's yacht,
Christina. Aboard, besides Onas-
sis, his beautiful blond 29 -year-
old wife Athina, and the Mene-
ghinis, were Sir Winston and
Lady Churchill. So was Greta
Garbo but somewhere along the
route, she had picked up her
sunglasses and gone ashore.
As the seas ran high, tem-
pers on board ran higher. The
husky, 53 - year - old Onassis
prowled topside. Below decks,
Maria grew "more tigerish" by
the hour, as Meneghini put it.
She flatly refused to sing for
Sir Winston who chomped down
on his cigar and huffed: " I un-
derstand."
By the time the yacht reached
Istanbul, both Onassis and Maria
were ready for a fling. They had
it together, hitting the night
spots and drinking champagne
until the wee hours,
This annoyed husband Mena-
gbini to the point that he call-
ed his lawyers — and they soon
were shouting it out with.
Maria's lawyers in a Milan hotel
room, Meanwhile, Onassis (in-
sisting that Maria is "like a
sister" to him) returned to the
Chrie na off St. Mark's Square
in Venice, and held a solemn
conference with his wife. She
headed for Paris, installed the
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children,, Alexander, 11, and.
Christina, 9, in school, and con=
(erred with her wealthy par-
ents.
Back in Venice, Onassis wait-
ed until Maria showed top —
this time without Meneghini.
Together, she and Onassis board-
ed the Christina and sailed an
down the Adriatic Coast, into a
purple sunset, "I am a sailor,
and those things happen to
sailors" w a s Onassis's parting
shot. A gondolier leaned on his
sweep and commented: "Well
you know how it is, when
Greek meets Greek,"
This Time Father
D dnst Know Best
His neighbours know Charles
Butts as a good provider No
one doubts his love for his fa-
mily, particularly for his raven -
haired daughter, Charlene. But
he rules his own with an iron
hand; his will is as unyielding
as the austere horizon of his
Southeast Kansas f a r m. Thus,
when Butts decided against an
operation for Charlene, noth-
ing the doctors could say about
the tumor that was threatening
her eyesight could sway him.
But Charlene, 19, has a will of
her own, As a minor child, she
began a court fight to overthrow
her father's decision — and per-
haps save her life.
About a year ago, Charlene,
a Kansas City, Kans., clerical
worker, had started suffering
dizzy spells, headaches, and im-
paired vision. Then, about two
'months ago she began to black
out. At the University of Kansas
Medical Center in Kansas City,
brain specialists told hex' she
was suffering from a tumor of
the pituitary gland. Without
quick surgery, they said, Char-
lene would go blind and, in five
or six years, she 'would die.
The girl wrote to her parents.
They seemed to agree that sur-
gery was required, and brought
her home while the hospital
prepared for the operation.
"On the way home," Charlene
said last week, "Daddy said to
me, "You know, I think I'll take
you down to Oklahoma to see
Doc Hunt. I think if he can
heal you, he will say so'."
So they took Charlene
through the rolling countryside
to the small white house where
"Doc" Hunt lives. There, H, C.
Hunt, who claims only' to be
a masseur, gave her steam baths
and exposed her to a device
labelled "ultrasonic." Charlene
said: "He told me my sight
wasn't damaged 40 per cent, He
told my parents I had an excess
of water in my system, and it
was filling up my lungs and
head. I think my folks paid him
$81 for the eleven treatments."
"She had a kind of scum over
her eyes," Hunt himself told a
reporter. "I'd hesitate to r e -
commend an operation. What I
mean is that I understand the
chances are one in nine of sur-
viving an operation."
Back in Kansas City, Char-
lene's headaches and dizziness
became more frequent. Still,
her father refused to permit an
operation. Charlene went to an
attorney, Emil Anderson, who
started proceedings in the Wy-
andotte County District Court
to remove her from her father's
guardianship.
Late last week, before the
court acted, Charles Butts fin-
ally bowed to pressure from his
slaughter's lawyer and doctors:
He agreed to the operation, and
it was set for this week, "Of
course, we're not sure about re-
storing all Charlene's sight,"
said Dr. Vernon E. Wilson of.
the Medical C e n t e r, "But at
least, the operation will prevent
it from getting worse."
PACING THE FUTURE — Kevin Winkler, 5, peers into a Park'
Ing box Tined with boo»t;ful masks for Hallowe'en, ;n a spooky
preview of Fun to come,
KHRUSHCHEV TASTES HOT DOG — Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev tastes his first American hot dog, complete with
mustard, After finishing the hot dog, the Communist boss said
it was "wonderful," and quipped, "We have beaten you to
the moon but you have beaten us in sausage -making,"
ekaw, AL1624\1513
If you want a variety of
cookies for school lunches and
your cooky jar with some left
over to freeze for another day,
here is a recipe that makes
seven kinds of cookies, They
number about 16 dozen, depend-
ing, of course, on the size of
those you make. Bake at 425° F.
5 *
SEVEN -FROM -ONE C00KIES
2 cups shortening
3 cups sugar
4 eggs
1/4 cup milk
4 teaspoons vanilla
5 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
Mix shortening, sugar, and
eggs thoroughly. Stir in milk
and vanilla. Sift dry ingredients
together, and stir into first mix-
utre until well blended.
Divide dough: r/z to use as
plain dough, 3/4 as spiced, r/4 as
chocolate.
Plain dough: Divide into 3 por-
tions; wrap and chill.
Scalloped Cookies: Roll and
cut. Decorate with small col-
ored candies. Bake about six
minutes.
Crescents: Work into dougb
1 cup moist coconut. Shape
small portions of dough into
crescents 11 inches wide in
center. Chill. Bake 8 minutes.
Trim with tinted uncooked
icing, if desired.
Nut Wafers: Sprinkle dough
with chopped nuts or maca-
room crumbs. Roll; cut into
desired shapes." Bake 7 min-
utes.
Spiced Dough:. Mix r/4 teaspoon
ground cloves and 1 teaspoon
ground cinnamon into basic
dough.
Frosted Spice Cookies: Chill
half of spiced dough. Roll and
cut. Bake 7 minutes. Cool and
frost.
Cherry Drops: Soak 20
glazed cherries in warm water
5 minutes. Drain. Cut in quar-
ters. Work cherries and 1/4 cup
chopped nuts into remaining
spiced dough. Drop by tea-
spoonful onto cooky sheet.
Bake 10 minutes.
Chocolate Dough: Pour 1/2 cup
boiling water over ler cup co-
coa, Stir to blend. Mix into
remaining r/4 of basic dough.
Pecan Crisp: To x/z the
chocolate dough add 1 cup
chopped • pecans and 1 cup
corn flakes, Drop by teaspoons
onto cooky sheet. Top each
with pecan half. Bake hall 8-10
minutes.
Date Wrap -Ups: Use a
rounding teaspoon of chocolate
dough to completely cover a
pitted soft date, Bake on
cooky sheet 10 minutes, Cool;
sprinkle with confectioners'
sugar. * *
HONEY RAISIN NUT BARS
2 eggs
M, cup honey
lis cup sifted flour
:t teaspoon baking powder
teaspoon salt
V.; clip ready -to -eat bran
1 cup seedless raisins
ya cup nutmeats, chopped
Beat eggs until thick and
lemon colored; beat in honey,
Sift together flour, baking pow-
der and salt; add bran, raisins,
and nut meats, Add to honey
mixture; beat well. Spread bat-
ter 1/2 inch thick in greased
shallow pan 10x10 inches, Bake
at 375' F. about 25 minutes,
Cut into bars while warm and
sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Makes 40 bars 2x11/4 inches.
5 *
No matter how cookies are
S
made, that sugar -and -spice smell
that conies from the kitchen is
the same in every generation
and forms an attraction kitchen -
ward that never fails. Molasses
cookies, especially, give off a
wonderful aroma, writes Eleanor
Richey Johnston in The Chris-
tian Science Monitor. If you've
lost your grandmother's recipe
for these childhood delights, here
is one you may want to use.
Shape them like footballs if you
want to make a real hit with the
young aspirants for the back-
yard team.
MOLASSES FOOTBALL
COOKIES
?^s cup shortening
34 cup unsulphured molasses
2 tablespoons sugar
2 cups sifted flour
34 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
RA teaspoon ginger
IA teaspoon cloves
1 small egg
Melt shortening in sauce pan
Iarge enough for mixing cookies.
Stir in molasses and sugar; cool
Sift together flour, salt, soda
and spices. Stir a small amount
of dry sifted flour -spice blend
into molasses mixture. Beat in
egg. Add remaining flour, blend-
ing until smooth. Chill dough
about 2 hours. Shape into 11/2 -
inch balls; form into oval shapes.
Place on baking sheets about 11
inches apart to allow cookies to
spread during baking. Bake at
350° F. 15-20 minutes. If de-
sired, put "lace" on "footballs"
with the following frosting.
Frosting
1 cup confectioners' sugar
Ye teaspoon cream of tartar
1 egg white
''4 teaspoon vanilla
Sift together the sugar and
cream of tartar; add egg white
and vanilla. Beat with rotary
beater until frosting holds its
shape. Cover with damp cloth
until ready to use,
NO SITTING ON THE JOB
Employed as an attendant in
a museum at Belgrade, Yugo-
slavia, Rudolph Zorc is able to
walk and lie down, but cannot
bend sufficiently at the' waist to
sit.
As a result of an injury to his
spine during World War 1, Zorc
has been unable to sit down for
over forty gears.
GOING STRONG -. Mrs, Anna
Mary Robertson, above, known
as "Grandma Moses" to thou-
sands of primitive art enthusi-
asts, celebrated her 99th birth-
day recently,
Sutter paddles
And Butter Making
A lady from Georgia passed
this way the other day, and she
contributed to our sum total.
She had been on a puffin hunt
up around the Gaspe, but had
incidentally garnered a feW
antiques, for that is hes' business
and she buys and sells. The
only antiques we have around
here are some fine old pieces
I made myself, so our interview
was wholly on the intellectual
side, and she said she could
sell every butter paddle she
could lay a hand on.
Inasmuch as the gentle' art
of spanking butter is not on she
increase, this becomes an inter -
e s t i n g commentary on the
mores of America, which has
some pips. The .importance of
butter paddles in Georgia aston-
ishes me,
This lady also said there is a
definite difference between a
northern butter paddle and a'
southern butter paddle, and
with all due respects to the
Confederacy she had to admit
the northern butter paddle is,
superior, and there is more call
for thein in Georgia.
This seemed to me, to explain
many things. I remember "The
Tarheel Cow" by Bill Nye, in
which he said if the Carolinians
would work their cows less and
their butter more, they would
confer a boon on the consumers
of both. Now we learn that the
rank quality of southern butter
is the fault of the paddle and
its structural design, rather than
of the citizenry, and we may
have fought the war over the
wrong cause. A southern butter
paddle is straight from handle
to blade, requiring an open or
forthright approach, and gives
the operator no leverage advan-
tages.
A northern butter paddle,
which we always called a
spanker, had an offset to it, so
the wielder sneaked up, sort of,
and worked at a helpful angle.
This, if nothing else ever did,
shows the superiority of the
North, and shows who won the
war. Even Georgia, this late,
now recognizes that we were
right. I have not only spanked
Union butter, but I have made
Union spankers, and if the
South grows as an outlet for
northern butter paddles, I could
take down a maple and get to
work. Maple is the proper wood.
It grows wild in these parts.
'Tis true a new butter paddle,
made a -purpose for the southern
trade, would not have the patina
and sheen the antique shops
prefer. I doubt if it could be
simulated easily, New maple, no
matter how artfully sanded
down, becomes a butter paddle
only through the making of but-
ter, Butter is not much of an
abrasive, and smoothing some
rock maple by rubbing it on
butter takes a long time.
It also takes a lot of rubbing
to make butter. You spank and
pat, turn and push, and wash
and rinse, and gradually work
out all the buttermilk. Then you
have to worts it quite a bit more
just to be sure, after which your
work in the salt. A paddle thus,
after many years, gets its pores
filled, and feel friendly and
smooth al silk. It would be quite
a project to start from the log
and make northern butter pad-
dles in quantity for the diseri-
minating southern trade.
This lady said she could also
sell any number of butter bowls.
She seemingly means "wooden.
bowls" a n d "chopping bowls,"
which we also used for making
butter. Lately we hear people
call them salad bowls. I neglect-
ed to ask if there is any market
down there for the butter board.
I suppose a modern people
knowing only fission and space
hydraelies would find it hard to
understand the peculiar me-
chanics of a butter board.
It was a device on four legs,
a kind of table, with a rack
and pinion, a crank, and a roller
that came and went. You slob -
bed your butter From the churn
into the thing, and as you
cranked the roller belabored
the butter wondrously. This dis-
entangled the buttermilk, which
ran off in channels and dripped
into a pail on the floor.
This • p at e n t butter -working
machine had numerous disad-
vantages. Usually in the exer-
tion of cranking you kicked
over the pail. There was also a
stormy -weather reaction, some-
times you cranked in a deluge
of buttermilk. If anything stuck,
and it sometimes did, you could
crank the thing so it would
climb right up your back. Also,
they invariabley "travelled," go-
ing back and forth across the
floor as you worked.
Our womenfolks dismissed the
butter board as inefficient, tend-
ing to make the butter "strong,"
at least after a time. Certainly
it couldn't ego as well as a pad-
dle, with muscle attached.
I didn't find out why Geor-
gians want butter paddles, par-
ticularly those from the uncul-
tured North. It would help if I
knew what in the world they dog
with them nowadays.—By John
• Gould in The Christian Science
Monitor.
It Happened In
In Jackson, Miss., after his
home was invaded by a swarm
of bees and his family severely
stung by bees while on a picnic,
Alon Bee mused: "We'd change
our name if we thought it would
give us any relief."
5 5 *
In Compton, Calif., when
burglars held up Liquor Store
Owner Max Stanman, and in-
vited the half a dozen customers
in the store to help themselves,
customers and c r o o k s alike
marched out with arms full.
ISSUE 41 — 1959
For the "Junior Miss"
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