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The Seaforth News, 1960-07-07, Page 2ht."it A Kid That INio<<.r Grew Up Th:e author, who had written his b:,.ek in verse, was reading it aloud, rather nervously. The liFtl'n%.eta who had gathered in his publisher's office in New :York were laughing at him. It was not ridicule, however; the 'author was that modern classic x)r. Seuss, who was reading from ''Green Eggs and Ham," latest of tic children's books with which the doctor of humor — in pri- vate, Ted Geisel — has been di- verting tots (and also their pops) for twenty-three years. A tall, tanned fellow of 56, Geisel presented his book to Random House insiders in the form of art boards set up on a bookcase, each board with its special Geisel cartoon and verse. The story, to be published next Pall, is written entirely in 50 primer words for beginners, and concerns a bug -like character, "Sam -I -am," who attempts to serve up "Green Eggs and Hain" to a sourpuss in a stovepipe hat. When Stovepipe refuses, Sam, the super -salesman, keeps after him, trying to sell him the idea of green eggs and ham in boxes, trees, houses, cars, and even un- der water until Stovepipe gives in. Do you like Green eggs and ham? I do not like them Curves of Glamor PRINTED PATTi:RN t 4203 ,s1.7 -ES 10-18' 4-441 rtes. —41ga eeol; Dazzle your after -five audience set this willowy sheath that trrves gracefully away from our shoulders to bare a beauti- neckline. Make it in shan- g, surah, cotton — NOW Printed Pattern 4805: Misses' sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. Size 16 takes 334 yards 39 -inch fabric. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FORTY CENTS (stamps e nnot be accepted, use postal 4ote for safety) for this pattern. t lease print plainly SIZE, NAME DDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Fox 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Sam -I -am I do not like Green eggs and hair I do not like them here or there I do not like thein anywhere This sort of catchy verse, ac- companied by his wildly comic and imaginative illustrations, lies brought Geisel impressive sue- eesses in the children's book field. Recently he had five books on the best-seller list of juven- iles — a phenomenal reeord for one author. Besides reading his 64 -page jingle to his publisher, he was also getting together a big one-man anthology of car- toons and stories, tentatively titled "Dr. Seuss Treasury." Geisel, who is now just about the undisputed king of the kid- dies' end of the bookshelf, set out as young man to be a teach- er of literature — he hoped at Dartmouth, his alma mater, "The whole project, though," he re- called after his reading recently, "came off a very shaky launch- ing pad, so I guess it was never meant to be. There was this Campbell Fellowship to Oxford open to Dartmouth students, and I thought I had it practically in the bag. I called up my father (who at 81 is still superintend- ent of public parks in Spring- field, Mass.) and told him so, and Pop called the local newspaper. The next day, there was my pic- ture on the front page of The Springfield Union, with the story that I had won the fellowship. Well, it turned out I didn't. To save his pride, Pop dug up the money and sent me over there anyway." At Oxford, he met his future wife, Helen Palmer, an attractive school-marm-to-be who occupied the seat next to hien at a Shake- speare lecture. They now live in La Jolla, Calif. Ted started car- tooning for a living before he did his first kids' book, and sold cartoons to most of the big maga- zines. He also got into advertis- ing (his cartoon slogan, "Quick, Henry, the Flit," was a classic), and finally movie -making (he wrote the Oscar -winning "Ger- ald McBoing-Boing"). But his No. 1 enthusiasm is still chil- dren's books, His wife explains: "He's a kid himself. He has never grown up." — From NEWSWEE1 . Mixed Reaction "I don't care whether our kids are black, white, or polka dot — just so long as they call me daddy," said jubilant Sammy Davis Jr. in London, where the Negro entertainer and blond May Britt revealed that they will marry (after the Swedish flim star's divorce from her pres- ent spouse, Stanford student Ed- ward Gregson, becomes final). Jarred to tears the next night by Fascists who carried placards ("Keep Britain White," "Sammy Go Back to the Trees") and shouted insults outside the caba- ret where he was performing, Davis rallied when other Britons wrote to assure him that the demonstration was the work of a lunatic fringe. "Ninety-nine per cent of my mail since the incident has been from people saying: 'We're appalled, we're ashamed, we apologize, and may we congratulate you both'." Presiding at the wedding of Negro songstress Eartha Kitt, 32, and white real-estate man Wil- liam McDonald, 30, Los Angeles judge Elmer Doyle told the pair: "I am a judge in the divorce courts, and in most of my cases I try to salvage a marriage. I don't want to see either of you in my department." !11ONNIls AY TR OCEAN — park -haired Bonnie Leon proves (there's aomothing In .e name as she helps Mother Nature dec- o lsttovh, eweryboll y Stephen and Bobby Schnitzlein, fore and aft, evacuate their wading pool. Crawling technique enables them to explore the surrounding area minutely. O w� reaeL".f,,Aitieor4,10 HRONICLES �Gi«AF,.drr We drove up to Shelburne one day last week and what we saw worried us quite a bit. Hardly any spring grain sown at all and fields that were meant to be sown now so overgrown with grass and weeds it will mean twice the work if the formers ever do get them worked up for planting. The friends whom we visited generally have a won- derful garden. This year cab- bage, broccoli, tomatoes and even beans are still in boxes waiting to be set out, while the garden patch has yet to be dug. But they have a terrific crop of black -flies and mosquitoes which we did our best to avoid. Partner - and Mr. X were setting out to look over the farm when I sug- gested they take insect repellent along with them. "We won't need it where we are going," said Mr. X "I have the names and addresses of all the flies and mosquitoes around here and we are not calling on them today!" Sure enough they came home without a bite. Mrs. X and I were not so lucky. We• wandered around in the garden, looking at the gorg- eous iris, and 102 found plenty of the pesky things waiting to welcome us. Partner and I also found other inconveniences on the way up. We ran into a road construction job on the highway six miles of it. Eventually we turned on to a side -road to get to the farm. There we found the road com- pletely torn up, with bulldozers and graders blocking the way -- and without a detour sign to warn us. We had to back up quite a piece before there was room to turn around. And that didn't please me at all as 1 hate backing up. However such con- ditions are part of the hazard of summer driving. The be=t thing to do is hang on to the wheel, gritlour teeth and remind your - golf eats is going to be a lovely road 'when it's finished - good driving for years to come. Another day we were over to rlton airport to bid "bon voy- • ;e" to a young neighbour and her twn hosts returning to Eng- land, Visiting Melton is alwaye a thrill, We hadn't been there since the big plains started using the airport. Our young friend was going by tel. — and to see a jet take off is really something. No whirling propellors, no vis- ible machenism at all as the huge machine taxies along the runway to a spot where it waits for the signal to take off. Pres. curtly comes a terrific roar, You see the huge machine suddenly sir back on its haunches, as it were; the nose lifts and in a -mat• ter of seconds the plane is air- borne, carrying aloft the pas- sengers and crew who have en- trusted their lives to its intri- cate mechanism and the skill of its pilots and navigator. Going over to Melton we again noticed bare 'fields along the way. Bare? I shouldn't call them bare. I never saw so many flour- ishing weeds. By "bare" I mean .they hadn't been sown. Market gardeners and nurserymen too must also be having an unprof- itable season. One nursery near here was offering annual bed- ding plants last week at two boxes for the price of one. And they were not going very fast at that. I didn't buy any. Pet- unias I set out three weeks ago have hardly grown at all so I am filling up the borders by transplanting self -grown seed- lings — poppies, cosmos, snap- dragons and burning bush. In dry weather we can save plants by watering but there is no sub- . stitute for sunshine. And I don't need to tell you it's been cool, hardly a night but what the furnace has come on even with the thermostat set back to 62. And you remember the fore- cast for this summer was hotter than last year! Of course, there is plenty of time for hot weather yet, but not in June — not with the month for weddings and rosesalready half gone. Remember 1 was gaoling last week from a new book entitled "Folk Medicine"? Well, the other day there was a short write-up. in the "Globe anti Mall" contra- dicting what Dr. Jarvis had said. According to the American Medical Association no curative value can be attributed to a mix- ture of honey and vinegar, es claimed by Dr, Jarvis. So there you have two opinions and how are we to know who- Is right? But at any rate we can't do any harm by eating honey. On the' other hand, according to English folk lore vinegar has a tendency to dry the blood, Just what was meant by "dry blood" I don't know but 1 remember as a child I was not allowed vinegar for that reason. As you know any Medical As- sociation is against any new drug or treatment until its worth has been proven by years of re- search. But we might also re- member that Pasteur, Lister and many others were ridiculed for years before their life-saving theories were accepted by the Medical Association. Photographing Pope John The slight, graying photogra- pher with the bushy mustache scampered around the book -lin- ed Vatican study, kneeling and twisting as he clicked away at Pope John XXIII with the three cameras around his neck. As the cameraman zeroed in for a close- up shot, Pope John joshed him: "You photographers really get around, don't you?" The words couldn't have been more apt in describing Tony Spina, the wide- ranging, 45 -year-old chief pho- tographer for The Detroit Free Press whose exclusive color shots of the Pope were spread across many recent roto sections. To obtain his unusual pictures (few photographers are permit- ted professional audiences with the Pope), Spina flew from Lon- don (where he covered Princess Margaret's wedding) to Rome armed witha wide-angle Panon camera and two Japanese Nikons and an advance letter to the Vatican from Detroit's Arch- bishop, the Most Rev. John 1'. Dearden. After a four-day wait, Vatican officials wangled Spina, who speaks fair Italian a ten- minute audience with the Pontiff in his study. - "The Pope was dressed in a cream -colored outfit with . a cream skullcap, and looked to be about five -feet -seven and about 200 pounds," Spina said. "He has a very nice smile, I took a pic- ture and the Pope said: 'Don't you need lights?' I said no. He said that was good: "I don't like artificial lights'." When Spina's ten minutes were up, a sculptor came in to finish a bust of Pope John. "The Pope motioned to me that it was all right to stay. After a few shots the Pope asked 'Woulel you like me to put on a red cape?' After I made a good color shot, he tools it off. He was real obliging." "He asked me 'Where are you from?' and I told him Detroit. He said 'Where does it get its name?' I told him it was French and meant a narrow strait. I said SALLY'S SALLIES 'Do you really focus with one eye for profiles?" 1 '1.11at e the automobile capital u; I. the world' and he said 'Oi1 its.• • I know that very well.' He said 'Spina --- that's an Italian name.' I told him my father had come from Cosenza in Italy in I89e and he said, 'Oh, that's fine'." "Once, he motioned that I wee going to get his double chin. I told him I wouldn't, that the light coming in from the win• dow wouldn't accentuate it. He was relaxeci and seemed to be enjoying the whole thing. At one time, he put his hand on his stomach and smiled when I had moved low for a clilTerent angle. [ got the idem." Spina indicated delicately that ['ope John pre ferred not to have his substan- tial girth emphasized, "We talk- ed in Italian the whole time. A monsignor told are the Pope is taking English lessons from an Irish priest and they're all won- dering if he'll speak it with A brogue." T h e scheduled ten - minute audience stretched out to near ly two hours and, at the end. the Pope gave Spina n hand comely boxed silver medallion bearing the Pontiff's likeness. In turn, the Detroit photographer is sending Pope John a leather. bound volume of the pictures he took, The Pope, said Spina, com- plained to him; "Nobody ever sends me pictures." Patient: I'm worried about my memory, can't remember my best friends' names, telephone numbers, streets. Doctor: And when did all this begin? Patient: When did all what begin? 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One passenger's opinion: "I think he didn't know the way and didn't want to tell us."