The Seaforth News, 1961-05-18, Page 7Office Say Wore
Silk Hatt And Orchid'
A shipping friend of my ta-
User's told Me that if I wanted
to help him I should start at
once to earn my own living, and
that if I agreed he would help
me to get a job as office boy.
A.eeorclingly, armed with a pair
of new, kid gloves (bought before
the disaster) and letters of intro-
duction, I set forth.
My visit to the Baltic Shipping
Exchange, where I had the thrill
of hearing members "called" in
a stentorian voice, proved fruit-
less, because Mr. Sigismund
Mendl much regretted that the
vacancy for .an office boy had
just been tilled; but my visit to
a ship and insurance brokers in
Crosby Square proved successful.
The principal of this long since
defu)ict firm looked at me and at
My kid gloves, and then asked
if I. was prepared to sweep put
the office every morning. I re-
plied "certainly" with such apn-
vietion that he appointed me at
the prevailing wage of lOs Ott per
week, (about $1.40), though
cleaning was not among my dut-
ies, .
When I look back at those days
in Crosby Square I am filled
with amazement. I was con-
stantly out delivering letters and
messages, and went daily to
Lloyd's. I never walked if I
could run, and learnt all the
short cuts through buildings
from one street to another. We
sometimes worked incredible
hours; mails had always to be
caught,_ though letters were sel-
dom signed until the last mo-
ment, and had then to be copied
in an old-fashioned tissue letter "
book. If we missed the late fee
post at the local office we had
to go the GPO, and if we missed
that the' Newcastle letters had to
be posted on the train at King's
Cross. We always started sharp
at 9 a.m., however late we were
the night before, and 3 p.m., not
• 1 p.m., was the closing time on
Saturdays.
To other office Boys _I must
have seemed a strange freak,
clad as I always was (at the
instigation ,of my parents' friend
stud prince of snobs, John
khrimpton) in a frock coat and
silk hat -the more so because,
'owing to our liberal supply of
them at home, I was able to fol-
low • JosephChamberlain's ex-
ample and wear an orchid in my
buttonhole! But there is no
doubt that in those days it se-
cured site attention at the coun-
ters of otheroffices which, clad
more modestly, I might not have
received..— From "The Truth
About a Publisher." by Sir Stan-
ley Unwin.
•
The highest in Hi-Fi; Now we
learn the largest hi-fi set inthe
world has 112 speakers in all and
its full volume—or blast—can be
heard twenty miles away.
Alarming news for homeowners
and landlords? Not at all -the
massing of all these tweeters and
woofers was not designed for the
average home but for the testing
of missile components for the
Goodyear Aircraft Company.
However, we won't guarantee
that some hi-fi buff will not try
to equal this noise output.
MERRY MENAGERIE
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Olefa'aisuei e.ar' . Jmµt n ,
"Ha, ha! They'll think they've
hooked a whole school offish!"
MANTLE OF ARABIA — Like an Arab sihiek surveying the desert,
Mickey Mantle 'beats the heat during New York Yankees
baseball practice before first q•ame of the season, His turban.
a towel,
Sudden Death On
A Race Track
His day began early, while
the sun was still low and the
colts were playing in their
stalls, flickering for hay and
water and a chance to run. It
was only 6.30 one morning re-
cently, but Roy Gilbert, a slen-
der, peppery 22 -year-old with
a close crop of brown hair,
roamed the barns at Belmont
Park, N.Y., talking racing with
Eddie Yowell, the trainer who
had made him into a winning
'jockey, Gilbert loved the strong
smell of the barns and the idle
chatter of the grooms. "Pm go-
ing to •be a jockey," 'he once
said, "or die trying."
Not far away, in another sec-
tion of the Belmont barns, Frank
Wright, a personable, leathery
trainer, studied his horses. One,
a bay two-year-old filly named
Plenty Papaya, was going to run
in the fourth race at •nearby
Aqueduct that afternoon, Wright
(till had' not named a rider for
the race, and a few jockeys'
agents stopped to see him, "My
boy's free for the fourth," each
offered. "Want to use him?"
"No, thanks," Wright said: "I
think I've got Gilbert."
At almost the same moment,
Gilbert restlessly asked trainer
Yowell: "Want me to work Merry
Ruler?"
"No, let the exercise boy work
him," Yowell said. Merry Ruler,
a fine three-year-old, finished
first in the Swift Stakes and the .
Bay Shore last month, with Gil-
bert up. Before 1961, the jockey
had.never won a stakes race; so
far this year, he had won four
in a row. One of eighteen chil-
dren in his family, Gilbert, from
London, Ky., was beginning to
blossom as a big-time rider.
Shortly before 8,30, Wright
sent a message to Gilbert's agent,
Cliff Carter. "I'd like your boy
for the fourth," Wright said.
Carter agreed. Gilbert had no
other mounts scheduled before
the fifth race.
At 10, Wright inspected Plenty
Papaya. Her dam — Raise You
— once fell on a jockey and kill-
ed him, but Plenty Papaya was
a promising horse, full of run
in workouts. In her only pre-
vious start, she had gone oil at
3-1, based on fast practice times.
But against competition, she had
refused to run and had finished
dead last. "Threw back her head
s lot when she got crowded,"
said Bob Ussery, her first rider.
"But that's nothing unusual for
a green two-year-old." Since
then, she had trained with blink-
ers. Like most two -year-olds, she
was unpredictable, but now she
showed no bad, nor dangerous
habits.
By noon, Gilbert reported to
HIGH OLD TIME -• A tightrope act differing from the circus
version someday may be a standard military operation.
Sapper (engineer) Charles Grayson of the British Army checks
his- position as he drives a Land Rover over two suspended
steel wires at Fort Tregantle, England. Special outer wheels
hold the 3,600.pound vehicle on a steady keel
the jockeys' room at Aqueduct
and slipped into riding pants and
boots. Then he watched the
films of the ninth race' from the
previous clay. He had won, after
finishing third, when stewards
disqualified the first two horses.
"I got lucky," Gilbert said.
After the movies, he checked
the daily list of mounts and
riders, As he knew, he was up
on Mortal Lock, one of Eddie
Yowell's horses, in the fifth race.
For the first time, he discovered
he was riding Plenty Papaya.
During the first two races,
Gilbert played ping-pong with
Willie Boland, a fellow jockey.
Gilbert won. After the second
race, Cliff Carter came in for a
chat. "Mortal Lock looks ' good,"
he said, Gilbert, sipping coffee,
nodded. Neither agent nor boy
mentioned Plenty Papaya
Then Gilbert began getting
dressed. "It's cold out," his valet
said. "Better wear something
warm." Under the black - and -
white silks of Happy Hill Farm,
owner of Plenty Papaya, Gilbert
put' on a rubber jacket and a
turtleneck sweater. He adjust-
ed his plastic helmet and cover-
ed it with a black silk cap. At
2.45, he walked through the
catacombs that lead to the saddl-
ing area.
Frank Wright, waiting with
Plenty Papaya, greeted him. "I'd
like you to try something,"
Wright said. "She . doesn't seem
to like the whip. Wbutd you
hand -ride her?"
"Sure," Gilbert said. "Rode a
horse like that for Mr. Yowell
once."
As Gilbert climbed aboard the
filly for the first time, she snort-
ed and shook naturally. Theoc-
key steered her easily onto the
track and, a few minutes before
3, Plenty Papaya, listed on the
flashing tote hoard at 39-1, mov-
ed to the starting gate with seven
other two -year-olds.
The five -furlong race was off
at 2,59, Coming out of post posi-
tion six, Plenty Papaya started
nervously, then veered abruptly
toward the outside. Gilbert,
clutching the reins, pulled the
filly in. Suddenly enraged, she
bolted toward the inside, straight
at the aluminum guard rail. An
instant before Plenty Papaya
rammed the rail, Gilbert slipped
from her back, but the momen-
tum carried him into the rail.
Ile tumbled to the ground, un-
conscious, bleeding from the left
ear. The filly, not badly hurt,
bounded away.
A few minutes later, on the
way -to a local hospital, Roy
Gilbert,' the victim of multiple
skull fractures, died.
In the jockey's room, the ping-
pong and pool games stopped,
and the boys, little men with
big jobs, quietly slipped into
fresh silks. At 3.28, the fifth race
at Aqueduct went off. From
NEWSWEEK.
Animals Long For
That Old Applause
Everyone knows that to have
a zoo you have to have animals;
but what few people realize is
that to have a proper zoo you
also have to have people. It
turns out to he a mutual propo-
sition, Animals like to look at
people as much as vice versa.
Whet a zoo needs, therefore, for
the meagerest possible begin-
ning, is one animal, and one per-
son for the animal to look at.
Naturally, the more animals, the
more reople they need to keep
them amused,
Already deprived of more
than 100,000 people to look at by
a strike that closed the gates
on Easter Sunday morning, the
2,984 denizens of New York
City's famous Bronx Zoo proved
their feelings in ways ranging
from elephaptine anger to utter
depression.
A skeleton staff remained on
duty to tend their tenants, but
,the animals reacted visibly to
the lack of audience,
Deprived of their peanut and
zoological package feed (10 cents
x abet In Blot machines at the
apo), Dolly and Cutie (from In-
dia) and Sudana and Pinkie
(Africans) shook the Elephant
House with their trumpeting;
they tore radiators from their
fixtures and threw hay around
like berserk harvesting ma-
chines.
The seals, with no people to
clap their flippers for, lay mar-
osely on their rocks, or stayed
under water for long periods.
Their only guests were seagulls
The lions, missing the sight of
people to lick their chops at,
were oaf their 'feed, and the
tigers paced ceaselessly like
caged tigers.
One of the camels looked as
though he'd walk a mile for a
person.
Except for the polar bears,
who' kept cleaning themselves
wistfully for company that
never came, the bear population
regarded the empty walks sadly,
and waddled back to their caves,
In' the Great Apes House,
gray-haired Mickey Quinn, who
has worked at the zoo since he
was 12, was disturbed about his
charges, whom he regards as al-
most human.
"I don't know about those ani-
mals in the rest of the place,"
he said sadly, "battlook at these
— how their lips are pursed.
Look at haw tense they are "
Hepointed to Oka, the 300 -
pound gorilla he raised from in-
fancy in 1941 — sitting pitifully
in a corner, staring at the wall,
fingers in her ears, as though to
keep out the unpleasant silence.
Perhaps the most disconsolate
of all the animals was Suzie,
an otter who loves children and
carries, on lively conversations
with them in whistles', whispers,
and moans. "She has the largest
vocabulary in the zoo," says the
attendant Vincent Nese:: proud-
ly. "But now, she'll hardly talk
at all. I try all day long, hut
hardly ever a word ..."
The least concerned of all the
zoo's residents seems to be the
oldest, Teddy the South Ameri-
can tortoise, a gift from Theo-
dore Roosevelt (whose name-
sake he is) in 1914, Teddy was
taking the strike with the same
equanimity he has displayed
since Roosevelt changed his
mind about making him into
soup on the way home from an
expedition.
- The Ham Comes Out
On Casey Stengel
Smartly. attired in dark gray
business suit, the bank vice pres-
ident tilted back comfortably in
his ,black leather chair. His of-
fice, lodged near the top of a
semi-floatingstaircase, was large
and plush, decorated with con-
temporary furniture, deep rugs,
and walnut paneling. There was,
however, one slightly jarring
note in the scene—behind the
official's desk sat a huge potted
plant with a catcher's mitt em-
bedded in its branches.
"Now I don't know why I went
on this show," the banker was
saying, "cause I wasn't gonna do
any more of this acting business
and then I met this producer and
this writer, both nice fellas, and
they persuaded me to go on this
here script although I don't know
what they got on their minds
with this 'Young at Heart' bus-
iness. I met Jane Powell who is
a good-looking girl, and that Art
Carney looks like he could be
a pretty fair ballplayer and
could possibly be very good, so
1 signed, you might say."
i In Revised Standard Syntax,
what the vice president of the
Toluca Lake Branch of the Val-
ley National Bank in California
was talking about was the fact
that on April 28, Charles Dillon
(Casey) Stengel will go to bat
on a one-hour NBC variety spe-
cial, "Young at Heart," 'which
would also star Jane Powell and
Art Carne y. Septuagenarian
Stengel, who guided the New
York Yankees to ten pennants in
twelve years before he 'was forc-
ibly retired last fall, will tackle
a comedy skit in which he will
play a sportscaster interviewing
"ballplayer"' Art Carney, remi-
nisce a little about the 1920s
with the ebullient Miss Powell,
and, for the chef-d'oeuvre of the
evening, even dance a few steps.
For Stengel, who has been
known to keel over in a mock
faint to protest the decision of
an umpire, the show will not
mark his acting debut, Last No-
vember he took a brief turn on.
the NBC "Perry Como Show,"
and even ad libbed a line during
some light banter with Como
when the cue cal -ds got shuffled
("This is even, worst than the
last game of the Series"),
"You might say I enjoyed that
show," he recalled as he lit a
cigarette. "In a way I liked do-
ing it because of the fact that
nobody throws things at ye. Perry
even asked me to become his
manager, hut -this acting business
makes me more nervous than a
ball game. To tell you the truth,
I don't think I'll Ito ten years of
study to become a great actor.
On this special coming up, I'm
not sure if I shottlda said no, or
they shoulda said no"
The phone rang ache rambled,
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and it proved to be an NBC rep-
resentative. It seems there was
a conflict between rehearsals for
the Jane Powell special and
Casey's commitment to throw
out the first ball on April -27 at
Los Angeles's Wrigley Field,
"We'll just have to start this
here rehearsal at 5 in the morn-
ing cause I'm gonna throw the
ball out," barked Stengel. There
were sounds of acute distress on
the other end of the line, but
Stengel hung up. "Five o'clock
in the morning—that's about the
time these actor fellas go to
bed," he snorted and gazed dis-
coneoletely at a pile of papers
on his banking desk,
"I get lots of mail from people
interested in baseball=Pm pull-
ing for the Yankees this year,"
he said. "Now about my bank-
ing activities, I'm not keeping
books. You might say I'm a
good -will man. I get around to
numerous places, This here bank
is growing. We just opened up
a new subsiduary [sic),"
How about his use of Steng-
elese in banking affairs? "I only
use this here Stengelese you fel-
las talk about when you're ask-
ing for loans," explained Casey
as he casually blew smoke ceil-
ing-ward. "If ya come in for a
deposit, I'm much more interest-
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trouble at all understanding me."
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ISSUE 19 — 1961