Coral Gables Riviera-Times

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Gables Riviera Times

Published Monday through Friday afternoons by the Riviera Publishing Company, 100 Avenue Aragon, Coral Gables 34, Fla. Established as a weekly newspaper January, 1926; combined with the Gables Gazettte & Coconut Grove Times, 1929. Published daily except Saturday and Sunday. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION. Albert E. Harum, Editor and Publisher: Kenneth S. Reynolds, Business Manager; James B. Moore, Managing Editor; Helen Reynolds, Society Editor; Edward W. Wright, Circulation Manager. Kenneth S. Reynolds, National Advertising Representatives MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS FULL LEASED WIRE REPORTING SERVICES NATIONAL EDITORIAL - 1947 - ASSOCIATION Active Member SUBSCRIPTION RATES - Six months, $6.00; one year, $12.00 in United States; $15.00, local; $12.00, one year, out-of-town; $15.00, each quarter of four mos. 15 cents per week. Entered as Second Class Matter May 21, 1926, at the Post Office at Miami, Fla., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Mail Address, Box 6973, Coral Gables 34, Florida. Phone 4-2555. Curbside Dept., 48-1741. The Coral Gables Riviera-Times is liable for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.

Good Police Work

The arrest of a man yesterday suspected of six assault attempts in the vicinity of Coral Gables is an example of good police work on the part of both the Coral Gables Police Department and the Sheriff's office. Ever since the first attempt came to the notice of police authorities, Gables Safety Director William G. Kimbrough and Deputy Claude High of the sheriff's office have worked hand-in-hand to apprehend the molester. Gables detectives spent sleepless nights cruising the streets in an effort to trap the man. Together with county deputies they interviewed victims, questioned witnesses and investigated suspects. When they had amassed a lot of information they put their heads together and mapped their strategy - a plan which resulted in an arrest and a confession yesterday. The efficiency of our local police and the sheriff's men is to be commended. It should also serve as a warning to other would-be offenders that they cannot hope to escape arrest - and as a comfort to the citizens of Coral Gables that they are being so vigilantly protected.

UP AND DOWN BROADWAY

By JACK GAVER United Press Drama Editor NEW YORK (UP) - Vivacious Maria Montez can chatter more interestingly than most movie queens who visit New York. These are some of the high spots she hit in a fast trip here recently: She developed her own technique for handling French reporters in a trip to Paris. It seems that the boys over there delight in tripping up celebrities with their questions. "When a reporter come to see me," Miss Montez said, "I immediately start to talk so mooch they never get a chance to ask questions. Then when their time is up, I look at them so ashamed and say: 'Oh, I have been a naughty girl! I talk so mooch, you never get chance to ask questions.' It always works." One evening Miss Montez left her Paris hotel - "drassed to the teeth" - and had trouble getting transportation to an engagement. She asked the doorman the way to the Metro, or subway. "But," he protested, "a star cannot travel by Metro." Maria said she didn't have her wings with her and it was the Metro or nothing. Trained Her Voice However, she entered the train with misgivings because she had heard that less fortunate Parisians are apt to be vocally rude to persons in fancy dress. "But they treat me fine and ask for my autograph," she said. "Also, one gentleman even show me how to change trains. They said the only other star democratic enough to use Metro was Marlene Dietrich." The Miss brought back with her from Paris a lot of favorable clippings about the new play which her husband, Pierre Aumont, is acting in there. He also wrote the play. As for herself, Miss Montez has two new pictures ready for market, "The Exile," with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and "Atlantis." As one who remembered a whole contingent of female Montezes in New York a few years ago, I asked Maria what had happened to her sisters. About Her Baby "The youngest is still in school," she said. "One marry a guy, buy an Hollywood and they have a baby. Another marry a Frenchman and they live in Paris. I'm afraid it is going to be difficult to marry off the fourth one - she says she does not want to get married at all." Which brought up the subject of the star's own baby. It seems that six weeks before the birth she was still working and convening an absorption on the set remark that there wasn't anything wrong, they wouldn't do for publicity, including fake pregnancy announcements. He said if Miss Montez was about to have a baby, he would eat his hat. "First thing after confinement, I look up that electrician's hat, then I find him, I hand him the hat and say, 'Now - eat'." The man who refuses to face himself has no answer to world affairs. True prophets see catastrophe, not in the economic, but in the morals of the day and seek remedy by listening to God, not men. The best in human nature is still not good enough for it can always be corrupted by self-interest. Give all to build the world we want or we'll all get one we don't. Courage is honesty about your fears. Cowardice is pretending you don't have any. The only medicine that can cure us now is one which will make us sick of ourselves. Home is the heart of democracy. Heart is the key to the home. Make a dent in your environment or it will make a dent in you.

Hiccups

By AL HARUM A successful hiccupper is the person who sounds the name of his ailment as he (or she) hic-cups. That's why I prefer hiccup to the more ritzy hiccough - after all it certainly isn't a cough. A hiccup, according to Webster, is a spasmodic inspiratory movement "consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm accompanied by closure of the glottis" - the inrush of air against the aforementioned glottis making the peculiar hic-cup sound. The glottis, as I understand it, is the tube which joins the pharynx and the larynx. This didn't start out to be a scientific treatise on the subject of hiccups and it shall not continue to be. It certainly is interesting, however, to know what makes that noise. And it's even more interesting to figure out how to stop that noise. On that subject there are many, many theories - none of which is scientific. The most elementary of these hiccup cures is the holding of breath and the drinking of at least seven small gulps of water. If that doesn't work, make them larger and larger gulps. If that fails you bend 'way over and drink sips of water from a glass - but upside down and backwards. Please send ten cents in stamps for the diagram which goes with this treatment! If all these find you still hic-ing - you've really a bad case. It then becomes necessary to: 1. Hire a small child or an old witch to give you a small fright, which takes your mind off such mundane things as hiccups. 2. Drink one-made by boiling the inside skin of a chicken gizzard. 3. Boil a nickel and a dime (vintage immaterial) together to make a tea. 4. Make a tea from egg skin and two egg whites. 5. Drink hot water poured through linen. 6. Eat canned pineapple. 7. Drink vinegar. 8. Press lightly on your neck veins (not too long, now!) If you're still hiccuping after trying all these remedies try saying to yourself slowly: "I'm not (hic!) really (hic!) hic (hic!) cupping (hic!)" Power of suggestion, you know.

REVIEWING THE NEW BOOKS

By UNITED PRESS For his latest, and one of his strangest novels, Othello (Putnam, $3) Emil Ludwig has gone beyond Shakespeare to a short story published by Giraldi in Ferrara in 1565 - a rather poorly told story but one which forty years later inspired Shakespeare to write his immortal drama Othello the Moor. From the Italian story, Shakespeare took only a general idea for his plot, two names, a handkerchief and a vague idea for his Iago. From Shakespeare's drama, Ludwig has filled in the gaps and has written a historical novel of the Middle Ages. He tells of the hate of the white nobles for the brown admiral, of the bitterness in his heart which inspired murder when his wife's adultery became his cross to bear. Ludwig, as might be expected, tells the story with all the color and passion of the Renaissance. * * * America faces a choice of building up nationalist China as a "bastion of peace" or Japan as a "springboard for war" with Russia, Freda Utley asserts in Last Chance in China (Bobbs-Merrill, $3.50). The author is an anti-Soviet former Communist, long a student of the Far East. Her book is based on a year spent as correspondent in China since Japan's surrender. "The United States cannot afford to disregard China and say 'a plague on both your houses' to Nationalists and Communists," Miss Utley says. "The Russian colossus is double-headed and faces both East and West; and the last war taught us that America is more likely to be attacked from Asia than from Europe." * * * One of China's great men lived in the 11th century. He was Su Tungpo. His biographer, Lin Yutang describes him in The Gay Genius (John Day, $3.75) as "an incorrigible optimist, a great humanitarian, a friend of the people, a prose master, an original painter, a great calligraphist, an experimental in wine-making, an engineer, a hater of puritanism, a yogi, a Buddhist believer, a Confucian statesman, a secretary to the emperor, a confirmed wine-bibber, a humane judge, a dissenter in politics, a prowler in the moonlight, a poet and a wag." In spite of all those accomplishments, or perhaps because of them, Su Tungpo remained a modest, well-balanced person. That his influence is still great is attested in this devoted tribute by Lin Yutang. * * * The latest Erskine Caldwell novel follows the usual squalid pattern. This one entitled, The Sure Hand of God (Duell, Sloan, $2.75) tells chiefly of Molly, a Southern slut; Lily, her illegitimate daughter; and Jethro, Molly's brother-in-law, also a bum. Molly's attempts to better her social position by way of finding husbands for Lily and herself are both pathetic and funny, in a dismal way. The point of the story, if any, may be that the cards of society are stacked against Molly and her kind. Anyway, Molly's prospects seem slimmer than ever when the story ends. * * * MYSTERIES The Twisted Mirror, by Leonard Lee (Ziff-David, $1.98)... Politics Is Murder, by Edwin Panham (Harcourt, Brace, $2.50)... Too Many Women, by Rex Stout (Viking, $2.50). To Keep or Kill, by Wilson Tucker (Rinehart, $2)... The Case of the Lazy Lover, by Erle Stanley Gardner (Morrow, $2.50)... In a Lonely Place, by Dorothy B. Hughes (Duell, Sloan, $2.50)...

Save Food - DO YOUR PART NOW

This is everybody's pledge. Cut it out... Sign it... Then paste it in your window to let everybody know you are helping to save the peace. We will SAVE WHEAT SAVE MEAT SAVE THE PEACE (Signed)

As Days Here

Intrigued by an earnest conversation that was going on at a table at the Country Club the other night we eavesdropped only to hear Mrs. Jim Lyons and Mrs. Jim Henderson seriously discussing the relative merits of different brands of bubble gum. . . . C of C president Charlie Tutan was an interested observer at the city commission meeting last night. . . . The meeting, incidentally, was one of the shortest we've had the pleasure of attending in a long time, thanks to Strangler Louis and Primo Carnera. The city fathers dispatched their business promptly in order to use their Coliseum Annie Oakles and see the bout. Mike Neher, the Model Laundry chief, is planning to do some more building on his plant in the Industrial Section. . . . If you want to get in the Christmas mailing mood, take a peek at the local branch post office. The package lines are already crowding the lobby. . . . George Mugford of the fire department presented us with two "line gauge - letter opener - magnifying glasses" yesterday that he used when he was a printer on the old Boston Globe. The token is deeply appreciated. Mrs. W. G. Kimbrough is a lucky girl. Her husband, Carol Gables safety director, decided to buy her a new dress for her birthday present, but instead of floundering around in a dress shop, about which he knew nothing, he called a mutual friend of his and his wife's who operates a dress shop. He gave her the measurements and the pocket book limit and presto Mrs. Kimbrough has a pretty black and grey pinstripe whipcord bolero suit - has that 'new' look too. A stationery dealer took issue with another stationery dealer who had taken issue with the first stationery dealer as a call came today from Abner Kneitel of Abner's Gift Shop. Says Abner, the first stationery dealer of our story, perhaps the reason Florida has never been glorified in Christmas cards is that "our great state is already so famous, with its wondrous climate and its marvelous beauty, that further glorification would be unnecessary." We wonder if the second stationery dealer, who is C. H. Witherill Jr. of Rae's, will take further issue with the first stationery dealer, Witherill, in his first taking of issue, pointed out that he had 25 different Kodachrome reproductions of tropical Christmas cards. (Who started this? Oh, you say we did. Help!)

SHORT QUIRKS

Teachers Unschooled JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (UP) - Hubert Wheeler, state commissioner of education, reports that there are 823 school teachers in rural Missouri who have never been to college. The average teacher's salary in Missouri last year was $1,562. Comes Home to Die MARINETTE, Wis. (UP) - Christ Christensen, a milkman, made his regular delivery to the house where he was born 50 years ago. As he bent to put the milk on the porch, Christensen collapsed and died on the steps of his former home. What a Friend! SPOKANE, Wash. (UP) - Elger Arndt, 35, went to the Eagles Club to celebrate removal of a cast from his back and neck. A friend congratulated him with a hearty slap on the back. Arndt went back to the hospital, his back again broken. Firemen Red-faced OKLAHOMA CITY (UP) - Firemen of nearby Bethany were more than slightly embarrassed when their firehouse burned down. Firemen of this city helped Bethany's volunteer fire crew fight the blaze. Tallahassee Wakes Up TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UP) - Strange as it sounds in this day of modern transportation, the capital city of "progressive" Florida has more dirt streets than paved ones. A $600,000 bond issue to correct the situation is being considered.

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Parents Are People, Nancy Tells Readers

BETWEEN US Parents Are People, Nancy Tells Readers By NANCY MOTTRAM Although you might be inclined to doubt it at times, today's parents and their children understand each other better than ever before. There's more companionship for one thing, and more give and take between them. Years ago, a home was operated on the theory that children should be seen and not heard. That idea included people up to their 20's, and the girls were kept under the parental thumb till marriage. They couldn't express their opinions freely to their parents, and, in turn, fathers made all the decisions in the family, without talking them over with anyone else. The modern teen-ager of today has a definite and important place in that routine. He's used to making up his own mind, and discussing his ideas with parents who will listen and talk things over, not make their final word law. He's growing up in a country where young people have a say. He's preparing himself as a free forth-right citizen, by learning and talking over what he thinks with older and more experienced people. And there isn't a better way to develop ideas and plans for later life. It's very important for teen-agers to feel that their mothers and fathers are their friends; a couple of older and wiser people who will straighten them out on any difficulty that they bring to them. It gives them confidence, and eventually they're going to profit from those talks and apply them in later life, when they're on their own. A letter I received the other day points this out, and shows how greatly fast mark relations have improved in these late years between the two. It's from a Minneapolis mother of three, who writes: "My father didn't believe in dancing, going to the movies, playing cards, or letting me do any of the things that other boys and girls do. So I was left out of all the parties, and I didn't have dates till I was in my 20's . . . You see, I missed so much that I need to know more about real ordinary youth, because I have two girls and a boy who will be in their teens some day, and I am saving your columns. "I think my father and mother would have been lots happier if we could have talked things over, but they were so pretty set in their opinions and were very clever in weaving their thoughts into mine, so that I thought I believed as they did. My sister, who is 10 years younger, was less easily influenced, and got them to look at things her way a good deal of the time, which caused no end of jealousy between us, as she was allowed to do things I hadn't been able to do . . . Because of these things, I've mentioned, Dad and I had some very serious misunderstandings, and after we made up, he only lived six months. I told you I think the youth of today need to be recognized because they are fine young people, and I think they are trying to enjoy life, instead of just finding fault and ridiculing each other like they did when I went to school. I think your column will help parents as much as it helps young people, because you encourage parents and youth to understand each other."

WILL OPEN

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Va Usted a la Fiesta?

Un programa a la usanza de la antigua Sevilla dara esplendor a la fiesta y baile que se efectuara en el salon de conferencias de la Universidad de Miami el Viernes por la noche; fiesta que tambien pondra esplendor en los ojos de las senoritas. Enrique Gonzalez, estudiante de la Universidad, vestira el pintoresco traje de torero para efectuar un simulacro de corrida de toros, como uno de los numeros del programa, que estara bajo los auspicios del Club Hispano del mencionado plantel. Cecilia Duenas, soprano colombiana que cursa estudios en la Universidad, cantara bonitas canciones y ademas dirigira un coro compuesto por Teresita de Riveiro, Maria Mathiot y Helga Munos. Maria Zintgraff desempenara tradicionales bailes espanoles, ataviada con traje tipico, formando el auditorio estudiantes invitados y el Sr. Manuel Velazquez, Consul de Cuba en Miami, invitado especial. La fotografia de arriba muestra al "torero" Gonzalez con la senorita De Riveiro y la senorita Duenas. Rodolfo Sequeira, recien elegido presidente del Club Hispano, ha anunciado que despues de los numeros de variedad del programa habra baile al compas de la musica de una orquesta cubana.

It's a Date

TODAY CHRISTMAS CHURCH BAZAAR, Congregational Church Lounge, dinner at 6:30 p. m. TOMORROW UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI WAM-AN'S CLUB, Evening Bridge Group, home Mrs. Robert Meisenholder, 2101 SW 16th Street. CHRISTMAS BAZAAR, Wesley Fellowship Class, Coral Gables First Methodist Church, four to 10 p.m. CORAL GABLES WOMAN'S CLUB, executive board meeting, 10:30 a.m., luncheon honoring new members, 12:30 p.m.

Baptist Groups Meet

Continuing their studying of the missionary work being done in Africa, the Intermediate and Junior G.A.'s and R.A.'s of the South Miami Baptist Church will meet at the church tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. Mrs. R. E. Shivers will be in charge of the program.

Early Birthday

Five-year-old Tommy Norman woke his whole family up before dawn yesterday morning in order to get an early start on opening Dad's birthday presents - and eating the promised ice cream and cake. In the unreasonable manner of grown-ups, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Norman dispatched their son back to bed, but the birthday festivities were celebrated later in the day after Tommy and his sister Joanne had returned from school. The Normans, who live at 240 San Sebastian, are looking forward to the first of the year, when they'll move to their brand new home at 2612 Santo Domingo. The head-of-the-house owns and operates the Gulf Service Station at 1800 Ponce de Leon Boulevard.

THE BRIDE'S COOK BOOK Mrs. Robert Shermer Takes Tip from Lisbon Hotel Menu To Glamourize Lowly Spinach

By GRACE STONE HALL A Pre-Christmas visitor, Mrs. Robert Malcolm Shermer - the former Lois Jane Binn - of Ventnor, N. J., headlines our Bride's Cook Book column today. This bride of the year, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Binn of 1218 Salzedo Street, has learned to cook, likes to do it, and is happy to say she has learned some of the answers to marketing problems - especially finding out what meat cuts are best to buy. She admits with a laugh she had some startling meat - buying adventures in her first marketing days but soon learned how to "avoid getting more bone than meat." Mrs. Shermer appreciates her husband's assistance in cooking when he's home, and the observations regarding food that he has made in the foreign lands to which he flies as a Pan American pilot. Food he has encountered on menus at the Hotel Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal, seems especially to have captivated his fancy - even to lowly spinach. Pilot Shermer described spinach mold to his wife and together they duplicated this Portuguese favorite and evolved this "Shermer method" of preparing spinach mold a la Lison: Wash and cook spinach until tender. Drain off liquid, put spinach through grinder. Make a lemon sauce of lemon juice, flour, water and salt. Add cooked spinach and let simmer until thick. Put in molds and when "set" remove from the mold and serve while still warm and retaining the shape of the mold. * * * Another food favorite of the Shermers is marinated pine-apple made piquant in flavor with a dash of red wine. Want to try it? Here's the way to fix it: Cut the top from one fresh pineapple. Scoop pineapple from jacket and cut the fruit in pieces. Sugar to taste, put back in jacket. Pour red wine over the fruit and put top back into place. Serve chilled. Speaking of this dessert reminded Mrs. Shermer of how her husband has noticed pineapple served in Lisbon - chunks of the fruit, deliciously ripe, placed in a dish on the table for everyone to help himself - as sort of a tidbit for their plates. * * * Following her mother's recipe, Mrs. Shermer is hopeful of becoming an expert in concocting that favorite tropical dessert - key lime pie. This is the mother-daughter recipe: Beat the yolks of four eggs until light, add one can of sweetened condensed milk, and mix well. Add one half a cup of strained lime juice and heat until mixture thickens. Pour into baked pastry shell and cover with meringue made by beating four tablespoons of sugar into stiffly beaten egg whites. Continue beating until meringue stands up stiffly. Spread over pie filling and bake in oven at 300 degrees until meringue is browned. Chill before serving.