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o' EIGHT WEBFOSD 10REC0N) MAIL THIBUNE Sunday. July 14, 1957 gitpourri New York, July 9 Potpourri has been in this big city for three days no, ami H still doesn't seem real. To walk along the street, one might 'cs anywhere Portland, Seattle or San Francis co. But when we losa out of a window, cr up and across the city at the towerinf bui'odiuss, it just seems like a painted backdrop for a play. We know that millions erf people live, work and play in those buildings, bnt somehow it wem artificial and unnatural. Reduced to statistics, from the juide book, one learns that New York is a "complex metropohs macta up of some 14 million people, 8 mil lion residents. 6 million annul ban neighbors (a million commute every working day) and a million visitors every year." New Yorkers call tho who come from some place else "out landers" and Potpourri feels just that "outlandish." , Looking back on the past few days we've decided that we felt more at home in the United Nations building than anywhere else. Perhaps it was because it was filled with tourists people from somewhere else. The guide book says that the native New York er the one born and raised here doesn't know the city as a whole, never "sees the sights" and is provincial in outlook: like the United Press writer in Philadelphia who has lived there for 31 years and confessed that he had never been in Independence hall and had never seen the Liberty Bell. Monday when we visited the UN building it was filled not only with just ordinary tourists, but with hundreds and that is literally true of Boy Scouts. Probably they were en route to Val ley Forge for the big jamboree when we visited Valley Forge last week the Boy Scout tents were already up by the hundred, and workers were still busy erecting more. The two of us Potpourri and daughter took the guided tour, our guide turning out to be a most attractive Swedish girl with only the slightest accent. People of all nationalities work in the United Nations headquarters we saw an East Indian wearing a western suit but with his head wrapped in a bright yellow turban, and a beautiful girl wearing a colorful sari hurried across the hall ahead of us. (The saris and sarongs look more graceful and prac tical than western dress. However, the Hawaiian mumus which some delegates wore at the NEA convention look like shapeless sacks.) The rooms of the UN headquarters are dignified and beautiful, which is as it should be. Trie walls of the room where meetings of the Security Council are held are lined with blue and gold, the UN colors and a large mural, the work of the famous Norwegian artist, Pehr Krogh, dominates the room. The guide explained about the simultaneous translations which are made over the inter-communication system during meetings, and we examined the ear phones with which each seat is equipped. The guide said each translator must be able to use English, French and at least one other of the five official languages, and that most are proficient in four. Since the simultaneous translation is extremely difficult, she said that that only about 150 persons in the entire world are qualified for this work. As the tour progressed, we were impressed again and again with the fine artistic sense of the Scandinavian peoples. Their work is clean and uncluttered, yet beautiful and meaningful. In the room where the Economic and Social council meets, one end of the huge room is hung with a drapery so unusual and hand some as to beggar description. It looks gossamer but weighs 770 pounds. The room was designed by Sven Markelius. Here it was, while the group sat in the midst of peace and beauty in a city where almost as much food is wasted as is con sumed that the guide reminded us that three-fourths of the popu lation of the world lives in the underprivileged countries, that one-half of the world's population is illiterate and that millions live on a diet which barely keeps them alive. In the General Assembly room 'hangs a tapestry made in Belgium, the largest tapestry in the world. A special loom was made for the weaving of this piece of art work. Visitors to the building average between 3,000 and 6,000 daily, the guide said. We wonder how many of them ever give any seri ous thought to world peace, or how it can be achieved. O.S. New York, July 10 We're beginning to understand about New York. We've been to see a play and gaudy Times Square at night, we spent some time in the wonderful Metropolitan Art museum, we strolled in Greenwich Village, walked around Wash ington Square and rode in the subway; yesterday and this noon we attended the fall fashion shows staged by the designers for fashion editors from all over the United States and this afternoon we shopped in Fifth Avenue stores. We didn't buy much, and the editorial feet will never be the same again, but this afternoon we began to sense the excitement which makes a lot of individuals love this monstrous city. At store closing time the shopping area was one huge mass of people hurrying, ducking and dodging on the sidewalks while in the streets moved a solid flow of cars and taxis. Two different cab drivers assured Potpourri that "this is nothing just wait until vacation time is over" but we'd rather not. Twice daughter snatched us from under the wheels of a cab New York cab driv ers just pretend pedestrians aren't there. To be a taxi patron is one thing the minute you step out on the streets you're fair prey. The play we saw, "Visit to a Small Planet," is billed as a com edy and gets some of its biggest laughs from making fun of the U9. Army, with flying saucers and a little torrid love-making thrown in for good measure. It stars the British actor Cyril Ritchard. Gay Pauley, women's editor for the New York office of United Press, took us along for the fashion show Tuesday afternoon in the Grand Ballroom of the Pierre hotel. Gay assured me that she would have no trouble in taking the women's editor of a small western newspaper and her daughter to the show. "I'll just tell them that I want to bring a couple of outlanders," she said briskly. Tuesday we saw the Trigere and Ceil Chapman collections; Wednesday noon the Pattullo-Jo Copeland collection. Pauline Trigere, who came from Paris to New York in 1942, has won a number of awards and according to Miss Pauley is a "nice girl we all like her." Her collection of suits featured long, slim coats with enormous buttons and a color which she called "blue fox' but which looked brown under the bright lights. One wool coat had shirred sleeves pushed above the elbow. In the Trigere, and also the other collections, there is more than a hint of the "flapper look" of the '20s and '30s. Some of the evening gowns are slim sheaths with simple round necks and arm holes with the entire dress covered in either sequins or paillettes that flash and glitter. Pauline announced part of the show and once said "I have to watch myself or I make everything in my favorite black and white." She also showed a number of long, slim evening gowns with bodices topped with a band of long-haired fur; another favorite color in this collection was purple. Ceil Chapman, who designs clothes which appeal to women Tyt4 I A !it:4 f- JA rim Tins hracli roai of cool, washable rotlon knit has a pointed hood to keep the hair neat and pretljr when orean winds start to blow. Two large patih pcH'kets and zipper front are other style details of this beach cover-up by Smartee. COCKTAIL UMBRELLA Now it's the cocktail umbrella, joining the cocktail dress in fash ion phraseology. These umbrel las get pretty fancy with jewel decorated knobs and tips. K w .T.j ft;' VTP"" ' 1 - t' Ab. T ARABS WERE THE FIRST TO FILL PRESCRIPTIONS! The first apothecary shop known to history dates back to 754 A.D. It was in fabled Bagdad. We don't go back that far, but we have been filling prescriptions for many years and we have won the confidence of the medical profession of this city. Our Registered Pharmacists use only the finest, purest drugs. They exercise the same scrupulous care your Doctor demands of a hos pital laboratory. Make our store headquarters for your prescription filling. Quick, efficient service you'll appreciate! Medford Pharmacy, Inc. We Are Open Today 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. PHONE SP 2-6253 101 N. CENTRAL ft- i.irf ' it J - Nurse Plays Pool In Rehabilifation Work at Boston Bosion (W The modern Florence Nightingale is more than just a "lady with a lamp. Now she has to know how to grip a pool cue. Officials at the Boston Reha bilitation Center decided last year that pool playing would help patients regain use of dam aged arms and legs. They selected a 25-year-old oc cupational therapist, Debbie Phillips of Boston, to work with the patients although she admits that at the ouset she didn't know a pool cue from a TV antenna. Miss Phillips said the value of pool in medicine lies in the bending, stretching and reaching the game entails. "It gets the patients' should er, leg and arm muscles into action and gives them something to concentrate on," she said.. Miss Phillips said she became an occupational therapist after a brief fling at art while at Skidmore College. An interest in medicine and people decided her on rehabilitation work. The attractive, dark - haired girl is one of ive occupational therapists working at the center. But Debbie is the only one who plays pool. "Most of the time I let the patients win," she said. "It helps their morale." Here's a smart seafaring outfit for the miss who loves the water. This winning combination by Phil Rose of California features lined cotton knit shorts in bold red and while stripes. Overblouse of white cotton sailcloth is trimmed with matching knit. Flat, Woven Floor Covering Durable Urbana, 111. (If) A Univer sity of Illinois textile and cloth ing specialist says a flat, woven floor covering may prove the most durable in a home with children and pets. "This type of rug is the best buy if you have pets, young chil dren and a considerable amount of traffic in a room," Jane Wer den said. She said this type of covering doesn't last as long as expen sive rugs, but that "most people are ready to replace floor cov erings when their children are older anyway." A number of fibers are avail able but Miss Werden suggested rayon as the "best dollar-for-dol-lar buy." Other fibers which also are acceptable: Cotton wears well, but hard to keep clean. Nylon has been too expen sive, but is gradually coming down in price. Combinations of rayon and ny lon and rayon and wool. "Forty to 50 per cent of wool in combination with rayon makes a satisfactory floor cov ering, Miss Werden said. with slightly less than a fortune to spend on clothes, also showed much purple and a new Electra blue. Many of the skirts dipped in back and necklines were daring, plunging low in both back and front and some laced to the waist with "only you underneath." Others had bodices which are mere scraps and straps in strategic places, and were cut out under the arms as well as back and front. She introduced and still sponsors the "demi-length skirt" which is neither long nor short. The Copeland collection was the most lavish of the three, with prices running from around $200 to more than $1200 for an ensem ble of satin evening gown in argent gray topped with a pink vel vet wrap trimmed in chinchilla. This collection also featured un even hemlines, harem skirts which were gathered in at the bottom and slim skirts topped with apron overskirts which belled out. When the models wore hats they were close-fitting turbans and cloches of fur or feathers. All of the models were slim, of course, and a few walked with the droopy slouch and indifferent air which we find repelling. Some of the Chapman models had an ail-American girl look which Potpourri finds much more appealing. Watching the parade of models, we decided that several of the Junior Service league members in Medford were every bit as good. 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