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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
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other style details of this beach
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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.
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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
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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. Betty Graff, Fran Wimberly, Ruth Halboth, Ellie Hopewell,
Susan Holmes or several others could have worn the same
cloths and the gals in the audience wouldn't have known the ama
teurs from the professionals O.S.
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water for ones that held sweet
or greasy mixtures.
extract. Cook over low heat 5
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New York OB Add a little
fresh lemon juice or vinegar to
beets and cabbage to help them
retain the red color. A little milk
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cauliflower. Don't use baking
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