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VOL. LXXIX NO.1

NANCY DUGHI

JANE GOODSELL

JOURNALITIES

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In “Strait Passage’’ (page 34) NANCY DUGHI, an American girl living in Morocco, relates the fictional troubles of Cammie Singer, an American girl living in Morocco. The resemblance ends there. Cammie, bride of a handsome Muslim, can't adjust to his world of harem and purdah. Nancy, married to a U. S. Government employee, speaks French and Arabic and feels very much at home in Sidi Slimane, where the Dughis now live. SE SE “| live in Portland, Oregon, with one husband, three daughters, two gold- fish and a cocker spaniel,’’ reports JANE GOODSELL. ‘‘My husband, Jim, is editor of a weekly newspaper. My daughters are Ann, Katie and Molly. Carlotta is the cocker spaniel. The goldfish are named Frank and Bradley to give my husband an il- lusion of male companionship—al- though, for all we know, they may be girls too.’’ Her column begins this month on page 52.

“Once upon a time there was an Inquiring Camera Girl who fell in love with a handsome congress- man,....’’ We all know how that story ended. MINI RHEA, the Philadelphia dress designer who was Jacqueline Kennedy’s dressmaker before her marriage, tells the little-known be- ginning of that storybook romance on page 36. What kind of customer was the First Lady? ‘‘Ideal,’’ says Mini Rhea. ‘‘Her fashion sense is flawless.”

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immature beings known as teenagers that I haven't been able to get a glimpse of much else. If I pick up a magazine in- tending to escape from the clamor for an hour, I often find I have a choice of read- ing about teenagers or the problems of the teenagers. Radio broadcasts are mostly what they teenager prefers to hear; tele- vision is doing its dead-level best to bring adults to the teenage point of view.

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One needs only to visit a slum school in a large city to be convinced that the nature of the community largely determines what goes on in the school. The community and the school are inseparable. For exam- ple, I have walked through school corridors in slum areas and, looking into classrooms, have seen children asleep with their heads on their hands. Is this situation the result of poor teachers without either disciplinary control or teaching ability? No; the children asleep at their desks have been up all night with no place to sleep or else have been subjected to incredibly violent family fights and horrors through the night.

Checking into one case, a principal reported that after climbing six flights of a tenement he found the boy’s home—one filthy room with a bed, a light bulb and a sink. In the room lived the boy’s mother and her four children. The social attitudes found in this kind of slum neighborhood are bound to affect the atmosphere of the whole. As one Negro teacher said to me, “‘We do quite well with these children in the lower grades. Each of us is, for the few hours of the school day, an ac- ceptable substitute for the mother. But when they reach about ten, eleven or twelve years of age, we lose them. At that time the ‘street’ takes over. In terms of schoolwork, progress ceases; indeed, many pupils begin to go backward in their studies.”

It is after visits to schools like these that I grow impatient with both critics and defenders of public education who ignore the realities of school situations to engage in fruitless debate about educational philosophy, purposes, and the like. These situations call for action, not hairsplitting arguments.

Let me describe a slum that might be in any one of several of the large Northern cities I have visited. The inhabitants are all Negroes and many of them have entered the city from a state in the deep South anytime within the last month to the last three years. Often the com- position of a school grade in will alter so rapidly that a teacher will find at th ar that she is teaching few pupils who started with her in the fall. The principal of one school told me that a teacher absent more than one week will have difficulty recognizing her class when she returns.

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ve a rans : other from month to month, and in so doing often go from one ele- mentary-school district to another. I write “mothers” advisedly, since

19 $Y JAMES BRYANT CONAN THIS IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK

“SLUMS AND SUBURBS,”

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in one neighborhood, by no means the worst I have seen, a question- naire sent out by the school authorities indicated that about a third of the pupils came from family units (one hesitates to use the word ‘“‘homes’’) which had no father, stepfather or male guardian.

The condition in one such neighborhood was summed up by a principal of a junior-high school who said even he was shocked by the answers to a questionnaire to the girls which asked what was their biggest problem. The majority replied to the effect that their biggest problem was getting from the street into their apartment without be- ing molested in the hallway.

The women, on the whole, work and earn fairly good wages, but the male Negro often earns less than the woman and would rather not work at all than to be in this situation. As a consequence, the streets are full of unemployed men who hang around and prey on the girls. The women are the centers of the family and as a rule are ex- tremely loyal to the children. The men, on the other hand, are floaters, and many children have no idea who their father 1s.

One often hears privately even in the North that it has been clearly established that a colored student on the average is inherently inferior to a white student. No such premise has been clearly established, and in my view the difficulties in obtaining evidence that would clearly es- tablish or, for that matter, clearly negate such a position are virtually insurmountable. However, it has been established beyond any reason- able doubt that community and family background play a large role in determining scholastic aptitude and school achievement.

Let us examine the situation in an all-white slum in a city of consid- erable size. Perhaps the greatest handicap to good schoolwork is the high mobility of the population in the neighborhood. It 1s not uncom- mon in such a school to have a turnover of the entire enrollment in one school year. A careful study of a group of fourth-graders of one such school showed that their average achievement level wasa full year below their grade placement—a typical situation in any slum area.

What the teachers in this school have to contend with is shown by a report from the principal, who writes:

‘“‘Absentee owners rent property by single rooms or small so-called apartments of two or three rooms to large families. .. . Such conditions attract transients (who either cannot or will not qualify for super- vised low-income housing), the unemployed, the unskilled and un- schooled, and the distressed families whose CONTINUED ON PAGE 62

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South’s bidding pyrotechnics were both very good and very bad. It is possible (we don’t know) that he and his partner were not employing an ace-locating convention. If so, he didn’t have this means of determin- ing whether North’s original call in- cluded two aces. Obviously, a four- no-trump bid on the third round (in- stead of the wild plunge to seven hearts) would have told South that an ace was missing. Then he could have contented himself with a juicy small slam in the major. It must be admitted that with West’s invaluable assistance and East’s blind flying, South made a far greater killing. In- deed, this was one of the greatest steals since the Brink’s robbery, and it didn’t require a bit of early plan- ning.

When South heard the totally un- expected double of seven hearts, it didn’t take him a moment to recover from the shock. He was certain that his left-hand adversary held an ace. He could not possibly hold a trump trick (bear in mind that North had raised to four hearts). Once that was decided, it was a routine matter for South to get the ace holder off the lead by returning to no trump, first mentioned by North. This switch saddled East with the lead and put her to a terrible guess.

Though it is true that North’s club bid reduced the guess to no more than a fifty-fifty chance between unbid spades and diamonds, this surely was a great deal better than virtually con- ceding defeat by allowing West to open that ace under his thumb.

South’s redouble might be termed dubious, but it actually was sound according to the percentages. He re- alized that his partner might have opened a bit light, but also knew that North never “‘psyched.”’ He probably held the spade king, in addition to the ace and king of clubs. Therefore the contract did not figure to go down more than one trick—an additional 200 points—whereas if East guessed wrong at trick one, there was an ex- cellent chance of making the 440 ex- tra points that would accrue to seven no trump redoubled, instead of merely doubled.

West’s double was ghastly. It met the fate it so richly deserved. Poor East pondered and fretted and then studied some more. Completely in the dark, she finally led the ten of diamonds, top of her sequence. With that, the lights went out!

Perhaps it can be argued that the spade suit should have been led. It is interesting to report, however, that one of the topflight woman bridge players in the country failed to come up with the right answer. The hand was a crucial one played in a national championship. For obvious reasons, the names of the participants cannot be revealed.

The Solomon System of point count for honor cards is: ace, 4; king, 3; queen, 2; jack, 1; two tens, 1. Asingle- ton king, 2; a singleton queen, 1. (Do not count tens in an original no-trump or for evaluating a slam.) Generally, a holding of 13 points is required for an opening bid.

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321. JACKIE GLEASON. MU- SIC, MARTINIS AND MEM- ORIES in the lush Gleason manner: Once In A While, 1 Remember You, | Can’t Get Started, 9 more.

202. THE KENTON TOUCH: STAN KENTON. Twelve stirring themes by Stan and his ablest abettor, Pete Rugulo: Minor Riff, The End Of The World.

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179. RED NICHOLS. ‘Red’ and the Five Pennies serve a musical menu a la Dixie- land. Hear Jo-Do, Sep- tember Song, Ballin’ the Jack—11 others.

195. SWINGIN’ DECADE. Glen Gray, his Casa Lomans recreate the swingin’ sounds of Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman,

227. HARRY JAMES blows, and the Music Makers fol- low in big band style. Blues For Sale, You’re My Thrill, Just For Fun, Wil- low Weep For Me, more.

133. LES BROWN: DANCE .TO SOUTH PACIFIC. Broadway’s greatest show hits—styled for dancing. Bali Ha‘i, Some Enchanted Evening, lots more!

257. SATURDAY NIGHT... POLKA! Ray Budzilek re- corded in person. Ice Cubes And Beer, Spring- time Polka, Cleveland Mazurka, 9 more.

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192. GUY LOMBARDO. The master of melody plays beloved favorites in three- quarter time: Beautiful Ohio, Alice Blue Gown, 10 other waltzes.

KINGSTON TRIO\

348. PEGGY LEE. OLE ALA LEE. Sultry swinging Latin singing. Olé! Just Squeeze Me, Fantastico, Love And Marriage, 8 more.

JACKIE GLEASON

316. JACKIE GLEASON. LAZY, LIVELY LOVE. Be- couse Of You, On The Street Where You Live, Speak Low, It Had To Be You, 8 more.

355. GEORGE SHEARING. THE SHEARING TOUCH. Superb stylings of Nola, Misty, Bewitched, 8 more. All with Billy May strings

115, SOUNDS OF THE GREAT BANDS. Glen Gray and his Casa Lomans recreate the sound of Gene Krupa, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, others

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344, PEE WEE HUNT'S DANCE PARTY. Have a reol ball! Hear Oh!, Moonglow, It Had To Be You, Bill Bai ley, 8 more Hunt hits

A Worried Man, 9 more

189. FOUR FRESHMEN AND 327. FIVE GUITARS. ‘Way out— SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES. but good! Imaginative 22 sentimental favorites, stylings of The More | See including Diane, Johnson You, It All Depends On Rag, Whispering, Char You, Nancy, 9 more Paradise

346. DON BAKER. SOPHIS- 225. GLEN GRAY. SOLO TICATED PIPES. Thrilling SPOTLIGHT. Memorable organ arrangements of 8 Casa Loma Stylings of top hits: Slaughter On Golden Earrings, Blue Tenth Avenue, Veradero, Star, When | Fall In Love, more. (Stereo Only) 9 more favorites.

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173. SABRE DANCE. The 165. MEREDITH WILLSON'S Hollywood Bow! Sym- MARCHING BAND. Here are phony under Newman 16 rousing and thrilling plays exciting dance marches, including 6 suites by Khachaturian great original marches by and Kabalevsky John Philip Sousa

199. KINGSTON TRIO. HERE 138. | GET A KICK OUT OF WE GO AGAIN. Guitars, PORTER. Joe Bushkin plays banjos and bongos going Cole Porter classics: Begin like crazy. Haul Away, The Beguine, Night And Molly Dee, Goober Peas, Day, Let's Do It, 9 more

295. ANNA MARIA ALBER- GHETTI. WARM AND WILLING. Hear: Non Di- menticar, Porgy, Anema

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373. THE SWINGIN'S MU- TUAL. George Shearing Quintet plays—Nancy Wilson sings: Blue Lou,

Inspiration, 10 more!

212. SOLD OUT: The King- ston Trio in a superb vocalisation of Carrier Pigeon, Bimini, Don’t Cry Katie, plus 9 more selec tions.

340. WANDA JACKSON. THERE'S A PARTY GOIN’ ON, and you're invited! Lost Week-End, Man We Had A Party, Bye Bye Baby, 9 more

108. FRANK SINATRA. ONLY THE LONELY. Ebb Tide, Spring Is Here, Goodbye, What's New, Blues In The Night, 7 more great hits

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127. JOE “FINGERS” CARR AND HIS SWINGIN’ STRING BAND. A cheerful nosegay of tunes: Harbor Lights, Vanessa, 10 more

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260. NAT KING COLE. BAL- LADS OF THE DAY. The King sings 12 big all-time hits! Angel Eyes, Return To Paradise, 10 more. (Monaural Only)

194. DAKOTA STATON. MORE THAN THE MOST. Here's ‘blues’ dressed up in style! Love Walked In, It's You Or No One, 10 more torrid numbers.

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251. VIENNESE WALTZES. Franck Pourcel conducting Emperor Woltz; Artist's Life, Wine, Women And Song, Tales of Vienna Woods, 6 more.

217. THE SONG IS JUNE.

June Christy sings ten of her greatest hits includ- ing The Song Is You, The One ! Love Belongs Somebody Else, others

241. TEX RITTER. BLOOD ON THE SADDLE. Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie, Billy The Kid, Streets of Laredo sung by the favor- ite of the West.

166. FRED WARING. DO YOU REMEMBER? The Pennsylvanians take you down memory lane with Remember, Stardust, For Me And My Gal, more.

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146. FIRE GODDESS. Webley Edwards plays Hawaiian chants and songs. Exotic music and exciting sounds from au- thentic Island instruments

326. LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI leads the London Sym- phony in Ravel’s Rhapso- die Espagnole; Debussy’s Nocturnes. “Impressive, Dazzling...”

265. BELLS ARE RINGING. Dean Martin, Judy Holli- day. Movie soundtrack. The Party’s Over, Do It Yourself, Just In Time, 9 more hits.

RAY ANTHONY DANCING OvVER® THE WAVES

139. DANCING OVER THE WAVES. Ray Anthony and orchestra at their dance- able best. They play Dancing Over the Waves, Intermezzo, 10 others

347. LES BAXTER'S WILD GUITARS. Exciting, unusual sound! Sabre Dance, Tico Tico, Desilusao, Brazilian Slave Song, 8 more.

169. SAM BUTERA. THE BIG HORN. His sax and The Witnesses meet old favorites head on in Hey There, La Vie En Rose, Too Young, other hits

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103. JONAH JONES. JUMP- IN’ WITH JONAH in a swingin’ new set of tunes: Just A Gigolo, A Kiss to Build a Dream On, ten others

220. BAKERS DOZEN. Don Baker at the organ in 13 tasty pastries, including Granada, Two Guitars,

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352. DAKOTA STATON. DA- KOTA! Her greatest album yet: If | Love Again, Pick Yourself Up, 10 other fab ulous song stylings

359. DICK SINCLAIR. POLKA PARADE. Straight from TV’s happiest show Jolly Coppersmith, In The Alps, Sugartime, 12 more

188. KAY STARR. Kay swings through a dozen great songs: Night Train,

Lozy River, Sentimental Journey, Slow Boat to China, etc.

The Joy of Living

135. NELSON RIDDLE. Zest- ful songs about the joys of living and loving: Isn‘t

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144. SLEEP WARM. DEAN MARTIN. Dean sings and Frank Sinatra conducts the orchestra in ‘’sleepy”’ tunes: Sleepy Time Gal, 11 more.

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328. COME TO THE FAIR. Tennessee Ernie Ford re- corded LIVE at the Indiana State Fair. Sixteen Tons, Your Cheatin’ Heart, Bill Bailey, 8 more.

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356. GERMAN BEER-DRINK- ING MUSIC. A foaming stein full of Walter Schacht’s brass band, groups and soloists in 12 numbers, (Monaural Only)

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226. BOBBY HACKETT. EASY BEAT. Bobby’s horn blows easy listening. Take The 4 Embraceable

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185. LOVE IS THE THING. Nat King Cole spins 12 love songs smoother than silk. It's All In The Game, At Last, Love Letters, more of your favorites

149. DINAH, YES INDEED! Dinah Shore sings golden melodies. Falling In Love With Love, Where Or When, Love Is Here To

351. THE GREAT JIMMIE LUNCEFORD. Authentic re creations by BILLY MAY: Charmaine, Ain‘t She Sweet, For Dancers Only, & more swingtime favorites.

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370. JEANNE BLACK. A LITTLE BIT LONELY. Her debut album, with big hits: Lisa, He'll Have To Stay, and 10 more

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236. TOMMY SANDS. Love songs never sounded so inviting as Tommy cares-

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152. FRANK SINATRA. COME DANCE WITH ME. 1960 winner of 3 awards: Album of Year, Best Male Vocalist Performance, Best Arrangements!

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HOW AMERICA SPENDS ITS MONEY

SINK OR SWIM

IN THE WORLD OF NEW YORK FASHION

With no money, but “scads of beaux” to advise her, Carol Breckenridge launched her own business overnight.

By BETTY HANNAH HOFFMAN PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOSEPH DI PIETRO

In a corner of her sunny studio in mid-Manhattan, Carol Breckenridge’s tumble of dark hair is bent over her drawing pad as she makes working sketches of clothes designs. On her lap are piled cottons in luscious clear colors of lime, citron, melon and turquoise. Her pencil sketches of blouses and skirts are no more than three inches high; and indeed, in her size-seven bare-armed dress Carol looks like a little girl drawing clothes for her paper dolls.

On her white desk the turquoise phone rings constantly. If it’s a friend or a date, she speaks in a soft, offhand little voice; if the call concerns business, her tone is crisp and decisive. ‘““This is Carol Breckenridge, of Merri-Carolle, speaking.’”’ Merri-Carolle is the fashion-designing firm she launched last January. In its first year of operation her accountant esti- mates she will gross upwards of $20,000.

Carol, who just turned 27, is a specialist in sportswear separates for children and juniors. Clothing manufacturers pay her a fee of $200 a week apiece to design for them. Her weekly income in the past year has varied from $175 (rock bottom) to $800. ‘““This sounds like a lot of money, but Carol is just learning the difference between gross and net,’’ comments the young vice president of an advertising agency who lent her money to get started.

During her first six months of operation, Carol took in $10,000 in fees, an excellent start for a free-lancer in the fashion field. However, expenses gobbled ‘up $8000 of this, leaving her only $2000 for living expenses. (““Why, I spent a hundred dollars just on things like wastebaskets and curtain rods,”’ says Carol, shocked.)

But having weathered the expense of setting up shop and buying equip- ment (dress forms, cutting boards, sewing machines and a $325 room air conditioner), Carol’s overhead will not rise appreciably in the future. Her payroll of four helpers runs around $300 a week. As the business ex- pands, she will be able to afford larger quarters and more helpers.

Before she became a free-lancer, Carol earned $600 a month as a de-

signer and spent all of it on herself. But during her first six months in

business she paid herself only $350 a month. She has cut her expenses to the bone, spending only $15 a week for food, and walking instead of taking taxis. Still, over the six months’ period she accumulated $500 in unpaid bills, ‘mainly for clothes and doctors’ bills.’’

However, her credit is excellent and when she urgently needed $1000 ntly for business obligations, a leading New York bank was suffi- tly impressed with her potential to lend her the money, with fifteen

mo to repay, on practically no collateral. ‘In the next few months, Merri-Carolle will either fold up or turn into a very lucrative business,”’ believes her young CONTINUED ON PAGE 18

l perfect size seven, Carol often models her own “ beautifully pure” sportswear in clear Caribbean colors.

“How much?” asks Carol, who sees a thousand new fabrics a week, can choose instantly.

SINK OR SWIM CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16

accountant, who charges Carol half price for his serv- ices. He urges Carol not to sell any shares in the corporation. “You want all the gravy, don’t you? You've had all the headaches, haven’t you?”’ he asks. “Yes,” replies Carol feelingly.

Her most harassing financial problems concern cli- ents who are slow to pay and clients who hire her for only a few weeks at a time. Then, to meet her payroll, she must quickly hustle up new business. She feels that three months is the least amount of time in which she can do justice to a new client. ‘“‘Clothes designing is not a stop-and-go thing; it takes a lot of mental effort and time,”’ says Carol with fierce professional pride. Manufacturers, hiring her for a few weeks, and pressing her almost at once for finished samples, don’t always appreciate her groundwork, she feels: miles of walking up and down Seventh Avenue; midnight hours spent at her desk with the phone silent as she sits with closed, weary eyes visualizing color and fabric combinations.

“Oh, well,” comments a male friend condescend- ingly, ‘““what does Carol have to lose? She’s talented. Her clothes sell. She can always close shop tomorrow and go to work for somebody else.”

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Carol is proud of her cooking; here serves ten p.m. dinner of her beef stroganoff to date, Chris Taylor, and friends.

Carol dates a circle of bright voung executives. “I want to be a designer and I want to have six children, too,” she says.

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hates ‘“‘the company conference table’’ and ‘‘working through channels.’’ She says, “‘I must be free to express my- self in my own way. I know I’m the best sportswear designer for juniors and children in New York City. I’ve had five hard years of struggle, but now finally I’m on my way!”’

In the past, Carol seldom bothered to find a new job before walking out on one which displeased her. Now she is discovering that being her own boss means freedom to pay for her own mis- takes. It also means four people (of whom she is very fond) on the payroll, dependent on her for their living.

“Considering how little I knew about managing money, I’m amazed I’ve done as well as I have,’ remarks Carol, sitting at her desk in a hyacinth-blue sheath which emphasizes her petite 5’2” figure and enormous blue-gray eyes. ‘‘I hate this!” she adds, biting her fingernails over the weekly payroll as she consults a raft of charts showing Social Security and Federal and state withholding taxes.

Carol’s studio-apartment 1s a fourth floor walk-up at 133 East 36th Street, in the pleasant Murray Hill section of New York. On the first floor lives a fashion model with her infant and live-in maid. Mell, the Herald Tribune cartoonist, has his studio on the next floor. Carol pays $200 monthly for the top floor, using the large sunny front room for her studio. The kitchen and bathroom, both closet-size and window- less, lead to the small living and bed rooms, decorated sparingly in Early American and Toulouse-Lautrec.

Carol’s incredibly complicated day starts around 8:30, when she crawls out of her studio couch. Although she eats a sketchy breakfast of fruit juice and coffee, and spends little time making up her pretty face, it usually takes her an hour and a half to “get going.’”’ She dates almost every evening, choosing from a group of six or seven young ex- ecutives-on-the-rise in their late twen- ties or early thirties, Ivy Leaguers ‘‘old enough to have a sense of direction.”’ According to her ‘‘most romantic’”’ beau, a Phi Beta Kappa who went through college on a_ scholarship, ‘““Carol’s beaux are all semimillionaires who went to Princeton.” He adds gloomily, ‘‘When you date Carol, you're just a digit. Men have spoiled her rotten.”’ This date almost always arrives at Carol’s door bearing a single red rose. Then he generally waits an hour for her to get ready. She once kept him waiting two and a half hours while she pondered what to wear to meet his mot her. CONTINUED ON PAGE 70

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And she is! Carol Breckenridge thinks cooking] should be creative to be fun, and manages to givel# a dinner party every week from a corridor kitchen. Her ways with food are as imaginative as her useie

of fabri :mines in the workroom. But her 6%’ x 5%’ kitchen has very little counter or storage space, and™ 4 single-basin sink. Also, the kitchen is a passageway from the living room to the bathroom and the workroom.@ So Carol limits her guests for sit-down dinners to four, uses a plug-in cooker in her workroom or living room to} ease the kitchen bottleneck, relies on do-ahead recipes. Beef Stroganoff is a favorite. She also does “‘a lot of chick-| en thing ike Japanese chicken casserole. The recipe came from a Japanese girl, and Carol changed it to suit}

her own taste. Carol says, ‘“‘Most of the time I just cook out of my head and taste things. That way, cooking’s fun.”

Career-girl hostess Carol feeds her friends in the wo s here, on her living-room floor Japanese style or at a window-side table. Her party menus are planned with drama in mind.

ree-flights-up renovated apartment in a New York brownstone plug-in cooking appliance at a time. Her favorite is a white ceramic utensil

‘w electric circuit, dedicated to the air conditioner! The on an electric base, which is pictured with her here. She says, ‘““The whole

old netwo ng for lights and outlets is woefully outdated and Carol thing is so easy to clean—and I like its looks!’ The utensil, being made of must allocate current carefully or fuses blow. It’s a paradoxical situation, durable material developed for missile nose cones, can be used separately, for in rented apartments any improvements to the electrical systems are under a broiler, in an oven, or with its own handle on top of a stove. things “you can’t take with you.” That means Carol can use only one Pictured with Carol’s foods: other devices to complement wee kitchens.

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HOW TO DRESS WELL ON PRACTICALLY NOTHING!

BY BET HART

“My mother used to tell me, ‘The girl in the red dress has the best time at the party,’ and it’s true! | always feel brighter, gayer in red.”’ Carol Brecken

ridge’s fashion philosophy, fashion gaiety are typically Barbara J. So is her ability to reap the most fashion for the fewest $’s. (Reasons for making her our Barbara Journal this month, as well as our How America Spends Its Money, page 16, heroine.) The red dress and matching jacket were designed by her fora New York manufacturer. Carol added two bright cover-ups. The designs stem from Carol’s theory: “I think a wardrobe can consist of a few simple dresses,

several jackets to wear over them.”

Red hopsacking dress with a V-shaped yoke Is typical of Carol’s love of “the simple, wear-almost anywhere dress.’’ The price, $25.00, includes its own matching jacket shown on Carol at left below.

Double-breasted jacket and dress combined make a pretty costume look. Here, Carol adds a scarf. Jacket is reversible. Other side: bright red and white Pin

stripes.

Bright red, white and blue cardigan: ‘No one could ‘ ever feel uncheerful in this! In the summer, tt

would be a wonderful combination over a white dress

too.”’ $5.95.

Carol, always on the lookout for beautiful prints, thought this flower print unusual and gay. Cut like a shirt, itcan be worn under or over the dress. $4.95 PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK SHAW

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HOW T0 LOOK BEAUTIFUL IN PRACTICALLY NO TIME!

As with fashion $'s, Carol Breckenridge makes the most of her limited beauty time. “In the morning | spend about five minutes on makeup.” Carol uses a beige tone foundation (a medicated one she’s found to be best for her oily skin), a light dusting of match- ing powder, black mascara, dark brown eyebrow pencil and clear red lipstick. “Eye makeup Is my fa- vorite, but in the morning there’s just not enough time. For evening, | spend a few extra minutes ap- plying eye shadow, green or turquoise, and a black eye liner.” Carol’s thick, dark hair has a slight curl, “but not enough to go without a permanent. If | have one every four months, then have my hair done once a week, | don’t have to set it every night.”

Carol applies eye shadow, then blends it gently across lid with finger. “Green is my most becoming color, but sometimes | experiment with other colors.”

“The easiest way to apply an eye liner is to hold lid taut; draw a thin line close to the base of the lashes. Extend line upward at outer corner.’’ Carol uses black eyeliner, then applies black mascara to lashes.

“A lipstick brush is the best way to achieve an even line, but it was the hardest makeup trick to master.’ Carol starts from the center of the upper lip, care- fully follows the outline of her mouth to corner. After upper lip, she outlines lower, then fills in. Here she “‘retouches’’ with brush.

Carol has her hair set on rollers for the soft, casual effect she likes. ‘‘It’s a hair style that’s easy to care for, that takes a minimum amount of time. Lots of brushing keeps it in shape.”

By CLIFFORD R. ADAMS, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Department of Psychology

MAKING MARRIAGE WORK

MAN months. I have a job I like and I miss John and made a real go of it. ish, and he expected to make the decisions. I was used to arated several times before the divorce, then would never bothered to let me know if he was going to be late “Our marriage was hopeless, but I don’t want to go irritated John) and I’d like your views on the kind of ested in me. Mark is older (35), has been divorced, is rather quiet “As for me, about all I can offer is myself and my Mark would object to my working, but Bob might—

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having my own way (I guess my parents spoiled me)

so we often clashed and quarreled bitterly. We sep- try it again, with no improvement.

“He was inconsiderate in big things and little— for dinner, never had time to help me around the house because he was tinkering with his latest sports car. on living this way. I’ve always liked men and enjoyed their attention (this was one of the things that man I should marry. Right now I’m dating two men to whom I’m attracted, and both are seriously inter-

“Bob is my age, never married, handsome and full of life. He’s very possessive and likes to dominate. and unassuming, and usually lets me have my own way. Also, he seems crazy about my girls. love. I’m not much of a cook or housekeeper, but I like working and having my own money. I don’t think he’s a lot like John and he wants to be the boss.

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IS MARRIAGE BASED ON SEX?

“Though a mere man, I have read your Journal page for several years,” a recent letter says. ‘‘ But your recent article Do All Men Want to Be Married? takes a prize. Higher education must be quite a thing when you write, ‘Particularly should a girl be on her guard if a man’s interest and her appeal to him center around sexual motivation.’ I am surprised that you, of all people, would suggest that sexual motivation is a bad thing! Do you really believe the attraction be- tween men and women is something else than good old sexual desire? Come, sir, your education is indeed showing!”

A second man writes: “I feel any really good mar- riage has to be built on a mutually strong sex desire. My first marriage, when I was only 21, didn’t work out because my wife was cold and indifferent. I took my time about marrying again, and dated my present wife for two years before we married. Now we have had ten very happy years together. We like the same things and do everything together. But I know this marriage would have failed like the first if she and I hadn’t loved each other in every way. If we hadn’t felt the same way about sex, neither of us would have been satisfied in marriage.”’

This marriage counselor would be the last person to minimize the importance of sexual attraction in bring- ing two people together and making marriage work. But it should not be the primary or exclusive reason for marriage. A normal person, under appropriate circumstances, might feel physical response to any one of scores of individuals of the opposite sex. But he or she might be able really to love only a few of the many that, on first acquaintance, seemed to be attrac-

ive and appealing.

“T think I could love and marry either of these men, but both are settled in an agreeable way of life and they would expect me to adjust to their habits and routine. Do you think I can? I think a woman should follow her husband’s lead, but I don’t think he should force her to lead his life. I don’t want a man who resents giving up his freedom (John did, and Bob might) or who criticizes my little faults without trying to understand them. I want him to help but not to direct me.

“T can marry either one. Which do you think will make me happier?”

Without more information than Laura’s letter pro- vides, we can’t tell her which man to choose. Instead, we suggest that she postpone any décision until she has done some seridus, honest thinking about her own qualifications for marriage to any man. It is not just a question of which man will make her happy, but whether she can make a man happy. Has the failure of her first marriage taught her anything that will help her in her second? Judging from her letter, Laura is not yet ready (though she is willing) to marry again.

Though Laura doesn’t actually say her husband was to blame for the failure of her first marriage, she does emphasize his faults, while mentioning her own only incidentally. She was spoiled by her parents, likes and possibly encourages the attentions of other men, is a poor housekeeper, insists on her own way, expects a man to tolerate annoyances without complaint.

There is no indication that she is prepared to make concessions, or that she appreciates the reciprocal nature of the marriage relationship. Both Bob and Mark may have the qualifications of a good husband, but neither can make her happy (nor can any man) until she recognizes and prepares to assume _ her responsibilities as a wife.

The high remarriage rate of divorced women shows that many of them have no difficulty finding a second

A man and a woman can be attracted to each other for many reasons. Similar standards and ideals, com- mon interests, affection and admiration, confiding and sharing, and mutual goals are important elements in genuine love. A desire to please each other and willing- ness to compromise and co-operate are oftenmuch more crucial to marriage happiness than strohg sex urge.

Although the writer of the second letter values sexual adjustment very highly, his own statements show that his successful marriage is based on other elements. ‘“We like the same things . . . we do every- thing together . . . she and I love each other in every way.”” When a couple can say this and, in addition, have a satisfying physical relationship, they can look forward to many years of happiness in marriage.

There is little doubt that lack of good sexual ad- justment can place a severe strain on any marriage. Any wife, whether a bride of six months or a matron of several years, should be concerned if her physical relationship with her husband is unsatisfactory either to him or to her. Refusing to face the problem cer- tainly postpones any solution and often worsens the situation.

Sexual motivation is not a bad thing any more than is its expression and fulfillment in marriage. But any man or woman who marries only because of sexual attraction is simply asking for trouble. Unless there are other ties in the marriage, physical compatibility alone will not bring enduring happiness. At most, the sexual relationship constitutes no more than one third of a husband’s happiness and one fourth of a wife’s hap- piness.

ASK YOURSELF: Why do I want to marry?

Have you ever stopped to think why you wanted to marry? Nearly all women have a desire to marry but

husband. But the fact that the divorce rate of these women is 60 per cent higher than among women married for the first time is certainly associated with failure to be a good wife the second time, or with lack of wisdom in choosing a second mate. Laura, or any other divorcee considering remarriage, might well

ponder these questions about her proposed husband: *

Do I love him? Has he the traits, qualities, per- sonality and character that will through the years foster affection? Encourage companionship? Inspire respect and admiration?

Is he stable and dependable? The divorced wife may still bear emotional scars from her first marriage. If her new husband is well adjusted and reliable, her adjustment to her second marriage will be facilitated.

Can he provide me with security? If the first two ques- tions can be answered yes, he can probably provide emotional security. But, as ina first marriage, economic security must also be considered—his job history and prospects, his resources and the like. If he is unwilling to discuss these matters, she should be wary.

Has he my first husband’s faults? Students of mar- riage have often noted that many divorced persons select a second mate who possesses the same short- comings as the first. Though no man is perfect, a divorced wife should avoid a man afflicted by the same faults she found intolerable in her first husband.

Will he make a good father? This question is impor- tant when a couple plans to have children, is doubly so when the wife had children by a former husband.

The best advice I can offer Laura is to pay more attention to the kind of person she should become and less (for the present) to the kind of man she should marry. When she has matured and is able to accept, understand and fill the role of wife and helpmate, she will then be able to make an intelligent choice of mate. But any commitment now—only six months after the divorce—is almost certainly premature.

few of them have ever put into words the reasons behind their wish. Read the following statements carefully and check the seven that you honestly think were the most important in your desire to become a wife.

I WANTED TO MARRY:

. To develop my personality.

. To be like other girls.

. To please my parents.

. To relieve my loneliness.

. To get away from an unhappy home. . To escape the clock-and-job race.

. To become less restless and more stable. . To express my deepest feelings.

. To make some man very happy.

10. To have a husband to love me.

11. To fulfill my emotional needs.

12. To have a home and children.

13. To love someone quite devotedly.

14. To have companionship and sharing.

CNA AAR & DS

Whatever your seven reasons for marriage, at least five of them should be found among statements No. 8-14. Our research shows that happy wives check these as their main motives for marriage. If three or more of your checks were among statements 1-7, there is a definite possibility that you do not yet fully ap- preciate the true meaning of marriage.

DO YOU AGREE?

“Do you favor New Year resolutions?”

Yes. When thoughtfully conceived and sincerely motivated, resolutions always have merit. But share them with a friend who will encourage you to maintain them.

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cH S aaa Modern research techniques that encourage the most thoughtful response were used in

this probing Journal study by Dr. George Gallup of the young American woman’s mind. This creative-age group—16 to 21—spans the final years of high school through college,

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and includes some women who are working and some at home. About 23 per cent are em;| ° ployed, 23 per cent in high school, and over 50 per cent in college. None are marriedj| — and those questioned do not include the lower third in education and income. In follow-| * ing issues, Gallup polls will reveal more attitudes and ideas of these inventive and spir- 5 ited young women. What do they most desire? What do they ask of the future? 3 Ct

Young people, on the verge of life, about to create careers, families, inventions, new ways of living are already beginning to shape the ’60’s, to forecast the ’70’s.

Women, soon to be wives and mothers, homemakers and innovators, here reveal their thoughts, plans, ideas, desires—spiri- tual and material.

In this burgeoning group, our exploding population will soon reach new heights. By their very numbers, by their vitality and creative energy, by their unorthodox think- ing, their new and old beliefs, their doing and redoing, they will determine much of the direction of our world to come.

Astonishingly conventional in unexpected areas, surprisingly honest about sex and mar- riage, young women in this Journal's nation- wide depth study predict, in fascinating ways, the attitudes of tomorrow’s citizens, opinion leaders, money spenders.

\Imost all our young women between 16

and 21 expect to be married by 22. Most want 4 children, many want 5. (In their minds, the population is still exploding.) They want to work until children come; afterward, a re- soundi

They cial responsibility for sex be- cause they are women. An 18-year-old student in Californi ( ll andard for men— ‘sowing wild oat results in sown oats. And where does this leave the woman? Sexual

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intercourse isn’t a game. It is intensely sacred and meaningful for both men and women.”’ Another student: ““A man will go as far as a woman will let him. The girl has to set the standard.”

““My moral code is what I live by and is a necessary part of life. If I break it, I would be taking a part of myself away,” an 18-year-old said. Another: “I do not feel women should ‘experiment’ before marriage. I don’t feel it is as serious for men. However, after marriage it is definitely out! Both parties should re- main faithful.”

Few of the young women who spoke so openly to our interviewers agree with the college freshman who said, ““Sex 1s fun, so why stop it for one and not the other? There should be no double standard. Be honest; both men and women enjoy it.”

But a pretty college sophomore in the South said, “I do not condemn a young man who indulges in premarital relationships. However, a woman is not only taking a ter- rific chance, but she is also forgetting the re- sponsibility she has to her future husband and children.”

Although the mothers and grandmothers of today’s young women pretended, in their day, that premarital sex did not exist (or were stopped by the conventions of their up- bringing from acknowledging it), today’s young woman speaks out loud and clear:

“T definitely believe that a young woman should remain virginal until marriage, but I don’t feel a young man should. A man needs a way to relieve his frustrations. I also believe that one partner in marriage should have some experience, and it couldn’t be the female.” |

But a 17-year-old, about to be graduated from high school, represents a more wide- spread reaction:

“Tt never seems to harm a boy’s reputation, but a girl’s reputation is ruined. I think boys should establish a standard as well as girls.”

Unorthodox and frank as many are, by far the preponderance of the young women re- vealed themselves as cherishing the custodial tradition in guarding marriage and the child.

THEY DREAM OF MANSIONS

However unconventional they can be in their attitudes toward sex, many of the same women become unexpectedly conventional when questioned about their dream house:

“T would like an eight-room, two-story - colonial home: living room, dining room, kitchen, den and bath downstairs; master bedroom, guest room, two other bedrooms and bath upstairs. I would like the house to be white with a large front porch with four large white columns. I would like a drive that makes a semicircle and I would like to live in the country. I would like a typically

colonial living room with an enormous fire- place. I would like a pine-paneled den.”

Another described almost the identical house, only she located it in Hawaii and added a balcony, marble floors, a recreation room, crystal chandeliers, and a swimming pool ‘‘oval shaped and not too large.”

More often, though, our women are satis- fied just to have the white colonial with Early American furniture without additional em- bellishments. Though they often describe this same house, a large number insist that, to be a dream house, it must be located on a hill with acres of land overlooking a lake.

Others are startlingly specific: “I want a house 1250 square feet.”’. . . “I want a split- level brick with four bedrooms with French Provincial cherrywood furniture.” . . . “My dream house is 64 feet long and 23 feet high.” .. . “I’d like a built-in oven and range, counters only 34 inches high with Formica on them.” . . . “The draperies will be green, ivory, beige and brown.”

And a few are eloquently undemanding: An 18-year-old said simply, ‘““My dream house is going to be a home, a houseful of love and happiness and health.’ From a 19-year-old student in Philadelphia: ‘‘A home is as lovely and comfortable as the people who live in it. The furniture matters little.”” A California girl almost ‘“‘me-too’d” her: “A house is not a dream home until it has been lived and loved in.”

Many reveal a knowledge of furnishings and decorating, designing and planning that would rival some experts’. Left standing al- most alone, however, was the 20-year-old secretary who said, “I really haven’t a definite dream house. It depends on the man { marry and what we can afford.’”’ And a col- lege sophomore: “I have little desire to own a home after Iam married. I intend to live in an apartment house, preferably in Manhattan.”’

“A wife earning more than her husband damages his ego.”

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“After marriage is the right time for sex.’

SCHREIBER

BUY AND BUY

New forms of buying will grow up around

the changing needs of our young women who

* already spend billions. New merchandise will evolve as they choose small families or large, small houses or large, small cars or large. By the books they read, the churches they be- lieve in, the ideals they follow, the trails they blaze in living and thinking, they inevitably will set the pace for the future.

Many indications of these changing buying habits are built into the specific descriptions of every girl’s dream house at the end of this

.report. Many more less specific indications are revealed by their changing preferences in foods, clothes and cosmetics.

Their husbands will be well fed. But better than half indicate he’ll be on “‘meat and po- tatoes.” A stirring 46 per cent, though, plan to serve much better food, in different and more interesting ways than in their own fami-

‘lies’ homes. They are more gourmet than their mothers, are more diet-conscious, more

“T hope I am married at least by 22!”

“Men dress too sloppily!”

HENDERSON

mek \ 4 “When I marry I want to go down the aisle with a clear con- “Colonial for me, with while pillars science... but I think that a man should know the ropes.” and sliding glass doors onto a patio.”

St | he “A woman has a right to expect her husband to be as chaste as she. Men aren’t as inca- pable of controlling their emotions as they would have us believe” ...a 20-year-old girl.

experimental, more exotic, have more knowledge about nutrition.

Money, only “fairly important”’ to most of these young women, is not expected to be a problem in their mar- riages. Only one in five thought it might be. At the same time, a third of them say money is a source of trouble in families they know. Still more say mother should (and their mothers do) have a lot to say about how it is spent.

If there’s wealth, a surprising num- ber appear to revise that affectionate old adage: ‘‘What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own.” If they mar- ried a young man who was wealthy, most young girls felt he should share his wealth with them. However, if they had money in their own name, they were not as certain they should divide it equally with their husbands.

In any case, most women would be uneasy about having more money than their husbands, especially a larger salary than his if they were working. They feel it would injure a man’s pride, lessen his sense of im- portance. A few said a wife with a higher income than her husband would be “too independent, too dominating.”

NOT READY TO GO STEADY

Relatively few of our young women are engaged and only 22 per cent “go steady.”” Those remaining (over 65 per cent of the age group) who are not yet pinned to or pining for a par- ticular young man make it abun- dantly clear that they do not plan to grow old as anyone’s maiden aunt. Only 1 per cent even considered that they might never marry.

Even the most dedicated career- bent girl insists she will have her man and her job and her home. Most,

Jacqueline Kennedy was named the best-dressed woman in the world. Next were Princess Grace,

however, would quit working when they have children.

Like our own ‘How America Spends Its Money” career girl this month (page 16), those who plan to

!continue their careers—come home, husband or high water—are con- cerned about the scarcity of trained, competent women available to man- age their homes and their children while they are at work. They believe such a kind of occupation should be developed and honored and not con- |sidered “menial.’”’ They would pay such women on an average of $50 for a 40-hour week and think that the full expense for home help to enable trained mothers to continue working should be allowed as an income-tax deduction.

DO WOMEN DRESS FOR WOMEN?

More than half of our young ‘women say they dress for men, not for other women. And the older our "young woman gets, the less she’s con- cerned with the turn of a hem than with the turn of a him.

At the same time, one out of three was firm in suggesting that a single standard should exist in dressing too! If women dress for men, why, they _ask, shouldn’t men dress for women ? They are not satisfied with men’s dress; they are definitely critical of it, in fact. They feel men should dress with much more care and neatness; more style and formality; more color _and variety.

But our single girls are equally

critical of their married sisters. A | whopping 89 per cent of them declare that women who stay at home are not -as careful about the:way they dress and look as they should be. And most -add that women CONTINUED ON PAGE 72

Loretta Young and Queen Elizabeth. All have been subjects of recent Journal biographies.

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On sunny afternoons like this, while the rest of Madrid is still asleep, | come here early, where I can sit and watch for the post office to open while I have my coffee. This is the heart of the city, this little coffee stand, with its tables under shade trees, its well-mannered waiter and its view of the post office. At this hour all the Spanish are in siesta- darkened rooms, and only the tourists and I are here.

Two years ago, when I first came to Madrid, an American girl, espe- cially a blond one, was so rare that the college students from the down- town campus followed me down the José Antonio whenever I went shopping. I used to pick up my mail at the American Express and the single clerk there would look up and smile and start thumbing through the S’s just as I approached. But now there are three clerks handing out the mail; they have no time to be friendly; and I find it hard to believe them when they tell me that there is nothing for me in that swollen packet of mail they flip through so disinterestedly. So I have my letters sent to the Spanish General Delivery, where I can peer down at the file box to make sure for myself that there isn’t a “‘Singer’’ among all the ‘“‘Sanchezes”’ and ‘‘Salvadors.”’

Madrid’s post office is more impressive than the one in New York City. It is taller and grayer, and full of colonnades that make shadows and angles worthy of a cathedral. It has a clock which is not always right and which seems to give little inspiration to the doorman. He opens the post office at will: five minutes, ten, even twenty minutes past the hour.

Therefore I now sit across from the post office at this sidewalk café where I can’t see the doors, but where I’ll know they are opening by watching the black blotch of the porter’s cape melting into and being absorbed by the gray shadows of the stone building. All the dreams I had when I first came to Spain have now faded and telescoped themselves down to this one hope: that the letter will arrive saying that I have a teaching position at home, in America, saying between the lines that all is forgiven; I’ll forget, or will be able to talk lightly about, all that has happened— grandpa, Spain, Tangier . . . and Joseph.

There are many things which I am glad my grandfather never knew. The greatest of these is that it was his money which sent me to Africa. He would not have liked it had he CONTINUED ON PAGE 85

He gently

touched my face with his hands. “You aren’t playing games with me,

are you?”

Illustrated by Coby Whitmore

By MINI RHEA

WITH FRANCES SPATZ LEIGHTON

Jackie’s Washington newspaper column posed questions designed to have a certain effect on a certain congressman. Example: “Can you give any reason why a contented bachelor should get married?”

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1 was home at last! How proud I was to direct the placement of my bronze plaque—‘‘Mini Rhea, Custom Dressmaker’’—beside the door- way of 1820 35th Street, N.W., a typical flat- Someday, perhaps, “Through

this door passed Jacqueline Kennedy.”

front Georgetown house.

someone will put up another sign there:

But what a strange chain of circumstances led her to this door.

I was working as a dressmaker in a sewing- machine store four or five blocks from the White House. But I almost muffed my big chance, which came in the form of a rotund maid who spoke with a Slavic accent. She kept seeking me out and asking me to come with her to the “The madame will be so

“madame” because

grateful. The old regular dressmaker, she die.” | kept telling her that I was too busy to go.

mad- Lord I did, because

turned out to be one of the leaders

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of Washington society. And she and her friends gave me enough work to get started in my own shop. A long line of people eventually led me to Jacqueline Bouvier.

First I met Mrs. Neill Phillips. She recom- -Mrs. Walter Lipp- mann, Mrs. Ella Burling, Mrs. Curtis Munson, Mrs. Blair Childs and Mrs. Arthur Krock. Mrs.

Krock, wife of the famous New York Times

mended me to five friends

political columnist, in turn recommended me toa friend of hers, Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss. And Mrs. Auchincloss eventually recommended me to her daughters, Caroline Lee and Jacqueline Bouvier.

My Georgetown shop was the beginning of a wonderful new life. Rarely have I met a woman so sensitive, attractive and kind as Mrs. Auchin- closs. She shopped in Georgetown, but lived in nearby McLean, Virginia. She liked my work and her stamp of approval sent many of her Though I worked hard, the relaxed atmosphere surround-

Georgetown friends to my _ shop.

ing these charming women made it all seem like play or a pleasant hobby. [ kept hearing about Jackie from her mother

for several years before I set eyes on her. Jackie

was here; Jackie was there. She was at the Sor- bonne; she was at George Washington Univer- sity. She was vacationing in New York, in Florida, in Europe; I decided she must keep her bags packed at all times.

Mrs. Auchincloss was so happy, in 1951, when she told me that her daughter had just won Vogue’s coveted Prix de Paris. The winner was entitled to spend half a year in France, working on the Paris edition of Vogue, and a half year as a junior editor on Vogue in New York.

I was amazed to learn a little later that, be- cause she had already spent a year studying at the Sorbonne, Jackie had decided not to take the year’s job with Vogue. Had she accepted, it would have put her directly into the fashio» field, just as it had twenty-three other your: women then on the staff of Vogue or the oth. « Condé Nast publications who had been previous winners of the Prix de Paris. I was even more amazed when Mrs. Auchincloss told me she wanted to bring Jackie in to meet me, so that | could work with her on some of her fashion ideas. Me, working with a prizewinner in fash- ion? It made me nervous even to think of it.

Mrs. Auchincloss put me at ease. She said, ““My daughter likes to design her own clothes and I know she would love to work with some- one like you who could help her with them.”’

I waited nervously for the prizewinning fashion expert to come in. She had made her appoint- ment by telephone and as soon as I heard her voice my mind flashed the signal ‘‘Finishing school.”” Many of my customers had gone to finishing school, but this voice had something be- sides the perfect tones, soft modulation and self-confidence of private-school training The added ingredient was gentleness—even on the telephone she sounded warm and kind. And she sounded in a hurry, something my finishing- school products never admitted.

It was a Saturday and I tried to get my daugh- but

Sylvia and twelve-year-old Jimi could almost

ters from underfoot, fourteen-year-old

smell excitement and gravitated to it like moths

around a flame. CONTINUED ON PAGE 75

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Virginia had had just about enough of this 900-calorie-a-day liquid-diet bit. Not only was she confronted with vanishing waistlines every time she turned on TV, but most of her figure-conscious friends had taken to quaffing the stuff for lunch, and as far as she was concerned the whole idea was nauseating. Just the sight of that frothy richness in a elass aroused her indignation—why, it didn’t even leave room for the satis- faction of self-denial! There it was, contrived to appear like a lovely double-rich chocolate-ice-cream milk shake! Of all deceitful things.

Her own way of dieting was certainly wiser—one drop of cream in her coffee instead of two, and thin marmalade on her toast instead of butter. How was a woman expected to clean a three-bedroom house with nothing but liquids sloshing around in her stomach? Or hang out a wash for five people every Monday? Oh, Mondays!

“Vee, you don’t eat enough,” Dix had scolded her just this morning. “You worry me. I’ve got enough to worry about at the mill.”’

“Everything I eat turns into fat,” Virginia explained helplessly. ‘“‘I have to think zbout my figure, Dix.’

Dix had smiled. “Let me think about it. I like it fine.”’

She sat down now to read the morning paper, a pleasure she dearly enjoyed—it was less than two months since Winkie, her youngest, had started school, and up until then she’d depended on Dix for her news.

Her reading finished, she went to the range and made butterscotch pudding and poured it into custard cups. She never made one for herself, just three for the children, who ate lunch at home.

She absently scraped and ate the pudding left in the pan, scarcely more than a spoonful. Then she got out last night’s lamb bone and cut off the scraps of meat for the dog, nibbling a few of the tender pink bits as she worked. Lean meat was one of the very best things for losing weight. Oh, how good it would taste dipped in mayonnaise! She sighed.

Virginia imagined that there were women all over the country right this minute eating Danish pastry, and waffles with bacon and syrup, and day after day all she ate was one slice of toast with marmalade, And still she could hardly get into a size 16, unless it had a full skirt. True, nobody seemed to notice—Dix still hustled home every night full of fun

and flattery, and Bo herded Cub Scouts in every CONTINUED ON PAGE 67

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Journal food editors have to visit New York’s famous and fabulous res- taurants—it’s their job! Discovering de- licious new dishes ; coaxing cuisine secrets from some of the world’s most distinguished chefs, enjoying the special charm each restaurant offers—what is more exciting ? To share in these delights you don’t have to come toManhattan. Travel instead through these pages, as our editors visit eight of New York’s great restaurants, find in each a special recipe for you—foods sim- ple, sumptuous, mysterious, all conveying

the wonder of New York, its gift

of good food. Bon appetit!

O. HENRY’S

One of New York’s newest steak houses is O. HENRY’S in Greenwich Village (6th Avenue at West 4th Street), whose sawdusty floors, chopping-block tables and straw-hatted waiters give it the look of a turn-of- the-century butchershop (which it once was). Two of the four rooms, all Tiffany-lamp-lighted, were orig- inally walk-in refrigerators. For décor, their cooling coils, meat hooks and trolleys were preserved and painted. The hub of O. HENRY’S is an open red hearth where melt-in-your-mouth steaks are char- coal-grilled the way you want them. O. HENRY’S is one of the few open-every-day restaurants. Al- though its two-A.M. closing (three on Sunday A.M.) and moderate prices makeit an actor’shaven,O. HENRY’S has a fond uptown, out-of-town following.

Vito Di Lucia, owner of O. HENRY’S, appeals to steak-potato-and-salad lovers by offering all three, plus an appetizer and a gentle dessert.

Shrimp Cocktail with Remoulade Sauce Sirloin Steak Baked Potato Mixed Green Salad with Roquefort Dressing Rum-Raisin Ice Cream with Black Cherries

THE MAKING OF A GREAT STEAK

O. HENRY’S has no special hints for broiling steak— theirs simply go from cooler to charcoal to table. “The secret of a good steak,” says Vito Di Lucia, “‘is the meat itself. We buy the best choice and hang it in our own walk-in cooler for ten to fourteen days so that it’s perfectly aged for broiling.” O. HENRY’S most popular steaks are 114” thick sirloins for one or two and clubs, almost 2” thick. Each is grilled to order—14 minutes per pound for rare, 17 for medium, 20 for well done. Every steak comes to you sizzling, with a baked potato and salad.

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Through the Iron Gate at 21 West 52nd Street walks a clientele of artists, writers, dukes, princesses, show- folk and plain folk, too, who come and come again for the excellent French-American cuisine and relaxed camaraderie. Be sure to dress well, for “21,” with its dark-paneled walls, fine Remington paintings, Shef- field and sterling, is luxurious. For more than 30 years spécialités have been served, including bear and venison in season. A popular dessert, says “21” Ex- ecutive Director Peter Kriendler, is Frozen Soufflé with Hot Strawberry Sauce. Although ‘‘21”’ finds room for ‘“‘oldsfriends,”’ visitors with reservations are welcome. Peter Kriendler maintains that a hearty meal is best when followed by a delicate dessert like Frozen Soufflé.

For atmosphere and excellent food, Editors Berenice Connor and Conrad Brown pick ‘‘21.”’

Here is the menu he would plan for this dessert: Prosciutto with Sliced Fresh Pear or Figs Turtle Soup Duckling Bigarade with Wild Rice Peas Etuvé (steamed with lettuce) Cold Oyster Bay Asparagus Vinaigrette Frozen Soufflé with Hot Strawberry Sauce FROZEN SOUFFLE

5 WITH HOT STRAWBERRY SAUCE SOUFFLE: 1 pint vanilla ice cream 14 cup heavy cream 2 macaroons, crumbled 1—2 tablespoons chopped 4 teaspoons orange juice toasted almonds or Grand Marnier 1—2 teaspoons confectioners’ sugar Soften ice cream slightly. Stir in the crumbled macaroons and orange juice or Grand Marnier. Whip heavy cream until thick and shiny. Fold into ice- cream mixture. Spoon into a 3-cup metal serving dish or mold. Sprinkle surface lightly with almonds and confectioners’ sugar. Cover with saran. Freeze until firm, about 4-5 hours or overnight. Bring the

frozen soufflé to the table on a serving dish. To un- mold, wrap the serving dish for 4 or 5 seconds in a towel wrung out of very hot water. Loosen the edge with a spatula and turn out onto a cold platter.

Makes 4 servings.

HOT STRAWBERRY SAUCE:

1 pint fresh strawberries, Si washed, hulled and cut in half, or 1 (10-o0z.) package frozen sliced strawberries, thawed

to taste easpoons orange juice or Grand

Marnier

Mix this sauce just before serving. Put berries in a saucepan with sugar added to taste (about 14 cup for fresh berries, less for frozen berries) and simmer until soft but not mushy. Remove from heat and

juice, or Grand Marnier if you prefer.

Note: You may use the 1l-pound contaii frozen whole strawberries if you wish. If so, double the amount of orange flavoring suggest here.

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By NORA O'LEARY

Pattern Editor

The four young JOURNAL editors you see on these pages are typical of the career girls who flock to New York every year in search of fame and fortune. Whether their talents are literary or artistic, their jobs in fashion or publishing, clothes are one of the things uppermost on their minds. To be well- groomed and well dressed takes time and careful planning. These girls live in a goldfish bowl morning, noon and night, but they also live on a budget. Designs that lend themselves to change (the skirt that can be worn with a variety of blouses or the suit that changes its neckline with the season) are the most popular; the colors are chosen strictly for their becomingness.

Eugenie Thayer, a talented young writer, has the figure of a fashion model: tall (5'84"), slim (24” waist) as well as grace- ful. Her clothes are simple and casual, and when she enter- tains at home she most often wears a long skirt like the yellow wool one she is wearing in the picture. With it she is wearing a yellow silk crepe blouse and an avocado-green cummer- bund. The shirt, Vogue Design No. 5213. The skirt, No. 5420.

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The Pattern Department's own Natalie Schram has the ad- vantage of previewing all the lovely next season's fabrics and yarns long before they are seen in the stores, thus helping to predict what you will be wearing three months from now. Natalie favors unadorned simplicity and you see her wearing a putty-beige sleeveless crepe dress with a box- pleated skirt topped by a matching wool cardigan.The jacket is bound in the dress fabric. Vogue Design No, 4327.

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Carol Gaffron, a bride of less than a year, covers a variety of press parties and reports what is new and interesting. Here you see her leaving an early morning breakfast show wearing a lovely cherry-red coat designed by Guy Laroche, over a slim black wool-jersey dress included in the pattern. Her flowered carpet bag picks up the red of the coat, and her beige breton is by Emme. Coat, Vogue Design No. 1088.

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Bet Hart, whose day may take her to Seventh Avenue to select clothes for Barbara Journal, to a well-known beauty salon to check the model's coiffure, and on to Central Park with a photographer for a location shot. She adores suits and can wear them belted because of her 22” waistline. Bet’s blue wool suit shown here buttons to the side and has a removable scarf collar. In the spring Bet will change to a polka-dot scarf and make a matching blouse. Vogue Design No. 5428.

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Coming at the right midwinter moment, fashions to

put the glint of spring in the eye of the wearer: new colors and stunning combinations, dresses that are nothing if not provocative, suits that dash to the best

luncheons and to box office afternoons. Dare to

think of black satin with baby-blue flannel, of a pale pink coat over a sea-green print! These and all the other show-stoppers are January-to-June fashions.

Left: Pale, pale wool has the coveted serene look—

the simplest dress with a string-tie sash and little

collarless jacket with scrol! facing, from the new

young custom-order collection by Donald Brooks.

Below left: About-to-be femme fatale black satin

dress turns ingenue with a baby-blue flannel jacket,

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Below center: Three that will shine out in any scene:

TO the pale gold wool suit with the bow jacket, beautiful a and happy for months tocome, by Alvin Handmacher; ME the early-bird silk in a glow color with a print over-

blouse by Leonard Arkin; the wool stole dress by

Mollie Parnis, a flash of ravishing pink-red with a pretty terrific silhouette, for luncheon or late-day.

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Below: Two vivacious wools that go everywhere, winter North or South: the blue wool sashed coat dress by Mollie Parnis; the chamois-colored wool

overblouse dress by Larry Aldrich, worn with furs.

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The young, the going idea is to travel as light as pos- sible. The one-suitcase theory—keep it small, mix- able, pleasurable. We are showing you how five fash- ions plus a cape (not a coat, mind you) can cover every blessed trip minute, looking different and delightful.

Left: Clever smocked dress in an incredibly pretty print can turn up any hour of the day, by Anne Klein. Sharp pink sings out as the predominant color, but look—also blue, green and orange. Letter-flat en- velope bag (from Shangri-la), pearls by Imperial.

Top left: Possibly the most notable takeoff traveler in this tripping world is the three-piece knitted suit. This one in bright navy and white with the new short cardigan look, by Kimberly. Note: ingenious young traveler chooses a cape in nubby natural tweedy linen by Ellen Brooke to go over everything. The great go- with-its: big red leather bag, jersey beret, surah scarf.

Top right: The patchwork bathing suit is... shall we say, deceptively simple? Matching beach coat is lined with bright orange, both by Jantzen. And now it's the thing to wear beads with bathing suits (these are from India); and a heart-shaped bag in straw

Below left: Little pink linen that goes out nights—the princess silhouette with a smooth young curve and a shoulder bow, by Anne Fogarty. It’s a day dress, too, worn with a sweater and the straw bag. New bangles are enamel, pink and blue, by Sandor Goldberger.

Below right: Cheers for tte three-piece linen suit in Ted, white and blue, best mixer you could take; both overshirt and jacket go also with shorts and slacks, By Toni Owen. Wear a gold bracelet, shortest gloves.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY WILLIAM HELBURN

They stood at the harbor’s edge, bewitched

by the boats and the bells and the wind

coming clean and cool off the blue water.

By JOHN LATHAM TOOHEY

The Amstel Hotel in Enkhuisen is on a quiet street just off the waterfront. It is small and unpreten- tious; its rooms are large and airy, and clean as the Dutch make things clean.

As is true of many of Holland’s hotels, the Amstel has an old-fashioned billiard room, dark-paneled, lit only by the glare of the tin-sheathed white lights that hang over the smooth green cloth.

Many years ago Herbert Henry Gresham II also had a billiard room, in his Hudson River house a few miles north of Tarrytown. It pleased him to teach Arabella, the youngest of his daughters, to play.

“Grace is so pretty that nobody’s ever going to notice her startling lack of brains,”’ he said to the wide-eyed little girl who was too thin and too tall. She was listening to him very intently, the way she listened to everything this hearty, mustached, im- patient, lovable man said. He chalked his cue briskiy as he talked. ‘“‘Get the chalk on evenly and you won’t miscue. Heloise can make the boys laugh, so she'll be all right. But I believe you may need a few extra things going for you, little Belle.”’

They spent many Saturday and Sunday after- noons in the billiard room. He taught her to bridge firmly with her left hand, to stroke as'smoothly as a piston, to draw and to follow, and to use English. She learned to play the diamonds, and he even taught her the most spectacular stroke, the masse. Allin all, Arabella became quite decently proficient.

And now, at twenty-five, she was sitting in the lounge bar of the Amstel Hotel, a small glass of chalky-tasting genever in front of her. Her face was too thin for beauty, but far too alert for plainness; her legs were a little too long, but they were good legs; and her eyes were remarkable, wide-set, always candid, frequently merry. She was having a late- afternoon drink while she waited for her cousin, Lily Lodge, to come back from exploring the town. Lily was a boisterous games mistress of a girl, Arabella’s age. She and Arabella complemented each other very successfully, the slender, quiet brunette and the romping blonde.

Arabella sipped at her genever and thought about noisy New York, so impossibly far away from her now, as she sat in this little glade of Old World serenity. Even the dust motes moved gently in the single shaft of sunlight that streamed down on an old oak table that held a burnished silver platter.

Malcolm wouldn’t like it here, thought Arabella idly, staring around the room, and then looking out the window at the harbor. A small sloop, under power, its sail furled, was making its way slowly along the mole out to the open water of the IJssel- meer. Its helmsman, a pipe in his mouth, was slumped comfortably in the cockpit, One CONTINUED ON PAGE 64

“We're drifters, you and I,” he said slowly. ‘And each of us is about to drift out of the other’s life and into the wrong life.”

ILLUSTRATED BY JAY MAISEL

Do you need romantic advice? Are you puzzled? Bewildered? Perplexed? Bring me your little prob- lems. Don’t be embarrassed. There is no problem so simple that I can’t make it complicated.

Q. How can I be sure of marrying the right man? A. Bless your heart, dear, you can’t. Marrying a man is like having your hair cut short. You won’t know whether it suits you until it’s too late to change your mind.

Q. Don’t you think it’s terrible the way some peo- ple marry perfect strangers?

A. There’s nothing wrong with marrying a perfect stranger. It’s imperfect strangers that cause such nasty shocks.

Q. What qualities do you consider important in a marriage partner?

A. Strength of character, good looks, a sense of humor, a pleasant disposition, financial security, good family background, intelligence, sensitivity, emotional maturity and a sparkling personality.

Q. Gee, I don’t know anybody like that. A. Me either.

Q. Then you think a girl should settle for less than her ideal man?

A. Ask yourself this: If you did find an ideal man, would he marry you?

Q. My boyfriend says he fell in love with me at first sight, but he can’t analyze his reasons. Can you? A. Not exactly, but I suppose they’re like his rea- sons for ordering the sirloin tips on the business- men’s lunch. It just happened to appeal to him.

Q. But he proposed to me the first night we met, without knowing anything about me. I can’t un- derstand that.

A. Neither can I, but males are baffling creatures. A man will spend months of research before decid- ing which kind of car to buy, but he’ll select the mother of his children without even kicking the tires, so to speak.

Q. What do you mean by that?

A. I certainly don’t mean what I think you think I mean. Shame on you! All I’m saying is that a man should at least find out the name, age and cereal preference of the woman with whom he’II be eating breakfast for the next thirty years or so.

Q. I am an eighteen-year-old girl with a 36-23-34 figure, and my hair is naturally curly. My problem is that these three boys want to marry me, and I don’t know which to choose. Percy is tall and good- looking and a smooth dancer, but he can’t seem to hold a job. Ken has gobs of money and a white sports car, but he’s two inches shorter than I. Jack is the one my mother wants me to marry be- cause he’s older and well established, but our horoscopes conflict. Which boy should I marry?

A. If I were you, I wouldn’t marry any boy who’d

larry a girl as silly as you.

By JANE GOODSELL

Q. Do you believe in love?

A. I think love is wonderful, amazing, miraculous, sublime and the cat’s pajamas. But what is it? It’sa whole lot harder to di- agnose than mononucleosis.

Q. If two people enjoy doing the same things, isn’t that a good foundation for marriage?

A. What things? Dancing divinely together? Walking in the rain? Sharing a passion for pep- peroni pizza? None of these activities will occupy much of your time when you’re married. Now, if you can paint a garage divinely together or weed a garden in perfect unison, you might have the makings of a good marriage.

Q. I am a girl of 23, and frankly I’m worried. I’ve never met anybody I want to marry. How can some girls fall in love with such impossible men?

A. Because men are the only other sex there is.

Q. Am I correct in assuming that you believe in a long courtship?

A. I never said any such thing!

Q. You did too! You said that people should know something about each other before they get mar- ried.

A. Did I say that? Well, I take it back. I haven’t any opinion on the subject. I know a couple who rushed off to a justice of the peace the moment they discovered they both got goose pimples when they heard Ella Fitzgerald’s recording of I’ve Got You Under My Skin. They’d known each other barely six hours. Last week they celebrated their fifteenth wedding anniversary, and they still hold hands at the movies. I know another couple who went together three years before getting mar- ried. They were ideally suited in every way. Even their mothers liked each other. Yet barely a month after the honeymoon they were consulting a mar- riage counselor.

Q. Then you don’t think it’s important to marry somebody with whom you have things in common ? A. Not especially. Once you get married, you'll have plenty of things in common: the car keys, a joint income-tax return, leaky faucets, mono- grammed towels, the morning paper, the leftover meat loaf in the refrigerator and a dog that needs to be taken for a walk.

Q. Didn’t you and your husband have anything in common when you got married?

A. Yes. We both liked to read an obscure poet whom practically nobody else had ever heard of. I can’t remember his name.

Q. Don’t you think it’s romantic to be a young man’s first love?

A. It’s a lot safer to be his last love.

.What about the sex problem in*marriage? A. Sex isn’t a problem. Sex is—well, it’s sex.

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Q. Do you believe in marriage manuals?

A. I don’t believe in any kind of manuals. All books that contain directions of the Step 8 (see Fig. 8) type make me nervous. The two most help- ful books in marriage are a cookbook and a check- book.

Q. Don’t you believe that an unsuccessful sexual adjustment can ruin a marriage?

A. Lots of things can ruin a marriage, and sex is one of them.

Q. What are the other things?

A. Reading in bed. If one person can’t sleep with the light on, and the other can’t go to sleep with- out finding out why the inspector said “Aha!” when he noticed that the corpse had a shirt button missing, there’s trouble ahead. The daily paper can ruin a marriage. Some men can live with a woman who cuts out recipes, and some can’t. Food can wreck a marriage. If a corned-beef-and-cabbage man marries a woman who feeds him creamed tuna and stuffed-prune salad, he’s likely to go home to mother. Metabolism can cause trouble. If a wife wakes up wide awake, and her husband wakes up still asleep, mornings around their house will be pretty awful. These things cause more marital fric- tion than infidelity. Now will you stop pestering me about sex?

Q. I am a girl of seventeen who’s madly in love with a boy of eighteen. Our parents think we’re too young and too poor to get married. I don’t

think money is important when two people love |

each other. Don’t you agree?

A. Yes and no. Money isn’t important as long as you have enough of it.

Q. What do you mean by enough?

A. That’s hard to say. Another woman’s mink can make you feel awfully poor.

Q. Do you think it’s possible to reform a man?

A. It’s possible. The odds are about equal to your chances of finding a pearl in an oyster.

Q. Don’t you think that successful marriage is based on mutual compromise?

A. Yes. I'll tell you how it works. You both want to go to a movie, but he wants to see The Guns of Navarone and you're dying to see Fanny. So you compromise by going to a Russian movie with English subtitles, which neither of you wants to see.

Q. Whatever happened to sentimental love? Peo- ple aren’t as romantic as they used to be.

A. People never were as romantic as they used to be. You’ve been reading love stories, haven’t you? If Romeo and Juliet had lived to celebrate their first anniversary, they’d have had their differences too.

Q.What is your definition of an ideal marriage? A. An ideal marriage is when—I mean it’s one in which two people love, cherish and encourage each other through all the troubles caused by their marriage.

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schemes? She inherited this taste from her creator, Patrick Dennis, author of ‘Little Me,” who supervises th decorating projects in his own home. To accommodate the family heirlooms, he had the one-story living room in his town house en- larged into a dramatic two-story one. Iis Second Empire style harmonizes with the piano, chairs, and a pair of urns on the mantel, all part of a thirty-six-piece set of furnishings ordered in Paris in 1860 by one of Mrs. Dennis’s forebears.

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The prettiest rehearsal room in New York is an enclosed terrace in the penthouse home of musical-comedy actress Mary Martin and her producer husband, Richard Halliday. Inspired by a breathtaking view of Manhattan and the East River, Miss Martin practices her enchanting songs with the help of a tiny piano, just out of sight at the left. Striped ticking slipcovers, finished with lots of ball fringe, create a feminine, countrified setting that seems miles* away from the bus- tling city below. The color scheme combines Miss Martin’s favorites: blues, in fabric, vinyl floor and decorative objects ; greens, in plants that thrive behind the glass walls. Practical notes are white glass tops placed on the coffee and end tables.

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By H. T. WILLIAMS, DESIGNER America is color-conscious. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the dramatic decorating schemes now sweeping the country. One vivid pattern, perhaps a dazzling accent rug or a gay fabric on up- holstered chairs, can set the exciting color pace in a room. y& The favorite color schemes of the thousands of visitors to New York’s National Design Center, where 200 manufacturers of luxury furnish- ings show their wares, are blue laced with green and purple; yellow spiced with orange and red. The most popular furnishings at the center represent a tasteful wedding of traditional and modern styles. y& The rooms shown here and on the following pages are the Journal's interpretation of these important decorating trends. The rooms indicate that, whatever your budget, you can bring the “‘news’’ into your home, for they show the latest designs in furniture, floor coverings and fabrics, available across the country at all price levels. % The favorite floor coverings offer you a range from the spectacu- larly ornamental rugs and viny] tile to plain, but rich, carpet in multi- color tweeds. The popular wall coverings—gay papers, vinyl or glass- fiber sheeting that imitates fabric, brilliant paint—could brighten one wall or a corner in your room. 4% The current furniture crop is a decorator’s dream—so many styles are available-that you, as the decorator, can easily suit your special tastes and needs. Traditional styles are the most popular and the favorite way to use them is to mix them with modern designs. As shown in the Journal rooms, you

The Journal’s beautiful “blue room” might be the color scheme of a Matisse painting come to life. It takes its color cue from the jewel tones of the area rug, with the individual colors repeated in upholstered pieces. Favorite ideas illustrated here are ornamental architectural details—a Sireplace with a flue faced in mosaic and a wall covered in zebra-wood paneling that is actually a fabric-backed veneer to apply to a wall like paper. The curio cabinet, which is popular today for displaying collec- tions of art objects and books, is represented by a matched pair of walnut cupboards with “chicken wire” doors. Accessories stand out importantly — a brass dictionary stand, lamp bases with gilded metal flowers, a pair of paintings behind them, an antique barometer. This room, from New York’s National Design Center, is on view at the center for one month.

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could combine imaginatively, lushly comfortable upholstered sofas and chairs with classically simple modern desks, tables, storage pieces, making a place for music with a handsome record player or piano. ¥* The most popular accessories look important. You can use many together—ornate lamp bases, copies of sculpture, paintings. Arrange objects, with favorite books, on the shelves in bookcases or room dividers for touches that reflect your personality.

The Journal’s “yellow room,”’ decorated with new furniture from

stores, fits in a small, stylish piano and screens the dining area (above) with a divider to show off books and bibelots. A washable glass-fiber wall covering repeats the accent color in main living area (right). The practical vinyl floor is a major decoration. The streamlined dining furniture, with its graceful oval table, was

chosen with an eye to durability as well as limitation of budget.

Right: As bright as a Van Gogh picture, this popular scheme is carried out with a tweedy rug, richly upholstered sofa-bed, arm- chairs covered in a splashy floral, glass-fiber draperies with a filigree design. The high-backed chair with an ottoman makes a bold accent. A stereo cabinet is the sofa end table. For a list of

lores displaying adaptations of this “Yellow Room,” see page 64.

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In ~ i and crushed leaf, crumbled the teh dowed for all-t i brown sugar sherry) COACH HOUSE (110 Waverly 34 pound ground 1 tablespoon Ceara OCs Or gare nae : i : 74 P one dozen chefs create Provincial } Place) occupies the ground floor and leanbeet chopped Sees wee te : | Soak ham in cold water to cover for hayloft of the old Wanamaker Es- (round) or parsley specialties: Pate, escargots farcis, duck- h hang ae ’ ; ling en casserole, and a chocolate | 24 hours. Change the water twice tate’s carriage house and has the ground lean 1g teaspoon I during this period. Drain. Placeham _ same dimly lit horse-and-buggy-days lamb Giathon mousse whose secret M. Coa | in a large kettle. Cover with fresh charm. Its proprietor, Leon Lianides, —_ 1, 3 will swap only for “a recipe for mak- ii : lg cup canned 34 teaspoon salt ing $1,000,000 in ten minutes.” Brush | water and add cider and half the is an engineer turned restaurateur tomato sauce 1% teaspoon CoE ee eee eee a et aa | brown sugar. 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31% hours. Turn the ham every 30 minutes and add water so that ham is always covered. Remove cover and cool ham in broth for 3-4 hours. Re- move skin and excess fat, leaving about 14” fat layer on the ham. Score fat with a knife in 1’ squares. Place ham in a shallow pan. Add ham broth to a depth of 14’. Mix re- maining brown sugar and mustard with cider to make a paste. Pat onto

boyhood. He lived on the Greek is- land of Corfu, where his mother, grandmother and aunts worked kitchen miracles. Mr. Lianides likes to cook, has taught the art of the cuisine, and may be credited with creating COACH HOUSE special- ties. His moderately priced lunch and dinner menus offer not only Amer- ican favorites, including chicken potpie and honey-dipped ham steak,

Heat butter or oil in a skillet and sauté onion and garlic until golden. Add meat and break up with a fork. Stir in liquids and seasonings. Sim- mer, uncovered, over low heat until liquid has been absorbed.

To prepare béchamel sauce: 14 cup butter 1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons 14 teaspoon

frang¢ais), then prepare for an eating adventure extraordinaire.

Roger Chauveron, by designing a , meal in the elegant French manner .

to enhance his savory Duckling en Casserole, excites the adventurer, de- lights the gourmet:

La Terrine de la Maison Truffée Vichyssoise Chauveron

Duckling en Casserole with Peas

the fat. Bake in a moderately slow but also Continental classics like flour white pepper ‘ ; on ¢ Baie = : cot ; Mixed Salad aux Fines Herbes oven, 300° F., for 11% hours, basting Fish Stew Mediterranée; and from 1 cup milk Dash nutmeg ‘ ‘ | frequently. Cool !4 hour before farther East, shish kebabs and mous- ‘1 cup heavy 2 eggs, well Macédoine of Fruits carving into very thin slices. saka “because,” Mr. Lianides ex- cream beaten CONTINUED ON PAGE 62

Great Idea: Pass the soup tray! Such an easy way to entertain—soup ’n chips. Heat up Campbell’s Cream of Vegetable Soup, for instance. This creamy blend of vegetables tastes so good with crisp chips. Or try Campbell’s Tomato Rice Soup. Rich and red with pieces of tomato and long-grain rice, it’s a friendly soup with potato chips, corn chips, any kind of chips. Children’s parties, grown-up parties . . .

mid-morning snacks or good-night-caps . . . any time someone’s hungry . . . just pass the soup tray!

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DUCKLING EN CASSEROLE WITH PEAS

2 (6-lb.) ducklings 1 sprig fresh 1 teaspoon salt chervil or 1 14 cup butter teaspoon dried 16 small white chervil onions, peeled 4 cups consommé 14 cup chopped 2 tablespoons very lean bacon sweet butter 1 small head leaf 1-2 tablespoons

lettuce, flour shredded fine 1 or 2 cans

1 bay leaf, (1-lb.) petite crumbled peas, drained

1 sprig fresh parsley or 14 teaspoon dried parsley

Wash ducklings and pat dry. Rub the outside with salt. Prick the skin well all over. Place ducklings on a rack in a roasting pan. Roast in a very hot oven, 450°-475° F., for about 1 hour, pricking the skin frequently with a sharp fork to make sure all the fat drains out. Pour out the fat as it ac- cumulates in the pan or it will smoke. Meanwhile, heat the butter in a skillet and brown the onions slowly. Add bacon and lettuce and stir un- til lettuce wilts. Now add herbs and consommé, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 2-3 minutes. Trans- fer ducklings to a casserole, add onions and consommé. Cover and bake in a hot oven, 400° F., for 30-40 minutes or until ducklings and onions are tender. Remove ducklings and onions and keep warm. Rub sweet butter and flour to a paste and stir into the sauce. Add peas. Bake 10 minutes more or until sauce is thickened slightly and peas hot. Re- place ducklings and onions. Serve from casserole. Makes 4-6 servings.

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PIERRE GRILL.

FOR INTRIGUE

Beneath bustling Fifth Avenue at 6lst Street is the quiet of the PIERRE GRILL, where curry has been cooked and served with cere- mony for 16 years. Chef Reaj Ali pre- pares each—chicken, lamb or sea- food—reverently, knowing when to add a subtle touch or an honest dominance. His secret: curry powder plus cumin, coriander and cinnamon in perfect proportion. The drama of each curry dinner extends from crea- tion to table-side service where East Indians in native dress ladle steaming portions to your plate, then add a sprinkling of grated coconut, parsley, thinnest orange-rind slivers, chutney. Make a reservation for lunch or din- ner (moderate to expensive), then join the curryphiles at the PIERRE where East meets West in the serving of India’s traditional dish.

Emil, maitred’hotelof the PIERRE GRILL, believes that cool-to-the- palate foods make the best dinner companions for spicy Lamb Curry:

Cherrystone Clams

East Indies Lamb Curry with Condiments and Saffron Rice

Mixed Green Salad with French Dressing

Green Mint Sherbet

EAST INDIES LAMB CURRY

2 tablespoons curry powder 1 tablespoon

3 pounds lean lamb shoulder 1% cup butter or

cooking oil paprika

3-4 cloves garlic, 1 teaspoon peeled and pepper crushed 1 teaspoon

4 onions, peeled powdered and chopped cumin fine 1 teaspoon

1 bay leaf, powdered crumbled coriander

1 teaspoon 2 ripe tomatoes cinnamon peeled, and

5-6 cloves coarsely

1 tablespoon salt chopped

1-11% cups water (about)

Trim all fat from lamb and cut into 1” cubes. Heat butter or oil in a 3-quart kettle. Sauté garlic and onions until golden. Add bay leaf, cinnamon and cloves. Cover and cook for 5 minutes. Then add meat and cook, uncovered, over medium heat, stirring constantly until most of the water from the meat has steamed off, and the liquid in the kettle thickens slightly. Stir in the remaining ingredi- ents, adding water barely to cover the meat. Cover kettle and simmer until meat is fork-tender, about 1 hour. Makes 6-8 servings. Serve with Saffron Rice.

SAFFRON RICE

1 tablespoon saffron

1 teaspoon salt

1 onion, peeled

1 cup cold water and finely

lg cup butter chopped

3 cups long-grain 3 cups boiling rice water

Soak saffron in cold water for about 2 hours. Melt butter in a 3-quart ket- tle. Stir in rice, salt, onion and then strain in liquid from the saffron. Cover and bake in a hot oven, 400° F., for about 30-40 minutes or until rice is very dry. Stir occasionally with a fork. Add boiling water and stir. Cover and bake for 15 minutes more. Then remove from heat and keep covered in a warm place. Makes 6-8 servings.

If you’re planning a New York trip— actual or armchair, you might like a list of Journal editors’ favorite restau- rants. For a free copy, send a self- addressed stamped envelope to: Miss Jean Anderson, Ladies’ Home Journal, 1270 Avenue of the Americas, New York 20, N.Y.

FALSE EDUCATION

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breadwinners have either just been committed to prisons or mental institutions or who have but recently been released. The only possession most of these families have is children... .

“In such an environment all forms of evil flourish—the peddling of dope, drunkenness, disease, accidents, truancies, physical, mental and moral handicaps, sex perversions involv- ing children. ...

“These problems directly affect the child’s health, attendance, emotional and personal adjustment, his learning and his progress (or lack of it) in every respect. In all probability at least one half of our children will be school dropouts.”

“ According to a special study, in a slum sec- tion composed almost entirely of Negroes in one of our largest cities a total of 59 per cent of the male youth between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one were out of school and un- employed. They were roaming the streets. Of the boys who graduated from high school, 48 per cent were unemployed in contrast to 63 per cent of the boys who had dropped out of school. In short, two thirds of the male drop- outs did not have jobs and about half of the high-school graduates did not have jobs. In such a situation, the pupil may ask, “Why bother to stay in school when graduation for half the boys opens onto a dead-end street?”

A youth who has dropped out of school and never has had a full-time job is not likely to become a constructive citizen of his com- munity. Quite the contrary. As a frustrated individual he is likely to be antisocial and rebellious, and may well become a juvenile delinquent.

The adverse influence of the street is largely a consequence of gangs of such youths, out of school and unemployed.| I doubt if anyone familiar with slums would deny that if all the male youth by some miracle were to find employment the social climate would change dramatically for the better.

Boys brought up in slum neighborhoods are conditioned to street life with all that this life implies. Out of work and out of school once they turn sixteen, these youths behave in ways that may have serious political conse- quences; similar behavior of youth in small cities would be far less serious. It is a matter of geography in the last analysis. Three fac- tors are significant: first, group size (the larger the group, the more dangerous); second, the density of the population (the number of frustrated youths per block); third, the isola- tion of the inhabitants from other kinds of people and other sorts of streets and houses.

le building up of a mass of unemployed and frustrated Negro youth in congested areas of a city is a social phenomenon that may be compared to the piling up of inflammable ma- terial in an empty building in a city block. Potentialities for trouble—indeed, possibilities of disaster—are surely there. From my study of the special educational problems facing school boards, administrators and teachers in the big central cities of our largest metropoli- tan areas—especially New. York, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and St. Louis—I am convinced we are allowing social dynamite to accumulate. In some slum neighborhoods over a half of the boys between sixteen and twenty- one are out of school and out of work. They are roaming the streets.

Many of these live in areas now designated as “culturally deprived”’ or ‘‘culturally differ- ent,’ but in my youth they would have been more simply designated as “‘slums.”’ In partic- ular one finds large Negro neighborhoods and often somewhat smaller areas made up entirely of Negro slums. One gets just so far with a discussion of the urban problem and unem- ployment and then runs into a set of road- blocks set up by the leaders of the Negro communities and their friends. It is considered illiberal, if not reactionary, to use the phrase “Negro slum.”’ Indeed, it is difficult if not im- possible to get statistics about school enroll- ment and employment in terms of the cate- gories ‘‘white” and ‘“‘Negro.” I understand the reasons for the erection of this roadblock, but I suggest that in the interest of the Negroes

themselves it is time to remove it. The urban problem is in part a Negro problem. We do not facilitate its solution by trying to find phrases to hide this fact. How can we improve a situation if we are deprived by terminology from knowing what the situation really is?

In some of the schools in the slums, one finds today an incredibly large percentage of pupils who may be properly designated as slow and very slow learners. For the many slow learners, it may actually be worse to stay in school and endure constant academic frustra- tion than to leave school and to find a satisfy- ing job, if such a job can be found. Boys in this group have much more difficulty finding a job than girls. Iam not impressed by the holding power of a school as a criterion of its quality, but neither am I impressed by the argument that a boy who fails to get along in school, ought to drop out. It all depends. The situatior#. | in which a boy drops out of school only to |

roam the streets is quite different from the

situation in which a boy drops out and finds — satisfactory employment.

ey the slum school, the development of reading skill is obviously of first importance. The earlier the slow readers are spotted and remedial measures instituted, the better. In

spite of the Herculean efforts which are being |

made, there are many ninth-grade students in certain large city schools—in some as many as a half—who are reading at a sixth-grade level or lower. Because of the high family mobility, very few of these youth have had the advan- tage of the special attention given to reading in the lower grades in the same city. In one school I visited, the teachers felt that the only way to improve the reading of the children in the first three or four grades was to do something with their mothers. One of the troubles is that when the children leave the school they never see any- one read anything—not even newspapers.

In St. Louis, school administrators feel that pupils with reading difficulties ought to be caught early, certainly prior to the fourth grade. In the first three grades learning to read is perhaps the major occupation of the pupil. Commencing in about Grade 4, reading be- comes a tool for learning. Consequently pupils who have not sufficiently mastered reading skills have ever-increasing difficulty with text- books in different subject areas. In 1953, the St. Louis elementary schools organized special

groups called ““Rooms of Twenty.”’ In these | groups were placed third-grade pupils who |

showed that they would have difficulty in the

fourth grade. Especially competent teachers §} %

were assigned to these rooms and were given a free hand to develop skills in reading, spelling,

oral and WE: language, handwriting and —

arithmetic. Studiés show substantial progress, and, more important, pupils in these special classes more than hold their own in later schoolwork after a maximum of one year in the special class.

For those whose reading difficulties are even more acute in Grades 4 through 6, there are five reading clinics in the city. I was highly im- pressed with what I saw in these reading clinics. The administrators of the program believe that even the slowest readers, leaving aside the mentally retarded, can be brought up to at least the sixth-grade level. This means the

ability to read with comprehension the front |

page of a néwspaper, or, more specifically, the Gettysburg Addréss, at the rate of about 200

words a minute. 5 In some Northern cities, political leaders |

have attempted to put pressure on the school

authorities to have Negro children attend es- i

sentially white schools. In my judgment the

cities in which the authorities have yielded to *

this pressure are on the wrong track. Those — which have not done so are more likely to - make progress in improving Negro education. It is my belief that satisfactory education can be provided in an all-Negro school through the expenditure of more money for needed staff and facilities. Moreover, I believe that any sense of inferiority among the pupils caused by the absence of white children can be largely if not wholly eliminated in two ways: first, in all cities there will be at least some schools that are in fact mixed because of the nature of the neighborhood they serve; second, throughout the city there ought to be an integrated staff of white and Negro teachers and administrators.

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To insist that such solutions cannot be ac- zeptable and to assume instead that the school- jing of Negroes can be satisfactory only if in 2ach schoolroom there are present some white children is to take an extremely defeatist view ‘of Negro education in the large cities. The |oroposal to move any appreciable number of white children by bus into what are now Negro schools or to move all the Negro children in a Negro neighborhood into what are now white |schools presents a transportation problem that | s quite insoluble. An examination of the ge- ygraphy of the Negro and white sections of the arge cities makes this evident. If some children lire to be transported, the question arises which children and how many. I am not dis- cussing here what seems to me to be a separate juestion; namely, the crossing of school-at- lendance lines when -waves of population /novement create overcrowded conditions in yne attendance area and vacancies in another. Nor am I justifying the gerrymandering of ittendance lines; such a procedure amounts to

JAMES BRYANT CONANT

This author’s crusades for educational

reform have added to his reputation as a distinguished educator. For twenty years president of Harvard, Dr. Conant served as high commissioner for and ambassador to West Germany from 1953 to 1957. Upon his return he accepted a Carnegie Foundation grant to make an extensive evaluation of American high schools. “‘False Education for Many Slum Children?” (page 6) is an excerpt from Slums and Suburbs, the third book to result from his continuing study.

eparating pupils so/e/y on the basis of race )nd is the equivalent of the de jure segregation lejected in the Supreme €ourt decisions of 954,and 1955.

I know the argument is being made that | rossing attendance lines should be permissive nd without cost to the city and that the re- sal of this right is a psychological blow to the ride of the members of the Negro race. But je reason for demanding such a privilege is Hie allegation that education in an all-Negro shool to which pupils are not assigned solely /n account of race is inherently inferior. Once nis allegation is granted, the foundation for inproving Negro education in the large cities » undermined. Since I believe the evidence in- icates that it is the socioeconomic situation, ‘ot the color of the children, which makes the {egro slum schools so difficult, the real issue

not racial integration but socioeconomic tegration.

Put another way, if there is no inherent dif- rence in potential ability, and if educational /Pportunity is equal, the poor achievement of ne children in both the Negro and the white ums which I described earlier may be ascribed » their depressing cultural and socioeconomic vackgrounds. One might argue, therefore, that ‘slum schools ought to be integrated with shools in economically favored areas. If the ‘ody politic through its school board once sets put on a course of neighborhood desegrega- on, a good case can be made for transporting

white children from slum schools to schools in high-income residential districts and vice versa.

Much as I admire the comprehensive high school in the town with one high school and see it as an instrument of democracy, it seems impossible for school authorities in a large city to create artificially a series of such schools. If a policy were to be adopted that, as an ideal, every neighborhood school should have a widely heterogeneous school population rep- resented by all socioeconomic backgrounds, school administrators would be forced to move children about as though they were pawns ona chessboard.

Antithetical to our free society as I believe de jure segregation to be, I think it would be far better for those who are agitating for the deliberate mixing of children to accept de facto segregated schools as a consequence of a pres- ent housing situation and to work for the im- provement of slum schools whether Negro or white. The problems in these schools are far more difficult to solve than in other schools; larger and better staffs should be available, more money is required. It is my firm belief that actions based on the premises I have out- lined are in the best interests of the Negro and of the nation. Through the existence of at least some mixed schools, integrated teaching staffs and increased expenditures in slum schools, I Suggest that the education of Negroes in Northern cities can be made satisfactory and their status improved

Ane necessary step in upgrading the status of the Negro in the North is to take drastic measures to eliminate racial discrimi- nation by labor unions and employers. Racial discrimination makes unemployment chronic for the Negro male, North and South. Racial discrimination on the part of employers and labor unions is certainly one factor which leads to the existence of so many male Negro floaters. What is almost terrifying is that the number of male youth in this category is in- creasing almost daily. Federal funds are neces- sary to Open up employment on a nondis- criminatory basis.

Vocational-training programs should be re- lated to the employment opportunities in the general locality. If high-school pupils are aware that few, if any, graduates who have chosen a certain vocational , sgram have ob- tained a job as a consequence of the training, the whole idea of relevance disappears. Voca- tional training which holds no hope that the skill developed will be in fact a marketable skill becomes just another school “chore” for those whose interest in their studies has begun to falter.

It is not often realized to what degree cer- tain trades in many communities are closed areas of employment, except for a lucky few. A boy cannot just say, “I want to be a plumber,” and then, by doing good work, find a job. It is far more difficult in many com- munities to obtain admission to an apprentice program which involves union approval than to get into the most selective medical school in the nation. One vocational instructor in a city vocational school, speaking of his course in a certain field, said he had no difficulty placing students in jobs outside the city. In the city, he said, the waiting list for those who want to join the union is so long that unless a boy has an inside track he can’t get in. In another city, I was talking to an instructor about a boy who in the twelfth grade was doing special work. “‘What does he have in mind to do when he graduates?” “Oh, he’ll be a plumber,” came the answer. “But isn’t it almost impossible to get into the union?” I asked. ““He’ll have no difficulty,’ I was told. ““He has very good connections.”

To improve the work of the slum schools requires an improvement in the lives of the families who inhabit the slums, but without a drastic change in the employment prospects for urban Negro youth, relatively little can be accomplished. Our large city educational problems must be analyzed in far more de- tail than in the past and with a far greater degree of frankness. Neighborhood by neigh- borhood we need to know the facts; and when these facts indicate a dangerous social situa- tion the American people should be prepared to take prompt action before it is too late.

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Armour Star Bacon: Only ove out of 3 bacon sides rates the Armour Star. And of that prize side, 25% is carefully trimmed away. Only the meaty center- cut is quite good enough for Armour Star—the bacon the butcher brings home.

Log Cabin: Open it. Tip it. Watch it pour —slow, shining, mellow. This is the syrup with the real maple flavor. It is the final, topping touch that makes a Bacon Log be moist and sweet with goodness that makes it be a Bacon Log, in fact

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Here’s a suggestion that could make your next health examination the most complete one your physician has ever given you.

Your doctor, of course, has many diagnostic

instruments and laboratory tests by which he can check the state of your physical health. But he has no way at all of knowing what’s on your mind or what is bothering you—unless you tell him. A frank talk about any worries, pressures, fears or frustrations—no matter how trivial they may seem to you—can be as important in an appraisal of your health as anything your doctor may detect with instruments or tests.

That’s because emotions that are “bottled up account for many physical complaints—including headache, backache, digestive troubles and cer- tain disorders of the heart.

So, whenever you have a check-up, be sure you

tell your doctor about any situations you may be up against—at home or at work—that keep you worried, tense or anxious. He will welcome your frankness in discussing such problems. The more you tell him about yourself as a person, the more he can do for you as a patient. Putting together the results of the tests he makes, his findings as he examines you—and what you tell him—your doctor gains a unique understanding of you as an individual whose physical make-up and reactions, whose personal problems are never quite like anyone else’s. And this knowledge of you as a person deepens with each check-up you have.

Then, too, these check-ups give your doctor a

chance to uncover early signs of some illnesses— often before there are symptoms—and while possi- bilities for successful treatment are best. Are you in the habit of having regular health exam- inations? There’s no safeguard you can take that’s more important to your physical and emotional health—now and in the future.

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casual hand on the tiller. He was an old man, and he looked supremely content with every- thing—his pipe, his boat, his harbor.

Malcolm would say these people needed shak- ing up, thought Arabella, amused at the thought that anybody could imagine that old fisherman needed anything at all, and then slightly appalled at herself, for Malcolm was, after all, her fiancé, and it was hardly right to be amused at his set and proper ways.

Malcolm would say a town like this needed modernization, needed a few people with some gumption, went on the little voice in Arabella’s head, mocking the humorless young man who sat in an air-conditioned office high in Radio City, bossing a select group of equally young men in very conservative suits. Malcolm was a consulting engineer, extremely well paid, and as predictable as a sundial.

Well, so much for Malcolm for now, Arabella heard the wicked voice say.

Arabella! she said to herself reprovingly, and ordered another genever from the bar- tender, who smiled at her like Father Christ- mas as he brought it.

Arabella and Lily had been in Holland for almost a month. Their freighter had landed them at Amsterdam, and after a few days in that lovely city they had set off across the countryside in their rented English car, going where they chose, bound by no schedules.

“I find the whole idea of this trip rather ridiculous,’ Malcolm had said, a couple of days before they left New York. ““Why you take a freighter, when there are planes; why you insist on charging off into the unknown when you get to Amsterdam, instead of mak- ing a regular set of hotel reservations; why you chose Holland at all, instead of the south of France, or Rome ——”

“Tm going to love Holland,” stubbornly.

“It isn’t as if you had to go by freighter,” said Malcolm. “It’s not as if you were poor.”

“What on earth does money have to do with it?”’ asked Arabella, genuinely surprised.

““Money is very important,” said Malcolm solemnly. ““And so are the appearances it helps you keep up. Never forget that.”

“Yes, dear,’ said Arabella, kissing him on the cheek. He smelled faintly of bay rum, and his eyeglasses were polished to a high glitter.

“I know this is going to be quite a lark for you and Lily, but don’t stay completely out of touch.”

“You write me lots of nice long letters,” said Arabella. ““American Express in Am- sterdam will know where to send them.”

“And you'll surely be back by the end of June?”

“How could I not be?” Their marriage had been set for the end of July, and she would need at least a month for everything.

‘“‘Be sure to boil all your water,’ said Mal- colm.

“Yes, dear,” said Arabella. ““And I won’t take any candy from strangers.”

“T should say not,’ said Malcolm.

So far Arabella had not boiled any water.

said Arabella

Liy came into the lounge bar as if she were plunging into surf. “This is a darling town,” she said. ““And the two most enchanting men just went into that little room over there.” She pointed to the door to the billiard room.

“You see enchanting men the way some people see spots,” said Arabella. “In front of your eyes, all the time, everywhere you go.”

““You’re just saying that because it’s true,” said Lily. ““What’s that you’re having?”

““Genever.”

“Chalk dust,” said Lily scornfully. “I’m not going to sit here and drink chalk dust. I’m going to watch those two play billiards.”

“Billiards?” said Arabella. “I know lots about billiards.”

“Then come on,” waiting for?”

“Malcolm wouldn’t like it,’’ said Arabella.

“IT don’t think even Malcolm could object to your kibitzing a small billiard game,”’ said Lily. “It’s not as if we were sitting at some sidewalk café with roses in our teeth, winking at everybody.”

“All right,” laughed Arabella.

said Lily. ““What are we

LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL ]}

They walked across the lobby and down the - short corridor to the billiard room. The two } men, engrossed in their game, did not look up. —

The older one, in his late twenties, was per- haps six feet tall, with a lean, aquiline face. His companion, a few years younger, was short and round-faced and cheerful-looking. Both of them were wearing good sports jack- ets and slacks. Their faces were burned the same shade of copper.

“You take Gregory Peck,”’ whispered Lily. -

“Tl settle for Humpty-Dumpty.”

“Sh-h-h,” said Arabella, blushing. ‘“They’ll .

notice you.”

“You bet they will,” said Lily.

They sat down on two of the high, armed stools that lined the room, and watched the

Five minutes went by; the men kept their eyes fixed on the table.

“Tm going to take drastic action, mured Lily.

“What?” asked Arabella.

“This,” said Lily, falling gracefully off her