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size everything? ~ot all time. Joliat Canadiens back full seasons. not hard corner of NHL played overtime, the midget raced t 1933, broke up a scoreless only goal. -a_ lightweight. _ than weight. | Plenty Of Precedent For "Little Man" To Make Good 3 © A' small, stocky, heavily-muscled youngster weighing 157 pounds broke into the National Hockey League opening night of play, His name, Henri Richard. His age, 19 years. His weight, 157 pounds His background, junior hockey only. Henri Richard js a younger brother of the famed Rocket Richard. He's known as the Pocket Rocket. And because of his poundage, there were those who feared the hard-hitting major league would be too much for him But how much must.an athlete weigh to make a place for himself in top company, in a heavy contact sport? Is - To contound those who stress the necessity of weight in hockey, there was Aurel Joliat, one of the pA left 0 t weighed 155 pounds when he joined in the 20's. suffered from stomach-trouble _.. But Joliat had a high competitive spirit; he had littering skill in handling the puck, and he threw a shot that, while was always delivered with deadly accuracy to a the opposing cage. . Then there was Ken Doraty, a close a midget division. 'His weight was rear 125 Phronh So ne night of January 16, Yaad: i Ottawa, when the teams in the C r eafs and Senators were tied 4-all . Into the overtime picture. Zlealing the thunder of Lith I rough for three goals in 10 minut - time, a modern record. And it Doras who, i Apri) 3, ) Stanley Cup battle between L and Bruins after 104.46 minutes of Sy by. it Mig Rabbit McVeigh of the old . a midget, too. Balding Normie Hi The Good Little Men -- the Spirit, and the will to win are 4, He was pale, sickly-looking, throughout his career of 16 ounds.. On the New York Americans was mes of the same team was y've starred in all sports. evidently more important EK When is a Whale Not a Whale? When is a whale not a whale? When it's a fish. That, at least, is the answer the magistrate at" a Bergen court gave in a case " which recently came before him. Xt has caused a lot of interest and _amusement_ there. _ : A stall-holder in the market place of the town was accused. of: selling whale meat despite the regulations forbidding the sale of meat from an open stall. He said he had been selling it for twenty years without pre- vious complaint. "Besides," he said, "it's fish." : That started it. - food experts. who were asked for a definition said the whale was a mammal and its flesh must therefore be meat. The trader's lawyer then pointed out that this food came from the sea. Could it therefore be anything other than fish? - The prosecution said: "But one always speaks of whale meat. . Mow can it possibly be fish?" At this, the accused man played "his trump card. "Open the Bi- L J A 4 @ a : 4 i 4 1] - J fa. " s a = - * J _. ™ Fs < ble!" he cried. And the Clerk of the court read out: "Now the XYord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah." "Ah, yes!" replied the prose- eution, "but the 'great fish' might mot necessarily have been a whale." But the defence lawyer had xeady a reply. "Look up Mat- thew, chapter twelve, verse 40," Norwegian toh "he said. "Jonah was in the whale's belly." = ! The court decided .gt last that whale is "not meat in' the ordin- ary sense," though "not there- fore necessarily fish." So the street trader was dis-. charged, and left the court con- gratulated on all sides. . This Killer Has A Hundred Legs It's only six inches long--but it's a killer. That's what zoolo- gists say of the West Indian cen- tipede which was taken to the London Zoo recently after being found among bananas at Covent Garden. "Its bite will kill a man, and the finder was lucky not to be bitten," said one. A centipede found in. the Sol- omon Islands has a bite which can make a man almost crazy with pain, according to a travel- ler who encountered one, It is six to ten inches long and moves "on scores of nasty scrambling legs," he said. . A white man bitten by it has been known 'to plunge his bitten hand into boiling water to try "to ease the intense pain and as a counter-irritant. Feet Note: Strictly, there is no such thing as a "centipede," for no centipede has 100 feet. It may have 98 or 102' feet, but never 100 exactly. - ; POOR'S THERE BUT IT "ISN'T" -- When a chain grocery racenily hl . opened a new branch it didn't just open the doors -- it foo them away entirely. The weather outside was blustery, wet and getting colder, yet somehow the storm didn't come into the store. The secret is a revolutionary "air curtain', -- an invisible, partition projected by blowers across the entrance. As seen above, it lets the customers entér and leave without a ruffle, but turns back weather as sternly as any door of steel or glass. But i's not effective against burglars, so after hours, the dlr eurrent is switched off and a steel and glass night door is bolted | In place. s " sidelight on A rn AES ASTD SB ee ot nef CA Yor Mad 2 Ny iS sai FABRE Dummy Posed For 'Queen's Portrait It was a perfect summer day, and after lunch the Queen was free of official events. The Duke of Edinburgh joined thc children in the grounds of Buckingham - . Palace but despite her afternoon 'off the Queen had to go to her ~ dressing-room and don full ev-- .ening dress, including jewellery "Her Majesty has' a sitting What a pity on a day like this," said a lady-in-waiting. But to -the 'artist who eagerly awaited her in the Yellow Drawing Room the Queen gave no hint of her regret at deserting the garden. . For nearly an hour she sat motionless, maintaining a diffi- cult pose with but two brief respites. Instinctively she knew et when to chat to afford the artist 4 relaxation . . . and when to sit completely silent and still while the painter worked in deep ab- sorption. A week seldom passes, indeed, but that the Queen quietly takes two or three hours of her spare time in order to grant a series of sittings to a painter or scu.p- tor. Pietro Annigoni"s wonderful study of the Queen in her -blue Garter robes entailed as many as fifteen sittings, totalling twen- ty hours, and even this was no record. - When James Gunn. the Scot- tish artist, was commissioned to paint the State portrait, her Majesty surrendered part of _her summer holiday at Balmoral. Then, menths after the picture had been_publicly exhibited, the artist still felt he had not com- pleted the portrait to b satis~ faction and the matter was _. brought to the Queen's attention. Unhesitatingly she agreed to further sittings in London. Fortunately she need not be present at every session. James Gunn worked. for months with the Coronation robes draped on a dummy; and Annigoni "rowed an old plaster model named Rosie which happened to have almost the exact pro- portions of the Queen. When Prince Charles and Princess Anne were shown into the room, -. they almost ignored their mo- ther's picture but were delight- ed to shake Rosie's hand. Then there was the charming royal "portraiture when Ulrica Forbes was execu- ting a crayon portrait of Prin- cess Anne. When the drawing was half-finished, the little girl _asked, "May I see?" "Not. yet, Anne," said Miss _Forbes. "Wait until it is finish- ed." The Princess never asked apain until the artist offered to ow her. The Queen. too, often walks over to examine the pro- gress of a' portrait after a sit- ting. But she never makes a comment, Douglas Chandor, America's highest paid portrait painter, arranged a- mirror so that the Queen could watch his work. When he made a false brush stroke, he knew that the Queen knew. But he found that no sit- ter could be more Simon Elwes, that most emin- "ent of portraitists, also knows of the Queen's deep considera- tion. After falling ill with par- alysis, he struggled along the bor- helpful. ~ high road of recovery and was. commissioned ~ to paint Queen's portrait. But the Queen insisted on departing from pre- cedent and visited him in his studio in St. John's Wood for sittings. It was a tribute to his won- derful struggle. The paralysis affected his painting that tie knew he could never paint with it again. Yet this was a battle that had to be fought. Elwes tranferred. his brush to his left hand and ultimately won with it the mastery he had enjoyed with his right, The royal portrait was finished and, to celebrate it, Mr Elwes staged a party at his studio Once again the Queen broke with precedent, for she went as a guest and stayed over 'an hour It was to Simon Elwes, too. that Princess Margaret once gave "a sitting lasting five solid hours. Often, a royal sitting may ac- tually mean a fatiguing.standing position. Every year a dozen or more portraits of the Queen alone are made at the behest of city' companies, Commonwealth authorities and the like, and all members of the" Royal Family 'regard "sittings" as very much "a part of their job. One artist likes his sitters to listen to music. A lady-in-wait- ing--always present to these occasions--is entrusted with the 'choice of records. The Queen readily puts new portraitists at ease by talking simply of "my husband," "my sister" or "my children." 2 Pietro Annigoni, as a" matter of fact, gave her an awkward . moment for he originally posed Her. Majesty looking towards the darkest corner of the room. But, with infinite tact the Queen mentioned that as a little girl in that room she had always 'enjoyed watching the people and trafic from thé window. It was an-inspiration, Anni- goni Instantly suggested a hand so. the: % § HEADED FOR THE PICKLE WORKS--From quenching the thirst of "locomotives to salting down pickles is the story of a number of obsolete railroad water towers along the Union. Pacific line. They were bought by the Dreher Pickle Company as pickle vats. This tank is being torn down at Sylvan Grove. change in her pose and so se- cured the warm expression and clear lighting. When Dorothy Wilding photo- graphed the Queen for the new stamps, expert care was needed to see that Her Majesty's fore- head or chin did not seem to protrude unnaturally It was the Duke ~of Edinburgh who first suggested 'the half-profile --a break with formal tradition --found on the posta stamps of today. When photographers first went - to Buckinham Palace years ago. it was suggested that the cam- -era 'would save all the time lavished on artists' sittings But, of course, camera posing has proved to be just an extra chore, requiring no less care. Cecil -- Beaton took no fewer than sev- enty pictures of Prince Charles to secure seven which he con- sidered suitable {for--sthr =n to the Queen. On one occasion, when he .had spent over three hours photo- graphing the Queen Mother, he was rebuked by a Palace super- intendent. "Do you realize a man from the Office of Works has been in the next room for four days? He's been waiting to see Her Majesty for two minutes about the colour of the walls += :to be repainted in the Throne Room." . In the days of King George V. no photographer was allowed . to take pictures for more than twenty minutes. Press photogra- phers at outdoor events were even more unfortunate, for they were not permitted to approach royalty with their cameras closer than fifty yards. ".Oneday. when the police drove them back as usual, they de- cided in a body to go on strike. When the King asked why no cameras were being focused, their spokesmen sent a message, "Unless we can approach to sev- en yards and take good pictures, we "would prefer to take noth- ing" The King instandy allowed. them to approach as they pleas. | } i" ed. Today, -press photographs are never censored by royalty and some of the finest .roval portrajts--as that of the Quren riding to the opening of Parlia- ment--have been the result of felicitous accident, 2 Not long ado the Queen had to autograph 500 portraits of herself for distribution to Sor vice and other centres, It was suggested that a photogranh re. production of her . signatuie should be used, but the Queen shook her head. She felt if would be defrauding the recip: ients. and all her odd minutes for several davs were devoted to the autographs. BROOM BET Onlookers gaped in .astonish- ment when they saw 63-year- old Joseph Zell, vice-burgo- master of ... asbuorg,. Alsace, .ed with a bro. a, s ping the marl t place of his city. - It had all started at a session of the municipal market com- taission of the city council. Jo- seph Zell had complained about «the laziness and slowness of the town's street-cleaners. He said it took four of them four hours to clean the market. He said that, single-handed he coud do the same amount of work in not more than one hour's time, Zell was challenged by the town's cleaners. Joseph Zell accepted the challang -- and won. : | Noisy Depths Lewis Caroll was only kid- ding-when he had the whiting say, "Will you walk a little faster," said a whiting toa snail. "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail." But now scientists, with deep-sea listening devices, have found that fish are much noiser than- we think, and do have a kind of talk among themselves. They honk, groan, snore, and bark in the silent deep. The ocean is a bedlam if you have the ears to hear_it. Marine biologists lowered their hydrophones 100 miles off Bermuda, and recorded an as- tounding cacophony of moans __and__whistles 'almost --as--fearful as one might hear at a human wrestling match. Schools of "snapping shrimps clicked their claws together like castanets. A bunch of groupers had the deep booming 'voice of a chorus sing- ing "Asleep in the Deep" Toad- fish growl a low but loud note, much resembling a subdued steamboat whistle. "And the grunts, to produce their distic- tive sound, gnash their teeth together. ! Whether these sounds make any sense as a kind of piscatori- al language, none but that toad- fish and grunters know, and they are not talking to marine biologists. But the knowledge that fish have enough person- ality to snort, growl, whine, and gnash gives them a little more color than fore. After all, they -are the only living things from_another world ¥ that we have contact with. 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