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TEEN
Portugal
Picturesque And Her Teen Agers
By BETTY BETZ
"Cape Roca is the closest place to the United States in all of Europe!" explained Juan as we stood on the high-rocky cliff overlooking the roaring sea below.
Nearby was a small lighthouse surrounded by miles of sandy beach and although the place was completely isolated, suddenly felt very .close to home again...at least it's the cloest to New York I've been in the past four months!
The Portuguese teen agers are(gles and laughter are thé univer- the first I've met who don't seem sal language among young peo- very anxious to visit America. Inį ple so we got along fine.
a way I can't blame them. for their country is exceptionally beautiful,) and has not been affected by theị last war as have others in Europe) and Asia.
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It is a pleasure to review the, Western and Howard has a nice clippetty-clop version supported by
new discs which are of an unusual
ly high standard with only a few minor discords.
Space does not permit a com- plete review and it will be con tinned next week,
DUKE ELLINGTON (COLUMBIA)
Singin' In the Rain.
Don't Get Around Much Any
more.
These two revivals provide us with first-rate band jazz for lis- tening or dancing. Rain is dis Enguished by fine solos from tenor sax, trumpet, trombone and bari- tone sax
Don't Get Around is one of Duke's most popular compositions, Al Hibber's vocal is better than par and Johnny Hodges' alto simply superb.
The band bounces along nicely on both sides
DINAH SHORE AND DORIS DAY (COLUMBIA | You Can Have Him (I Don't
Want Him). - Hamework.
Both tones are from Irving Berlin's Miss Liberty and the first is a surprising combination of two top favourite female singers in a cute duet.
Dinah solos on the much adver- tiset Homework, dreary tune.
is a
a catchy, bouncy Red Head
DANNY KAYE (DECCA) Honey Bun.
There is nothing Like a Dame. Honey is one of Kaye's best to data. The new singing fool does an amusing take-off on the ald singing fool with clever lyrices, However, all is not gold in the South Pacific and Dame does not glitter
BING CROSBY (DECCA) The Headless Horseman. Katrina
Ichabod
It's More Fun Than a Picnic. The first three sides are from the Walt Disney production Icha bod and Mr. Toad. The Rhyth maires provide a spooky back ground for Bing's tale of the decapitated rider.
Katrina is a love song and my pick 56 coming Hit Parader. Ichabod is a naturaly for Der Bingle and should also rate high The last side, from the musical, As the Girls Go, is an anti-cli-
MAX.
Beauti-
GUT LOMBARDO AND HIS ROYAL CANADIANS Give Me a Song With
ful Melody. Fiddle Dee Dee.
Strictly for those who like a beautiful mellow-der, wavy saxes, rather tremelo trumpets and Victor Sil- vester. Fiddle Dee Dee, Fidde Dee Die, Fiddle Dee Dee, Fiddle: Dee Die. Small wonder so many Canadians take to the wide open) spaces!
The Wren.
1-
13
Girls Love School
the cislat
USA funer
EDDY HOWARD (MERCURY)
Single Saddle.
Red Bead.
The fathers of these girls are fishermen. ezd their familier turn out at the wharf every even- ing to welcome the menfolk and get a look at the day's catch.
"We have many kinds living here, too?" said Maria proudly, as she counted off King Umberto of Italy, King Carol of Rumania, King
The girls adore going to school Leopold of Belgium and many which sounded strange to me, and other unemployed royal personall- they take course in-embroidery. ties who find living very pleasant as well as the other required sub in Portugal. Lisbon, like Rome, jects. They're very proud of the is built on soven hills, and is an in- beautiful beaches and swim every teresting combination of old his- ¦ day in the summer. I asked about toric churches and buildings, the old pink cement forts which along with the new modern type turn u every half mile on the of offices and apartments. In coastline. town, a brand new streamlines miniature Italian car will be parked next to a donkey cart for there are both the old and new modes of transportation.
"In the summer these old forts are made into hostels for teen agers who make bicycle trips through the beautiful country- side of Portugal," they said. The living is cheap here, food is good, and very few people have ever eaten canned vegetables!
are
The
city of Lisbon is fast be coming one of the international cities of the world as it's the centre for air traffic to North and South America, but this doesn't seem to
The pavements
tiled In affect the people in the country, lovely mosaic patterns and exe who still wear their traditional the pink stucco houses are trim costumes and live in the same pie-imed with beautiful blue porce turesque manner we read about flain tiles. I told the girls how sad in our geography books.
I was
to leave their beautiful country. They understood that I was leaving and asked me to tell American kids to write to them.
Several hundred years acp the Portuguese navigators were the best explorers in the world...but what. I can't figure cut is why "Adeus!" they said. and pru- they ever looked for anything else { mised me that the next me I when they already had a beautiful visited Portugal they would have country of their own..
We tried as best we could to converse as we walked along the beautiful water front. The knew few words of English and I knew fewer of Portuguese but I've found that in every country gig-
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Teen Nursing
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Many girls in Britain who feel they have a vocation for nursing are lost to the profession because. when they leave school, they are too young to take it up as career. Instead of waiting until meet they are 18the usual lowest age next month. either in in Britain for cursing recruits- Czechoslovakia or in Rumania, they go into City offices and usually reliable German sources never become nurses. claiming close contact with the
Berlin, October 24 Cominform will
This is the opinion of officials Soviet Zone Control Commis- of the Fulham and Kensington sion said today.
Hospital, London, and to help girls leaving school who want to become nurses. and to overcome
Observers from the Socialist Unity Party, including the Depu- current staff shortage, they have ty Minister, Herr Walter Ulbricht, President of the East German started a new scheme.
State, will attend the meeting. the sources added.
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But it is not thought that the Each will receive 33 shillings a Socialist Unity Party will be ad- mitted to the Cominform as a full week free meals, uniform and travelling expenses. They will member at this stage.
The Communist parties of nine attend a technical college twice European countries are represent a week to study general subjects, If the ed on the Cominform the Com-ruedicine and anatomy.
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