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I permitted myself a and rumble about the Dome the Skylon. "You didn't have to like thein," said Casson equably.
Ile and his-pariner, Neville
Conder, have an office in Old
Brompton Road with ve sistants and a secretary,
ロガー
As in the 'thirties, he depends
in part on sidelines, bigger and belter sidelines. He has a salaried
post
Reader in
Interior Design
at the Royal College. of Art. Most of the Interior design commissions that come his way privately are of gift-edged sort. He finds time, how I cannot imagine, for writing. broadcasting and mis- cellaneous drawing as well.
the
London. Perhaps it is fairer to responsibic for such sites want to. My, nim is to be N the desk lay a say that the job is being as The Mall, Trafalgar gay, elegant and light- plastic rose, very pink done by two married Square and Parliament hearted without being face- and patriotic, and a couples, with Casson as the Square.
tious; dignified without plastic palm wand of leading spirit. His design-
being pompous.” the sort waved by loyal sub- assistants are Peter Miller For the time being jects in stage plays.
(28), architect, and Miller's Cusson's detailed proposals Casson has been design- lines:
(24), who are on the secret list. One ing ephemerally, mainly for mercial Sir Hugh Casson fingered finished training a thing is already beginning exhibitions, trade fairs and drawing, ar them appraisingly: "Con- graphic designer two months to emerge, however. On the like, ever since the war. chitectural tractors' samples," he ex- ago. He has a third help Coronation Day there may At 42 he is typical of journalism plained. They have been in Lady Casson, who, like he touches of sprightly in architecture's frustrated and what sent to his office in the hope her husband, is a practising novation-down side streets, generation. "As an archi- not. that he will buy them by architect.
But the Coronation route tect I have built practically He had the gross to hang up on the
itself will discreetly echo nothing" he regrets.
met Mar- Coronation route.
the past, with -tradition us
garet Mac- he qualined donald, a Soon after the keynote.
received £1.600 his father
girl from under somebody's will. He South The Coronation," says
to affably Working to a route and off-route projects Casson. "is-above all things said
Hugh: Africa,'. in confidential advance esti- from triumphal arches national and religious "Would you like to buy the big mate which cannot be much downward. Worked up into ceremony. On the proces- yourself into a practice? studio at the less than £100,000, he is sets of alternative perspec- sional
exhibition Or go to Honolulu for fun? Bartlett He aims to be gay.
Since the wat the Casson now designing and
tive designs, these have to antics would be out of Or build house and sell School' of
ménage, six including governess, three-storey, be lodged with Westminster place. Royal ciphers and it?" Casson chose to build Architecture, where they have lived in s
off Kensington Council before the end of coats of arms inevitably a house because as he says, were fellow students. She 1840-ish house
Church Street with fetching this month, then discussed enter into the decorative the only way of becoming was designing a vicarage
white paint.on with other designers, in- scheme. You cannot mon- a real architect is to put and, provocatively enough, stucco. cluding those of the Minis- key about with the design something up as soon did not seek his advice. That
At week-ends mother and try of Works, who are of such things even if you you can and see what goes was in 1933. When they rather professional work in
wrong."
married five years Inter one leg of the L-shaped altting- Casson was earning £10 a room, week.
For three years from 1948 Casson
director of
WNB
Already the team has architecture to the Festival produced 200 sketches of
of Britain.
co
ordinating Coronation de corations for the City of Westminster. which takes
in most of the six-mile pro- cessional route to and from the Abbey,
route
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O far as I am aware no cookery book has ever been written for chaps who live alone, or
wives chaps whose -away-on-holiday:
s
Sir Hugh Casson
These are things which help pay for the family car, a 1027
and Rolls,
the upbringing of Casson girls, Carole (11). Nicole (9) and Dinah (0),
the Hitle
grey' and
its
an
has where, cach architect's desk. One desk noticeably nicer than the other. There are amiable squabbles as to who shall use it.
next bricks-and-mortar fashion,
So Casson bullt what he
He looked forward to defines as "funny little establishing himself us peekaboo five-bedroom job" "private-practice" architect
In a week or two the Carons which still stands
move to a nine-roomed house outside and making a name for him-
red brick at Kensington, not Winchester. It cost Casson sell between 1940 and 1950, far from Casson's RCA job. The senior £1,175 plus site value, ie., by his 40th birthday, period 1800-1900, which, and was sold after three Instead of which he found Casson feels, is going to be the months' hawking. Father himself daubing airfields as the run on early-Victorian Jab it, stab H, slash it, bash will eat it, to any starving dog, made no profit on the deal. a camouflage officer in the houses having he conelders,
stick it, prick it, kick it, or throw out of the window. Between 1935 and 1938 Air Ministry.
about spent itself. And stop using that, dis-
Casson stamp on it, jump on it, and
built four more gusting language.
In Kensington the Cassons houses of the same type After that came a spell as will have separate work-room:, Paws across the seal at £1,500 to £2,000.. His technical
officer with the Lady Casson has already chosen commission on each house Minkatry of Town and Country hers. It is something saug was about 90-"not much Planning. From 1948 he was up the top of the house. Who is to to his ears in South Bank affairs, have the favourite dealt is to return for six months' part- which won him his knighthood. be settled by negotiation time work." To make ends The South Bank is now an treaty.
sling it out of the window.
And stop using that disgust- are ing language.
This long-felt want will now be satisfied by Uncle Nat's Cook Kock, written by that dls- tinguished gourmet whose Iden- tity is sometimes thinly dis- gulsed under the pseudonym of
Mial Manger.
Here are some extracts from
the book, to be published shortly by Burp and Hiccup at 18, or whatever we can get för It;— SARDINES ON TOAST
Ingredients: Sardines, toast, Method: Put a slice of bread. under the grill. Light gas over grill. Take a tin of sardines, and look for the key.
SAUSAGES AND MASH
* letter from Manhattan Mouser, American tough cal, to bla English: aweellieart, Loille.
YA Sugar Puss.
ingredients: Sausngës, masked 11 To say hello from New
potatoes.
York and to thank you for your Method: If there are no cold hospitality last time I was in potatoes in the larder, peel some, your home town. and boll them.
The best way to boil potatoes
The more I travel, the more I
is to put them in a saucepan, think of England as my second cover them with cold water, add home and the more I under- salt, put the saucepan over a sland that everything they say lighted gas-ring, and wait for abou! the English Is the water la boil,
hooey.
You then prod the potatoes with a fork to see if they are hard or soft.
If they are hard, they are Inot done; it sofi, they are;
if very soft, overdote.
While the water is coming to
(or six
a lot of
the
For one thing they say chow stinks, but shall I ever forget the Jellied leg of rabbit and saucer of Jersey milk you handed me in
your kitchen when the folks was out for the evening? No, sister, I certainly won't.
the
As most fins of sardines have the boil, take two alleged porkc
For another, they say If you're î no key, try the opener. It you. sausages
and English are stiff necked and miss the tin with your first jab, glutton for punishment)
It taking a guy for wrench the opener out of the prick them all over with a fork. mooty. table and have another go.
on the beach with the This is supposed to stop them. Walk
doesn't
harvest moon shining on the bursting, but
no holds barred, is Put the sausages in
sea, and frying-
If you are lucky you will hit
*
the tin about a quarter of an pan over another gas ring As stiff-hecked and anooly, you cant Inch from the edge. If not, you the modern sausages, though full call me the Sultan of Zanzibar. will hit it smack in the middle of bread, soya beans, dried milk, As you can't open a.tin this way paper, string, and small rubber wrench the opener out. and try baikis, has litle fat in it, add a again.
lump of margarine the size of a Next time you may hit the in walnut or two walnuts If you're on the extreme edge ond spia fond of the stuff.
on to the floor. If so, plek
It up, try again, and stop using
that disgusting language.
By now your toast is in Bames, so eus another sifre of bread, put it under the grill, and retum to your fin.
Unless you were born under
As the sausages will burri, almost at once, you will soon have
1 sizzling mes” of 'bread, saya beam, dried milk.
paper, string,, small robber bands, and sumge.
skins.
All the same, Honey Cat, 1 must say my eyes popped when I saw the difference" in your chassis since the summer of 1931. At that time it was the swellest little chassis in the English speaking world. Now I would say it is just swell in the way you understand the word.
All because Hitler was having his afternoon nap
RUNDSTEDT JOINS THE 'HOW YOU WON' CHORUS
the
the Ruhr The Gar- mins were in chaos,
at
and
a.m. and recalled by supreme headquarters becausd Hitler had not given permission,
Rundstedt says he would have had them in the battle area by evening, ready to drive the first____.... waves back into the sea.
All moming and early after- ncon Rundstedt's chief of staff telephoned Hitler's headquar= tem, trying to get permission. But no-the Fuchrer must first deelde. He was asleep and no- body dare wake him.
The sleeper awoke kbtween 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.too late. He gave his permission 12 hours after Rundstedt's original, move- ment order. The Allies had' Arm bridgeheads before tho panzens arrived.
Rundstedt, unaware of the
between dlapute
Eisenhower and Montgomery about the nar-
HEYDAY PICTURE: Rundstedt with Hitler in 1938. by THOMAS WILSON HELD-MARSHAL GERD deep narrow thrum "from
VON
RUNDSTEDT, Selie to Hitler's No. 1 soldier in the Over here, in America, wej West, makes four remark- Rundstedt tolls how Hitler row thrust or broad advance award a dame higher points forable assertions:-
claimed he was not Interest after the Selne Kad been Now take põistues off the gas, her chassis than for anything,
ed in colonies and would help reached," "daily expected his an evil star your next jab strain, put on a plate, and start including brains, which don't
line to be decisively should hit the in somewhere, between the middle and the mashing with fork. If the count much on Broadway, even let's "Halt" order to the England with the Luftwaffe and thin
panzery so they were about Navy If they had difficulties in broken,"
the world. He sought only edge. If so, saw away until you potatoes are all the same size, if she has any.
to drive the British into the sca you've had enough gump-
German *predominance in
-Thin front. come to tho comer. As you flon to cut the big ones in half,
My ex-girl friends Pep Puss at Dunkirk was a purely poll- Europe, while England could won't be able to negotiate the this will be cosy, because they and Culle Cat never had brains tient decision.
have the rest of the world. comer because you are too far will all be cooked, evenly, it for anything except homing in
A various points there were much- Neither Rundstedt nor from the edge, turn the tin
signs of disin- his not, the hard, underdone bits will on a free meal, but each had a Sea Lion, Hitler's round and start on the other
Chassis
vaunted plan for the in- staff belloved in Sea Lion, "It tegration." His chlet of staff that would give a guy a fly off in all directions,
true," was their ask: "Why did the Western temperature high
to vasion of England, was never almply is not enough
allico not use this opportunity? bust a thermometer.
Intended to be put into action. attitude. ----
"They had only to break Then they dipped their noses
In July, when Hitler ordered through at the centre of gravity too often into the ash cans for Hitler's campaigning habit
"the thin 'Gorman" "front weight, and that's why they'ro) mved the allied invasion, from Goering, fresh from Fuchrer, hero was nothing to stop them. fried chicken leftovers, put on of taking a nap after lunch the preparation of Sea Lion, and
would have been wiped⠀⠀⠀ out. bolng cost back into the sea on to Rundstedt that in private undstedt expected a man at».
side.
And stop wing that diss pusting language.
As the top surface of the tin will now be like the plank of notle Indian takire sleep, on tum it. over and start on the unpunctured surface.
05
:
K you press hard enough with your fork you will break the plate and never hear the last of 16,
Add lo the potatoes left.on "x"
#.Field-Marshal
WAS
the plate 'n Htie milk and a So, Jay off the hog's helpings D+1.. will pour over the table; lump of margarine the size of a of jollied rabbit and Jersey tho tin will be dimcult to hold walnut for the size of a coconut milk, Sugar Puss, if you don't the slippery wood, your for all I care); maali well, aling want to be cx-Sugar. Puss, ex- eccond piece of loast will be in into the pan and duck....before Honey
Cat, and ex-English You are blinded by a shower of sweetheart of yours truly, belling fat.
Manhattan Mouser -{London Exprese Service)
flames.
1. Cut another alloe of bread.
put it under the grill, and
return to your tini
When there is a smell of burn-
·ing, serve' hot to anyone who
conversation Hitler had said ho
bad no intention of corrying tack of the Anglo-Americans In Montgomery, out Sea Lion. The pretence was a sharp north-easterly direction,
a face-caver after Britain re over Aachen-Ruhr divitiet.. right in urging the buit of Hitler's perice offer.
Berlin,******* Two panzer divisions held in This was
J
was precisely Montro
• VON HUNDITEDT, by hie Chief, stmiegie reserve Dear Ports of mery's proposal.. To Rundstedt.
D Day were despatched by itWOR Bunskiedt to Normandy about 31 happen. -
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