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...witnessed: garbed as half man, half woman in a ruffled shirt, cutaway coat, silk hat, and cigar stub, Papa Nebo, an hermaphrodite, wrought mysteries with corpses, pronounced the oracle of the dead. Other corpses, zombies, worked in the cane fields, strictly supervised. To a white they seemed rather like gaunt imbeciles with their keeper. But how was it that often blacks had seen their relatives buried, only to find them weeks later in servitude as zombies? In the criminal code Author Seabrook found the weird explanation. Such are the African intimacies that share popularity with Roman Catholicism -even to orgiastic...
...bogeymen with which the Soviet press scares Russians was added, last week,* a potent U. S. citizen 89 years of age, gaunt, and frail with parchment skin and eyes that seem always sunken behind dark-lensed spectacles. A searing editorial in Besbozhnik (The Godless), famed anti-religious organ of the Soviet State, revealed, as horrid fact, that 65.000 "Baptist Bibles" have recently been printed in Russia. Since someone must have paid for them, and since John Davison Rockefeller Sr. is rich, philanthropic and Baptist, Editor Shpitzberg of Besbozhnik pointed accusingly across the Atlantic at Rockefeller Sr., while indicating John Davison...
Abraham Lincoln in the nude appeared last week as a statuette at the Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan. Rough blobs of bronze compose a gaunt, strong figure of a rail splitter leaning on the haft of his axe, his head thrown backward in revery. The sculptor is Merton Clivette...
CLASS DAY COMMITTEE **James Luther Reid229 **John Tudor 229 *Kenneth Douglas Robinson, Jr. 224 *Edward William Sexton 219 *John Andrew Prior 182 *Howard Whitmore, Jr. 181 *Thomas Gaunt Moore 158 Joseph Stanley Cunningham 141 Stuart Gordon Hardy 134 George Akin Tupper 127 James Richard Carter 126 Hulburd Johnston 105 Alfred Skinner Woodworth 99 William Temple Emmet 94 Lawrence Milton Shapiro 84 Edward Fuller Fitzhugh, Jr. 84 Edgar Ward La Due 81 Thomas Francis Tucker, Jr. 72 Votes thrown out 7 Total 2576 CLASS SECRETARY *Richard Arnold Stout 126 Richard Fullington Stevens 99 James de Normandie 85 Charles McKim Norton...
...Luther Reid, of Somerville, and John Tudor, of Boston. The remaining five members of the committee finished in the following order: Kenneth Douglas Robinson, Jr., of Hewlitt, Long Island, New York: Edward William Sexton, of Winchester; John Andrew Prior, of Medford; Howard What're, Jr., of Newton Highlands; Thomas Gaunt Moore, of St. Louis. Missourl...