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...Janet Turner, 38, who likes neat, precise pictures of crumbling marble staircases and brightly speckled guinea fowl, arrived in Texas five years ago to teach at Stephen Austin College, has just won a Guggenheim to experiment in color prints...
...clever and not ineffective." Since the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan, he wrote, "Asian opinion has been particularly sensitive to the use of unorthodox weapons of war" and susceptible to the belief that the Americans are now using other Asians-the Communists in Korea -as guinea pigs for another horrible weapon. The Peking germ-warfare exhibition fills three large halls, with exhibits of parachuted cylinders allegedly full of germ-carrying insects, and maps showing where the Americans dropped pests 804 times at 70 points. An American-made phonograph plays over & over the "confessions" of two captured U.S. airmen...
...something else." How could Thurber, or any kid, ever forget that his dad, wearing a derby hat, tried to repair the lock to the rabbit hutch, and "succeeded only after getting inside the cage, where he was imprisoned for three hours with six Belgian hares and thirteen guinea pigs"? Or take his mother, who "once distressed a couple of stately guests in her father's home by descending the front stairs in her dressing gown, her hair tumbling and her eyes staring, to announce that she had escaped from the attic, where she was kept because of her ardent...
Head-hunting among the Marindese and Boetinese tribes of New Guinea is not mere wanton cruelty, but a "moral-religious necessity." The natives have the highest motives: they love their children and yearn for immortality, and headhunting is their way of satisfying both urges. This theory is expounded by Anthropologist Justus M. Van der Kroef of Michigan State College, in the current American Anthropologist...
Chief problem among the people on the south coast of New Guinea is how to name their children. No ordinary name will serve. Each child must have a name that has been taken-along with a head-from a living person. If a child lacks this sort of name, he is a miserable creature, derided by his playmates and a reproach to his parents...