Word: legend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he needed help to consolidate his coup d'état last year, Iraq's Premier Karim Kassem trustingly relied on the local Communists. Soon they controlled the press, the state radio and government censorship, key propaganda posts where they set to work creating the legend of the revolutionary hero, the Sole Leader. Friends tried to warn the Sole Leader that he was being had, but it took the shocking evidence of the Red-led killing and burning at Kirkuk (TIME, Aug. 3) and Mosul to convince Kassem that the Communists were out to divide, not to unite...
...taxes, accept identity cards or cultivate peanuts as ordered by the French. He died of dysentery in a French Congo prison in 1942. His disciples, deifying him, hold that he is still alive and will return one day to the Congo to drive the whites out. In their legend, he was buried in a great cement hole, his arms and legs tied with cables, but broke free and got away, now lives in a royal palace in Paris. They call him Jesus Matswa, cherish photomontages that show Jesus chatting amiably with Matswa on the Mount of Olives. More recently, Matswanists...
...remnants that live on in TV variety shows-animal acts, jugglers, monologu-ists-are dogged reminders that vaudeville is as dead as the day before yesterday. The old troupers are legend now, larger than life in sentimental memories. But the best of them never needed such exaggeration. Carnival Buff William (Nightmare Alley) Gresham's biography, Houdini, The Man Who Walked Through Walls (Holt; $4.50), serves its subject well, simply by telling the story straight. "As the archetype of the hero who could not be fettered or confined," writes Biographer Gresham, "he became the idol of a million boys...
...morning and was not allowed to save food. He was assigned to a companion and a tutor from among the professional priests and was told his priestly name-Suwanno, meaning gold. After he stated that he was a human being (because, in the Buddha's time, legend has it that a snake in human form was once ordained), Jerm formally became a priest...
Died. John J. Sheehy, 78, beefy (6 ft. 4 in., 250 Ibs.), longtime (1918-41) Sing Sing Prison guard and principal keeper (1926-41), who ruled his charges with a celebrated iron fist, once nipped a revolt by a right to the jaw of the ringleader that knocked him, legend says, halfway across the prison courtyard, kept Sing Sing quiet as a convent during the turbulent gangbuster era between world wars while prisons elsewhere often ran amuck; of a stroke; in North Tarrytown...