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...largely unrehearsed record of the ceremonies that go with such tribal institutions as initiation rites, hunting, fishing, rainmakmg. The movie is studded with fine shots of African game during an exciting hunting sequence. Its remarkable sound track carries the authentic cries of wild animals, the natives' strange lingo, the pulsing of their drums...
Pounding Hooves. By the last performance ("go-round" in cowboy lingo), the contestants' gaudy shirts were in tatters, the carefully creased broad-brimmed hats had been mashed and shredded by pounding hooves, and the embroidered boots were mud-splattered. But the show was a rousing success...
...mixture quickly clouded and a deposit settled in the bottom of the test tube; with blood serum from a healthy individual, the clear fluid stayed clear. Thus was born the first simple and effective serum test for syphilis, and one of those in widest use today.* In popular lingo, Kahn tests are often called Wassermanns. Kahn, who took no cash for his discovery, lets the credit go too. Says he: "I don't care what people call...
Hydie, the conventtrained, divorced daughter of a U.S. Army colonel, finds Fyodor irresistible; he seems to her the only man of will, purpose and direction in sight. The rest are just silly Americans, broken refugees and ridiculous Paris intellectuals who bicker endlessly over brandies in trite dialectical lingo...
...classmate Margaret Truman. The night before, Margaret had come down from Manhattan to Washington for the occasion. A late riser by preference, she roused herself for an "early" (8:40) breakfast with her father at Blair House, lunched with her mother before going off to Best Friend Jane Lingo's house to gossip, giggle and eat her favorite chocolate cake with her old school chums...