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Heinrich Himmler, who in life looked like a cross between a wasp and a pig, looked different in death. His death mask (see cut), taken near Lüneburg, Germany, after his suicide (by swallowing potassium cyanide), might have been mistaken for that of a daft and drunken Silenus...
...Super Duck would move, sales had hit 40 million a month. Now they were down to 27 million, and still skidding. War-born pulps were going begging, too. One firm, whose stable of magazines goes up & down at the drop of a dime, had dumped 64 titles (Green Mask Comics, Sleepy Time Stories, etc.). But buyers still had some 1,200 titles to choose from...
...invited the public (in newspaper ads) to come to an initiation party. About 2,000 responded, clambered to the treeless, rock-strewn peak at night. They saw some 700 men wearing white, hooded sheets, and one who wore a rich green robe. When the Grand Dragon took off his mask he was, as everybody well knew, Dr. Samuel Green, a middleaged, small-mustached Atlanta physician...
Among the best and most beguiling disguises in the show were twisted Iroquois Indian masks of crooked-faced Go-gon-sa (a god who, like Adam, disobeyed the Creator and took a cuffing for it); a mask of the sacred, snake-devouring eagle Gurula from Ceylon, its head alive with twining cobras; Haidu, Tlinglit and Salish masks from the northwest Pacific coast, representing ancestors who could appear in various shapes at will (one, a wooden wolf-head, came open to reveal a fearsome cormorant); a proud yet friendly mask of Hamtman, Javanese version of the Indian monkey...
...pictures of Coolidge in an Indian war bonnet. Lord Halifax remained just as quiet, just as impenetrable, just as incomprehensible to the nation's Brooklyns and Broadways. Halifax never said or did anything very startling, but his patient kindness, that at first seemed to some the mere mask of condescension, convinced the U.S. at last that it was the genuine article. The U.S. decided that Halifax would never be at home in a ball park, but he was good goods. Brooklyn and Broadway knew that he could take it. Now that he was going home,* the U.S. discovered that...