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...rhino-haunted woods near famed Treetops Hotel,* saw his old teacher hack off the head of a Kikuyu forest guard with a panga knife. Kimathi tied the severed head to his belt, then loped off into the jungle at the head of his band of 40 Mau Maus. The Kenya government has offered ?500 reward for Kimathi's capture...
...probably the best-known star in the world. In various foreign countries, he is known as Comondogo Mickey, el Raton Miguelito, Miguel Pericote, Topolino, Michel Souris, Miki Kuchi, Mikki Maus, Musse Pigg, Mickey Maus, Mickey Hiireke, Kiki Mavz'a, Mikkel Mus, Mickely...
...Russian-made cousin: Mikki Maus. Some names of the original Mickey, elsewhere: Miki Kuchi (Japan), Miguel Ratoncito (Spain), Michel Souris (France), Musse Pigg (Sweden), Camondongo Mickey (Brazil), El Raton Mickey (Argentina), Mikel Mus (Greece...
...hands of a Dutch mayonnaise executive (vice president and general manager of Hellmann's) named Maus R. Van Benschoten. He has been peering through his horn-rimmed spectacles for strategic materials tied up in railroad yards, warehouses, backyards. By last week he had almost finished. On his desk, hundreds of pink slips showed such "frozen" items as 20,000,000 lb. of copper sheets, ingots, wire, etc., 27,500,000 lb. of tin plate and 4,000,000 lb. of pig tin, "vast quantities" of rubber, silk, wool, hides, chemicals...
...swells his chest at Minnie Mouse, meets grievous setbacks, shrilly gives fight and taps out marvels of dancing, bullfighting, footballing.* Like his predecessor in world popularity, Charlie Chaplin, he has "the wistfulness of ... a little fellow trying to do the best he can." In Germany he is Michael Maus, in France Michel Souris, in Japan Miki Kuchi, in Denmark Mikkel Mus and in Spain Miguel Ratonocito. Last week he became Art. In Manhattan's Kennedy Galleries art critics piously eyed a collection of original Mickey Mouse cartoons from the Walt Disney Studios in Hollywood. Wrote one, "Genius . . . profoundest stuff...