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Africa was enjoying a rash of ritual murder. Three years ago jet-complexioned Sir Ofori Atta, Paramount Chief of Akim Abuakwa, died (of natural causes) in the Gold Coast Colony. Soon his friend and secretary, Mensah, Chief of Apedwa, disappeared from view. After long investigation by the British authorities, eight natives were convicted of murdering Mensah, and sentenced to hang (TIME, Dec.11,1944). Mensah, the Crown contended, had been sacrificed to provide blood to daub a ceremonial stool which represented the late Sir Ofori; or to provide Sir Ofori with a companion in the spirit world; or both...
...Imperial's sleepless rooms are a tight symposium of cubes and hexagons, an epidemic of shallow drawers, a rash of unpainted knobs, an aurora of burnished copper. The bed (in the room I occupied) was a grass-fed sarcophagus. . . . The capacious copper wash basin made me feel that I was usurping the rights of the turnips at a steam-table lunch counter, and the light was directed at such an angle that I could shave myself successfully only between the shoulder blades...
...suggest). It is a study not of the reign of the great Queen but of the terrible turmoil and trumpeting that ushered in her birth, childhood and adolescence-years when the lives of privy councilors, dukes, queens, princesses, butchers and bakers hung upon a royal mood, a rash word, or a murderous plot concocted behind velvet curtains...
Encouraged by the tremendous capacity exhibited by the American economy during the war years, a rash of optimistic prophecies and plans for American prosperity has appeared on bookstands in recent months. Because of, rather than in spite of, the fact that the author is not an academic economist, Chester Bowles' "Tomorrow Without Fear" is one of the most understandable books on the subject that has yet appeared. Its greatest contribution is the exposition of the terribly low standards of living which prevailed in this "land of plenty" before the war, and in the glowing picture of possibilities which the future...
...workers. The Government offered them $1.37 an hour, whereas 700 A.F.L. longshoremen on the same coast get $1.38. Bridges wanted that extra cent. He stayed balky until it was too late to prevent walkouts in all major U.S. ports, then gave in with bad grace. There was an untidy rash of local stoppages which lasted until the seven unions involved could get their scattered locals to ratify the deal. Last to act were Bridges' longshoremen. After all, the deal covers them only until September 30, when their contract expires, and they can threaten to strike again...