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After crossing the land of the Nham-biquaras, whose complete nudity failed to offend the hard-bitten colonel, Roosevelt, Rondon, the others and a troop of native porters and boatmen found the headwaters of the Rio da Dúvida and started down it in rough dugout canoes. The river, winding northward through precipitous canyons toward the Equator, almost beat them. There were grueling portages around roaring rapids. Fever and bloodsucking insects sapped their strength. Once, when a whirlpool caught a canoe, a porter was drowned and Kermit nearly perished. They eked out their provisions by eating monkeys, Brazil nuts...
...troop of German Catholic youths were still in a holy daze from their visit to Pope Pius XI in Rome, as they came down out of the Alps on their way back into Nazi Germany. Harsh awakening came at the border where waited Nazi border police. No Nazi is permitted to wear a Nazi uniform outside of Germany, but these pious Nazi youths had worn, while genuflecting before Pope Pius, the livery of Adolf Hitler-thus committing a peculiar sort of Nazi lèse-majesté. At the border the returning youths were set upon, their uniforms roughly seized...
...Master of the Hunt, Chief Forester, General of Aviation and dread Chief of the Secret Political Police. It was he who ordered shot during the Blood Purge (TIME, July 9) the only man for whom Adolf Hitler had acted as best man since his rise to power, Berlin Storm Troop Leader Karl Ernst. Last week the Realmleader was going to be best man for Göring...
These figures, testimony revealed, consisted of an itemized list of the war weapons possessed by a local Munich Storm Troop section, despite Adolf Hitler's reiteration that his Storm Troops have never borne arms. The section leader, another simple German, had no typewriter and asked Roiderer as a favor to type the list, allowing him to keep a copy...
...sudden lapses into sanity. During the voyage to New Orleans, for instance, the cargo of maidens falls into the hands of pirates. These fellows, as villanous a crew as ever infested Penzance, leave their winsome booty strangely inviolate until it is wrested from their grasp by a troop of mercenary soldiers. In the fight which ensues, the comic spirit vanishes, and the bucaneers receive the cold steel for their delicacy. A trifle more humor might also be inserted with profit in the scene during which Miss MacDonald and Mr. Eddy tenderly resurrect the piece de resistance of the evening...