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When she was 24, Arlene Francis Kazanjian, lithe, brunette daughter of an Armenian portrait photographer, auditioned her way into radio as a dog, a cat and a witch-all for one show. After 24 erratic years in show business, ambitious, Massachusetts-born Arlene Francis, now a taffy blonde, is still playing the all-purpose professional lady...
Greatest variation is in the accompanying rites. Among some tribes curare is prepared by old women; in a few the witch doctor has a monopoly of the business, but usually all the wise old men get together to brew a batch. A widespread restriction is that the curare-makers shall operate in an isolated part of the forest; often they are required to refrain from sexual intercourse while a batch is being run, and women may be kept at a distance. In some tribes the work must be finished before the sun reaches the zenith (or interrupted then). Many refuse...
...people are sick and tired of witch hunts, of which the Smith Act prosecutions were the high point," burbled suety Philip M. ("Slim") Connelly, Los Angeles editor of the Communist People's World. Gathered around Connelly in a Los Angeles lawyer's office last week was a jubilant quorum of the 14 California Communist leaders in whose cases the U.S. Supreme Court had just ordered acquittal (for five), and new trials (for nine). Spokesman Connelly was giving out the new Red line that Communist martyrdom (including, said Manhattan's Daily Worker, those "sublimely heroic" atom spies, Julius...
Clausen offers his ritual bull's-eyes to Colquhoun, but later makes the agonized confession that he has been an all-night sucker for the beastly magic of a local witch doctor. Hoping to bridge the gulf between European and African knowledge, he has dabbled in mysterious rites (in one, a man was burned to death by no visible flame) and is now desperately afraid for his soul. The fate of this jungle Dr. Faustus is sealed in what the press calls "the great Clausen scandal." Kenya-raised Novelist Huxley (Red Strangers, The Walled City) has written a literate...
...rebellion was now at an end, but a British district officer, passing through Nandi territory recently, noted that the tribesmen were still making arrows. The witch doctor was arrested. As he was hauled to jail, mooning all the while over a withered setiot blossom (the symbol of virility among the Nandi), the remaining Nandi meekly and with some relief surrendered their stock of nearly 15,000 newly made bows and arrows. "We had to do as the witch doctor said," one explained apologetically, "otherwise he would have bewitched our children...