Word: witched
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...into Pretoria last week for their first great convention. They came fully dressed for the occasion, with headdresses of beads or feathers, clanking bracelets and earrings, and costume jewelry made of bones, shells, bells, animal horns and beer-bottle tops. Officially constituting the African Dingaka Association, they were the witch doctors from the Union of South Africa and their cousins from Rhodesia, Bechuanaland, Swaziland and Basutoland...
Said President Lukus Somo: "We have come to reaffirm our faith in the old native customs and in the spirits of our ancestors." The witch doctors had another, more practical purpose: they wanted government recognition of their professional organization...
...government with the seriousness of their calling, they voted ?10,000 to set up a medical school in Johannesburg-to help "weed out the quacks and illiterates from among the medicine men," as Somo put it. The school will be in a two-story building, with shops for witch doctors and herbal-I ists on the ground floor. In its syllabus will be a course in "throwing the bones" -a method of diagnosis in which four-inch pieces of ivory or ox bone are dropped on a sanded floor...
...were the ones everyone expected him to win. And to whom must we credit these pivotal votes? To Eisenhower, yes, but just as much to the McCarthys, the Jenners, the Kems, and the Cains, who did so much to clothe the GOP and its nominee with the garb of witch-hunting which at first was their own exclusive zoot suit. And, we believe, it was Eisenhower's enthusiastic espousel of the Reds issue which attracted the countless worried Catholic voters, his constant pounding on supposed softness, and his promise to root out Pinks, that elastic category of intellectuals whose confines...
...Christian; the inevitable friction burnt her alive. In spite of its authentic glare and beat, the book sold badly and Gary "got no bean of royalty." The next year, a second book about Africa, An American Visitor, fared even worse. His first break came in 1936 when The African Witch was made a Book Society choice and earned him about ?700. In 1938 came Castle Corner, a long, slow-paced novel of Anglo-Irish life, which some critics praised warmly. But it sold less than 3,000 copies...