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...Arab Nationalist Party still in control, the Sultan was spared that grim necessity. But the country at large is wondering what will happen between the two feuding factions when the British troops pull out. To preserve the peace then might be quite a job even for the witch doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zanzibar: Deadlocked Magic | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...slender pejorative burden of Butor's book is contained in interwoven excerpts from a terrifying Salem witch trial, historical notes on the ill-treatment of American Indians, liberal quotes from the prospectus of Freedomland, U.S.A., and offerings from the views of various Southerners (real and imagined) on the Negro. Among them is one from that conscientious democrat Thomas Jefferson, who concluded, ". . . their inferiority is not the effect, merely, of their condition of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Watered Whine | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...none was more certain of his art than Phonographist Joe Warfield. Maestro Warfield's instruments were three phonographs and 300 or so records-and he played them with an artist's rapt care. Warfield was a disquaire, a man who played the phonograph, and he took a witch doctor's grave delight in his work. "I create a mood like a painting," he would say I can make the people dance. I can make them sit down." Awe-struck by such commanding art, a newspaper columnist once told him: "Warfield, if only I had your power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Instrumentalists: The Compleat Virtuosi | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). White Witch Doctor, with Susan Hayward as an American nurse, Robert Mitchum as the Congo's best white hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 21, 1963 | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

...when Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer rounded up 4,000 aliens and deported almost 600. Palmer was long held to be the worst Red-baiter of them all until Joe McCarthy came along, but Palmer's first biographer contends that he did not lead the witch hunt; he merely rode with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Reds Who Were Not There | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

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