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Hurled Heads. The leaping apparition was Shamyl the Avar. He was one of two fighting men to escape the ruins of the aoul. Two years later, in 1834, he was elected Imam of Dhagestan-the absolute spiritual and temporal ruler of most of the tribesmen in the Caucasus. He fired his subjects with a fanatic brand of Mohammedanism, and his dedicated Murids, or holy warriors, kept the armies of Czar Nicholas at bay for the next 25 years. As the years passed and the Czar's frustration continued, Shamyl became a European hero. Russophobic Britons forgave the raider...
Although converted to Christianity in 1929, Presbyterian Muto, 48, did not begin to practice his religion seriously until after World War II. Shaken by Japan's defeat and his part in the Avar, he became a minister, as he said, "to atone for my sins." He made a name for himself as the editor of the weekly Christian News and, in 1950, the Rev. Toyohiko Kagawa, one of Japan's most famed Christian leaders, suggested that Muto try his hand at retranslating the Bible. He spent two years working from the Japanese version, checked with Greek, Latin...
...brand-new type also to be included in the Air Forces front-line strength will be Lockheed's slick new jet-plane, the P-80 (TIME, March 12), on which veteran fighter pilots are now being trained. Of all the older standbys of the European Avar only a few Flying Fortresses will fight in the Pacific frontline, after redeployment has been completed...
...Ayres, onetime cinema glamor boy, now a gaunt and grizzled chaplain's aide at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, decided that he had found what he had always wanted. The former "Dr. Kildare"* plans to enter a seminary after the Avar, eventually preach from a Congregational pulpit. Said he: "I want to continue this work, God willing...
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