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Houdini claims to have won every Calypso "war" since 1920. The Calypso Carnival held on the two days before Ash Wednesday is now a major tourist attraction in Port-of-Spain, with each of the rival kings setting up headquarters in bamboo tents, and challenging each other to sing-downs composed on the spur of the moment...
...ignorance, he cannot see the need for scientific methods of agriculture, and continues to use cow dung for fuel instead of fertilizer. In his poverty he cannot afford to spend time in learning, nor rupees in buying anything to aid his production. He is born in a small bamboo shack, and after about thirty hungry years (if he is fortunate) he will die there...
...attempt to look like occidentals the actors appeared with built-up noses and shoes, actresses with built-up busts and behinds. But the translation was clear and faithful. Did the Jap audience get the anti-fascist point? The faces behind the calmly wagging bamboo fans gave no hint...
...city markets big bamboo tubs and bigger vats heaped with rice are plainly displayed. But the price of rice is terribly inflated and it goes only to those who can afford the black market. UNRRA relief supplies are trickling in by river junks from Shanghai. Whenever UNRRA supplies arrive, the price of rice drops, only to go up again because the supplies are not enough...
...long years of war, news from embattled China funneled through the tumbledown, mud-&-lath buildings of the Chungking Press Hostel. Last week, the last of the foreign-press corps followed the Central Government to Nanking. The bamboo-fenced compound looked as dreary and forsaken as an empty schoolyard-which...