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Haitians call deliberate blanching "ouarization." They call darkening "haitianization." Jean-Joseph Dauphin "ouarized" himself by accident last summer. He asked his father, a brewer of herbs, for some "ouarit" beans to cure his asthma. The ouarit, sometimes called sea bean, is an oval, black-striped red bean about the size of a large lima bean. Jean-Joseph Ysmeon Dauphin's father told him to take only a speck of ouarit at a time, because the bean was an aphrodisiac. Jean-Joseph is 57. Suffering, he decided to kill or cure. He took a whole bean each day for five...
President Stenio Vincent of Haiti called on "ouarized" Jean-Joseph Dauphin. Haitian doctors examined him and the ouarit bean. They suspect traces of cyanide in the bean, hope U. S. investigators will discover the cause of the transformation...
...father, a pioneer homesteader in Kansas and Colorado. He drummed the Southwest for a wholesale grocery firm in Joplin, Mo. Twenty-five years ago he settled in California. He was twice elected to the Los Angeles City Council by the businessman vote. When Supervisor Jack Bean mocked him as ''the grocery boy who made good,'' Mr. Shaw wrested the supervisorship from him by 80,000 votes. He was chairman of the County Board of Supervisors when elected Mayor last week. During this long public service no serious question had been raised about his citizenship. His explanation...
...Robinson's earlier pictures. It shows him as a retired Chicago gangster, doing his best to lead a life of moneyed case at Santa Barbara. In retirement. Francis J. ("Bugs") Ahearn conceals the source of his wealth, promptly sets about joining what he thinks is the Santa Barbara bean monde. He becomes betrothed to an alluring blonde (Helen Vinson), learns enough polo to join a local team, buys a $600,000 share of her father's brokerage business, secures an immense mansion. complete with servants and secretary (Mary Astor) in which to entertain her friends. The members...
Board of Traders asked each other: "Why else did Curtis Bean Dall buy a seat on the Board of Trade a week ago? He must expect it." Mr. Ball's father-in-law in the White House (where Mr. Dall visited over the weekend) took pains to foster the inflation psychology pointed out to the closed but not silent corporation of White House newshawks four points, all "anti-deflationary": 1) release of $4,000,000,000 in deposits still tied up in closed banks, 2) guarantee of Federal reserve deposits with a $2.000,000,000 fund, 3) higher crop...