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From Stanleyville, Belgian Congo, Chicago Daily Newsman George Weller last week told how a young British Baptist missionary had gone so far native as to revive drum talking. John Carrington, 29, learned the drum tongue from a tattooed old drum master, Lifindiki Tuaytolo, freely translated as Quarrelsome Smith. Missionary Carrington and Quarrelsome Smith taught young tribesmen how to converse with a two-toned hollowed wood drum...
...morning in 1816 an Englishman with a godlike face and a deformed foot registered at a Belgian inn, and, '"as soon as he reached his room . . . fell like a thunderbolt upon the chambermaid." It was George Gordon Lord Byron, "for whom foreign travel had a psychological significance which his traveling compan ions could not long ignore." His com panions: Dr. John ("Polly dolly") Polidori; his "querulous" valet, Fletcher; his sparring partner. Next afternoon they all set off for Switzerland via the year-old battlefield of Waterloo where Byron, an insatiable souvenir hunter, bought some scraps of old iron...
Died. Mme. Georgette Leblanc, 66, longtime intimate and "inspiration" of Belgian poet Maurice Maeterlinck; after a year's illness; in Le Cannet, France. In 1893, entranced by Maeterlinck's poetic mysticism, which she discovered after a chance reading of his essay on Emerson, she tore up her contract with the Opera Comique, left Paris for Brussels "to become the wife of the great Maeterlinck." Wearing on her forehead a blue diamond which she said was a symbol of happiness, Mme. Leblanc met Maeterlinck at a supper party, lived with him for more than 20 years, and maintained...
...past few days there have been indications that the powers that be are heading toward the same mistakes of propaganda made in the last war. Then, it was painting the Germans, one and all, as neolithic creatures punching the eyes of Belgian babies. Now, it is painting the present, Russian regime as peace-loving and religiously tolerant...
I.M.M. spent the whole 1931-40 decade in the red, rolled up a balance sheet deficit of $27,000,000. Now the deficits are probably over. Although it lost seven ships (owned by a Belgian affiliate) to Nazi torpedoes, four crack liners to the Army and Navy, it will have at least 23 new money-making freighters to more than fill the hole. In the first half of this year, I.M.M.'s U.S. Lines cleared over $2,000,000, against only $371,000 last year...