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...passenger list of the Normandie, just before it sailed from Manhattan, a purser spied the name of Acee Blue Eagle. Publicity-wise, that official hunted down a tall, husky Amerindian, persuaded him to exchange his grey business suit for a red blanket and a headdress of blue-&-white feathers. To newshawks, Acee Blue Eagle explained that he was not only a great-grandson of famed Creek Chief William Mclntosh but newly elected head of the art department at Bacone College near Muskogee, Okla. A first-rate tribal artist. Blue Eagle won fourth place in the 1932 Olympic exhibition...
Ervin Lang's torso, wrapped in a blanket, was found in a swamp across the Indiana line. Headlines: TORSO MURDER; SWAMP MURDER. The legs, neatly sawed with the trousers, socks and shoes still on, were presently found seven miles away in a trunk. Evelyn Smith and her Chinese husband, Harry Jung, had vanished. For a week yellow men traveling with white women were detained all through the Midwest. The Press billed the crime as an endpoint of miscegenation. Fears were expressed that the "sinister Oriental," Harry Jung, had killed his white wife to make his getaway. This billing...
...wine. Thin and, without makeup, childish in appearance, the 22-year-old Slave Dancer shrewdly concocts from cosmetics bought in bulk the thick paint which turns her into a beautiful, large-eyed blonde of uncertain age. Strangely lacking in sex appeal off the stage, Miss Warner is a wet blanket at parties, has been known plaintively to ask fellow guests who were making whoopee to sit down and let her read them a few verses of classical French poetry. Her brother Gerald (Dartmouth 1930) is the meticulous U. S. vice consul at Mukden, Manchuria...
...Houston marched into Washington with a big sombrero on his head, an Indian blanket over his shoulders and a tiger-skin vest around his middle, sat in the Senate for 13 years whittling at a stack of wood. But he was a gallant, handsome man, with the Indian's poise and dignity, and even Virginia ladies loved him, until he began to talk against secession. Back in Texas as Governor, he lost his office when he refused to swear allegiance to the Confederate Government. The whole South drummed "the hoary-haired traitor" to his grave...
...river. George asked if they were going to drown him. Another night they slept in a stand of timberland. "That made me think, well, I believe it belongs to my father." His last three nights in captivity were spent in a house near Issaquah, bundled in his blanket and imprisoned in a closet by a man sleeping just outside its door. He said he was well fed, and when they finally released him on a lonely road just before dawn the men told George: "You've been a fine...