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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ensure the secresy of such ceremonies, the Poro had another mask, the Gblo ze ge (see cut, right) The man wearing the Gblo ze ge mask had the task of killing any boy caught spying into the mysteries. Such a peeping Poro was first made insensible with poison in his nose and eyes, then seated on a smokeless fire. After he was properly roasted, he was consumed by all the zos (the local big shots) of the countryside called together for the occasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Solution. In Oklahoma City, authorities puzzled over the problem of Mrs. Bill Tucker, who shot her husband in the abdomen when she caught him flirting with the telephone girl in a bootleg liquor store, finally solved it by releasing the three principals, jailing the bootlegger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Heliotrope, a freshly caught frog from the Sierra Nevada foothills, outleaped some 150 rivals to win the annual Jumping Frog Jubilee of Calaveras County (Calif.). The winning jump: n ft. 5 in.-no record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...good. It was not so much the Oregon vote which had done it as Stassen's own cocky and imprudent campaign. He had irritated Bob Taft by going into Ohio. Long before Oregon, he had antagonized Dewey by loudly announcing that under no circumstances would he be caught running on the same ticket with New York's governor. Oregon had deepened the ill will. Taft and Dewey would certainly be allied against him at Philadelphia. Mighty powerful backing would be needed to override their influence, even to get Stassen the nomination for Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: As the Dust Cleared | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Webster," the famed frog of Mark Twain's story, who could "get over more ground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see," lost to another freshly caught frog when the rival owner filled Dan'l full of quail shot "pretty near up to his chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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