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Once the wife is with child, a Kogi man can throw himself without reserve into the male community's fervid philosophical life. He gathers nightly with other men in a big conical ceremonial house to chew coca leaves and listen to the mama extoll the merits of inactivity and incuriosity, the Kogi ideals. The drug dispels the physical and sexual hunger that the Kogi man despises; at his nightly talk fest, he is content...
Follies with Grace. Author Thurber's own start in life came at the hands of Midwife Margery Albright, who rates, and gets, one of the most endearing portraits in the Album. Aunt Margery "knew where sour grass grew, which you chew for dyspepsy, and mint, excellent for the naushy, and the slippery elm . . . for raw throat and other sore tishas." Contemptuous of doctors, she cured her husband of fever by forcing a broth of sheep droppings down his protesting gullet. For stubborn pregnancies she blew powdered tobacco "up one nostril of the expectant mother," and so brought...
This week the $513 million Ford Foundation announced that it is going into the magazine business. Starting in October, the foundation will publish Perspectives U.S.A., a quarterly designed to show people outside the U.S. that "Americans can think as well as chew gum." The magazine, a pet project of the foundation's Associate Director Robert Hutchins, will be uncompromisingly highbrow, and will run original articles and reprints on literature, music, theater, history, philosophy, plus American poetry, fiction, and art. There will be no advertising, propaganda or politics. It will be printed abroad, at first in English, French, German...
Dearly Beloved . . . In Gary, Ind., Justice of the Peace Paul Dudak indignantly announced that he would not marry any more couples who chew, drink, hum, whistle, wear greasy clothes or crack improper jokes during the marriage ceremony...
...determination and persistence of its snow is no new phenomenon for Cambridge. A few years ago a couple of Sno-Gos-those goose-necked tractors which effectively chew up snow and squirt it into trucks--briefly appeared in the Square, then disappeared without a trace. In their wake returned the good old snowplows, smearing the snow into well-glazed flat surfaces and impenetrable mounds...