Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indian hooded cobra, it bit the hand of William White. 32, a professional snake handler in a reptile garden. Serum flown from Miami by Air Force jet saved White. But the cobra's fangs were loosened by the heavy burlap bag through which it struck, and its jaw was dislocated when White jerked his hand away. Infection of the injured mouth killed the snake...
Sick? The Douglas humor more often than not is of the "sick" variety-or, as a colleague put it, "his jokes need Blue Cross." One chapter is called "India, or Put the Cobra Back in the Basket, Mother -There'll Be No Show Tonight." Another begins: "Early this morning, somewhere in between my orange juice and my No. 1 concubine, I got to thinking about Toynbee Doob . . . He had an extra pinkie on each hand. When Toynbee drank tea he was the politest bastard in the county...
...bodied voice can flare to an exuberant shout or sink away to a foggy, muted-trumpet whisper. Occasionally, as she sweeps her almond eyes over the ringside tables, she lets flutter a throaty, tongue-trilling sound that suggests nothing so much as the invitation of an amorous cobra. Within the framework of That Old Black Magic she sings a medley of songs -Hold Him, Joe; Matilda; It Ain't Necessarily So; When the Saints Go Marching In -intersperses them with barefooted, hip-shaking dances. In her finale, she strips to fringed pantaloons and wriggles about the stage...
Through such spectacular stunts, bearbaiting, beret-topped Newsman Jämsä (pronounced Yamsa) has got the stories that have helped the picture weekly Apu to achieve the largest magazine circulation (230,000) in Finland. In the course of his reporting chores, Jämsä has charmed a cobra, parachuted from 13,000 ft., tamed a lion, dived in a frogman's gear to a dangerous depth of 200 ft., and was stopped only by open water in an attempt to ski across the Baltic Sea from Finland to Sweden. Other Jämsä stunts...
...else, TV itself has felt his witty sting. Sample: "Crusty old politicians are now told how to put things across on TV. And the more charming they are, the less you believe ... I still remember Macmillan on TV last year watching the camera lens as if it were a cobra and appealing to the nation for calm, his face frozen with terror...