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...village of St. Michel-de-1'Atalaye, high on Haiti's Plateau Central, it was a day of both sadness and fun. The older folk, according to the Haitian custom, alternately wept & wailed, feasted, played cards. For the younger ones there were endless ghost stories and riddles. It was the day of 26-year-old Alina Souf-frant's funeral...
Alina, a sturdy, black peasant girl, had been paralyzed in both legs for six months or more. One day she became feverish and lapsed into a coma. Three days later she stiffened and turned cold; then the wake began. One ancient Haitian custom was omitted: no hill-country witch doctor poisoned her or stabbed her to make sure that she would never become a zombi...
Ulate resumed the presidential custom of walking to the San José post office every day to get his mail. He also walked to work. Coming out of his two-story stucco house on the capital's north side one day last week, he struck out as usual past the corner grocery and crossed the Parque Morazán toward the palace. In the park, a fat waiter passed him. "Buenos dias, Don Otilio," said the waiter. The President of Costa Rica tipped...
...Arms and the Girl" opens, a cannonball crashes through the back wall of a barn, lands on the stage, and rolls directly toward an alarmed audience. The new Theatre Guild musical comedy is aimed at a target just as broad--the old New England custom of bundling--and it scores a hit almost as solid as the one by the cannonball...
...Guetary of the French stage. In the part of a runaway Hessian who is at first reluctant about bundling, he proves that he has an excellent voice, genuine comic ability and a charming stage personality. John Conte is a consistently amusing colonel without any qualms about accepting the bundling custom...