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Lepers with purplish, corrugated, lion-like faces stroll in the sunshine or pick fruit from the heavy fig trees; others with faces eaten away into white, featureless masks slap through the corridors in their bedroom slippers. Men with ulcerated feet pedal bicycles up & down the platforms, sometimes waving a bandaged, fingerless hand at their friends, or stopping at the recreation hall to play poker. On fair days some of the patients play golf, tennis or baseball.The half-dozen children go to a one-room school, and the women-who are far outnumbered by the men-spend most of their time...
...undergraduates on some of His Majesty's cannibal tribes, Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald said that cannibals prefer black men to white because the white ones are too salty. A cannibal once told him, said he, that human flesh tastes like good roast pork. This cannibal, however, had never eaten a white man, "only an American...
...Curaçao are now forced to anchor outside Willemstad's drawbridged harbor, at remote bays around the island. In the tropical climate, with next to nothing to do, the men's morale has rotted. Food is poor and scanty, water precious. Crews with edible cargoes have eaten them (one ship had nothing but oranges and lemons). The men receive eight guilders ($4.24) per month to spend on shore, plus 20 paper marks good aboard ship (for barber, laundry, etc.). The one man ashore in Curaçao who might help them, German Consul Fensohn...
Secretary Ickes' crab meat MIGHT have left him "wishing he hadn't eaten it," but for TIME to plump down the definite statement that it did is the cause for our comment...
...people from eating crab and ice cream or milk at the same meal. This is entirely a superstition, not based on one iota of fact; yet, we dined at a famed Philadelphia club as late as last year and had to forego ice cream for dessert because we had eaten crab meat for luncheon! Many of Maryland's finest recipes for cooking the crab call for milk, and we, after the Philadelphia incident, have made a point of conspicuousness outside of the "Free State," and always couple crab meat and ice cream for our luncheons. We have...