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Officially, the convention took a dim view of ancient "prescriptions" in which parts of the human body, charred and powdered, are used. The advertising of such muti (medicine) has just been forbidden by the South African government. Ingredients for this muti are usually obtained by ritual murders, of which there have been a dozen in Basutoland alone this year. The witch doctors in convention assembled asked the government to lift the advertising ban on muti. They forgot to explain why it is all right for them to use human organs, but wrong for the "quacks" (nonmembers of the Dingaka Association...
...against divorce and remarriage are written into church law, their exact application varies according to diocese. In Providence, R.I. last week, Bishop Russell J. McVinney gave the people of his diocese one of the most severe interpretations of divorce laws yet laid down. Among them: ¶Catholic lawyers are forbidden "under pain of mortal sin" to represent plaintiffs in suits for separation, divorce or annulment of a marriage performed by a Catholic priest, unless they obtain prior permission of their bishop...
...Catholic clergyman or a justice of the peace, and they must not show their approval (e.g., by attending a wedding party, giving a wedding gift). ¶Catholics who are themselves invalidly married may not act as witnesses, ushers, or bridesmaids at a Catholic wedding. Similarly, all Catholics are forbidden to act as witnesses, ushers or bridesmaids at weddings which are not performed by a Catholic priest...
...harassing the bull" is not an agitator and is not in the ring for the purpose of harassment. He is there to test the bull's eyesight, his manner of charging, his use of the horns. He deserves no sympathy if he gets caught, since he is practically forbidden to put himself in any danger. If he works close to the bull and looks good, he detracts from the maestro's performance. If he gets caught, he may spoil the bullfight: the bull often becomes too dangerous after he has tossed a man once...
...Arthur Jones & Fred Stamer; book by Billy Gilbert & Gen Genovese; lyrics by Mr. Genovese) is the sort of 1880-style musical that would have looked old hat in 1912. In 1952 it is overpoweringly tedious and trite-all about G.I.s in an occupied Italian village where fraternizing is forbidden. An American captain is secretly married to a native girl, the girl is going to have a baby, a sentimental old Italian wants his wife to have one, and the village needs one more inhabitant to graduate into a town. Though Buttrio Square is the center-of-life in an Italian...