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Tools of the Trade. Symon Thuita is an M'ganga, which is Swahili for witch doctor, and he is one of Kenya's best. His adept handling of the Nairobi nightmare case marked another step forward for the fledgling A.P.A. Its ultimate aim is to mold the new republic's 6,000 witch doctors, as well as 100 or more Indian ayurvedics, or herbalists, into a kind of copy of the American Medical Association which will carry black magic into the 20th century, just as Africa's politicians have done for tribalism...
...Clive Street (India's Wall Street) had been renamed Netaji Subhas Road to honor the late Bengal leader, Subhas Chandra Bose. He was a traitor in British eyes for helping the Japs; but to Indians Bose was a patriot. The holy Ganges would revert to the Sanskrit form, Ganga. Madras would become Chennapatnam. The city of Rajahmundry would become Rajamahendravaram, which would be harder to spell, but since 87% of Indians could not write that would not matter so much...
Good morning without cigaret tzan-tzantza ganga bouzbouc zdouc scars laziness of sparkling lights . . . his belly is a, big box for there are zigzags on his soul and a lot of rrrrrrrrr...
Died. The Maharajah of Bikaner, General His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Narendra Shiromani; Maharajah Sri Ganga Singhji Bahadur, 62, soldier-statesman: of cancer of the throat; in Bombay. He succeeded to the title when he was seven, began to rule Bikaner (pop. about 1,000,000) when he was 18. He multiplied the province's income tenfold. For the British he commanded the Bikaner Camel Corps in the Boxer Rebellion, served in the Imperial War Cabinet in World War I, was the only Indian to sign the Versailles Treaty. For 40 years he dazzled English coronations, a walking tower...
...Maharaja of Bikaner, Maj-General His Highness Sir Ganga Singhji Bahadur (Signer for India of the Treaty of Versailles, member of His Majesty's Imperial War Cabinet, veteran of the World War, repeatedly decorated by Edward VII and George V, Hon. LL.D. Cambridge and Edinburgh, D.C.L. Oxford, Freeman of the Cities of London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol...