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...Boyhood. One of his heroes is flame-bearded Uncle Barbarossa, a dynamiter by trade who in off-hours spouts revolutionary speeches at his aged beagle Garibaldi. When the time comes for the ailing dog to be destroyed. Uncle Barbarossa is determined that "General Gari baldi shall not die a bourgeois death" but exit gloriously in an explosive blast. He corsets the dog with two sticks of dynamite, buries him in a snowbank and lights the fuses. But faithful Garibaldi lopes after his master, and half of West Hoboken scrambles for dear life. The animal goes out with a bang...
...days of Scheherazade; its sturdy peasantry, like 11 million other Northern Moslems, loftily disdain the nimbler-witted Ibos and Yorubas who dominate Southern Nigeria. When Emir Abdullah's decision was announced, Haussa and Fulani alike broke away from their mosque and poured into the Saba N'Gari (Stranger's Quarter), where 60,000 Ibos and Yorubas conduct Kano's retail business. Rioting went on for three days; when it was all over last week, 45 were dead, 200 injured. Speechmaker Akintola was bundled into a government plane and shipped back South, where he promptly indicted...
...Julius Melchers (father of U.S. Artist Gari Melchers) picked up the downcast Kahn and took him into his drawing school. Learning fast, Albert Kahn was soon ready for another architectural job, with Detroit Architect George D. Mason, where he spent 14 years making himself an expert in his craft. A trip to Europe at 21 (on a $500 scholarship he got from the magazine American Architect) gave him what he considers his real education in architecture. Back in Detroit, at 26, he joined two other architects in opening an office. Within two years one of his partners had died...
...GARI-GARI -Hugo Adolf Bernatzik -Holt...
Still stranger documentation on this tribe is found in Gari-Gari, the work of a celebrated Austrian anthropologist. Visiting eleven peoples in the Anglo-Sudan, he brought back 1,400 photographs and 30,000 ft. of cinema film. Sixteen of the 116 remarkable pictures listed in the index of Gari-Gari have been omitted from the U. S. edition of the book, for reasons that observers of the others can readily comprehend. Anthropologist Bernatzik observed natives who cut terrible ornamental scars on their bodies, who wrestled in costumes that gave their matches the appearance of cockfights, native beauties who made...