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...Even a Goat. Captured guerrillas told of foreign aid. Said 27-year-old Elefterios Tsakales, a former shoemaker of Soufli: "I left Greece on Nov. 26, 1946, stayed a few days in Sofia and went on to a camp at Bulkes, Yugoslavia, where I remained until a month ago. One night we were called up and told that we would free Greece from the American fascists...
Other Bulkes alumni described the indoctrination course given at the camp. Lecture topics included "The Communist Victory in the Chicago Strikes," and "The Ineffectiveness of the Atomic Bomb." (Students were told that the bomb had been tried out in the U.S. and had not even killed a goat.) The Russian language was taught because "it was bound to become the universal language...
...exclusion of whites. He had a good ear for their dialects, which he learned, and a nice inquiring eye for aboriginal customs. In one tribe he found what must have been the simplest form of courtship and marriage short of caveman seizure. The boy picked his girl, left a goat in front of her father's hut and got his wife. No words spoken, no fuss, no marriage ceremony. And if the bridegroom was too poor to own a goat, a bundle of firewood did the trick...
...scrape off the skin, stuff with plantains, cover with leaves and roast over night in a bed of coals. The lucky hunter who had made the kill "was entitled to the fingers and toes, which he cut off and ate raw." Pretorius once gave a tribe of pygmies a goat; they set to it by slicing tidbits from the live animal...
Only one man was ever able to dominate Seattle's unruly orchestra since Karl Krueger left it in 1932. Crusty, goat-bearded Sir Thomas Beecham raged at Seattle as an "esthetic dustbin," but for two years during the war, he had musicians and sellout audiences on the edges of their seats (he sometimes stopped the orchestra in the middle of a movement to lecture the audience on its manners). Such other conductors as Basil Cameron and Nikolai Sokoloff had left Seattle shaking their heads and wringing their hands. Halfempty houses, rickety budgets, constant wrangling of the socialite directors...