Word: gon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throws in a few renegade Nazis for good measure. It seems that a sinister character known as Carl Reicher (Stephen McNally) disappeared from Nazi circles at the time Hitler died. Hot on his trail is a handsome, fearless U.S. intelligence officer (Dick Powell) whose spy contact in Saïgon is a sultry nightclub singer (Marta Toren). The comic strips could take it from there...
...will extend its present mid-Pacific routes: 1) from Manila to Saïgon, Singapore and Batavia; 2) from Midway to Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong; and 3) from Hong Kong via Saïgon, Bangkok and Rangoon to Calcutta, where it will connect with its North Atlantic route...
Among the best and most beguiling disguises in the show were twisted Iroquois Indian masks of crooked-faced Go-gon-sa (a god who, like Adam, disobeyed the Creator and took a cuffing for it); a mask of the sacred, snake-devouring eagle Gurula from Ceylon, its head alive with twining cobras; Haidu, Tlinglit and Salish masks from the northwest Pacific coast, representing ancestors who could appear in various shapes at will (one, a wooden wolf-head, came open to reveal a fearsome cormorant); a proud yet friendly mask of Hamtman, Javanese version of the Indian monkey...
Died. Faustin E. Wirkus, 49, Marine Corps non-com who became, by popular demand, King Faustin II (1925-29) of the 10,000 voodoo-practicing natives living on the island of La Gonâve (near Haiti), where he was stationed as a one-man police force (his subjects gravely saluted him: "Bon soi, roi!"-TIME, April 6, 1931); after long illness; in Brooklyn...
...French achieved a nervous truce, but no agreement, last week with rebellious Annamites at Saïgon. Much to the relief of colonials, a respectable show of French force was possible: the battleships Richelieu and Triomphant had arrived. But in northern Indo-China, liberated and still occupied by the Chinese, native Viet Nam leaders crowed that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had personally promised them support...