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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...
...Harr! Harr! That's a lot of Baroni," said the Sage of Age to his consumptive sidekick, Wun Lung Gon, who had been making disparaging comments about the Harlow team. "Why, Harvard Towers way over Princeton. A Crimson victory appears Pearson the books...
...technique was picked up by Tokyo from Berlin. This consists in putting out a lie from an "independent" station (Vichy, Saïgon), waiting for the U.S. short wave to mention the lie, then putting it out again with the preface, "U.S. Radio reports...