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...down his stony cheeks. "You have fed me," he says then, "and you have even made me laugh. For that I shall give you what no man has ever had before." A spring leaps out of the ground, and with its occult water, Death replenishes Macario's gourd. "With this water," he says solemnly, "you can cure any illness-if I don't object...
Clutching the gourd, Macario runs back to life, runs on to fame, to wealth, to power. All the things he never had, the gift of healing gives him. But in his noon of glory he is suddenly struck down; and in the darkling and poetic end of all, he learns that the paths of glory lead to the same lowly grave he would in any case have lain in. Yet it might have been otherwise. "Macario," Death says sadly, "you misunderstood the gift." He misunderstood the gift of life-the turkey, which is meant to be shared with other...
...lined streets were mostly deserted except for a few trudging, overcoated citizens. But beneath the icy surface of Paraguay there was a thawing new ray of hope. Men whispered word of it across the marble tabletops of kerosene-heated coffeehouses, over steaming mate, the herb tea sipped from a gourd through a metal straw. The hope, still dim but voiced seriously for the first time, is that outside pressure-chiefly from the U.S.-will eventually force the dictator...
FRAUDULENT FLORA is being pushed through mails by a few unscrupulous nurserymen in offers designed to lead homeowners up the garden path. The "rare and beautiful ailanthus" turns out to be the weedy "stink tree," nothing like its brochure picture; the "amazing climbing peach" produces an inedible gourd unrelated to the peach. FTC is warning nurserymen against shrubbery shenanigans...
Died. Zora Neale Hurstoh, 57, Florida-born Negro author who explored the world of Negro folklore and magic in remote parts of the South and the West Indies, celebrated the big trials and small triumphs of the Southern Negro in a series of novels (Jonah's Gourd Vine, Seraph on the Suwanee) without succumbing to bitterness; in Fort Pierce...