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...Lanao Province on the Philippine island of Mindanao this week, 10,000 fighting Moros sharpened kris, barong, campilan, tabas and spear for a fight to the death and no mercy asked...
...Christmas Eve they had a party in the hotel auditorium for the 15 little Nazi children in the party. (Some of the children were born in the U.S., are technically U.S. citizens.) It was a subdued affair, burdened with heavy Teutonic cheer. Kris Kringle appeared, and distributed gifts. They sang Christmas carols in solemn, piping voices...
Usually it is a lot of trouble to kill a juramentado. The Moros are fierce fellows whose teeth are stained black and their lips red from chewing betel nut. A juramentado has the strength of a man slashing his way, with a wicked, wavy-edged kris, to a Moro heaven filled with sloe-eyed houris. When the U.S. Army first occupied the Philippines, many a soldier was killed after emptying his .38 into a Moro who kept on coming. So the Army switched to .455, which nearly kick a man's arm off but are no respecters of frenzy...
...Angeles, when his house caught fire, the odor of his three goats kept Kris Krivopseh, 50. from smelling smoke. When fire engines belatedly arrived, Kris Krivopseh's goats playfully butted over firemen every time they stooped to lay hose lines. The house burned to the ground...
...from the Kris Kringle type is Manhattan's No. 1 Christmas tree dealer, 45-year-old Fred Vahlsing. One of the biggest vegetable shippers in the U. S., owner of rich farms in Texas' lower Rio Grande Valley, sharp-eyed Dealer Vahlsing makes money on Bonita carrots, advertised by radio's homiest housewife, Martha Deane. Says he: "Martha Deane, she's my carrot. . . ." From his bleak warehouse office on Manhattan's Warren Street, Dealer Vahlsing sends a man up to Nova Scotia early in July to make contracts with landowners and woodcutters. In October Vahlsing...