Word: poisoner
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...Lovedu tribesmen in Africa's northern Transvaal are expected voluntarily to limit their own terms of office. When a rain queen's powers are on the wane (at the age of 60 or thereabouts), tradition calls for her to retire into the hills and quaff a poison compounded of crocodile entrails. This was the way it was in the days of Mujaji I and in the days of Mujaji II (the light-skinned queen who served as a model for H. Rider Haggard's all-powerful She) who dutifully killed herself...
Last week the 52-year-old general, a Prussian army veteran, marched into the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Department office in Nürnberg to make a paradoxical confession. It was he who had given the face-saving poison to the man whom he had accused...
...Zelewski explained, he had kept the three phials of cyanide which all SS commanders regularly carried, for use in case of capture. Because he was a witness, not a prisoner, guards had not searched him. When Göring, who occupied the opposite cell, asked Bach-Zelewski for some poison, the general obliged. One day, as they met in the corridor, Bach-Zelewski slipped the phial to Göring under cover of a handshake. It was hidden inside a bar of G.I. laundry soap...
...transaction, according to Bach-Zelewski, was quite impersonal. "I had no relations with Göring and did not like him," he said, "but he was the first to ask me for the poison." Bach-Zelewski gave another phial to a fellow SS general, who later committed suicide. The third, still imbedded in the bar of soap, he handed to U.S. intelligence officers last week...
...June of 1940, Barbara joined Actor-Producer Alexander Kirkland's summer stock at Clinton, Conn, as an apprentice. Between walk-on appearances and rounds of scene painting, she studied the Stanislavsky acting technique with Coach Lee Strasberg. "We'd be teapots, poison ivy and other things, for practice," says Barbara, "and I just loved it." She played bits with Ethel Barrymore, Sinclair Lewis and other visiting stars, and at the end of the season she even got a fat part of her own-Amy in Little Women. Says Barbara: "I got damn good notices...