Word: rajah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They could not, unfortunately, deflate the "gaseous metaphysics" of Nazi doctrine, even in its final Götterdammerung convulsions. Martin Bormann, faithful to the end, pumped the Führer full of false hopes. Göring, in his Prussian retreat, dressed "now like an oriental Rajah, now in a light-blue uniform with a bejeweled baton of pure gold and ivory, now in white silk, like a Doge of Venice . . . studded with jewels . . . and a swastika of gleaming pearls. . . ." Himmler, deluded to the end, maintained a "school of eager researchers [who] studied . . . Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, the symbolism...
Chance. In Detroit, the Free Press ran an advertisement: "Wanted: a brave girl to stand against a 48-inch board and al low Rajah Raboid, Sensational Mind Read er, to throw knives around her body with both eyes sealed. ... A $2,500 life in surance policy presented to the girl chosen...
Plenty Bandicoot. Nawnim became Norman, was sent to be educated in the caste-free South, accepted his "cigaret-stain" skin as a legacy from his mother (a Javanese princess, Oscar assured him). He returned to Oscar's farm a trained mechanic, looked like a "Rajah." The girls shouted when they saw him, "Oozit . . . Mygawdaineeflash ! " Abysmally unprepared for the Jim Crow strait jacket of Capricornia, he got an idea of his status from the white insults and the black friendliness...
Killed in Service. Prince Chirasakti, 25, adopted son of the late Prajadhipok, ex-King of Siam; on duty with the R.A.F. air transport auxiliary. A cousin of the present King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand, he was married in London to Mani Rajah Noeprabandou, daughter of a onetime Siamese Minister at London. Much publicized in 1939 was the elaborate exorcism of devils from his five-week-old son, in rural England. A champagne party followed long wordless rites that included an anointing, attaching of cords to the baby's body, and removal of a lock of hair, which was wrapped...
...that time, big-league club owners were no longer interested in Hornsby. Insiders said it was because he played the horses-a practice frowned on by Tsar Landis. Said the forthright Rajah: "I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't read much nor go to the movies. I must have some relaxation." Disillusioned and declaring that managers must be "yes-men" to keep a job in the big leagues, the Rajah drifted back to the minors. When immortality came to him last week at 45, he was back where he started-in the Texas...