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Mather House resident Katherine L. Bryant '92 competed in March in Jeopardy!'s fourth annual "$25,000 College Championship." She lost the round, but took home pantyhose, Riesen candies, the Jeopardy! computer game and $1000 as consolation prizes...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senior Takes on Jeopardy! | 5/8/1992 | See Source »

JUNGLE MISSION (204 pp.)-Kene Riesen- Crowe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Polygamy for La Patrie | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...handsome, flaxen-haired corporal from Lyon, he felt that he had a solution to the problem of winning over certain Moi' tribes which had taken up a neutral position in the war with the Communist-led Viet Minh. After a workout with the colonial troops, Corporal Riesen, the author of this book, was sent into the mountainous jungle 'of central Viet Nam. Friendly Moi' chieftains offered him a bride. Corporal Riesen demurred ("She was only nineteen and very pretty . . . with her breasts placed high, and her long jet-black hair hung down to her supple waist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Polygamy for La Patrie | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...earnest tribute: "A woman's charm and attraction are more effective than force of arms. Ilouhi . . . played the part of a Talleyrand among the Moi's." In Jungle Mission (the English edition of Mission Speciale en Foret Moi, published by Editions France-Empire} Rene Riesen sets out to describe the guerrilla war in Viet Nam (1946-54), in which carnivo rous insects play almost as important a role as the cunning Viet Minh. There are exciting interludes in which elephants are hunted by day and tiger, buffalo, roebuck, boar and deer shot by flashlight at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Polygamy for La Patrie | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...tribal law, to find her husband a second wife. Rene protests the bigamy: "To carry out my mission would I have to become . . . lord and master of a harem?" But Ilouhi finds him Crey the Bahnar huntress, a wild creature from the inner jungle. With the appearance of Crey, Riesen is surprised to discover in the de voted Ilouhi "that boundless distress which is as old as the world itself." A new relationship develops in which Rene finds that Ilouhi can "have the same sort of dreams as a white woman," but in the ef fort to share her thoughts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Polygamy for La Patrie | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

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