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Nothing could be more appropriate to the $2.5 billion U.S. brewing industry today than Custer's Last Fight. Never has there been such whooping, shooting and scalping. Reason: at a time when nearly everything else in the U.S. economy is bubbling and foaming up, beer sales are going down. Thus, every U.S. brewer, from the Big Three national giants-Anheuser-Busch, Schlitz, Pabst-on down to the smallest local brewery is on the warpath, each trying to scalp the others in the fight for sales. At the top of the heap, and battling to stay...
Morrow, who heard about the arrangement, brooded about his role as sacrificial calf. Loyalist Texas Democrats, who want Shivers' scalp, were equally upset by the dealings between him and the national party. Amidst the rumbling, Chairman Butler announced.his plans for a visit to Texas. His sponsors: the violently anti-Shivers Democratic Advisory Committee. Under the circumstances, his trip, hailed as a "peace mission," was likely to be anything...
...fortnight later, new symptoms began to show. The patients' dark skins grew darker in patches and rose up in leathery plaques. Sometimes the skin peeled away, leaving white or pink tissue. Deeper burns wept and formed crusts. When burns were on the scalp (70% of all individuals), the hair came out by the handful...
Strategic Scalping. In the days when they still could call their land their own, American Indians got their exercise from a game called baggataway. It involved as many players as happened to be available, a field of any convenient size, a small ball, and long sticks looped with a rawhide mesh. Running up a score came second to the thrill of rapping an opponent over the scalp with "accidental" blows from the baggataway stick. Any brave who shirked his duty could count on a beating from the switch-equipped squaws who ranged the sidelines...
...Fenimore Coopers noble savage, in Mohawk dress) with authentic Plains Indians (TIME, June 7), presented with authentic American showmanship. For an English tour of his 600-odd paintings, Artist Catlin used genuine Indians, who gave point to his lectures by posing in tableaux, wowed the early Victorians with their scalp-tingling war whoops...