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...eccentric Texas oil millionaire, best known for his support of a famous Broadway flop, The Ladder, which he kept going for two years because he wanted to help its author and spread its message of reincarnation; of a heart ailment; in Galveston, Texas. Davis made a rubber fortune in Sumatra and got $12 million for the sale of his oil wells in Texas, spent his money lavishly on such items as $1,000,000 in bonuses for drillers and a golf course for his Negro servants. The Ladder became a favorite target for reviewers' darts, and Davis...
...doubt Islam suffered some theological dilution in this process, but its tribes increased wonderfully. Followers of sufism converted the animist Berbers of North Africa, and later the Turks, who broke out of Asia conquering the Arabs and great Constantinople as well. Sufism, carried largely by Moslem merchants, converted Sumatra, Java, Malaya, all without any military help from the centers of Islam...
...Javanese and Chinese laborers in the rice fields of Sumatra, living under identical conditions and eating almost the same food, both have a high rate of liver cancer, but the Chinese have a high incidence of stomach ulcers and stomach cancer while the Javanese have virtually none...
Died. Dr. Johan H. W. van Ophuijsen, 68, Sumatra-born psychiatrist, editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychopathology, director of Long Island's new Creedmoor Institute for Psychobiologic Studies; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...books (notably The Chequer Board, 1947, and No Highway, 1948) have established him as a middlebrow Graham Greene, an honest trader who sells his reader a story without an ideological headache in it. With his new book, however, Author Shute trifles with reportage and comes a cropper. Traveling in Sumatra in 1949, Shute was the house guest of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. Geysel-Vonck. His hostess had been one of a party of about 80 Dutch women & children taken by the Japanese at Padang in 1942 and thereafter marched round Sumatra for 2% years. Mrs. Geysel was one of fewer...