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...priest, Canon Maurice O'Connell, who was then raising funds to build himself a new house. Miss Tracy's story was too pointed for the old canon, who sued the newspaper, which settled out of court with an apology. Journalist Tracy (who, like her fictional hero, is thatch-headed), thereupon sued the Sunday Times on the grounds that its retraction reflected on her standing as a truthful journalist. A British court awarded her $8,400 damages (TIME, April 26, 1954). It was an entertaining case, covered in long columns in the Irish press, but Victor Tracy has apparently...
...miles along the corrugated dirt track, called the Great North Road, to Chinsali, a district commissioner's headquarters. There he switched to a bicycle and pedaled down a goat path through man-high bush, infested with mamba snakes, lions and man-eating chiggers, to the mud-and-thatch village where lives the prophetess, Lenshina Mulenga (see RELIGION...
Back home, the DiMaggios sat under their expensive thatch in Beverly Hills night after night with almost nothing to say to each other. They had fights, and on Oct. 4, 1954, nine months after the wedding, they announced that they would be divorced...
...people who lived in Barton Ramie's 350 thatch-roofed, plaster-floored houses apparently owned little besides their cotton loincloths. They tossed their refuse outside the houses, where it built up into thick kitchen middens; then they buried their dead in it. Dr. Willey found no evidence in Barton Ramie of the high intellectual or artistic life of the ancient Mayans. He thinks that the theocratic society of the Mayans was much like that of medieval Europe, where peasants lived in miserable villages around great cathedrals, and most of their substance was sucked up into the spires of lacy...
...stage was a wee Scots village that time forgot. On the CinemaScope screen it is a multimillion-dollar reconstruction on the Williamsburg plan, with every plastic daisy on the village green set in by hand, the sheep marcelled like chorus girls, the cottages authentic from the dew on the thatch to the sweat on the hob, and even the cricket on the hearth selected for what sounds like a Sottish burr...