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...great day arrived last week, the Mahdi's son, 63-year-old Sayed Sir Abdul Rahman el Mahdi Pasha, now the darling of the British because he opposes union of the Sudan with Egypt, was ready to reopen his father's tomb at Omdurman. In ruins since Lord Kitchener's army shattered it with artillery in the reoccupation of the Sudan in 1898, the tomb was rebuilt this year with British permission...
Three thousand desert dervishes in flowing abbayas streamed into town on camels, horses and rickety provincial trains. Ten thousand Sudanese jammed the big dusty square before the stuccoed, white-domed tomb, brightening the drab town with pink, blue, yellow and green galabias (skirted garments). For the first time since the Mahdi's victory over Gordon, big black, green and red banners, bearing the silver crescent, and dervish spear, danced overhead. Inside the tomb enclosure, women rocked and swayed over big rawhide drums, wailing mournful tunes in high-pitched tones...
Camel Meat for the Poor. Through the mud-brick city Sayed Abdul Rahman's spanking new black Chevrolet picked its way. As it entered the square before the tomb, butchers hacked off the heads of three camels and seven oxen. They threw hunks of bleeding meat to the city's poor. Unruffled, the Mahdi's son stepped daintily from his car, unfurled a light blue parasol, mounted the notables' platform...
Organized for Luxury. During the Aquacade period, Billy stopped running for the first time and contemplated his million-dollar money belt. He was a famous showman. His nightclub, the Diamond Horseshoe (started in 1938), was grossing $1,250,000 a year, and ranked with Grant's Tomb and the Staten Island ferry as a Manhattan tourist attraction. Billy says of this period: "The race is over, I told myself. Stop running. You've won. Let 'em stick the wreath around your neck and snap the pictures. go on back to the barn and take it easy...
Moscow put on the biggest show. Atop Lenin's Tomb, peace-loving Generalissimo Joseph Stalin reviewed the greatest annual military show on earth. For some five hours, more than a million Red soldiers, sailors and workers marched by. While more than 200 Soviet warplanes swooped overhead, cavalry clattered and giant tanks clanked. The militant note was also struck by Ilya Ehrenburg, one of the Soviet Government's snappiest journalistic terriers. In Pravda, he gave the official text for the day: the U.S. Government does not speak for the American people. Even while the parade is taking place, cried...