Word: voodoos
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With a clank of chains and the mingled aroma of voodoo incense and roasting human flesh, William Buehler Seabrook reveals a story of his life. It is sensational and apparently omits little but the spectacular chunks that went into Seabrook's earlier personal histories (Asylum, The Magic Island...
...editors exploited young Seabrook's flair for abnormality. For them he covered deaths, murders, freaks, women bandits, gruesome accidents. Bohemian society was charmed by the thwarted, dark-haired man who shambled about like a hobo, was chummy with Arab sheiks, dined with African cannibals, plunged ecstatically into Haitian voodoo...
...That voodoo did it. Wearing Coaker Triplett's No. 20 last week, Cooper allowed only three hits (no Dodger reached second base), gave only one walk, scored two runs himself, shut out the Dodgers, 3-to-0. That mauling reduced Brooklyn's Bums-ten games ahead of St. Louis on Aug. 4-to a lead of only one slim game. Sure enough, next day, behind Southpaw Max Lanier, the Cards took the Dodgers again, 2-to-1, to tie for the lead...
Married. William Buehler Seabrook, 56, travel writer, student of cannibalism, voodoo, primitive sex customs (Jungle Ways, The Magic Island); and Constance Kuhr, 31, newspaperwoman; he for the third time, she for the first; in Sharon, Conn...
...Haiti they called on a rich cream-colored Harvard classmate of Big Boy's and saw a libidinous so-called voodoo dance. In England Longstreet talked to a nice tart and a nice Lord. In Paris there was a countess who admired gangster slang: "What do you know, you mug, about this gimmick?" In Germany he saw the old vicious guns of World War I scrapped in a field near Kiel, read in the papers of an America no American has ever seen, and talked to a brave old pastor who was ''headed as sure as Christ...