Word: warriorism
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...House. In London, Sybil Jeanne Hevetson, 61, won a divorce from her husband Cecil, 66, after testifying that he 1) considered himself "a pocket Hercules ... a warrior descended from the Moorish fighters'' but passed out after downing one gin sling; 2) wore khaki shorts and tied the house keys to his belt "to show that he was the master"; 3) penciled in the word "strumpet" when he spotted "wife" on a magazine cover...
...Mongolian herdsman where America was. "In West Russia," he replied. This picture, which purports to be based on the life of the young Genghis Khan, carries a strong suggestion that, to Hollywood's way of thinking, Mongolia is in the western U.S. The part of the "Perfect Warrior"-a man who became a supreme statesman and lawgiver as well as the most formidable military genius in Asiatic history-is played by Hollywood's best-known cowboy, John Wayne. And does he gallop across the steppe, as the young Temujin did, on a hairy little Mongol pony...
...nasty things to lots of people. When he was still a boy, he murdered one of his halfbrothers, and before his death at 65, his armies had slaughtered millions from the Dnieper to the China Sea. Wayne's performance should go a long way toward paying the old warrior back. He portrays the great conqueror as a sort of cross between a square-shootin' sheriff and a Mongolian idiot. The idea is good for a couple of snickers, but after that it never Waynes but it bores...
...also given asylum to Colonel Abdullah el Tel, onetime Arab Legion commander in Jerusalem, who fled Jordan to escape imprisonment for complicity in the assassination of King Abdullah. He busies himself with the "Free Officers" Club of dissident Arab Legion officers in Cairo. Abd el Krim, the old Berber warrior who once kept 20,000 French troops on the run, is maintained as a decorative figurehead, was trotted out last week to urge all North African rebels to scorn France's "honeyed promises...
...series of articles syndicated by the North American Newspaper Alliance, the desert warrior concluded: "It was neither the King nor I who was at fault. King Hussein and I alike had been borne away willy-nilly on the tumultuous stream of human life...