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Died. Jess Willard, 86, ex-heavyweight champ and boxing's "Great White Hope" in the early 1900s (see SPORT...
...White Against Black. Through the centuries, Cochin's Jews have adopted many Indian religious traditions. Mortar for the walls of their synagogue was mixed with coconut water, which Hindus use for sacred occasions. The ceremonial dress of a Cochin Jewish woman is a heavy gold brocade sarong and blouse, worn by Malabar Indian women at weddings. But the Cochin Jews have stoutly preserved their religious Orthodoxy, even though the community so far as it is known has never had a rabbi. (Many isolated Jewish colonies in India get along without rabbis...
Despite its ability to survive against non-Jewish foes, the Cochin community has dwindled alarmingly in recent years. One problem is that many young Cochinese have emigrated to Israel. Another is that the colony is divided by an internecine feud between "white Jews," who are descendants of traders, and "black Jews," who the "whites" say are the descendants of converted slaves. The white Jews, whose ancestors came from Europe and Baghdad, tend to be fair-skinned, while the black Jews are darker-complexioned. White families will not allow their daughters to marry into black families. Today, few Cochin Jews believe...
...Pepperlander manages to escape. White-mustachioed Old Fred climbs into the Yellow submarine (which is inexplicably parked on the summit of an Aztec pyramid) and takes off to bring somebody-anybody-to help. He ends up in Liverpool and finds the Beatles. After a voyage through some indeterminate fantasy land of Outer Space or Sea Bottom, inhabited by terrors, demons and malevolent monsters, they make it back to Pepperland and vanquish the Meanies with Beatlemusic and LOVE...
...from Africa - Song of the Lusitanian Bogey and Kongi's Harvest. The play the Negro Ensemble offered last week lumbers out of dark est Georgia. God Is a (Guess What?) was written by Atlanta Schoolteacher Ray Mclver, whose intention was clearly to make a cutting satire of black-white relations...