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Debtors Pay 
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Let creditors of Dr. William M l . , extreme 
Mann, director of 
be forewarned that when lie re i 
from Africa next month heTi have 
the magical power to make them 
vanish into thin air if they refuse to 
pay up. 
And ladies, don’t be getting into 
an argument with Mrs. Mann be¬ 
cause she now can win any battle 
of words, simply by mumbling a 
few mystic phrases, 
Smithsonian Institution 
vows never to reveal the" 
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The tribe s-'medicine' men at first 
-received- the visitors in eloquent 
silence—an ominous sign—but the , 
hosts warmed up after the Manns’1 
animal-hunting mission was ex- : 
plained to them by an interpreter. 
W r hat really broke the ice. though, 
were the brightly colored Sags of 
the Explorers’ Club and the Associa¬ 
tion of Women Geographers which 
Dr. and Mrs. Mann,, respectively, 
front of the medicine 
were 
which, in collaboration with the ! l^ an ; cc \ ]n 
Firestone company, sent the Manns ; ni€n s cormitory. ^ The hosts 
i into the Liberian", jungles last Feb- -j v/*’ e " se iv mS2St l n £ -hP°. n tAie 
rruaxy to collect new specimens .for j ^uests^ teeing them wnat tne ban- 
I Washington’s Zdo ? iv ferbke .^the-/newsj£|p^ O0<i * or * 
' yesterday how the good doctor and 
’ his better half were recently initi¬ 
ated into one of West Africa’s most 
mysterious societies and emerged 
fairly dripping with black magic. 
‘"The ceremony took place in the 
dense forests of the hinterland dur¬ 
ing the blackness of a jungle night.” 
said the Smithsonian, dropping its 
traditionally austere rhetoric for the 
i creepy language of a pulp thriller, 
i As neophytes in the Snake So¬ 
ciety of the Maho tribe. Dr. and 
■Mrs. Mann “were bound by the most i in July. 
Besides, the deep secret of a po¬ 
tent magic which will cause a thief 
or a repudiating debtor to curl up 
and die was imparted to the director 
of Washington’s Zoo, His wife alone, 
however, was told w r hat to do to 
win any sort of argument She re¬ 
ceived, as a souvenir, a horn filled 
with “snake .medicine’* and was 
given the title of “Yangwa.” 
Dr. Mann wrote that the live 
snake used in the ritual was pre¬ 
sented to him and he plans to bring 
it back to the United States late 
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