Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earth's new-found neighbors are not the kind to attract attention to themselves. Dr. Luyten, Java-born and Holland-educated, discovered them only by comparing photographic plates made at the Harvard College Observatory's station in South Africa in 1930 with other plates made there in 1944. So shy and retiring are the twins that their light would have to be 100 times stronger than it is to be seen by the naked...
...Tweeds. For Frankie Waldron, those months between postcards were an odyssey. He had fled the U.S. on a passport made out to "Paul Walsh." Reggie had followed him as "Mrs. Walsh," presumably taking Timothy with her. Frankie went to Europe, probably stopped in at Moscow, went to South Africa, on to China, then back to Moscow...
Brookwood, England hailed the battle-scarred winners of a father & son golf tournament, Field Marshal Earl Wavell, who lost his left eye in World War I and his son, Major Viscount Keren, who lost his left arm in Africa...
Died. Chase Salmon Osborn, 89, author, prospector, philanthropist and onetime progressive Republican Governor of Michigan (1911-12); of pneumonia; in Poulan, Ga. Osborn made a fortune from iron ore discoveries in Canada, Lapland, Africa and Latin America (he gave most of the money to charity), sponsored one of the first workmen's compensation bills in the nation, Michigan's first women's suffrage measure. Two days before his death, he married Stellanova Osborn, 55, his longtime secretary and adopted daughter (after a court dissolved the adoption...
Died. John Martin, 64, "Uncrowned King of South Africa" for three decades; after long illness; in Johannesburg. Martin managed the Argus newspaper chain (15 dailies, 13 weeklies), headed famed "Corner House," which controlled 16 gold mines and had a hand in a dozen more...