Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people finally took their places in the Hall at Flushing Meadow, there would be 62 items on the agenda, ranging from the adoption of a U.N. flag to the question of global prostitution. There would be all the old headaches-Palestine, Greece, the Indians in South Africa, disarmament, the veto, the Balkans -and a few new ones...
...South Africa's Grass Valley, near Pietersburg, last week a stern native father and his rebellious son fell into a quarrel over a bag of grain. In the heat of the moment the father grabbed an assegai and hurled it. It entered the boy's open mouth. Promptly the son pulled the spear out and hurled it back at the father, whose chest was pierced above the heart. Then, just before dropping dead himself, the son seized an ax and cut off his father's head...
Tyrone Power, off to Africa to spread good will for Hollywood, reduced the New York Daily News to a jelly. He soared away, reported the tabloid, "leaving lovely Lana Turner behind with a heavy, lonely heart. . . . With tears in her eyes but smiling, Lana . . . planted a warm, lingering, farewell kiss. . . . Friends wonder how Lana . . . will stand it." Standing it all right was Actress Annabella, Tyrone's estranged wife...
Died. Major Frederick Russell Burnham, 86, oldtime Indian scout, Klondike prospector, soldier of fortune; of coronary thrombosis; in Santa Barbara, Calif. At various times a cowboy, stagecoach-guard and deputy sheriff, Burnham fought in campaigns against the Apaches, in South Africa's bloody Matabele Wars (which he virtually ended singlehanded by killing the Matabele god M'Limo in a cave), and in the Boer War. Back home in California, he struck it rich in the oil business, spent the rest of his life in prosperous comfort...
...months now Mr. Wilter, catering manager of the South African Railways, has searched in vain for Queen Elizabeth's galoshes. The Queen's dresser was absolutely sure she had put them in the record compartment of the royal radio gramophone. On the royal tour of South Africa the gramophone stood in the Queen's lounge on the train...