Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to a university after Eton. It had meant he had to have a special hunting gun designed for sighting with the left eye. And it had kept him from following his famed father's profession until the outbreak of World War II. Then Peter went to North Africa as a commando and contracted an infection in the other eye. From 1942 on, Lucky Beatty had gone from one operation to another trying desperately to retrieve his waning sight. Last month a cornea transplantation in Geneva gave him brief hope. Soon afterward the darkness set in again...
...parts of eastern Africa, VD affects up to 50% of the population; in the northeastern provinces of China...
...increasing frequency at local theatres, notably in re-releases of Chaplin favorites and a fine, frenzied W. C. Fields double bill. The latest example of the days when Screenland was funny is now on view at the Mayflower and Pilgrim, unobtrusively inserted between showings of a feature film on Africa, called "Savage Splendor." This is neither savage nor splendid, though a good-enough documentary...
Lost in the Stars, as many of you may know, is based on Cry, the Beloved Country, the recent best-seller about white-Negro tension in South Africa. The TIME account was of a touring exhibition of South African paintings and sculpture at the National Gallery in Washington. Conspicuous in the show, said TIME'S Editors, were the vivid works of G. Sekoto, the only Negro artist included, who had taught himself to paint in Johannesburg, then left his native land to study in Paris, only to find poverty and despair, to attempt suicide and to be committed...
...Stable" at Loew's Publix, Celeste Holm and Loretta Young as Sisters; "Pinky" at the Astor, Jeanno Crain portrays a light-skinned colored nurse; "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" at the RKO Boston, Donald O'Connor proves he's not my boy; "Savage Splendor" at the Pilgrim, exotic Africa in garish technicolor. Walt Disney's "Ichabed and Mr. Toad" is back up on Tremant Street near the Park Street subway station...