Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whisks, amulets, statues and fertility fetishes belonging to Frank Crowninshield, Henri Matisse, A. Conger Goodyear, Helena Rubinstein, Paul Guillaume, Sir Michael Sadler, and 65 other collectors. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was last week opening the largest, most carefully chosen and most important loan exhibition of African Negro sculpture the U. S. has ever seen...
...years students at the University of Pennsylvania have heard of the African sextuplets when Dr. Schumann lectured on multiple pregnancies (TIME, March 4). Hence one can easily imagine their surprise on finding the story on the front pages of their morning papers. However their mental state was probably much more settled than Dr. Schumann's for he returned from his Southern trip weary' and worn, complaining to his class about pestering reporters and the fact that he had even been offered $100,000 to display the sextuplets at a nearby shore resort during the next summer season...
...help the folks at home, France has tried to squeeze the last sou out of its colonies. Such subject races as the Tahitians squeeze with docility. Not so the Arabs of French African Tunisia and Algeria. Nearly two years ago Tunisia's Resident General Marcel Peyrouton warned: "If Tunisia is to be saved, France must help. The protectorate must have the power to export wines, wheat and oils. . . . If we lose Tunisia our whole establishment in North Africa will be imperiled...
...spoke Obstetrician Edward Armin Schumann of the University of Pennsylvania last week, at a gynecologists' meeting in New Orleans. Upon a screen flashed a lantern-slide picture of six wizened black babies, alike as shoe-buttons. Continued Dr. Schumann: "Here are sextuplets, born to a mother on the African Gold Coast, without the help of modern medicine, without any Dr. Dafoe. These babies were alive and well after eight days, I am informed in a letter from a missionary friend...
Rome, Feb. 27--Hundreds of natives, most of them fanatical Moslems, flocked to the Italian colors on the African "front" today, joining thousands of regulars and volunteers being dispatched form Italy...