Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside-Out. Suspicious U.S. pros did not believe that he was only 29 (a weather-beaten, tweedy fellow, he could pass for 40), until he pulled out his press clippings. Sure enough, in 1935 he was the 17-year-old boy wonder who won the South African Open. His playing was old style. His stroke was a throwback to the basic Harry Vardon type of "inside-out" swing (most modern pros punch the ball more). He liked long, narrow fairways, for he specialized in consistently straight drives (average: 250 yards). The way he explains it: "Just a simple twist...
Algeria. In the oldest of France's North African possessions, and the most "assimilated" to French culture, there is an independence movement too. Fiery, 54-year-old Messali Hadj, Algerian Arab nationalist, toured the restless Kabylie district in March, repeated in village after village: "For 116 years we have been under the French yoke. Still we sleep on the ground, we wear only a simple gandourah, we walk barefoot, and most of us go three or four days without eating a piece of cake...
This summer he will play a concert in the Hollywood Bowl for the first time. He is also thinking about a musical salute to the African Negro republic, Liberia. He adds, lazily: "I'm thinking about it. I'll decide pretty quick if I want to keep on thinking about...
...average husband's, wanted to know where Smuts had found such a lovely feather. "It's from my hat," said the Queen sweetly. As a reward for gallantry beyond the call of duty, King George VI placed the feather proudly in the hatband of his South African Prime Minister's battered panama...
...award. On every mile of their ten-week trip, the visitors had made friends for themselves and their Empire. Last week, they were back on board the Vanguard, steaming home to Britain. "U het ons U harte gegee" (You have given us your hearts), the Queen told their South African subjects. As the big warship moved slowly out of Table Bay into the open sea, the crowds thronged the dockside for a last glimpse. "Will ye no come back again?" they sang. At his farewell banquet the King had already given his promise. "Tot Siens," he had said...