Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other places in the Makapan valley traces of many later humans have come to light-from shambling Neanderthal man down to the modern Bantu. The stone tools, says Professor Dart, filled the last gap. Their discovery "may place within our grasp in a single South African valley a continuous story of human handiwork . . . from the dawn of the Pleistocene to the present...
...Jazz still "occupies a place entirely apart," but is given a complete chronicling from its African "origins through bop. In Grove IV, blues were kissed off with a See FOX TROT...
...actor appeared in the roster of nearly 2,000 British subjects who made the grade. The Aga Khan, 77, who as holder of four British knighthoods can already call himself Sir Mahomed Shah, got a fancy new title, mostly for his aid to Moslems in Britain's East African colonies: Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Britain's urbane ambassador to the U.S., Sir Roger Makins, 50, joined the Aga Khan in the same order. Australia's holder of the world record for the mile run (3 min. 58 sec.), lanky John Landy...
Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Excerpts from Beaver Valley; film on an African safari...
...Madrid, Movie Director John (The African Queen) Huston strode from a bar to a courtyard next door, with cape and sword braved the rushes of a small bull with blunted horns. When Huston executed a couple of passable pases naturales, café aficionados, astonished at the amateur torero's skill, acclaimed him with "Olé, Juan, olé!" Huston was all for fighting the beast to some sort of finish, but a pressagent rescued the director before he found the pastime goring...