Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Pearl Harbor, Dulles was back in Government service, this time with what was to become the Office of Strategic Services. A few months later he headed off for Switzerland by way of Spain and unoccupied Southern France. He very nearly failed to make it. Alarmed by the North African invasion, the Germans had decided to take over Vichy France. At the Swiss border, Dulles was held up by a French official who seemed more impressed by the watchful eye of the local Gestapo man than by Dulles' impassioned references to Lafayette and Pershing. Finally, when the Nazi ambled...
...London, some 200 English friends, Ashanti tribesmen, socialites and Labor Party leaders (notably Aneurin Bevan) gathered for the wedding of Enid Margaret ('Teggy") Cripps, 32, youngest daughter of the late austerity Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, and Joseph Appiah, 32, African law student and personal representative in Britain of Gold Coast Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. When they emerged from St. John's Wood Church and paused for photographs, she in her mother's pearl silk gown, he in the crimson, yellow, black and green ceremonial robe of his tribe, they looked the picture of happy...
Pete did not understand, and thereby hangs the tale. For Scripter Pete Verrill is not many changes of underwear away from Peter Viertel, the author of White Hunter, Black Heart, who in 1951 spent some months in the Congo as scriptwriter with the company of The African Queen, which was directed by John Huston. Viertel invited Huston to read the manuscript. Said Huston: "You can write anything you want about...
Judgment Drums. The rest of the animal kingdom, of course, has to die a little so that Wilson can live, including not only an elephant, but, as bad luck would have it, a native hunter too. As he drives away from the scene of his sin, the African drums drub out a judgment: "White hunter, black heart...
...what must seem a little like a shot in the back. Yet perhaps the larger denizens of Hollywood are fair game; certainly a great deal can be excused in a jungle book as fast and exciting as Viertel's. It would probably make a good movie, like The African Queen...