Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning of execution, five armed warders and an African priest entered the death cell. The murderers chucked them out and, screaming like madmen, attacked the cell walls with bleeding hands and feet. After two hours' battering, the eight frightened convicted men burst out on to the fairway. They found themselves in the middle of a square of 100 armed policemen, with rifles at the ready...
Company lands now planted in bananas, African oil palms and other crops, as well as dairy pastures, planted mahogany forests and building sites, are exempt from expropriation. Thus the drastic seizure will not immediately end United Fruit's Guatemala operation. But eventually, as the inevitable "Panama disease" (a fungus that attacks the roots) sickens the banana lands, the company, deprived of its reserve tracts, will have to cut production. And United Fruit is on notice that further investment in Guatemala would be unwelcome-and unwise...
Born. To Seretse Khama, 31, exiled chief-designate of the Bamangwato in Britain's African protectorate of Bechuanaland, and blonde Ruth Williams Khama 29: their second child, first son; in Chipstead, England. Name: Seretse...
TIME's correspondents often found themselves in exciting or bizarre situations. Alexander Campbell, who covered a large section of the African continent from his headquarters in Johannesburg, sent in the most unusual expense-account items after a trip into the African bush: "one trip to see witch" and "white goat for witch." And Rebecca Franklin received the most unexpected accolade, when Georgia's House of Representatives passed a vote of congratulations on her promotion to contributing editor of TIME...
...program, the orchestra seated itself kitty-cornered across stage right. Actors in monkey suits planted narrow banners with simply designed pictures of jungle palms on the left. Onstage came a clutch of people wearing elephant heads -and the show was on. The story took the little elephant from his African jungle to the big city, into a school ("Good children in the front, bad children in the back"), into virtual slavery in a circus, and finally back into the jungle, where Babar married the princess, became king, and lived happily ever after...