Word: bulawayo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crimson gates of Her Majesty's Prison in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, a balding little Englishman stood one day last week, blinking in the sudden sunlight. Guy Clutton-Brock, 53, had just been released after 27 days in jail. His wife Molly was 250 miles away in a Bulawayo mental hospital; she had suffered a breakdown following her husband's arrest for associating with African nationalists. Clutton-Brock is what he calls "a practical Christian," and his courageous version of practical Christianity, many African churchmen were saying last week, may be just what is needed to get the church...
...tarred with the label of "too liberal." Since Whitehead was not a Member of Parliament and could serve only four months as Prime Minister without being elected an M.P., the party shopped around for a safe seat, picked Hillside, a suburb in Southern Rhodesia's second city of Bulawayo...
Both Whitehead and his opponent of the white-supremacy Dominion Party-Jack Pain, a bluff and genial Bulawayo accountant and city council member-left no doubt that they wanted to maintain the white man's unfettered rule over the blacks, who outnumbered them 13 to 1 in Southern Rhodesia. But White Supremacist Pain argued in the campaign that the United Federal Party, even with Todd gone, was pushing partnership "too far and too fast." Betting odds favored Whitehead 4 to 1, but when the votes of Hillside were tallied last week, the result was: Pain, 691; Prime Minister Whitehead...
Skokiaan (Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band; London). A South African number that, after four plays on a Cleveland disk-jockey show, got such a response that it was immediately "covered" by more than a dozen other labels. It is based on an old Zulu drinking song (approximate translation of the title: happy-happy), has a jigging, mambo-like beat. Mercury's version (by Ralph Marterie) is the current best seller. Columbia's Four Lads made the first version with words. Excerpts...
Last week a collection of Songo's sculptures in polished, grey-blue wonderstone (an African soapstone) was on tour in England with a show of African primitives by young students of the Anglican Church's Cyrene school, near Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia. Among pictures of Biblical scenes, painted in colors as vivid as parrot feathers, and chiseled Christs with kinky hair, the hit of the show was Songo's Prodigal Son. The moving, 15-inch figures of the rich father and dissolute son, like all the Negro artist's carvings, seemed to have in miniature...