Word: bwanas
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...former colonial (bwana), permit me to congratulate you on James Whitmore's photographs of central Africa [May 20]. They shed new light on what is frequently called the dark continent...
With the success of Operation Saucepan, the government gave CABS more kilowatts, with the understanding that every day from noon to 9 p.m. it would be the bearer of the word from the white bwanas to the natives. His Excellency the Governor tried some familiar commercial radio techniques to win cooperation from his subjects. "Be on the Side of Law and Order!" CABS cried. "Pay Your Taxes Now!" Such Madison Avenue methods left listeners bored and unimpressed. Little dramatic parables pointing to a simple moral proved more effective, but nobody can be sure of the effect of the daily lectures...
...supervised by U.S.-born Baptist Devitt. For 25 years 51-year-old William Devitt and his wife Edith have labored among the Kikuyu, traveling 25,000 miles each year through the Rift Valley to direct the mission's 80 schools for Kikuyu children. The natives affectionately call him "Bwana Jambo" (Mister Hello) because of his friendly greetings. When the Mau Mau revolt began in 1952, Devitt organized Kikuyu of his area to protect themselves. For his pains, he was put on the Mau Mau murder list...
Appearance: Dark, handsome, and so tall-6 ft. 6 in.-that Africans call him "Bwana Kilimanjaro...
...ever-widening spread of TV, became calamitous in 1952. By year's end the weekly audience was cut in half, and box-office receipts were down nearly 30%. Then, early in 1953, came the 3-D craze, launched in December 1952 by Arch Oboler's inept Bwana Devil, and seeming to prove that audiences would look at anything that could leap out and bite them. Cinerama, playing in only seven cities, grossed a staggering $6,000,000. But no sooner was Hollywood retooling for 3-D than Cinema Scope rocked the industry with its widescreen, multiple-sound-track...