Word: capetown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bushmanologist Dorothea Bleek, 80, of Capetown, is not so imaginative. She has seen a reproduction of the painting, and suggests that it is not so very old. The central figure, she thinks, is no lady bullfighter strayed from ancient Crete. More likely she's a lady missionary, sent to enlighten (and pose for) the Bushmen by some zealous missionary society...
Died. Dr. C. Louis Leipoldt, 66, South African poet, physician, surgeon and gourmet (he relished lion meat, and recommended that babies imbibe wine rather than milk*); of a heart attack; in Capetown...
Lllibet, Heiress Presumptive to the British Throne, came of age. Twenty-one guns in Capetown (where the Royal Family is visiting) boomed the event...
Internationalism's grand old man, Jan Christian Smuts, had evidently pondered the recent upsurge of British pity for defeated, miserable Germany (TIME, Nov. 5). Last week, in a speech at Capetown, Field Marshal Smuts said what pitying British M.P.s had neglected to say in their House of Commons debate...
Homebody. In Capetown, Union of South Africa, H. M. Ebrahim fathered his 29th child, commented: " It is a mistake for European people to spend so many evenings at cinemas...