Word: durban
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gingindhlovu next day there had been more receptions, at Eshowe a vast war dance of 5,000 screaming, booming Zulu warriors and their womenfolk, naked to the waist. When Elizabeth's younger sister Margaret started to smile at the Zulus, Elizabeth reproved her with a headshake. At Durban, on Thursday, there were more addresses of welcome, displays of homage, a civic ball, a garden party, and another memorial to be dedicated. Princess Elizabeth complained to a friend that she was meeting very few young people. She pouted: "You would think that they almost forgot that Margaret and I were...
...make matters worse, World War II forced N.V. to reshuffle its holdings to keep them out of Nazi control. So U.S. Lever Bros, is now supposedly responsible, not directly to Unilever N.V. in Rotterdam, but to the Overseas Holdings Co. in Durban, South Africa. All told, there are four layers of subsidiaries between Cambridge and Rotterdam...
...South Africa, leaning toward the U.S. rather than the British pattern, announced that it would experiment with radio advertising. Now dividing its air time between non-commercial "A" and "B" programs-one in English, the other in Afrikaans-the dominion will build new transmitters in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth for a new "C" network open to advertisers. The network hopes to combine BBC's well-tailored decorum with American money-making methods, will carefully consider the sponsor's product before signing a contract. Probable taboos: laxative ads, political blurbs, singing commercials...
...long jump up the coast from Port Elizabeth, in subtropical Durban, U.S. Negro Bishop John Gregg stopped over on his way to visit U.S. Negro troops in the Middle East. No hotel would put him up. Finally he got bed & board in the McCord Hospital for Negroes. Said Bishop Gregg: "Maybe this hospital is the right place for me. After traveling half around the world I have suddenly discovered in South Africa that I suffer from an incurable disease, malignant pigmentation...
...first picture last week of Durban Harbor's Perla Siedle (see cut), onetime Wagnerian soprano whose tireless waterfront singing to Allied convoys has made her one of South Africa's great wartime personalities (TIME, Nov. 15). Perla, known affectionately to thousands of soldiers and sailors as Durban's Lady in White, sings God Bless America for Yanks, There'll Always Be an England for Tommies, Waltzing Matilda for Aussies...