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...Walla, Australia was searched. Australian detectives all summer long swarmed over foreign vessels, pried into every shipment leaving the country. Foreign police departments were asked to help. One by one reports came in. The bell was not in Tokyo, not in Canton, not in Shanghai, not in Hong Kong. Durban and Cape Town could not find it, nor could New Caledonia, Suva, Papeete, Singapore, Hawaii. Vancouver, Amsterdam and Liverpool were a blank and Manhattan Police Commissioner Bolan had no tidings...
Among buzzing guests in the Picture Gallery several startled the rest by recalling that this was not the first Gandhi-George V meeting. In 1901 the Indian community of Durban, South Africa welcomed the then Duke & Duchess of York, now Their Majesties, with a reception at which Lawyer M. K. Gandhi made the principal address. In 1901 impotent Ad- dresser Gandhi was bedight in the latest British fashion. Last week potent St. Gandhi created a sensation by leaving the royal teaparty before no other guest. "Personally I have very little time for social functions," said he. "Both Their Majesties were...
Ever since a huge hippopotamus waddled 500 miles from its natural habitat in Zululand and dropped amicably in upon a town-councillors' meeting at Port St. Johns, and into a hotel lobby at Durban. South Africa (TIME, May 5, 1930), that hippo has been an arch hippo, worshipped by the natives as a god, protected by local legislation throughout the Union. Somebody dubbed it "Hubert" and the name was accepted by all uninquisitive South African citizens...
Born. To Alfred Cecil Durban, onetime British newsboy, and Mrs. (Vivienne Maud Huntington) Durban, daughter of the late Manhattan Architect Charles Pratt Huntington, heiress to part of the fortune of the late Railman Collis Potter Huntington; a daughter. 10 lb.; in Logansport, Ind., where the Durbans sought to hide from the public eye. Name: Frances Charlotte...
...fence he went, twice a day for as long as he could keep it up, in the morning and at night. The Kaffirs who had been allowed too near stared at the thin, sweating man running clumsily in his farm clothes under the glaring sun. He sent to Durban for shoes and shorts. In two years his fame had gone beyond the district and his running had improved. Nobody laughed when he asked for timekeepers in an attempt to break a world's record. Starting one hot July morning in 1923 from the Agricultural Show Grounds in Durban he broke...