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Matter of Perjury? After Strachan's story appeared, Gandar ran a second article on prison tortures, witnessed by two warders and two ex-prisoners. Since then both prisoners have been rearrested, and one of the warders put under house arrest. The other, Gysbert Van Schalkwyk, 22, was given a three-year jail sentence fortnight ago, after pleading guilty to perjury, and explaining, in a statement read to the court by the state prosecutor, that he had lied when he said he had seen electric torture applied 15 to 20 times...
Died. Group Captain Adolf Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan, 52, one of World War II's top air aces, South African merchant sailor who traded his sea legs for wings, bagged 35 Nazi planes as an R.A.F. Spitfire pilot, returned home to organize 250,000 veterans into the "Torch Commando," which disbanded in 1953 after an unsuccessful campaign to change the racist policies of Prime Minister Daniel Malan, a distant relative; of pneumonia; in Kimberley, South Africa...
...silver & gold Johannesburg hotel room one day last week, ex-Royal Air Force Ace Adolph Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan, 40, presided over the first National Congress of his newly formed War Veterans Action Movement. On the wall behind him hung a tiny stucco dancing girl; in front sat 85 sturdy ex-servicemen, ranging from white-mustached former brasshats to fresh-faced youths...
Because of apparently different standards, the Allied records are lower. The top Allied ace, Russia's Major Alexander Pokryshkin (TIME, May 15), is credited with 53, he said last week. (No Westerner rightly knows how Russian airmen's scores are figured.) Britain's Group Captain Adolph Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan and the late Brendan ("Paddy") Finucane, each with 32, are the Western Allies' top scorers; the U.S.'s are Major Richard Ira Bong and Captain Robert S. Johnson, each with...
...plane score of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in World War I. Joseph Jacob Foss, 27 years old, single, dark-haired and ruddy, medium big (5 ft. 10½ in., 182 lb.), is still under the score of the late Squadron Leader "Paddy" Finucane (32) and Wing Commander Adolph Gysbert Malan (35) and astronomically distant from legendary German Captain Manfred von Richthofen's 80, British Major Edward Mannock's 73, Billy Bishop's 72 and French Major René Fonck...