Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destiny of a continent. . . . A man without legs is unfit for walking but may be an outstanding fighter pilot." These challenging questions & answers were made last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by two South African doctors. Drs. Ernst Jokl and Eustace Henry Cluver of Johannesburg. To determine the physical fitness of thousands of their countrymen, they had made many and varied experiments...
Last fall General Smuts got to work on the Brandwag, proved in a series of well-publicized trials that its leaders got both ideas and money from a Nazi consul in Portuguese East Africa, only 400-odd miles from Johannesburg. Always a cagey fighter, Smuts did not crack down on the Brandwag rank & file, instead let them quit the organization while the quitting was good. He flew in a loaded bomber to the war zone in the Sudan just to show his people how near it was. This, on top of the smothering of Holland, suggested to Afrikanders that World...
Before the ink was dry on this announcement, hell began to pop. In Johannesburg, British soldiers and bearded Brandwag men tangled in the street after a meeting. Police stopped the fighting, but next evening soldiers on leave were loaded for Boer. They crowded the town, and the sight of a bearded man in a streetcar was enough to touch off a riot. After attacking the car they went for the Brandwag office. Police kept them outside, but they did their best to wreck it with brickbats. To clear rioters from the streets the Government shipped police reinforcements into the city...
Pleased at snatching the unique account from his competitors was Ayer Partner Gerold McKee Lauck, 48, in charge of the New York office. Cherubic, white-haired, pipe-nursing Partner Lauck has a propensity for getting unique accounts the hard way. Year ago he set out for Johannesburg to persuade the crusty British South African (DeBeers) diamond syndicate to step up its ailing sales with a U. S. advertising campaign. At Lumbo, Mozambique, his Imperial Airways flying boat smacked head-on into a jetty in landing, killing two passengers and flinging Adman Lauck against a bulkhead with such force that...
Died. John George Howard, 87, who 41 years ago helped Prisoner of War Winston Churchill escape from his captors, the Boers; at Johannesburg. He hid Churchill, who had a ?25 reward on his head, in a mine pit for three days, later concealed him among bales of wool, arranged for his transportation to friendly Portuguese territory...