Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tallest but One. He set up Yale's school of engineering, its department of drama, its Institute of Human Relations, and its observatory at Johannesburg, South Africa. To the horror of many of his trustees, he insisted on opening the first graduate school of nursing in the U.S. He was proud of the fact that he had built the tallest structure in New Haven (the 253-ft. Harkness Tower), professed to be bitterly disappointed when a gas company built a tank seven feet higher on the other side of town...
...Rita Beane of Oak Park, Ill. was accidentally locked out of her house in freezing weather, hammered unavailingly for readmittance. Her father-in-law, a radio amateur, had his earphones clamped on tight, and was too busy talking with a ham in Johannesburg, South Africa to hear her. She stepped to a neighbor's house, telephoned another ham, had him contact Station Z56KD in Johannesburg, which notified her father-in-law that she wanted to get back inside...
...week's end, more rioting had broken out in Johannesburg, where someone tossed a bomb into an Indian shop. In Durban, things had grown quiet enough for officials to have a look-around. Amid the bloodstained and ash-strewn debris, they put the cost at more than $1,000,000 worth of destroyed property, 1,000 injured and 300-odd killed. In all the misery brought on, however indirectly, by the grasping and oppressive hand of the master race, only one white man had died...
...relatives turned up last week. Dr. Robert Broom, 83, paleontologist of the Transvaal Museum, cabled to the University of California that he had found the gigantic teeth and massive lower jaw of an apeman far bigger than a modern gorilla. Dug out of a limestone cave at Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, the teeth and jaw are definitely human, rather than apelike. Their original owner (who will now be called "Swartkrans Man") must have looked something like the huge primates, Meganthropus and Gigantopithecus, whose teeth were found in Java and China some years...
Died. Dr. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, 54, South Africa's brilliant longtime Minister of Finance and Education, onetime Deputy Prime Minister and able lieutenant to Field Marshal Smuts; constant advocate of improved conditions for Negroes; of coronary thrombosis; in Johannesburg...