Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a golfless stretch as a B-24 pilot in the Italian campaign, Locke is just getting his competitive edge back. His first. U.S. victim was Slammin' Sammy Snead, whom he thoroughly trounced in South Africa last winter. The day after Locke stepped off the plane from Johannesburg last month, he played in the tough Masters' tournament, and carded...
Lloyd, now in the midst of a study of the industrial history of the Rolls-Royce Company, graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Union of South Africa. During the war he was a pilot in the South African Air Force. After the war, he entered Cambridge to begin his graduate study of economics...
...Vanguard steamed on, city fathers in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria worked feverishly, decorating their cities with colored lights and bunting. Striking bakers decided to go back to work in honor of the visit, with the threat to strike again when the King had gone home. In Cape Town 18 young men (carefully matched in weight and height) were reported practicing on a three-inch bar suspended like a tightrope to perfect their balance when they took over as stewards on the royal train. Snapped the New Statesman's Kingsley Martin when this news reached London: "Buckingham Palace needs...
...days, thousands of Australians jammed into the green-turfed oval at Adelaide. The happenings there last week made mere squibs in most U.S. newspapers, but they brought passionate growls from all over Britain and headlines in Shanghai and Johannesburg...
...start from scratch. His father, John Hays Hammond Sr., was a fabulous gold-mining engineer. With slam-bang empire-builder Cecil Rhodes, he was involved in the Jameson Raid (which helped to provoke the Boer War) and built up the world's greatest gold-producing region around Johannesburg, South Africa. These activities made him rich...