Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOOSA MOOLLA Johannesburg...
Goren's bridge books have sold 3,500,000 copies in the U.S. alone, have been translated into eight foreign languages. His seven-days-a-week bridge column appears in 194 U.S. newspapers with a combined circulation of 26 million, and in foreign papers from Manila to Johannesburg. Of the U.S.'s 1,000 fulltime professional bridge teachers, more than 90% teach the Goren system of bidding...
...World of Strangers is a simple novel that dissolves harrowing complexities. To Johannesburg comes a young Englishman, Tobias Hood, to manage the branch office of his uncle's publishing business. His only feeling about race problems-and in fact most problems-is that he wants no part of them. Born into a family of compulsive do-gooders (he can still remember his mother reading crusading pamphlets in her bath), he candidly admits that "what I really wanted was to enjoy what was left of the privileged life to which I and my kind have no particular right...
...away at 13 "to acquire an education, because today one does not fight with spears: one fights with knowledge." At first his parents thought he must have been devoured by lions. Only months later did they learn that he had walked barefoot 1,000 miles to Johannesburg, where he got a job in a gold mine. While studying at night, he somehow managed to scrape together enough money to get to the U.S., where he lived for twelve years. He worked his way through college, earned an M.D., and then, being a devout member of the Scottish kirk, went...
...Hark became the top jukebox hit so fast that record companies have ordered a half dozen new pennywhistle tunes. Princess Margaret herself has cut some kwela steps. Pennywhistle records will soon liven U.S. jukeboxes; American jazzmen (including Clarinetist Tony Scott, Saxophonist Bud Shank, Pianist Claude Williamson) went to Johannesburg to learn and record the new sound...