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Unhappily, the film betrays its literary origin by stressing emotion rather than motion. It is the tale of the Rev. Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee), a simple Zulu minister who journeys from Ndotsheni, Natal to the great, bewildering city of Johannesburg to find his lost sister. There he discovers that she has become a prostitute in the squalid; segregated shantytown where the plight of black-skinned people in a white man's world is shockingly evident. The black voyager also finds that his only child, Absalom, has murdered a young white champion of the oppressed Negroes. The victim...
story from Johannesburg, Correspondent Alexander Campbell was advised by another writer to buy himself "a nice bulletproof...
Because he is a Swiss citizen, Comte may not claim the South African gliding altitude record, which now stands at 21,000 ft. He will have to send the record from his sealed barograph home to Switzerland for any official recognition. In Johannesburg, however, South Africa's Champion Harry Lasch shook his head in amazement at Comte's flight. Official or not, "it was magnificent, and is going to be very hard to beat...
...suspect" magazines, liable to banning, were many general U.S. magazines. Latest to feel the sting of Dönges' whip were bookstores. A fortnight ago, he ordered that all imported books be kept unopened in specially sealed bags until customs men could inspect them for "contraband" literature. In Johannesburg, there was a single customs man to cover 25 booksellers. Harried by clamoring customers, their stores crammed with unopened parcels, the booksellers cried for "relaxation." Last week they got it. The government told the stores "you may receive your book parcels as freely" as before, but added an ominous note...
...university since 1887) on the move again. During his tenure in office from 1921 to 1937, James Rowland Angell of Michigan probably did more to produce the Yale which exists today than any other man. He erected 37 buildings, quadrupled endowments; formed a new engineering school, an observatory at Johannesburg, and the first U. S. graduate school of nursing; pulled the law and medical schools out of the rut, and set up a drama department under George P. Baker, an immigrant from Harvard...