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...Wilson Jackson, Negro porter and keeper of the Presidential zoo of raccoons, bees, dogs, cats, owls, etc., quivered last week when President Coolidge told him that two lion cubs were on the way from Johannesburg, South Africa- the gift of the mayor of that city. With his eyeballs rolling, Keeper Jackson said he would be glad to care for the lions "if they are young enough and not too ornery." The President explained that they are supposed to be especially playful, even though one of them had bitten off a man's foot just before being shipped...
...Johannesburg news organs hotly demanded that some other method than a foot race be used to apportion what promises to be a $5,000,000 field...
...Robert Baden-Powell: "While South African Boy Scouts were acclaiming me at Johannesburg, Transvaal, last week, as the founder of their movement, I collapsed. Said Lady Baden-Powell to newsgatherers: 'Sir Robert is just worn out. There is nothing organically wrong with...
...Hammond had with her in Johannesburg Mr. Hammond's sister and her little boy Jackie* (her second son) aged eight. The preliminary trial of the Reform Committee soon began "for high treason" but about that time Mr. Hammond fell ill with dysentery. Mrs. Hammond got him out of jail under guard, nursed him herself. Finally under $100,000 bail he was allowed to leave the country and go to Cape Town...
...Author. Sarah Gertrude Millin has always lived in South Africa. She is the Jewish wife of a Johannesburg barrister. She writes for South African papers, including the Cape Times, whose literary column is by her; also for John Middleton Hurry's very earnest and intelligent Adelphi, in London. The Jordans was her first widely read work. Last year, God's Stepchildren, a study in miscegenation worked out like an inexorable chapter from the Old Testament, was very highly praised. Sequel...