Word: johannesburgers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, as more and more news occurs in Africa. TIME has geared its coverage to keep pace with the events there. I recently asked our Johannesburg bureau chief, Alexander Campbell (TIME, June 9, 1952), to describe this pace. With the help of nine part-time correspondents, his regular beat includes everything south of the Sahara-a territory roughly 2½ times the size of the United States...
Campbell's answer to my query began: "I'm typing this while flying on a plane from Johannesburg to Accra. Three days ago I was on the east coast of Africa, in Nairobi. To ' go from Nairobi to Accra via Johannesburg may seem like a roundabout way, but actually it's the quickest. To fly straight across would have meant hanging around the Belgian Congo for air connections. There is no good east-west trans-Africa air schedule...
Arms & the Man. In Johannesburg, South Africa, when seven armed holdup men entered his store, Grocer James Christopher started bombarding the bandits with two-pound cans of lemon drops, routed them after scoring six direct hits...
Deadly Weapon. In Johannesburg, South Africa, police hunted the four men who took $26 from a gas station cash register while holding the attendant at bay with a live lobster...
After the recent surge of star-filled African travelogues, The Pennywhistle Blues is pleasant entertainment indeed. Keeping the camera on actual natives in a small suburb outside Johannesburg, director Donald Swanson has uncovered something more absorbing than rushing rhinos and garish headdresses. And unlike his Hollywood counterparts, Swanson has commuted a warmth to the film beyond the Zulu temperatures...