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While he was at Johannesburg last week, a 31st birthday caught up with the Prince of Wales, bowed and passed...
Simultaneously, Cambridge University honored two Americans, both astronomers. Upon Dr. Frank Schlesinger, Director of the Yale Observatory, a doctorate of Science was conferred in absentia?the recipient being off in Johannesburg, S. A. Dr. William W. Campbell, President of the University of California, was the other recipient. Upon Dr. Charles H. Mayo Edinburgh University conferred a degree of LL.D...
Accordingly, a lively platinum boom has set in at Johannesburg, South Africa, which in spirit and extent threatens to rival the Transvaal gold boom of the 90's. The Afrikanders have gone platinum mad. Scores of new platinum companies have been organized, some merely on the basis of leasing land in the "platinum district," their shares have been listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and have shot up to 10 or 15 times their original price in a few weeks...
...gold. He gets the key to the gold-mine, and incidentally to the address of the heroine, from the money-belt of a dead Englishman whom he runs across in the jungle. First he gambles away his money, then gets blown up and severely injured in a mine in Johannesburg, and finally falls in love and gets married...
...suggestion. The greatest reason is perhaps, the number of bright lads in the country who, as wee tots of seventeen, astonish their parents by anticipating English A; then breeze through college, dashing off keen editorials in which they use such big words as "Syndicalism", "exploitation", and "Johannesburg"; and finally fare forth in the world to enlighten the public through the editorial columns of your "New York Timeses", your "Chicago Tribunes", and your "Boston Transcripts". (This last is, I confess, modeled after your clever, but somewhat misguided--no offense--allusion of some time ago to "your Hylans, your Thompsons, and your...