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...Britain's Kenya Colony, but in that year most of it was transferred to Italy. Last week Britain very nearly had it back again-and was set to take a little more. By last week, British and South Africans had chased the Italians as far as the Juba River, which before the transfer marked the boundary between Italian and British colonies. If the British could establish bridgeheads beyond the Juba, their toughest job in the invasion of Italian Somaliland would be done. Gradually, through the week, the British loosed the Italians' hold on defense positions in front...
...late famed pioneer Transatlantic Flier Captain Sir John Alcock, was bound last March from Kisumu to Cairo, on the South Africa-to-England run. Young Alcock was rocketing along over the jungle at 200 m.p.h. when he found he was running out of fuel. Instead of flying over Juba, he was 150 miles to the southeast. The Dangu River, swarming with hippos, crocodiles and water snakes, hedged by high and slippery banks, yawned beneath...
Young Alcock, his passengers and three of the crew were carried overland to Juba, and from there the crestfallen pilot was recalled to London while thrifty Sir John rushed salvage engineers to the jungle. In three months, despite jungle fever, they completed repairs, and in July, when the Dangu rose to flood, they prepared to take off. With her four giant engines scaring up a bright cloud of fluttering parakeets, the patched Corsair lumbered majestically downstream. Before she rose, there was a disheartening rip and she tore her bottom out on a jagged rock...
...Bontemps can sketch convincing characters, to use an overworked expression. His negroes are authentic, and so are his "planter" aristocrats. Ben, the loyal old slave, who betrays the insurgents; Melody, the mulatto mistress of the white rascals; Juba, the slave girl who is in love with the hero; Mr. Moseley Sheppard, Ben's master; Pharaoh, the other traitor--all these characters remain fixed in the memory some time after one has finished reading the book. Gabriel, the hero, who had pondered on the exploits of Toussainat L'Ouverture, the Haitian patriot, is not so forceful as a better novelist would...
Henry B. Robbins '36 will direct the vocal club, which will render three songs, "The Drums," "The Pope," and "Winter Song." An outstanding part of the program is the "Juba" piece...