Word: kilburn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career. Settling down in the lower-class Kilburn district of London, he gradually built up a thriving practice of 4,000 patients, most of them white. His modest home became a favorite meeting place for such future African leaders as Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah, who called him affectionately "G.P." or "the Doc." Intense and impassioned about his native Nyasaland, he became increasingly bitter after the Federation was formed in 1953. "The Nyasas," he insisted, "have been deceived by a people whom they had grown to regard as Christian and honest, and betrayed by a government which for 60 years...
Roving Assignment. In Salt Lake City, convicts publishing the Utah state prison newspaper abruptly changed the masthead listing of Escaped Editor Quay Kilburn from "Editor in Chief" to "Editor at Large...
Roving Assignment. In Salt Lake City, convicts publishing the Utah state prison newspaper abruptly changed the masthead listing of escaped Editor Quay Kilburn from "Editor in Chief" to "Editor at Large...
...RICHARD KILBURN...
...long, uphill pull. When she was 2½, she came down with polio, and the disease left her with a painful limp. Moreover, in her determination to succeed as a singer, she developed as a youngster such a grimly serious manner that her voice teacher, Toronto's Weldon Kilburn, feared she would never charm an audience. But when she gave her first recital at 15, she dropped her determined air and radiated...