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...professional Africa hand, but a good observing traveler, is Esther Warner. Her SEVEN DAYS To LOMALAND (269 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.50) is the story of a seven-day hike she made across Liberia to witness the native trial-by-ordeal of a houseboy accused of thievery. Her account is charming and clear-eyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three out of Africa | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...they would need only a simple majority of 31 votes to establish the unimportance of the issue, the same number to put the deal over. Outside the Western Hemisphere the anti-Red China bloc could count on the votes of a hard core that includes Turkey, Greece, Thailand and Liberia, plus the votes, or abstentions, of whatever countries refuse to consider the issue "unimportant." A maneuver that would probably gather even more votes would be a procedural resolution, like one adopted last year, to postpone a head-on vote. Some countries which profess, out of fear, to favor Red China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Importance of Importance | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...well as one of the top Negro seminaries. Though Lincoln has no other professional schools, its alumni account for 17% of U.S. Negro doctors and scientists and 10% of U.S. Negro lawyers. Its graduates have served in twelve state legislatures, been U.S. Ministers to Haiti, Santo Domingo and Liberia. One alumnus, ex-Pullman Porter Hildrus A. Poindexter, is a ranking authority on tropical diseases; N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall graduated in 1930; a year before, Lincoln produced Poet Langston Hughes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: This Ambitious Aim | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

Missionaries & Prime Ministers. With its long line of missionaries, the university has had an international influence greater than any of its rivals. It has students from the Virgin Islands, British Guiana, Kenya, Nigeria, the Gold Coast, the French Cameroons and Liberia, as well as from 22 states in the U.S. Of all its alumni, perhaps the two most notable are Africans: Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nationalist leader of Nigeria, and Kwame Nkrumah. Prime Minister of the Gold Coast (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953). Many of Lincoln's students have returned to their homelands with a better understanding of the great progress made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: This Ambitious Aim | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...impress him, but he always failed. Sam disappointed his father by refusing to become a clergyman; the canon infuriated Sam by pestering him mercilessly about his future intentions. As Sam had no idea what these should be, his numerous suggestions only made the canon more cantankerous. Cotton-farming in Liberia, bookselling, homeopathic medicine, farming, the army, schoolmastering and painting-all passed in review, until the canon blew up. "Not one sixpence will you receive from me," he wrote, "till you come to your senses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victorian Father & Son | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

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