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...Jumbos, who did not have preseason practice as did the Crimson, are primarily a one-man team built around a fast, shifty Liberian Negro named Morris who rates as one of the best ball-handlers and play-makers in the New England area. An unpaid player on several of the semipro elevens around Boston during the off seasons, Morris scored close to half of the Jumbo goals last year...
When President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman wanted his Executive Mansion refurbished for last week's 100th anniversary of Liberian independence, he applied to a Manhattan department store, R. H. Macy's. "We went and got," said Macy's Decorator in Chief Betty Gallagher Ormsby, "everything." That included bedspreads, crystal goblets, hand-cut chandeliers, a merry-go-round, toothpick frills, a steak masticator, a fish refrigerator, a headboard of pale café-au-lait satin for President Tubman's bed. From Monrovia, capital of Africa's only Negro republic, Macy's was flooded by radiograms...
...Liberian Army officers persuaded their bibulous countrymen to disperse. Now the U.S. Army has more than doubled the Roberts Field garrison-it flew in 13 more G.I.s from the occupation forces in Germany...
Prowlers promptly appeared, and prowling led to trouble. Warehouses caught fire. One native tangled with a live power line and electrocuted himself. A fortnight ago, a U.S. sentry shot and fatally wounded a Liberian who had climbed into the barracks. One day the guard detachment found itself encircled by 100 Liberians armed with knives, rocks and clubs (and breathing fumes of fermented cane juice...
...Party President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman did not hear about the trouble right away. He was busy on one of his frequent trips along the coast.* In Monrovia, Secretary of State Gabriel Dennis regretted the incident, was sure accounts were exaggerated, handsomely offered U.S. armed forces the protection of Liberian armed forces...