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...they may hear the Liberty ship praised even more lyrically if Captain Walter A. Brunnick is in port. Brunnick, 62, has skippered the Liberty Henry Ward Beecher 63,000 miles, carried bombs and gasoline to India by the long cold route south of Australia, ridden out a hurricane off Madagascar, survived a collision during a submarine attack off Brazil. His verdict on attacks made by the Liberties' detractors: "Flapdoodle...
...Razaf's real name: Andrea Razafinkeriefo. He is the nephew of Ranavalona III, last Queen of Madagascar...
Titular head of AMGOT, more for prestige than for actual administration, was the Commander of the invading Fifteenth Army Group, British General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander. Functioning chief was an experienced British military administrator, Major General Lord Rennell of Rodd, who established the military government of Madagascar last year. His chief deputy was U.S. Brigadier General Frank J. McSherry, an engineer who has been in the Army since 1917 and has been an executive in various war agencies since 1938. Also in Sicily was New York's ex-Governor, Lieut. Colonel Charles Poletti. A notable absentee: Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...
Ghastly visions of plants that eat flesh have troubled the dreams of many imaginative men. In William Randolph Hearst's American Weekly a romancer named Dr. Carle Liche once described what he saw one frightful tree do to a native girl in Madagascar. ". . . Then while her awful screams . . . rose wildly . . . the great leaves slowly rose and stiffly . . . closed about the dead and hampered victim with the silent force of a hydraulic press. . . . The retracted leaves of the great tree kept their upright position during ten days, then when I came one morning they were prone again . . . and nothing...
Smith's recording talent has been found in strange places. Recordings of Fanti-a West African Negro tongue-were made by Francis Nkrumah, a Gold Coast native, now a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. Biggest problem was finding someone who could speak Madagascar's Hova language. Lieut. Smith searched up & down the land before he finally discovered a Harlem cook who was three-quarters Melanesian, one-quarter Polynesian. He was married to a Jamaican Negro. They courted in French; now from Smith's records she is learning Hova...