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Londoners wanted coconuts, but the British government forbade their import. Obabunmi Aina, a 28-year-old law student from Nigeria (where coconuts are plentiful), wanted a London apartment. He couldn't get it because the greengrocer who owned it wanted too much money. Recently the British government lifted its import ban on coconuts. Obabunmi sent a hurry call to Nigeria. Two tons of coconuts arrived in London. Customers thronged the greengrocer's shop. Mr. & Mrs. Obabunmi last week were living in the greengrocer's apartment...
...Magnus Uju '53 came all the way from Nigeria to Harvard to study drama, left before a term was out and is now appearing as Ali, a houseboy, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein production, "Heart of the Matter," at the Wilbur Theatre...
...whose home address is Nkwerre, Orlu district, Owerri province, Nigerie, West Africa, plans to return to his native country and produce, direct, write, and act in plays. He is distressed that Nigeria gets an ample dose of British movies, most of them depicting his country in an unfavorable light, but no plays...
...Osaka's houses, left only 10% of its factories working. Now, four years later, Osakans already have built 100,000 new dwellings; 9,300 factories are back in operation, sending steel pipe to Arabia, chinaware to the U.S., locomotives to Russia and Siam, textiles to Nigeria, Hong Kong, Pakistan and the Middle East...
...late Illustrator N.C. Wyeth, at Chadds Ford, Pa., learning to paint. Hurd married Wyeth's artist daughter Henriette, then moved back to New Mexico, where the Kurds and their three children have taken joyfully to ranch life. Says Hurd, who has gone on painting junkets to Egypt, Hawaii, Nigeria, India, England, Italy, Brazil and Morocco: "It just happens that this part of the planet is where I feel closest to life...