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Miami, Fla.--All Crimson men, alumni and prospective students invited to a Christmas party at the home of Will S. Lindsay, 4425 Sabal Palm Road, Bay Point, Miami, on Tuesday, Dec. 27 at 5 p.m. Contact Frank Howard, Dade Federal Building, Miami...
That was easier said than done. And still eager and zippy at week's end, Caroline, with her father in tow, boarded a plane for a trip to Palm Beach. There one, and maybe both, were scheduled to get a little rest...
...officer, never came to serve in action, but look back on my single top-secret assignment as the raison d'être of the long years of training in my youth and early manhood. In truth, if only for a moment in time, I held history in the palm of my hand...
With slavery's passing and the coming of the Industrial Revolution, Britain's interest in Nigeria shifted from people to palm oil. To get the oil, British trading companies began to penetrate the interior of Nigeria-and after them came the Union Jack. By 1903, when Sir Frederick Lugard (later Lord Lugard) began his campaigns against the Northern emirs, British rule in Nigeria was an accepted international fact. But even yet no one conceived of northern and southern Nigeria as having anything but a geographical connection; the word Nigeria itself was coined by a London Times contributor named...
...water as if applying perfume. But the most colorful character in the book is not an animal but the Fon of Bafut, a royal hedonist with a joyous appetite for women, dance, song and drink, in the form of tumblers of Scotch, gin and mimbo, the native palm potion. More than 6 ft. tall and past 80 in age, the gorgeously robed Fon moves through Author Durrell's pages like the mythic club member of some eternally tipsy Olympus. The Fon also regaled Durrell with a pidgin-English account of Queen Elizabeth's tour of the neighboring realm...