Word: papafio
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...natives of West Africa's Gold Coast love the cinema. Especially do they love films with an African setting in which big Paul Robeson is supported by a small black cherub named Bob Papafio. The son of Big Papafio, an itinerant pugilist who fought himself out in England, Bob was discovered by Actor Robeson and given his first part in Sanders of the River. But Bob Papafio will make no more films for a while. Last week TIME'S resident correspondent in Liberia, Henry B. Cole, told...
...When the Germans started the blitz in London," reported Correspondent Cole, "a bomb went through the roof and hit Mrs. Papafio (of Indian descent) as the family sat in their tiny suburban villa. When Big Papafio went to the rescue, his wife was stiff dead. And what was worse, some gas went into Big Papafio's eyes and made him blind...
...Young Bob coaxingly assisted his blind father and 13-year-old sister to pack their bag & baggage, got a berth on a West African ship and sailed down to the Gold Coast. Last week blind Papafio went on the miue (Government Station ZOY) to tell his three and a half million countrymen how the blitz was going on in England...
...Young Papafio now goes to school barefooted and bareheaded under the heat of the tropical sun. Says he: 'Daddy will take me back to London...
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