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...Albert Kalonji, self-styled "King" of diamond-rich South Kasai province, who had tried to pull a small-scale Tshombe and break away from the central Congolese government. Lawson set out for Kalonji's provincial capital of Bakwanga in an unarmed truck. Something about Lawson's schoolboy French and unmilitary looks charmed the provincial rabble, who released the U.N. patrol...
Aggrey Awori tied the Briggs Cage 40-yard dash record with a 4.5 clocking Tuesday as the freshman track team easily defeated Huntington School, 75 to 11. Awori also equaled the Cage mark for the 40-yard hurdles, 5.2, but the race was run with the barriers at the schoolboy height...
Rattigan and Mills thus create an absorbing Theory of Lawrence, but the play sometimes slithers toward schoolboy romantics and when-empire-was-in-flower nostalgia. No amount of skilled acting can wholly conceal that General Allenby (John Williams) is a stock pukka sahib, that the commander at Deraa (Geoffrey Keen) is a stock sweaty Turkish dog of a villain, and that Auda Abu Tayi (Paul Sparer) is a stock native chief, corrupt but endearing...
...Fiddler. In 1959, Josephine Bay married Michael Paul. The son of a surgeon who became a general in the Imperial Russian army, Paul was born in Ulanvdinsk, Outer Mongolia. As a schoolboy, he studied violin in St. Petersburg in the same class with Heifetz. When he was twelve, Paul enlisted in the army, rode off with the Cossack cavalry, was wounded and captured by the Germans. He escaped from prison camp and made his way across Siberia, China and Japan-fiddling for his board and keep...
Compared to the lumpen, grimy men who emerged in a state of shock from the blood-soaked trenches of the Western front, Thomas Edward Lawrence was an irresistible figure, cut to the bias of every romantic schoolboy's fantasy. His apotheosis was not long in coming. It occurred one night in September 1919, when an audience studded with Cabinet members and ambassadors jammed London's Covent Garden to hear Lowell Thomas lecture on Lawrence, the Uncrowned King of Arabia. It was a rousing occasion; the Welsh Guards played background music, and an Irish tenor rendered the Moslem call...