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Yeller Feller. By 1904, when Government Clerks Oscar and Mark Shillingsworth arrived in Port Zodiac (Darwin), the town was a thronging spectrum of racial color. "Going combo" (mixing with the native women) was officially taboo but an enthusiastic reality in a country short on white women and addicted to "black velvet." Soon half-castes outnumbered whites three-to-one. Unrecognized by their white fathers (who felt vaguely double-crossed), they were tolerated as mongrels by the blacks...
...press associations seldom put that kind of information on their wires. It isn't "news," and anyhow a reporter can't go into a man's character without venturing an editorial opinion-which is also taboo in news columns of most newspapers. As for the editorial writers, very few of them spend much time on personalities-they're busy explaining "issues." But TIME'S editors believe you are instinctively right in wanting your Washington friend to tell you first about the people who are making the news. It's all fine to read that...
...Personalities are taboo on the Russian radio. Some nameless announcers' voices become known through repetition...
...Sentence of four months' imprisonment for a native woman was upheld by the Natal Supreme Court; but the court suspended sentence of her partner, an R.A.F. man. Their offense: illicit sexual intercourse. In South Africa, Natal is one of the provinces where intercourse between blacks and whites is taboo. The law has previously provided equal punishment for both...
Reason for the purchase: something had to be done to offset C.I.T.'s drop in installment-plan financing. With new-car sales taboo, used-car sales on the skids, and radios, refrigerators, etc. on the way out, C.I.T.'s first-half business dropped 50% to $433,000,000, a four-year low. This left C.I.T. with a lot of cash ($48,000,000 on June 30), plenty of ambition -and practically no place...