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Rita Hayworth called it quits in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, sent word to husband Aly Khan, out shooting big game in the veldt, that she was taking off for the Riviera to see her children and rest in more civilized comfort...
Harvard Hymn, by John Knowles Paine '69; Glorious Aplie, by Webbe (written for the first glee club, London, 1790); Tenebrae Factac Sunt, by Ingegneri, Bacchanal, by Cocchi, from Apollonian Harmony; Marching to Pretoria (South African Veldt song), arranged by Ruth E. Abbot; Magdlein lm Waide, by Dvorak (Czech Folk Song, Op. 43, No. 3, 1877); Gaudemus, College Medley, arranged for the Glee Club by William F. Russell...
...Veldt. Three years ago a message came to Scott in Johannesburg from black friends on the veldt: in South West Africa, a former German colony mandated by the League of Nations to the Union of South Africa, the white men were plotting to defraud the black men of their heritage. It was the "sacred trust" of a mandatory power to prepare native peoples for self-government. Instead, the Union of South Africa was preparing to annex South West Africa and force its black men (300,000 v. 30,000 whites) into a degrading system of racial discrimination (TIME...
...retired Canadian lumber dealer, Williamson was used to playing a lone hand. After acquiring a Ph.D. in geology at McGill University, he went to South Africa to work for a copper mine in 1934. He quit to roam the veldt in search of diamonds. After he found them (according to one story, a native found a diamond and took him to the site), he settled down to mining...
Josef Marais & Miranda (Mon. 7:15 p.m., CBS). Songs of the South African veldt...