Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buff-colored two-year-old cocker spaniel, Ch. Carmor's Rise and Shine, owned by Mrs. Carl E. Morgan, became the first of his breed since famed My Own Brucie (1940-41) to win the Westminster Kennel Club Show, top bench show in the U.S. ¶ New Zealand produced an added starter to the growing list of potential four-minute milers (Luxembourg's Josef Barthel, Australia's John Landy, the U.S.'s Wes Santee, England's Roger Bannister, Germany's Werner Lueg) when Murray Hallberg, a 20-year-old student, ran the distance...
...ignorance in their coverage of the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 2, 1953), last week went one better. They showed the same sort of ignorance of the customs and temperament of the people of the Commonwealth in their coverage of Queen Elizabeth's good-will tour of Australia and New Zealand. In reporting on the warm, enthusiastic reception Australians gave the Queen and her party, some of the papers went overboard. After the Australian minister in charge of the royal tour cautioned the crowds not to throw small flags into the royal car and to show "Australian sportsmanship and fair play...
Furphies & Training. As a result, in New Zealand, London newsmen traveling with the Queen were greeted by crowds yelling: "Go home, you pommy [a newcomer from England] liars." Last week in Australia, under the headline CUT IT OUT CHUMS!, the Sydney Daily Telegraph (circ. 310,000) jeered at Fleet Streeters for reporting that the Queen's safety was in danger because of the crowds and the rigors of her tour. Said the Telegraph: "England can disregard these furphies [Australian slang for wild rumors]. The only danger seems to be that the hustling correspondents have had to do may cause...
Grass Skirts & Trees. When the Queen was in New Zealand, many a British newsman reported on the country with the open-mouthed naivete of a well-heeled dowager touring the slums. One reporter smugly confessed that she had always thought the Maoris, the civilized descendants of New Zealand's aboriginal tribes, lived in trees. Even the sober London Daily Telegraph said that the Maoris' dances "were rather like a fancy dress ball in a Turkish bath." Most London papers gleefully ridiculed the Maoris for dressing up in the costumes of their ancestors...
...visiting Queen Elizabeth and her entourage, New Zealand was dignified, orderly, altogether like home. Australia, 1,000 miles to the west, was-altogether different...