Word: congo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Religionist Rodeheaver turned up in Manhattan, told newshawks about a trip he had made in the Congo with Methodist Missionary Bishop Arthur James Moore. Inviting his interviewers to call him "Reverend Trombone" or at least "Homer," Mr. Rodeheaver explained that Negro spirituals had taken him to Africa. Raised in Jellicoe, Tenn., birthplace of Soprano Grace Moore, he knew black amoor harmonies and rhythms early, claims credit for popularizing them as early as 1917. In the Congo, in which he traveled 1.500 miles by Ford, bicycle, canoe, litter and on foot, Missionary Rodeheaver played hymns and spirituals...
...damp uplands of the Belgian Congo a glowering male gorilla beats his breast, while the female leans placidly against a tree, watching her baby eat wild celery. At a waterhole a mother giraffe with widespread forelegs is bending down to drink. Beside her are the male, keeping watch, and the calf. Nearby a young Grévy's zebra is suckling its mother. In the background baboons are scrambling over a steep cliff. On the plains of Tanganyika a group of mottled, sinister-looking wild dogs are intently watching a herd of zebra, ready to give chase...
...John McKendree Springer, for 35 years a missionary in Africa, was consecrated a missionary bishop, sent back to his field in the Congo. Another outlander simultaneously consecrated was Rev. Roberto Elphick, elected bishop some months ago by the Methodists of Chile and Peru...
...Mayer Cohen '36, of Brooklyn, New York, took second with selections from "John Brown's Body" by Stephen Vincent Benet, while David Park McAllester '38, of Everett, placed third, giving Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo...
...Cohen '36; Selection from "John Brown's Body," by Stephen Vincent Benet; David P. McAllester'38: "The Congo," by Vachel Lindsay; Robert Dunn '37: "Justice,: by Kuo-Hsiang Wu; William H. Ledgard '36: "The Death of the Hired Man," by Robert Frost; Edwin K. Packard '37: Selection from "The Children's Crusade," by Marcel Schwob...