Word: congo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other side of Africa, in British Nigeria, he boarded Pan American Airway's Cape Town Clipper, which was homeward bound on a test flight to the Belgian Congo and back. One day last week, Steinhardt landed in New York. For newsmen, the tall, angular man who has been observing the agony of Russia from inside had only: "Until I report in Washington I have nothing to say." At the White House, before the President left for Warm Springs, Steinhardt began his report. This week, with the President's return, he will read on from his diplomatic book...
There Pan Am's Capetown Clipper paused last week on an 18,290-mile proving flight from Manhattan to Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo-a flight that will soon lead to regular fortnightly commercial service. There at Natal Pan Am is building two bases, one land...
...years the doomful sound of drumming in the Congo night struck white men weak with fright. Black tribesmen, pounding out an ominous drum language of their own, threatened death to pale interlopers...
From Stanleyville, Belgian Congo, Chicago Daily Newsman George Weller last week told how a young British Baptist missionary had gone so far native as to revive drum talking. John Carrington, 29, learned the drum tongue from a tattooed old drum master, Lifindiki Tuaytolo, freely translated as Quarrelsome Smith. Missionary Carrington and Quarrelsome Smith taught young tribesmen how to converse with a two-toned hollowed wood drum...
Newsman Weller stood near by when Drummer Carrington spotted a hippopotamus' nose above the muddy Congo waters, banged out the suggestion that surrounding tribesmen kill the beast. They whammed the reply: "We cannot overpower majesty of his jaws." When storm clouds rose, Carrington socked out: "Bad man, son of disease, is coming down upon clods of earth." Tribesmen began closing the doors of the wicker huts...