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...first time Dr. Johan Hendrik Botha saw green-eyed blonde Mavis, she was clad in rags, covered with veld sores and standing barefooted on the cow-dung floor of a filthy Zulu kraal. Horrified, the doctor, who treats thousands of Zulus in the lonely hills of northern Natal, decided instantly that six-year-old Mavis was a white child; he took her home. Young Mrs. Botha gave Mavis a good bath, tied her hair in gay ribbons, gave her her first doll, her first shoes and set her at a table to learn to eat with knife & fork...
Three years ago, Hendrik G. Luitwieler, official restorer for Rotterdam's Boymans Museum, was examining an interesting 15th century painting up for sale. Titled Offering of the Jews, it showed solemn-faced men in bright robes about to sacrifice a lamb. The painter's name was unknown, but similarities in style clearly identified him as the painter of another work, now in the town of Douai, France, showing the Israelites receiving manna from heaven. Art experts call the unknown painter "the Master of the Collection of Manna," believe that he lived in northern Holland...
...freshmen meet provided the most exciting event of the afternoon--the 150-yard individual medley. Dave Hawkins and Eli ace Hendrik Gidense Managed to break Yale and Harvard varsity and freshman marks, and intercollegiate records for the event. Gideonse won in 1:32 flat, Hawkins' time...
...freshman meet might be close, and could conceivably produce an upset. The Bulldog freshman aces are sprinter Hendrik Gideonse and John Phair, a good middle-distance swimmer
Static on your favorite radio program may be caused by the activity of gases on the sun, according to Hendrik C. van de Hulst, speaker at the University Observatory last night. Radio waves went off by the gases interfere with transmission here, Van de Hulst said...