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...fifth floor. Inside a low ceilinged room there were baskets of shoes. Our costumes were arrayed along a clothes bar near a mirror. Everyone did their best to find something that didn't smell too old and that fairly approximated his bulk until four of us were dressed as herdsman, one as a cook, and others as villagers...
...Conqueror (RKO Radio). An American traveler in Central Asia once asked a Mongolian herdsman where America was. "In West Russia," he replied. This picture, which purports to be based on the life of the young Genghis Khan, carries a strong suggestion that, to Hollywood's way of thinking, Mongolia is in the western U.S. The part of the "Perfect Warrior"-a man who became a supreme statesman and lawgiver as well as the most formidable military genius in Asiatic history-is played by Hollywood's best-known cowboy, John Wayne. And does he gallop across the steppe...
...herdsman, the calves Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills...
...sorry to move, for grim as they are, the iron-roofed brick cottages at Meadowlands are an improvement on much of Sophiatown. But many objected to being moved because they are black. Said Dr. Alfred Xuma, a 60-year-old Sophiatowner who worked his way up from tribal herdsman to a medical degree at the University of Minnesota and the respect of the medical profession: "What happens to people like me? Must "I now be expected to return to my tribal ways...
First, the Mau Mau overran a Somali outpost on the estate. They cut off the head of a Somali cattle herdsman, presumably to terrorize the Somali tribesmen who are trickling south to help the British against the Mau Mau. As the raiders withdrew, they were closely harassed by a patrol of the regular Negro King's African Rifles. When the gunsmoke cleared, three Mau Mau lay dead. One of them, in a stolen, red-tabbed British colonel's uniform, was Simba, the Lion...