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The Outspan
''The Outspan'' was a South African weekly magazine (1927–1957), continued as the fortnightly ''Personality'' (6 June 1957 – 23 December 1965). Its subtitle was "South Africa's Weekly for Everybody". It was published in Bloemfontein by The Friend Newspapers Ltd, first appearing on 4 March 1927, and is said to have been established following the pattern of the British '' Everybody's'', which was set up in 1913. The 1953 book ''Brown's South Africa'' describes ''The Outspan'' as and the 1989 ''South African Family Encyclopedia'' says that: Contributors Contributors are said to have included: Agatha Christie, Wernher von Braun, Admiral Donitz, Stuart Cloete, Denis Compton, Eddie Cantor, Major-General Sir Francis de Guingand, Donald Campbell, P. G. Wodehouse, Viscount Montgomery, Adolf Eichmann and Manuel Fangio. Dorothy Kay produced two to four illustrations for ''The Outspan'' every week from 1927 to 1945, and Frank Bellamy published a series of illustrations in 1955– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Outspan Magazine Cover 1944
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting noun In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, like living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas. A noun may serve as an Object (grammar), object or Subject (grammar), subject within a p ...s that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the Most common words in English, most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
