Radio: Veld Vet

Nifty and haunting little songs from South Africa, sung for all that is in them, have made Josef Marais (pronounced Ma-ray) a favorite radio balladeer. Over an NBC-Blue network as usual last Sunday at 1:30 p.m. E.S.T. his program, African Trek, opened with a few bars of his theme song, Sarie Marais; but as a special treat this time he sang the whole thing first in Afrikaans, then in English. He could be sure of a bilingual audience, because for almost a year NBC has been sending his program by short wave to the...

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