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...public sensation of flat, sun-washed Nairobi, capital of Britain's Kenya Colony, is the drawn-out trial of one of its first citizens for the murder of another. This week, in a hot, crowded courtroom, Major Sir Henry John Delves ("Sir Jock") Broughton was awaiting the verdict of a jury of his peers. For a full month he had seen the Crown Counsel, witness by witness, put together a damning picture of the murder of his friend, Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll (TIME, March...
Banned from North Carolina schools last week was a fifth-grade history (Jule B. Warren's North Carolina Yesterday and Today) adopted last winter by ex-Governor Clyde R. Hoey's administration and recently denounced by scholars (TIME, April 28). An investigator appointed by Governor J. M. Broughton found more than 1,000 factual errors in the book...
Nell Lewis' campaign had raised such a furor that Governor J. Melville Broughton (who succeeded Hoey Jan. 1) hurried home from a vacation in Mexico City and ordered that the Warren books, already in use by 90,000 fifth-graders, be recalled at the end of the school term for corrections. He also asked Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell to analyze the rejected Newsome-Lefler book. Maxwell, a Hoeyite, explained everything...
About 50 years ago Sir "Jock" Broughton [TIME, March 24] and I were boys together. Though not wholly together since he was the son of a baronet and I only the son of his father's gamekeeper. Many times subsequently I might have wanted to exchange places with Jock. But now he is charged with murder and I do not even want to kill anyone, except, of course, the mad dogs of Berlin...
Opposite the Earl was a gentleman who had been his Kenya neighbor since the early '20s. This was spruce, mustachioed Major Sir Henry John Delves ("Sir Jock") Broughton, 57. An old Etonian, he had inherited his ancestral Doddington Park in Cheshire, and a half-million pounds, from a recluse relative. An ardent racing fan, he had served through World War I in the Irish Guards, where he was known as the best card player in the officers' mess. Early in 1940, after 26 years of marriage, Sir Jock had been divorced by Lady Broughton, an avid sportswoman...