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Arriving in Kenya last week to make a big-game movie, U.S. Cinemactor Clark Gable boldly announced that he wasn't going to worry about Mau Mau terrorism. But Kenya's 30,000 whites, who have been around a little longer, are frankly worried. They are slowly beginning to realize that the Kenya of the movies, of pink gins and polo and unchallenged white supremacy, is gone for good...
Married. Jane Wyman, 38, Oscar-winning cinemactress (The Lost Weekend, The Glass Menagerie, Johnny Belinda) ; and Fred Karger, 36, Hollywood composer and orchestra leader; she for the third time (her second: Cinemactor Ronald Reagan), he for the second; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
Died. Susan Peters, 31, cinemactress whose budding career (Random Harvest, Song of Russia) was cut short in 1945 when she accidentally shot herself while on a hunting trip with her cinemactor-husband Richard Quine; in Visalia, Calif. Paralyzed from the waist down, she tried a film comeback (The Sign of the Ram) playing the part of a cripple, later toured in stage plays (The Glass Menagerie, The Barretts of Wimpole Street) that could be acted from a wheelchair or a couch. Her doctor gave the "primary cause" of death as a chronic kidney ailment and bronchial pneumonia, added "I felt...
Died. Basil Radford, 55, British cinemactor, whose playing of a deadpan English cricket fan in The Lady Vanishes made him famous on both sides of the Atlantic; of a liver ailment; in London...
...Pentagon was suddenly a brighter place last week for WACs, WAFs and secretaries. Cinemactor James Stewart, a reserve colonel in the Air Force, took time out from play-acting and reported for duty to work on an indoctrination film for new airmen and members...