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...London School of Economics, Kenyatta studied anthropology and fell among Marxist intellectuals. He made several trips to Moscow. In 1934 he shared an apartment with Paul Robeson while the American Communist was making Sanders of the River. He married an English schoolteacher, Edna Grace Clarke, and had a son named Peter, but abandoned both when he returned to Kenya in 1946. By then he was a powerful man among the million-strong Kikuyu. He formed the Kenya African Union and established schools in which the teaching was based on old Kikuyu tribal lore and customs, including black magic...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Somerset Maugham's Jane, with Edna Best, Michael Redgrave...
Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Edna Best in Magic Morning...
...Middle Ranks. One way or another, it was a great year for Texas. After an ill-tempered clouting of its manners & morals by Edna Ferber in her bestselling Giant, the state produced three of the most widely talked-about books of the year: Madison Cooper's Sironia, Texas, a 1,731-page Texas-town saga which seemed to prove that Ferber's view had been right in the first place; Tom Lea's The Wonderful Country, singing Lea's love of his Rio Grande country, north & south of the border; and The Devil Rides Outside...
...Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk The Silver Chalice, Thomas Costain East of Eden, John Steinbeck Giant, Edna Ferber Steamboat Gothic, Frances Parkinson Keyes My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier