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...FEET TALL. A crackling African adventure story about a stray British orphan (Fergus McClelland) and a fugitive diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) whose hideout is the kind of paradise that all boys dream about...
...FEET TALL. An orphaned British lad (Fergus McClelland) wandering alone through Africa falls in with a grizzled old diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) in a crackling adventure story with the charm of Huck Finn and the ruggedness of a Hemingway safari...
...FEET TALL. An orphaned British lad (Fergus McClelland) wandering alone through Africa falls in with a grizzled old diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) in a crackling adventure story with the charm of Huck Finn and the ruggedness of a Hemingway safari...
...plot, from a lively little novel by W. H. Canaway, tells of Sammy (Fergus McClelland), a ten-year-old lad whose British parents are killed by British bombers over Port Said during the 1956 Suez crisis. Sammy sets out alone on a 5,000-mile odyssey to Durban, South Africa, to find his aunt. He joins a Syrian peddler in the desert and, when the Syrian meets disaster, takes his muiles and money and continues south. He eludes well-meaning tourists near Luxor, covers nearly 2,000 tense miles by boat, train and foot before he falls in with...
...four men indicted were: Norman H. Krause, 44, bar owner and ex-Los Angeles policeman, who in 1950 did arrest two employees of then-Controller Kuchel's office for drunkenness; Jack D. Clemmons, 41, a Los Angeles police sergeant until his resignation two weeks ago; John F. Fergus, 47, until recently a public relations man for Eversharp, Inc., who in 1947 was charged with possession of a concealed weapon and given a suspended sentence, and Francis A. Capell, 57, of Zarephath, N.J., publisher of a rightist newspaper, Herald of Freedom, and author of a pamphlet entitled The Strange Death...