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Star Witness Rawson Mbogwa Macharia, a frail little Kikuyu shopkeeper, testified six years ago that Kenyatta himself had given him the Mau Mau oath, that he had been stripped naked and made to walk seven times through an arch of banana leaves and to drink human blood. Last spring, hoping for money, Macharia made the rounds of Nairobi newspapers showing a letter to him from Kenya's attorney general written before the trial. In return for his testimony, the letter said, the government would reward Macharia with a round-trip air ride to England, a two-year college course...
...Joint. In 1942 Marthe died, and Bonnard, a frail, spectacled old man of 74, was quite lost without her. He was staggered when a letter arrived from the public registrar notifying him that, since Marthe had died intestate, their joint property would be sequestered until the question of heirs was settled. The "joint" property consisted of stacks of his unsold paintings and portfolios of drawings...
Died. Brother Matthew, 48, frail, balding lay brother of the Roman Catholic Servite order, famed, until he entered a monastery in 1953, as fast-fingered Alto Saxophonist Boyce Brown, a rarely recorded legend of the '30s and '40s, who as a combo colleague of Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon helped create Chicago-style jazz, later found time for his horn amidst his humble monastery duties because "good entertainment is good and can be used to serve God''; of a heart attack; in Hillside...
Grizzled, sly, and a bit mad, Jimson lives in a houseboat moored in a London harbor, and continues painting on a weekly dole from his old, unbelievably frail patron. His epic visions, to be painted on the walls of living rooms, in the naves of churches, on the sides of ships never turn out exactly as he would like, yet he is incontrovertibly one of the great painters of the age. If no one else knows it, he does, and he is content to wait...
...poetry reading is left mostly to poets -and there are not many poets around. Magazines devoted exclusively to verse are frail, poverty-stricken, ephemeral publishing ventures, subject to sudden collapse; Poetry, largest (5,500 subscribers) of about ten U.S. poetry magazines, must beg constantly to stay alive. In book circles, the sale of 5,000 copies of a volume of poetry is considered unusually brisk. Yet by last week An Introduction to Haiku, a book on one form of Japanese poetry released two months ago by Doubleday, had sold 9,500 copies and was still going strong...