Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the two years of terror, probably no Englishman in Kenya was more sympathetic to the problems and irritations besetting the Kikuyu than sixtyish Arundel Gray Leakey, a resident of Kenya for close to half a century. Like his better-known cousin, L.S.B. Leakey, the world's topmost authority on Kikuyu manners and morals and official interpreter at the trial of Mau Mau Chieftain Jomo Kenyatta, Gray Leakey had been accepted into the Kikuyu tribe as a "blood brother" and spoke the native language as readily as he did English. Refusing to believe that Mau Mau would harm either...
...night a month ago, Gray Leakey was challenged by prowling armed terrorists. In their own dialect, he told them that he was unarmed, turned his back and strolled away. True to his expectations, they let him go unharmed. One evening last fortnight, however, as Leakey, his wife and his stepdaughter Diana Hartley were having supper at the farm, a band of 30 Mau Mau swarmed out of the woods. Mrs. Leakey rushed to the bathroom with her daughter and helped her escape through a trap door into an attic above. Mrs. Leakey herself was too weak to follow. When Diana...
Sharp-eyed moviegoers will find familiar notes in the retired general's gruff good humor, thinning gray hair, ingenuous smile, and underlying heart of gold. One wonders if Jagger is patterned after Eisenhower or vice-versa...
Father Knows Best (Sun. 10:00 p.m., CBS) is another one of CBS' patented family comedies that bear far more relation to each other than they do to life. Everyone from father Robert Young to Junior (Billy Gray) handles his untaxing chore with competence. All the situations and every response to them should be completely familiar to experienced televiewers...
...Fingold's name, Assistant Attorney General Harris J. Booras was given the job of investigating. Twice he spoke with both sides, and he made trips to the Arboretum land the new herbarium in Cambridge. He also received bales of letters, one of which--from Oscar M. Shaw of Ropes, Gray--assumed major importance. This letter, which according to the petitioners "teems with bad law, unjustifiable statements of alleged fact and misleading advice." was more or less followed in the memo handed down by Booras later, the memo which concluded 'by direction of the Attorney General, the application is denied...