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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...
...days after, native and European police by the hundreds combed the jungle searching for Gray Leakey, a diabetic who could scarcely survive four days anywhere without proper medical care. Last week the search was given up. Cousin Leakey took to the air to warn other Kenya whites against such kindness and complacency as that of Arundel Gray Leakey...
STONE AGE AFRICA-L. S. B. Leakey-Oxford...
...When Mr. Leakey's latest news of Oldoway reached the U. S. last week, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists were about to hold their third annual meeting at the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, president of the body, dismissed the information with: ''It will be best for everyone interested to await scientific confirmation." His associates proceeded to discuss among other things: The Nose of the American Negro (Dr. George Dee Williams, St. Louis;; The Clavicle of the American Negro (Dr. Robert James Terry, St. Louis); Body Proportions of Adult Catarrhine Primates (Dr. Adolph Hans Schnltz, Baltimore...