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...spear. Instead of a lion, a lion-man sprang out and pointed a pistol at the charging Chagga. The pistol misfired, and the Chagga's spear drove through a Mau Mau terrorist, whose hair was plastered with red clay into the shape of a lion's mane...
...Chagga did most of the fighting, and the Mau Mau ran away, leaving rifles, pistols and five prisoners behind. After them went the Masai. They caught one terrorist on a bus bound for Kenya; he had cut off his lion mane, but the telltale scars of Mau Mau oathtaking could plainly be seen on his arms...
...Murray carefully braids the horse's mane and tail, "jes' for looks." From the track comes the faint sound of bugles, announcing that the horses for the fifth race are moving onto the track. The paddock is ready for the horses for the sixth, the Metropolitan. "And away we go!" says Trainer Winfrey. Encased in a pair of light blankets, led by Everson on a lead pony, the Dancer walks coolly through the shade to the paddock...
...lengths ahead of all the rest of the anti-steeplechasers rode a doughty little ex-schoolma'am of 62 named, by exquisitely suitable happenstance, Miss Georgina Horsfall. Her motherly white mane set askew by news that the Queen Mother herself had entered a horse in the Grand National, Miss Horsfall cantered all the way from Leeds to declaim before a meeting of the Cruel Sports group: "I think it is scandalous that the royal family should have horses in these races...
Ohio's governor is as politically unruly as his heavy mane of tousled hair. Ever since he was elected Cleveland's mayor in 1941, Maverick Lausche has spurned "machine" support, winning elections despite organized Democratic opposition. He has heaped such florid oratorical praise on some G.O.P. leaders that they find it awkward later to criticize him in normal partisan fashion. In the 1950 senatorial campaign, Lausche said he "might" vote for Bob Taft instead of the Democratic candidate. By last year the governor had won such popularity as a conservative Democrat that, in defeating Charles P. Taft...