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...Murderland. Two brave British policemen volunteered to deliver the letters. They were Special Branch Superintendent Ian Henderson, 27, and his strapping blond assistant, 32-year-old Bernard Ruck. Henderson is a slim, nut-brown Scot who grew up with Kikuyu children on his father's coffee farm. He speaks Swahili, Meru, Kamba, Kikuyu, French and Afrikaans. Day after day, following China's directions, Henderson and Ruck drove into the forest, unarmed and alone. The forest had eyes, and one captured Mau Mau reported a snatch of dialogue between two Mau Mau sentinels...
Proud Britons acclaimed the ascent of Everest as an achievement of the race that bore Raleigh, Nelson and Rhodes. To Asians it quickly became the personal-and national-triumph of a nut-brown little Sherpa who cannot read or write but who has grappled oftener with Everest (eleven expeditions) than any man alive...
Bernard Karfiol, a nut-brown little walnut of a man, is one of the country's most reserved and most respected artists. In almost half a century of painting he has had less than a dozen one-man shows, but they have earned him a place in a dozen topnotch museums. His latest exhibition, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, showed why Karfiol is famous in spite of himself...
...Pert, nut-brown Coaltown is the speed horse. He naturally bounces along at top speed unless he is restrained. Because of his terrific speed, cautious Ben Jones insists that Coaltown wear a quarter-inch pad of piano felt between hoof and shoe?just in case his feet start stinging. Coaltown, who has more crowd-appeal than Citation, at Florida's Hialeah Park last winter equaled the world record for a mile-and-an-eighth (1 :47 3/5). Then at Gulfstream Park, under a tight hold, he equaled the mile-and-a-quarter record...
...ever-present sub-plot involves Shirley Temple, a nut-brown coed who later turns out to be a widow with a three-year old child. It's the same old saga of campus love, and falls down badly. Fortunately the focus is always on Clifton Webb, who like Bobby Clark, is a show by himself. His attitude throughout the entire picture can be accurately summed up in the following exchange...