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Jomo Kenyatta, a proud, able, warped and lonely man, is a symbol of the sad conflict of civilization and savagery, a leader of his people who used the skills civilization taught him to give savagery a new kind of power. He was an orphan, a ten-year-old goatherd, when he was taken in by a Church of Scotland mission in Kiambu and treated for a spinal disease. The mission educated him, baptized him Johnstone Kamau. After this he learned carpentry, edited the first Kikuyu-language newspaper and studied black magic. "My grandfather was a seer and a magician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Burning Spears | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Lili. A slight but charming cinemusical about an orphan girl, a young magician and a romantic puppeteer; with Leslie Caron, Jean Pierre Aumont, Mel Ferrer (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Lili. A slight but charming cinemusical about an orphan girl, a young magician and a romantic puppeteer; with Leslie Caron, Jean Pierre Aumont, Mel Ferrer (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 13, 1953 | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Lili. A slight but charming cinemusical about an orphan girl, a young magician and a romantic puppeteer; with Leslie Caron, Jean Pierre Aumont, Mel Ferrer (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 6, 1953 | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

Lili. A slight but charming cinemusical about an orphan girl, a young magician and a romantic puppeteer; with Leslie Caron, Jean Pierre Aumont, Mel Ferrer (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

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