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...Basave Gowda Coffee Planter Thippanahally Estate Chickmangalore Post Mysore State, India
...names editors regretfully cut out "coffee planter" and, for the sake of simplicity, eliminated "state" from the last line. The Denver office has had no complaints about cutting out titles or occupations, almost none about the liberties taken with names for editing purposes. Says Eleanor Kohler, staff assistant at the Denver office...
Kenya's white settlers blame Kimathi for the recent murder of Planter Roger Ruck, his wife and six-year-old son, hacked to pieces as they strolled in their garden in their pajamas. One white policeman, a friend of the Rucks, is flushing the jungle alone, determined to get Kimathi...
...mistake, you'll be put on the next boat, but somebody'll be there to see you off." Templer began touring the country in an armored car-instead of the Rolls-Royce used by his predecessor. At one stop Templer listened for the second time to a planter angrily complain about inadequate police and army protection...
Meanwhile, Elizabeth bestowed her first titles of the reign, including four peerages, five baronetcies, 60 knighthoods. Among those elevated: Movie Director Carol (The Third Man) Reed and Novelist Compton (Tight Little Island) Mackenzie, knighthoods. A pretty planter's wife in Malaya, Mrs. Patricia Webber, who has twice been ambushed by Red guerrillas only to escape, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for "great courage, loyalty and cheerfulness under very adverse conditions...