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Trembling only slightly, Chief Counsel Ashbrook Bryant looked over the upper rims of his glasses into the robin's-egg eyes of the witness, and asked: "In plain words, what happened...
Memed My Hawk, by Yashar Kemal An appealing first novel from Turkey tells the story of an Anatolian village lad who grows up to be a modern Robin Hood...
...moving aside for brown mixed with black and other softer combinations. A fashion show put together by the buying house Felix Lilienthal & Co., highlights such colors as cognac, pumpkin, mustard and apricot. Mollie Parnis and Hannah Troy are two of many showing soft brown, smoky green, and blue (robin's egg, peacock) for daytime. Arthur Jablow's collection by David Kidd includes suits in browns from palest beige through butterscotch to ebony, while Jane Derby combines navy and green. Though Cassini uses bright colors for day, the rest of the clock is handed over to browns, greens, navy...
...belle on the eve of her marriage to Abdi's nephew. Tracked down in the forest, Memed loses his girl but kills the nephew and escapes to the crags and hidden valleys of the Taurus mountains, where he joins a band of outlaws and finally becomes a Turkish Robin Hood. After a dozen gunfights, in which bursts of Homeric rhetoric alternate with bursts of grenades and guns, Memed at last avenges himself by murdering his goat-bearded enemy, Abdi Agha. Then, like a proper hero, he rides off into the sunrise and is never seen again...
With the first robin comes the first riot, and last night another one of those "almost but not quite" uprisings kicked off the 1961 season...