Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waking in Nyeri's police stockade were half a dozen British Tommy gunners and one sad-faced black man wearing a turtleneck pullover, sandals and khaki shorts. The black man was Waruhiu Itote, 32, alias General China, one of the Mau Mau's bloodthirstiest killers. Captured and sentenced to death, General China was paying for a commutation to life imprisonment by cooperating with the British (TIME, March 8). Huddling with the two Mau Mau warriors in the Nyeri stockade, China gave them a message to take back to their gangs: "The white elders and the elders...
...sad and sacred moment. The bereaved family and other mourners were gathered one day last week around a gravesite in National Memorial Park cemetery, near Falls Church, Va. across the Potomac from Washington. Suddenly, as the rabbi bowed his head in prayer, a raucous blast of hillbilly music disrupted the burial ceremony. As the casket was lowered into the earth, it was accompanied by another chorus of mooing mountain music. Afterward, when 20 shocked and weeping mourners protested, Robert F. Marlowe, proprietor of National Memorial Park, was sorry but not surprised. The hillbilly music was just another episode...
...goodbyes were said with many tears by $10,000-a-week Imogene ("It's a sad event−I'm sorry it's happened"), a few tears by Liebman ("These things are natural developments in show business"), and none at all by $25,000-a-week Caesar, who observed: "To me, it's a really heartbreaking thing. But when a star starts to grow, there comes a time when a star must go on by itself." Producer Liebman, looking at the photographers, said to both of his stars: "Let's all smile...
...Banana (Harry Popkin; United Artists) brings Comedian Phil Silvers to the screen in a literal photograph of his long-running Broadway burlesque of burlesque. The sad truth seems to be that burlesque is a delicate flower: it needs a little dirt to grow in, but the censors, in this case, have carted away what little there was. Nonetheless, Comedian Silvers manures his garden energetically with the few faintly smelly old stories he has left (She: "I'd do anything to get into television." He: "It's not that easy...
...Manhattan's fierce newspaper competition, another paper gleefully cleared up the mystery by explaining what the "sad spectacle" really was. The News's circulation has steadily slipped, by close to 14%, from a high of 2,402,346 in 1947. For several months the News, which ordinarily publishes its up-to-date daily circulation figure in the paper, has been using its October circulation (2,075,000) instead. Not until last week were readers brought up to date again, told that circulation in January had slumped under the 2,000,000 mark...