“A Dark People Thing”

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Because the tub-thumpers are now trying to turn Kirk Morgan into some kind of a folk hero, I have decided to tell the world what happened to him. I can’t tell you exactly what happened to him, but he certainly didn’t die of some jungle bug contracted under heroic conditions, like it said in the newspapers.

When Kirk Morgan died, so did El-Bar Productions, that small California corporation roncerned with, excuse the expression, packaging television serials. Nobody will ever see the 40 half-hour tapes we put in the can when we were on location last year in the Belgian Congo.

But, because of all the previous television work he did, there must be a hundred million people in this country who, at one time or another, have looked at that stern, handsome, manly face, and felt a little glow of delight when it broke into that wonderfully boyish grin from which he made, and kept, upwards of one million bucks.

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