Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sanderson, a British zoologist who putters about the tropics studying small animals, writes this, his fourth book, with an air of cheery teatime banter which yet smells of good, scientific formaldehyde. It ranks him with such literate naturalists as Henry Walter Bates (The Naturalist on the Amazon), Thomas Belt (Naturalist in Nicaragua), William Beebe (Jungle Peace...
Barbara Standwyck plays the part of a girl descended from a long line of card sharks, and does a neat job of trimming Henry Fonda. The latter gives an entirely convincing picture of a man who has been up the Amazon and away from women one year too long. There will never be another actor who can be as dumb and pliable in the hands of a determined woman...
...snake-specialist son of a millionaire brewer. Returning from an Amazon snake hunt, on the ship he falls in love with a member of a card-sharping trio (Barbara Stanwyck) who has stroked his hair, tickled his ears and seemed eager at just the right moments. Says he in the midst of her seductions: "It's funny to be kneeling here at your feet talking about beer." She comes to feel just the way she seems, but temporarily conceals her past to protect her partners. When Fonda finds out, he gives her up. Out for revenge, she arranges...
...Over the Andes to Peru" will be the subject of a free, public illustrated lecture tomorrow afternoon by Oliver P. Pearson, of Philadelphia, graduate student who traveled extensively in the Peruvian Andes and went down the Amazon River to its mouth. The lectures will be at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, at 4 o'clock...
...Harold T. Wilkins the world is a musty parchment marked "Unexplored," "Galleon Sunck Heer," "Ye Treasure iii Leagues S.W." Panorama of Treasure Hunting is his sixth book on buried ingots and briny chests, prehistoric cities along the feverish Amazon and gold dust combed from the pelts of Klondike grizzlies. Many treasures are hunted, few are found. But their seekers are slaves to the quest as gamblers to the wheel, hopheads to the needle...