Word: amazons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amazon. A grumbling line formed outside the men's room as passengers hurried to wash and shave. Suddenly, a huge figure in white silk pajamas brushed past the queue, commandeered one of the wash-stands and vigorously commenced a predawn toilet. Don Mauricio Hochschild, Bolivia's fabulously wealthy tin magnate, was in a hurry to get to New York...
...Said Rio Bureau Chief Frank White a fortnight ago : "We often hold our story conferences in the back of our Jeepster. Everybody sleeps with a map of Brazil, plus assorted airlines timetables, on his night table." Just back from a 7,000-mile trip up the Amazon Valley, White sometimes covers points in northern Brazil that are closer to the United States than to his home...
...enthusiasms sometimes stir her to enormous exertions. As a foreign correspondent, she fell in love with the Balkans so vigorously that Communist Chieftain Ana Pauker gave her four interviews. When she went to South America, she fell in love with it, too, and promptly took a trip up the Amazon...
Jungle to Swampland. Such careful preparations are not enough to keep the River flowing smoothly. Though it also is a Book-of-the-Month choice (for January), the story soon turns as turgid as the widest reaches of the Amazon itself: the expedition breaks down, fever rages, the natives want to quit. Scientist Barna is found, but he wants merely to live in peace with the natives so that he may expiate an old sin. Even the cast of characters seems to have escaped from the rolls of an old jungle thriller: a gigantic U.S. Negro, wanted for murder...
Read as a travel account of the Amazon country, River of the Sun has some sharp, descriptive stretches. The sullen natives, the oppressive jungle and the endless, swollen waters often seem as real as the thick river heat. But as a novel, River loses itself in the swampland long before it reaches...