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HIGH JUNGLE (379 pp.)-William Beebe-Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($4.50).
Whether or not William Beebe's discoveries put him among the great naturalists, his best books have as much charm and descriptive power as anything of the sort since Darwin's Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. In Beebe's career, High Jungle covers the Venezuelan phase, which began...
At about the same time, when Porter had been solidly established in the theater for some five years, luscious Lucius Beebe, self-made expert on the art of splendiferous living, hailed a master of the art: "It is really the simple things of life which give pleasure to Mr. Porter...
¶ The Trib's Sunday Columnist Lucius Beebe, appearing on radio's Author Meets Critic, gave the back of his white suede glove to Saturday Review of Literature Columnist Bennett Cerf, for lifting other wits' anecdotes. Said Beebe of Cerf's newest joke book: "Really an...
Auguste Piccard, 64, who once set a high-flying record in a balloon (and later promised his anxious wife that he would never balloon again), had to give up his current try at ocean diving. After two weeks of mechanical trouble off the Cape Verde Islands, he sent the 40...