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...BINSTEAD'S SAFARI...
Anthropologist Stan Binstead is en route from New England to the African bush to search for a lion-worshiping cult. In London a friend dismisses the sect as "just an old-fashioned protection racket." Stan insists it could be the start of a new religion. Ordinarily, the safari would also enable Stan to indulge his favorite pastime, philandering, but his drab wife Millie insists on coming along. In Rachel Ingalls' tale of transformations, the ill-used wife falls in love with a dashing game warden who is believed to possess the qualities of the lion he once killed...
These were the first words addressed to an Australian farmer last week by two travelers whom he encountered in the fastnesses of the MacPherson Range, 60 mi. south of Brisbane. The travelers, named Binstead and Proud, were the only survivors of one of the most shocking crashes in Australia's air history. Near them was the charred wreckage of the plane containing the bodies of its two pilots and two other passengers. Farther away lay the corpse of another passenger who had plunged to his death off a cliff while trying to find help in the dark. Travelers Binstead...
...their delight Travelers Binstead and Proud learned that the fifth match of the series was not yet over, that Batsman Bradman had just finished rolling up the impressive score of 169 runs. This helped swell Australia's first innings score to 604. England, which had won the first two matches at Brisbane and Sydney and lost the next two at Melbourne and Adelaide, had made only 239 runs in its first innings. It was now faced with the task of getting at least 365 runs in the second to make it necessary for Australia to bat again. England...
When news of the rescue of Binstead and Proud appeared last week in Australian newspapers, no one criticized their curiosity as frivolous. Had anyone done so, Travelers Binstead and Proud could have answered with some justice that almost any other loyal British subject would have asked the same questions. To consider cricket the "national game" of a world-wide empire is to do it a grave injustice. Extremely dull either to play or to watch, it thrives because in addition to being a game, it is an art, a religion and a huge tea party. The biennial matches between England...
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