Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night and Day was issued as a weekly from freshly painted (cream interior, light-blue and black exterior) offices near London's Coliseum Theatre by the firm of Chatto & Windus under the editorial direction of five bright young men. Chief of these is John Hugo Edgar Marks, Borneo-born, Cambridge-educated, former film critic of the New Statesman and Nation. Biggest name among Night and Day contributors is Author Evelyn Waugh, as book critic...
...Declared she, still pained by a brace on her right leg: "I want to get back to the jungles. I could never stand it to stay here in civilization very long. So can't we talk about lions or elephants or orangutans or a beautiful sunset in Borneo...
...returned as a stowaway, then shipped as a seaman on Jack London's Snark. Returning to the U. S., he married 16-year-old Osa Leighty, set off with her on 25 years of exploring, much of it in their own planes. Last week they were back from Borneo jungles for one of their periodic lecture tours. At Salt Lake City he remarked to newshawks: "America, probably because it is the most civilized place in the world, is the most dangerous." Instant later he stepped into the Western Air Express plane for Los Angeles. Month ago another famed couple...
...expedition to study this little creature exhaustively for six months or more in its own scampering grounds. Some of the party sailed for Singapore last fortnight and the rest left Vancouver last week on the Empress of Japan. Base camps will be set up in Siamese valleys and Borneo jungles under the leadership of Harold Jefferson Coolidge. Harvard mammalogist and cousin of the late Calvin Coolidge...
...dark, dank jungles of Borneo will be wilder than ever during the next nine months, and usually placid primates will blink in the unaccustomed glare of publicity, for the first qualified expedition for studying them will leave within a month under the auspices of Harvard, Bart College, and Johns Hopkins University...