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...collection of objets d'art (Malay silver and Chinese porcelain) and his rare Asian library. When he showed no inclination to move, the Sultan's men cut off the water supply to the swimming pool. Scot MacDonald, a stubborn man, went swimming in the rivers of Borneo instead, and went on living at Bukit Serene. Last week, however, all appeals to the Sultan's better nature having failed, he packed up his books and bird specimens and moved out. A Chinese millionaire friend, a fellow bird watcher and collector, had lent him his 20-acre...
Other Philippine experts, notably famed Anthropologist H. Otley Beyer, doubt the purity of the Abenlens. Beyer believes they probably came from Borneo or the Celebes during Mesolithic times, some 15,000 years later than the Negritos but too long ago to have kept their blood lines pure...
Died. Osa Leighty Johnson, 58, explorer, author (/ Married Adventure), famed in the '203 and '303 for her expeditions to Africa, Australia, Borneo and the South Seas with first husband Martin Johnson; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The Johnsons traveled a million miles together in 27 years, flew their own amphibian (Osa's Ark), produced six books and 13 movies (a crack shot, she would drop attacking lions and rhinos at his feet as he stood fast, grinding the camera). After Johnson's death in a commercial-plane crash in 1937. Osa led a six-month...
...during the past year, and a similar number plan such travel for the coming year. A few letters described more unusual hobbies, such as one from Alfred H. Marsack, a British senior political officer in the Aden Protectorate. In the past year, Marsack went to India, Ceylon, Malaya and Borneo to get color pictures of "fish, orchids, reptiles and headhunters for lecture purposes." He wrote: "I cannot get a daily newspaper where I am; if I could, it would not replace TIME . . . I always look forward to enjoying its contents from cover to cover, advertisements included...
Pedro took to his heels and a fortnight later, disguised in women's clothes, was picked up in the captain's cabin of a ship outward-bound for Borneo. He was just fitting a woman's wig to his head when two of Magsaysay's men arrested him. From the papers tucked in his clothes, the agents who captured him soon gleaned even more information: Pedro was not only a Communist spy, he had apparently been marked down for liquidation by the Communists themselves for withholding funds. And where had the funds come from? They...