Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bloop to Blurp. With some bush jackets, high boots, a helicopter, a CBS engineer, a LIFE photographer and correspondent, four guns, two of "the very latest" single sideband 1,000-watt transmitters, a rotary antenna, a truck, a jeep, a DC-3, generators, an electric refrigerator, eleven other white men and 48 natives, Godfrey and SAC's General Curtis LeMay trekked through the jungle for four perilous weeks. By last week White Hunter Godfrey had bagged a water buffalo, an elephant (with one shot), a hippo and a leopard. "I'm completely exhausted," he confided by phone...
Between commercials, the airline and travel-agency plugs and the ejaculations of the transmitter, Godfrey occasionally described an average day. Viewers could look at a map of Africa on their TV screens as he spoke: "Started out into the bush just after daylight. After buffaloes-more dangerous, some say, than elephants. I stalked one by crawling on my belly. LIFE shot it so I'll be able to show you that. Now I'm back at the main base-you got that...
...Alive's pages are alive with Before-And-After-Positive-Thinking testimonials. There is the case of the too-busy industrialist who came on hard times. To pay for groceries the man and his wife ("almost strangers to each other") picked blueberries "on opposite sides of a high bush." With "positive thinking" all came right in the end ("We found God and each other in a blueberry patch"). A disgruntled dining-car waiter was about ready to crown some of his patrons with a tray when Author Peale suggested the nonviolent tactic of "shooting prayers'' at them...
...PHILIP E. BUSH Toledo
...burgeoning world of amateur industrial ball-there are bush-league teams of no mean ability from Florida shipyards to Massachusetts textile mills and West Coast aircraft plants-the N.I.B.L. is the big time. Denver Chicago President George Kolowich may be a few years away from the world-beating team he wants, but last week showed that his expensive investment in amateur basketball is beginning...