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...first attempt was a lion hunt on a nearby island in the Mississippi. He knew that there were lions on the island, because he had bought two from a circus and turned them loose there. A fearless Star-Times reporter, bent on spoiling the Post-Dispatch's exclusive story, went on a private safari which bagged the lions while Wright and his party were eating lunch. Three months later, Wright tried again. This time he bought a couple of "old, vicious" lions. They were so moth-eaten they refused to leave the camp site when let out of their...
Last week, the A.P. got into the act with a dispatch from a Jerusalem staffer: "The story was told in Palestine and Trans-Jordan bars and found its way into print. . . . The Gazelle Boys now number five. . . . One, the wags say, is being trained by oil companies to do a 50 m.p.h. pipeline patrol. Another . . . is being taught English by professors . . . at Beirut, so they can learn what the gazelles talk about besides love...
...diem. Archiepiscopal purpose: to get acquainted with the clergy of the Anglican Communion in Canada and the U.S. Canada and the U.S. also got to know something of the long-jawed, gaitered Primate. In Philadelphia, a news photographer caught him getting into his canonicals (see cut); the London Sunday Dispatch gleefully reprinted the shot, captioned it "A Picture We Never Thought We Should See!" A high point of his trip: roaring through a city ("perhaps I had better not say which") at 80 m.p.h. with police escort ("which thrills me to the marrow...
...Louis Post-Dispatch's Richard L. Stokes had been the first reporter to check in, and the P-D had consistently run more coverage than any other U.S. paper. He put up cheerfully with sunken tubs with 15 faucets in a panel, the diving bats, the sleek grey rats. (The Overseas News Agency's Robert Gary put one rat out of action with a well-aimed copy of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) The New York Times's Ray Daniell and radio's nervous Bill Shirer were less patient. They reached the high note of indignation when...
...Herald Tribune Correspondent Stephen White saw "an explosion so fantastic, so mighty and so beyond belief that men's emotions burst from their throats in wild shouts. . . ." It was beyond description, but he did not want his paper to be beyond describing it. On the end of his dispatch, he tacked a beseeching note to his editor: "Don't take any superlatives out of my copy. This was SOMETHING...