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...called reporters to his car, told them that the dam which held back the flood last spring, had in one season saved more money than it cost. "It is a very excellent illustration of co-operation in boondoggling of the Federal and State Governments. Put that down Geoffrey," he added, turning to Geoffrey Parsons Jr., correspondent of the Republican Boston Globe, son of Chief Editorial Writer Geoffrey Parsons of the Republican New York Herald Tribune. Along the route the President complained that Vermont and New Hampshire had not done the upstream reforestation to prevent floods which they should have, that...
BALI AND ANGKOR-Geoffrey Gorer- Little, Brown...
Last year, with Africa Dances, Geoffrey Gorer wrote an unusual travel book based on a trip he had taken through West Africa with an educated Parisian Negro who was doing research on the dances of blackamoor tribes. The book was notable for its blunt and sometimes angry descriptions of the consequences of bad administration on the natives, as well as for its account of some of the extraordinary ritual dances that Gorer witnessed. It contained a few passages on native magic that suggested the author possessed a streak of mysticism that he had difficulty in communicating...
...Geoffrey Gorer expected to find Bali ballyhooed to the point of tedium. Instead it turned out to be so fresh and attractive that he was convinced that he had seen the nearest approach to Utopia on earth. Java for the most part left him cold, as did Sumatra and Siam. He says that "never having been to California," Bangkok is the most hokum place he has ever seen...
Dumfounded, the police scuttled back for a conference with Governor Sir Geoffrey Northcote, who cabled London for instructions. When these came, the police set out armed to the teeth in the government steamer Pomeroon. The Girl Pat tried desperately to escape by sail, headed for Venezuela. For nearly three hours the two boats dodged about the ocean while hundreds of spectators lined the shore. Finally the Pomeroon rammed the Girl Pat's stern, sank her tender, forced her to surrender. Cursing loudly, Captain Osborne and his three freebooting cronies were lugged off to jail. There the Inspector General gave...