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...Africa, Just the name; Africa; Kilamanjaro mountains. Just the name..." --Ernest Hemingway...
...Ernest Hemingway, Selected Letters, 1917-1961, edited by Carlos Baker...
...farm in Vermont and the chalet in Gstaad. So Galbraith must see, and perhaps even relish, the irony of a sentence like the following from his memoirs: "In the next summer months in Switzerland--on the Lake of Lucerte at Sils-Maria, down at Brissago on Lago Maggiore (where Hemingway's lovers came ashore afte rowing up the lake) and at Saas Fee--I read and struggled to write on the causes of poverty...
...Josephine became La Bakaire and stayed on in Europe, a chanteuse who was, according to another expatriate named Ernest Hemingway, "the most sensational woman anybody ever saw. Or ever will." In middle age, she turned from entertainment to graver concerns, working for the French Resistance and, later, speaking out against discrimination in the U.S. The tourist center on her Dordogne estate ran up debts of $400,000. Still, she supported her twelve adopted children, a "rainbow tribe" of races, religions, nationalities. "If children can live together in harmony," Baker announced, "grownups...
Much of the action is concentrated in the low-lying forests and farm land that stretch out south of Cheboygan. Ernest Hemingway set some of the action for his Nick Adams stories in this area. Noted until now for little more than its austere beauty and fine lake fishing, the region these days features increasingly frequent sightings of Texas and Oklahoma oilmen in boots and cowboy hats, and New York and Dallas bankers in Brooks Brothers suits. "I don't think anyone is being too optimistic," says the state's Lieutenant Governor, James Brickley. "I find oil people...