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Fortunately. News of England (1938), Beverley's proletarian polemic, was his last causal fling. While other Britons dug trenches in the parks and queued for gas masks, he turned to creating something that would "defend . . . small and beautiful things against ... the mass ugliness and beastliness of the herd." His labors resulted in a domed, floodlit hothouse, planned to resemble "a gigantic reproduction of one of Queen Mary's hats...
...Angeles' Eugene J. Donovan, 47, a burly ex-Seabee who planned to go into mink farming after the war, then shifted to chinchillas in 1948 because he knew "there was a lot of green stuff in it." Starting with two pairs of animals, he built up his herd to 1,500 in two years by buying and breeding. He put up an $8,000 laboratory, opened seven retail outlets, started a 15-minute weekly television show to plug sales of breeding pairs, and waited for the green stuff to come in. Last year, says Donovan, it came...
...hunting hosts, she was spending the night in a tree hut in Kenya's Royal Aberdare Game Reserve, watching big game gather at a jungle waterhole. It was one of the rare moments of her projected five-month tour during which Elizabeth could really enjoy herself. As a herd of 30 elephants lumbered into view before sunset, she seized her husband's arm. "Look, Philip, they're pink," she whispered. The elephants, grey by birth, had been rolling in the pinkish dust of the forest. Prince and Princess delightedly snapped pictures...
...trek halfway across the U.S. by 140 women, recruited to marry the lovelorn settlers of a California valley. Rancher John McIntire signs up the prospective wives for his men, lets them pick their mates from a bulletin board full of daguerreotypes. Then hard-bitten Scout Robert Taylor rides herd on the ladies on the dangerous wagon-trail to the West...
...story begins with a young deputy sheriff who is sent out to herd an old hoss-wrangler and his strays through the wheat country and into open territory. On the trip, by a series of stumbling inadvertencies, he runs down a murder story and falls in love. He chews over old times and old ways in dozens of small passages of talk with the oldtimer, and with himself. He also takes a deep breath of the wilderness around him, and the reader breathes it with...