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...children's book by Mrs. Margaret C. Hubbard, house mother of Holmes Hall, will be published Monday. The book, Boss Chombale, is based on Mrs. Hubbard's nine years of personal experience in Africa as a U.S. diplomat, a journalist, and a captor of wild animals, and is intended for children from...
...first trip to Africa just after graduation from Vassar, Mrs. Hubbard accompanied her husband, a geologist. Instead of mining asbestos as planned, they spent three years in Northern Rhodesia and Portuguese North Africa capturing animals for zoos...
During much of that time Mrs. Hubbard, who thinks Africa "don't half as dangerous as civilization," lived with the natives in the bush country, often more than 100 miles from any white settlement...
...Hubbard then returned twice to help produce Paramount's film "Gold" and Warner Brothers' "Adventures in Africa." The latter was filmed in the Kafue Flats of Northern Rhodesia, which is also the setting of her new book...
After working as an economic analyst for the Intelligence Department during World War II, she served from 1945 to 1946 as vice-consul to the Union of South Africa. Mrs. Hubbard, now in her second year as Holmes' house mother, said she hopes to return to Africa soon, but that her next trip would be "just for pleasure, to see all my friends there...