Word: junglelands
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...York City, where his connection is waiting. But the effect is almost ruined by the lilting trumpet accompaniment, which would be perfect for sitting-on-the-front-porch-swing-sniffing-the-honey-suckle-with-yer-sweetie, but here, makes mush of the vocal. The longest song on the record, "Jungleland," also suffers from over-orchestration: a string section introduces the central piano theme and channels the song's build up to Springsteen's slashing, cymbal-crashing guitar chords; the song seesaws from a suite for piano and orchestra to a jazzy version of the Who's "Won't Get Fooled...
...Harvard, have officially entered the first U.S. intercollegiate Elephant Race, to be hold this Friday at Orange County State College in Fullerton, Calif. Last Friday night a group of students informally organised as the Harvard Elephant Racing Association made arrangements for the elephant Sonita, who makes her home at Jungleland...
...trees swarmed with black urchins and the crowds along the road shouted "Vive le Roi!" as Leopoldville welcomed young (25) King Baudouin to the Belgian Congo's steamy, metal-rich and thriving jungleland. Resplendent in white-and-gold uniform, Baudouin was the first Belgian monarch the Congo had seen since 1928, when grandfather Albert I visited a far less prosperous and bustling Congo...
...stranger runs well-documented risks in the Peruvian jungleland east of the Andes. Some have had their heads lopped off and shrunken as trophies; others have been eaten alive by ants; still others have been emasculated like steers, fattened on oily berries and served up to cannibals. Leonard Clark of San Francisco is an experienced jungle man who risked these dangers to look for gold and lived to tell about it. In The Rivers Ran East, he has written one of the most rousing adventure yarns of the season...
Missionary Case can find food in Burma if anyone can. He introduced almost the first vegetable garden to that jungleland. Burma-born son of a Baptist missionary from New England, he went back there after finishing his U.S. training in 1913, has preached pigs and eggs to the Burmese ever since. After a hard struggle he founded his school in 1923, to train dirt farmers in a four-year course and send them back to the villages to teach their fellows the fine art of growing food...