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...with his life when a bull elephant gored him and kneeled on his chest and head (his wife rescued him, mulilated); when, his rifle empty, he had to throttle a wounded 80-pound leopard; when he contracted "Black Water," vilest of tropic fevers. Gorillas were the subject of his latest studies, pursued in the gorilla sanctuary he had been instrumental in having set aside by Belgium. He embarked on his last trip last spring with George ("Kodak") Eastman, Rochester, N. Y., camera maker, who was financing his work for the American Museum's African Hall...
...latest novel, "The Dancing Floor," Mr. Buchan shifts somewhat his old location of the Highlands, and his gentlemen are not of his usual type of British sportsmen. It is, in fact, somewhat of a shock to see his technique work as well amongst the hills of an Aegan island as amongst his own Trossachs, and the psychological actuate his characters where once the adventurous ran them in and out of impossible situations. But the change is not displeasing nor unconvincing. He shows, moreover, a knowledge of ancient rites and prehistoric religions that lend a peculiar fascination to the tale...
...sometimes of such very great breadth that one cannot subscribe to the tenets of dissimilar faiths, deeply as one may sympathize with them in their ambition to reach God in their own way. Advertising religion is at best an effort to further spiritual progress by materialistic mediums--and this latest attempt is unfortunately symbolical of the entire movement which, in spite of its being headed by the sincerest of men, is little more than an apology for a lick of real religious zeal on the part of the general public...
...Marching beside me as I debarked last week in Manhattan from England was my latest acquisition, Junever, pedigreed Labrador setter which I bought from the Duke of Connaught for $525. 'Junever,' said I, 'is a good dog for picking up dead birds.' I used Junever while shooting grouse at my Scotland estate. I brought also two chests filled with rare manuscripts valued at $375,000, for the Morgan Library in Manhattan...
...Atlantic and stationed off Cuba, turned on their searchlights as dusk fell, tilted their beams at agreed angles into the drizzly night. The cruisers Raleigh and Cincinnati and the minesweeper Swan, stationed at intervals in the Caribbean, stood by to scan the morning horizon. The Navy's latest and perhaps greatest flight was scheduled to take about 24 hours...