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...months big game hunting in Central and East Africa. When he ended he had a ton of animal skins and heads and 18,000 ft. of cinema films plus 400 still photographs (he was in the 15th Photographic Air Service Unit during the War). That was too much to lug with him. He shipped them all at Suez to follow him later. His best film, he said, was of 25 lions gamboling 20 ft. from his camera; his rarest trophy the golden-haired baboon. At Nairobi, capital of British East Africa, he sold 17 National Cash Registers...
...have been trying ever since I received the first number of your magazine to decide just what your standards are. In articles in which you have condemned pornographic magazines you have yet managed to give in your own columns a sniff of their odor. You occasionally lug into your news items terms not usually found outside of medical journals. You have an irritating habit of dubbing people with names according to their calling or accomplishments, a style of writing that gives an impression of veiled sarcasm from which no one is immune. Your latest accomplishment has been to find (issue...
...Petronius is attracted to a boot-legging cafe which has already been raided once and to a orgiastic dancing club where whites and negroes mingle, it is not necessary for him to lug his weaknesses into print. These faults in literary taste are exactly those which another reviewer in commenting soundly on "Wild Asses" and "Wild Marriage" scored, and they are far from being characteristic of the Bookshelf as a whole. Frederick deW Pingree...
...smells of whale-oil, rope, duck, slaughterhouses and rum made from molasses. Aside from these industries, it busied itself right patriotically, when the time came, with turning out muskets and cannon -"cannon to stand still for the Rhode Island defenses and wheeled cannon for the troops of Washington to lug about with them in their everlasting retreats." To be exact, Betty "arrived in America in 1775, along with the Goddess of Freedom, and with as little prospect of success." Her family's savory reputation left her little choice of a career. Her mother was the town scandal...