Word: mannix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hunter is a white man whose love of Africa is different from Camara Laye's, but probably no less intense. He came there as one of the earliest professional white hunters and his TALES OF THE AFRICAN FRONTIER [written with Daniel Mannix; 308 pp.; Harper; $4) is highly satisfying armchair-adventure stuff. Hunter's heroes are African pioneers. A good example of the breed is Colonel Ewart Grogan, now 80 and living in Kenya, who started in 1898 to walk from the Cape of Good Hope to the Sudan to map out a railroad route dreamed...
...Snapped the Rt. Rev. Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne: "How could he be the vehicle of so much misin formation...
...Step Right Up!-Dan Mannix...
...took on mind reading. One routine that proved too much for him was the Human Pincushion act (sticking pins through his flesh). He did manage to sew buttons on his wrists and fasten his shirtsleeves to them, but he never could get used to the pain. One artist that Mannix did not even try to emulate was the Human Ostrich. The Ostrich swallowed white rats and frogs and brought them up again...
...Mannix decided he had had enough: being a carny was fun, but so were a lot of other things. At present, he is living on a farm in Pennsylvania with his family, an eagle and a cheetah, and making plans for a trip to Africa...