Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once on safari, Hemingway met and began to admire an African bush pilot named Roy Marsh. In a recent letter to a New York friend, Mrs. Hemingway described Hemingway's all-out conversion to the air age: "Poppa is so keen on scouting in the Ndege [Swahili for airplane] at 600 or something shillings a half day [about $84], which includes bumps and rolls and swooping down on the deck and wing-brushing the chulu hills, that we will shortly have no money left except for gin and cabbage...
...When Hemingway broke camp after five months of hunting and writing and set out for Africa's east coast to fish, he hired Pilot Marsh and his four-place Cessna. Last week Pilot Marsh left Nairobi for an African village named Masindi, planning to circle the spectacular Murchison Falls of the Victoria Nile on the way. But Marsh and the Hemingways never arrived at Masindi. A B.Q.A.C. plane, diverted from its route to search for them, found the Cessna in trees near the falls and reported that there was no sign of life to be seen...
Like Jordan Marsh...
Mobbing of the reserve book desk is another problem at these times, and the spirit of the occasion comes close to that of a Jordan Marsh reduction sale. McNiff sees no sure fire solution to this problem, but is considering establishing waiting lines for reserve books during rush periods. This might at least give the debacles the more dignified air of the Cambridge Trust Company at 1:55 Friday afternoon...
...novel's end, Dr. Lucas Marsh has learned that most men are compromisers, has learned to live with the facts of life without compromising too much himself. He has even learned that Kristina's virtues have it all over drawing-room talents. Most of all, Not as a Stranger is a heartwarming though crudely repetitive story of a passionate idealist whose passion is medicine. No novel ever written has contained more authentic, hard-won facts about doctors, patients, hospitals. Hypochondriacs will devour it; few of those who are not will consider its nearly 1,000 pages a waste...