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Into Russia as magazine correspondents flew the Elliott Roosevelts, who got a royal* welcome in Moscow from the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS). Out of Mombasa, British East Africa, bound for New York, steamed a merchant ship captained by Jonathan M. Wainwright V, the General's son, whose charges included an ostrich, a wildcat, a ringtailed monkey, four pythons and six hyenas. Across the U.S. on a lecture tour streaked Randolph Churchill, who was having hair-raising luck. While he was doing 50 on an Indiana highway a wheel flew...
Clark, son of Freda Kirchwey, the editor of Nation, will learn first aid, radio work, mechanics, and military drill and then leave about the first of March on an Egyptian boat for Mombasa, Kenya, on the east coast of Africa. During the 45 day voyage, he will receive further instruction in desert warfare...
...From Mombasa the corps will go to Khartoum, where they will make final preparations for setting out across the Sahara to join the army of General Laminat under de Gaulle. Possible objectives of these Free French troops are the Italians in Libya or even the troops of the Vichy Government under the command of General Weygand on the Ivory Coast of West Africa...
...with only two other women in the party, the wife of Harry Carey (Trader Horn) and a script girl. Because the blonde goddess of African natives had to be tanned, ambitious Miss Booth sunbathed herself naked on the deck while the ship sailed down the blazing Red Sea to Mombasa on the African East Coast. To protect themselves from sunstroke Director Van Dyke and others of the company wore red underwear...
Amid the tension thus created, Edward of Wales was observed to be in irritable mood. Even for this the alibi was perfect. His Royal Highness had submitted to typhoid inoculation on shipboard, had run a temperature for four days, was obviously not up to cricket. Upon landing at Mombasa, Kenya Colony, T. R. H. proceeded to Nairobi, the capital, where they put up for several days at Government House with Governor Sir Edward W. M. Grigg, before plunging into the interior of Africa after big game...