Word: orinoco
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...from Brunswick, Ga. to fly to Brazil. Some 27 hours later Pilot Redfern's single-motored monoplane swooped down over the Norwegian freighter Christian Krohg 200 miles out of La Guaira, Venezuela. Getting his bearings, Redfern dashed on toward South America, where he was later reported over the Orinoco Delta. Then he vanished...
Homeward-bound on his yacht from South America, where he and his wife have been exploring the Orinoco River. John Hays Hammond...
Suing for Divorce. Elizabeth Staley Dickey, 40, first white woman to penetrate the jungles of Ecuador; from Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, 57, explorer and archaeologist who in 1931 located the source of the Orinoco River; in Dayton, Ohio. Grounds: gross neglect. Wed in 1925, the Dickeys honeymooned in South American jungles. Said she on her return: ''Oysters, music and having one's husband all to yourself are all that civilization offers...
...into virgin orchid territory after he had cured a sick child with a dose of patent cough medicine. Another time, looking closely into a new orchid, he met the stare of a deadly little red coral snake. Once he camped on a little island in the great Orinoco River, his orchids all boxed on their rafts for the trip home. Flood, freshets boomed down the river, lifted Lager, rafts and orchids and set them on land 400 mi. downstream. Since the U. S. embargo he has stopped hunting except occasionally in Florida...
...Jungle Book which appeared in bookstores last week* started out to be Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey's account of his discovering the source of the Orinoco River (TIME, Aug. 10). But for a long time he had wanted to speak out about men, institutions and conditions in Latin America which have vexed him. His book turned from a travelog into a philippic. Lest readers doubt his competence to criticize he took care to detail that he has spent but 30 months of the past 31 years outside of South America. For 25 years he was physician & surgeon to mines...