Word: safaried
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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African Holiday. In 1935 Harry C. Pearson, a onetime Chicago insurance-man, took his wife and camera to Central Africa, trekked 11,000 miles through the jungle. A plotless safari, the Pearson film record lavishes hazy shots of cheetahs, lions, tigers, giraffes, antelopes, elephants, hippopotamuses, assorted naked savages, waving grass. Goriest scenes are young Masai tribesmen sucking up the blood of a dead bullock, black coolies scooping out elephant feet to make wastebaskets for the U.S. market. Cinematic Afrophiles will relish the rare, sleek okapi, a herd of sunbathing hippos, the giant Latukas whose hunters tower seven feet tall...
...passengers presently encountered an aged recluse named Thomas Lyman who revealed that they were near Port Jervis, N. Y., 60 miles from Newark. He helped them to town, where a rescue safari promptly organized, found the rest of the plane's company gathered around a fire rather enjoying their lark...
...with delight in his dark apartment in what was formerly the Arlington Hotel-where he and the Resettlement Administration are now sole tenants -when he received from the U. S. Consul in Kenya Colony official assurance that his long forgotten record of shooting six leopards on a 17-day safari is still tops in all British East Africa...
They are her cousins, Rita and Eric Parker, who want Jane's assistance in claiming a fortune that has been left her. They launch a safari under the guidance of a bring-'em-back-alive hunter named Captain Fry who plots to capture Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller). After the usual adventures, they find Tarzan and Jane, move in with them in their treetop "town house," whose butler is Cheetah, the chimpanzee. Cheetah understands Jane's words far better than does Tarzan. Though they have been living together for four years, Tarzan has been able to learn, only...
...Ferdie") Swain, 33-year-old Royal Air Force test pilot. A voluble, keen-faced bachelor, he entered the R. A. F. in 1922, served in Ismailia, Heliopolis, commanded a test flight in Africa during which he crashed in the bush, was provisioned by parachute and rescued by a special safari. Last June he was appointed to a crack experimental group at Farnborough. In his flight last week he carried a silver figurine of St. Christopher as mascot, relished his narrow squeak, as he explained afterward, because "flying is the only thing that promises excitement, thrills and speed." When officials calibrated...