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Touring Home. A self-powered home on wheels was put into mass production by Michigan's Saginaw Manufacturing Co. Built on a G.M. light-truck chassis, the "Safari" sleeps four, comes with air conditioning, gasoline-burning generator, septic-tank lavatory, shower stall, stove, refrigerator and kitchen sink. Price...
...Renoir), serves fine wines to his guests. Up at 6:30, he drives himself to work in a Volkswagen, spends his evenings reading business correspondence and studying Volkswagen problems all over the world. While most of his traveling is on business, Nordhoff found time last year for a safari in Africa (bag: two lions). It was also on this trip that he decided against making a big car, simply wired: "Stop all work on new project...
...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...
...estimated $12 million from her father, a New York leather manufacturer, she got her title with her second husband, Italy's Count Carlo di Frasso. A fervent believer in the strenuous life, she once hired prizefighters to entertain her guests! joined Cinemactor Gary Cooper on a big-game safari into the African jungle, with the late Mobster Bugsy Siegel set out in a schooner to search for a buried treasure off Costa Rica. When death came, the Countess was in full re galia: a full-length mink coat covered her, $500,000 worth of jewels were on her person...
...about an hour this three-way carnality is fairly absorbing stuff. Then as the inevitable safari winds its tortuous way through the second half it begins to get tiresome. Gardner and Gable are equipped with a set of stock grimaces and gestures which they manage to pass off as acting for a while. But when these wear out not even Ford's direction can help the picture. The most exciting characters in the second half of the picture are a group of screaming, chest-pounding buck gorillas...