Word: safaris
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FIRE-RAISERS, by Marris Murray, was one of the best entries in the year's huge literary safari to Africa. It was a merciless diagnosis of what its South African author calls "Africa sick ness," the complex of racial snobbery, fear and prejudice which has poisoned the lives of her white characters...
...retired behind a clipped, white, patriarchal beard that gave him a bristled, Neptunian look. His leg muscles could have been halves of a split 16-lb. shot, welded there by years of tramping in Michigan, skiing in Switzerland, bullfighting in Spain, walking battlefronts and hiking uncounted miles of African safari. On his lap he held a board, and he bent over it with a pencil in one hand. He was still whittling away at his walnut prose...
...other writers but by uncounted young men who, in fact or fancy, sought to live as dashingly as he. From Paris bistros to Chicago saloons, he is known as a character-not the sallow, writing type with an indoor soul, but a literary heman. When his plane crashed on safari in Africa last winter and for nearly a day he was believed dead, even people who do not like his books felt a strange, personal sense of loss, and even people who never read novels were delighted when he walked out of the jungle carrying a bunch of bananas...
...intensive hunt began last night for a healthy, muscular student to fill the empty fourth seat on a 30,000 mile jeep safari in Africa...
...from the New World," as the letter phrased it, will be allowed to join the trip for only $1500. The safari plans to do most of its work with cameras and tape-recorder...