Word: safaris
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a year's safari into darkest Hollywood, Anthropologist Hortense Powdermaker has emerged with a published account of her findings, Hollywood, The Dream Factory (Little, Brown; $3.50). On the basis of previous research among backward Melanesian natives, Dr. Powdermaker concluded that the denizens of Hollywood are even more primitive, more superstitious, more beset by anxieties than Stone Age tribesmen...
...would think that the main purpose of a safari to the moon would to take photographs and collect certain scientific specimens and data for the folks back home. But after moseying around the moon for a while, this delegation finds it must dispense with all expendable gear so that it can make the return trip. Thus, cameras and all sorts of equipment are jettisoned right there on the moon and one of the group even considers jettisoning himself to insure the safety of his fellows...
...means certain that the cover artist for White Witch Doctor read the book. The red-lipped, white-helmeted girl on the jacket looks like a dewy-eyed deb on safari; actually, the heroine is a medical missionary in her 40s. The book is also called a novel and is offered as such by the Literary Guild. In sober fact, few fiction writers have ever displayed less control of the novelist's art than Author Louise Stinetorf. Nonetheless, her story of missionary life in Africa has enough candor, sympathy and even occasional excitement to win it a large number...