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Irked by taunts that the lionesses of his Missouri safari (TIME, Oct. 17 & 31) were "young and kittenish," Denver M. Wright, St. Louis manufacturer, announced he would try it over. Declared he: "If I do it again I'll get a couple of old, vicious ones. I'm the sort of a fellow that likes to do a thing, once he sets his mind to it." Next day he was reported off on a "quail hunt," taking with him two lion cubs younger than the first pair...
...evening last month as they finished dinner. Next morning, with a maid and a typist as the only witnesses, they were secretly married. Lord Furness was out in the bush hunting lions. To break the news to her father, Mrs. Rattray dispatched an airplane to his safari. Last week Lord Furness's wrathful roar resounded through the veldt...
...Whom it May Concern: Mr. A. Rattray has ceased to be the hunter to my safari and from this date has no authority to order anything to my account. (Signed) FURNESS...
...Omoolu's compatriots in Africa, according to John McClain, the New York Sun's shipnews reporter who press-agented the picture while it was being made, were of a much happier disposition. When rushes of the film were shown on safari, the natives rolled on the ground with laughter, regardless of the nature of the sequence. At Rhino Town, on the White Nile, Pressagent McClain came upon a tribe of natives all naked save that one of them sported a neat, snap-brim brown hat. Removing the hat, Mr. McClain was surprised to find the label: Brooks Bros.,? Madison...
...safe as being on the ground and much more pleasant. Accordingly, the de Sibours would go around the world in a $3,250 airplane which uses 4½ gallons of gas and not quite a pint of oil per hour. It is a blue and silver Moth, named Safari II. The de Sibours will fly only when the weather is right and if they lose their way they will land their little plane most anywhere and get directions. They will be ferried across the largest bodies of water...