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...Spoor & Spurn. What is most striking about Buchan's heroes, for modern readers at least, is their now archaic innocence and idealism of word and deed. Modeled on Buchan's Oxford friends and fellow World War I officers, they were created in a time when aristocratic and gentlemanly virtues were still fashionable and younger sons sought fame at the four corners of the world. For them, the trail of anything, even an idea, is always a "spoor." Girls, when they appear, and they appear seldom, are customarily wholesome and boyishly slim. Men are lean...
...photographed film footage they get. When the beasts are off camera, the film is a beastly drag. Elsa Martinelli wants to be roped and wedding-banded by Wayne, but big John shies away from any species that a zoo will not buy. The other three white hunters follow the spoor of a comely teen-ager (Michele Girardon). Director Howard Hawks kids these silly romances, but two hours and 40 minutes among the wildebeests is apt to send moviegoers stampeding down the aisles for a deep, bracing breath of carbon monoxide...
...carnivorous dinosaur. The leader jeeps off to visit a nearby physicist, leaving his crew to work on. As they dig deeper, the dinosaur tracks deepen as if the beast had been running. Farther on, sunk in the rock that ages ago was mud, they uncover the unmistakable spoor of a Jeep. Guess what the monster ate for dinner...
...unarmed, stood trial by ordeal. Surrounded by the dusty mummies of eight of his ancestors, Willie Samuriwo kept his solitary vigil two long nights to prove-by escaping animal attack-his right to be King. Outside, whispering, loinclothed sentries sent back word to waiting villagers that the fresh spoor of a lion could be seen at the mouth of the cave, and a lioness had been seen prowling in the vicinity during the night, but neither had molested Willie...
...smells. Evidently in the belief that the practice of reading has become hopelessly discredited, Doubleday has tried the desperate expedient of dousing Scent of Cloves in some odorous compound that purports to be scent of cloves. Whether packs of osmophile readers will go like beagles into bookstores snuffing the spoor is questionable...