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...which included the unhappy task of designing a corps uniform. The members of her staff, says the history, "faithfully wore sample undergarments while carrying on preplanning ; male planners offered their best guesses in the matter, and the staff became accustomed, as one member noted, to 'seeing Lieut. F. stalk through the office with a cigar in one hand and a pair of pink panties in the other.' " The heraldic section of the Quartermaster General's office submitted designs for insignia. A first attempt "produced only a busy-bee-like insect, which Mrs. Hobby pronounced a bug, adding...
...white hero is Peter McKenzie, a hulking young safari leader who can stalk a kudu, sight a Mannlicher-Schoenauer and get shikkered on gin with the best big-game hunters. The sinister shadow on his life is his childhood playmate, the black Kimani. who becomes a Mau Mau at bestial oath-taking ceremonies in a mountain hideout and butchers Peter's family in sanguinary scenes of the kind that Author Ruark insists upon describing over and over again in detail...
...Gray) on a trip to Paris and see if there's life in the young sprout yet. Little does he realize that the idea for the trip was really planted by the son, who wants for his part to see if there's life in the old stalk yet. Soon they meet a pretty midinette (Odile Versois)-just right for junior, father thinks. Then they meet a beautiful woman of the world (Elina Labourdette) -just right for father, junior thinks. Yet all at once the son is locked in mortal osculation with the older woman, and father...
...takeoff. Again they escaped serious harm: Hemingway got out with a cut head, his wife with two cracked ribs. This week, after cautious traveling by automobile, they settled down for a bit of rest in the town of Entebbe, in Uganda. "I feel wonderful," cried Hemingway, clutching a stalk of bananas and a bottle of gin. "I think [my luck] she is running very good...
...hour operation at the Institute of Radium of Mercedes Hospital, he lifted a flap of bone almost three inches square from Senora R.'s forehead. With the frontal lobe of the brain pushed aside, he worked past a barrier of optic nerves to cut the stalk by which the pituitary hangs from the hypothalamus...