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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fiery Furness | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

Next day 18 oxen were hitched to the bloated, floating body and it was hauled ashore. Soon Hubert was posthumously rechristened "Huberta." Posses were formed to scour the veldt for her murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Death Comes to the Arch-Hippo | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...game hunting on the African veldt is a pastime for boy scouts. The so-called African "Jungle" looks like Central Park, New York, and is just as dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

Alfred Daub, Seattle big game hunter, returned to Nairobi, Africa, last week, from a hunting trip, told of a new way to take wild animals pictures. Tying the carcass of a zebra behind a truck, Hunter Daub and his companions drove around the African veldt. Two lions and a lioness smelled the meat, ran after. While the animals fought for the bait, Hunter Daub sat safely in the truck, cranked his camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Lion Film | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...keep the organization highly Kraft-conscious. Much of this is done through the organ, Cheesekraft. A typical Kraft-talk by "J. L.": "I do not suppose anyone else ever planned a cheese business to live through the ages . . . after we are gone, there will be Kraft salesmen trekking the veldt of Africa, braving the snows of Siberia and battling the superstitions of Mongolia-all earnestly striving to increase sales, which by that time will be far in excess of a hundred million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Milk & Cheese | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

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