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Hoover Jr. was born in London in 1903. One of his earliest memories is of riding into an Australian town with his father on a wagon loaded with freshly mined gold. He graduated from his father's university, Stanford, in 1925, and from Harvard's School of Business Administration, became an oil-exploration engineer, worked for the governments of Iran, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil. He founded the United Geophysical Co. in Pasadena and stayed on as president after it was bought out by Union Oil of California. He was also an airline engineer (with Western Air Express...
...haired cinemactress (Snows of Kilimanjaro): Jess Barker, 39, onetime bobby-sox hero (The Texan Meets Calamity Jane); after ten years of marriage, two children; in Hollywood. She won the right to keep her part (better than $300,000) of their community property; he got the Ford station wagon and the right to visit their twin sons one night a week and alternate weekends...
Armed with a movie camera, color film, a tape recorder and a public-address system, he headed into the camp in his station wagon. The way wa's barred by a score of bare-chested male nudists (trousered for the occasion) and one comely, sun-suited female, Mrs. June Lange, the convention's pressagent. Like all other visitors, Mrs. Lange explained, the reverend doctor must take off his clothes so he could feel at home...
...wish to do something." says Sather matter-of-factly, "you can do it. My wife and I both had everything we wanted as children; now we've learned to appreciate what we can get. I believe my old station wagon is as good as a Rolls-Royce, if my car can make the trip...
...grander than it really is. There are some fine shots of a realistic Indian village and of hazy plains and sawtooth mountains. Good scene: Massai's bewilderment as he wanders through the streets of bustling 1886 St. Louis, eying such strange sights as a player piano, a fire wagon, women in bustles...