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...Yorker Aaron Burr was captured in 1807), for a day of hunting with his host, Democratic Representative Frank Boykin, and Alabama's Governor James Folsom. Before breakfast Harriman had shot a 22-lb. turkey; after a quail breakfast, the huntsmen took off to try their skill against the deer on Boykin's 100,000-acre preserve. Although he tried three different stands, Harriman had no luck. That afternoon Harriman spoke to some 500 who had been invited to meet and greet him at a barbecue. He was introduced by Boykin as "the next President...
...also took in hand Johnson's own powerful .300 Magnum rifle with a telescopic sight and brought down a ten-point buck deer, at 309 paces, with a bullet right through the heart. Exulted Democrat Johnson: "The best deer killed in this part of the country this season!" Later, spic and span except for a spot of blood on his khaki pants, Hunter Kefauver met newsmen with his feat in his mouth, neatly tied the story in with his White House yearnings: "If I get down and start seeking [the presidential nomination], I hope I have that same sort...
...curious object that turned out to be the fossilized tooth of a prehistoric elephant. Professor Blanc borrowed a fleet of bulldozers and scraped until, 138 feet down, he exposed the remains of a primitive campsite strewn with hand axes and stone flakes. Many of the bones of the deer, elephants and horses that lay alongside had been cracked open by the hand-ax wielders, apparently in their search for the nutritive marrow...
Norman Mailer '43 decided in his first two books that man could find little happiness in the world, and in his third novel, The Deer Park, he has tried to find a way for man to improve this unhappy situation His panacea is simple--sex. To Mailer, sex is the only force which can make living worthwhile, and The Deer Park explores its effect on a very selective group of characters...
...Naked and the Dead, Mailer created an artificial island in the Pacific Ocean; similarly in The Deer Park, he has created another contrived locale--Desert D'Or, two hundred miles from Hollywood. This is a resort for the stars, directors, and other notables of the motion picture industry, and here are located the clubs, bars, and beds where they spend their days and nights. The lurid events which take place in Desert D'Or are credible only if you can accept Mailer's views on the primacy...