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...Robertson, Mo. and arrived at Beer Baron August Anheuser Busch Jr.'s manicured, 550-acre estate, Grant's Farm, at 6:05. To the horror of his Secret Service guard, he immediately climbed aboard a horse-drawn coach to inspect a herd of buffalo, elk and deer which roam the Busches' acres. Then he joined the granddaddy of garden parties (200 servants had been assembled for the occasion), drank a slug of bourbon, nibbled some hors d'oeuvres, shook hands with his host, and was on his way again...
...towers of two crumbling Hindu temples look down on the Valley of Chandigarh, on its scattered mango farms, its monkeys, deer and wild pigs, its blue jays and peacocks. For weeks now the jays have been screaming and the monkeys chattering because a group of Indian engineers have invaded their valley. The engineers are looking for well sites; they are going to build a city in the Valley of Chandigarh...
...couple of months to get around to it. In due time he shipped a six-foot-square totemic design, painted on cedar boards, airmail to Chicago. Like Nielson, Hopi Indian Fred Kabotie, who painted Arizona, refused to submit preliminary sketches. He hastened into the desert, shot a mule deer, skinned it, painted a picture on the hide, and sent it off. The painted hide, complete with head and tail, now hangs in the office where Paepcke is ruminating a new campaign to start next month...
Wolves, angry-looking bulls, and dainty deer, their legs straight as toothpicks, had also flocked from Sardinian molds, along with warriors in short tunics and horned helmets. Armed with bows and two-handed broadswords, the warriors seemed much bigger than their few inches. They were long-nosed and popeyed, as skinny and fierce as cranes at mealtime...
...Emily Hahn's choice of 18th Century Novelist Fanny Burney as the subject for a biography. Miss Burney kept a journal which frequently tells how the turn of the talk had forced her to dart from a room with blushing cheeks. She would have run like a deer from her cigar-smoking biographer, who, in China to Me, documented her position as one of the most uninhibited girls on the China Coast...