People, Feb. 1, 1954

Names make news. Last week these names made this news: Novelist Ernest Hemingway, 54, fervent apostle of Theodore Roosevelt's philosophy of living life up to the hilt, has never numbered love of airplanes among his enthusiasms. When he left his home in Cuba (and his 25 cats) last year to revisit Africa after a lapse of two decades, he traveled by steamship. To reach a base camp on the rolling plains of British East Africa, the husky author and his fourth wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway, bumped painfully through rough country by truck.

But once...

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