Business & Pleasure

Lions, elephants, gnus, water buffalo, pythons, a rhinoceros and a golden-haired baboon--Frederick Beck Patterson, 35-year-old President of the National Cash Register Co., reached the U. S. last week tanned and a little thin, and told how he had shot them with camera and gun during five months big game hunting in Central and East Africa. When he ended he had a ton of animal skins and heads and 18,000 ft. of cinema films plus 400 still photographs (he was in the 15th Photographic Air Service Unit during the War). That was too much to lug with him. He shipped them all at Suez to follow him later. His best film, he said, was of 25 lions gamboling 20 ft. from his camera; his rarest trophy the golden-haired baboon. At Nairobi, capital of British East Africa, he sold 17 National Cash Registers in one day and decided to open up National Cash Register branches in Africa.