The Macomber Affair The Macomber Affair The Macomber Affair is a 1947 movie set in British East Africa concerning a fatal triangle involving a frustrated wife, a weak husband, and the professional hunter who comes between them. The film was distributed by United Artists and directed by Zoltan Korda, and features Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, and Robert Preston. The screenplay was written by Casey Robinson and Seymour Bennett and adapted by Bennett and Frank Arnold, based on "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", the 1936 Ernest Hemingway short story. The film was rereleased in 1952 by Lippert Pictures as The Great White
A Slice of Life (short story) A Slice of Life (short story) "A Slice of Life" is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. A part of the Mr. Mulliner series, the story was first published in 1926 in "Strand Magazine", and appeared almost simultaneously in Liberty in the United States. It also appears in the collection "Meet Mr. Mulliner". The main character in this story, Wilfred Mulliner, plays off-stage parts in Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo. Wilfred Mulliner, the inventor of Mulliner's Magic Marvels, a set or creams and lotions that help "alleviate the many ills to which the flesh is heir", falls in