White hunter and Philip Percival and Frank M. "Bunny" Allen, whose safaris with Ernest Hemingway led the author to write "Green Hills of Africa", "True at First Light", "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro". The exploits of white hunters were subjects first for novels and later for films. They were romanticized in adventure novels of the so-called "Lost World/Lost Race" genre. "BY THE IMPERIAL noonday, then, the spectacle of the Empire was flamboyant indeed, coloured as much by Oriental despotism and barbaric gesture as by feudal example from nearer home. If it was modernist in some
John R. Macomber as chairman of the New England Liberty Loan committee and of Metropotian Boston trade in the United War Work campaign. From 1919 to 1920, Macomber served as President of the Boston Chamber of Commerce. On September 3, 1920, Massachusetts State Treasurer Fred J. Burrell resigned following an investigation by a special legislative committee and Governor Calvin Coolidge appointed Macomber, Albert P. Langtry, and Henry A. Wyman to administer the office until a successor could be confirmed. In 1922, Macomber was elected a life member of the board of trustees at Tufts College. In 1926 he was named chairman of Massachusetts