actually, he did get a degree, just not in journalism. Also , just read that he DID graduate from HS at 12, but took a few years to get into college. He wrote a story about how he and some of his classmates got snookered during the graduation ceremony and were later arrested for being even drunker.

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Originally posted by tysue:
actually, he did get a degree, just not in journalism. Also , just read that he DID graduate from HS at 12, but took a few years to get into college. He wrote a story about how he and some of his classmates got snookered during the graduation ceremony and were later arrested for being even drunker.

Correct, he did get a degree, but NOT the full journalism degree.

In his March 19, 1964 interview with Bill Roberts, Bob said, "They had to hold me back to keep me from getting out of school when I was fourteen." This would make him fifteen out of high school, and almost 16 when he gets to UNC, which he started in 1931.

Where is the 12 mentioned? If it's the RuarkSociety.org, I believe they are mistaken as noted above.

Does anyone know the name of the Liberty ship that he served on? The one that took a torpedo from a German U-boat?

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Does anyone know the name of the Liberty ship that he served on? The one that took a torpedo from a German U-boat?

Eli Whitney

His books are awesome I bought my.English setters Because of old man and the boy.
It reminded me of me and my grandfather .I grouse hunted in Alaska and it was even better
Than quail hunting in the South.
Uhuru should be read because the same thing will happen in
America one day and it's happening again in South Africa now .
Poor no more was about his playboy life he lived way above his means was always in debt .
He tried to run with the millionares but never made that kinda money .
It was terrible in the end he was miserable after his wife left him never recovered from that went
Down hill till he died .

I decided to use John-Kingsley-Heath as the other PH in the story. He had a good record for big ivory, and the name is just too good.

This is the most fun chapter from this book, so far.

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I decided to use John-Kingsley-Heath as the other PH in the story. He had a good record for big ivory, and the name is just too good.

This is the most fun chapter from this book, so far.

Nice! He had hundred pounders in 1960, 1963 and 1964. And won the Shaw and Hunter in 1957.

I read the 12 age last night. Need to go back and find it. Will then attempt to copy and paste the page. Regardless, graduating HS even at 15, pretty impressive. Reminds me of Roy Kohn, who graduated LAW school, 2 years before he was old enough to take the BAR exam in NY.

What is the Shaw and Hunter award. sorry, haven't heard of it.

The Shaw and Hunter award was given out by the EAPHA between 1955 and 1976. It was like an Oscar. It went to the PH with the best trophy of the year.

Shaw and Hunter was a gunsmith/outfitter shop in Nairobi. The "Hunter" was JA Hunter.

Born Robert Chester Ruark, Jr., to Charlotte A. Ruark and Robert C. Ruark, a bookkeeper for a wholesale grocery, young Ruark attended local schools and graduated from New Hanover High School in Wilmington, North Carolina. He graduated from high school at age 12 and entered the University of North Carolina at age 15.

This compiled through Good Reads.

Impressive work. I skipped a couple of grades, but didn't get much support from the home front. Had to wait until after the first army tour to pay for the university. Then I was older. Got more pussy than the average freshman, though. It all works out in the end.

This is one of the coolest threads lately.

I have just recently started “Honey Badger” and it’s interesting to think of it as a pseudo autobiography.

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The problem with that is it is written by that asshat Wieland.

What a self-important idiot he is.

I respectfully beg to differ. I hunted with Terry Weiland back in 1991, and found him to be a nice guy with which to share a hunting camp. I have met several self-important asshats, and he was not one of them.

I have to agree. When Finn Aagaard passed I sent an email to Rifle magazine lamenting his death and writing that he was always one of my favorites. Mr. Weiland was kind enough to answer my email with a very personal response and thanking me for my thoughts. I appreciated that quite a bit.

Well maybe I have judged the man by his writing. I never cared for the way he writes, I assumed he was just as much of a tool bag in real life.

Good to hear he is not. This will be the last I run my mouth about him.

Finn was a real jewel. I was about 14 and sent an A LETTER to Finn about his exotic animal hunting place, I was trying to figure out a way to finance a hunt there. He replied back in person with a 2 page hand written letter.

When you read Uhuru you see what evolved in Africa today where the blacks are running out the whites in South Africa and killing 300,000 white farmers in South Africa the last 30 years .Poor no more is his life .
He always borrowed on his books so much he was broke from over drawing on future writings.I like the Old Man and the Boy Best then the Old man's Boy grows older next .Some of his books like Use enough gun were letters thrown together but he never finished then they were published after his death .His drinking and wonanizing was his down fall and bad credit .He had a beautiful wife and why in the World he cheated on her
Is beyond me .He end was when his wife left him for this she was the best thing in his life that had happened to him .His books are all awesome that's why I bought so many copies of the first editions I found in one place I.knew there would not be another chance .Then my friend who's dad knew Robert ruark offered me all of their books to save their book shop I bought them all .I knew he had a bunch but not that many .I need to get his women book again heard it's a blast to read .He has a passion for writing that's for sure .I Cabot stop reading once I star his books they still hold true today !

Well, I finished the chapter on a 1950 Kenyan Safari. I read Hemingway, then waited two weeks before writing the chapter. Didn't lift a word from the book. I really couldn't though; I am a teetotaler, and he was decidedly not. Still, the atmosphere informed my work, and gave me place names too look up. I studied the C-47 aircraft, kerosene powered refrigerators, and British magazine and double rifles from the period.

In a month, I will read "Horn of the Hunter." Two weeks later I will do an edit of the chapter. Same rules apply: don't lift a word, but pay attention, and then research any words or places/techniques that might contribute to the effort.

When I am truly finished with my take on this, I wonder if one or two wordsmiths on this forum would be willing to go through and fact check, and also check for verisimilitude; the sound, or appearance of truthfulness.

The hunt occurs after the winter rains, but before the summer rains, because the Korean war starts at the end of that June (25th). I studied Harry Selby's character; it seems to have been a most marvelous thing. How he put up with the celebrities, and captains of industry is beyond me. What a marvelous man.

I would send out the chapter(s) on a thumb drive in either WORD, or Word Perfect (which I prefer). A reviewer can insert comments in red, or yellow highlight anywhere he might wish.

I'm asking some of my fighter pilot peers to review the chapters on flying in the Korean War. They can't wait to tear it apart.

Anyway, If anyone is interested in ripping up a couple of chapters, please let me know. Life circumstances conspired to keep me from hunting Africa, but my new chemotherapy will afford me some time to write about it, and some other goings on from 1915 through 1962, the protagonists life span.

Thanks for all your help so far.

And thanks to Saeed for this lovely forum where we gather.

Sometime after reading "Use Enough Gun" too death a mate and I dated Chilean sisters.

They would occasionally break out into Spanish (???) or whatever Chileans speak and when asked what they said they'd say "oh nothing".

I got sick of this, and while at the movies one night, prattled off something in Swahili, probably "Tao bunduki mkubwa and natia risasi" and they asked what I said........so I said "oh nothing" ............ they never did it again.

Thanks Bob and Bwana Haraka.

I should really add some Ki-Swahili words to my characters interactions with their tracker and skinner.