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Behind the Zebra House at the Washington, D. C. Zoo last week, laborers, dug a number of large holes. Then, sombrely, they carted into them, piece by piece, some 8,500 pounds of elephant flesh. Thus to her last resting place went Babe, described in the eulogistic Washington press as not only the oldest, but the most celebrated elephant on earth...
...elephant since Phineas Taylor Barnum's Jumbo has had a legitimate claim to the distinction of being more famous than all others of the species. And no world-wide tabulation is kept of ages of elephants, which live to be about 120. But Babe, aged more than 100, may well have been the oldest in captivity. And as for fame, certain it is that she trouped with Jumbo, worked for and outlived Showman Barnum, the Ringlings, and generations of circusgoers...
...Laffoon, over the Medinah Country Club course; at Chicago. Also entered but not among the 86 who qualified for the last day's play were: prodigious u-year-old Donald Dunkelberger of High Point N. C.; one-armed Jimmy Nichols, who swings backhanded, easily drives 250 yards; Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, 1932 Olympic track star, now a professional golfer...
Approving Nazi editors told Germans this week that the wise British had made a ''judgment of Solomon," apparently forgetting that Biblical King Solomon at the last moment did not permit the disputed babe to be partitioned...
...more dastardly than the way this microbe gangster then sneaks back out of his hiding? So that a husband, having long ago forgotten a past indiscretion, may then infect his wife. So that a mother, unaware that death has ever lurked within her, may pass it to the babe growing in her womb." Constructively, the Ladies' Home Journal backed up the article by editorially endorsing a Wassermann test for every pregnant woman and as a routine premarital requirement...