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...BANDOOLA (256 pp.) - J. H. Williams -Doubleday...
Modern literature is well-stocked with humans who act like beasts; two new books feature beasts who act almost human. Bandoola stars a Burmese elephant, Coorinna a Tasmanian wolf. Both are good company, but Bandoola has the edge since it tells the engaging true story of the most notable work elephant in modern Burmese history, as pieced together and witnessed by James H. (Elephant Bill] Williams. Bandoola's onetime overseer...
Author Williams introduces his hero right in the maternity ward. A calving elephant has an "auntie" or sister elephant who helps pick a lying-in spot: Bandoola's mother and auntie picked a site near a river bend with a giant tree for shade and seven-foot elephant grass for fodder. The night before Bandoola was born, the two elephants trampled the grass round the tree till they flattened an area the size of a circus ring...
...next day's sun rose on a miserable little newcomer to the animal kingdom. Baby Bandoola's trunk was a stunted snout that he could barely move, his forehead and back were matted with long wavy hair, and his skin was a loud purple. Within 48 hours he got a grim hint of the deadliest fact of a young elephant's life, a tiger in attack. Clawed and trumpeting, his auntie bolted, but his torn and bleeding mother sheltered him like a slab of concrete till the "oozies" came...
Arrest of a Burmese former Japanese occupation official, Bandoola U. Sein, in connection with Sunday's massacre of seven council ministers, was announced in the Rangoon press yesterday...