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...knobkerrie, a throwing stick, and missed his target. But he used a Winchester 70 rifle to dispatch-in two shots-a massive rogue elephant that was ravaging the crops. "There was a cause for destruction," he told his viewers. "But I'm not proud of killing this great beast." Then the caravan smoked great chunks of it over a makeshift barbecue...
...publishing a consideration of space in poetry and painting, and a sequel to his picture treatise, The Medium is the Massage. MacKinley Kantor has a book of reminiscences and an antebellum novel about a Southern girl who falls in love with a slave with the unlikely name of Beauty Beast. Stephen Birmingham will issue separate reports on white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and Sephardic Jews, Barnaby Conrad a memoir and a how-to-do-it on bullfighting, Muriel Spark poems and stories, Tom Wolfe a collection of essays and a report on Novelist Ken Kesey, the Norman Mailer of the West...
GlLGAMESH, by Bernarda Bryson (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $4.95). A retelling of what is said to be the oldest legend known to man: the story of Gilgamesh, the great king of a Sumerian city, and his friend Enkidu, the half-beast, half-man originally created by the gods to destroy him. With its magnificent illustrations by the author, this book should appeal to all ages...
Wednesday, November 15 ANDROCLES AND THE LION (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). Richard Rodgers puts to music George Bernard Shaw's tale of man and beast. Norman Wisdom plays Androcles, Geoffrey Holder the lion. And Caesar? Noel Coward, naturally...
...with Prince Leka, 28, the throneless son of Albania's late King Zog, who was deposed in 1939. After a visit to Sacramento last spring, Leka wrote from Paris that he would be sending "a small token of appreciation," namely a 15-month-old, 700-lb. elephant. The beast's name: Gertie, which Nancy Reagan thought lacked a certain chic, and is why the Sacramento zoo came to acquire an elephant named...