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...developed Griffin partly with the profits from another beast, named Nasturtium. Bought by Aste as a yearling for $4,300, Nasturtium bloomed into the best two-year-old race horse of 1901. "The bluebloods must have got worried," Aste related with relish, decades later: "A bootblack with a champion!" William C. Whitney, one of that period's great turfmen, wanted to buy Nasturtium. Aste demanded a price then considered outrageous-$50,000-and set a deadline of noon the next Saturday when this offer would be withdrawn...
...stomach. The other two elephants died from eating the straw coverings of wine bottles, which was the only food the people could find in sufficient bulk for such huge appetites. Grutzius buried the elephants, and by selling their tusks for ivory got enough to buy food for man and beast for a few more weeks. But by winter's end the last of the lions had eaten the carcass of the last of the horses, and the performing dogs had turned cannibal...
Certain objections may occur to the reader. The Irish are a pretty dismal lot, to hear Joyce tell it, and Faulkner's hunting story doubles on its tracks even more than necessary to follow a slow-footed beast. It is no longer news that Russians (then or now) have trouble getting overcoats, and rich characters who keep predatory birds about the house are perhaps a bit too special to care much about. However, the reader will also sense that in all six stories something more important than bears, hawks and overcoats is being talked about. His feelings may focus...
...that A-B-C symbolic level, when the panther eats up some Good Instincts (cows), a sort of back-country Cain (Robert Mitchum) and his Abel-type brother (William Hopper) set forth to slay the beast. Abel dies beneath the Tree of Life and Cain also turns up his toes. But a third brother (Tab Hunter) puts a bullet in the panther, and just at that instant the sun breaks through a cloud, transfiguring him into something painfully like the Better Life...
...Mars; 3) Adventureland, assembled from Disney's outstanding nature films; and 4) Fantasyland, represented by animated cartoons of Disney's well-loved characters. Despite its fragmented character, the opening show had the true touch of Disney enchantment, ranging from a Portuguese bullfight, in which neither the beast nor its baiters got hurt, to a 20-minute study of Mickey Mouse, made up of excerpts from Mickey's first film, the 1927 Plane Crazy, through The Lonesome Ghosts to the magical antics of The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Not the least remarkable feature of this fine new show...