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...male and a female of the shyest of all species of African antelopes, the Bongo, and a Giant Forest Hog, so large that it might be mistaken for a small rhinoceros, are the latest very valuable additions to the mammal collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. The animals were shot by Frederick G. Carnochan '13 on a recent trip to East Africa...
...Manhattan, afterwards at the smart Central Park Casino. Then Don Azpiazu went back to Cuba to entertain U. S. tourists. He left his tunes behind. Manhattan's Leo Reisman learned to lead them. Reisman's drummer mastered the four complicated beats which Cuban orchestras emphasize with the bongo (a double-headed drum held between the knees and played by the fingers of both hands), the claves (two sticks of a rare Cuban wood, which make a clicking sound when struck to gether) and the maracas (gourds filled with seeds which make a swishing sound) Vincent Lopez took...