Word: bubi
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...showed any signs last week of being able to work miracles. Chief of State Bao Dai recently flew to Hanoi, supposedly to bolster the people's morale in the face of an expected Communist offensive. Bao Dai arrived in his C-45, which also carried a Scotty named Bubi, two bottles of King George Scotch, two guitars, three tennis rackets, 16 pieces of miscellaneous baggage and a cute, redheaded airline hostess named Esther. Wearing his inevitable dark glasses and a natty grey flannel suit, Bao Dai drove along roads lined with French Tommy-gunners facing the long grass where...
Meantime, in far-off Vienna, a flesh & blood pachyderm met a sensational end. For years the principal attraction of the Charlie Rebernigg Circus on the square behind Vienna's baroque Ehrlskirche had been a tough, smart, amiable elephant named Bubi. His broad, hospitable back was a favorite riding place for scores of Viennese tots. His sauntering shuffle was a familiar sight on the city's streets. Last fortnight, Bubi became suddenly irritable and turned on his trainer. All Vienna said that that was what came of keeping a male elephant virginal for 28 years. When Bubi was shot...
...Stomach. Last week a progressive Viennese restaurateur named Rudolf Schiener bought Bubi's 3,500-lb. carcass. With a spirit and enterprise new to conservative old Vienna, he renamed his restaurant "The Elephant," and began experimenting with Bubi's remains in the kitchen. He wrote new menus featuring Afrikabraten (roast elephant), Bubi Schnitzel (elephant cutlet), Gulyas a la Bubi and Bubiwurst...
...front of his store a big sign asked: "Would you like to eat a piece of Bubi?" Viennese, who combine sentimentality and practicality, dried their tears and flocked in. "Half of Bubi," reported one Vienna paper at week's end, "has disappeared into the stomachs of the Viennese." A frequent diner at The Elephant was Circus Owner Rebernigg himself. A Viennese child had sent him five schillings (about 25?) to start a collection for another elephant-not to be eaten...