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...letter also elaborated Father Davison's cable of last month: ''Got small bull elephant" (TIME, Aug. 14). He slew the first bull, Mrs. Davison the next, a larger one; Pete Quesada, their airplane pilot, the first...
Frederick Trubee Davison broke his back flying in the War but lived, with a vigorous limp, to write a letter to his four sons describing "the most exciting and dangerous two minutes I have ever been through." The two minutes had to do with elephants, not airplanes. The letter reached the U. S. last week from Nairobi where Father Davison, now president of the American Museum of Natural History after seven years as Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, went collecting with his wife last month...
...small bull, one large one and two cows,* the Davison party had one cow to go when their trackers led them at dawn up to a herd of elephants feeding slowly along in thick bush. Wrote Father Davison...
...John Davison Rockefeller Jr., speaking in behalf of NRA, made his first radio address. Before he did, he said: "Speaking into a microphone reminds me of the soulless corporation one hears about. There is no human contact...
Friends of the Frederick Trubee Davisons wondered last week which one had killed the elephant. Mr. Davison, the American Museum of Natural History's new president, had cabled from Africa, where he and his wife are hunting specimens for the museum's new Akeley African Hall, under the guidance of the Africa-wise Martin Elmer Johnsons: "Have organized safari and got small bull elephant; all well." In the Davison marksmanship there was no clue to identify the killer-both are excellent shots-nor in their respective degrees of bloodthirstiness. Before President Davison sailed, commissioned by his curators...