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Fighting gallantly against a book that deep-sixes its protagonists by the halfway point is a sweatingly exuberant cast. Doing his annual turn as a blonde-coiffed mountain is the estimable Bob Peabody, whose delicate elephant walk and open-mouthed grin (in which a Sopwith Camel could do circus loops...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: A Canine in a Cummerbund | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Along Madison Avenue she starts to slow down. She loves the small, poky stores, and she window-shops, running in place. "Look!" A set of dishes. "Look!" A stuffed leather elephant.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linda Down the Wind | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

The tablets probably served originally as slate-tile siding on a local house of ill repute, and the elephant pipes were most likely aged with grease or a similar substance, McKusick says.

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Barry Fell and His Big Idea: Wherein a Harvard Zoology Professor Tells the Tale Of All the Folks Who Got Here Before Columbus | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi startled the world last month by relaxing the iron rule she had maintained under a state of emergency declared in mid-1975: she ended press censorship, freed political prisoners and scheduled parliamentary elections for next month. Whatever her political motives, her timing in one respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Elephant Turns Frisky | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

For over 30 years I have gambled on everything from a pin to an elephant and have never won a sausage. I still keep having a go. There is certainly a spice of life in the gambling flutter.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 27, 1976 | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

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