Word: elephantic
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Not really, as it turns out. The Khyber Pass becomes old West Injun country, British regimentals become U.S. cavalrymen, and Gunga Din's tame elephant becomes Sammy Davis' big white mule. But Sinatra is no Grant, Dean Martin no McLaglen, and Peter Lawford, a man who looks undressed...
After several weeks of stalking the proper sello (rubber stamp) through the corridors of the Buenos Aires customs house, Zoologist Gerald Durrell was feeling (as his brother, the logodaedalist novelist Lawrence Durrell, might have put it) both phthisic and etiolated. But before long Durrell was again at peace, sleeping under...
Madness in the stevedore's mind takes the form of jealousy, and jealousy begins when his wife's cousins, fleeing famine in Sicily, enter the U.S. illegally, go to work on the docks, come to live in the stevedore's cold-water flat. One of the cousins...
New Delhi Correspondent Charles Mohr has followed Ambassador Galbraith around India by plane, car and elephant, finds him "the easiest man to interview" he's ever worked with. Mohr describes Galbraith a onetime FORTUNE writer) as amiable, instructive and vivid. Mohr interviewed him six hours for the cover, the...
Even TIME will agree that when a man (be it even Nehru) is being trampled by an elephant and needled by a mosquito, the easier enemy to avoid is the elephant. The wiser thing to do would be to first destroy the mosquito and then to go for the elephant...