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My contract is up in September . . . All I want to do is get home the cheapest way possible. I live in Delano, Calif. I thought that if I could buy an elephant and ride it home, I could sell it at above or the same cost I paid for it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

Even before journeying to Africa, Adlai Ewing Stevenson made up his mind: he would stalk the G.O.P. elephant again next year. Last week Stevenson friends in Chicago and top Democrats in Washington were passing the word that Adlai has decided to try for his party's 1956 presidential nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Candidate | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

The only non-Elephant who won a first place in Friday's field events was Marion Cheek of Leverett who threw the 12-pound shot 58 feet, 8 1/4 inches. Nick Ludington, Phil Eastabrooks, Fletcher Hodges and Tony Gianelly, all of Eliot, won the broad jump, javelin, high jump, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Lose, Eliot Wins House Track | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

But over the bridge table, or during the fish course, it proved one of the liveliest in years. For it was a season that spawned gossip and started talk, that one week provided novelty and the next week made news. The play that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Final Score | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Adjoining "white Leo" is the teeming "native town," known to the Negroes as Le Beige. Without its 350,000 Africans, Leopoldville would crumble in the tropical sun. Each morning, thousands of Negroes bicycle into downtown Leo to work in the shipyards and offices. Evenings, they stream homeward to the jumble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: Boom in the Jungle | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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