Word: elephantic
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The Bitter Mistakes. How did Dienbienphu fall upon such bitter days? Last November the French were confident: they parachuted into Dienbienphu and cut the Red garrison to pieces in the tall elephant grass. Commanding General Navarre then built an entrenched camp 175 miles inside enemy territory. He dared the enemy...
¶ In Chicago, "Elmer the Elephant," the ear-flapping cloth hero of a local NBC-TV show, calmly went on advising kiddies to brush their tusks every day while a pair of A.F.L. unions battled over his insides. One union claims that the undercover man manipulating Elmer's trunk...
Elephant Walk (Paramount), though hardly a work of art, is an astonishingly neat feat of manufacture. It was begun in Ceylon during February of last year, and the film unit was flown back to Hollywood to do some final "spotting." In mid-March, before work could be finished, Star Vivien...
It looked as if Elephant, which had already cost Paramount more than $1,000,000, had turned out to be a gigantic white elephant. If Actress Leigh's scenes were dropped, what was left? Just barely enough, Producer Irving Asher decided, to provide background for a second shooting of...
Pioneering Po Toke. Oozies are the natives who train, ride and care for working elephants. Bandoola's oozie was called Po Toke. At first Po Toke had little to do. Elephants mature slowly, take five years to be weaned, another eleven before they can begin to pull and haul...