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The Democratic Party's globe-trotting standardbearer, Adlai Stevenson, arrived in Saigon for a six-day visit through Indo-China, including a three-hour luncheon conference with Vietnamese Chief of State Bao Dai. Later, at a luncheon in Phat Diem, south of Hanoi, Stevenson found a gambit for his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 13, 1953 | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Crew: As usual, it should be power-houses Winthrop and Eliot battling for the top. Both consistently float three full boats. There is a strong possibility of instituting 150 pound crews this year, a move which could challenge the Elephant-Puritan dominance. Kirkland and Eliot have already been out on...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Eliot, Dunster Rated Even In Bids for Straus Trophy | 4/9/1953 | See Source »

An amateur archaeologist ever since he was a boy in the Ozarks, 69-year-old Digger Hancock showed his visitor an array of calcified nuts, leaves and bone fragments. Paleontologist Simpson was fascinated by a giant (450 lbs.), two-tusked hunk of elephant skull which the ex-mailman had dug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Postman's Mastodon | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

Amidst the twittering that precedes any children's program, the orchestra seated itself kitty-cornered across stage right. Actors in monkey suits planted narrow banners with simply designed pictures of jungle palms on the left. Onstage came a clutch of people wearing elephant heads -and the show was on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Popular Pachyderm | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

Composer Berezowsky, once a violinist with the Coolidge Quartet and now a staff musician at CBS, turned in an hour-long score of easy melodies and rather plush harmonies. When an elephant became perplexed, the violins and xylophone played good-humored glissandos. When a camel strode, the tuba booped in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Popular Pachyderm | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

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