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Police identified the woman as Bertha Walt, a pretty young Zurich office worker. The night before she had carried some bread away from the dinner table, and apparently went to the zoo to feed Chang. There was a keeper's door in the wall at the back of the...
Eleven years ago, Chang was bundled into the Zurich zoo's elephant pit, a fat, ludicrous baby only ten months old. He had been bought as the future mate for Mandjullah, an older female. Rapidly he became the zoo's star attraction and the pride of his keeper...
Chang had some elephantine whims. He showered his audience with water and occasionally picked up his empty tub and flung that, too. His keeper and his fans laughed and decided that Chang was an elephant with imagination.
Hans Rietmann had no fear. On Christmas Eve, he entered the pit by himself. When he tried to fasten the chains around the elephant's hind legs, Chang turned and swept him up in his trunk.
Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank had stood his ground against his critics with all the solemn dignity of an elephant harried by terriers. But last week, the heel-nipping of London's press drew blood. So did their implications that Rank's General Cinema Finance Corp. Ltd., which produces...