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Against a background of pythons, armadilloes, vampire-bats, and other interesting fauna, the protagonists of "Jungle Virgin" give a new, exciting, neolithic twist to the love-triangle, the title character keeping her dubious claim largely because the outside corner, a real cad, confines himself to the oldfashioned bear hug. Tita...
No heads at all were broken as the Orange parade swung through Belfast. Some blood, however, was shed. The main noise in an Orange parade is made by the Lambeg drummers, who wallop their four-foot-high Lambegs with cane whips 30 inches long. The noise, they say, is like...
In his day, Perkins has done many an odd chore. He has cleaned out elephant skulls and put them on exhibition, and removed the scent glands from skunks. In April, along with two Chicago newsmen, he hunted eels by flashlight in the open sewers of a southern Louisiana town. His...
Shifting Tusks. But all was not well, for just behind the King a crisis was developing. Borne by two ebon attendants, the royal gifts-two huge elephant tusks-were pointed in opposite directions which is against all tusk-presentation protocol. Noticing their hideous faux pas at the last moment, each...
Elephant Rumbles. Between extractions and fillings, Eskelund carried on a romance with a half-caste native girl named Oolong, went on elephant hunts ("You must stand still . . . until you hear the rumble in the elephant's belly"), drank Haig & Haig with the King. Later he moved to Shanghai, where...