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His subjects are not at all surprised when he pops out of his palace in the morning and runs to a dairy shop to buy butter for the royal breakfast tray-if he were merely to ask for it, he says, palace red tape would keep him waiting until dinner...
His most hair raising experience took place in the Belgian Congo when he was poaching elephants. Since elephant tusks weigh 400 to 500 pounds and ivory is worth $2.50 to $5.00 a pound, many hunters took advantage of the weak administration in the Congo to shoot elephants illegally. Elephant hunting...
Starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, Sewall followed the tracks of a huge elephant, knowing the size of the animal because its height is exactly twice the circumference of its footprint. In the middle of the afternoon he caught sight of his prey in ten foot elephant grass...
"For some unknown reason I ran toward him," Sewall related, "but I tripped in the grass and fell down. The elephant almost stepped on me as he charged over me. He then saw two of my native trackers whom he killed."
Richard W. Palmer '42 will head the committee for the first Elephant dance of the year this Saturday night after the Michigan game. Chappie Arnold, a regular star of Dartmouth Carnivals and a veteran of Smith, Amherst; and Williams weekends will provide the music. Other committeemen, include William H. Young...