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George Bush's first brush with death left barely a scratch on him. As a young pilot in 1944, he bailed out of a burning plane and spent several hours bobbing aimlessly in the Pacific before being picked up by a submarine. If, as Bush later claimed, he took time...
His first collage painting, Celebes, 1921, is one of his funniest. It started life as an anthropological photo of an African corn bin. This reminded Ernst of an elephant. Then he saw a swollen human figure in it -- a failed behemoth, which he associated with the absurd and nasty king...
But, to the president's relief, the elephant and the ruckus turned out to be part of a Lampoon rally celebrating Vietnamese elections.
He particularly remembers one morning about 17 years ago when he heard a loud ruckus outside his office in Mass Hall. Drums were beating and people were shouting. He peered out into the Yard, and saw an elephant turning the corner of the building.
"I feel that I have developed a rapport with the American public," Sokolof says. "They like the fact that a little guy in Omaha is sitting here and taking on Nabisco, a $25 billion corporation. I've had some success, and I've made a lot of money, but compared...