Word: elephantitis
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Egged on by an enterprising photographer, a slim blonde airlines clerk walked hesitantly toward New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, holding up a small toy elephant for his autograph. In the midst of a smile and a wave as he left his Convair at Chicago's Midway Airport...
It is not long before the reader is benumbed and desperate, like a man trapped at a cocktail party by a character who insists on reciting everything he knows about textile mills, adultery and elephant hunting.
Four years later, after borrowing some film footage from Colonel John Craig, a latter-day Richard Halliburton, Douglas sold a series of adventure shows. Since then, I Search for Adventure has found pay dirt in everything from elephant hunts to mountain climbing. Douglas followed up with Golden Voyage, an unashamed...
The terror began when one of the 100 elephants in the procession stepped on some live coals dropped by accident from a torch. Trumpeting with pain, the huge beast charged its keeper, who daringly managed to catch it. chain the injured animal to a lamppost. The crowd closed in, jeering...
Next day another elephant stumbled to his knees. The frightened crowd panicked again, and 33 were injured.