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Last week the proprietors of a traveling circus playing Wuppertal decided to combine the talents of the district's flying streetcars with those of their own earth-bound star, a 450-lb. heifer elephant named Tuffi.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Fledgling | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

As a general rule, elephants and streetcars are better off when they do not try to fly, but all rules have their exceptions. A few years back Walt Disney conceived an elephant named Dumbo with ears so big that he could flap them like wings and fly through the air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Fledgling | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

Like the blind men who tried to describe an elephant, few agreed on the meaning of Congress' bill to legalize a form of basing point pricing system for U.S. industry (TIME, June 12). The bill's author, Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, no friend of big...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out on Base | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

Superstitions have grown up around certain of the animals. The elephant (45, 46, 47, 48) represents death. When the press recently reported a suicide at 945 Copacabana Avenue, bicho players recognized the last numbers as the elephant's and rushed to place their bets. When No. 945 came up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Booming Bicho | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

At the far end of a lobby-sized green-and-gold Hollywood office last week, a wiry, high-domed man gnawed a massive cigar, paced briskly back & forth, and spewed memoranda in a loud Midwestern twang. Occasionally, hypnotized by his own train of thought, he ducked briefly into an open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: One-Man Studio | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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