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Pitchfork & Pipe. The sounds carried to the nearby elephant barns. A frail, 58-year-old trainer named Rudy Muller heard them, came running to the arena with a pitchfork and an eight-foot length of iron pipe. He went inside, carefully locked the door, and advanced on Sultan. He stabbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Death in the Arena | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

The men from Kirkland mauled hapless Commuter quintets twice yesterday, in both A and B league, while Dunster took the Eliot Elephant's hide by a declaive 24-10.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Five Victorious Twice; Dunster, Matthews Win Handily | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

White Elephant. In Chicago, Hilton ran into tradition of another kind. For years the $30 million Stevens, world's biggest (3,000 rooms) hotel, had stood like a half-filled honeycomb as a monument to the folly of its builders. The Army used it as a barracks at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Bargain. In Chicago, Zoologist Robert Bean announced that the price of an elephant, which was $4,000 last year, has gone down to $3,000.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

But the Deans know what they're doing. Princeton's classes emerge the most spirited alumni in the world, returning loudly each spring with firemen's uniforms and an occasional elephant--and new shekels for University coffers. Judge Harold R. Medina, a zealous reunion-booster, once appeared at an alumni...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Princeton: Hard Work and Rah-Rah | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

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