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The kingdom of Laos is a wild and mountainous strip of land in the interior of Indo-China. It is almost twice as large (89,320 sq. mi.) as Pennsylvania, has a population of 1,012,000. Last week, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Sisavang Vong, King of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Three-Headed Elephant | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Song of India (Columbia) offers a sepia-tinted view of Sabu, onetime Elephant Boy, presiding over a whole jungleful of exotic fauna &. flora. He is especially fond of tigers, which he fondles like outsize tabby cats. He is on intimate terms with all the other jungle beasts and is determined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Of a steaming summer evening, many U.S. music lovers would as soon sit down to leeward of an elephant as go to a hot & heavy grand opera. Cincinnati's indefatigable music lovers, however, like to do both.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Zoopera | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Recently, Tokyo moppets made friends with personable young Himansu Neogy, a Calcutta exporter who had taken time off during a business trip to visit the city's schools. They gave him bouquets of flowers, posed with him for group pictures. When Neogy was about to go back to India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Charming Elephant | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Last week, Neogy dropped in at Nehru's office in New Delhi, plumped on the prime minister's desk a pouch containing 815 letters. In English, Sumiko Kanatsu, a girl pupil in Negishi primary school, wrote: "At Tokyo zoo we can only see pigs and birds which give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Charming Elephant | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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