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Elephant-like in its over-powering attack, the Mastodons tripped and slugged their way to a 3 to 1 victory over the Deacon sextet in the early morning hours.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Lowell, Funster Win In House Tilts | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

On the rich fields of northern Argentina, sugar cane grows as high as an elephant's eye, and avocados are as big as coconuts. But the great world port of Buenos Aires is 1,000 miles to the south, and the towering Andes have always blocked the shortcut route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ANDES: Last Spike | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

The checked vest legend in Los Angeles is traceable to a promoter named Frank Wiggins, who started the promotion of the city in 1893 with a life-sized elephant made of California walnuts. The elephant made such a hit at the World's Fair in Chicago that Wiggins, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEST: Barkers in Blue Serge | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Later that night, the trumpeting din of elephants fighting aroused the sleeping zoo. The zoo director rushed to Chang's pit, found him attacking Mandjullah. On the floor he found Rietmann's dead body. This time there was no one to plead for Chang. At dawn the keepers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: An Elephant with Imagination | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

* Zoological experts declared that they knew of no other instance of the herbivorous elephant turning carnivorous.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: An Elephant with Imagination | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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