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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...natural splendor" being slaughtered to extinction "just to keep the world supplied with billiard balls and paper knives." He circulates a petition to outlaw the killing of elephants, and soon has made himself the standing joke of French Equatorial Africa. Only two people sign his petition: a drunk (Errol Flynn) and a prostitute (Juliette Greco). A missionary tries to reason with him. "You're fed up with men, so you've gone over to the animals . . . But my friend, something much bigger [than elephants] is threatened with extinction." In his crazy way, the dentist knows this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...Flynn said that although Miss Regan was given permission to use a six inch portion of the map, this permission specifically excluded the use of any University buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flynn Discloses Two Plagarisms Of PBH Works | 10/15/1958 | See Source »

...Flynn commented that "we don't really care whether she did misuse the permission or not," because no harm was done to PBH. He did not forsee any action, legal or otherwise, against Miss Regan in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flynn Discloses Two Plagarisms Of PBH Works | 10/15/1958 | See Source »

...Flynn sent the GSC a letter which stated: "It has been called to my attention that large sections of the 1958 "Informal Guide to Cambridge" are identical in wording to passages of the Harvard Handbook..."No reply to this letter has as yet been received...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flynn Discloses Two Plagarisms Of PBH Works | 10/15/1958 | See Source »

...Flynn believes that PBH will not take any action beyond advising the GSC not to reprint material from its publications next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flynn Discloses Two Plagarisms Of PBH Works | 10/15/1958 | See Source »

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