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Alex plays the role of the lovable lug to perfection. His appearance-a 20-in. neck atop a 6 ft. 2 in., 245-lb. body -suggests a hippo in hip pads. Puffing on a huge cigar and squinting through glasses as thick as beer mugs, he bills himself as a "sort of blown-up Cary Grant." He has been besieged with offers, including roles in a TV comedy series and a movie called The Hard Case. Does he miss football? "Sure I miss it. I guess my main regret is that I can't go up to Green...
...Chase Manhattan Bank promotion features an avuncular, sneaker-shod hippo working a computer. An ad for Irving Trust's computer service shows a wood penguin holding a high silk hat. The message: "Lease or Buy-Which suits you best?" Then there is the crane standing on one foot in an ad for Boeing Computer Service, which asks: "Looking for stability in computer services?" In an ad for CNA Insurance, a purple piglike monster with yellow wings and an orange cockscomb gobbles up dollars. The headline: "The Money Muncher. Starve it." Computer Communication's ads feature another cash-chewing...
...been observed dropping lighted cigar butts on the backs of alligators, watching the ashes burn through the reptiles' skin, then breaking into laughter when the alligators reacted to the severe burn. Finally, the zoo's male hippopotamus choked to death last week after someone responded to the hippo's open-mouthed begging for peanuts by rolling a tennis ball down its throat. The zookeepers were left to wonder whether it was their charges or their visitors that really should be caged...
...Have you ever heard of a toucan named Live-as-cheaply-as-one? Or a hippo called Crit...
...continent last week are among the newest and the oldest Christians in the world. In Egypt, Alexandria had a colony of Christians at the time of the Apostles, and it became a prominent center of early Christian scholarship. The great 4th century church father, St. Augustine, was bishop of Hippo in what is now Tunisia. Yet North African Christianity was virtually erased by the massive Moslem invasions that swept across the northern part of the continent in the 7th and 8th centuries; only the churches of Ethiopia and Egypt survived. Even today, Islam remains the largest religion in Africa, claiming...