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...France's most popular career officials as new Resident General in Morocco. He is André Louis Dubois, 52, a pianoplaying, party-loving man who as chief of the Paris police won renown as "the prefect of silence" because he had managed to still the sounds of horn-blowing by Paris' ill-tempered motorists. In his new assignment, Dubois (who was born in Algeria) may find it necessary to fight ruder noises. Last week, on the eve of the Sultan's return, anti-French terrorists began denouncing the Sultan as a "collaborator" with France, and 28 died...
...elephant wheeled and bolted. The rhino charged, snorting in the elephant's wake and trying to gore him with her 24-in. horn. Talbot watched from the rumble seat as the rhino drew alongside the elephant and ripped an 18-in. gash in his side. Then the two animals veered apart as if on diverging rails. "I suppose " says Talbot, "that mama went back to her baby and told him: That's how it's done...
...found that the trouble among dwindling breeds was almost always man, and that there was generally some factor involved besides mere competition for land and food. Rhinos, for instance, are persistently hunted all over Southeast Asia because they are believed to have medicinal value. The Chinese consider powdered rhinoceros horn a powerful aphrodisiac (it is not), and will pay $2,500 for a single horn. Other parts of the animal, too have honored places in the Asian pharmacopoeia. Cups made of rhino horn detect poison by shattering to bits or by making the poison bubble. Rhino shin is good...
Bearskin Bonus. Other U.S. big-game animals give a sterner test to the hunter's skill and endurance. Hunting moose requires long treks into the wilderness of northern Maine, Minnesota, Montana and Wyoming, and hours of expert calling (with a birchbark horn) to lure the big animals into rifle range. The elk, prized for antlers that often rise 5 ft. over its head, have retreated from the plains into the rugged western mountain ranges. Last year 52,000 elk were bagged by hunters who made the extra effort to go after them...
Although J. S. Bach did not indicate the instrumentation for his monumental Art of the Fugue, he would no doubt have been surprised to hear his opening fugue played by two trumpets, French horn, euphonium, trombone, and sousaphone. More appropriate to the group, and receiving a better performance, was a group of pieces by Johann Pezel, an early German composer of brass music for town bands. Although it was a pleasure to hear these seldom performed works, the group played with more gusto than polish...