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...beauty," declared President Hoover as three Maine Congressmen presented him with the first salmon (164 Ib.) caught this year in the Bangor Pool. Catcher: Harry Chapman...
Sick Star. Last year's Circus premiere was saddened by the absence of Lillian Leitzel, famed trapezist who was killed in Copenhagen (TIME, Feb. 23, 1931). This year's absentee was Goliath II, the 5,000-Ib. sea-elephant who, with his friend Goliath I, brought the lower animals back into their own at a time when they were threatened with being eclipsed by aerialists, acrobats and human freaks. Circus-man Ringling bought the two Goliaths in Hamburg four years ago, exhibited the larger and elder until he died, then brought forth his understudy, who by then weighed some...
...elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirunga leoninus or patagonica), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible proboscis, hind limbs so rudimentary that they look like a big tail; broad, flat for ward flippers for swimming and spanking the young. For Mr. Coolidge's pleasure Goliath I devoured 50 Ib. of herring. Six months later a shark got into his enclosure off Sarasota. bit a piece out of his neck, probably caused his death...
...year is Goliath IIs fifth in captivity, and as winter waned at his Florida quarters he began to grow listless, sluggish. He would not eat. His cavernous trumpetings became dismal, froggy croaks. Trainers, seeing the remaining half of a $10,000 investment shedding weight at the rate of 10 Ib. a day, called doctor after doctor, but no physician's hand could feel that flapping pulse, no stethoscope could reveal the disorder beneath a hide thick as a truck tire. Last week Goliath II still lay in Sarasota and the Circus went on without...
...Knew Coolidge" (by Sinclair Lewis) was a talkative gentleman apt to buttonhole you in the smoking car. The Man Who Sued Coolidge-Lewis Tebbetts of St. Louis-is 48, 6 ft., 170 Ib. His hair is thinning on top. He has been married 17 years. He likes colorful ties, and flashy suits. He likes to take his wife to a roof top, study the stars. He also likes to invent things, has sold some. He is a free lance in the insurance business, being helped greatly by his aggressive personality and eloquence. He considers himself a leading advocate of "term...