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From the Argentine came news of a new mammal, the kangarfox, with a body like a kangaroo, a cat's head, the fur of a fox and "the soft, melancholy eyes of a Jersey cow." It climbs like a squirrel, dives like an otter, is amphibious, nocturnal, omnivorous. Said The Boston Transcript, referring to the man who reported this quaint creature: "Weaker men, men with lower standards of truth, might have tried to fob you off with a cock and bull story of how the kangarfox holds the Argentinian record for quick typewriting and is the best polo player...
...Oklahoma was presented with an adult kangaroo as mascot...
...five test matches, Australia had won two. These were the crucial innings. Australia had knocked up 739 runs, England 728, and the last man was in. A run was hit, off sped the batsmen along the pitch-too late! An alert "Kangaroo" had shot the ball into the wicket keeper's gloved hands and a fraction of a second later the ball flew off the stumps just a fraction of a second before the English batsman could shove his bat over the "popping crease" (batting line). England was beaten. Loud cheers and glad faces in Australia. Silence and long...
...GOING TO AUSTRALIA ALONE. ... The pride of Andy and Min has gone to Australia to see Uncle Bim. . . . Children will look forward with unprecedented eagerness to the weekly page of Chester Gump's travels and adventures -the mysteries of the ocean liner, the Bim Gump castle, the pet kangaroo, the army of servants, the diamond mines and all the vast possessions of the rich and lonely Uncle...
...KANGAROO-D. H. Lawrence-Seltzer ($2.00). Kangaroo seems to be the best novel Mr. Lawrence has written since The Rainbow. There are interesting human beings in it, the prose is often of extraordinary beauty, the ferocious preoccupation with sex that disfigured Women in Love is much less in evidence. The story is that of Richard Somers, poet and essayist, who went to Australia with his wife because he had made up his mind that Europe, after the War, was played out, done for, and he wished to find out what new spirit or spiritual impulse might be abroad...