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...soldiers found that their high-school books were right: Australia's fauna was indeed teeming with strange cases of arrested evolution. There, sure enough, were the duck-billed platypus, the kangaroo, the dingo dog. There was another one that the zoology writers had left out. He was the "wowser," strangest beastie of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Nature Note | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...accident rate rises in suburban U.S. communities this fall because citizens are hit by flying sticks, insurance companies can blame a game called Kangaroo Golf. Invented and patented by internationally famed Composer-Organist Pietro Yon, virtuoso at Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, it has the same object as golf and can be set up in any good-sized yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tiddlygolf | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...game, wooden pegs (kangaroos) are used instead of balls and they are driven from a portable, slope-topped wooden tee-the projecting end of the kangaroo is struck with a sharp downward chop to send it jumping as in tiddlywinks. A set costs $12.50. There are four different-shaped kangaroos: the Turtle (for distance), the Speeder (for an accurate second shot), the Flash (to get over a high obstacle), the Torpedo (for a stop-dead approach or putt). Players carry their kangaroos in a canvas pouch not unlike a carpenter's apron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tiddlygolf | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...reluctant dragon turns out to be a poetic green and yellow beast with the voice and mannerisms of Ed Wynn and a kangaroo shape. He is the Ferdinand of the dragons. The story of his reluctance to do battle with a toothy old English knight is not the most exciting Disney product. But nowadays the chief hazard to each new Disney show is the astronomically high standards of its predecessors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 2, 1941 | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...diverted by the antic notions of Professor Rhinelander Briggs, B.S., billed as the greatest living authority on miscellaneous subjects. He has attacked Communists for introducing the little red hen into the nation's kindergartens, has aired what he claimed were sound effects recorded in the pouch of a kangaroo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air for a Screwball | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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