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...time, 60-year-old Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Sidney Clive has not lacked excitement. Bravely he served with Kitchener of Khartoum on the Nile, was decorated again during the Boer War, won the D. S. 0. during the World War, served as Military Governor of Cologne and as British Military Representative at the League of Nations. Last week in the comfortable security of his new London post as Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, distinguished, elderly Sir George stepped into one of King George's state carriages to rehearse the procession for the Silver Jubilee Parade...
Milestones about eminent beasts are always separated from human Milestones by what printers call a hair line, after the end of the human list. The death of Blue Boy, star hog cinemactor of State Fair, was thus reported, as were the deaths of Rin Tin Tin, Balto, Khartoum the elephant, Psyche the laboratory monkey...
...with pork tallow 76 years ago, Moslem sepoys fought the great Indian Mutiny. Because a Moslem fanatic proclaimed himself a redeemer or Mahdi in Egypt 40 years ago, thousands of Egyptians rebelled, left the bland head of Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon stuck on a spike at the gates of Khartoum. Last week because a Swiss headmistress hoisted the skirts and paddled the bottom of naughty Turkiya Hassan at Port Said's Al Salaam Missionary School, Egypt was threatened with still another Holy War. Vexed, Turkiya Hassan walked to the police, cried that she had been beaten because...
Stanley made two other African journeys: across the continent and down the Congo River to the Atlantic (an exploration which resulted in the formation of Congo Free State); and his most famed exploit-the relief expedition to Emin Pasha. When "Chinese'' Gordon was cut off in Khartoum by the Mahdi's fanatics, the only Egyptian force in the Sudan to escape annihilation was one commanded by Emin Pasha (real name: Eduard Schnitzer). To rescue Emin Pasha became The Thing in England: Stanley was put in charge of the expedition. Practically everything that could go wrong...
...Died. Khartoum, 28, gluttonous, misanthropic 7,000-lb. elephant, largest in captivity; of heart disease after prolonged overfeeding and lethargic life; in New York Zoological Park, The Bronx...