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MRS. PAUL B. ECKLAND Ste. Foy, Que. > Both cobra and mongoose survived. Had the snake charmer allowed the fight to go to the finish, Rikki-tikki-tavi, as any Kipling fan knows, would win. - ED.
Not very long ago, Sir James Frazer sat in his leather armchair, distilling an impressive compendia of primitive customs from the reports of adventurous travelers; at the same time his countrymen were rallying to the jingoist battle cries of Kipling. Nor was the primacy of white civilization absent from the...
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and Other Tales (Boris Karloff; Caedmon). Actor Karloff, in a voice as rich as a ripe persimmon, unwinds with "infinite resource and sagacity" the mad Kiplingesque logic featuring the rhinoceros with a three-button skin and the Parsee from whose hat the rays...
Airplanes were still in pinfeathers when Rudyard Kipling wrote his stirring turn-of-the-century story. With the Night Mail, and filled the fictional skies over the Atlantic with swift craft propelled by a vaguely described "Fleury's Ray." Present-day jetliners are already three times as fast as...
While more and more retailers stampede customers with discount prices and waylay them near home with suburban branches, the pride of San Francisco's Post Street, Gump's Inc., prospers by remaining as aloof as Kipling's cat. With arrogant contempt for trends, Gump's eight...