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Messages are usually transmitted by a code sentence of which there are about a dozen. For instance, "Mot a nkele nda, ve atan, atan (Person he not go in house, but outside, outside)" is a warning that there is a leopard on the loose. When the drum says: "A nto ane jomolo, jomolo (He is as weakening, weakening)," it means a tribesman is very ill. When a man has died, the drum taps: "Only folds, folds hands on breast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drum Telegraphy | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...Leopard By Her Bed. Beryl Markham came to the subtlest and most primal of continents when she was four, to a farm that was painfully hacked out of the dense Kenya forests near Nairobi. Her principal childhood companions were her hard, taciturn, horse-breeding father, some half-naked Negro huntsmen and a ferocious bulldog hybrid named Duller, who somehow survived abduction (from the foot of little Miss Markham's bed) by a leopard, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aerodynamic Diana | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...Last refuge of the Egyptian leopard, and nesting gounds of great flocks of migrant and year-round waterfowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Into the Funnel | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...service in the Army. He was diplomatically turned down on the grounds that his "age and . . . broad knowledge of military matters" make him "of greater service in the halls of Congress." But trouble brewed in Fish's district. Eight well-known Republicans turned thumbs down on Fish. "A leopard," they said, "cannot change his spots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Two Out, One to Go | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...eighth day Aldrich lost a finger nail when a shark nipped his hand. A leopard shark was shot before a squall left the pistol corroded. Dixon batted one shark on the nose with his fist and drove it away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: AT SEA: They Shot an Albatross | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

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