Word: lions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Joy Adamson, 69, Austrian-born naturalist who wrote the bestselling Born Free; after being attacked by a lion; on a remote game reserve in Kenya (see WORLD...
...shared her embrace with the world. During more than four decades in Kenya, she sketched and painted the region's luxuriant flowers and plants, captured portraits of its tribespeople in their fast-vanishing traditional costumes, and-most of all-made the great cats of Africa her friends. No lion on earth ever became more famous than Elsa, the cub that Adamson reared from infancy and then painstakingly trained to return to the wild. Through her book Born Free, its sequels and the film, Adamson made her lioness as popular and familiar as Lassie. Feeding the tiny cub with...
...hear the nightly news, as she always did. A search party was formed. Soon it found her lifeless body about 100 yards from the camp on a nearby trail. She had been badly mauled across the chest and an arm "by great claws," a friend reported, "no doubt a lion...
...shot benefit for the Theatre Guild. From this emerged The Garrick Gaieties, which ran on Broadway for six months and contained Rodgers' first hit song, Manhattan. He was on his way. Within two years he had five more shows on Broadway, and suddenly was a young lion in New York and London society...
Junior Mark Harris led the team with 19 points, his best total this year, and Tom Mannix followed with 12, but neither man made up for a Lion attack that featured Curt Maloney's 25 points...