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Later that night, the trumpeting din of elephants fighting aroused the sleeping zoo. The zoo director rushed to Chang's pit, found him attacking Mandjullah. On the floor he found Rietmann's dead body. This time there was no one to plead for Chang. At dawn the keepers' rifles cracked four times. Chang, the elephant with imagination, was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: An Elephant with Imagination | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...Force had forgiven or forgotten Radford's angry last-ditch opposition to unification of the armed services, which he carried on even after the Navy had agreed to the merger. Defense Secretary Forrestal and Navy Secretary Sullivan had trooped to the White House to plead Radford's case, Harry Truman had stubbornly put them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Up from the Bilges | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...trial lasted eight minutes, for he said, in answer to the court's question: "I plead guilty to all counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Please let me be amongst the first to nominate and plead for your recognition of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as the Woman of the Year. Her unstinting work in behalf of human relations has been unquestionably outstanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Candidate Harold Stassen, galloping through the South, took a passing swipe at Candidate Bob Taft. In New Orleans, obviously referring to Taft for his cautious position on foreign aid, Stassen chomp-chided: "I plead with the members of our Republican party not to become afflicted with a chronic fixation of opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Wanna Get Slugged? | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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