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Last week the South African Government ordered the slaughter of 15,000 game animals in Zululand. The hope was that no game would mean no nagana. The great Hluhluwe Reserve, last home of the white rhinoceros, will not be invaded, but in the surrounding areas the waterbuck and hartebeest, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drowsing Death | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

Ever since it was founded in 1869, Manhattan's great American Museum of Natural History has felt self-conscious about a gap in its collection of animal skeletons-the skull of the rare, nearly extinct Java rhinoceros, which has never been shown in any zoo on earth. Since 1920...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Termites Are Winning | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

Charlie Cottar was the first man to chew cut plug in East Africa. It awed the natives. So did his exploits as a hunter. He kicked a water buffalo in the rump to make it face his gun. He choked a leopard to death. Once he took a leopard cub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Okie in Africa | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

Pious, kindly, baggy Marvel Mills Logan, late Senator from Kentucky, was a man who wouldn't harm a flea. A peace-loving, Sunday-school-going ex-judge, he had shaggy grey locks and a nose of such W. C. Fieldsian proportions that he was once described as "looking like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: VENI, VIDI, VETO | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

"Wyoming," is a Western, fundamentally like all other Westerns past, present, and future. The film, however, has some distinguishing features. Wallace Beery shambles through the plot with his hand on his holster and the vaguely reproachful mien of a wounded rhinoceros. Even his romance muscle-woman Marjoric Main smacks of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/19/1940 | See Source »

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