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In Lincoln, Neb., Henry Peter Reider, 37, chief preparator of the University of Nebraska's museum, found that the rib bones of a prehistoric rhinoceros gave off a mellow sound when struck, assembled a few, built a "bonophone." With the ribs placed on a wooden frame, insulated by strips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Bonitatibus | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Those U. S. citizens whose ears were reached by various versions of the London tale and who wondered why the U. S. Press did not rush to feature it were answered last week in the current number of Vu, weekly Parisian picture-paper. In its April 1 issue, Vu had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vu's Views | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

The Convention sets up one of the world's sternest, smartest and most thoroughgoing sets of game laws. It forbids hunting any game with bush fires, poison, dazzling lights, nets, pits, snares, set guns, bothering it with automobiles or airplanes, practically embargoes elephant and rhinoceros horn. Furthermore it patches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Close to extinction except in a Zululand preserve and along the Upper Nile is the white (actually grey) rhinoceros. Only elephants are bigger than this creature. As long as 15 ft., very fast, agile and ferocious when angry, its charge is usually impotent because of its poor eyesight. Connoisseurs call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

The party, hunting in Tanganyika, included Hemingway and his wife a professional English guide named Jackson Phillips, a friend and rival hunter called Karl who always triumphed over Hemingway. When Hemingway killed a rhinoceros at 300 yards, making a beautiful shot that filled him with elation, Karl casually brought down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hunter's Credo | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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