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...Chevalier, stayed famous and wealthy through the late '20s and '30s, grew to be a legend-a gay darling who lived in a turreted chateau, surrounded herself with monkeys and birds, kept a perfumed pig. walked abroad with two swans on a leash, and fed on rooster combs and champagne. She became a French citizen in 1937 when she married a wealthy young manufacturer and amateur flyer named Jean Lion-her second husband, first white one. After the master race moved into France she moved to Morocco, and was reported to have died broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...hajjel. Then Western Cartridge Co. heard about his quest, got hold of 30 hajjel and sent them to a surprised but grateful Mannheim Kalaf. He turned 26 loose in the hills, kept four cocks for training. (One of these warriors has licked the tail feathers off every rooster in Superior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kalaf s Hajjel | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...while. Then he is a plain nuisance. Frigate birds are scoundrels who make a living by snatching food out of other birds' beaks. The sooty tern lays its eggs on the ends of broken limbs of the breadfruit tree. On one island there is a lone rooster. His morning crowing to high heaven wakes up the whole island-that is how big this atoll is. He makes the farm boys homesick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT HOME & ABROAD: Life on the Atolls | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...tall shanghai rooster and one spotted hawg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army Troubadour | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...time the pilots moved on to El Adem, Eustace was a different rooster. Every day, as soon as the 1 p.m. BBC news broadcast began, Clarabelle laid an egg for the R.A.F. It has been that way ever since. Last week Eustace and Clarabelle were with the pilots in El Alamein, ready for Rommel, or anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Passion In the Desert | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

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