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...mission told Tome he would see her at the eatery the next night. He smiled at her bafflement and explained, "I'll come back as a firefly." When a firefly bobbed into the eatery the next night, Tome cried, "Look, everyone, it's Sabu-chan...
...Drums." An oddment from Alexander Korda in the late '30s; the Raj and Great Game, with Sabu truckling to The Man and, as so often in films of the era, an astonishingly blithe and racist narrative wherein all enemies of the British colonials are mad cult leaders with snake pits and strange gods. The mad cult leaders are played by scrawny Jewish character actors darkened with shoe polish...
...lives on in Monty Python skits. In America, Kipling's credit lines followed those of Gary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Gunga Din, Errol Flynn and Dean Stockwell in Kim, Sean Connery and Michael Caine in The Man Who Would Be King and, of course, Sabu, star of Hollywood's The Jungle Book...
...Sabu, the Tucson zoo's young, 4,500-Ib. bull elephant, staged a prison riot last August. He charged Zoo Foreman Carl Weese, cracking cartilage, gashing him in the arm with his tusks. Weese was saved by a co-worker who rushed into Sabu's pen and began pounding the elephant on the trunk, driving him back...
When he recovered two months later, Weese was forgiving. "We'd been in his cage all week, pounding and welding new bars," the keeper explained. "Sabu was just naturally upset." The Tucson Zoological Commission was not so understanding. Three weeks ago, the commission voted to have Sabu executed. Weese was outraged. So were thousands of other Tucson residents. Nearly 7,000 wrote letters pleading for clemency. Last week the city council voted unanimously to abolish the commission, thereby commuting Sabu's sentence to life...