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...elephant who helps pick a lying-in spot: Bandoola's mother and auntie picked a site near a river bend with a giant tree for shade and seven-foot elephant grass for fodder. The night before Bandoola was born, the two elephants trampled the grass round the tree till they flattened an area the size of a circus ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beasts as Heroes | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...skin was a loud purple. Within 48 hours he got a grim hint of the deadliest fact of a young elephant's life, a tiger in attack. Clawed and trumpeting, his auntie bolted, but his torn and bleeding mother sheltered him like a slab of concrete till the "oozies" came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beasts as Heroes | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...John shows an animal distrust for this strange new father with the letters L-O-V-E tattooed on the fingers of his right hand and H-A-T-E on the left. Once the war of nerves is joined, Author Grubb piles horror on tension, chapter by chapter, till the Preacher meets an end as vicious as himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer in Cresap's Landing | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Negotiable. In Santa Rosa, Calif., sheriff's deputies, sent to John Blum's grocery to collect $300 in alimony, found only $75 in the till, quickly got the balance after showing Blum a writ ordering them to seize "any or all coffee owned or possessed by the defendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Explaining his team's improvement, Shepard says, "Our four seniors--captain Ed Krinsky, Bill Dennis, Ed Condon, and Ed Blodnick--have given the squad a lot of poise. They've been a losing group up till this year, but now when the pressure on the other club, instead of vice versa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Improved Basketball Team Opposes Amherst Tonight | 2/3/1954 | See Source »

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