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...triumphant Japs. In the morning a raft full of wounded and exhausted sailors saw the sight of their lives-Gillan sitting elegantly on a large plank, dressed in nothing but his Mae West and an officer's pith helmet. As he swept by. the lieutenant politely tipped his topi and remarked in clipped tones, "Good morning, gentlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Art of Not Dying | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...cancer of the breast was briskly headed "Stop, Look and Feel," and decked with 17 drawings in color. The editors and artists even hit on a way to make a cover design for castration (a palliative for cancer of the prostate). They used a three-color cartoon of a topi-topped explorer cutting off an orchid, laboriously explained that orchis is Greek for testicle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors, Attention! | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Among the nine heads mounted for wall display are five specimens of Impalla, Topi, and Waterbuck. A lion and a leopard skin rug will be hung in each side reading room, where the other heads will also be placed. They are now on display in the main reading room of the Harvard Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GUGGENHEIM GIVES UNION 11 AFRICAN ANIMAL HEADS | 2/19/1931 | See Source »

...following among other denizens of the African continent are to be secured for inspection by the U. S. public and its children: lions and pygmy mice (bumblebee size); black rhinoceroses and hyraxes; giraffes; eland (the Zoo has but one aged cow); sable and pygmy antelope, fringe-eared oryx, topi, hartebeest, bushbuck, kudu, reedbuck, duiker, impalla and. oribi; colobus and Sykes monkeys; leopards, hunting dogs; wild hogs; aardvark and aardwolves, hyenas, caracals, servals, civet cats; the giant python, spitting cobras, puff adders, black mambas, boomslangs (tree snakes); parrots, love birds, giant ground hornbills, fish eagles, secretary birds (snake-killers), brilliant plaintain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Natural Historians | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...Century Co. has a postcard received from Major and Mrs. E. Alexander Powell, now in Northern Africa, posted at Hellville, Island of Nossi Be, Madagascar. Under its supercription is the note, "120 in the shade;" on the reverse side is a photograph of some twenty or more white-clad, topi-topped backs along a verandan railing, the owners facing a door-the caption is: "Waiting for the bar to open". And the message...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOTS AND TITLES | 5/16/1924 | See Source »

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