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...some of his political friends "in the good old Western way." They were dissuaded. But students from nearby New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts held a mass meeting, passed around a petition, managed to get a grand jury called. The jury began laying about with a trumpeting, trunk-swinging fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW MEXICO: Cricket Coogler's Revenge | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...Trunk. Bald, tubby Abe Burrows, 38, says worriedly, "I don't have the right background for show business-I wasn't born in a trunk." Brooklyn-raised, Burrows majored in Latin and accounting, got his first job in Wall Street ("I went right up the ladder: runner, board boy, bond salesman-and then I was fired"). A script he wrote for Mimic Eddie Garr gave him a start in radio. Then he began satirizing Tin Pan Alley songs at private parties and convulsed Connoisseurs Groucho Marx and Danny Kaye with such numbers as The Girl With the Three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Just for the Laugh | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Last week the museum put the mammoth's remains on display. The trunk, left front leg and part of the head were stuffed into an ordinary 8-cu.-ft. home freezer. Although the Russians have found whole mammoths in Siberia, these were the first frozen parts of a mammoth to be exhibited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Young Visitor | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Ever since war's end, Konni Zilliacus had been zooming and buzzing around the Labor government's left flank like a gnat harassing an elephant. Several times, the great beast had flapped its ears in protest. Last week it hauled off with its trunk and struck. Konni Zilliacus, M.P. for Gateshead, longtime Fabian and fellow traveler, was formally read out of the Labor Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Fight for the Soul | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...circus reviews. In his absence, however, the job must continue to be done, and if the present reviewer has no sense of humor at all, and if he like only a few selected domesticated dogs and horses, and finds uniquely unappealing the sight of an elephant carrying with its trunk another elephant's tail, he at least responds like all normal American children to such marvelous human beings as Francis Brunn, Unus, and Harold Alana...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: The Circusgoer | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

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