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...moored by the feet atop the Broad Street marquee of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. He was a 15-ft. balloon-rubber elephant with an upraised trunk, a flapping lower lip and a silly smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Big Show | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...most disappointing early news concerned his hide: lighted cigarettes, dropped from upper windows, had no effect on him. But he obligingly developed a kind of reverse elephantiasis. His trunk took to sagging, and he had to be given repeated injections of air with a vacuum cleaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Big Show | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

Charles Jackson has written six novels; only three (including The Lost Weekend and The Fall of Valor) have been published. His latest should have stayed in the trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Effort | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...first. Partisan General Luigi Longo sneered: What about the Boy Scouts and the uniformed Catholic girls of the Children of Mary organization? But next day the partisans executed a disciplined about-face. They promised compliance. Except when the police (i.e., Scelba) permitted, the uniforms would stay in the trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Very Negation | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...field of fancy. The clergyman, in his spare hours, may be winning battles, the farmer sailing ships, the banker reaping triumphs in the arts: all leading another life, plying another trade from what they chose. . . . To look at the man is but to court deception. We shall see the trunk from which he draws his nourishment; but he himself is above and abroad in the green dome of foliage, hummed through by winds and nested in by nightingales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up in the Green Dome | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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