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...bushy tree . . . with a short and usually crooked trunk . . . stout spreading rigid branches beset with slender spine-like branchlets, bright red and glabrous when they first appear, soon turning green, and in their first winter grey tinged with red, covered with a slight bloom . . . and ultimately dark brown tinged with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...future mate for Mandjullah, an older female. Rapidly he became the zoo's star attraction and the pride of his keeper, Hans Rietmann. When Mandjullah took the kids for a ride on her back, Chang trundled awkwardly behind, amiably accepting peanuts. Sometimes he would even snuggle his trunk into a pocket to pluck out a piece of candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: An Elephant with Imagination | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Hans Rietmann had no fear. On Christmas Eve, he entered the pit by himself. When he tried to fasten the chains around the elephant's hind legs, Chang turned and swept him up in his trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: An Elephant with Imagination | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Light-Fingered. In Des Moines, Ann Baity admitted to awestruck police that she had shoplifted a radio-phonograph and a wardrobe trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...England's most unpredictable football outfits in the giant New Haven saucer fluds the gentlemen of the press box in their usual position concerning the outcome. A small but hardy band is way out on a limb stringing along with the Crimson, while the more conservative elements hug the trunk of the arbor prognosticoris and give the Bulldog a slim but definite hug the trunk of the arbor prognosticoris and give the Bulldog a slim but definite margin...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Sportswriters Toss Up Coin And It Comes Down Yales | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

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