Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wolf-suckled were mythical Romulus and Remus who founded Rome in 753 B.C. In 1940 A.D. from South Africa came a scarcely more credible tale of a black boy reared among baboons (TIME, April 1). Between these doubtful tales are 22 cases of children reared in the wilds by wolves, bears, leopards, etc. to which anthropologists credit some authenticity.* But only one case is open to real scientific study: the wolf-children of Midnapore, whose rescuer described them with camera and diary. World authority on these incarnations of Kipling's Mowgli is Anthropologist Robert Mowry Zingg of the University...
...grown-up wolf (he wrote) came out of one of the holes. This animal was followed by another of the same size and kind. The second was followed by a third, closely followed by two cubs, one after the other. Close after the cubs came . . . a hideous-looking creature-hand, foot and body like a human being. Close at its heels came another awful creature, exactly like the first, but smaller. Their eyes were bright and piercing, unlike human eyes. However, I at once came, to the conclusion that they were human beings...
...days later Singh and a few natives dug open the wolves' den. They slew the fiercely protective mother wolf, rescued the two waifs who nestled snarling among the wolf cubs. How they got in the den and whence they came were never discovered. Secretly the missionary put the wolf-children, females aged about two and eight, in his orphanage. He kept careful records and pictures of their development...
Before he could make human beings of the waifs, Amala and Kamala, Singh had to break them of their deeply ingrained wolf ways. They had to be tied into bed, tore off clothing as savagely as wolf cubs, dreaded daylight, at night howled eerily as they had with the jungle pack, at ten, one and three o'clock. They lapped milk from a dish in imitation of the orphanage dogs, whose company they preferred to other children's. They craved raw meat, and Kamala was once caught devouring chicken entrails which her sensitive wolf-nose had located...
...30Crimson Concert Master: Prekofleff--Peter and the Wolf. 8:30 Piano Contest. 9:00 9 O'Clock Jump. 9:30 Harrison M. Rainie 1G, tenor. 9:45 Crimson Concert Hall: K. P. E. Bach--Concerto for Orchestra in D Major. Sibelius--Violin Concerto. 10:45 "Mother O'Toole, Biddie of Harvard"--skit. News...