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...hill's slope, lesser castles serve humbly as "guest houses'"-Casa del Mar, Casa del Monte, Casa del Sol. Hard by these are enchanted gardens, marble swimming pools, a zoo complete with lion, leopard, bear, elephant, chimpanzee. On the hillside roam bison, zebra, kangaroo, giraffe, llama, antelope, the emu and the gnu. These are but outward show. Within the palace portals is a treasury of Art that brings the value of their new-found home to $15,000,000: a Great Hall, where 150 trenchermen may dine on 16th Century refectory boards beneath the festal banners of Siena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...first up in the morning. I found him communing with the eagles, a part of the menagerie on the ranch. I heard him regret that one of the young lady guests was so commonplace as to choose a horse when she might ride a zebra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Great Insulter | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...which plays crazily on a horn), and a variegated assortment of porcupines, camels, cranes, storks, milgai, kangaroos, monkeys, baboons, dromedaries, tapirs, leopards, hippopotamuses, hyenas, bears, gnus, parrots & macaws, deer, pumas, an audad, a bok and a gemsbuck. There were many horses (735 by the program) and many a zebra. There were such subhuman animals as The Men from Mars (albino Negroes), Cliko the Bushman (who reads philosophy when not exhibiting himself), giants, giantesses, midgets, snake charmers, contortionists, fat ladies, a Whirling Dervish, the Rubberneck Man. five Ubangi women with wooden discs in their lips (circumference: 14 in.) and The Vegetable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Circus | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...Nairobi grey-haired convivial Hunter Rattray is best known for his work in domesticating zebras. The Tanganyika government gave him an experimental farm, where he has succeeded in breaking the larger and more modestly patterned Grevy's zebra to harness. The work is of great interest to African settlers for, though zebras lack the stamina of horses, asses, or mules, they are immune to the deadly tsetse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fiery Furness | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

When news of Hon. Averill's elopement reached Lord Furness by plane he loudly swore that he would disown any daughter of his who married a zebra trainer. Back flew the plane to Nairobi with a notice which last week appeared in the East African Standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fiery Furness | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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