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Last week in Los Angeles, Alfred Hill, 12, and three companions .went to Luna Park Zoo to go hunting. Alfred took his jackknife with him in case they met with any lions or tigers. Seeing a bushy thicket, the four boys climbed a high fence which separated the enclosure from spectators. Alfred ran ahead, knife in hand, climbed over a low wall. Suddenly he screamed. From a thicket in front of him, sprang a huge tiger. It knocked him down, mangled him badly. Melvin Koontz, the zoo cat keeper, ran for his rifle, shot the big yellow beast. Alfred...
South American jungles contain no professional animal catchers. Zoomen have to send hunters there specially or buy up specimens caught casually. Last week in Manhattan, Alexander Siemel, professional tiger hunter (TIME, April 21), and Capt. Vladimir Perfilieff, artist-explorer (TIME, Dec. 30), revealed some of their plans for an expedition which will start shortly for Matto Grosso, high and wild Brazilian hinterland, to catch animals, sell them to U. S. zoos. David Newell, U. S. puma hunter, naturalist and author,* is going with them; also John Clarke and Francis Spaulding, Manhattan sportsmen...
Deputies of the Egyptian Parliament met last week at the Saadi Club in Cairo because King Fuad has dissolved their parliament (TIME, July 7). Hotly they debated His Majesty's "illegal dictatorship," excoriated and flayed him, voted "no confidence" in Prime Minister Sidky Pasha. He, "The Tiger," ignored their menaces, continued to rule under royal decree. The deputies, through their party organizations, thereupon ordered a "nonviolent campaign of passive resistance" but this did not get under way last week...
Exclaimed Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau, once to his secretary Jean Martet: "I have never known a King who had the soul of a King!" Of the British Royal Family he added gently: "They are admirable people, what can one expect...
...mosquito, like most insects, is far stronger, relative to size, than any mammal. Its jaws have been called "more powerful than an elephant's . . . [with ] fang structure more terrible than the tiger's." After two weeks of data gathering the exposed parts of Dr. Rudolfs' body will be raw from hundreds of bites...