Foreign News: Snorting Book

German parents, shopping last week for Christmas presents calculated to improve their young, snapped up quantities of a new "talkie book" by Herr Doktor Ludwig Heck Director of Berlin's famed Zoo.

Shrewd, the Herr Doktor has written not about zoos but about East Africa (the once German colony which the Fatherland hopes to regain), has sandwiched into his Christmas book phonograph records full of the beat of East African drums, the jabber of natives, the roars, yelps and grunts of East African beasts.

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