Word: baboons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Professor C. J. Van der Horst: "The baboon is functionally so closely related to man that scientists in other parts of the world would regard it as a great forward step . . . if they could experiment on baboons instead of . . . cats, dogs, mice, guinea pigs and rabbits." Science has already given the monkeys stomach ulcers, will soon use them for work on diseases of women and malnutrition...
Idea man for these changes is an ex-baboon hunter, Alexander James Lake, 50, the yard's cocky public-relations man. Al Lake's tale of his life smacks of Defoe. A Chicago missionary's son, he spent his boyhood in South Africa, was paid $1.25 bounty by the Transvaal government for each baboon tail he produced. He got a job as an electrical engineer for a Swedish company, later moved to the Mojave Desert, where he prospered writing pulp-magazine stories about the jungle. When war broke out, he got a job at Albina. He thought...
...Atlanta, the zoo's big baboon, Tommy, beloved by thousands of schoolchildren, went into a decline for lack of bananas...
...kopecks. A lathe worker poked at tobacco plants in his spare-time garden plot, wondered if he would be lucky in a new national lottery in which each worker was asked to spend 10% of his salary. Tousle-haired children in costume played in the parks. A baboon escaped from the Moscow zoo. Jap and American diplomats played tennis in courts within a racket's throw of each other. The ballet performed every night. There was a superb performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride before an audience of airmen wearing their wing-&-propeller insignia...
Hers was a full childhood. Beryl used to rip out the quivering stomachs of freshly slain reedbuck to feed her dogs. She was once (as a Sikh phrased it to her father) "moderately eaten" by a lion. Attacked by her father's pet baboon, she beat it to death with her knobkerrie...