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...financial difficulties, put up his pipe organ for sale, offered his house to the Decatur (Ga.) American Legion and his zoo to the city. Week later the Georgia Court of Appeals ordered him to pay $10,000 damages to a woman neighbor who charged that a baboon jumped over the wall of the zoo, devoured $60 in currency out of her purse...
Died. "Old Lady," 28, Toronto Zoo's vegetarian baboon; in her sleep; in Toronto. Her keeper, Bill Ford, thought the addition to her diet of carrots, tomatoes and greens accounted for her living twice the normal life span of baboons. She had four children, four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren. Said Keeper Ford: "She was the finest mother I ever knew. Humans could benefit by watching her. She did not allow her children to slap their children. When she saw that done, she hit her own children and took the grandchildren away. But when the child deserved punishment, she administered...
...threw up a 6-ft. $300 barbed-wire spite fence. In reply Neighbor Cavalieri hoisted a pink wooden pig on a pole to grimace down at Neighbor Kisselman. Neighbor Kisselman ranged along his spite fence two pigs, a toad, a wolf, two snakes, a wild bull, a skunk, a baboon; portraits of Neighbor Cavalieri...
...figure in a bilious dream, is just as unpleasant in action. Its squarish, long-snouted, wrinkle-mouthed face is palely naked except for matted tufts protruding from cheeks and forehead. It is yellowish brown & white, about the size of an Airedale, walks on four legs like its cousin the baboon. No tree-climber, it lives in Gibraltar's caves, is apt to turn up almost anywhere on the Rock...
Working in his Paris studio, Paul Manship gave a year to the sketches for Paul Rainey's gate. He mapped American brown bear and deer in the foliage grillwork at the top, a lion, leopard and baboon on flanking bronze trees. In plaster he made little models of the animals, then bigger and finally over life-size models. He made a plaster double gate 4 ft. 5 in. high, fitted animals in scale into the design. Then with a pantograph* he made a replica 13 ft. high, then stepped that up to the full...