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...hospital itself was a strange asylum. In days of peace it had been San Diego's lush Balboa Park, scene of the 1935 California Exposition, resplendent with gardens, art galleries, museums. Of art treasures and exhibits nothing now remained except two stuffed elephants in the Natuarl History Museum...
Native Land. In Balboa, C.Z., homesick Technical Sergeant David Green got his greatest wish granted through the mails-a handful of dirt from The Bronx...
ROGER C. HACKETT Balboa...
...Diego's Balboa Park Zoo, there was a quiet shift in emphasis: two horses marked for slaughter now pull a plow in the victory garden. Top billing at San Diego still goes to Ngagi, the slow, silent, 639-lb. gorilla. Ngagi's cage mate, Mbongo (645 lb.), died last year; he now has a lady friend, a mere shrimp named Kenya...
Ford, a slinky five-foot-niner with a head as smart as his strokes are slick, is the fair-haired boy of Coach Bob Kiphuth's Yale team. Born in Balboa, Canal Zone, he was given swimming lessons at the age of three because his parents, transplanted Illinoisans, wanted him to be more amphibious than they. By the time he was 15 he was picked for a team to represent the Canal Zone in an international swimming meet in South America. Last year, as a student at Mercersburg Academy, he caused a sensation by equaling Weissmuller's record...