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...Donkin packs up to leave. Only in the nick of time is he reinstated, and the oldest minx marries the shy music instructor, Philip ("Poop"), who calls his baby grand piano "B. G." For the final curtain Donkin stands alone in his study listening to the boys ("Old Crump," "Bimbo," "Flossie," and their pals) singing Auld Lang Syne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Describing the gibbon, Mr. Coolidge said: "Many will remember 'Bimbo' the gibbon that made a name for himself in the film 'Chang'. Gibbons stand about three feet high and weigh about twelve pounds. The gibbon is covered with a furry coat that may vary in color from black, with white markings, to light tan or silver. . . . They have a flattened face with a human looking nose. The scientific name for the gibbon is 'Bylobates', which means treewalker. It is particularly appropriate as they swing through the trees by means of their long arms at a remarkable speed. They...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Zoologist Leads Nine Months Trek to Study Agile Gibbons in Siam | 12/15/1936 | See Source »

...Jersey City. N. J., Mrs. Fannie Yellman complained to Assistant District Attorney Morris Panger that one Sulyman, Egyptian clairvoyant, and his wife, Mme Bimbo, defrauded her of $400 she had paid for the return of her kidnapped brother, Smiles Malchinsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Emerging from what he claimed was "a spell," Teller Wyre discovered that bills and women were gone. To police he insisted he had been hypnotized. Newark police arrested, Teller Wyre identified as one of his able befuddlers, a swart, shrewd woman who called herself Annie Bimbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Able Bimbo | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

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