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...Silliest kudos (awarded in 1939): Beaver College's "Doctorate of Fortitude and Faith" to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd; Newark University's "Doctorate of Canine Fidelity" to Bonzo, a Seeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Degree Racket | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

While holding forth to one Bonzo, a critic, he had the happy idea for his book. "And I said to myself: If I were allowed to write one more novel only, what would I say, what would I put into it? I would resurrect my life, make it live, before my existence comes to an end on this strange and wayward star, resurrect my life while I am dying." Expanding on this theme as the ball proceeds around him, he relates to Bonzo what Resurrection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: True Experience | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...observed the plebeian habits of 25 chattering monkeys, 50 impertinent parrots, two elephants, two brown bears, one polar bear, two spotted hyenas, one striped hyena, 13 lions, two tigers, two wolves, five leopards, two dromedaries, a pelican, a crane, a leaping kangaroo and a sloppy old sea lion named Bonzo. Wondered the Manchester Guardian: "Will they bring the circus habit into the glades and meadows of Whipsnade? Or will the old circus performers keep themselves entirely to themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Beatty & the Beast | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...California-designed hot-dog-stand called Bonzo is completely cynomorphic. in the stucco likeness of a seated puppy, with the front door between his forepaws, windows in his ribs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: For Man & Machine | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...friend in the Law School, since he first year optional exam, has adopted Necessity for a middle name. Necessity, he explains quite logically, knows no law. BONZO...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/8/1923 | See Source »

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