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...biggest, or even its best. But it has one great advantage: it is small, compact, set off by lagoons and gently rolling lawns, and is easily accessible by foot, bus, trolley and El. Largely because of its location, it consistently outdraws Chicago's bigger, more modern Brookfield Zoo, which lies 13 miles southwest of the Loop. Even when the Cubs are as determinedly in the pennant race as they are this season, Lincoln Park has bigger crowds than Wrigley Field; its 1947 attendance will probably hit 3,000,000-a new high...
...effort to induce his long-frigid bull alligators to mate, Curator of Reptiles Robert Snedigar, of Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, stooped to trickery. He invited four French horn players to play a few B-flat notes which, he said, sound just like the male alligator's mating burp. Results: none...
Declension. In Chicago, the Brookfield Zoo's giant anaconda, "El Diablo," gave birth to 21 baby anacondas, was hastily renamed "La Diabla...
Like most other businessmen, animal dealers had been squeezed by costs that rose faster than retail prices. And still zoos thought that they were being overcharged. Not long ago Chicago's Brookfield Zoo reluctantly agreed to pay $4,000 each for three giraffes (prewar price: $1,700 and up). Growled Brookfield's director: "OPA hasn't anything to say about giraffes...
...first jeep ever to climb those dizzy mountain passes, where the villages perch on pinnacles and figs grow in the high valleys and the king's harem more than pays for itself, by sewing uniforms for the royal army. Harlan B. Clark (born 33 years ago in Brookfield, Ohio) was in the jeep. He and the jeep together meant that no land-not even Yemen (see map) -could henceforth be isolated from...