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...Chicago's Brookfield Zoo counted on the birth of 90 mammals, the hatching of an equal number of rare birds. Its latest swap brought two Central American quetzals, green-crested, scarlet-breasted "world's most beautiful bird," from New York's Bronx Zoo. Brookfield's starring attractions: 300 monkeys which clamber about sandstone cliffs, four giant eland from the Sudan, which may soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WARTIME LIVING: Zoos for Morale | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

Another answer is increased swapping among U.S. zoos. Recently Chicago's Brookfield got an orangutan in exchange for two wildebeests and a zebra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bottleneck in Giraffes | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...Chipping of Brookfield School is no great shakes as a schoolmaster, but he keeps it up for 63 years. Point of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, which begins at the end of Mr. Chips's life, is that, viewed in proper retrospect, his career is not the meaningless blank it appears to be. Believe it or not, Mr. Chips was young once, and so was Robert Donat, whose fishskin makeup in the first sequences is the most thorough- going physical transformation since the days of Lon Chancy. Believe it or not, Mr. Chips once courted a pretty girl in Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Chinese for "A Little Bit Of Something Precious") was the first giant panda ever to reach U. S. shores alive. To capture it, Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr. spent $20,000 and many months in remote Tibet, two years ago gave the baby giant panda to Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Mrs. Harkness introduced Su-Lin as a "she," and Chicago's zoologists saw no reason to change the designation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: He or She? | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Davis' discovery left Brookfield zoologists scratching their heads. They still had one living baby giant panda, Mei-Mei ("Little Sister"). Now they wondered whether Mei-Mei had the right name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: He or She? | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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