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...Chicago's Brookfield Zoo bought the late...
Early last week Su Lin, first captive giant panda ever brought to the U. S., added oak twigs to her diet in Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Unaccustomed to such rugged fodder, Su Lin caught a twig in her throat. Same day the twig was removed, but Su Lin fell into a decline, sank lower & lower. Desperate zookeepers placed her under an oxygen tent, tried to keep her alive by artificial respiration. But Su Lin died.* Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr., who last year brought back Su Lin and this year brought back another baby female panda...
...years Connie Mack has celebrated his birthday on Dec. 23. Last summer he visited his birthplace (East Brookfield, Mass.), discovered he was born Dec. 22, 1862, decided it was too late to change and plans to continue observing his nativity on the 23rd. It is characteristic that the Mack legend, greatest in baseball history, should start right off with a myth...
...started one hot Saturday afternoon when the good people of Chicago were preparing to make the next day, Fourth of July, just as much hotter as possible. Gamins with a malicious glint in their eye tossed firecrackers under the wheels of passing cars. The Baby Giant Panda in the Brookfield Zoo was so scared that he refused the attentions of the trained nurse and pointed his tongue naughtily at his monkey neighbors...
Touched by that story were the sportsmen gathered at Grand Junction last week for the 42nd annual running of the National Field Trials. But in a long fortnight of dog-running, it was the only reminder they had of heroic Brookfield Dumb-Bell. Thirty-nine of the nation's best bird dogs, one of the biggest entry lists in years, performed in colorless fashion. Experts blamed the poor showing partly on the weather-late winter snow and sleet alternating with blustery spring winds-but also on the seldom-mentioned fact that the Ames Plantation is no longer precisely overrun...