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Heavy curtains draped a cage in Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo last week. Zoomen tiptoed up, peeked, whispered excitedly. Inside what looked like a ridiculously shriveled old shanty Irishman- wrinkled of face and belly, with reddish sideburns and a reddish fringe about its round, bald head-clung to its 110-lb. mother's hairy leg and squeaked. Daughter of the Zoo's Jiggs and Nancy, it was 10 in. long, weighed 2¼lb. and was, so far as zoo officials knew, the fourth orangutan ever born in a U. S. zoo. Zoomen had to leave...
...killed a third terrier. For dog No. 3, in addition to the oxygen-saturated saline solution, liver extract, adrenalin, canine blood and rocking board with which he resurrected Nos. 1 & 2, Dr. Cornish had a new help-gum-arabic, to keep the heart from overworking. Revived, the third dog clung to life day after day. Though unconscious, it blinked and stretched when a window-blind was raised, swallowed when food was forced between its lips, kicked when the reflex centre in its leg was tapped. Early this week it had been alive ten days. Working and watching grimly. Dr. Cornish...
...ground, shoved his chubby leg into it. When the leg stuck, Donald cried. A crowd collected, sent for emergency, police and fire squads. The crowd grew to more than 1,000, jamming traffic as they milled and chattered. A policeman split open the pipe while Donald clung to his father, thoughtfully inspected his fellow Washingtonians, sucked his fingers...
...applauded Professor Hudson, chatted volubly, slowly left the hall to the mercies of volunteer Radcliffe damsels who removed the fifty-four timid, gay little flags which had marked the national contingents. Delegates had given respectful attention to Dr. Harold Tobin, Dartmouth League Critic, slight, dark, nervous, and bespectacled, who clung desperately to the back of his chair, swayed from side to side, and assured the league that its critics, charging it with futility, were wrong, to be ignored. Dr. Tobin further delivered an outspoken if almost inaudible attack on Secretary Wallace, saying that the secretary desires an impossibility when...
Died. William Travers Jerome, 74, New York County's famed Tammany-baiting district attorney (1901-09); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. He was elected district attorney on a fusion ticket, clung on for a second term despite a Tammany comeback in 1905. A consummate showman with an acid tongue, he made things hot not only for quaking city officials but for gamblers, juror-bribing lawyers, chiseling labor delegates, racketeers of any sort. He hated the name of "reformer," smoked incessantly, drank, played poker and shot craps with his cronies. He prosecuted Harry Kendall Thaw, kept him in asylums...