Word: gargantuas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Game Hunter Osa Johnson announced that she will take along her mother, frail, silver-haired Mrs. Belle Lieghty, 73, of Chanute, Kans., on her next hunting trip into the wilds of Africa early in 1950. Their goal: bagging a gorilla to take the place of famed Gargantua, who died last month in Florida...
...Died. Gargantua the Great, twentyish, for twelve years Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's "frightfully fiendish" star gorilla; of double pneumonia, cancer and complications; in his $10,000 air-conditioned cage in Miami...
...circus' Gargantua, who resembles the gentleman pictured above. Gargantua died Friday and will be flown to the Elis' Peabody Museum after an autopsy...
...Siragusa had to knock the roof off his plastics plant to lower the 40-foot press into place on its 6-ft.-thick concrete base. Finally, the hissing, throbbing monster (Dom calls it "Gargantua") was ready for trial. It pressed down on $6.50 worth of preheated blocks of phenol plastic and molded a complete 35-lb. cabinet, the biggest plastic "casting" made...
Excitedly aware that such prime specimens would attract more publicity than Gargantua and His Mate, Virginia go-getters set out to bag them. Last week, after negotiations with the State Department and the armed forces, Virginia was rewarded. The Russian airmen, blond, 32-year-old Anatoly Barsov, and black-haired, 29-year-old Piotr Pirogov, were delivered to the U.S. for a grand tour of the Old Dominion...