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...Toto (a she-gorilla) met Gargantua (a he-gorilla) last week. Their cautious introduction took place out behind the machine shop at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla. The two giant gorillas whom John Ringling North hopes to mate (TIME, Dec. 30) were wheeled up face to face in their separate cages. Attendants and newsmen watched...
Scarfaced, 550-lb. Gargantua turned a curious look upon the first gorilla he had seen since he left Africa. Apparently he liked what he saw. He threw her a bouquet of celery tops. Uppishly, 438-lb. M'Toto tossed it back. He tried a head of lettuce...
...ancestral tents were then in pawn. Mr. North retorted that Mr. Whitehead had stubbornly declined to face depression facts. Meantime, shrewd Mr. North was reported preparing a neat finesse. To the Ringling-owned, non-union Al G. Barnes-Sells-Floto Circus in the West would go such attractions as Gargantua the Great, the wire-walking Naittos, the Flying Concellos, perhaps Mr. Buck. With them would go the Ringling Big Top, upping the smaller show's capacity from...
Challenging Gargantua in order to test his theory. Pundit Tunney continued: "Unfortunately, I am no longer in fighting shape. However, I would like to take up the offer [said to have been made by Ringling Bros.] for any one of a dozen third-rate heavyweights I know...
There were no volunteers. But Manhattan sportswriters suggested saloon-keeping, beer-drinking Tony Galento, first-rate heavyweight who is just half Gargantua's size (230 lb.), as a fair match for the simian. At his saloon in Orange, N. J., Tony Galento "deeply regretted" the suggestion. Meanwhile, in the merry ribbing that followed, no one had taken the trouble to look in his Encyclopaedia Britannica, where he would have discovered that a gorilla has 13 pairs of ribs, one pair more than...