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Nathan to Army. Into the Army as a private last week went a man who carried many of the answers in his big, black-thatched head. He is huge, gorilla-shouldered Robert Nathan, 34, former chairman of WPB's planning committee. Nathan was one of the few New Dealers who demanded billions of dollars for the war effort when the services couldn't see how they could use millions. Profiting by the lessons of the war, he was one who fought vigorously to expand the nation's raw material supply when the services went hog-wild...
...Brooklyn, later at Manhattan's Art Students' League. She started to earn her living on the Brooklyn Eagle as an illustrator and reporter. For the New York Press she covered "Gyp the Blood." For the World she did "stunt" stories, including being hugged by a New York gorilla, being forcibly fed in order to tell what it felt like. For McCall's Magazine she went (o Europe, interviewed the American-born Duchess of Marlborough in her fabulous Blenheim Palace. Said the Duchess: "This may be a palace, but there isn't one decent bathroom...
Only once has he ever regretted refusing a part: "I had just got home from the last all-night session in shooting a picture to find a note curtly ordering me to report for work a day or so later - dressed as a gorilla. My refusal grieved my stand-in no end. It seems that for two years he'd been painfully sewing together just such a costume...
When Mrs. Lintz finally sold the gorilla to the circus, Kroener insisted on going along. Buddy became "Gargantua the Great." Together, the pair of them toured the country in the big show, Gargantua glitteringly housed in a huge, air-conditioned cage of steel bars and plate glass. Kroener lived like any circus keeper. Gargantua, the vengeful, watched with an animal's unforgetful sleepless obsession for the misstep that would bring Kroener within reach of his huge hands. Once the gorilla caught his keeper's arm, yanked it through the bars, bit it so savagely that Kroener was crippled...
Fortnight ago, with Gargantua still glowering in his glittering cage, the circus moved on. Two days later, Kroener died. Said Mrs. Lintz: "If Dick had lived I believe the gorilla would have eventually killed...