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...gorilla twisting to moan with a gargoyle mouth: "They buy me and sell me . . . it's a game . . . sometime I'll break loose...
Managers of state-owned clothing shops displayed mannikins dressed in the jampec style, along with the warning that "everybody who imitates this American fashion madness belongs to the capitalist U.S. in spirit." One shop window (see cut) showed a gorilla next to a jampec and a telegram from the Budapest zoo's monkey house protesting against the insult of comparing a jampec to one of their kind...
Bushman, even as a grey-thatched elder gorilla, is one of the most fearsome-looking monsters ever put behind bars. On seeing him for the first time, zoo visitors read a promise of unspeakable ferocity in his black little eyes, his brutal, purplish-black countenance, and his gleaming white incisors. Unlike some older gorillas, he never developed a paunch; and his hairy 547 lbs. are all muscle...
Roman Ham. But it is Bushman's personality which has endeared him to Chicago. The public loves Bushman because Bushman loves them-he is one of the most unabashed hams that ever trod the boards. Despite his looks, he is a kindly and jovial sort of gorilla, who often plays gently with the mice he catches in his cage. The spectacle of Bushman lying at ease like a Roman, munching grapes and gulping quart bottles of milk handed in by his keeper (when in a good mood he politely hands them back), has won the hearts of the multitude...
...years an unvarying stream of 3,000,000 people passed annually by his cage. He was seldom sick, almost never troublesome. But early this month Keeper Robinson noted that Bushman seemed listless. One day, a fortnight ago, the big gorilla toppled over and lay sprawled and inert on the floor...