Word: gorillaed
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...popular civic figure in Chicago is neither the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, the Democrats' Mayor Martin Kennelly nor the White Sox's aging but indefatigable shortstop, Lucius Benjamin Appling. In 20 years of residence at the Lincoln Park Zoo, Bushman, Chicago's own gorilla, has topped them all, both in favorable publicity and unwavering public regard...
...sounds the gorilla made were not really words, Lashley said, because "he doesn't use them like words. . . . It's more like the old talking-dog trick...
...baby gorilla has learned to utter three word-like sounds, Karl S. Lashley, research professor of Neuropsychology, disclosed yesterday...
...keep the education of the primate a secret from people living near research center. This led to difficulties recently when a child's shoe was found on a lonely stretch of beach near Jacksonville. Police began an excited investigation and learned that the shoe belonged to the "child" gorilla, which had been surf bathing with his human "family" and child-like, had forgotten his shoe...
...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...