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...pubs−as closely as he did the geese. From this intelligence he formed a kind of primer for poachers: "Know your ground, your ditches, your roadways on which a car can approach in the evenings without its headlights on. Never go to the same place twice running. The keeper will find your footprints, and the next night he'll be waiting for you." For all his precautions, Thorpe found the law waiting on more than one occasion. Once he escaped by hastily loading 25 geese onto an abandoned railway flatcar and pumping it down the tracks to safety...
When he recovered two months later, Weese was forgiving. "We'd been in his cage all week, pounding and welding new bars," the keeper explained. "Sabu was just naturally upset." The Tucson Zoological Commission was not so understanding. Three weeks ago, the commission voted to have Sabu executed. Weese was outraged. So were thousands of other Tucson residents. Nearly 7,000 wrote letters pleading for clemency. Last week the city council voted unanimously to abolish the commission, thereby commuting Sabu's sentence to life...
...museum's Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Denys Haynes, stood fast. "I am very, very cross with her," he snapped. "If she wants to put her points down on paper, we shall examine them, as we should the arguments of any member of the public." Angry as Haynes sounded, the museum was well aware of the interest aroused by the tempest. It dusted off the disputed sculpture, cleansed it with a mudpack of fuller's earth, and put it on public display once again...
...this season. In the year of the college quarterback, there are two other exceptionally talented youngsters with all the credentials. At Ohio State, they shout hosannas for Rex Kern, a 6-ft., 184-lb. hardcase who seems to be happiest when he is busting heads with linebackers on a keeper play. He passes very little and runs a lot; last season he was the team's second leading ground-gainer with 583 yds. and nine touchdowns. In six games this season, he has already scored seven touchdowns and gained 491 yds., for an average of 6.6 yds. a carry...
...Chicago that he became interested in baboons. He had always been what he calls an "inveterate keeper," and he had heard of S. L. Washburn before he arrived. "Washburn could have been teaching about little green things on Mars, and I would have been fascinated by that," DeVore says. "But since he was interested in baboons, I did baboons...