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Unabashedly, the crowd-distinguished by such personages as Sweden's King Gustave, the Duchess of Kent-made "Old Drob" its sentimental favorite. The son of the grounds keeper and the checkroom attendant at Prague's old Ice Hockey and Lawn Tennis Club, he had worked his way into the fashionable world of topflight tennis through the back door, as a ballboy...
...local fruit dealer did a land-office business as moppets flocked around to buy bananas. Mingling freely with all who came offering food and genuine friendship, the monkeys would eat their bananas with relish, and then, with unerring aim and discernment, shy their skins at whatever furtive zoo keeper chanced to be lurking near by. At last, frustrated, the zoo men went to a base stratagem: they left a plate of rum-soaked food standing near, to tempt the refugees. One poor, pusillanimous monkey fell for the dodge, and as the keepers dragged him off drunk and disorderly...
...weeks, two more foolish monkeys were caught-one by following strategically placed bits of orange peel straight into the mouth of a zoo keeper's sack-but the three remaining holdouts had grown shrewder than ever. In the end, it was only the perversity of fate and their common simianity that brought them down. One day last week, unused to the perils that abound in freedom, one of the monkeys was hit by a passing automobile. As he lay in the road, stunned but unhurt, a lurking keeper took him captive...
Citation: "Now commanding the forces of the U.S. and of the United Nations in a crucial area of strategic concern in the free world's effort to halt the spread of Communism, keeper of the alert watchfulness and bearer of the prayerful hopes of free...
...David Schine, whose failure to become an Army officer has stirred some talk lately, has been a full-fledged colonel all along. His spot commission (in Kentucky only) came a year ago as a result of a request from his friend Colonel Anna Friedman, whose own lofty office is Keeper of the Great Seal of Kentucky Colonels...