Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this crowd-catching public institution (financed by the Chicago Park Board), is one of the fastest rising zoo directors in the country: lean, grey-haired R. Marlin Perkins, who has devoted most of his 42 years to studying, mothering, training, understanding, exploiting and explaining specimens of the animal kingdom from blacksnakes to baboons...
...Intelligence Park." Perkins' job, like those of all his zoo-keeping colleagues, is solidly founded on the eternal attraction that the animal kingdom has for man. The zoo, as such, is an ancient institution. Like the Fourth of July firecracker, it was invented by the Chinese. They built their first zoo around 1100 B.C. and named it "Intelligence Park...
...idea is for a great new reptile house for Lincoln Park. In it, he would like to have the best snake collection in the world. Then, he would like to use his old reptile house to present a complete natural history of animals. Says he: "Everything in the animal kingdom stems from water, and if you could show the relation between animals step by step, it would be wonderfully educational. Just think-you start out with microscopic life, go on with sea worms, and pretty soon you have the whole blooming animal kingdom there in front...
...British friend lent him Count Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You. The Russian Christian's doctrine of nonviolent resistance to unjust rule gripped the Hindu lawyer's mind. "Young birds," wrote Tolstoy, ". . . know very well when there is no longer room for them in the eggs. ... A man who has outgrown the State can no more be coerced into submission to its laws than can the fledgling be made to re-enter its shell...
TIME, MAY 26, SAYS: "AT THE SAVOY HOTEL HE [PREMIER DREW] GAVE A PARTY FOR ABOUT 400 OF THE UNITED KINGDOM'S BIGGEST BIGWIGS." PREMIER DREW DID NOT GIVE PARTY. TORONTO "GLOBE AND MAIL" . . . QUOTES PREMIER DREW AS SAYING: "i DID ATTEND A RECEPTION AT THE SAVOY WHICH WAS ARRANGED BY A GROUP OF CANADIANS IN LONDON. . . . THE ENTIRE EXPENSE OF THIS AFFAIR WAS BORNE BY THIS GROUP OF CANADIANS AND IT DIDN'T COST ME OR THE ONTARIO GOVERNMENT ONE COPPER...