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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...giant gorilla, with Lulu and Lizzie, chimpanzees, Billy, rare blue cat, and 166 other animals including 12 cobras, 35 assorted snakes, came from Spanish Guinea on the Zarembo. J. L. Buck, Hoo-Hoo's owner, described a gorilla hunt: "Hoo-Hoo's mother and two aunts were escorting him through the jungles. My 21 pygmies chased him 17 days and nights. At length ... the pygmies let fly at him with their poisoned arrows." Deposited gingerly on a waiting truck, Hoo-Hoo jolted toward Camden, N. J., and Hunter Bucks' personal, private...
...discoverer of a new dish is worthier of esteem than the discoverer of a new star. -Brillat Savarin. To the triumphs of French cuisine was added officially, last week, a discovery called L'Intrasauce. The beaming discoverer, Monsieur le Docteur Gauducheau was clapped, cheered and feted, at Paris, by 150 gourmets banqueting under the auspices of La Societe d'Acclimatisation (French National Society of Acclimatization). This august body, unique, is devoted to popularizing in France new or outlandish products, processes, animals, or plants which seem to possess authentic merit. Last week the blushing and bowing discoverer of intrasauces...
...East Williston, L. I., schoolboys played golf. From Hotchkiss School, famed institution on a hill over a lake in the northwest corner of Connecticut, came two youths, classmates, both 16, who met in the finals. Then Sidney W. Noyes Jr. beat Robert A. Moffett...
Richfield Oil Co. and Pan-American Western Petroleum, marking the practical retirement of Edward L. Doheny (Elk Hills) from the oil business...
...L. Battery Co. and Electric Auto-lite...