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When the authorities at Oklahoma City's 20-acre Lincoln Park Zoo got the newest addition to their menagerie installed in public view two weeks ago, they experienced a pardonable glow of' civic pride. The newcomer was a full-grown leopard, brought straight from the jungles of India and probably one of the toughest tomcats ever to wind up in stir...
...leopard, however, did not enter into the Oklahoma City community spirit. After twitching his ropelike tail, baring his large yellow teeth and emitting rasping bursts of feline obscenities, he began trying to jump out of the pit in which he had been installed to serve his time. The sheer walls were 18 feet high, and this did him no good at all. But he kept jumping. One day last week he tried a bank shot-he hit one wall at an angle, ricocheted upward toward the next, and got over...
...jumped to a wooden fence, strolled delicately along it for a few yards, and then hit for the bushes like Dillinger evading the FBI. By the time Zoo Director Julian Frazier had organized a posse of zookeepers and cops, the leopard had vanished, though not without leaving some large tracks along a stream in the park...
...same high-tailed rear fenders, and a new point for argument by amateur designers: a vertical chrome strip that broke the flowing lines of the body just ahead of the rear fenders. As an added eye-catcher, Cadillac was showing a $32,000 yellow convertible with upholstery of leopard skin and grey nylon satin and leopard skin floor rugs. Oldsmobile had a hard-top convertible with seats trimmed in green alligator hide, while Buick displayed a salmon-colored "Riviera" with a shocking pink interior trimmed in simulated broadtail...
...thrice been refused admission to the Tokyo Salon, Foujita rightly reasoned that his black bangs, Harold Lloyd glasses and whisker-fine brush drawings would please Parisians more than they did his fellow Japanese. He came to know Montmartre better than he had Fujiyama, strolled its steep streets in a leopard-skin hat, followed by a brace of tabbies on a leash...