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...European lynx and the Australian dingo are usually among the least tractable animals when captured and put behind bars. Equally ready to use fang and claw are baboons, and the rhesus monkeys on which so much medical research depends. But in the San Diego Zoo, a lynx that had bloodied its nose in a savage dash against the side of its cage was treated with a new tranquilizing drug mixed in its food, and was soon gamboling like an alley kitten. An attendant put his fingers through the wire of a tranquilized dingo's cage...
Thomson says he will not dictate editorial policy to the Kemsley chain's local editors. But on the business side, Thomson watches his papers with lynx-eyed attention ("I know every cent they spend"), pays salesmen considerably more than reporters, is a master at coaxing revenue and circulation figures upward. With Roy Thomson running the Kemsley chain, Fleet Street is in for some lively times...
...almost foundered in the postwar prosperity is the U.S. fur business. In 1946 furriers had nearly $500 million in retail sales. But success attracted thousands of fly-by-nighters who tricked out rabbit, skunk and black Manchurian dog under such misleading names as Arctic seal, Alaska sable and Belgium lynx. As burned buyers learned to fear the fur, the trend to suburban living-with its more casual dress-trimmed the market more. Women also became choosier. Many passed up muskrat, squirrel, and other less expensive furs for good cloth coats-or waited until they could afford mink...
Divorced. By Yma Sumac, 35, deep-bosomed, lynx-eyed Peruvian singer with a four-octave voice: Moises Vivanco, 38, who, in spite of his infidelities and an eye-blacking free-for-all with her last month, will continue as her manager and arranger; after 14 years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Marriage Revealed. Jed Harris (real name: Jacob Horowitz), 57, box-jawed, brilliant, longtime Broadway director-producer (The Front Page, Our Town, The Crucible); and Beatrice ("Bebe") Allen. 29, lynx-eyed ballet dancer; he for the third time, she for the second; on April 1, in Las Vegas...