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Every week an old U.S. Navy crash boat, renamed the Marlin, shoves off from Fort-de-France, Martinique. Aboard are 4O-odd brightly turbaned native women, carrying demijohns and wicker baskets and headed for the British island of St. Lucia, a five-hour ride across the choppy blue Caribbean...
...from bears' paws, found that he had to go back the next day to see for himself what the zoo was really like. The pair who bore the brunt of the cover story were James Bell and Serrell Hillman, of our Chicago bureau-home of the cover subject, Marlin Perkins, director of the Lincoln Park...
...head of 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...
...Bushman. Marlin Perkins' collection at Lincoln Park is good, if not dazzling. Among its 2,800 specimens are several star performers. One of them is Heinie, a male chimp who does a terrifying stomp to get an audience's notice and then spits ponderously at the nearest face. Other headliners are Dillinger, an 18-year-old lion whose savagery has never been tempered, and Judy, a 39-year-old elephant, who loves cough drops...
This experience had no effect on Marlin Perkins' relations with snakes. He thought it quite natural to take four days out from his honeymoon to go snake-hunting in Arizona. He still thinks that rattlesnake and iguana meat are gourmets' delights...