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...Diego's Balboa Park Zoo, there was a quiet shift in emphasis: two horses marked for slaughter now pull a plow in the victory garden. Top billing at San Diego still goes to Ngagi, the slow, silent, 639-lb. gorilla. Ngagi's cage mate, Mbongo (645 lb.), died last year; he now has a lady friend, a mere shrimp named Kenya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WARTIME LIVING: Zoos for Morale | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...Chicago Daily News's George Weller for a story about an appendectomy performed by a pharmacist's mate in a submerged submarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: For Distinction | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

Back up your case books in your old civvy bag and get set to move . . . next door to McCulloch, Mellon, or Glass Hall. We'll be amoverin' before the end of this month to make room for the next class of middies. You can probably keep your old room-mate, however, if you still want the guy, but be prepared to be a little more cozy (spelled crowded) than before...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: NSCS Midshipmen | 5/7/1943 | See Source »

...race to be Franklin Roosevelt's running mate was wide open. Jokesters even suggested Stripteuse Gypsy Rose Lee. Said Miss Lee: "I'd like to run, but I haven't kissed a baby in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Throttlebottom . . . | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

Again on display in the basement are going-on-13-year-old Gargantua and his eleven-year-old spouse M'Toto. They are still childless-because they are too young to mate, says the publicity. But the National Geographic Magazine long ago described M'Toto as a male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: For Kids of All Ages | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

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