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Potter was on hand for the famous Scopes evolution trial at Dayton, Tenn. in 1925. As part of the team of big names and intellectuals who defended Schoolteacher Scopes and the theory of evolution, Dr. Potter and his wife lived at the "Monkey House," as defense headquarters was called. One of his jobs: advising Lawyer Clarence Darrow how to badger Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan with Biblical quiddities, such as how the Garden of Eden's serpent got around before God condemned him to wriggling on his belly...
...stake outside his cage. Next day, as the Campa circus trundled along the rain-slicked road toward Mount Ida, two trucks overturned. Nine beasts scampered into Ouachita National Forest. A pursuing posse brought down one of two escaped leopards and recaptured a tame black bear and a rhesus monkey. The other leopard prowled all night before being tracked down by a small but heroic cur named Tony, whose owner, Roiston Fair, shot the leopard, but not before it had killed Tony. Still in the forest: a polar bear, a black bear, three monkeys...
...Strauss, who is credited with making mechanical toys popular in the U.S. Within a year, Marx was head of a Strauss factory. He left to become a toy seller, and soon had enough money to buy Strauss's factories and his most successful mechanical toys-"Zippo the Climbing Monkey" and the "Alabama Coon Jigger," a tap-dancing minstrel. Most competitors thought these two items were finished. Marx proved them wrong: he sold 16 million. Now he has 14 factories spread from Erie. N.Y. to South Africa. Marx has the knack of picking "hot" new toys, and mass-producing...
...Chicago's Lincoln Park zoo, a group of old friends, including Zoo Director Marlin Perkins, gathered in the monkey house to view the taxidermists' re-creation of the late great gorilla, Bushman. After a cafeteria luncheon with chocolate-ice cream gorillas for dessert, the crowd watched old movies of Bushman and listened to speeches. Then a keeper walked in with the hero's heir-apparent: four-year-old Sinbad, rigged out in a red & white striped jersey and brown corduroy trousers. Sinbad was finally coaxed to pull the cord parting the curtains which covered the mounted Bushman...
Died. Dr. Serge Voronoff, 85, Russian-born surgeon and scientist, who became famous in the '20s as "the monkey-gland man," because of his operations for rejuvenation by the transplanting of testicles and thyroid glands; after a brief illness; at Lausanne, Switzerland...