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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safely back in Hollywood after flooring a glamor girl who wanted his panda doll in a Manhattan nightclub (TIME, Oct. 10), Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart reminisced a bit. The judge who dismissed the girl's suit, he thought, was "a nice guy-the Frank Morgan type." But Bogart decided that the real hero of the incident was Bogart, who had "wised some people up about the notion that they can push celebrities around." He added: "I'd say it compared to the Dreyfus case. You might report that I struck a blow for freedom, not to mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Toil & Trouble | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Miss Roberts, a model, then told her simple story. She, too, had been at El Morocco in the small hours, and as she was leaving in a dignified way with a big manufacturing person from Philadelphia, she came within range of Bogart's panda. At this exact moment a funny person asked her if she wanted the beast. She emitted a tinkling laugh and reached for it. Then this awful person, Bogart, charged out of nowhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Night Life of the Gods | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...sleek black torn roaming the Herne Hill Nursing School under the name Panda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bravest | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Died. Ruth Harkness, 46, first person to capture a live giant panda; of acute alcoholism; in a Pittsburgh hotel bathtub. When in 1935 oil-heir husband William Hale Harkness Jr. died of cancer in Shanghai, spunky Manhattan Dress Designer Ruth promptly sailed off to continue his interrupted giant panda hunt, found a one-pound baby panda nestled in a Tibetan tree trunk, brought it back to Chicago's Brookfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...shipment, to the London Zoo last year, brought protests in the House of Lords. Borne out of the hills in a sedan chair, the panda was flown from Calcutta and thence to London-while 11,000 Britons waited for air transport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hao Hao! | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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