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...sleek black torn roaming the Herne Hill Nursing School under the name Panda...
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...
...Chang's Szechwan thrives the gravely gamboling panda. When they began to charm children and zoo addicts in general, Chang arranged to ship out two of the rare creatures a year-in exchange for forign scholarships for Szechwan youths.* Recently he admitted his love for American-style ice cream (made on his home freezer). Chang's attractive wife talked of rationing his helpings...
...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...
...relative of the giraffe, worth $10,000 to $15,000, the reddish, striped, forest antelope, known as the bongo, sometimes priced as high as $20,000. There is only one of each now in this country both in New York's Bronx Zoo. The Indian rhinoceros* and giant panda were in the same diamond and sable class. Less valuable were Siberian tigers (about $8,000) gorillas ($3,000-$5,000), hippos ($3.000-$4,000) and pygmy elephants. Occasionally, baby elephants have been jobbed off as rare, high-priced pygmies. Cheapest animal of all is the king of beasts. Reason...