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...Susie, the 360-lb. giant panda which had been the idol of zoo-going New York moppets, died of causes unknown at the Bronx Zoo, Susie's home for ten of her eleven years, leaving only two of her species (at Chicago and St. Louis) in captivity. Susie will be hard to replace; giant pandas live in western Szechwan in Red China...
...Nightclubs, I hate 'em," grumped Humphrey ("Bogey") Bogart, who hasn't been kicked out of one since last September, when his stuffed giant panda got into a tug-o'-war with a brunette in Manhattan's El Morocco (TIME, Oct. 10). "The trouble with them is that you see the same old tired faces, the same drunks and the same dames...
...last ambassadorial duty to perform. On orders from Formosa, he gave ?20 toward medical expenses for ailing Lien-ho, the giant panda presented to the London Zoo in 1946 by Nationalist China as a token of friendship...
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...
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...