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...lions, broken by short, harsh, discordant barks, which sound like a few bars from Ravel's Valse. More sophisticated listeners preferred the grotesque beauty of the West African red river hog's grunt, the resonant, whuffing snort of the white-tailed gnu, the whistling whinny of the panda...
...this year's show, Once Over Lightly, Princeton's Triangle Club wanted two pandas, unsuccessfully petitioned the New York and Chicago zoos for the only two in captivity. Replied Dr. William Reid Blair of the New York Zoological Park: "Your suggestion . . . raised my blood pressure to an alarming degree. You may have the loan of my wife's crown jewels, but the panda is out of the question...
Arrival by air of Manhattan's first baby giant panda last week was occasion for a greeting such as transatlantic fliers once got. But three days earlier, Chicago's Daily News published an article which suggested that giant pandas are not so rare and valuable as the U. S. considers them. Archibald T. Steel, crack China War correspondent, reported taking a day off from the battle front to explore panda territory. Excerpts: "Pandas are not rare. . . . Giant panda prices, f.o.b. Chengtu, range between 25 and 180 American dollars per head, although the latter is regarded locally as fabulously...
...post-mortems on Su Lin had not been finished when Floyd Tangier ("Ajax") Smith arrived in Chengtu, China with four giant pandas, three of them male cubs, which he had found in Western Szechuan Province. An American banker in China who turned big-game hunter more than 15 years ago, gaunt, bespectacled Floyd Smith has spent most of his 55 years abroad, notably in the Orient. Chicago's Field Museum has sponsored many of his expeditions, though lately he has worked for the London Zoo and the British Museum. Two years ago he formed a panda-hunting partnership with...
...death came day after Manhattan Pub Ushers Carrick & Evans brought out Su Lin's biography, The Baby Giant Panda, by Ruth Harkness...