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...explained that he was trying to forget his bitter disappointment at not being allowed to go panda hunting. He was ordered to report to the U. S. District Attorney every three days. Next news of William Harkness reached the U. S. nearly a year later. He had died, aged 33, in a Shanghai hospital, of cancer of the throat...
Having brought back alive three Komodo dragons from the Dutch East Indies (TIME, May 21, 1934), two young Harvardmen and amateur naturalists. William Harvest Harkness Jr. of Manhattan and Lawrence T. K. Griswold of Quincy, Mass., set out in the autumn of 1934 after still rarer game-the giant panda of western China. No white man had ever seen this curious creature until a French missionary chanced on one in the late 19th Century. First white men to shoot one were Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt, in 1929. No giant panda had ever been brought out alive...
When Sportsmen Harkness & Griswold reached China early last year, the Government refused them permission to enter the giant panda's wild, bandit-infested habitat. Alone, Harkness boarded a Shanghai train at Nanking, vanished. Fortnight later, a U. S. Marshal found him in a Shanghai hotel, registered under an assumed name...
From Chengtu last fortnight Hashed a message tantalizing to every zoologist in the world. It said that Mrs. Harkness had just arrived from the Tibetan border with a live panda. If it was only a panda, her catch was of no consequence. The panda -a small, bushy-tailed, raccoon-like creature-had often been captured before...
...York, for which he has campaigned, nor of the Philippines, which he would like to get, but of Porto Rico. President Hoover, said reports, had asked Porto Ricans how they would like Col. Roosevelt. . . . Last fortnight a cable from Hong Kong to Manhattan said: GREAT LUCK SHOT GIANT PANDA JOINTLY STOP THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A panda, also called wah, is a large dimwitted Asiatic raccoon. The "jointly" in the Roosevelt cablegram referred to the fact that the sender is accompanied by his able brother, Kermit Roosevelt...