Word: parked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest crowds of all will go to Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, a 79-year-old institution rich in legends of escaped animals (two of its sea lions once flopped into a North Clark Street saloon), and one of the chief ornaments of Chicago's tiara-like lake front. The Lincoln Park Zoo is not the nation's biggest, or even its best. But it has one great advantage: it is small, compact, set off by lagoons and gently rolling lawns, and is easily accessible by foot, bus, trolley and El. Largely because of its location...
...head of this crowd-catching public institution (financed by the Chicago Park Board), is one of the fastest rising zoo directors in the country: lean, grey-haired R. Marlin Perkins, who has devoted most of his 42 years to studying, mothering, training, understanding, exploiting and explaining specimens of the animal kingdom from blacksnakes to baboons...
...Intelligence Park." Perkins' job, like those of all his zoo-keeping colleagues, is solidly founded on the eternal attraction that the animal kingdom has for man. The zoo, as such, is an ancient institution. Like the Fourth of July firecracker, it was invented by the Chinese. They built their first zoo around 1100 B.C. and named it "Intelligence Park...
...20th Century, a zoo is many things. For some, it is still an intelligence park. The zoophilist can learn about the world from the animals he sees. For others it is a menagerie and a circus. It is a place for lovers, walking hand in hand; a place for old men to sit in the shade; a place for children and their insatiable search for knowledge...
Bushman. Marlin Perkins' collection at Lincoln Park is good, if not dazzling. Among its 2,800 specimens are several star performers. One of them is Heinie, a male chimp who does a terrifying stomp to get an audience's notice and then spits ponderously at the nearest face. Other headliners are Dillinger, an 18-year-old lion whose savagery has never been tempered, and Judy, a 39-year-old elephant, who loves cough drops...