Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Surbaya zoo has long had with the San Diego, Calif, zoo friendly give-&-take relations similar to those which the Antwerp zoo has with the New York Zoological Park (TIME, Aug. 16). They trade rare specimens. The anoas certainly were rare; only four have ever been in the U. S. So the Surbaya zoo promptly put their anoas, accompanied by an old keeper named Topas Tenney, on board the Dutch liner Manoeran and packed them off to the U. S. The anoas traveled well. Every day they had their regular diet of hay and grain, same as any other...
...bank clerk: a special mile race in 4:06.6, breaking the world's record of 4:06.8 set by Kansas' Glenn Cunningham at Princeton in 1934; to become the first Englishman in 55 years to set a new world's record at that distance; at Hotspur Park, London...
...there was a prize fight between Jack Sharkey and Mickey Walker in a baseball park in Brooklyn. The promoters sold exclusive motion picture rights to Rudolph Mayer Pictures. Inc. Pathe News, Inc. installed a camera on a nearby building and made movies of the fight. New York's courts refused to allow Pathe. to distribute or exhibit their films, upheld the exclusive contract of Mayer Pictures...
...court asking $100,000 damages and an injunction. Judge Ferdinand Pecora, onetime inquisitor for the U. S. Senate, heard the case, granted an injunction prohibiting Transradio from carrying through its proposed plan of using the Buick broadcast for "tips" and getting its facts by spyglassing over the ball-park fence...
...explosive cigars, shaves during business conferences, becomes irrepressibly boisterous. And shrewd Mr. Fleishhacker now finds his name firmly imbedded in local projects. A supporter and campaign contributor of the late James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. who became Governor of California, he was made head of San Francisco's Park Commission, had named after him Fleishhacker Zoo, Fleishhacker Park, Fleishhacker Swimming Pool...