Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whisper. Newspapers, after that, were full of stories of a rift between Farley and Roosevelt, who finally summoned Farley to Hyde Park. After dinner they talked...
...back the next day to see for himself what the zoo was really like. The pair who bore the brunt of the cover story were James Bell and Serrell Hillman, of our Chicago bureau-home of the cover subject, Marlin Perkins, director of the Lincoln Park...
...their bureau chief, they began their assignment with "all the enthusiasm of schoolboys excused from classes for a week." Hillman, a citified reporter who could hardly be expected to tell the difference between a chicken hawk and a humming bird, spent one afternoon "birding" with the Perkinses in Lincoln Park's vast private sanctuary. Says he: "For the first half hour we saw nothing but a couple of sparrows, a flock of pigeons and a mallard duck, which I rashly identified as a peacock. After several hours I was chilled to the bone, bitten everywhere by bugs, scratched...
What General Sherman Did. In 1940, he summoned Farley to Hyde Park again...
...Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo may get as many as 100,000 on busy Sundays and holidays, 15,000 to 20,000 on weekdays. On a good day New York City's Bronx Zoo usually gets a 60,000 to 70,000 attendance, has seen a record...