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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: By the Lake | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

"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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: By the Lake | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

In the third House dining hall, Lowell conservatism made heat wave diners wear coats to meals, but not neckties. A House order, signed by House master Elliot Perkins '23, described coats as that "type of garment normally so defined in adult society."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Strips To Beat Heat; Cooler Today | 7/1/1947 | See Source »

Died. Maxwell Evarts Perkins, 62, editor of Publishers Charles Scribner's Sons, discoverer and literary nurse of such notables as Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Erskine Caldwell, Ring Lardner, John P. Marquand; of pneumonia; in Stamford, Conn. In You Can't Go Home Again, the late Thomas Wolfe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

The jockeys who have built their self-styled "spindustry" out of thin air mildly resent the big-names brigade, but have few financial beefs. Los Angeles' Al Jarvis (KLAC), the favorite in Southern California, takes in $190,000; Arthur Godfrey (Manhattan's WCBS and Washington's WTOP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Jockeys | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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