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...great to leave one's conscience unburdened, particularly when one owes his very existence to some of these stuffed species. Perhaps the zoologists have tried to laugh away any feelings of guilt, with the Proboscis Mankey as the butt of their joke. Like Rostand writing of Cyrano, the placard describes Proboscis as of "large size, bright colors, and grotesque nose . . . curiously elongated and flexible . . . The special use to which he puts it is doubtful...
...plane arrived, they booed him lustily-partly for banning a Saint Patrick's Day parade in Londonderry, partly for representing the hated partition of Ireland, and partly for supporting the British Crown. "There'll Always Be An England While She Can Deal from the Bottom," read one placard...
...Orange Placard. To Joseph P. McNulty, U.S. official in charge of former Reich property, came the heads of West Berlin city government agencies, in search of office space. Would he requisition the Reichsbahn-Direktion building? Wholly within his and the U.S.'s legal rights, McNulty agreed on one condition: the Soviet switchboard was to continue functioning. Then he signed his orange-colored Notice of Requisition, gave it to the city officials to post on the building. U.S. Commandant Major General Maxwell D. Taylor was not notified, nor was Taylor's superior in Frankfurt, U.S. High Commissioner John...
Early in the evening 50 West Berlin police drove up to the Direktion, charged in, took the Soviet guards by surprise, ousted some railway workers (see cut), and posted McNulty's orange placard by the gate. The Soviet-German press blared headlines about "illegal confiscation...
Berlin's Mayor Ernst Reuter, a brass band and swarms of functionaries were on hand to note the occasion. Said Reuter warmly: "It wove a bond of cooperation and of sentiment that marked the beginning of a different era." A more characteristically American epitaph was a placard bearing the lettered notice...