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...animals four months ago. In cages along the estate wall he placed a Bengal tiger, five elephants (including Rosie, world's largest), a pair of black leopards, a pair of lions (the female is expectant), a pair of llamas which recently had issue, deer, camels, Himalayan goats, zebras, Shetland ponies imported from Germany, eight bears of assorted colors, monkeys, chimpanzees, Japanese red-faced apes, 13 flamingos (one of the best collections in the U. S.), hundreds of birds, from Australian parakeets to American eagle. Practically all of the beasts & birds were acquired from Benson Animal Farms at Nashua...
...this year be extended, if mail contracts are forthcoming, to turbulent St. Johns, Newfoundland. Cooperating with Transamerican Airlines Corp. (operating between Cleveland and Chicago), Pan American will push surveys and preliminary research this summer in a drive to span the Atlantic by way of Greenland, Iceland, the Faeroes and Shetland Islands to England and the Continent. Last summer Pilot Parker Cramer was drowned in the Atlantic as he was completing an experimental flight over this route...
...skinny for the role; he swims faster than Miss O'Sullivan can run and his thick-featured face is what one would expect in a foster brother of wild beasts. He wrestles bravely with animals, stuffed or otherwise, and rides a hippopotamus as though it were a Shetland pony. Best of all is his first appearance?swooping through the trees in huge quick parabolas on a succession of trapezes made of ropy vines and branches...
Northeast Passage (Cont'd). Pilot Parker ("Shorty") Cramer and Radioman Oliver Pacquette had just started the motor of their Bellanca seaplane and were taxiing across the little harbor of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, when a messenger came running down the waterfront, waving a yellow paper. It was a warning of gales on the course east to Copenhagen, where the flyers were about to complete their survey of a subarctic air mail route from the U. S. (TIME, Aug. 17). Officials signaled frantically to Cramer & Pacquette but the former mistook the gestures for farewells, circled the town, flew away over...
...voyage of inspection Prime Minister Stauning also visited the Faroe Islands which are legally a part of Denmark proper and lie midway between the Shetland Islands and Iceland. These tiny isles with an area of only 540 sq. mi. have a population of 22,835-whereas big Greenland with an area 84 times as great (46,740 sq. mi.) has a population of only 14,355. "In my opinion," said Prime Minister Stauning, "there is room in the Faroe Islands for private initiative and the investment of capital to establish repair stations equipped with large petroleum and benzine tanks...