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...Sumatra to find a foster brother or sister among the orangutans. But they lacked the money. No U. S. zoo would loan them an infant ape. The Kelloggs felt frustrated until Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes, Yale's ape expert, offered to loan them Gua, 7½-month-old, tan-faced, brown-eyed, black-haired female chimpanzee, born to healthy inmates of the late Senora Rosalie Abreu's ape colony at Havana. The Kelloggs took a bungalow close to the Yale Anthropoid Experiment Station at Orange Park, Fla. and thereafter Gua and Donald, who was 10 months old, lived...
...Germany and the Nazis, went on a counter fast. She thought he would end his fast because "he cannot let me die." On the third day another disciple told her she was making Gandhi worry, persuaded her to take a glass of milk and two oranges. A Buddhist monk. Tan Yu-shan, began a sympathy "fast unto death...
...muscles of snow-white Greyhound Boveway Beau Brummel, best hound, looked like delicately chiseled marble. His kinky jet hair and the crimson ribbon on his topknot made French Poodle Whippendell Poli of Carillon, best non-sporting dog, look like a Harlem belle. The sixth dog was a magnificent black & tan Airedale, Warland Protector of Shelterock, best terrier, just arrived in the U. S. after a long string of victories in England. A good Airedale pup can be bought for $35. Ringside gossip said that Warland Protector had cost his owner, S. M. Stewart of Montclair...
...Green tried dutifully to be a stock broker's clerk. Then he took a $60-a-week job with Paramount Publix, which led to ghosting at the piano, orchestrating Maurice Chevalier's Big Pond, synchronizing shorts. Five years have obliterated his Harvard stamp. He chews gum, wears tan spats, pin-checked suits, hires a trainer to pummel him every morning so that he will appear dapper when he gets chances to conduct in cinemansions. Johnny Green's bathroom is his pride. It is papered with the covers of the 15 songs he has had published. Some...
...fancy soap in the baths that were a novelty even in the White House. She was just three when we were leaving. My father saw her all dressed to go and asked why she was going away, and she laughed and told him: 'McTinley's toming, tan't have two Presidents.' . . . I went back to the White House again for the first time three years ago. . . . Downstairs nothing seemed familiar, but when we took the elevator and got off on the second floor I thought almost out loud: 'Oh, this takes me back...