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Last week died N'Gi, famed gorilla of the Washington zoo. Ill two weeks with a chest cold, he was kept alive in an oxygen tent until one lung gave out and he succumbed to "general collapse, weakness and total loss of appetite." N'Gi was five years old, had no known living relatives. He lived longer than any other gorilla had ever lived in captivity in the U. S. His body was taken to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; his brain will be kept in the Smithsonian Institution, beneficiary of a $3,000 insurance policy...
...large that they are not oxidized by the time they penetrate the earth's layer of atmosphere. The meteorite discovered by Admiral Peary on his North Pole Expedition in 1909 is of the metallic type, composed of 95 per cent iron and a small amount of nickel. The Tent. as it is called because of its peculiar shape, weighs over 36 tons. A celestial visitor almost twice as large has been dug out of a hole in South Africa. Although expeditions have been trying to discover some fragments of the object that caused the huge pit known as Meteor Crater...
...careful settings, imaginatively done, and the capable photography and camera-angles. There is a consistent tone to the piece, a tone that was lacking in "Frankenstein," with its weakening comedy interludes. The extravagance and absurdity of the plot is somehow reconciled by the opening scene sin the mountebank's tent, which set the key for shivery theatricality. Mirakle, showman that he is, can heap leer on leer and only add to our pleasure...
...newsman heard of the impending death. Robert Worth Bingham, pub lisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, had flown to Tucson from Atlanta a few days before because his long ailing stepdaughter, Alice Hilliard, 25, had an attack of pneumonia there. She was using one of the tents which young Levings needed. When she heard the news she insisted her tent be sent over to St. Mary's. A quick con ference followed between her mother, brother (who had flown with Mr. Bing ham), stepfather, and doctors. The girl could do without the apparatus. But there might...
Decision was reached. Miss Hilliard's tent went to Master Levings, who was very low. Long distance to Manhattan roused the Oxygen Therapy Service, ordered them to truck one of Dr. Alvan Leroy Barach's collapsible oxygen chambers to Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, North Beach, L. I. A Curtiss-Wright Travel Air was waiting, with Stewart Reiss as pilot...