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Married. Geoffrey Theodore Hellman, New Yorker writer; and Daphne Bayne Bull; she for the second time (see below); in Reno...
...curator: "It's about time the animals themselves pitch in and help." Though the St. Louis and Chicago zoos have long been enthusiastic animal breeders, many other U.S. zoos have felt it was somehow indelicate to encourage procreation among their beasts. This spinsterish squeamishness, typified by a New Yorker cartoon in 1936 (see cut), is now gone. When mates are not available, animals are sent on romantic journeys. The Bronx Zoo is sending two male ostrichlike Argentine rheas to the Washington Zoo, which has two females. The offspring will be divided. To their surprise, keepers have found that many...
...Yorker wrote to Mayor LaGuardia: "Help me find the reason my husband can't get no work. We got aluminum pots, but nothing to put in them. So send a truck to pick up same...
...first novel by the brother of New Yorker Artist William Steig is the best story so far about hot jazz and the people who make it. Dorothy Baker's Young Man With a Horn showed tinny enthusiasm, a specious literary talent; Dale Curran's Piano in the 'Band had a warmer enthusiasm, less talent. But even Send Me Down leaves a long way to go. Its author has had some actual experience as a jazz musician, has knowledge and taste about the music, can do good reportage on the professional and erotic life of his colleagues. Beyond...
...Yorker corridors crawled with rumors of Federal enforcement. Next month the credit men will meet again, try to remold their resolution into a practical operating code...