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...Susie, the 360-lb. giant panda which had been the idol of zoo-going New York moppets, died of causes unknown at the Bronx Zoo, Susie's home for ten of her eleven years, leaving only two of her species (at Chicago and St. Louis) in captivity. Susie will be hard to replace; giant pandas live in western Szechwan in Red China...
...score any South African player ever made in a test match. But later, at Old Trafford, the Manchester cricket ground, Rowan made a different kind of sensation. When the crowd decided, he was "stonewalling" (i.e., batting a wholly defensive game), it gave him cricket's equivalent of a Bronx cheer-slow, rhythmic handclaps. Infuriated, Rowan sat down on the "pitch" (the ground between the two wickets), and signaled his batting partner to do the same until the "barracking" died down...
...party can virtually ensure that its leaders keep their seats by assigning them to "safe" (i.e., traditionally loyal) constituencies. Under such a system, for example, Dean Acheson would have to run for office; and the Democratic National Committee would likely run him in Boss Flynn's safest Bronx district, or in the surest Democratic part of the Deep South. Robert Taft would be given a safe Republican seat in Maine or Vermont...
Gentry's founders are 46-year-old Publisher William C. Segal and 48-year-old Executive Editor Sam Cook Singer, who first met each other in high school in The Bronx, and have worked together for eight years putting out men's clothing trade publications (American Fabrics, Men's Reporter, Canadian Reporter, Gold Book Directory"). They claim a solid year's booking of advertising for Gentry, and 14,000 charter subscriptions. Flair may well have failed because it aimed at no particular reader. Singer thinks he has drawn a bead on Gentry's: a sort...
After graduating from the seminary, Finkelstein took a small congregation in The Bronx, where he stayed for twelve years. When he was midway in this work, the seminary's next president, Cyrus Adler, persuaded him to join the faculty "for a year or two." He stayed for 15 years, and when Adler died, 44-year-old Louis Finkelstein succeeded...