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Pastoral. In The Bronx, William Sher man, who identified himself as a nature lover and salesman of physical-culture books, was found guilty of the charge of shaving in a public-park drinking fountain...
Admiral's Flag. In The Bronx, Anthony Dentini suspected his wife of having a male visitor, complained that Mrs. Dentini always signaled her admirer by hanging her husband's pants on the clothesline right side up when he was at home, bottom side up when he was away...
...gayal is an animal that looks like a cow, it's happy when stirring up a row. It's mean and ugly living in a zoo, though home in Assam it's been known to moo. Yesterday up in The Bronx was born what-if-it can keep hale-will soon grow up to be a gayal."-The New York Times...
...eastern seaboard there was a Turkish-bath humidity as well. In New York City the temperature reached 96° (a hooded vulture from Africa keeled over in a dead faint at the Bronx Zoo). In Baltimore and Boston it climbed to 99, in Rochester, N.Y., to 98; it was 98 in Chicago, 101 in Kansas City, 102 in Oklahoma City; 117 in Memphis, Tex. and in Blythe, Calif.; 108 at Yuma, Ariz, and Abilene, Tex., 109 at Tucson...
Night Out. In The Bronx, a beer-drinking crow named Deacon, whose small vocabulary includes "bow-wow," flew out of the zoo, was discovered in a fight with a cat two blocks away, was returned to the zoo minus some feathers and smelling of beer from an unknown donor...