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...world's largest known flower last week bloomed in the U. S. for the first time. Custodian of this prodigy, whose scientific name is Amorphophallus titanum and which is called krubi by the islanders of its native Sumatra, was the New York Botanical Garden in The Bronx. Only five times before had Amorphophallus titanum bloomed outside the Sumatra jungle-twice in London's Kew Gardens, once in Holland, once in Germany, once in a botanical garden in Java. During last week's excitement Assistant Curator Wendell Holmes Camp observed that The Bronx's plant was probably...
Modelled from a female Indian rhinoceros in the Bronx Zoo, New York, each of the statues stands about six feet tall and measures over thirteen feet from horn to tail. The statues are not duplicates, having been designed and cast separately. The Indian rhinoceros, selected because it is one of the nearest modern relatives of the prehistoric dinosaurs, is larger than its African relatives and possesses primitive three-toed feet. It is nearly extinct; only about 250 are now alive...
Harry Bogen, born on the East Side, and now living with his mother in The Bronx, was a smart guy and knew it better than anybody. A brief experience as a shipping clerk in the Seventh Avenue garment district gave him his big idea. With a radical acquaintance, Tootsie Maltz, as front, he engineered a shipping clerks' strike, succeeded in tying up deliveries in the garment district. At that point Bogen organized his own delivery service, soon had a near-monopoly in the garment trade. As reward for forensic services rendered he took Tootsie in as partner...
...Smiling broadly last week Dr. W. Reid Blair of New York's Bronx Zoo exclaimed...
Selected for being the nearest modern relative of the dinosaur, one of the 250 extant Indian rhinos was cornered by Miss Lane in the Bronx Zoo. She first made a six-inch job, then a two-foot, then a four-foot, and finally a life-size. She was dissuaded from going on up the scale...