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...Railway Express depot on Manhattan's loth Avenue one morning last week three lizards sprawled in their crates and hissed their sullen woe. They were waiting for a U. S. customs officer to let them be hauled up to The Bronx Zoo. They could afford to wait. They had come a long way. In space it was 11,000 mi., from the Island of Komodo between Sumbawa and Flores in the Dutch East Indies. In time it was more than 60,000,000 years...
...that afternoon at The Bronx Zoo pop-eyed New Yorkers crowded around the lizards' cage. They gaped at the mottled grey hides, tough and beaded as an Indian bag. They blinked at the great red mouths and serrated teeth, the long forked yellow tongues flicking in & out like a snake's. They shuddered at the wicked claws, long and sharp as a good-sized leopard's. Well might New Yorkers gape, blink, shudder. To most of them a lizard was a six-inch creature which eats flies and scuttles under leaves. These lizards were 9 ft. long...
Until last month there were only four live Komodo lizards in captivity, two in London, one in Amsterdam, one in Berlin. In 1926 Naturalist Douglas Burden brought two to Bronx Zoo, but they pined away in 40 days. Last week's arrivals were escorted by two young Harvardmen, Lawrence Tarleton Knutsford Griswold and William Harvest Harkness, who captured 43 lizards on Komodo in box traps baited with deer carcasses. They loosed all but eight, gave four by agreement to Java's Sourabaya Zoo. One of the remaining four died of seasickness...
...increasingly unsuccessful cards, finally alienated the best of the country's fight managers and boxers who once considered a Garden engagement a crowning achievement. The final blow fell when the Ross-Petrolle lightweight championship tight was held last winter in a rival stadium in the distant and inconvenient Bronx...
...born Dora Goldberg), a peerless songster* had four other husbands besides Jack Norworth (No. 2): Otto Gressing (No. 1), Harry Clarke (No. 3), Arthur Gordoni (No. 4), Benjamin Lester Friedland (No. 5). She died insolvent in 1928. still lies unburied in a common receiving vault in Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx...