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...would be some city park that had beaver, chipmunks, and deer on the loose (like Brookfield, near Chicago, maybe). But, as it happens, Toronto's Algonquin Park (TIME, April 16) is about 180-odd miles from Toronto and has, in addition to the above-mentioned fauna, bear, mink, moose, and wolves (researchers beware). It is, in fact, Algonquin Provincial Park, with a post office and all, some 1,500 lakes, covering, I would guess, about 3,000 sq. mi. of "picnic grounds," mostly second-growth coniferous stand, with some virgin timber in the north...
Lullaby. In Chicago, Pfc. Floyd Robertson, back home from the South Pacific, could not get to sleep until he curled up on a bench in the Brookfield Zoo, surrounded by shrieking parrots...
...Story. In Chicago, the Brookfield Zoo got a new baby yak on the same day their escaped stork came flying home...
...spite of the heat (96°) and the transit strike (see U.S. AT WAR), Philadelphians-29,166 of them-jammed into Shibe Park for a jamboree. The hot time was in honor of one Cornelius McGillicuddy, 81, from East Brookfield, Mass. Connie Mack had finished a half-century of big-league baseball management (Pittsburgh, three years; Milwaukee, four years; the Philadelphia Athletics, 43 years).* A jazz band let go, Abbott & Costello clowned. Master of Ceremonies Ted Husing stepped to the microphone near home plate to read a telegram from Franklin Delano Roosevelt: ". . . my sincere and best wishes on your Golden...
...Little General. Fifty-one-year-old General Pratt was about as unlike the strapping paratrooper type as a man could be. He was a dignified, diminutive (5 ft. 5; 135 Ibs.) neat, efficient soldier who looked like a perfect desk officer. Born in Brookfield, Mo., Pratt attended the University of Wisconsin, was commissioned in World War I, stayed in the Army after the peace...