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...November day in 1935 a babbling, excited band of pygmies pranced into the Catholic Mission at Buta, in the Belgian Congo, carrying with them a baby okapi, scarcely a dozen days old. They had captured him 90 miles away in the surrounding Ituri Forest, a jungle so dense that only a pygmy can penetrate it. Delightedly the Buta brothers caught up the little animal...
...okapi was a rare find. His species lives only in the Ituri Forest and was unknown to Europe until 1900. That year Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, British explorer, identified the okapi as closely related to the giraffe, but of a lower order. It has shorter neck and legs, topped by an antelope head and large, furry ears. It reaches a height of five feet at the shoulder. Distinctive are its deep red-brown color, its white-striped legs and hind quarters. The Buta okapi was doubly valuable because he was so fine a specimen. Last week he participated...
...were among the directors of Acoustic Products Co., which later became Sonora Products Corp. of America. When Sonora went bankrupt and Irving Trust Co. became its receiver, that Manhattan bank charged that Sonora's directors had personally used an option owned by the. company to buy De Forest Radio Co. stock for 50? a share, then selling the stock at market prices and pocketing fat profits. Harris Hammond and three other directors were found liable for more than $2,000,000. "Tony" Biddle in 1935 compromised his claim and sailed off to become the New Deal's Minister...
Expensive Onslaught. Well might a costly symbol of Victory rise above Montfaucon Memorial, looking down on Argonne Forest. There took place the biggest battle in U. S. History. There was lost the Lost Battalion. There the Tennessee Conscientious Objector Alvin York captured 132 Germans. There, in 47 days of storming into the face of the Hindenburg Line about 123,000 Americans were killed or wounded. Some 900,000 others, nearly as many as the Confederacy mustered in four years, came through unscathed to live to tell the tale of the final break-through to Sedan and draw their bonuses...
...readers of educational advertisements in the flyleaves of solid U. S. periodicals, two young women gazing placidly into a mirror ball have represented for many years National Park Seminary of Forest Glen, Md. National Park's well publicized mirror ball and reputation as a stronghold of Southern culture were the creations of a remarkable Illinois educator named James E. Ament, who bought a part interest in the school in 1916 and managed it with distinction for 20 years. When Dr. Ament died last year, National Park had a glamorous list of alumnae including Cinemactress Margaret Lindsay, Soprano Marion Claire...