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Thirty-six years after he started out as a sidewalk sweeper for the St. Louis Zoo, R. Marlin Perkins, 57-onetime moderator of NBC-TV's popular Zoo Parade, goes back on Oct. 1 as its $22,500-a-year boss. A herpetologist who once missed a TV show because a rattler bit him on the hand during rehearsal. Perkins has directed Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo since 1944. accompanied Sir Edmund Hil lary in a fruitless Himalayan hunt for the Abominable Snowman in 1960. St. Louis should prove almost as lively. Among the charges passed...
Poacher & Herpetologist. Snake-fashion, CJ.P. (for Constantine John Philip) Ionides sheds skins of identity almost from birth. He first shed the name Constantine, which he detested, and became Bobby, because he was always "bobbitting about." In 1917 he was thrown out of Rugby on circumstantial evidence of thievery. Though innocent, Ionides was scarcely helped by the fact that he was a known poacher of pheasants and that his desk drawer contained two loaded revolvers. Though his family was proper Edwardian and had been in England for generations, he was also tagged as "the Greek" and as "Ironhides" for his stoic...
...army was free transportation to Africa to begin his career as a naturalist. The regiment went to India instead. When his application for transfer to Africa finally came through in 1926, Ionides became successively an ivory poacher, a big game hunter, a game warden, and a devout herpetologist. Piecing all these lives of a non-pukka sahib together, Biographer Alan Wykes, a London magazine editor, has drawn a fascinating profile of a man with all the imperious instincts of an aristocrat and not an inhibiting trace of the code of a gentleman. Snake Man neatly blends action and memory, talk...
...when the Brazilian government withdrew its lighthouse keepers after snakes had killed three of them and the wife of a fourth. They seem to live an ideal life, with plenty of sea birds to prey upon and no enemies. But all is not well in their paradise. Last week Herpetologist Alphonse Richard Hoge of São Paulo's Butantan Institute of serum therapy reported that the snakes were producing more and more offspring that were neither male nor female, but hermaphrodites...
...Herpetologist William H. Woodin III of Tucson, Ariz, is devoted to one of the oddest of odd scientific occupations. Last week he was scurrying round the desert taking the temperatures of Gila monsters...