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Meantime, the steel ark's Noah, Dr. William M. Mann, proceeded from Boston to the National Zoological Park at Washington, which he superintends, with some 1,700 other African creatures loaded on eight trucks, and ushered all safely into permanent captivity. It was the end of the largest live-animal-collecting expedition of modern times, which all started when Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler (automobiles) heard that Washington urchins lamented the lack of giraffes, zebras and "rhinoc'ruses" in the nation's zoo (TiME, March...
...rhinoc'rus" was among the horde of beasts, birds and reptiles captured by Dr. Mann, but there were: a shoebill stork* and some 400 other birds including hawks, crested tawny eagles, white-headed vultures, paradise finches, rare parrots; an elephant shrew; the largest leopard in captivity; civet cats, water mongooses, baboons, purple-faced monkeys, hyenas. Among the antelopes quarantined at Boston were five impalla, most graceful of their family; a baby eland, blind in one eye from the blazing grass in which he was captured; several dik-diks, no bigger than jackrabbits...
...French, J. M. Tackle '29 21 190 5.11 Gable, C. J. Back '29 19 170 6.1 owe, C. B Center '29 20 186 5.9 Jones, C. S. Back '29 20 161 6. Keith, F. E. Guard '28 23 187 5.11 Lewis, J. W. Guard '29 20 195 6.1 Mann, T. B. Guard '28 20 186 5.11 Meislahn, S. E. Tackle '29 21 194 6.4 Miles, O. E. Back '29 19 186 6.1 Moeser, C. R. End '28 21 180 5.11 Morrison, M. N. End '29 19 162 5.10 Norman, J. C. Back '29 20 164 5.10 Odell, B. B. Tackle...
...Daughter returns to the parental fold, puts aside a flashy lover for the night-school teacher, the young people stay in on occasional evenings, and Papa admits a few modifying Americanisms into the rigidly Talmudic routine of the household. As diversified Jewish types, Actors Sam Mann, Clara Langsner, Muni Wisenfrend, and Luther Adler write whole life histories into feeble, broken lines, and it is in their creative work that the play's chief virtue lies...
...Manhattan, the clang of fire engines split the night air. Fire-companies raced madly through deserted streets, turned corners recklessly, arrived; found one Mrs. Bessie Mann, 35, waiting, patient. Said she, ingenuous, to Magistrate Gordon, "I was on my way home alone. It was dark and I was afraid. So I thought I would ring for a policeman...