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In Chicago's Lincoln Park zoo, a group of old friends, including Zoo Director Marlin Perkins, gathered in the monkey house to view the taxidermists' re-creation of the late great gorilla, Bushman. After a cafeteria luncheon with chocolate-ice cream gorillas for dessert, the crowd watched old movies of Bushman and listened to speeches. Then a keeper walked in with the hero's heir-apparent: four-year-old Sinbad, rigged out in a red & white striped jersey and brown corduroy trousers. Sinbad was finally coaxed to pull the cord parting the curtains which covered the mounted Bushman. While flashbulbs popped, little Sinbad took one look at the glowering giant, grabbed his trainer's legs and tried his frantic best to tuck his head between them.
In Manhattan, for his 92nd birthday, Philosopher John Dewey took a philosophic attitude toward Government morals. Said he: "Graft has always been pretty closely connected with political activities. But agencies of publicity are probably more powerful now in checking corruption in Government than in previous periods . . . Exposure is more prompt and more specific than in the past."
Arnold J. Toynbee, with a historian's perspective, wrote in the New York Times Magazine: "Can we guess what the outstanding feature of our twentieth century will appear to be in the perspective of 300 years? . . . My own guess is that our age will be remembered chiefly neither for its horrifying crimes nor for its astonishing inventions, but for its having been the first age since the dawn of civilization, some five or six thousand years back, in which people dared to think it practicable to make . . . the ideal of welfare for all a practical objective instead of a mere Utopian dream."