Interview 24641 – Caption Index: 117
You talking about black rhino, why was it important that you sponsor the black rhinoceros research by Garvin McCain and George Stepner?… Read More
You talking about black rhino, why was it important that you sponsor the black rhinoceros research by Garvin McCain and George Stepner?… Read More
Why did you feel that was important?… Read More
Or is the animal $5,000, and half of it’s 2,500?” “Well, Mr. Stewart, I have to be honest with you, it’s 2,500. But if you could spare the rest, we could take care of the freight and all that sort of thing.” “Well, okay, I’ll give you $5,000 for half… Read More
But they’re ways of conning people for a good cause. And I found it to be very easy and I raised a lot of money. Read More
Which half of that rhinoceros is mine, the front half or the back half?” I said, “Well, which would you prefer?” “Hell, I want the front half! I don’t want to have to clean up after a rhinoceros. Thank you, right, that’s good. You go ahead and go, you go… Read More
He says, “Well, if the animal, is the animal, $10,000 and half of it is five?… Read More
A wonderful lady. And my wife and she, and we all got, became very good friends. And, “May I speak with Mr. Stewart?” “Yes, yes.” So Jimmy, “Yes?” “Well, Mr. Stewart, my name is Lawrence.” “Yes. And what do you, what’s Kirk up to these days?” “Well, he’s helping us… Read More
So Mr. Johnson gives me a list of 10 names to call to go visit to get the money, raise the $5,000. He writes out a check. Now, he was a conman. You might say I was influenced. You might say I was, you know, unduly influenced by this sort… Read More
That’s a lot of money in those days. But that’s the way it was. And I wanted to get a female, and I had a chance to get one, another five grand. I’ve forgotten who had it, Bill Chase, or somebody. I wanted to get that rhino. I mean, I… Read More
He said, “Here, I’m gonna give you this check now, but it’s gonna be not good, ’cause I’m gonna call the bank, and tell them not to run it through. Now you take this check though to these 10 people, and you’ll get, you’ll raise the other $4,000. And if… Read More
To what do you owe this description?… Read More
I didn’t start it, Hittson did in Fort Worth. And so we had a citizens group formed like a society. And the head of that was an oil man named Kirk Johnson. Kirk was, he loved animals, but he also was really a big hunter in Africa. Guess who his… Read More
Well, I was called a conman, inveterate conman, I think, by George Dolan. Dolan and I were close, personal friends. He was a wonderful reporter. He really was a good writer. The one thing about Fort Worth that I don’t think I communicated, in Dallas, if you got money, I… Read More
Fletcher Reynolds was at the Cleveland Zoo. I think he had been an animal dealer, and he was a character. And we got along fine. He treated me like an adult. But there were cases where, “Who is this snotty-nosed kid, that thinks he knows something about?” But I put… Read More
Belle Benchley, she was a great lady. She was a great lady. Read More
When you were in Fort Worth, the Star Telegram columnist, George Dolan, described you as, “An inveterate practical joker, and in zoo matters, an unsurpassed conman.” Why would he say such a thing?… Read More
Mm-hm. No. We were doing our aquarium design at Fort Worth at that time. And we went up there to look at aquariums, and we saw that baby gorilla. It was maybe a week old. Fantastic. Now Davis was, I don’t remember what his training was, but he was a… Read More
And was that the first gorilla born in captivity?… Read More
And so you had to, I became familiar with things like that. Davis from Columbus, he was big, and he was kind to me. Read More
Coates stayed with it. And what happened was, he was it. He didn’t have an aquarium, the war was on, came on. And they didn’t have an aquarium in New York for 10 years or more. And finally, Coates got one going, and then he had at Coney Island. So… Read More