Rhino on Rampage

THE Dartmouth College Museum recently added forty-five stuffed mammals to its prized collections but not until Gracie, a rare white rhinoceros, had reverted to jungle days and gone berserk in the truck bringing her from New York to Hanover.

To transport the collection presented to Dartmouth by the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Prof. Wedgwood Bowen, curator, hired an ample truck. Unfortunately, the safari set out on the rain-drenched Friday of Winter Carnival, which will live long in Dartmouth's memory. Just south of White River Junction the truck met an oncoming car on the wrong side of the road and was forced into a ditch. Gracie, jolted loose from her moorings, charged forward and imbedded her pointed horn in the back of the driver's seat. Unharmed by the charge, the driver found her quite humbled, her two ears torn out by the roots.

A gazelle had been tossed into a mangled heap, a total insurance loss. The shaggy grizzly from North America came through unscathed, but the pack of monkeys appeared to be playing Sardines, and in more or less shaken condition were a musk ox, another gazelle, a leopard, a yellow dog dingo, and a number of baboons.

"A little glue, some plaster and some bee's wax," Professor Bowen said, "and the animals will all be as good as new."