On Monday, 21 July 1952, Baba was taken to the doctor at 3:30 P.M. to have his broken leg examined. He then visited the Central Park Zoo, and on the 25th toured the Museum of Natural History. On another day Darwin, Filis, Ivy, Charmian and Keith accompanied Baba to the larger Bronx Zoo. Baba rode in Charmian's car with the women; Goher, Rano and Keith followed in Darwin's car.
At the Bronx Zoo, Charmian was supposed to push Baba's wheelchair, but while trying to tighten her shoelaces both of them broke, and this delayed her. Baba motioned Keith and Darwin to push him by turns, which they did, stopping at different exhibits. He enjoyed seeing the animals, and seemed especially interested in the gorilla. At the penguins' tank, a large penguin (very pompously, it seemed) came waddling across to Baba. Baba looked up at Darwin as if to say, "Look at him!"
Darwin nodded, "Yeah, chairman of the board," and they both laughed.
On the way back, Darwin and Keith could not find their car, as they had not noticed which parking lot they were in. Baba pointed to go in a certain direction, but meanwhile it started to rain. They did not want Baba's cast to get wet so they found shelter under an overhanging roof. Meanwhile, Charmian came by on foot and led them back to the car, and Baba rode off with her.
On the 22nd afternoon, Charmian drove Baba and the women mandali to Radio City Music Hall, where they saw the film Where's Charley?
According to Ivy's account:
Baba wanted the women mandali to have a little diversion, and of course he could do his work through them in all places. Charmian took them and Baba to Radio City Music Hall. Such a simple outing required planning — warning the theater in time to care for and correctly place a man in a wheelchair; having Energy [Marion Florsheim] at the theater in time to drive the car away and garage it; Energy getting the car back to the theater at the right moment since no parking [was] allowed in the district...
One night they went to see The King and I played by Yul Brenner and [Celeste Holm] — the theater version of Anna and the King of Siam . Baba could not go because fire hazard laws prevented him being in the aisle in a wheelchair.