Signs at Accident Scene Mark Trail to Shy Samaritan

--Maureen Sullivan finally found the mysterious good Samaritan who saved her husband’s life. “This man, I have to thank,” Sullivan, of Pompano Beach, Fla., said as she held the hand of Dr. Robert Fleigelman. “I love my husband so much. I wouldn’t know what to do without him.” Fleigelman, 38, stopped on Interstate 95 to resuscitate Sullivan’s husband, Kevin, after an automobile accident, then left before paramedics and state troopers could learn his name. Mrs. Sullivan, 25, tried to find him and posted two signs on the highway shoulder at the spot where the accident occurred. They read: “To Doctor? Thank you. He’s Alive.” Fleigelman, a general practitioner in Miramar and director of Network Health Care in Fort Lauderdale, did not see the signs but heard news accounts of Sullivan’s efforts. Kevin Sullivan, 26, was reported in critical condition with brain hemorrhages and a shattered rib cage.

--Officials at a Kansas zoo wish that Twinkles, a 6,500-pound Asian elephant, would develop a personality to match her name. In the meantime, they are searching for a new home for the temperamental pachyderm. Dan Baffa, director of the Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City, Kan., says Twinkles is not mean but that her ornery behavior is more than Kansas zoo workers can handle--the 23-year-old Twinkles has knocked down one keeper, who suffered a broken wrist. “But a bad elephant will pick you up by the leg and thrash you around. Twinkles is not a killer elephant, she’s not even a bad elephant,” Baffa said. “She’s a tough elephant.”

--Each spring, Andre the seal has been taken from the New England Aquarium in Boston to the ocean to be released for the summer. And each year he swam to Rockport, Me., where he performed tricks for delighted tourists. His trainer, Harry Goodridge, who raised Andre after finding him as an abandoned 2-day-old pup in 1961, last saw the seal in June and thought Andre seemed depressed after apparently losing a mating-season fight. Andre usually emerged scarred but exuberant. Goodridge said he received a tip that the body of a seal resembling the 5-foot-long, 250-pound Andre had been spotted on shore and later confirmed it was Andre. “He’s lived a good life,” Goodridge said.