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...Chicago's suburban Brookfield Zoo, whence Curator of Reptiles Mrs. Grace Wiley last fortnight was discharged for letting a deadly Bandy-Bandy snake disappear completely (TIME, Sept. 30), zoo attendants combed the reptile house, while police prowled over surrounding country, mothers kept their children indoors. Finally, a cleaning man swept up the loose leaves that had blown into the reptile house, picked up an armful with Bandy-Bandy asleep in their midst. Meanwhile ebullient ex-Curator Wiley advised Chicagoans who want to bathe rattlesnakes, "Get them in a good humor first and then bathe in lukewarm water. They like...
...part of the drastic reductions whereby seven Harvard athletic teams are to disappear from H. A. A. schedules, the sword will face the axe after this winter's season...
...lead phosphate to poison them. Before the patients lost control of their wrists or went mad, Dr. Osterberg gave them intravenous injections of calcium salts. This procedure overcame the effects of lead poisoning, expelled the lead from the patients' systems. By that time the cancers had begun to disappear, eventually vanished. The chemistry back of Dr. Osterberg's medication is that lead phosphate seems to have greater affinity for cancerous tissues than for normal tissues, accumulates in the cancers in lethal amounts before the general system is fatally poisoned...
...Arnold, 120 Ib. and just 5 ft., often looks absurd when she comes out on the court, smiling shyly up at her opponent whose subsequent beating becomes all the more distressing. It would be in accurate to say that Mrs. Arnold's apparent limitations as a player disappear when her matches start. She covers the court in a series of wild scrambles, hits a jerky forehand that looks better suited to a flyswatter than a tennis racket and wins on steadiness, indefatigable nerve and the brains which most women players either signally lack or fail to use. As Ethel...
...breaking my heart to see you suffer like this. I can't bear it. . . . Please tell them where it is. . . ." Then the pirates begin reaching into the ladies' dresses for their jewels. Routed at last, when the disgraced third officer heroically redeems himself, the pirates disappear leaving the Kin Lung much better off than it was before. MacArdle is exposed as an amiable human rat. Captain Gaskell seems better disposed toward China Doll. The drunken novelist is sneering at the barkeep...