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...cameras, they performed their normal dramas of robbery, love and cannibalism. Rat mothers suckled their young, and sometimes ate the whole litter. Dainty rats groomed themselves, often dipping their paws in water. Male rats fought over food or mates. Females fought off male advances. (Public Healthman Sidney P. Lanier,* head of the project, says that female rats never yield without a desperate battle against larger or multiple suitors...
...watching and photographing rats, Public Healthmen learned many things which they hope can be used as anti-rat measures. For example, when the food supply decreases, rats devour each other. This fact emphasizes the value of cleaning up tidbits that rats like to eat, says Lanier. Another observation, which may come in handy when PHS shows its movies to audiences: rats appear highly susceptible to emotional upsets. Repeated frights shorten their lives, e.g., insistent, inescapable noises, such as tapping on glass, can drive a rat to death...
...Louis (Lanier) 1, Cincinnati...
Boomerang. In Manhattan. Mrs. Evelyn Lanier, who shot down Gunman Thomas Wright when he tried to hold up her mother's grocery, was a heroine until detectives found that they had to book her for doing the shooting with an unlicensed pistol once stolen from the police...
...fire, which occurred in the A-44 room of Robert H. Knox '51 and Sterling E. Lanier '51, was discovered by Jay S. Lewis '51. Lewis had been studying on the couch shortly before the fire started but was in his own room across the hall when he smelled the smoke...