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...Rats are not generally considered either popular or useful animals. But to scientists, who use them for biological and psychological experiments, they are both. In many laboratories, in which dozens of rats are kept in one cage, it is essential that they be marked in some way so that any one rat can quickly be singled out from all the other rats. Labels attached to the rats or marks painted on them are not entirely satisfactory. A more popular method is notching or perforating the ears according to a code. Another is cutting off various combinations of toes, or different...
...curator of physical anthropology at the Field Museum, had given a party with a friend at their Lake Shore Drive apartment. Guests, asked to bring live animals, turned up with a deodorized skunk, a singing duck, two colored baby chickens worn on a woman's hat, a white rat which bore a litter of ten during the party. Anthropologist Field's contributions: 1) a seal which he could not get into the freight elevator; 2) an un- housebroken, pregnant camel, whose nuisances were observed by tenants on the floor below...
What a Life (by Clifford Goldsmith; produced by George Abbott). Producer George Abbott, last season's home-run slugger (Room Service, Brother Rat), this season struck out in his first three times at bat. But last week he came up for the fourth time, clouted the ball safely into .the outfield. Not hit so hard as Brother Rat, What a Life travels pretty much in the same direction. Substituting high school for military academy, What a Life is as adolescent as a changing voice, as clean as a West Pointer's white ducks. Chief amusement centres in Henry...
...Gibsons: rat-tat-tat knife-throwing around the contours of a girl posed on a revolving wheel...
...mercy. But in this case I cannot. Your course in the last six years has been a course of thefts and larcenies, of frauds and misrepresentations, of falsifications of books and financial statements covering losses of several millions of dollars. As has been said, you were caught like a rat in a trap. Your acts have been deliberate and intentional and were committed with an unusually full opportunity for understanding their effect upon others and the consequences to yourself. You have enjoyed the advantage of the best education in America. You had the fruits of business and financial success...