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...snake oil, skunk fat and fishing-worm oil into a joint to cure arthritis...
...afternoon at The Bronx Zoo pop-eyed New Yorkers crowded around the lizards' cage. They gaped at the mottled grey hides, tough and beaded as an Indian bag. They blinked at the great red mouths and serrated teeth, the long forked yellow tongues flicking in & out like a snake's. They shuddered at the wicked claws, long and sharp as a good-sized leopard's. Well might New Yorkers gape, blink, shudder. To most of them a lizard was a six-inch creature which eats flies and scuttles under leaves. These lizards were 9 ft. long...
...lizards have since been found on a few neighboring islands, but most are on Komodo. Komodo is a volcanic island 22 mi. long and 12 mi. wide, covered with bleak, crumbling mountains, grassy plains, thick jungle. Besides dragon lizards it supports many a deer, boar, water buffalo, bird, snake, insect and a miserable Dutch penal colony. The lizards claw out great caves in the mountains, roam down to prey on deer, boar and smaller animals. They walk with bodies well off the ground, can run fast, swim, stand on their hind legs like dinosaurs. They are keen-eyed, keen-eared...
...against tinhorn esthetes, clumsily written and woodenly directed, I Believed in You is noteworthy solely because its 26-year-old leading lady, if she possesses the energy and ability shown by other members of her family, may get somewhere some day. Rosemary Ames's father was Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, famed Princeton fullback of the Golden Nineties and head of a Chicago investment house, of Booth Fisheries Co. and of the Chicago Journal of Commerce. In mid-Depression, he shot himself. Knowlton Jr. built up the Journal of Commerce for his father, who then turned it over...
...Winlock read every inscription in the tomb, found no threat. Only malediction ever discovered in any Pharaoh's tomb was in that of Amenhotep, threatening despoilers with poverty and ostracism, not death. The curse story started when Howard Carter's pet canary was swallowed by a snake. A poetic native remarked: "The serpent from the crown of the King has eaten the golden bird. Bad luck will follow." That was an inspiration to certain newshawks who were disgruntled because exclusive story rights for the Carnarvon expedition had been given to the London Times...