Word: taxidermist
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...Jersey City taxidermist named John Hansen got a letter last week about a friend with whom he used to hunt big game. His friend was Charlie Cottar of Garfield County, Okla., who migrated to East Africa. He went out in 1910, when he was past 40, and he took with him his wife and as much stuff as he could pack in a bullock cart. He cleared 1,000 acres and planted them to coffee, potatoes and sisal, but most of his time he spent as guide to big-game hunters such as Martin Johnson, the Prince of Wales, Phil...
...letter Taxidermist Hansen got last week was postmarked Nairobi. It was from one of Charlie Cottar's sons...
...captain got in touch with a woman naturalist attached to a Cape Province museum, and she in turn summoned Dr. J. L. B. Smith from Rhodes University College in Grahamstown. By the time he arrived, a taxidermist had skinned and mounted the creature, throwing away the carcass (which was rotting) but keeping the skull. Dr. Smith pronounced it "sensational." Photographs were sent to London, where Geologist Errol Ivor White of the British Museum called the find "one of the most amazing events in the realm of Natural History in the 20th Century...
...German Opera Company in 1931. As principal protagonist in one of the finest Siegfrieds in decades, long-legged, prancing Hartmann acted his role as though he were living it, sang and pounded his anvil with energy and musicianship, peeled the armor from sleeping Brunnhilde (Marjorie Lawrence) with a taxidermist's skill. Vocally he wavered once or twice, but he lived up to the excellent reports of his ability which had leaked out from rehearsals...
...Founder Ward from Alsace, and who will mount any skeleton from a humming bird to a mastodon. Humming bird skeletons once cost $25, but Preparator Kirchoff now turns them out with such dispatch that the price has dropped to $10. John Santens, 60, Ward's sole surviving taxidermist, is officially retired but keeps on working. So many schools and museums now teach taxidermy that Ward's demand for stuffed animals has fallen almost to zero, and the antlers of moose, deer and caribou cluttering the biology department gather much dust, few orders...