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Naturalist Leonard Dubkin, who once wrote a nature column for the Chicago Tribune, is probably the only man who ever lost his heart to an albino bat. This esoteric affair, which took place in Chicago, is described in Dubkin's new book, The White Lady (Putnam...
White Baby. One day he saw a bat hanging from the vines by her wings (upside down for a bat). Gritting her teeth as if in pain, she bent her lower body, making a sort of hammock out of her tail membrane. Soon tiny white feet appeared; then a small white body and crumpled white wings. The young bat dropped into the hammock. When it gave a faint squeak, its mother picked it up with her teeth and attached it to the fur near one of her breasts. She turned herself upside down (right side up for a bat...
...slush is yet dry on Winter's testament familiar sounds are oozing up from the Southland, the crack of a bat against the horsehide and the peck of a finger against the old Woodstock. Spring baseball is back. Radiant in their new sport shirts, the scribes are again squeezing the grapefruit league for every drop...
...doing it. Rabies, a common disease of wild animals, is believed to affect all warm-blooded mammals; it has been found among rabbits, moles, raccoons, mongooses, beavers and many others. Skunks and the dog tribe, including foxes and coyotes, are especially susceptible. The most unpleasant victim is the vampire bat of South and Central America (TIME, June 25), which gives the disease to the people whose blood it taps...
Then the Crimson tried a few ganging attacks. But Torrey was able to hold the fort, although at one point he was flat on the ice outside the crease, with the puck loose therein. No Crimson skater, though, could quite bat it home...