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Summer Relief. In Tipton, Calif., after Marie Schonhair decided to smoke out the bees buzzing around her house, firemen put out the $3,000 fire, reported later that the bees were gone.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 1, 1957 | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Even the process of insect pollination is shown in glass by means of delicate glass bees crawling down the petals, covered with tiny dots of colored pollen.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blaschka Glass Flowers Curator Retires After 56 Years' Service | 5/8/1957 | See Source »

When asked why they keep the memory of Holmes alive year after year, Douglas Lawson, Keeper of the Band, replied, "Memory! Memory, my dear fellow: the great man is still very much alive, aged 103, and raising bees in Sussex."

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: 'Speckled Band' Meets at Signet To Honor Sherlock Holmes' Work | 4/27/1957 | See Source »

Autobiography was Maxim Gorky's surest talent, but he did not discover it until he was nearly fifty. By that time he had found ways of using his great memory less to preach than to describe. As he wrote in his Autobiography: "I imagine myself in my childhood, as a...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky | 2/19/1957 | See Source »

The bees make no immediate decision, but the scouts continue to dance their reports after the swarm has separated and is hanging on a bush. Some favor a hollow tree 300 yards away; others have found a cranny under a barn floor. Often there are many factions, each dancing in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Town Meeting of the Bees | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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