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...quite two years ago physicians and prospective parents welcomed the news that a small, carp-like fish could tell whether or not a woman was going to have a baby (TIME, Jan. 7, 1935). Called bitterling, the female fish has a small tube protruding from her underside. When the bitterling is about to lay eggs, the tube lengthens and enables her to deposit her ova in the siphon of a fresh water mussel, among whose gills they ripen and hatch. Drs. Aaron Elias Kanter, Carl Philip Bauer & Arthur Herman Klawans of the University of Chicago discovered that a bitterling will...
...only 15 dinars. His Majesty paid with a 20 dinar bill (50?) and Mrs. Simpson said in German, "Keep the change." The King also bought a Yugoslavian fisherman's coarse shirt, put it on and at night went fishing with a lantern for zubach, a species of carp. Around him hovered more than 100 small craft, some of whose occupants were Yugoslavian detectives trying to look like fishermen. Under these trying circumstances, His Majesty did wonders in catching two zubach...
Week before the sea lion, having quit the Pacific for the Columbia River, ar rived rollicking in the tributary Willamette River off Oregon City, was stopped there by the falls. Chasing carp and salmon, it delighted State Police by fouling the gill nets of salmon poachers, was christened Sergeant Finnegan. Prevented from getting any rest by Oregon City crowds, it humped itself onto a fisherman's house boat, peered in a window and got three charges of buckshot in the face and neck, blinding one eye. It finally climbed a fish ladder beside the falls, roistered...
...from the Moviegoer's mind to carp too much at any of Miss Colbert's pictures, for he derives great pleasure merely from looking at her. Nevertheless, he wishes the movie moguls would give her a break and present her with a really good vehicle. In "The Bride Comes Home," she cannot ride along smoothly and easily, but has to carry the vehicle herself--which seems like very bad logic...
...farmers in general might carp a little that they had received few substantial gains but such gains were hardly to be expected in a treaty with an agricultural country. But Florida fruit growers, who have threatened to attack the reciprocal tariff law in the courts because of fruits and vegetables admitted under the recent trade treaty with Cuba, may now think twice since the new treaty betters their citrus fruit market in Canada...