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...feeds on the tops of red milkweeds and thistles, will flee if approached by man. The smell of the female is exceedingly nauseating. The blue butterfly smells like "newly stirred earth in spring or crushed violet stems." The lesser sulphur exudes the fragrance of dried sweet grass. The orange clover's scent resembles heliotrope. If a cloud obscures the sun it at once seeks a resting place, preferably on something yellow. It is very social. The cloudless clover smells of violets and musk, the cabbage butterfly of mignonette and sweet briar, the yellow swallowtail of "certain brands of honey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pamplona's Encierros | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...varsity last year. He is captain-elect of next year's Syracuse football team. Before the Syracuse shell paddled up the Hudson to the starting line last week, after the Syracuse Freshmen and Junior Varsity had won their races. Stroke Lombardi carefully pasted on its prow a four leaf clover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Poughkeepsie | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...vials of salt water and if he felt thirsty he turned his back on the audience, took a drink. Soprano Rosa Ponselle never sings without the little silver cross she wore when she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. Pianist Ernest Schelling keeps in his waistcoat pocket a four-leaf clover pressed between glass. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz always has a picture of Liszt in the artists' room, Violinist Yehndi Menuhin a bronze head of Toscanini. Pianist José Iturbl goes to every concert with an apple and a clean collar. During intermission he eats the apple and changes his collar. Baritone Lawrence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Chicago | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

Largest pet on display was Clover Leaf. a cow. Oldest were two tortoises claimed to be 350-500 years old. Smallest was an unidentified fish. Loudest was Susie, the Sebastopol goose. Most desperate were 462 squeaking canaries lodged in a crate exhibit. Most indifferent were two Llamas, who chewed cud quietly for five days. Most valuable per pound were two lion-headed goldfish valued at $500 each. Youngest were a litter of white mice born just as the show closed. Most popular was a baby elephant known variously as Bozo, Buddy and Buck. Least popular was a timid young skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pet Show | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...Rochester, Minn., Dr. George Marsh Higgins, Mayo Foundation biologist, revealed a relation between the amount of red clover and the number of spinsters in a given district: "Old maids keep cats. Cats prey on mice. Mice eat bumble bees' nests. Bumble bees pollinate red clover blossoms. The more pollination the better the crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 30, 1931 | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

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