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Almost anything Mij got his paws on he put in his mouth. He once chewed up a razor blade in his powerful, crab-cracking jaws, seemed to suffer no ill effects. In the country he liked to sneak up behind a cow, take a snap at her tail and sit grinning as she furiously kicked up her heels. He also displayed a peculiar passion for nipping every ear lobe that came within his appallingly elastic range. And once, when Maxwell tried to take an eel away from him, Mij effortlessly bit clean through his hand. "He let go almost...
Dungeness Crab. A renegade rock 'n' roller, Darin can make some substantial claims to recognition: he has a pleasant if ordinary voice, a remarkable sense of rhythm and a penchant for carrying tunes, although his knees seem to suffer now and then under the load. He sings rapidly, in a style that could be called 2Oth century Benzedrine, slurring the lyrics of Up a Lazy River or Clementine through lips that move no more than a carny ventriloquist's, while the song seems to be coming out of his left ear. He is versatile. At one moment...
...promoters at the Hollywood pressagent firm of Rogers & Cowan lavishly plug his innate sex appeal and his intuition for showmanship, which collide onstage when Darin, fervently singing, wobbles a disengaged microphone in his hand and slides sideways in a characteristic motion that could only suggest a young Dungeness crab in trouble...
...Crab Fancier. The Emperor leads a busy if sheltered life, studying and signing 2,500 laws and documents a year, attending 50 or more public functions on the palace grounds. He still keeps a properly royal reserve. At one affair, he was startled when a brash U.S. Congressman wanted him to autograph a 100-yen bill; he refused. A fussily frugal man who goes around turning out unneeded lights, Hirohito is fond of wandering in old clothes about the grounds with a trowel in hand in case he spots a choice sample of fungus. But the Emperor's real...
Thanksgiving Day, when most of the U.S. was attacking a turkey with trimmings, John Courtney Murray, S.J., and TIME Associate Editor Douglas Auchincloss sat down to scrambled eggs and Chesapeake Bay crab in a lonely roadside restaurant outside Baltimore. Being members of professions that work on holidays when there is work to be done, they were at work-on this week's TIME cover story...