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...reproductive spore) is a startlingly rich source of proteins and fats, contains carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. This discovery was announced last week by James I. Hambleton, chief U.S. apiarist at Beltsville, Md. Apiarist Hambleton and co-workers have invented a trap to collect pollen by the ton: a screen doorstep in front of a beehive, which brushes pollen off the hairy legs of bees and drops it into a box below. As much as 70 lb. of pollen can be gathered each year from a single hive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Keep 'Em Flying (Bee Dept.) | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...comic-strip character had his 21st birthday last week. He was Skeezix Wallet, star of Frank King's saga of homey, U.S. middle-class life, Gasoline Alley. Unlike most other comic-strip characters, Skeezix has grown every day since a flabbergasted Uncle Walt found him on the doorstep of his home. At Springfield's Illinois State Museum, Skeezix's birthday was celebrated with an exhibition of Cartoonist King's original Skeezix drawings. They showed that, in the course of some 34,000 pictures of Skeezix, Cartoonist King's draughtsmanship had grown almost as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Skeezix is 21 | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...move remindful of Skeezix, who was left on the Walletts' doorstep just 21 years ago, the CRIMSON received a foundling yesterday afternoon by a mysterious Radcliffe mother, who apparently could not take care of it in a proper and humane fashion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Queer Foundling Left Deserted on Crimson Doorstep | 2/10/1942 | See Source »

...enjoys calling the U.S. Minister (Meredith Nicholson, aged 74) "Boy." Once the Minister's wife complained that there was no good milk in Managua, the capital. Next morning she found a cow on her doorstep - a gift from the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Colossus of the South | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

Recently Mr. Lewis became alarmed at the dust piling up in such world-famed centers of Philadelphic culture as the Franklin Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts. Observing that adult-education clubs flourished in Philadelphia suburbs, he launched a campaign. He put circulars on every Philadelphia doorstep, posters in every Philadelphia streetcar, inviting one & all to join a new Junto and gather in the museums for fun and learning. Members would attend ten-week courses (at $2 a course) on such subjects as art, cartooning, music, nature, airplanes, contract bridge, writing, gardening, philosophy, dancing. To teach them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Philadelphia Junto | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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