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...Like an eel chopped to pieces, fragments of the French Army continued to wriggle and resist all across France last week even after the nation's surrender was signed and sealed in a railroad car at Compiegne (see p. 20). In hate and despair many a Frenchman threw his life away-taking a German or so with him-a week after the war had been lost...
...Attach N.A.R.P.A.C. metal identification tags to all pets. An elderly woman promptly asked how to tag her pet, an eel named...
Last December a lungfish from a pond in British East Africa was placed in a large tin can filled with wet mud. This creature, something like a catfish, something like a small eel, struggled through the mud to the top of the can occasionally to breathe air; but as the mud dried and hardened, the lungfish was held fast at the bottom. Six months later, the can reached its destination, a biological supply house in Chicago. The can was opened, the cylindrical mold of dried mud delicately picked away, the lungfish removed. It was alive. The fish, gaunt from...
...touching on recent and long dead issues. 1919 wanted to know "Who Said Widow Nolan's Is A Racket". 1929 bewailed the fact that "In '29 Our Stock Was High, In '39 Our Hock Is Higher," while 1936 punned, "Undergraduates Learn To Swallow Goldfish, Graduates Forced To Swallow Nude Eel...
Catnapping in her bedroom before her evening performance of The Philadelphia Story, stormy, eel-hipped Actress Katharine Hepburn woke to see a burglar about to loot her dressing table. She shrieked: "What the hell are you doing there?", leaped out of bed. The burglar, scared witless, hurtled down the stairs, Miss Hepburn after him, escaped in a waiting car. No jewels were missing...