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...make something out of her that the U. S. would laugh at. But millions of Britons including the Royal Family find her so amusing that one of her shows, Mr. Tower of London, had a continuous run in England of seven years (1918-25). Sheer animal vulgarity, including flea-scratching and grimaces, makes her a frantic success in British music halls. So while King George receives only some $550,000 per year, chiefly for being dignified, Miss Fields last year received a reputed $750,000 for being both undignified and vulgar. Four years ago, when the Manchester Guardian announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Caruso's Successor | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Except in appearance, the transparent little water flea called Daphnia magna is a good deal like a human being. In the words of Professor Arno Viehoever of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science, who finds Daphnia useful for testing drugs, "this little animal has a divine simplicity that is miraculous. Its fundamental biological responses are very similar to ours. It has nervous, digestive, circulatory, respiratory, optic and reproductive systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Long Life | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Another experimenter with Daphnia is Professor Arthur Mangun Banta of Brown University. Dr. Banta has found that the average water flea which has all it wants to eat from birth lives 29 days. But if the flea is starved in its youth, given an ample ditt in maturity, it lives 42 to 51 days, growing and maintaining vigor and reproductivity throughout that long life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Long Life | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Rabbit fever, or tularemia, a plaguelike infection to which rabbits and squirrels fall prey, can be transmitted to man either by an intermediate host-louse or flea-or by direct contact with an infected animal. It first appears as an ulcerous spot on human skin which is followed by swollen glands, chills & fever, sometimes by death. Within an ace of death -by rabbit fever had come 23-year-old Adelaide Dawson, released last week from the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital after two blood transfusions from persons who had recovered from the disease. Source of her infection, she thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Unfortunate Fever | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...promoted his first major sports event, a Chicago wrestling match between Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt. Subsequently he promoted the famed Havana prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard, bullfights, Annette Kellerman, Mrs. Pankhurst, Rudolph Valentino, Georges Carpentier, William Jennings Bryan, William T. Tilden II, dance marathons, a flea circus and the U.S. tour of the Vatican Choir. In 1929 Promoter Curley re-popularized wrestling, had been its leading impresario ever since. For sportswriters who derided his favorite sport, Promoter Curley, famed for his good clothes, his huge red face and his amiability, had an unvarying answer: "I have never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 19, 1937 | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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