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...Einstein of siphonapterology was the Hon. Nathaniel Charles Rothschild, second son of the first Baron Rothschild of Tring. He was charmed by fleas while still a student at Cambridge, and pursued them the rest of his life. Says Dr. Hubbard: "The Tring Museum ... at Tring, Hertfordshire, has become the flea center of the world." Flea lovers from all over report their discoveries and send offerings (fleas) to Tring...
...official who received him, the small Frenchman announced modestly that he was France's leading scientific flea-catcher. He understood that the palace had been invaded and, for a small fee, he was prepared to remedy the situation...
...characteristic. Washington didn't like the idea of a key war plant being run from a skyscraper 3,000 miles away. So V.E. simply had one of his small planemaking subsidiaries, Vultee Aircraft Inc., buy Consolidated. (One planemaker described Vultee's designs on Consolidated as "like a flea going up an elephant's leg with lust in its eye.") Under V.E., the Army & Navy had no complaint about the way Consolidated...
...spare shilling to spend on a ticket to the Abbey Theater, O'Casey swung a pick & shovel as a day laborer, worked at nights for the cause of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Citizen Army. He lived with his mother in a few flea-ridden Dublin slum rooms. When bis sister died, there was no money in the house to bury her. When his brother-in-law went crazy, the clutchers came in a plain, black cab and carried him off to the home for loony paupers at Grangegor-man. He himself had been born with...
...comic strips out of business? Witness for example the social outrage titled "Benediction" [TIME, Feb. 18]. Just what is this supposed to be, or what is it trying to represent? It looks like either the missing link or a scalded female ape searching for a long-lost flea...