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...Dull. Mystery and myth have surrounded the home life and sex habits of the possum through four centuries. Now, in a new book called Possum (University of Texas Press; $6), complete with elaborate recipes for possum and 'taters, Dr. Carl G. Hartman, "pioneer possum embryologist and accoucheur," tells...
...American marsupial, says Dr. Hartman, is a congenital moron. In its tiny skull there is room for only a meager brain. Fertility, not intelligence, is the reason for its survival. Its popping, jet-black eyes are all pupil and ought to be sharp at night, but even in daylight they are dim and dull. Only its hearing is keen (its thin ears curl over to keep out insects during sleep), and its bristling whiskers have a superfine sense of touch. On his short legs, the possum meanders in a slow, aimless shuffle. As a climber he shows his greatest skill...
Marsupial Secrets.The female possum's habit of licking her pouch before giving birth is the source of what Dr. Hartman considers several preposterous possum legends. But for all its stupidity, the possum, in its sex life, is much like other mammals. After only 12½ days' gestation, the mother props herself into a sitting position and delivers a large litter of tiny (20 can fit into a teaspoon), wormlike young. Still little more than squirming, pink embryos, the baby possums clamber upward over their mother's soft, warm underbelly and into the pouch that opens and closes...
Reportedly, Joshua Logan and other play-doctors are labouring to quicken the pulse of the show. While there is promise in the announcement that Paul Hartman will ringmaster the revue in New York, a major operation on the script is necessary if more than curious interest in Miss Davis is to sustain Two's Company on Broadway...
...Star Summer Review (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). With Grace Hartman, the Bell Sisters, Slim Gaillard and the Hanneford Family...