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...leagues, might find solace and gain in such precepts by joining the House of David baseball team which netted $40,000 one season. Against the Brooklyn Robins last month, the House of David team scored two runs in the last inning after a rally led by bush-bearded Pitcher Herbst, but lost the game...
...Three's a Crowd, but Bird Life at the Pole is the first full-length parody. The story is supposed to have been told to Mr. Gibbs in a low hurried voice by Commander Christopher Robin, who was sent to the Antarctic as a news stunt by Publisher Herbst. When the expedition's ship, the Lizzie Borden, got to the Panama Canal, she was towed through by a Mr. Burton, swimming all the way with frequent rests (a dig at Playboy Richard Halliburton). The expedition had to take along so much impedimenta (such as grand pianos) because of testimonials...
...large collection of about eight thousand Hymenopterous insects from Chile has been received by the Museum of Comparative Zoology, if was announced yesterday by Associate Professor Banks, curator of the museum. The collection is a gift from the late Paul Herbst, a German friend of the museum long resident in Chile...
...Herbst was particularly interested in bees, which are found in Chile in many remarkable forms. Some of the new types which he described are included in the recent acquisition...
...among them a number of the remarkable family Thynnidae, a species which occurs most frequently in Australia and Chile. In these insects the two sexes are of entirely different appearance and are consequently known by different names. The collection also includes nests of some of the bees studied by Herbst...