Word: ichthyologist
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...Ichthyologist James Leonard Brierley Smith, of Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, made a formal call last week on stony old Prime Minister Malan. He walked across the lawn of Malan's Cape Town residence and reverently laid a treasure at the Prime Minister's feet. It was a bony, clumsy-looking fish about 5 ft. long, smelling of Formalin and incipient putrefaction. The Prime Minister looked at it dubiously. He is a former dominie of the Dutch Reformed Church, which does not believe in evolution...
Smith grabbed a phone and called Prime Minister Malan. It was midnight, and the Prime Minister was in bed and asleep. He stumbled to the telephone in his pajamas and heard the excited ichthyologist pleading for an airplane to take him to the fish. Malan acted quickly. Next morning a Dakota (DC-3) of the South African air force took off for the Mozambique Channel, with Dr. Smith fretting in the cabin. It made a landing on the small French island of Dzaoudzi, more than 1,500 miles away. There Dr. Smith found his fish, rank but undecayed, on Trader...
Some scientists do things as work that other people do for pleasure. Dr. Eugenie Clark, 29, comely ichthyologist of New York's American Museum of Natural History, picked as her job a stint of swimming in the warm Red Sea. She made her base at Ghardaqa, Egypt, where Fouad University has a marine biological station. For the next ten months, Dr. Clark was one of the sights of Ghardaqa. The Moslems of Ghardaqa, who wrap their own women like mummies, watched with open amazement as she went down to the sea in a bathing suit. Their jaws dropped even...
...engaged to a young attorney (Jeffrey Lynn) who is the pet of the Supreme Court. But she doesn't want to marry him, and she hates the way he calls her up during working hours. She is also carrying on a sort of wry flirtation with an aggressive ichthyologist (Don Taylor), who is trying, with no help from her, to put through a personal phone call direct to the President. So she stands both of them up in order to keep a date with a Navy lieutenant (Edmond O'Brien), who is the pet of the White House...
Divorced. George Vanderbilt, 31, multimillionaire yachtsman-ichthyologist; by Lucille Parsons Vanderbilt, 29, horsewoman, crack shot; after 10½ years of marriage, one daughter; in Miami. Grounds: desertion...