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Bugs. Men who have spent their lives studying insects got a thrill from their first really close-up view of the delicate anatomy of these tiny creatures. Magnified up to 20,000 diameters (ten times larger than light-microscopes can do) by R.C.A.'s new electron microscope (TIME, Oct. 28, 1940), insect innards were revealed in photographs exhibited at the A.A.A.S. meeting by Zoologist Albert Glenn Richards Jr. of the University of Pennsylvania, and R.C.A.'s Thomas F. Anderson. Bugmen buzzed with delight at the spectacle of mosquitoes' windpipes, a butterfly's scale, a roach...
Like a fairy tale goes the story of Alsab, son of a onetime race horse named Good Goods and a $90 mare. As a yearling, he looked so worthless he was knocked down for only $700 at the Saratoga auction sales. Last week, in front of the insect-proof cage that surrounds Sab's stall at Hialeah Park, his owner, Lawyer Albert Sabath of Chicago, set up champagne for hundreds of two-legged guests, drank a toast to the colt that has already won $110,610 for him, the colt with whom he would not part for a quarter...
...even grasses grow for one or two months each year, even though for the rest of the year they must endure 100-mile blizzards and - 60° cold. And there lives the largest land animal yet found on the Antarctic Continent: a kind of springtail, or primitive wingless insect, which is one-half inch long...
Last spring Dr. Rozeboom went to Trinidad. Every evening between 5 and 8, when Anopheles bellator swarmed in the villages, he and his assistant paid the native boys to .stand still, let the mosquitoes settle on their arms and legs. The scientists then clapped a glass tube on every insect, sucked it into a little pipe, trapped it. Thus they caught 5,000 mosquitoes, dissected 725. Of these, three were found to carry the malaria parasite in their stomach or salivary glands...
...circle was shortly joined by Matthew Gregory ("Monk") Lewis, a "boyish-looking man, with large, bulging, curiously flattened eyeballs which projected from his cranium like the eyes of an insect." Lewis was the author of the best-selling shocker, The Monk. So shocked was Byron that he complained that the book was filled with "the philtered ideas of a jaded voluptuary...