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...Bureau of Chemistry at the University of Illinois. Back in Washington, he composed The Doughboys March, which the U. S. Army band at Fort Washington, Md., near where he has a farm and summer home, still plays. Professor Viehoever's laboratory, where a pet white kitten dabbles in his bowls of Daphnia, is in a red-brick house next to the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science's garden. He likes to recall that this garden, surrounded by a high spiked fence, was planted by the late Dr. Frederick B. Kilmer, a trustee of the college and father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flea | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...Wilmington, N. C. last August, Mrs. Annie Mae Gannon's cat littered in her boarding house. First came one normal, one tailless and one bobtailed kitten. Twelve hours later Mrs. Gannon's cat bore what looked like a splotched, botched Boston bull pup. Colored black, yellow and white, it had long, sharply pointed ears, short whiskers, stub tail, short doggish hair. Unlike cat or dog it was born with eyes open. And it could crawl at once. As it grew up it made noises like a cat, sniffed and gnawed bones like a dog. It rested with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Cat-Dog | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

Howerth finally conquered the monster he had created, and diabolic old Nicholas Holtz was at last cornered by a kitten. But long before this ingenious horror story lays out its final cadaver, many a germ-haunted reader will be thinking seriously of gargling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Germs | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...Grier, and she would not really have minded, but since Grier did not fall in with the idea she let her father put her in a brothel. Grier soon forgot her when he met O Setsu San. the lovely interpreter at an inn called The House of the Playful Kitten. Then an earthquake unexpectedly advanced his suit with his first love, O Kaya San. Soon they were living together. When Grier went back to England, because it was "necessary." he was better able to judge the depth of Japanese emotions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Poor Butterfly | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...fashioned kitchen with modern linoleum on the floor, a pair of twins are squalling for their dinner in a highchair, a cook is basting the turkey, a scrawny aunt hurries in with a basket of vegetables, a naughty child tosses scraps of ham fat to a kitten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Proletarian Gloom | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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