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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firemen believed sparka from the incinerator which lit upon sun-bathing mattresses, started the blaze...
Male Swarming. Most mosquitoes are less direct. Their mating habits center around a curious custom that scientists call "swarming." Hundreds of males gather 'in a dim-lit space, whirling around & around one another, emitting a low hum. This, according to one theory, excites and attracts the females. Certainly any female that comes near the swarming males is never the same again. Some observers claim to have seen the same female join the same swarm repeatedly...
...counter. He hurried out, the book in his pocket, back cover out. He turned towards the houses, his stride just a little longer than normal. By the time he got to his entry he was almost running. The door slammed shut and Vag rocketed into the arm chair. He lit a cigarette and began to read...
...more food, more work, more trade, he found that even Japanese businessmen would listen. Last week, viewing Mao Tsetung's victories in China, Comrade Nozaka was the cheeriest fellow in all Japan. Asked what effect recent political events in China were having on Japan, his dead-fish eyes lit up: "Hee, hee, hee," he giggled, "a very great effect, very good...
This week, in Briton Hadden: A Biography of the Co-Founder of TIME (236 pp.,Farrar, Straus, $3), Busch, a first cousin of Hadden and now a LIFE senior writer, tells what manner of man Brit Hadden was. The informal portrait, lit with humor, shows a husky, mustached young man with intense grey eyes, enormous curiosity and vitality, and a huge capacity for work, play and horseplay. In his life & time (and the extravagant, turbulent '20s were all the time he had) his impact on U.S. journalism was as forceful...