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...their keepers. Yet Miller's readers have responded by sending him 1,000 or more letters a month, covering a comprehensive range of problems. Miller is up to most of them. "I had a pet worm named Elmer and my little brother ate him up," wrote a youthful Lumbricus fancier. "Could Elmer still be alive?" Replied Miller: "I'm afraid Elmer passed on long ago." A woman reader wanted to know if her male canary, who spent narcissistic hours kissing himself in a mirror, needed a mate. Said Miller: "Give him the bird." But he was little comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pet Pal | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

Early birds, anglers and farmers had bad news last week. Lumbricus terrestris -better known as the earthworm-is in serious trouble. U.S. Soil Conservationists Henry Hopp and Paul J. Linder have warned in Science magazine that the earthworm population in some sections of the U.S. is dipping alarmingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Vanishing Earthworm | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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