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...Little Mammal, What Now? Even if the bomb falls, muses Author Toynbee there is still a grain of hope. The people most likely .to survive and to be capable of salvaging "some fraction of the present heritage of mankind" are the Negrito pygmies of Central Africa -a race "said by our anthropologists to have an unexpectedly pure and lofty conception of the nature of God and of God's relation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After Us, The Insects? | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...seals slither through the blue water. Looking at the monkeys, a zoogoer can conclude that they resemble the family in the apartment downstairs-or a family uncomfortably like his own. Looking at a tiger, he can feel weak, unarmed and humble; at a gorilla, helpless; at an echidna (a mammal that lays eggs), vastly superior. Zoo men have built their exhibits on the proposition that if the proper study of mankind is man, a subsidiary and equally wholesome occupation is the contemplation of the lower animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: By the Lake | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Peggy (dining at right) is the first porpoise to be born alive in captivity. Her 350-lb. mother, Pudgy, gave birth last week in a tank at the Marineland, Fla. Marine Studios. In less than half a minute Pudgy had pushed her calf, an air-breathing mammal, up to the surface to draw her first breath. In an hour and a half Peggy, with all a mammal's proper instincts, was having her first meal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: PUDGY & HER CALF | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Responsibility for the recent Spee bearnapping still remains nebulous even as the missing mammal reappeared last night locked in the showcase of a fashionable haberdashery across the street from the club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spee Bear, Long Bare, Found Bowed, Stuffed and Repaired | 3/8/1947 | See Source »

Mabel Caines Joell is a mighty mammal. Every day the breasts of this vast, friendly colored woman produce a quart of milk for her own thriving infant and more than another quart for Manhattan's Mothers' Milk Bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Galactic Crisis | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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