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Royal Confinement. This happens every night until the larvae are enclosed in cocoons to change into motionless pupae. Deprived of the stimulation which they get from, the larvae's squirmings, the workers lose their restlessness. The whole colony marches into a hollow log. After a few days of this...
But the victory is not yet complete. "There are somewhere from 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 physically subnormal children on the continent of Europe. There are other millions in Asia. [And] civilization marches forward upon the feet of healthy children." So, in countries that have food, self-sacrifice...
While "jobbing around" with Bob Crosby's band and others, he collected musty sheet music and old records by King Oliver's Band, Jelly Roll's "Red Hot Peppers" and Armstrong's "Hot Five." After hours Lu took some of the boys to a roadhouse in...
The last of the great middle European giants of the symphony was Gustav Mahler, a Bohemian Jew who lived most of his life in Vienna. Like Richard Wagner, whom he worshipped musically, Mahler was a complicated introvert. He made his living by conducting other men's operas. His own...
His most famous scat skit is Melody in 4-F, the gaga saga of a G.I. which made the musicomedy Let's Face It famous. In this, while triple-tonguing his "de-geet gat giddle," Kaye mimicked an inductee pleading for deferment because of bad ears, flat feet, ulcers...