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...there was a witness. On the bridge of the German tanker Phœbus, butting the storm under ballast, stood Capt. Dalldorf, taking a turn himself on the second mate's midnight watch. Gazing upward at the ugly sky, he saw, to his astonishment, the flashing red & green lights of an airship...
...Kansas City last week the cock robin which has been attacking its own reflection in a window pane was still at it (TIME, March 27). Its mate was supplying it regularly with fat worms, big bugs. Once it fell upon a blue jay which appeared in the yard, drove it away. Apparently wearied by this diversion the cock robin retreated for a few hours to a telephone wire. As the 17th day passed its attacks grew less & less vicious...
Wild waltzing mice are rare. They seldom find another of their kind to mate with. They seem to be less hardy than normal mice. Waltzing mothers often tangle their babies so tightly in the nest material or in their own long tails that the mouselets suffocate or starve. Captivity and inbreeding are necessary to perpetuate the trait in whole families...
King Kong (RKO). A cinema producer (Robert Armstrong), his leading lady (Fay Wray), his first mate (Bruce Cabot) and their entourage visit a remote Pacific island to make a nature picture. The natives seize Fay Wray, tie her up as a sacrifice to their god, King Kong. Presently the producer and his associates catch their first glimpse of King Kong. He is a gigantic whatnot resembling an ape, 50 feet tall, equipped with large teeth and a thunderous snarl. He picks up Fay Wray in one hand as though she were a frog and shuffles off through the jungle, breaking...
...producer, the first mate and several companions set off after Kong. They soon discover that the jungle is full of antediluvian hobgoblins. They try to cross a lake on a raft and a snake-necked brontosaurus dumps them in the water, bites some of them dead. Finally they catch up with Kong. He flicks all except the producer and first mate into a crevasse, puts Fay Wray on top of a dead tree while he wins a wrestling match with a tyrannosaurus. Thumping his chest in horrid triumph he then carries Miss Wray to his mountain eyrie. The first mate...