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...Minnowy little Katherine Rawls of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-without Georgia Coleman, who turned professional last year, to bother her-ran off with the loft. spring board diving title, 132.44 points to Dorothy Poynton's 123.64. Less freckled than she was a year ago but just as versatile, Minnow Rawls broke her own world's record in the 300-meter medley championship, barely missed regaining her 220-yd. breast stroke title which went to Margaret Hoffman of Scranton, Pa. Helen Meany, who was the best platform diver in the U. S. from 1921 to 1928, tried to make...
Speaking of gambusia (TIME, May 1 under Italy) did you know that this useful little minnow was first imported into Greece from Rome some years ago by the American Farm School on the outskirts of Salonica, to combat malaria. deadly scourge of Macedonia and all the Near East? The undrained swamps and ubiquitous containers for conserving the scant rainfall create breeding places for the anopheles mosquito which is the disease carrier. The School now propagates gambusia and each year plants large numbers of them where the)7 will do the most good by eating the larvae of the mosquito. Thanks...
...minnow was last week the hero of Istria...
...Government set the minnow against the mosquitoes. It was the silver-brown "mosquito fish" or gambusia, found only in North & South Carolina ponds. The male is less than an inch long. The female is twice his size and gives birth to live fish. Surface-feeders, they gladly gobble all the mosquito "wigglers" they can hold. Italy bought 200,000 of them every year from U. S. fish dealers and dumped them into the Istrian ponds. They gobbled their weight in "wigglers." Fortnight ago the Italo-German Institute of Marine Biology announced that the gambusia had gobbled malaria clean...
...Katherine ("Minnow") Rawls, 15, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: championships in lowboard diving and the 300-yd. medley swim, with a new world's record of 4:14.4; at the Women's National A. A. U. Championships, in Buffalo. Other titleholders: Lenore Kight, 100-yd., 220-yd., and 500-yd. free style; Margaret Hoffman, 100-yd. breast stroke.; Joan McSheehy, 100-yd. back stroke; Dorothy Poynton, highboard diving...