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...watched with alarm a steady flow of Germans into Iran (TiME, Aug. 11). Some were "specialists" supposed to be working for Iran's new Trans-Iranian Railway, in factories and public works. Some were "archeologists" filled with a wide-eyed interest in ancient Persia. Some wore only the moth-eaten disguise of tourists. According to British calculation, Iran had a tight little nucle us of 3,000 Nazis by the middle of August...
...glass eyes of the slightly moth-eaten stuffed bear on the staircase of London's St. James's Club should have bugged out last week. The ghost of suavely arrogant, egg-domed ex-Member George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and British Foreign Secretary of the 1920s, must have shivered in its shroud. Founded in 1757, St. James's is famed for its claret, its caricatures by Sir Joshua Reynolds and the exclusiveness of its membership, mostly confined to diplomats from the topmost social drawer. A Tsarist prince once lost ?10,000 in its card rooms. Last...
...single-toned variety on the drab soil of Oregon, a white variety on the white alkali soil of the Amargosa Desert, a black variety on the West's black lava belts. Such adaptations sometimes occur before the very eyes of biologists: during the industrialization of Germany a black moth replaced a former pale variety in factory areas...
...Cott quotes a fellow naturalist: "In . . . Tanganyika a small moth resembling a bird-dropping was not uncommon. On one occasion I observed what I thought to be one on a leaf, but after a close examination from a distance of only a few inches I discovered (to my own satisfaction) that it was after all only a bird-dropping. Just as I turned away the said bird-dropping flew...
...Babe failed to show up, and Plumber Wright's cousin Charles Barkworth, who was out to break the will. Cousin Charles and supporters told strange tales of Plumber Wright: how he kept a pistol on his table while he ate, how he deceived small children into thinking moth balls were candy, how he threatened to water his father's corpse when his mother suggested watering the lilies around the old man's bier...