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...have seen a specimen of Willoughby's ragfish. Few would care to. It looks crushed and anemic, has few bones. Ichthyologists think it may belong to a family of specialized and degenerate percoids (perch, sunfish). Only six have been taken from their habitat, the deep Pacific waters off the North American coast. Seattle residents and visitors may now see a Willoughby's ragfish in an aquarium unique in the U. S., if not in the world. George Yaeger is the Scandinavian manager of the Port of Seattle's Frozen Fish Department. No scientist, he is an oldtime...
...indignations as he did much of his music. When a French editor undertook to improve on one of Beethoven's symphonies. Berlioz introduced a monolog into his Lelio cursing out all such desecrators: "They are like the vulgar birds that swarm in our public gardens and perch arrogantly on the most beautiful statues; and when they have fouled the forehead of Jupiter, the arm of Hercules, or the bosom of Venus, strut about with as much pride and satisfaction as if they had laid a golden egg." Composing never made a living for Berlioz and his double menage...
Thus went one of Jesus Christ's most noted miracles, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee which was variously called Tiberias or Gennesaret. The loaves were of barley. The fish may have been bream, sheatfish, carp or perch, all of which abounded in Galilee...
Santa Lucia granite, seaworn boulders rolled up from the shore and heaved into place by Poet Jeffers for his own perch. For several years the stones rose in their courses; as they began to invade the upper air, a hawk dropped down to haunt them. Now Hawk Tower stands 30 ft. high; in its turreted top is a socket to hold a flag pole to flaunt a flag, though neither hawks nor Poet Jeffers favor flapping flags...
...Glasses perch on the nose of U. S. Trade Commissioner Harold D. Robison at Shanghai. As he sat in his parked car last week at No. 812 North Szechwan Rd., Mr. Robison saw clearly that the Japanese Naval truck which suddenly sideswiped and dented his car was No. 16460. Vexed, Mr. Robison stepped on his starter, chased the truck to Japanese Naval Headquarters at Hongkew. Japanese in the truck jeered Mr. Robison...