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...Finished." The bodies lay on the ground for many hours. Then, to give the mob a better view, the partisans hanged Mussolini and Petacci by their feet from a scaffold on the Piazza. "Hah!" jeered an onlooker, "Mussolini has become a pig...
...laymen have ever heard of the golden hamster-but they are likely to hear of it from now on. Thousands of hamsters are being raised in U.S., British and Canadian laboratories. The furry, golden-brown, short-tailed rodent is a serious rival to the guinea pig...
Laboratoiy workers consider the hamster's laboratory qualifications practically ideal: it is even more susceptible to human diseases than the guinea pig. The gestation period is the shortest known for a mammal-15 days, 21 hours. It begins to mate by its 43rd day, bears its first litter at the age of two months. Thereafter, until the age of one year, when it stops bearing, it can deliver a litter of two to 15 young every month...
...hamster is slightly smaller than a guinea pig and looks like a toy bear. It eats practically anything: carrots, cabbage, lettuce, peanuts, dog chow, calf meal. It drinks no water, getting all the liquid it needs from leafy vegetables. At mealtimes, it stows all its food in huge pouches in its cheeks; later it empties the pouches and chews at leisure. Its only defects as a laboratory animal: it likes to fight other hamsters, and a hamster, if disturbed during a delivery, may eat her young...
...raised succulent beer-radishes on the little island, while his two old sisters, Martha and Anna, sailing up & down at opposite ends of a seesaw, had pumped the Danube water over the crop. "Bolshevist swine," said Gauleiter Stoltz, when he saw the Fischers after the affair of the pig. "Lord & Lady of Radish Island, and two old crows." Old Anton rose from his seat in the beer garden, carefully removed the Gauleiter's spectacles, and smacked both sides of the Nazi's fat face until his old arm was tired...