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Grab Bag. In Paris, police were alerted to watch out for the thief who stole a leather case containing a live, nine-foot python...
...Grace Wiley had never been afraid, she handled her reptiles patiently and lovingly, filled one room of her Cypress, Calif, home with over a hundred of them: King and Queen, the cobras; Roxy, the nine-foot python; Perky, the water moccasin. They made her hobby, her life's study and her reputation as one of the nation's top herpetologists. Last week she readily agreed to pose for pictures with her newest pet: a five-foot cobra she had just received from India...
...those who looked long enough, every member of Acrobats' painted cast came alive. Among the performers: a smiling, bloody-handed centurion; a drum-beating dwarf; a quizzical, bare-legged blonde selling Eskimo Pies; a mean-eyed young man in the coils of a friendly python; a crowned, repulsively ugly juggler embracing a beautiful purple ball; trapeze artists necking on a safety net; an old maid caressing a toothed fish. They all hinted at a mingled horror and loveliness which might be the nature of Beckmann's still-undiscovered...
...worldwide food shortage also affected the animal market. In some places, monkeys were being eaten instead of exported. Large animals could not be kept in captivity, awaiting U.S. dealers, or shipped, because there was not enough food to feed them. Only pythons (worth $5 to $10 a foot in the U.S.) were relatively unaffected. They are often caught after they have stolen and gorged a whole sheep or goat. The lucky dealer could ship a python to the U.S. and sell it without ever having to feed...
...North Stopford led his XXXIII Corps last week, his flock of ducks went also. Every mess tent had its complement of parrots and parakeets. But even the Fourteenth's men thought last week that a sergeant had reached the ultimate. His new pride & joy was a 10-ft. python, maintained in sheer defiance of Hilaire Bellocs advice on pets: "A python, I should not advise; it needs a doctor for its eyes, and has the measles yearly...