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Commissioner Moses gave his one-sentence reply to the press before Mrs.,, Gristede received it: "If you like the foreign parks so much, why don't you patronize them?" Furious, Citizen Gristede led reporters to Central Park. A cameraman took a picture of a big rat foraging among the pigeons...
Just Fun. In Kansas City, Mrs. Betty West and Mrs. Marian Braidwood went shopping, reported that they saw successively pour out of a department store: 1) a wave of women, 2) a rat, 3) a woman who wailed ". . . he's a pet, he's just having fun," and crammed the rat back into her pocketbook...
Sixty-three years ago infant Manitoba quarreled with Ontario over provincial boundaries. Manitoba incorporated the straggling border settlement of Rat Portage (now Kenora), set up a magistrate, a police force and a jail. So did Ontario...
...worst was also the most recent: the sewerish venality of the press that had contributed its rat's share to the disruption of pre-1940 France. The freedom of the Third Republic's press had been largely interpreted as a license to prostitute itself-to foreign Governments as well as to French politicians...
...Ph.D. when he joined the Army in 1942. His experiment was done on a 45-day furlough at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia. Says Corporal Cornman in this week's Science: "'[These studies] have revealed a selective lethal effect of penicillin upon rat and mouse sarcoma cells, of which a full account will be published later...