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...Snailman Heaton fairly glows when he describes how snails have met problems that bedevil many Britons: "The snail may be slow, but it's efficient. It disposes of housing troubles by carrying its house on its back. It lays its own roads by glandular secretion. Above all, being an hermaphrodite, any snail can mate with any other.* Focusing your attention on a snail . . . is a soothing occupation-especially these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Compleat Conchophilist | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

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