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...request of the Navy, which is responsible for many Pacific islands, the National Research Council sent Mollusk Expert Dr. Francis X. Williams to Africa to look for the big snail's enemies. In Kenya he found small, fierce, carnivorous snails boring into big achatinas with sharp, file-like teeth. He also found snail-eating beetles, and took both finds back to Hawaii, where they are still penned up carefully for observation. Some biologists fear that if the beetles and small snails exterminate the giant snails, they might look around for other food and become pests themselves...
Like any suburban commuter, Hensch found his wife waiting in a car by the field. He gave her the flowers, the porcelain snail, the rat's fur walrus and the note. She translated it haltingly. It said: "On the 100th day of the blockade God lives with you flyers. Health, happiness and skill for all of you and a quick return to the old days, and the joyous end of the blockade...
...engines growled on and Baker, with nothing to do, took a box from the ledge above the instrument panel. He unwrapped it-more presents from grateful Germans: a little porcelain snail, some flowers, and a toy walrus made out of rat's fur. There was a note addressed: An unseren Blokade Flieger. Hensch could not read it, but he said: "Wait till my wife gets ahold of that. She'll start sending them food packages. She's always sending these Germans presents...
Since 1929, stubborn-jawed Dr. Claude Heman Barlow has been studying bilharziasis, a disease of the bladder caused by snail-borne parasites common in Egypt. In 1944, he infected himself with the parasites (TIME, Dec. 6, 1946). The experiment cost him his own health, but it gave science some valuable clues for controlling the disease. This week Dr. Barlow, 71, received the Medal of Merit from President Truman...
...incident involving Bogart and a lonely taxi driver has brilliant dialogue and real human feeling. This and the splendid acting of Agues Moorchead as a pestiferous, petulant "femme fatale" give the show its only speed. When Bogart and Miss Bacall get together the picture moves along at a lazy snail's pace. During the last reel the two lovers hike off to Peru, presumably forever. This seems like a very fine idea...