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Because Publisher George Baker Longan has a snake phobia, it is many a long year since the Kansas City Star has printed news of reptiles (TIME, Aug. 18, 1930). When references to snakes are unavoidable, the Star generally compromises by identifying them as "moving objects." Last week Star editors were horrified when a syndicate comic strip, "Moon Mullins," revealed Uncle Willie's wife Mamie as a onetime snake charmer, showed her performing in a freak show with a huge serpent coiled around her neck. Hastily the resourceful Star substituted non-serpentine "Moon Mullins" strips from...
...musing Vagabond; the name India, even as a richly-patterned flying carpet of an Oriental story, carries him away from this screechy, glary world of steam shovels and oath bills to a land whose proverbial wealth and mosques and snake charmers and fire walkers and clever elephants is exceeded in interest and enchantment only perhaps by the richness and beauty of its philosophy and literature. On a carpet woven of these finest thoughts and sentiments of India the Vagabond is thus flying today. It is the "Rig Veda." To those who would be led by this sacred book they will...
Notable is the magazine's "Ask Adventure" department, founded 18 years ago with a board of seven experts to answer readers' questions. Today 98 experts in all corners of the world answer such ques-tions as whether a Gila monster's bite is fatal, whether a snake can milk a cow, the status of slavery in Ethiopia, the hazards of existence in the Everglades, the respective fighting merits of lions and gorillas. For replying to sharp-eyed readers the experts get 50? per answer. Few members of the Explorers' Club can find technical fault with Adventure...
...Chicago's suburban Brookfield Zoo, whence Curator of Reptiles Mrs. Grace Wiley last fortnight was discharged for letting a deadly Bandy-Bandy snake disappear completely (TIME, Sept. 30), zoo attendants combed the reptile house, while police prowled over surrounding country, mothers kept their children indoors. Finally, a cleaning man swept up the loose leaves that had blown into the reptile house, picked up an armful with Bandy-Bandy asleep in their midst. Meanwhile ebullient ex-Curator Wiley advised Chicagoans who want to bathe rattlesnakes, "Get them in a good humor first and then bathe in lukewarm water. They like...
...facts. "You say Mr. Apted says 30, 60 tons. Well, he's about right. Enough tutoring school notes to fill a truck came out of this building every year, I should say. Two years ago, I got two good suits fellers had left. One time some boy left a snake in a cage in his room; we didn't find it for three or four days I guess, because it was pretty near dead. We didn't know what to do with it, so we called up the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and they sent...