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...small pen at the edge of the woods while they pursued art. One hot morning a fat rattler came down the mountain "walking to water," slithered into the pen. No more frightened than the infant Hercules, Baby Sandy went on playing until Alex Brook passed by, saw the snake, snatched up his child with one sweep, killed the snake with another...
Died. The world's only captive bushmaster, most dangerous snake of the American tropics, caught last month by Douglas D. H. March (TIME, Nov. 20); in Panama City...
...move to organize rallies for the varsity football team would meet with unbounded enthusiasm. Among the upperclassmen at Harvard there has for years existed an aversion toward those organized orgies which from a prelude to major athletic events in many an American institution of learning. The bonfire, the snake dance, and the night shirt parade are no doubt wholesome fun, but they are burdens which the scholastic atmosphere of Cambridge has long been spared. A terse crystallization of the local attitude toward such childish abracadabra, shared by team and student body alike, was given in the 1928-29 Athletic Report...
...last year Douglas D. H. March, a tall, curly-haired, young snake collector from Haddon Heights, N. J., had been bitten 14 times by nine varieties of poisonous snake-fer-de-lance. moccasin, copperhead, palm viper. Godman's viper and four subspecies of rattlesnake. Doctors told him that one more bite would probably be the last. Mused he: "I like to say that I am through handling snakes forever, but I know I'm not." Last week Snakeman March emerged unbitten from the jungles of Panama's Darien district proudly bearing to his new serpentarium...
...envied him his catch was Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed herpetologist of New York's Bronx Zoo. Ever since the night some 40 years ago when a bushmaster, sent by a Trinidad collector, chased him around his attic room, Dr. Ditmars has had a special regard for this snake. He has had three specimens, but the last one died 20 years ago. He went to Panama looking for one last year, again this year, with no luck...