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With printing and the late Renaissance, manuscript-making entered its long decline. The last book in the show was a 17th Century Calligraphic Specimen, a prayer bedecked with gay flourishes and signed by one Friar Didace of Paris, self-described as "a poor little Capuchin, very unworthy...
While all the other good Marmotae in the country were out doing their bit for the weather bureau yesterday, the Medical School's specimen was under enforced hibernation...
...singing thunder of a Mexican Dawn" (brown), and soon to be driven by Cadillac Boss John F. Gordon on his Arizona ranch. It has kip-side suede trim, antiqued silver hardware, steer-head escutcheons on the doorsills, and saddle-stitched pistol holsters on the doors. The fourth "sybaritic specimen" was a sedan in "Caribbean Day Break" (green), which would go to some other G.M. executive...
...very dead porpoise has suddenly come alive to the nostrils of visitors to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. So startling was the odor that museum staff members still can't agree why the stuffed specimen was hastily whisked off exhibit and exiled to a corner of the Museum's fifth floor...
...experienced what I am told is the customary sense of embarrassment at having a fellow-creature act as one's beast of burden, but mine was such a wiry specimen, weighing as he did well over 80 Ibs. and amazingly fleet for a man of 60 with tuberculosis, that I quickly overcame my compunctions...