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...chief casualty of the new labels is that old standby, the rabbit, which for years has traveled under a host of now illegal pseudonyms. Among them: Arctic seal, Baltic leopard, Belgium beaver, bluerette, castorette, chinchillette, erminette, French sable, Galland squirrel, marmotine, minkony, moline, nutriette and twin beaver. Maximum penalty for mislabeling: $5,000 fine and a year in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FURS: What's in a Name? | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...used to throw them out," Whipple said; "but now I keep them under a special file labeled 'squirrel food'". "Acceptance by present day teaching professors is not important," says Maciver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cosmography Offers New Theory of Universe, Claims Sun Stands Still in Space Below Earth | 4/27/1951 | See Source »

...said one citizen, "he's just another squirrel in the Forest Theater. Why don't they leave him alone?" That is what the council decided last week to do. "Why," said the mayor's wife in retrospect, "Duxbury was just one of those harmless souls who's neither a Democrat nor a Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Unwanted | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...when he died of asthma and T.B. in 1948; his Montparnasse friends remember him as an overpowering gay blade who talked, drank and painted at a furious clip and did all three magnificently. His paintings, on show in a Paris gallery last week, were sad and bony as a squirrel in March-cold and sometimes acid in color, scalpel-sharp in line. They consisted mostly of hollow-chested nudes, their breasts pinched with cold, whose bones and muscles were as clearly delineated as in anatomical drawings and whose eyes were black and full of misery. His landscapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Miserable Nudes | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...have always felt that pigeons were fat and predatory birds, not above sneaking a peanut out from under an innocent squirrel to benefit their position in life. Anyone who has seen a group of pigeons strutting in front of a public building must realize that their motives are not entirely innocent; more than that, pigeons have not shown the same concern for their human masters as have other animals. When was the last time a pigeon rescued a small child from drowning? When was the last time a pigeon's cries awakend the prostrate occupants of a gas-filled room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bird Brains | 6/14/1950 | See Source »

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