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Instructive but comparatively tame were the 18th and 19th-Century paintings which Director Plimpton and Stockholm's National Museum Curator Sixten Strömbom had included. Discreetly confined to historical art, the show stopped with such established fin de siècle cosmopolitans as Anders Zorn. Ernst Josephson, contained no work by such up-&-coming young Swedish painters as Ewald Dahlskog and Leander Engstr...
...asked (but not received) $10,000 for a solenodon. Shortly after the trip to New York the male died, but a few weeks after her arrival the female gave birth, surprising the entire staff of the zoo. The baby died in two weeks. The mother still lives, is completely tame, completely stupid, and follows people around like a puppy. She is fed on raw beef and freshly killed pigeons, but will eat practically anything if given the opportunity...
...mouse-supplier for London drawing rooms is Mrs. E. D. Blowers, the "Mouse Queen." For ten years Mrs. Blowers has been breeding mice of all colors-she now has 20,000 mice at her "mousery" in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. She estimates that there are 500,000 tame mice in England...
Mice are adult at the age of twelve weeks, "old men" at two years. Six weeks after birth they are quite tame and can be taught tricks (climbing ladders, working treadmills). They are ready to mate at the age of seven weeks, but wise breeders wait until the buck has reached ten weeks, the doe twelve. Each buck has six wives at a time, but every couple of months all but one doe are taken out to give the buck a rest. A mouse is pregnant 19 to 21 days, litters are from five to ten mouselets. Bucks are never...
...about than strikes and the President's defeat on the Court Plan, observers suspected when Mr. Garner put Mississippi's urbane Pat Harrison at the head of a crew among whom only Wisconsin's La Follette really thirsts for millionaire blood. The others were Massachusetts' tame Walsh, Utah's sick King, Georgia's bland George, calm Capper of Kansas. From the House, where quick thinking by Representative O'Connor had kept command of the expedition, and therefore its publicity, in Congressional hands instead of passing it over to the Treasury (TIME, June...