Word: taxidermist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brash, noisemaking ten-year-old, he lived in a world full of wonders; as a teenager, he seems gross and unimaginative. Maggie Cassidy was taken, like most of Kerouac's recently published books, from an apparently limitless attic filled before On the Road appeared. For the literary taxidermist, such finds can be profitable. "In the bleak, birds squeak," the Beat One interjects during a soliloquy. This specimen, with its weird vein of Gertrude Stein, should be stuffed, mounted, labeled, and sent to the Smithsonian Institution...
Died. Fred Sauter Jr., 86, taxidermist who stuffed the head of the bison on the buffalo nickel, and whose shop on Manhattan's Bleecker Street once delivered 125 neatly packed rats for a movie version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, also provided the stuffed white Peking ducks that were passed off as seagulls when Ethel Merman blazed away at them in Annie Get Your Gun; in Mineola, L.I. Sauter was a taxidermist of the old school, a conservative who preferred to let his subjects keep their own skulls...
...turn-of-the-century London waxworks, Redhead casts Gwen as Essie Whimple, a mouse-humble cockney-accented taxidermist of crime sensations. When the wax cools on her tableau of a purple-scarf murder before the clues do, and the strangler begins stalking her, poor Essie hides out as a showgirl with a neighboring theatrical troupe. For Essie, a spinster of 29, whose lips have never touched liquor, cigarettes or men, the greatest thrill is to be close to the show's American strong man (Richard Kiley). The problem: who will get whose man first-Scotland Yard or Essie Whimple...
...bagged his first quarry: a prince-sized (12 ft. 10 in. long, 5 ft. 9 in. high at the shoulder) Indian bull bison. Warily clutching his gun, Nimrod Bunker posed for the camera with his solemn host, the Maharajah of Mysore, and the carcass, which was sent to a taxidermist for mounting...
...well at Little America. When no one wanted the job of collecting penguins and seals for the American Museum of Natural His tory, Siple volunteered, even though "I don't have a merit badge in skinning." By the expedition's end he was a proficient if dogged taxidermist. He learned, too, how to train and handle a dog team. Among the theories: never bend down, never fall down, and never excrete near them. For 22 months in 1928-30, as Admiral Byrd recalls it, "Paul did a man's work...