Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amadeo Peter Giannini, San Francisco banker, heard in Germany that his stepfather. Banker Lorenzo ("Boss") Scatena, was dying, boarded ship at Bremerhaven Aug. 13 at 11:50 a. m., raced by boat, train, airplane, reached San Francisco Aug. 22 at 8:13 a. m. Total elapsed time: nine days, five hr., 23 min. But Banker Scatena died several hours before his stepson arrived...
...that the male flea, which is much smaller than the female, cannot go without food for long, breaks down under the strain of heavy work, is too highly strung for circus life. Of the 500 flea species known, the human flea (Pulex irritans) is the only kind used in trained flea performances. Fleamen feed their healthy performers once a day, by simply rolling up their sleeves (usually the left one).* Sickly pets are fed more often. Since fleas live only a few weeks, a trainer must always have a large stock on hand. New, untrained fleas are kept in bottles...
Shockheaded, Missouri-born Bernarr Macfadden, Manhattan physical culturist and body-love publisher, with his large family of daughters and 200 health pilgrims, traveled by special train last week from Manhattan to the foot of the Castle Crags, near Redding, northern California. They reached there on Mr. Macfadden's 62nd birthday. While the pilgrims watched, dignitaries of the Redding Chamber of Commerce disclosed a bronze plaque fixed to the central peak, and unveiled a $70,000 airplane beacon (which Mr. Macfadden had paid for). The plaque designated the mountain as Macfadden Peak (TIME, July 7) "in recogni- tion...
Clarence De Mar, marathon runner, schoolteacher, on his way to lecture, missed his train, trotted 38 mi. from Harrison to Portland. Me., took another train, got there on time...
Thornton Cooke, president of Kansas City's Columbia National Bank, awoke on a Pullman in Manhattan's Grand Central Station to find that a switch engine had gone somewhere with the train valet and with his only suit. Banker Cooke ordered an invalid's chair, swaddled himself in Pullman Co. blankets, had himself scooted through the depot to the Hotel Biltmore...