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Father rats pay no attention to their children (they don't know which' are theirs), but mother rats make cozy nests for their six litters a year. They always abandon their young when threatened, but when unmolested show tender regard for their infants' education. No adolescent rat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Outlive the Human Race | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Neither Traps nor Poison. Rats never wash, says Specialist Nicholes, and seem to delight in filth. They are generally smelly, covered with running sores, fleas and lice. In a pinch they will eat their own young-or other rats caught in traps. But when there is food, a rat somehow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Outlive the Human Race | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

"Totally baseless," Belt charged. "No college professor ever suggested such a thing." He also labelled false such assertions that Adams drove a neurotic alligator to Nevada, built booby traps for Halloween Prankaters, and made over $10,000 on similar weird jobs last year.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Employment Office Denies Offering Students as Professional Inebriates | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

Sleep, My Love (Triangle; United Artists) is a rather fishy thriller about a sleek fiend (Don Ameche) who enlists the help of a fake psychiatrist (George Coulouris) to drive his wife (Claudette Colbert) to insanity and/or suicide. Claudette is rich and Ameche is crazy for a gold digger (Hazel Brooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

The substantial blanket not only reflects the sun by day, but traps any heat extant in the earth and pavements, depriving the air of warmth. This imprisoned heat is constantly eating away at the bottom of the ice sheet, the Observatory notes, and streams, sewers, and gutters are swelling by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icy Torrents and Collapsible Roofs Give Examination Blues New Theme | 1/22/1948 | See Source »

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