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...Shanghai, Japanese Inventor Akishige Matsumoto, in a patriotic fervor because of Japan's war shortage of gasoline, announced he had invented a "vegetarian auto which . . . grazes on fruits and vegetables...
Last week a paleontologist announced that he had found the answer to a question which has preoccupied paleontologists for years: could the sauropod walk out of water? It is fairly well established that the sauropods, big vegetarian dinosaurs weighing up to 40 tons, were dependent for their existence on bodies of water in which grew vast quantities of water plants. Some fossil men have also supposed that, on account of their great weight, the monsters had to stay in the water all the time for its buoying effect-that on dry land their legs would buckle. Others disagreed...
Readers who liked Clarence Day's Life With Father and other such recent memoirs should be glad to meet Bertha Damon's Grandmother Griswold. Author Damon was brought up by her grandmother in a small Connecticut town according to the gospel of Thoreau. Plain living in the vegetarian Griswold household never quite achieved Thoreau's budget of 27? a week. But to little Bertha it seemed a narrow miss...
Died. William Childs, 72, co-founder (with his late brother, Samuel) of Childs Restaurants; of a heart attack; in Bernardsville, N. J. A strict vegetarian, he was ousted from the management of his restaurants in 1929 by carnivorous majority stockholders, returned to his first and favorite occupation, farming...
Cabbage & Compote. In Vienna last week, first intimate details of Chancellor Schuschnigg's recent parley with Chancellor Hitler at Berchtesgaden (TIME, Feb. 28) became known. During lunch Vegetarian Hitler ate cooked red cabbage as his pièce de résistance, consumed a fruit compote for dessert. Dr. Schuschnigg and the others consumed cold lobster and "fresh asparagus grown under sun lamps," the Germans said. The talk at luncheon, following the two Chancellors' private conference and agreement, was of horse breeding mainly. The Austrian Chancellor's entourage considered it in bad taste that a high German...