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Among the most elaborate trapping mechanisms is that of the Dionaea (Venus's-flytrap). Indigenous to North and South Carolina, the Dionaea is a rosette of leaves, three to six inches across, rising from a rootstock more or less horizontally. The upper part of the leaf consists of two dished lobes whose outer margins have a row of coarse teeth. The plant appears to have been discovered by Colonial Governor Arthur Dobbs of North Carolina...
...orchestra surged into the Tannhäuser Bacchanale a hush spread over the backstage throng of greasepainted singers and grimy sceneshifters. The next few minutes would tell the story of Marjorie Lawrence's first comeback in opera. Gesturing from her couch, she smiled triumphantly and sang Venus' lines with a pearly soprano as lucent as ever...
...part of Venus, usually sung by a contralto, had been specially picked for Soprano Lawrence's comeback: it is perhaps the only part in all opera that can be sung from start to finish without having to stand or walk. For a soprano of Marjorie Lawrence's range its contralto depths offered no serious hurdles. She is not content to rest on last week's laurels. After the performance, as she held court in her dressing room, somebody recalled that she had made her Metropolitan debut as athletic Brünnhilde. Said she: "I shall sing that...
Dopesters thought that the change would make but little difference in the April election. Same day, standing in front of a huge, nude painting of the birth of Venus in the Morrison Hotel's Mural Room, Ed Kelly had been handed a 6-ft. stack of petitions by his ward heelers re-nominating him as Democratic candidate for Mayor. Ed Kelly had said: "There comes a time in every man's life when he says, 'I've been in long enough, let's give someone else a chance.' But that time...
...Pravda, Red Star, Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda. They get their stories reviewed by Russia's sharp censors, then they race to the cable office. For a time Reuters' Harold King had the edge because he hired a motorcyclist. Nowadays U.P. and A.P., employing two fawn-fast girl runners, Venus and Zena, usually win. But mere speed is not enough for the real scoops. They come as reward, or as lightning surprise...