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...Bradford Hotel last week, some 14,500 people milled through a maze of cages, inspecting hundreds of fluffy little animals with faces like rabbits and tails like anemic squirrels. The animals were chinchillas; the occasion was the Eastern show of the National Chinchilla Breeders of America, a sort of Westmin ster Kennel Club for rodents and the trade association for one of the strangest businesses in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Regal Rodents | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

Passing Fancy. In Spokane, Wash., Bernice G. Peters, suing for divorce, explained that her husband refused to build a bathroom in their house because "sani tary facilities were something newfangled and wouldn't last." Literary Reflection. In New Westmin ster, B.C., a woman applied to the Director of Vital Statistics for permission to change her name from Dawn Anna Glow to Amber Glow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 28, 1945 | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

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