"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
Off to Trinidad went Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, the Bronx Zoo's much-traveled curator of mammals and reptiles. This time he was looking for parasol ants, which carry leaves and flowers in their mouths, umbrella-fashion.
Because her boat from Australia was delayed and she had a date to sing in Los Angeles, Opera Singer Kirsten Flagstad boarded the Japanese Tatsuta Maru at Honolulu rather than wait for a U. S. boat. When the Tatsuta Maru got to San Francisco, polite customs officials sent a launch...
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