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...glanced across the turgid river, then shrieked and scurried into the ramshackle house after her husband. Dee Wyatt popped his head out, took one look, and straightway headed for the home of Bramlett Bateman, nearest white farmer. He and his wife, he informed Farmer Bateman, had seen a monster. Neither of them had been drinking. Farmer Bateman skeptically stepped over to the river, then let out a whoop. Sure enough, there was a monster, "as big as a box car and as slick as a slimy elephant without legs." Farmer Bateman rushed off to Newport, six miles away...
This White River story was warmly welcomed by the nation's press, for 1937 has been a dull year for monsters. Preliminary indications were that Newport's might be the monster-of-the-year. Twelve reputable citizens bore out Discoverers Bateman and Wyatt. Farmer Bateman and the Newport chamber of commerce built a fence around the viewing spot, charged 25? admission. Signs were tacked up on all roads-"This Way to the White River Monster." The story skyrocketed when the chamber of commerce announced that Charles B. Brown, a diver from Memphis, had been hired to investigate...
...Brown went down into the swirling river, rendered muddier than usual by recent rains. He reported that visibility was only three inches, came up after 75 minutes of fumbling around. In the afternoon he descended again, returned with no report. Far into the night spectators amused themselves at a "Monster Dance" beneath flickering lamps. Next day attendance fell off, but Diver Brown descended again. When an air valve jammed in the helmet of his diving suit, he popped unexpectedly to the surface, still having seen nothing. By this time the crowds had melted completely away and so, presently, did Diver...
...kept normally at a temperature of 85°, the plant had stood inert for five years in a box of earth four feet square. Three new leaves appeared but quickly withered and died. After this came a sprout which The Bronx scientists rightly took as a sign that the monster was about to bloom at last. By last week the spadix, a yellow central spike, was 6 ft. 1½ in. long and thick as a telephone pole at its base. In, the final 24 hr. of its rise it grew one inch. The whole plant...
This week General Fidel Davila, taking over the Bilbao sector for the Rightists, won praise from Franco by loosing a thunderbolt attack on the Basque defenses. A monster fleet of 63 airplanes sent bombs whistling into the suburb of Lezama, more into the trenches at strategic Lemona Mountain. After heavy artillery preparation and machine gun strafing from the air, 30 tanks lumbered up the slope followed by Rightist infantry. Announced the Insurgents: "The hill is entirely in our hands...