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...airline severed by a turtle's bite. Caswell swims down several fathoms and dispatches the devilfish, slitting its ink sac with one blow of his trusty fish knife. Lowell Thomas explains that the captain's baldness is the result of a skull slash by a deep-sea monster, but makes no effort to analyze why the captain swims so awkwardly or why "a man of steel" should keep himself so plump. Killers of the Sea contains some really good shots of a white man and a Negro in a dory being towed and finally upset by a huge...
...maze, Margery did her best to keep up with him, was beguiled into one blind alley after another. By the time Luke was an assistant professor of educational psychology in a midwestern university, Margery thought the goal was in sight. What Luke saw was not a goal but the monster at the end of the labyrinth. Before it was too late he resigned his job, took his wife and son back to the old home town where they belonged...
...intimately connected with haberdashery: Inverness (tweed capes), Glen Urquhart (gents' suitings), Glen Garry (highland bonnets). Ben Nevis, best publicized mountain in Scotland, is only 30 mi. to the southwest. In August 1933 when workmen were blasting a new motor road along the west shore of the lake, the monster was first "seen." Eyewitnesses during the following season ranged from hard-bitten big game hunters to impressionable lady schoolteachers. Their descriptions of the beast varied in detail but agreed roughly that it was 40 to 50 ft. long with a large whiskery head and eight humps; that it could travel...
Whatever the Monster was, it was a godsend to Loch Ness hotelkeepers, tourist agencies, omnibus operators. At the height of the 1934 excitement newshawks suddenly remembered the Benedictine monastery at Fort Augustus, at the southern and deepest end of the lake. There they found jovial, garrulous 83-year-old the Right Rev. Sir David Hunter Blair, Bart. Sir David is more than a British baronet. He is a onetime captain of Scottish militia, an antiquarian, author of five books of memoirs, a Benedictine monk and titular Abbot of Dunfermline. Abbot Sir David has been an Abbot Emeritus of Fort Augustus...
Nebulous though their plans are at present, the Knights of the Hose will probably manage entertainment at the monster NAPR annual conventions. "Oil Conventions are pretty rough as a rule but our boys are different." said Chief Pump Knight Shanks last week. "The boys have to relax sometimes." Plans for fun at the convention in Rochester, N. Y. next autumn will be shaped by the Grand Knights of the Hose's governing body, the Free Privy Council...