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Through a pea-soup fog the fishing schooner Isabelle Parker, out of Boston, footed it north one night last week toward Brown's Bank, off the Nova Scotia coast. To Seaman Fred Bourque, on the bow watch, the fog seemed to thicken as dawn came. Suddenly, 20 feet dead ahead, a great silhouette showed. Fred Bourque shouted a warning to Billy Oilman at the wheel, ran aft. In less time than it takes to gut a cod the Isabelle Parker had piled halfway through the Gloucesterman Edith C. Rose, southbound with her hold stuffed with catch from Brown...
...Nova Scotia, excited fishermen and the captain of a pilot boat swore that they had seen an unidentified "submarine" cruise along the coast, enter Halifax Harbor. Canadian destroyers, minesweepers, and patrol planes searched fruitlessly. Nova Scotia is also a favorite resort of sea serpents...
Cold as the State of Maine and ruggedly lumpy as ever were the Hartley landscapes. But his figures - first he has painted in years-included several strong studies of Nova Scotia fishermen and an extraordinary memory portrait of the late Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, "as seen at night at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 15th Street" (see cut). Its tonic virtue: that it brought to life without sentiment an imaginative artist whose seclusion and eccentricity delayed until after death his fame as one of the great 19th-Century U. S. painters...
...ordinary nova is a star which flares up suddenly, usually increasing its brightness by several thousand times in a few days; then it fades, in a month or two, to about half its maximum brightness, passing through several different physical stages, as revealed by its spectrum...
...Wachmann Nova, however, is expected to change perhaps fifty times as slowly as the ordinary nova, thus allowing astronomers to study its phenomena with careful observations. The nova is located in the constellation Orion...