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...this alarm the Norwegian Government remained deaf, ostensibly at least, thus conciliating the Danish Government. Not so certain patriotic Norwegian hunters! Vowing that they would get to East Greenland before the official Danish expeditions led by Dr. Lauge Koch, they improvised their own expedition, rushed off to puffin-land, took the puffin by the bill and nailed Norway's colors to Mygg-bukta...
...stoutly repeated Mr. Harman, "and as the sovereign of Lundy, I coined puffins and half-puffins as I have a right to do!" Counsel for Mr. Harmun argued that his 1,150-acre-island, 12 mi. off the north coast of Devon, is "not only outside the British Realm but outside the rest of the world.'' They declared that it was chiefly this circumstance which attracted Mr. Harman to Lundy, caused him to buy the island in 1925 for the round sum of ?10,000 ($50,000). Since then, self-styled Sovereign Harman has successfully exacted rent from...
...Iceland-conscious. Omitted from the festivities were the 21 bleary, rain-drenched Faroe Islands which straggle through the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetlands and have been Danish territory since 1386. Life is hard in the Faroes. Their industries are cod-fishing, sheep-raising, knitting golf sweaters, plucking puffin feathers. Their amusements are negligible. Brooding over their Icelandic slight, last week the Faroe Islanders took action...
Coins denominated the puffin and half-puffin-respectively worth a British penny and half-penny-have just gone into circulation among the 40 dwellers on Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, also called "Puffin Island." Both half and whole puffins bear the likeness of Martin Coles Harman, Esq., London merchant, who bought Puffin Island in 1925 and plays at being its king. On the "tails" side of a puffin is the head of a puffin (sea bird with a parrotlike beak and white cheeks). Puffin Islanders also have puffin stamps. red and green, in puffin and half-puffin de nominations...
Anthony Asquith, who was one of Oxford's most flagrant esthetes, called "Puffin," three years ago, went, last year, to Hollywood to study U. S. cinema technique. He was shown about by Douglas Fairbanks and Charles Chaplin. He is considered the best director in England today. His next film will be The Cottage at Darmoor...