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After talking to the discoverers, Diver Brown said, "In my opinion it's nothing more than a large fish-maybe a catfish." He had a razor-edged, eight-foot harpoon prepared. In Washington, the Bureau of Fisheries said it might be an alligator gar, which reputedly grows, sometimes, to be 20 ft. long. Other guesses: water-logged tree trunk, sunken barge, eruption of subterranean gases throwing up leaf accumulation, devil fish, sturgeon, or Old Blue, the legendary giant catfish of the Mississippi who every so often gets stuck in a canal lock or nudges in the bottom...
...Leftists in groups such as the so-called "Abraham Lincoln" and "George Washington" battalions. Last week they were calling upon U. S. sympathizers to send them necessities and comforts. From Manhattan sailed a 35-ton "by request" shipment, containing such eagerly demanded items as cigarets, chocolate bars, razor blades, soap, bottled fruit juices...
...covered about 5,288 miles in 63 hr., 17 min.-second longest flight in history* and one of the most important in charting an uncharted airway. The trio dragged themselves to the home of Brigadier General George C. Marshall, field commandant, drank his cognac, gobbled his breakfast, used his razor, then fell into his beds while the world applauded...
Wasn't it just supposition that the strikers whom the police fought in Chicago had actually been going to attack the Republic plant? "I don't know. Most of them had clubs and weapons. One man even had an old-fashioned razor. Maybe they were out to catch butterflies...
...after which Mrs. Benes was decorated in return. Another day there was a palace banquet and before President Benes left for home the "Smartest Little Statesman" was so much on his toes as to flatter Boy King Peter with the gift of a gold-fitted dressing case featuring a razor...