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Lyle Tara, a reckless 19-year-old Irish lad, is that possessed of the sea that his mother's heart sometimes aches. Since he was a shaver along the Santa Cruz waterfront, on California's Monterey Bay, fishermen had taught him the ways of sailing, knew him as a lad to trust with a boat. But no boy with the sea in his heart can scan the horizon long without yearning. Lyle Tara yearned to sail the 3,000-odd miles to Cocos Island, off the Costa Rican coast, where legend says pirates of the Spanish Main used...
...these tickets? That's a perfectly fair question. All you have to do is to pick the twins in the above picture. You might decide Joe and Shaver are the twins. Well, just put your answer down on paper and send it care of this paper. Be sure to include either 24 Lampoons, 12 Monthlies, six Advocates, or one CRIMSON along with your answer...
...jump at the answer, or you'll get fooled. We've given you Joe and Shaver merely as a sample answer. We might have said Shaver and Louis. You've got to think it out for yourself...
Died. Colonel Jacob Schick, 59, inventor of the Schick Dry Shaver; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. It was his theory that by losing awareness of time he could live to be 120. Born in Ottumwa, Iowa, he went to work in a copper mine in his early childhood, became an Alaska prospector at 20; enlisted in the U.S. Army for the War with Spain; in the World War supervised transport of troops through England. An inveterate inventor of boats, machines, engineering methods, he speeded up gas mask production by a device enabling one girl to fill 20 masks...
...SCHICK, retired lieutenant colonel in the Army Engineers Corps, invented the Schick electric dry shaver manufactured in New Haven, drew big royalties. In 1933 he formed a Bahama corporation to receive his royalties, thereby making a saving in taxes. In 1935 by special dispensation of his friend Prime Minister Bennett of Canada he became a Canadian citizen, without the customary five years' steady residence. He formed more Bahama companies and transferred a big block of securities to them and could not be stopped in any way from doing so because he was no longer a U. S. citizen...