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Nevertheless, the "boys" and their readers could not quite relax. There was no telling when a two-headed, squirrel-headed whale of a news story would come spouting out of that dry hole...
...hidebound by conventions. So it was no surprise to his stuffier colleagues when his latest contribution to the New England Journal of Medicine was titled: "The Relation of Heart Size to the Time Intervals of the Heartbeat, with Particular Reference to the Elephant and the Whale." It included notes on the slow heartbeats and long electrocardiograph waves of nine circus elephants, and an account of Dr. White's whale hunt off Alaska last summer when he used harpoons as electrodes to get EKG readings of a wild, white (beluga) whale (TIME...
...Association, he declared that reason is as good a guide to religion as faith is. He denounced fundamentalist camp meetings, popular in West Texas, as "emotional whingdings that provide a vacation from thinking." Added Episcopalian Wright, attacking belief in Biblical accounts such as that of Jonah and the whale: "Who does believe those stories that has any mind...
Last week, as the Skipper drove toward Chapel Beach, the Venture swept in its herd, and the small boats closed around more than 150 thrashing whales. Young men and old-like Isaac Higdon, 75, and Bob Newhook, a pothead killer since 1918 -beat empty oil drums and shouted at the top of their voices. The best boatmen in Newfoundland danced their craft among the whales and the long spiked lances stabbed out, turning the frothy water crimson with blood. In its death throes, a whale rammed the boat containing three generations of Higdons. It smashed three planks below the water...
...pilot whale, sometimes called blackfish, which averages eight to ten feet in length (some have measured 24 feet and weighed as much as five tons...