Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Living by Larceny. The dead man was François Vintenon, a habitué of Paris' Latin Quarter. The sensitive, introverted son of a well-to-do merchant, François had joined a group of Left Bank surrealists. He was tall and thin; his friends said he had the face of a "perverse angel." He wrote poems which nobody understood. He lived by stealing. After the German invasion, François' father, who had turned collaborationist in order to save his business, persuaded his son to write for a Nazi publishing enterprise at 10,000 francs...
...Nova Scotian seamen this was serious business. The Quero Bank is the mainstay of their fresh fish industry. It is close enough to shore (just over 200 miles) for them to chug out, ice down a load of cod, haddock and halibut, and get back in five to six days. If foreign trawlers continued to shove them off Quero, Canadians would have to go twice as far, to the Grand Bank off Newfoundland, for less profitable salt...
...Dominion Government it was a ticklish problem. Last week Fisheries Minister Hedley Francis Gregory Bridges pointed to the difficulty. Ten affidavits received from masters and mates of fisher men told of damage done but had not said what foreign trawlers had done it. Moreover, the Quero Bank was outside Canada's three-mile limit...
...solution for Ottawa was: extend Canada's fishing rights clear out through the continental shelf, and thus bring Quero under Canadian jurisdiction. A simpler solution: patrol the Bank to protect the rights of Canadian fishermen. Last week the R.C.M.P. "cruiser" French was out belatedly on just such an assignment...
...Lombardo, sad-eyed maestro of unhurried dance music, stepped up his tempo and happily raced away with a water-speed title. At Red Bank, N.J., leisure-hour Boatsman Lombardo won the national motorboat sweepstakes. Next: a crack at the Gold Cup in Detroit this Labor...