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...knows most about bark canoes this week was happily polishing off his masterpiece: a book comparing the primitive canoes of America, Australasia and Tierra del Fuego. He is grey, lean E. (for Edwin) Tappan Adney, the most distinguished resident of Upper Woodstock...
Canoe Expert Adney gives lessons to New Brunswick's Micmac and Malecite Indians in their forgotten art: canoe making. He sews the bark with spruce roots. There are 100 Adney-built scale models in the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va. Adney also has another interest. He believes vocal sounds in every tongue express common mental reactions. On this theory he explains similarities between European and North American Indian speech. Example: in the language of the Algonquian Indian, mundo means God or, literally, "protecting hand"; in Anglo-Saxon, mund meant hand. Explains Adney: "[By this method] I have cracked...
Winston Churchill had reason to lower his head, glare, bark his characteristic short, harsh "rumph." He was not doing at all well in some of his dealings with the new giant of Europe, Joseph Stalin. Last week the endless battle of dissembled pressures went no better. After two more stormy sessions with Poland's distracted Premier in Exile, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Churchill found it necessary to send a second personal note to the impassive man in the Kremlin...
...years the U.S. soldier's grey-greens have been a nuisance to him. They are hard to adjust, complicated to lace (especially the left one), have a trick of starting to go adrift at crucial moments. Beyond that, a bumpily laced, hurriedly donned legging will inevitably bring a bark from the noncom, a frigid stare from the nearest officer...
...Admiral Karpf anger, a four-masted bark of 2,853 tons, put out from Port Germein,'South Australia, on Feb. 8, 1938. Aboard were 44 cadets and 16 officers and men of the Hamburg-America Line. Five weeks later she radioed her position from somewhere south of New Zealand and said she would round Cape Horn. That was the last ever heard of her until the lily maiden was found...