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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David W. Black has made his living for 16 years by collecting fossils and sea creatures, and never in all that time had he seen anything like the rotting monster he dug out of the sands of Copalis Beach, near Seattle. Neither had any of the people who flocked to inspect it last week. All they could think of was sea serpent. It was eight feet long, weighed about 1,300 Ib. It had a head like a goat's, but much larger; teeth like a dog's; a body which began like a buffalo...
Adolph Spreckels, grandson of John Diedrich Spreckels, California sugar tycoon, was racing a borrowed outboard motorboat in a regatta on Green Lake, Seattle, when the throttle jammed. Roaring straight into the beach, the tiny craft leaped high as it struck, careened through a crowd of spectators, crashed on top of a sound truck. Sportsman Spreckels was catapulted into the air against a telephone pole where he hung by an arm impaled on one of the climbing spikes. Taken down unconscious, with the arm torn open from shoulder to wrist, he was hospitalized with one of the spectators...
Meantime Mr. Kent did not neglect his social life. In 1906 he married a Philadelphia socialite named Mabel Lucas, who is a good friend of old Mrs. Edward Townsend Stotesbury. For years the Kents have been going to Bar Harbor every summer, to Palm Beach every winter. Kent yachts ply all the waters from Maine to Florida. The Kent garages must be big enough to hold a score of cars, for Mr. Kent dislikes driving the same car two days in succession. He used to buy them second hand, tinker them himself...
...years Chief Tatagu lived without religion or superstition. Then there set foot on Marovo beach a missionary of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church named Captain G. F. Jones, an old seaman who had sailed, against the advice of the British Government, without an armed guard. Tatagu welcomed Missionary Jones and his white God. Among the first ten pupils in the school which the Adventist mariner established was small Kata Ragoso. This black Christian grew up to succeed his father as Chief of Chiefs, to become an ordained Adventist minister. Kata Ragoso helped the white men convert...
With his sound musical background and his ready Irish charm Herbert was bound to make himself known. Little time passed before Conductor Anton Seidl made him his assistant for the Brighton Beach concerts. For four years thereafter Herbert led the famed Pat Gilmore band, for six the Pittsburgh Symphony. On Broadway he became a legendary figure. His capacity for work was equaled by his Gargantuan appetite for food and drink...