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When the 250-ton fishing boat Barnegat put out of Beaufort, N.C. for the menhaden*grounds one morning last winter, she carried some visitors who had never made the trip before. They were Bendix engineers, on board to check on the Barnegat's electronic "fish-finder." The reports from the finder came through just fine and the boat closed on a big school of fish. Then, as the Barnegat's 20 fishermen began to haul in their first good catch of the day, the engineers heard something that made them look up from their graphs in wonder...
...seemed a forlorn hope. "The film," loftily retorted the Sports Society's president, the Duke of Beaufort, "is not one in which any real sportsman would wish his hounds to take part...
...fast surface mail get their copies of TIME Canadian each week by air-so that they can read the news while it is still fresh. For instance, eight copies go via Canadian Pacific Air Lines to subscribers in Aklavik above the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories near the Beaufort Sea, where Subscriber J. C. Callaghan claims that not even good radio contact can be guaranteed. Other copies are flown to subscribers like George Pinsky at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake in the District of Mackenzie, across the lake to Gordon D. Scram-stad in Yellowknife, and farther north...
Members of the Hunt in bright-colored coats whose facings identified their clubs (Warwick's black and scarlet, Duke of Beaufort's buff and blue, North Warwick's grey and pink) mingled with Yeomanry regiment officers in white Prussian collars and tailcoated nonhunters. They danced to American rhythms played by hot London nightclub bands, ate specially licensed delicacies, happily screamed "whroo, whroo"-the high-pitched cry given when the fox is sighted...
...little aristocratic town of Beaufort, S.C., brisk, 46-year-old Dr. Montgomery P. Kennedy has been at it even longer. A specialist in obstetrics, he handled his first white case-a woman with post-childbirth hemorrhage-in 1930. He estimates that he has since delivered 85 white babies. With the local white doctors, he says he gets along "just fine, except for one Connecticut Yankee...