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...early winter (September) I found that representatives of the Canadian Mounted had just arrived from the south. In some unexplainable manner they had heard of the murder and were on their way to investigate. . . . Their only way of getting to the islands was by favor of my boatmen, who kindly consented to make the journey, hazardous at all times but especially so late in the season. They did travel to the islands, found the murderer, learned the facts, and returned safely to Moose Factory, after notifying the murderer that they would come for him in the following summer and take...
...years go past upon his voice, carrying with them the rustle of the buffalo grass, the song of the loggers and the boatmen, and the Civil War's distant thunder; the Vag sees the gleam of the frontiersman's rifle and bridle fall to the ground and become the glint of the first railroad track across America. On either side of the rails the corn and wheat springs up with the houses, and the Indian mounts his pony and rides away forever...
Last week, after a winter layoff during which 4,000 raw ratings were trained at the Kiel Submarine School by veteran U-boatmen, the Germans were out in force again with another tactic which was the fruit of winter experiments: hunting in packs. Survivors arriving at a Canadian port told of having been attacked by "at least three or four" German submarines; others arriving in Manhattan referred to "a nest of at least seven subs." In one recent case, nine simultaneous torpedo explosions gave a convoy its first warning of the presence of submarines...
...feeling. Reverse is Bill Coleman Blues, with Coleman on the trumpet backed by guitarist Django Reinhardt. Trumpet is muted all the way through, and the music is at once restrained in attack yet powerful in beat(despite the one-man rhythm section). . . Glenn Miller's Song of the Volga Boatmen (BLUEBIRD) is probably going to be a terrific hit in juke-box circles. I'm so happy...
...oldest motorboating trophy, the Gold Cup, is a gold-plated silver urn that looks like an inverted Napoleon's hat. It was put up in 1904 by Manhattan's Columbia Yacht Club, to give the "monkey-wrench sailors" something to race for. Yachtsmen still think motor-boatmen are crazy. But there are enough mechanically-minded U. S. citizens, willing to spend $50,000 for a boat and 500 hours a year tinkering with it, to make the Gold Cup race one of the most exciting sport events...