Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elbow of Cape Cod, between Cuttyhunk Island and Martha's Vineyard, the elusive striped bass gallivant in frothy water. Their favorite spots are tide-ripped ledges which are practically inaccessible both to fishing boats and surf casters. For years, old salts have looked for an easier way to catch them. The citizens of Cuttyhunk finally got the answer...
...copped first prize (a bottle of champagne) as the best-dressed woman of the evening. "Shall I take it off?" cried Mrs. Whitney-and did. But what came off was just an outer skirt. It turned out that you could also wear it as a hood or a cape. Financier Whitney said he was proud...
Sometimes a polar air mass protects the eastern states in a more dramatic way. Last week a West Indian hurricane roared northward toward New England. Storm warnings flew; fishing boats scurried to cover. Two hundred Navy airplanes fled to Albany from Quonset Point, R.I. Police on Cape Cod were alerted for onrushing trouble. But a rescuing polar air mass hovered over the threatened area, pushed the dreaded hurricane harmlessly away from the land...
Hard tack and chocolate fudge, manly bellows and girlish squeals are the ingredients of Salem Frigate, which scuds from Cape Ann to the Barbary Coast without a second's worry about the finer points of literary art and navigation. Author Jennings, who wrote 1939's best-selling Next to Valour (TIME, June 12, 1939), is an old hand: he knows how to cram a historical novel full to bursting with blood, sweat and tears, and can wield both cutlass and bobby-pin with sangfroid...
Died. Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis, sixtyish, onetime physical-culturist who dreamed of writing a big-seller and did it by chronicling in Trader Horn the fabulous and maybe apocryphal ivory-trading, gorilla-hunting adventures of chance-visitor Alfred Aloysius Smith; of a heart ailment; in Port Alfred, Cape Province, South Africa...