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...week would do it. Cocos. 400 mi. off the Colombian coast of South America, is a small island (six nautical miles each way) but mountainous, covered with dense undergrowth. The clue, naturally not divulged, was supposed to lead to a large rock which formed the door of the treasure cave...
...complete bomb factory, 200 pounds of dynamite, fuses, tin cans, other impedimenta, not counting piles of rifles and revolvers. Lieut. Calvo did even better. He found a bomb factory and arrested the operators. Scouring the cliffs above Havana along the Almendares River intrepid Lieut. Calvo popped into a cave, pulled out one Andres Niebla Torres, one Luis Mutiz and 129 bombs each containing eight pounds of dynamite. Handy were 25 cans of powdered dynamite, several barrow-loads of iron odds & ends...
...ball at Washington" and "Hoover ... as Secretary of Commerce." The note of "historical realism" seemed so obvious that TIME supposed it intentional.-ED. Old Joe on Annette Sirs: Your word picture of Bermuda-great! One mistake though-Annette Kellerman didn't give any exhibition in Prospero's Cave, at least no swimming or diving exhibition. The place is called "Devil's Hole" by both tourists and natives. A hellish name, if you ask me. Anyway, the "Hole" is populated with a specimen of every fish found in the surrounding waters from turtles to octopi...
...Gardiner, Morgan J. O'Brien, Samuel Riker. Just beyond Tucker's Town are Bermuda's two literary shrines: Tom Moore's House, where the Irish author of Lalla Rookh, "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" lived for one year; and Prospero's Cave, a spectacular grotto that is traditionally the site of the magic banquet in The Tempest, actually where aquatic Cinemactress Annette Kellerman made Neptune's Daughter and used to give- shapely exhibitions of swimming and diving. Nassau. Bermuda is the name of an island. Nassau is a town. Nassau...
Judging, purely from the present situation, it would seem wise to consider the University as superior to the houses until the houses can be distinctive without being provincial. It is justifiable to utter a faint "Cave" against either the rabid pursuit of originality or the passive acceptance...