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...foreign newspapers sent reporters, the world was made Iceland-conscious. Omitted from the festivities were the 21 bleary, rain-drenched Faroe Islands which straggle through the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetlands and have been Danish territory since 1386. Life is hard in the Faroes. Their industries are cod-fishing, sheep-raising, knitting golf sweaters, plucking puffin feathers. Their amusements are negligible. Brooding over their Icelandic slight, last week the Faroe Islanders took action...
...Thorshavn, chief Faroe village, Poul Petubson, Faroe delegate to the Danish Parliament, called an indignation meeting. Later a crowd of inflamed cod fishermen with Delegate Petubson at their head swept through the streets to the Lagting (local parliament) building, brushed aside Thorshavn's lone policeman, hauled down the Danish flag, a white cross on a red field, and hoisted the Faroes' banner?a blue-trimmed red cross on a white field...
Yachtsmen, debutantes, landscape painters and batik dyers who summer on Cape Cod motored over to Dennis, Mass, last week for the opening of "The Cinema." Cape Cod's latest, most up to date playhouse, designed by Alfred Easton Poor, Manhattan architect. All eyes sought the ceiling which displayed the first mural painting ever undertaken by bald, busy, noteworthy Artist Rockwell Kent. Not only is "The Cinema's" ceiling the first Kent mural, but the theatre's proprietors declare that it is the largest single canvas in the world-6,400 sq. ft. in area, almost three times...
Last week spring descended upon Martha's Vineyard. Mass, (island five miles off the "heel" of Cape Cod). To greet it the island's animal life let forth their perennial mating calls. Less hopeful than other fauna was the island's famed Heath Cock...
...time champion. . . . Rex, second string catcher on the baseball team, broke his finger on the Southern trip in the Catholic U. game and will probably be out for about a month. . . . Ben Bassett, diminutive right fielder on the ball team, who comes from the Cape Cod region, was bragging to his mates on the trip to the South about his sailing abilities. On the second day out he was the first one who had to have medical attention. . . . Incidentally, some New York sports writer must have mixed him up with Jim Barrett for in a story Bassett was referred...