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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...
They had the boats and the Vineyard people didn't. Result: Vineyarders got a month's practice at casting into the surf, and Cuttyhunkers got all the big fish. The prizewinner, a fat, 47-lb. black-striper, was landed by New York Salesman Gordon Pittman in a Cuttyhunk boat, at 9:30 one night with the moon shining on the Vineyard's clay cliffs 200 yards away. It gave Cuttyhunkers, who claim that their 636-acre isle is the scene of The Tempest,* another honor to talk about...
...third day's run carried the Myth II to Cuttyhunk, Mass, where the Governor's skill in piloting her to a difficult mooring won praise from landlubbers of the Press. The captain of the Ambassadress sent over a roast duckling to go with pork & beans and canned peaches...
...course of his negotiations with the criminals and their subsequent collapse. Early last week he and his lawyer. Col. Henry Breckinridge, onetime Assistant Secretary of War, hopped over the back fence at Newark Airport, flew away in a borrowed airplane and were reported some time later inquiring on Cuttyhunk Island. Mass, for a yacht known as the Sally or the Nellie. Next day they borrowed another plane, made a similar flight over the same area. It was 48 hours after these trips that the Treasury Department was asked to trace the ransom money...
...square, high forehead, prodding out through his pince-nez, the U. S. looks as the course signals go up on the committee boat in answer to a southwest September wind and the two sloops put over the line, from Brenton's Reef to sea, from sea to Cuttyhunk...