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...only bad news from the Pacific last week was the soup-fin shark shortage. After scouring the oceans since the Silurian Age, sharks seemed to be disappearing from the West Coast. The 400 to 500 West Coast fishing boats searching for soup-fin sharks from Seattle to Mexico roamed as far afield as the Navy would let them. But their winter haul (worth over $6 million in a good year) was less than 50% of 1943's catch...
...Detroit exhibit, auto designers had an imaginative picnic displaying postwar "dream cars." Dreamiest of the lot was a design by free-lance artist Ray Russell (see cut) who described the features: "Drive across Texas at 100 miles an hour . . . the tail fin to line her up at this speed. Plug in the two-way radio to order your dinner ahead. ... For a short cut across a river ... the Amphibian is at home on the water. . . . Navigation lights are for cruising on a Venetian night. The four-wheel drive shifts to propellers. . . . The air-cooled motor in the rear operates...
Turning in a fine performance for their absent coach, Hal Ulen, who was sick with the fin. Harvard's mermen took nearly every event in the swimming meet at M. I. T. last Saturday night. Against weak competition from Tech the Harvard squad dropped only two races to the down-stream team...
...crew looked over the side. Just below the gunner was a hole 9 ft. by 3. At the moment of the first attack a torpedo had passed clean through the Who, Me?'s bow. Below decks one of the crew found a torpedo's two-foot fin and rudder of fine stainless steel -it had sheered off the toilet seat from the crew's "head" and lodged in the crew's quarters...
Attendance at the Wives night, moving picture show held on Friday evenings is gradually increasing due to the fin array of films offered, no doubt Ensign Browne and Lieutenant Tansill have done a fine job in formulating this weekly occasion...