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...water below rashly tried to spear an octopus. A hairy tentacle shot out, and for three hours the diver (Scotty Evans by name) was caught 70 feet down in an inhuman tug-of-war between the octopus, which tried to drag him down, and Burford, who tried to haul him up. Finally, at the risk of splitting Evans in two, Burford started the boat to pull Evans loose. Then "the ugly, pear-shaped body of a giant octopus [appeared]. He was perched atop the [diver's] helmet, all eight tentacles about Evans' body." Burford slammed a pike pole...
...good many sprightly ensembles have been junked so that the picture's principals (Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse) could strut their uninspired stuff. The story is the same winged little thing, however, and to watch it carry this enormous production is like seeing a butterfly haul a Bulldog Mack...
...choppy sound, purse seiners worked all night hauling in blue-backed sockeye salmon. One boat brought in $21,000 worth, then headed out again. Wharves and packing plants were soon piled high with sockeye, whose firm red meat makes it a fine canning fish. In Bellingham, Wash. housewives were drafted to help in the crowded canneries; in Anacortes children were excused from school to help. In two weeks U.S. and Canadian fishermen hauled out 7,500,000 fish worth $2 each, expected to land another 2,500,000, v. last year's total catch...
...reach. Ice water trickled into Neal's upturned face. Three-quarters of an hour passed and still he could not reach the rope. Then Tony Levy told the others to lower him into the crevasse. He got a rope around Neal and the men above finally managed to haul Neal to the surface. He was covered with cuts and bruises and blind with pain...
Biggest fish in the Colorado haul was New York City-born Arthur Bary, 42 (real name: Diamantis Daramparis), who was carrying $1,872.67 in cash when he was seized. J. Edgar Hoover described Bary as "one of the party's outstanding West Coast underground leaders." Bary had won quite an unusual job from the party; his job was to find out how the FBI was able to plant informers and otherwise collect information on underground Reds. He was, apparently, so maladroit at this task that he could not even foresee or forestall his own arrest...