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Died. Olaf Iversen, 57, German newspaperman and cartoonist who in 1954 revived the far-famed, grimly satiric magazine Simplicissimus, filled it with jibes at both East and West, and biting antimilitarist attacks in keeping with the anti-Prussian tradition of the original Simplicissimus (founded in 1896); in Munich...
...tiny (34-ton) whaler Arctic Skipper put out from the weathered jetty at Dildo and chuffed at a steady six knots down Trinity Bay. Deck hands were just finishing their breakfast of fried eggs, sausage and coffee in the tiny galley when a lookout cried: "Pothead!"† Captain Iver Iversen rang the engine signal. As the Skipper picked up speed, the whales sounded. When they came up again, they were heading out to sea, and a deck hand fired a rifle shot to turn them. A red signal flag went up the mast as the whales changed course. Out from...
Meat for the Mink. For generations, Newfoundlanders have gone out in their frail boats to hunt the potheads, which pursue squid into Trinity Bay. It was a haphazard venture until Norwegian Captain Iversen settled near Dildo in 1946 and opened a factory to render blubber and process the greasy meat prized by mink ranchers for the gloss it gives to the animal fur. To increase the whale catch, he raised money for the Arctic Skipper and a sister ship, Arctic Venture, to go farther out into the bay and herd more potheads shoreward...
...carcasses, the fishermen found that they had set a season's record: 3,200 with three weeks still to go. Best previous year was 1951 with 3,047. Hauled up on the beach, the whales were sculped (stripped) of the blubber and meat, which was carted to Captain Iversen's factory. This year the plant had processed 300 tons of whale oil, to be used for fine lubricants and margarine, and almost 600,000 pounds of meat. It gave each fisherman a chance to pick up as much as $75 a week during the 14-week season...
Born in Manhattan of Norwegian parents, big, chubby-cheeked Erling Iversen is a graduate of New York University, lives in Brooklyn, studied this past year at Princeton's Graduate School. His fellowship requires that he spend some six months each year in Rome, but the rest of the time, far from reeling and moaning through the streets. Architect Iversen intends to travel-"if they keep the peace," he said gloomily, "which I doubt...