Word: loch
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Died. John Cobb, 52, London fur broker and world's auto speed champion (394.19 m.p.h. for one mile, at Utah's Bonneville Flats in 1947); in a speedboat accident; on Scotland's Loch Ness. Trying to break the world's one-mile speedboat record (178.4 m.p.h. held by Seattle's Stanley Sayres), Cobb gunned his jet-propelled "Crusader" hydroplane to about 200 m.p.h., was roaring toward the end of the course's first measured mile when the boat began skipping erratically and, in sight of his wife and friends, exploded in a cloud...
Many thanks to TIME, Oct. 8, for ... English-hating Bertie McCormick's letter to a British monthly, and the BBC's trial of the Loch Ness monster...
English visitors to both Chicago and Loch Ness are invariably asked on their return home, "Did you see it?" Almost always they have to reply, "Well, no, not really." Many of us here have come to believe that both monsters are mythical. This is sad because we are rather proud of both of them. Now, once more, we can happily discuss whether it really has nine humps, and whether he really has a near-English accent...
Having set the historical background straight, the BBC jumped to 1933, when a new motor road was built along the loch. Almost at once the monster hit the world's headlines. Alex Campbell, the reporter who wrote the first story in the Inverness Courier, was summoned before the BBC court...
...Whale or a Hoax? During World War II, the monster became a military secret. It was reportedly seen by many servicemen, but the region around Loch Ness was a Commando training ground, and to quote the soldiers would have betrayed the secret of their station. Both German and Italian airmen claimed to have killed the monster, but this, said the BBC, was quite untrue. Right after the war, the witnesses testified, the monster reappeared undamaged...