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...fishermen, the broadbill swordfish frequently runs afoul of sharks. Two years ago Thomas Montgomery Howell, famed Chicago stock & grain operator, was swordfishing (he has caught four broadbills) off Montauk Point, L. I. with his small son and Captain Bill Fagan when he saw a long-drawn battle between a mako shark and a broadbill. Time after time the swordfish aimed its lethal snout at the shark, but each time the shark was too quick, raked the swordfish's hind end until "the sea looked like shredded wheat." As the dying swordfish was being pulled into Capt. Fagan...
...Frank Parker, 16-year-old Milwaukee tennist who plans next year to be the Wimbledon doubles partner of Ellsworth Vines: the U. S. junior singles championship, beating Gene Mako of California 6-8, 3-6, 6-1, 9-7, 6-2 in the final; at Culver...
...Mako, Hungary, six thousand farmers found it impossible profitably to market their onions, agreed to let their beards grow until the Government lowered taxes, improved railroad rates...
...Dispatch. Young Joseph Pulitzer was a familiar figure in St. Louis, and somewhat alarming, when he founded the Post-Dispatch. Born in Mako, Hungary, in 1847, of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, he came to the U. S. to enlist in the Union cavalry during the Civil War. When the war was over he found life difficult, and eventually put in practice the advice of an editor somewhat less famed than he himself was to become: Greeley, with his "Go West...