Word: mermaids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dugong is a ludicrous-looking aquatic mammal that nurses its young at its breast. Sighting these strange creatures centuries ago. sailors plowing Asian seas came home claiming that they had seen women with tails like fish-and thereby started the mermaid legend. Modern scientists paid deference to the legend of the sea sirens by assigning the dugong to the order Sirenia. See SCIENCE, The Useful Manatee...
...power, but very thin legs, and he rides high in the water. This means less drag." In his daily training sessions Clark works out with another Haines pupil: Santa Clara's Chris Von Saltza, the U.S.'s finest all-round girl swimmer. A blonde and matured mermaid at 16, Chris can swim longer and harder than Steve, loves to challenge him in a round of four 400s, or eight 200s. "It's embarrassing," Clark admits, "especially at the long distances, when she makes it too close...
Half a century after she had the audacity to pioneer a 'bove-knee-length, one-piece bathing suit, Australian-born Mermaid Annette Kellerman, 73, now a Los Angeles matron, returned to her homeland, cast a knowing eye on the bikini-teeming Gold Coast beaches south of Brisbane, observed: "A bikini is very nice on a very young girl. But, my dear, those spare tires and that view as they walk away from...
...their wedding night her own brother wouldn't have suggested." The demonstration continues with a round of well-known Thurber fables, and with a dry-mannered Tom Ewell as a TV pet counselor, and an amusing Paul Ford having trouble in one skit getting rid of a mermaid and in another getting rid of his wife (Peggy Cass), and then with both men tipsily shopping in Fifth Avenue's tonier shops. Or people rewrite poems for an anthology that is to be uncompromisingly cheerful...
...prints are full of the mythological as well as the real (chief of the mystic artists is old [72], nearly blind Tudlik, the wise man of the Cape Dorset people). The jet-black raven circling overhead is an evil omen; the sea is the home of the mischievous mermaid-like sea goddess Talluliyuk, who lures the seal away from the hunter. And when the aurora borealis flickers overhead, the Eskimos know that the lights come from the dead playing with seal skulls...