Word: moreton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ants in the Plants. That the Post gets out at all is a minor miracle. Beneath a giant Moreton Bay fig tree in Port Moresby (pop. 7,000), the Post's termite-honeycombed headquarters has been flooded eight times during monsoons. Twice the composing room has been invaded by serpents-a ten-foot python, a rare and venomous taipan-which were pelted to death by ingots of type metal. One night a horde of winged ants, attracted by the lights, swarmed in to lay a living veneer on the Linotype machines, jam the works with their bodies; a mechanic...
Lost Shoal. Near Brisbane, Australia, Navigation Expert Joshua Peter Bell, author of Moreton Bay and How to Fathom It, ran his yacht aground in Moreton...
Died. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, 79, fiery Irish poet (Mirage Waters), playwright (The Glittering Gates) and novelist, a goateed gibe-jabber who characterized much modern verse as talk that "nonsense is truth, truth nonsense"; in Dublin. A towering (6 ft. 4 in.) athlete, Lord Dunsany fought in, the Boer War and World War I ("Our trenches were only six feet deep; I shall never fear publicity again...