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...Atlantic & North Carolina ever gets into a history of U.S. railroads, it will be a footnote to a footnote. It operates 95.82 miles of single track from Morehead City (pop. 3,483) on the coast to Goldsboro (pop. 14,958). Tarheels call it the "Mullet Line," because it used to haul so many fish. Yet last week no U.S. railroad man, seeking to justify private v. State ownership, could have hoped for a neater case than the Atlantic & North Carolina...
...goggle fisherman, wearing watertight glasses, a bathing suit and earplugs, dives down into an underwater paradise which is, as Author Gilpatric describes it, half marine science laboratory, half Freudian dream. There, armed with a spear, he harpoons a mullet, merou, moray, ray, octopus, none of which is so suspicious of man underwater as of man out. Besides being better exercise than most fishing, goggle fishing has one further sporting advantage: It exposes the fisherman to some risk of being the victim as well as victor in the game. On one occasion, when a large octopus wrapped itself around Fisherman Gilpatric...
...Mullet's Barbs. The certain German is Hermann Müuller, Chancellor of the German Reich. Last fortnight he gutturally addressed the League audience (TIME, Sept. 17), and thrust three barbs...
...false gods everywhere-an impious Mullet; a stertorous Turtle, like an island; a Siren, scaled in emerald, with a pearl loin-rope and breasts of mother-of-pearl. She told Sturly that Beauty was God, but vanished when he asked her to reconcile Life with Death. (The wreck of a Corsican mail packet heightened this central paradox; for the long pilgrim Sharks came and a Cuttlefish lifted a lady's dress, seeking his dinner...