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Three-Arched Abomination. Before the year was out, the elusive monster of Loch Ness had been sighted again & again. In one four-week stretch at the height of the tourist season, it was seen 20 times. Its pictures even appeared somewhat foggily in the Illustrated London News...
...spate of speculation which followed its sudden notoriety in the press, the Loch Ness monster was variously identified as a school of otters, a killer whale, the wreck of a German zeppelin, a giant squid, an "abomination with a three-arched neck" and a seagoing dinosaur...
...Scottish Naturalist and Explorer Donald John Munro, R.N., C.M.G., tried to form a Loch Ness Monster Co. to investigate Nessie. Then in 1941, a pilot of Mussolini's air force solemnly announced that he had bombed the Loch Ness monster out of existence...
...last word, as usual, came from Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, who loves to give the American head a kindly pat. Wrote he in the Listener: "The best analogy that I can find for the peculiar American-ness of such painters ... is to compare their products to those of American automobile makers . . . American cars are well-designed and well-built, sleek and shiny, and they are very comfortable, as cars...
...representatives, Arthur F. Blanchard 04 and Van Ness H. Bates '19 introduced a bill for the thorough investigation of Harvard which they claimed was wholly under the thumb of big business interests. The bill died a quick death in committee...