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...years the most celebrated animal in the world was one whose existence was doubted. There were people who believed that the Loch Ness Monster was real; there were people who believed it was not. The number of skeptics diminished after the late Rt. Rev. Sir David Hunter-Blair, onetime abbot of a monastery on the Scottish lakeside, announced: "I have been investigating its presence quietly for many years, having a natural hesitance in letting my friends know that I believed in the existence of a fresh-water parallel of the sea serpent." After all, the Rt. Rev. Sir David...
...movie, The Secret of the Loch, provided four weeks' work for 20 unemployed men. Captain D. J. Munro,R.N. (retired), proposed to form a Loch Ness Monster Co., Ltd., to sell shares for a shilling each, and to put up watchtowers on the loch shore staffed by Navy men equipped with telescopic cameras, powerful binoculars, range finders, stop watches. In Germany, the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung announced that the monster had been captured, was on view in Edinburgh...
...remembered, though. They lent a touch of color and realism to one of their famed communiqués by announcing that the monster had been bombed and sunk during an Italian raid on Scotland. To this calumny the monster retorted by merrily roiling, once more, the waters of Loch Ness...
...there came a hint from Detroit's unconventional Bill Stout, whose famed engineering-jargon dictum is: "Simplicate, and add more light-ness." Said Designer Stout: "Airplane manufacturers know immensely more about making gears than auto manufacturers. They can build a better, bigger...
...preface to one of these 16 short plays William Saroyan compares himself to George Bernard Shaw. The comparison is not altogether presumptuous. He shares with Shaw a fearless, sassy gaiety, and like Shaw he holds naturalism, heavyminded-ness and the theater in general in contempt. Both, in Saroyan's words, believe that the theater "all theater-should be fun. . . ." Whatever else they are, these plays and prefaces...