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...never believed it until he saw it done. Off the coast of Korea, a pack of killers bore down on a herd of California grey whales, which are about 50 ft. long. The greys were paralyzed with terror. "I watched a grey whale turn on its back with flippers outspread and lie helpless at the surface. Rushing at full speed, a killer put his nose against the whale's lips, forced its mouth open, and tore out great chunks of the soft, sponge-like tongue. A half-dozen other killers began tearing at the giant body, literally eating...
...angle. The instant their wings are clear of the water they unfold. What the fish do with their wings next seems to be any observer's guess. If the fins flap or flutter, the fish may be said to fly. If the fish hold their outspread fins stiffly, they may be said simply to glide...
Visitors to the Animal War Dispensary of the Royal S. P. C. A., opened last month in London by Frances Countess of Warwick, may now observe an heroic plaque on its façade. A central angelic figure, bearing laurel wreaths, stands waiting with wings and arms outspread. Toward it in stone-carved bas relief, memorializing the sacrifice of their kind, march the dumb messengers and burden-bearers of War-horses, oxen, dogs, pigeons, camels, an elephant, an ass-reminders that in the World War died 269,000 British horses & mules, 22,812 British camels, 628 British bullocks; dogs, pigeons...
...September issue of Life bears on its cover a caricature mask of Franklin Delano Roosevelt affixed to the sitting body of a boy doll. Between the doll's outspread feet is a pie, upon which rests what might be an apple or a tomato. Caption: "Let's See What a Good...
...experimenter before him, one Willard Edward Blain of New London, Conn, strapped himself to an arrangement of batlike wings one chill dawn last week and tried to flap through space. About 100 spectators, including a squad of newsmen and photographers, watched as the inventor poised, 5-11. wings outspread, on the rail of a highway bridge over the Thames River. Presently he took off, plunked straight down 35 feet into the icy water. Extricating himself with difficulty, Bat Man Blain was picked up by a motorboat from which he proudly dove again into the water and swam ashore...