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...dark, comely. She said she was Mrs. Lillian Chelius Collings, 28, wife of Benjamin P. Collings, an inventor of small appliances who four years before, at 34, had stopped work to live on a modest income. With his wife and daughter Barbara he spent the summers aboard the cruiser Penguin-the boat the fishermen had found adrift the night before. Excited, half hysterical, Mrs. Collings told conflicting stories, finally gave to police the following account...
...husband had been sitting in the dark on the Penguin's deck. Barbara was in bed. Two men approached in a canoe, asked to be taken with a wounded companion to South Norwalk, Conn. Mr. Collings demurred. The men boarded the Penguin, started it, ordered Mrs. Collings down into the cabin. Later Mr. Collings went to the cabin, kissed his sleeping daughter, went out without taking his pistol or knife which lay there. After some time the Penguin stopped. Mrs. Collings thought they were now off the Connecticut shore of the Sound. She heard a struggle...
...Norwegian Pioneer Whaling Co. of Oslo received a large order last week. Authorities of Luna Park, Paris amusement grounds, instructed the whalers to catch 25 of the largest whales they could find, 100 of the fattest penguins. The 25 whales, embalmed, the 100 penguins, alive, will be placed with Luna Park's rollercoasters, merry-go-rounds, hot-dog stands as this season's prize exhibit. Cost per penguin: $125. Cost per whale...
Sculptor Frederick William Mac-Monnies spread out his hands before an interviewer and cried : "Penguins! There's no help for it ! If you want the truth and dare to print it, that's the answer. . . . The barrel shape of the bird's body is reproduced exactly in the barrel shape of the woman of today who neither exercises physically nor exercises the least self-restraint upon her appetite. . . . Have you ever noticed the silly, self-satisfied expression of the penguin? It is almost a leer. That is the crowning point of resemblance. ... I have been speaking of . . . the woman over...
...other." A believer in scientific exploration, Author Cherry-Garrard deprecates purely spectacular expeditions, thinks Amundsen's discovery of the South Pole was mostly that. Says he: "Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion . . . you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg." Explorer Cherry-Garrard, educated at Winchester, Christ Church, Oxford, is a noted sportsman, won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley...