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...girls had been to Provincetown, Mass., in the summertime, when its narrow streets were teeming with family vacationers and hippies. In January, they returned to the Cape Cod resort during a winter-quiet weekend. Mary Ann Wysocki, a college student, and Patricia Walsh, a teacher, both 23, checked in at a guesthouse run by Patricia Morton. That night they visited three Provincetown bars. At one called the Fo'cs'l, they met Antone Costa, 24, an unemployed handyman, amateur taxidermist and divorced father of three, who was also staying at Mrs. Morton's. The girls checked...
...Providence, R.I., their parents alerted police and an all-points alarm went out. Soon after, police found the mutilated remains of an unidentified teen-age girl buried in a shallow grave in the tiny town of Truro, a desolate windswept strip of dunes and woods only eight miles from Provincetown. Then last week, about 300 yards away, they uncovered the two Providence girls and another unidentified teenager. All were similarly butchered...
...state of mind." The rest of the news that final week of 1927 was scarcely more exciting. Warren Gamaliel Harding and his wife Florence were reburied in a marble tomb in Marion, Ohio. Mussolini was forced to revalue the Italian lira. Salvage work on the submarine 54, sunk off Provincetown, was delayed by winter storms...
...Provincetown, Mass...
...first Eskimo-English dictionary, MacMillan was a botanist and zoologist as well as the last of the dogsled explorers, remained spry enough in his 70s to earn a rear admiral's stripes locating airfield sites for the Navy in Greenland. Now 92 and living in peppery retirement in Provincetown, Mass., Old Mac bestirred himself to Boston last week, where he accepted the $5,000 Washburn Award from the Museum of Science as "the last and gallant survivor of America's most thrilling era of terrestrial geographic discovery...