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Lake Michigan's water level was uncommonly low last week. Trooping along the shore near Chicago, a bevy of geology students from Central Y. M. C. A. College of Arts & Science were so surprised to see parts of a submerged reef well known to chartmakers jutting a few inches above water that they waded out to chip off samples. When they brought back their specimens to Instructor James H. Glasgow, University of Chicago graduate student, he stared at the stuff, decided it was white coral, sent it to university geologists who confirmed his opinion. Divers were sent to survey...
...James Matthew Barrie did not trouble to put a trained bear, a tame crooner, Burns & Allen and two mercenary Georgian princelings into his play. In We're Not Dressing Miss Lombard's yacht is wrecked when her drunken uncle (Leon Errol) steers it on a reef. When the passengers reach land, Crooner Crosby masters the situation by cooking clams, building thatched huts and at odd moments intoning such songs as "Love Thy Neighbor." All the others, including the Georgians who wish to marry the heiress, are incompetent and insolent...
...that fine powder of islands lying in the West Pacific, the Japanese sampans point southward. They cross the Equator, weave through the maze of the East Indian Archipelago toward Australia's New Guinea and North Australia. In the shallow waters of the Coral Sea along the Great Barrier Reef, 1,000 mi. from home, they find what they want but it is in Australian waters. Long since, the Australian Government has protested to Tokyo via London against their poaching. But Japan had not the heart to discourage such energetic citizens. Last week Australia got ready a fleet of fast...
Forty-one days they huddled on the thwarts or lay half-conscious in the bilge. At last they reached the Great Barrier Reef and, with no chart but Bligh's memory of a voyage with Captain Cook, found a passage through. In a happier dawn than the one that saw their hopeless start they sailed into the harbor of Coupang, with Bligh still at the tiller and none of them quite dead...
...bright day last week two young girls from London rowed out from Leysdown Beach near Sheerness. England, after a child's ball that had floated away. Drifting a quarter-mile from shore they noticed near them a line of buoys that seemed to mark no reef, boat-mooring, fishnet or lobster-pot. As they gazed at this strange sight, five planes roaring out from the land circled over them. The girls suddenly crouched cowering in the bottom of their rowboat when the five began to dive on the innocent-seeming line of buoys, blazing away with machine guns. Four...