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Fortnight ago readers of the sedate New York Times were startled to read that one Roderick MacKenzie, Cariboo member of British Columbia's legislature, had been overturned in his sailboat on Williams Lake by the wiggling of a fabulous monster called the Ogopogo. British Columbia is a long way from Manhattan. Times readers were not worried lest the ogopogo appear in Long Island Sound or the Hudson River. But New Yorkers are used to getting their strange animal stories under the dateline "Winsted, Conn." This awful thought occurred: Are the fabulous animals of Connecticut spreading over the whole continent...
Trip. Passengers on liners bound down the Solent from Southampton caught a glimpse last week of an ugly little sailboat with a short mast, rigged as a ketch, proceeding slowly a little in front of a steam yacht. It was Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V on her way to the U. S., a trip which under the 1930 rules of competition for the America's Cup she must make on her own bottom. Her delicate racing sails had been replaced by coarse canvas, her mast shortened to almost half its length. In command wasCapt. Ned Heard, veteran...
When all bets are made, the two fish are dumped into one big bowl together. They charge furiously. First they rip off each other's ruby-red ventral fins which look like a sailboat's centreboard. Next to go is the red top fin which looks like a reversed mainsail. Frequently they bite off chunks of side meat, draw blood...
Died. Arthur S. Allen Jr., 22, Senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, owner and sailor of the sailboat in which Artist Rockwell Kent and party were wrecked this summer off Greenland (TIME, June 24); at Tarrytown, N. Y. Alighting from a bus, he was run down by an automobile...
Crown Prince Olaf of Norway and his bride, Princess Martha of Sweden, vacationing last week in a villa high above Oslo Fjord, saw a sailboat drifting helplessly toward the rocks, rushed to their rowboat. Prince Olaf rowed. Princess Martha flung a rope. The sailors were saved...