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...cruised the Pacific and Indian Oceans. They lived eight months among Papuan cannibals, were briefly jailed as suspected spies in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. It was only days after they put to sea again that they discovered the Japanese had punctured all their cans of food in a search for contraband. Heaving the rotting" food overboard, they lived for a month on a few fish and a soup made of axle grease, curry powder and water. When they finally staggered ashore at Molokai, their delirium and ravaged appearance sent the lepers of Father Damien's colony fleeing...
...Colombian government to the well-endowed ($500 million) Rockefeller Foundation, headquartered in Manhattan: would it help find "ways to provide the people of Colombia with more and better food as economically as possible?" The foundation sent in experts, the Colombian government handed over top-grade land and the search started. At first Tibaitata concentrated on wheat and corn, has since branched into potatoes, beans, forage crops, barley, farm administration, pathology, entomology, animal husbandry...
...Mullin often strops a sharp edge on a drawing. One neatly sliced target: spitting Slugger Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox. Another: Dodger Owner Walter O'Malley, pictured as a Mullinesque carpetbagger while he prepared to move his team to Los Angeles (TIME, April 28) in search of the dollar. Says O'Malley, undaunted: "I am very high on Mr. Mullin...
...Manager-of-the-Year Birdie Tebbetts led the power-packed but pitching-poor Cincinnati Redlegs out of the National League's second division for the first time in twelve years and finished third, just two games behind the pennant-winning Dodgers. Tebbetts was not satis- fied, traded in search of pennant-class pitching. But the Redlegs skidded to last place this season. Birdie, who once said, "A manager should never quit," decided last week to resign, became the fourth major-league manager to bow out this year (the others: Detroit's Jack Tighe, Cleveland's Bobby Bragan...
...academy is concerned, "the records are now complete." But one mystery remained unsolved. Edie Ossorio does not have a grandson. Who was the young man who sparked the search? Guessed Brooke: "A relative of one of the false claimants...