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...Wintergreens Eliot was high with three men and Adams low with only one. At the forwards are Rudy Phillips and Bill Green from Winthrop, and Joe Oakley of Dunster. The guard posts are filled by Dan Seiner and Girl O'Neil of Eliot, with Ron Peyton of Dunster John Nichos of Eliot, and Duncan Stephens of Adams complete the team...
...Gordon McKay Laboratory of Applied Science, newest building in the University, is finished except for certain seiner internal adjustments. Albert Heartlein, Associate Dean of the Division of Applied Science, made the announcement yesterday...
Before she became a minesweeper, the U.S.S. Magpie worked in the California fishing fleet as a dragger or purse seiner, and she was known as the City of San Pedro. In 1936 the Navy bought her and 20 sister boats, gave them each a 3-in. gun, gear to catch something more deadly than tuna, and names from the birds, such as Bunting, Crossbill, Crow, Puffin and Heath Hen. They all had wooden hulls, so thin that a dummy torpedo dropped in practice from a plane once sank one. Still, the Magpie and her sisters, not without casualties, served...
...live in Seattle at her widowed mother's house. There her bossy big sister Mary, a live-wire private secretary with a city full of contacts, thrust her into the hands of one employer after another, including "a rabbit grower, a lawyer, a credit bureau, a purse seiner, a florist, a public stenographer, a dentist, a laboratory of clinical medicine and a gangster...
Born 51 years ago on the island of Brae off the coast of Yugoslavia, "Big Nick" came to the U.S. with $1.50 in cash, at 15. He started out fishing for smelts in a borrowed rowboat, was master of a big salmon boat, a purse seiner, within six years. In bloody battles, Big Nick (6 ft. 2 in., 226 Ibs.) led other purse seiners against the beach seiners (who use horses to drag flat nets up on shore), drove most of them out of the $59-million-a-year Alaska salmon industry...