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...such as it is-could be made by more articulate and more respectable Southerners if Wallace wanted to report genuine controversy instead of basking in the glare of burning crosses. At his present rate, Wallace may work himself up to a hard-hitting expose of the man-eating shark...
Throughout all the assaults of doubting newsmen. Bush remained good-naturedly sure of himself. "Gee, at first I thought nothing of this," he said, as if surprised by the attention. "Queer things happen to us pilots. Why, down in Sydney, there was that business of the shark . . . but let's not go into that...
...Shark-Infested Explanation. After drinks, Murphy sometimes boasted that his passenger-patient was Galíndez. On Dec. 3, after he had quit his job and was packing to return to the U.S., he disappeared. Neither he nor Galíndez has since turned...
...pressure, the Dominicans have produced their own explanation for Murphy's disappearance. They say that another airlines pilot, a Dominican named Octavio de la Maza, "committed suicide" last month in a Ciudad Trujillo jail cell after leaving a note confessing he had knocked Murphy off a cliff into shark-infested waters. When the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Ciudad Trujillo implied doubt of their story, by testing the shower pipe from which De la Maza was supposed to have hanged himself, the furious Dominicans complained to Washington...
...Sharkfighters (Samuel Goldwyn Jr.; United Artists). "Sharks," says Lieut. Commander Victor Mature with some petulance as this picture begins, "got lousy table manners." It seems that some unmannerly man-eaters dined on the commander's crew when their destroyer sank in the early days of World War II, and now Mature is grimly determined to make every carchariid in creation pay the reckoning. Assigned to accelerate research on shark repellents. Mature moves in on a sluggish school of scientists like a shovelnose on shrimp. Everything from poison to ultrasonics has been tried, but only copper acetate and octopus juice...