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...protect castaways in shark-infested seas, the Navy announced a shark-repellent substance. A secret concoction which sharks abhor, it was developed by the Office of Scientific Research & Development in cooperation with Marine Studies, Inc., was tested in waters off Florida and Ecuador...
Local ichthyologists are ecstatic today, for the world's only known specimen of a fresh-water shark is a weakened trophy in the basement of the University Museum. His name is Carcharinus Nicaraguensis, and it took the President of Nicaragus, an Army engineer, and three expeditions to get him here...
When landed, he measured five feet long, but shrinkage has set in and the poor fish isn't his old self. The only worry Harvard scientists have to disturb their elation is the problem of how the shark got from the sea to the lake. It has been established, however, that he did it "aeons...
Chicago Tax Shark. Star of the performance was Quiz Kid Kupperman of Chicago, a pale, sturdy, brown-eyed six-year-old who spoke somewhat juicily, thanks to a natural lisp and the recent shedding of three teeth. He had no trouble figuring the normal tax on $2,650 without pencil or paper. He also volunteered the belief that the United Nations were sure to win the war because he had so many friends and relatives...
...towns, 200 to 300 miles away. This year he started from Rosario, 205 miles above the capital. For three days & nights he churned and paddled-past San Pedro, past Baradero, past Uriburu, past Campana. At each river town he was greeted with crowds eager to cheer on their beloved "Shark of Quilla Creek." At Point San Ysidro, only twelve miles from Buenos Aires, the upstream tidal current began to force him back. After two futile hours, Pedro Candioti gave up. When he was hauled out of the river he instantly fell fast asleep. Pedro was not as young...