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...Plot. Hemingway and his traveling companion, Anthony Jenkinson, found in a "snoop cruise" through the Caribbean that a German ship supposedly fishing for shark in pre-war days had charted scores of spots where subs could be refueled "as easily as Mrs. Jones takes in groceries." They named operators of bulging oil depots at strange places. They told of pro-Franco Central Americans openly working for a German victory; of Germans, including one ex-army officer, busily preparing for Nazi submarine activities. Even in 1940 small fortunes were being made by schooner masters on Nazi payrolls...
...commotions in the ordinarily placid waters of the loch, others showing part or parts of what seemed to be a large animal protruding above the surface. It was variously guessed that the monster might be: 1) an elephant seal; 2) a giant squid; 3) a hippopotamus; 4) a basking shark; 5) a crocodile; 6) the wreckage of a World War I Zeppelin. If it was a seal or a shark, it might have blundered into the loch, when young and confused...
...monster can live forever. Last week it was revealed that two Scottish foresters had found on the shore of the loch a huge dead thing. It was identified by experts as a basking shark, 24 ft. long. This was obviously the Loch Ness Monster, and this was obviously the monster's end. Since there were no signs of injury, it seemed most likely that it had died...
...disuse, sailing-boat transports sail again. Dublin streets swarm with hundreds of awkward, new bicycle riders, and Dubliners who own autos have hitched horses to them. Paraffin is so scarce that Donegal peasants now use rushlights, make candles from mutton fat. Fisherfolk in the western islands are catching shark for oil to light homemade lamps. This spring the wheat shortage threatened a bread famine by midsummer, but a 7,000-ton shipment from Canada brought some relief. Worse still, there's devilish little tea-and all for a war the Government will hardly admit exists. Only bright spot...
...last week, when a 440-lb. shark caught off Barra da Tijuca was opened, there rolled out a human head, two human arms. Jacare's own comrades, examining the teeth, were doubtful it was Jacare. though expert criminologists, judging from the skull formation and skin color, were sure it was from Jacare's region. In any case, it was another poor jangadeiro...