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...Matter is marvellously interchangeable. If 34 drowned off the Windward Islands were eaten by sharks, they are, by now, part of numerous shark brains...
...possibilities have been only partly explored. "Stand by everybody. We are about to present the comic opera entitled "The Kingfish Departs from his Baton Rouge Aquarium in an Attempt to Get in the National Swim.' A shark named Farley," continues the narrator, "is threatening to gobble up the miserable invader" . . . And won't the senators howl with glee, and the radio listeners each rock back and forth in helpless mirth when they hear a few sombre stooges inquire "what about the public works program and the future...
...garrison Fort Jefferson with 500 troops, more than 100 guns. For four years it stood stanch against the chance that the Confederacy might somehow build a strong navy or conclude an alliance with a potent naval power. Meantime time it served as a Federal penitentiary. At one time its shark-filled moat encircled more than 1,000 prisoners. In July 1865 it received, with a sentence of life imprisonment, Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd of Maryland...
...small Aran Islands off the Irish coast seem ever to be lost beneath the pounding waves. Yet on this rocky, soilless shore the Man of Aran grows potatoes, with the aid of seaweed. Fish also may be found in the sea as well as the oil of the shark, used to light his crude lamp. But the sea does not always yield its bounties without a struggle, sometimes so fierce that the Man is glad to return alive, without fish without even his boat which is dashed to pieces...
...power of the film is brought out in these struggles. After more than one hour of emotionally fighting the sea from a plush chair, your reviewer was left somewhat spent and breathless. Yet he enjoyed his fight with the shark, his fearful clinging to the small bear which spun around like a matchstick in a drain, and especially the sensation of rolling in on the tops of the foaming breakers...