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...thresher shark gets his name from his great tail with which he threshes the water to round up the fish on which he lives. Also called fox shark...
Zane Grey, author: "My son is only 16 but he is as fine a fisherman as I. Last week as we cruised the South Sea Islands in my yacht Fisherman, he hooked a 640-pound thresher shark.* After a 17-hour battle the fish was landed; it is said to be the largest of its kind ever caught...
Nassau citizens talked of giving Mr. Havemeyer a medal, but not because Nassau harbor is "shark-infested" as newspapers said. Medal or no, Mr. Havemeyer, who denied he was a hero, was content. He had had "one last swim." Only at night do sharks frequent Nassau harbor. And when they do come in from the ocean, they are sand sharks; scavengers, not killers. On moonlight nights they may be seen and heard, huge but probably harmless, lurking and feeding near the piles of the town slaughterhouse. Once there was a monster that Nassau called "The Harbor Master." At the buoy...
...circus wagons, he followed them from home; was soon a tight rope walker ("thus,: set, prance, pretend to pitch, up again- ah, the split!") An enemy cut his tight rope; he fell; killed two people. Worse, it tore his painting forearm open. ("You see the scar? Like a shark bite!"). He roars anecdotes about his old pal,Jesse James; tells that his back shows 200 knife and bullet wounds, and that there are two dozen bullets...
...goodness, yes, that was what came of going without dinners, especially gorgeous ones ("Lord, how I love good food!"); of not smoking or drinking; and of swimming daily in the Mediterranean, with no bathing suit and no company save two police dogs. She told her famed escape-from-a-shark story (TIME, Sept. 13), patted her bobbed hair and apropos of Maria Jeritza's unviolated flaxen locks, accused unbobbed women of having "microbes." She knew all about James John ("Gene") Tunney's having whipped Jack Dempsey for the world's heavyweight boxing championship. "My boy won," she said...