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...rose over the spruce-covered Newfoundland hills one morning last week, the tiny (34-ton) whaler Arctic Skipper put out from the weathered jetty at Dildo and chuffed at a steady six knots down Trinity Bay. Deck hands were just finishing their breakfast of fried eggs, sausage and coffee in the tiny galley when a lookout cried: "Pothead!"† Captain Iver Iversen rang the engine signal. As the Skipper picked up speed, the whales sounded. When they came up again, they were heading out to sea, and a deck hand fired a rifle shot to turn them. A red signal...
...haphazard venture until Norwegian Captain Iversen settled near Dildo in 1946 and opened a factory to render blubber and process the greasy meat prized by mink ranchers for the gloss it gives to the animal fur. To increase the whale catch, he raised money for the Arctic Skipper and a sister ship, Arctic Venture, to go farther out into the bay and herd more potheads shoreward...
Last week, as the Skipper drove toward Chapel Beach, the Venture swept in its herd, and the small boats closed around more than 150 thrashing whales. Young men and old-like Isaac Higdon, 75, and Bob Newhook, a pothead killer since 1918 -beat empty oil drums and shouted at the top of their voices. The best boatmen in Newfoundland danced their craft among the whales and the long spiked lances stabbed out, turning the frothy water crimson with blood. In its death throes, a whale rammed the boat containing three generations of Higdons. It smashed three planks below the water...
Good Mixture. As American President's new skipper, Davies plans no radical change of course. He will keep the line's President George Killion, under whom the company turned a profit of $3,200,000 last year. But Davies thinks American President has a still brighter future, hopes to mix his oil and water businesses together. His oil company has six tankers, now chartered out to other companies, which American President may well take over. If & when his Middle East oil concession starts producing, it will have a potential customer in American President, which uses 15,000 barrels...
Charlie Hoppin, Jim Nathanson, Tim Brown, and George Robertson will skipper in the regatta M.I.T. Brown, Tufts, Boston University, Middlebury, Rhode Island, and Worcester Tech. The weekend race will be the last scheduled this year except for a possible national regatta for the Angsten Trophy in Chicago on November...