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...better that her rusted shell Should rest beneath the wave; If naval hearts have turned to lead, Then leave her to her grave; Left flounders man her silent gun, Let squid now grasp her wheel; For men once bold, have lost their nerve, And only ships are steel! Stephen O. Saxe '51 and Andrew E. Norman '51, With thanks to Oliver W. Holmee...
...spate of speculation which followed its sudden notoriety in the press, the Loch Ness monster was variously identified as a school of otters, a killer whale, the wreck of a German zeppelin, a giant squid, an "abomination with a three-arched neck" and a seagoing dinosaur...
...Caplin & Squid. The newly formed Sight-Seeing Tours Co. runs trips to Newfoundland's characteristic fishing villages -clusters of houses and sheds clinging to sheer cliffs. Harvey & Co. Ltd. has a tour that takes in coves where, in summer, shoals of the glistening caplin strike, and where dorymen with multi-hooked jiggers catch squid for bait for the Grand Banks fishing fleet. At tour's end, 40 miles from St. John's, is trim little Cupids, the beauty spot picked by John Guy in 1610 for the first permanent colony...
Evil Kraken. Another mythical beast, says Ley, has really come to life: the kraken, a gigantic octopus that flourished in the imagination of medieval Scandinavians. Evidence has been accumulating, he says, to prove that there are several species of giant squid or octopus which come to the surface only rarely. Ley thinks that Scylla, of the Odyssey, must have been a kraken, with her six toothy necks reaching out of a sea cave. So was Medusa, with her "snakes" (octopus arms) writhing around her face...
...Party Line. Sitting at his cluttered desk, scratching a dim pencil against a pad of sleazy paper, old (68), squid-faced Zaslavsky knows his own position perfectly. Like most other responsible editors on Soviet Russia's 7,000 newspapers and 360 magazines, his is a party assignment. On pain of party inquisition he is bound to it. Even before the printers get his copy, censors see it. The party line has to be remembered, and the implacable, pervasive MVD (Secret Police). Deviation is dangerous...