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...last plunge in the surf from the long beach where the tide comes in like a racing current . . . . a last glance from the bluffs where the lighthouse blinks across the sea toward Portugal . . . . a last look at the rose-covered cottages, the winding streets, the open moors where the red deer browse . . . . a warning whistle from the boat . . . . assorted farewells . . . . the little yachts with the bright-colored sails fade away in the twilight . . . . back to Boston, back to Cambridge, back to politics, depression, newspapers, prohibition, bad weather, books and autumn . . . . And then cometh Atropos...
Cartoonist Robert L. Ripley's nationa "Believe It or Not" contest was won by Brooklyn's Clinton W. Blume with a proved story of losing an initialed scrubbing brush in 1918 near the coast of France, finding it a year later in the surf at Manhattan Beach where he was a life guard...
...this position she lays her eggs. The male lies arched beside her ready to fertilize the eggs. It is when the females are struggling to extricate themselves from their half-buried positions that they seem to 'stand on their tails and dance to the rhythm of the surf...
...like a rifle sight on the profile of Blue Bird's is-ft. bonnet, he gathered speed going south along the beach. Nearing the grandstand at the start of the mile, the sound of Bine Bird's motor was first a low undertone to the warm purr of the surf, then a thundering roar, then a mighty shout of speed and wind as the car blurred past...
...another young man and, beside him, a mummy-like thing roped up in a sheet. Officer Harbottle ripped open the sheet, was horrified to discover that it contained the naked corpse of Joe Kahahawai, a bullet hole through his chest. . . . Down the road lay Koko Head with its pounding surf from which nothing, dead or alive, ever returns to tell tales...