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...opinion it's nothing more than a large fish-maybe a catfish." He had a razor-edged, eight-foot harpoon prepared. In Washington, the Bureau of Fisheries said it might be an alligator gar, which reputedly grows, sometimes, to be 20 ft. long. Other guesses: water-logged tree trunk, sunken barge, eruption of subterranean gases throwing up leaf accumulation, devil fish, sturgeon, or Old Blue, the legendary giant catfish of the Mississippi who every so often gets stuck in a canal lock or nudges in the bottom of a barge. As Diver Brown prepared for his first descent, Newport...
...Roosevelt settled down in an arm chair under a big locust tree with a white-washed trunk, and each morning as four retired submarine chasers brought a flock of Congressmen to the island, he presided over something resembling an old-fashioned political picnic. Republican Senator McNary, not invited, sarcastically described the performance as a "weekend charm school." During the evenings which the President spent on the island with six members of his Cabinet and several Democratic leaders of Congress, some serious politics may have been talked but during the day he was surrounded by shirt-sleeved Congressmen eating off long...
...owners of the Parkway turned it into a toll road. At 50? per car or $110 per season, some 290,000 automobiles used the speedy road annually during the next decade. It was the best route to the swanky Hamptons. Lately, however, the development of great trunk parkways along Long Island, parallel to their curvy forebear, has cut its traffic to a bare 23,000 cars in 1936. Last week, bored with paying some $45,000 a year in taxes, Mr. Vanderbilt offered to give the old Parkway, which is now assessed at $1,100,000, to the public. President...
...Illinois, the press was ready for it. Associated Press and United Press set up strike desks in Cleveland, each in charge of an editor who gives assignments to his staff on the six-State front, turns their reports over to rewrite men for coordination into major stories going over trunk wires to the nation's newspapers. A.P. estimates 15,000 words out of Cleveland daily...
Married. Ralph Heyward Isham, New York financier and one of the world's foremost authorities on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell; to Christine, Viscountess Churchill; in London. Expert Isham made his greatest find in Malahide Castle, Ireland, two months ago when he discovered in an old iron trunk Dr. Johnson's diary from 1765 to 1784 (TIME. April...