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...late Actor WTilliam Faversham; Charles John Vincent Murphy, a veteran of the 1934 Byrd Antarctic expedition and an editor of FORTUNE and David Scherman, LIFE photographer who photographically pioneered U.S. bases in the Caribbean and scooped the world with views of Betty Carstairs' one-woman realm on Whale Cay, Bahamas...
...vindicate the story of Jonah and the whale, Chicago's Pharmacology Professor Eugene Maximilian Karl Ceiling crawled through the gullet of a dead cetacean to prove it could be done. "It was a pretty slimy trip," he said last week, "but there was plenty of room...
Into a Hudson's Bay Co. Post where Great Whale River empties into the eastern waters of the Bay had trekked Trapper Ernest Riddell, the only white man on the Belcher Islands. To get there he had walked 60 miles over the ice to the main land...
...among the Eskimos is fairly in frequent, always logical. Most usual causes are shortages of wives or food. But the 200 families on the Belcher Islands have a tradition of murder. Their forebears were banished there from the mainland 50 years ago for massacring the white men at Great Whale River. But this murder, according to Trapper Riddell, was a matter of theology...
...British were able to announce the destruction of fish-and whale-oil plants; the sinking of eleven ships totaling 18,000 tons, including an armed trawler and a good-sized supply ship; the capture of 215 Germans and ten Quislingist Norwegians; the carrying off of 300 Norwegian patriots who wanted to fight for Britain; and-here was the propaganda-the distribution to Norwegians of food, cigarets, chocolates, wool yarn and high heart. From Stockholm it was reported that the Germans answered this bagatelle with considerable fury: by fining the Svolvoerans 100,000 crowns, burning the homes of the escaped patriots...