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Most unusual boat: a Higgins Industries, Inc. $17,000, 42-foot, Eureka model offshore pleasure cruiser. Eureka has a spoonbill bow with wood strips diverging downward to drive a cushion of spray under the hull. The tunnel-stern (fashioned after the belly of a sulphur-bottom whale) houses the screw, which is protected below by an extra heavy skeg, a solid metal, keel-like extension of the hull. Purpose: to enable the boat to crunch through driftwood, bounce over logs, hurdle narrow land spits, climb a beach and land a party dry-shod, wham up on a sloping concrete...
...diplomatic fire last week were similar Allied agreements with Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium. Pre-empted by Britain would be Norway's usual spring exports to Germany of whale oil and her ring. In Denmark's case, British control of the fodder imports needed for Danish dairy products has brought about a tacit under standing with Germany whereby, unless Britons can get their Danish breakfast bacon, Nazis shall go without Danish butter...
Recently "Beachcomber" punned thus: "SMALL PROPHETS AND QUICK RETURNS. There is a rumor that a whale mistook Mme Tabouche of L'Oeuf for a prophet and swallowed her. On finding out its mistake, it released...
...above novels reveal no promising new writers. Few will be remembered longer than a month. Few improve on past performance. But taken together these 22 novels suggest a couple of general observations: 1) it needs a whale of a lot of inferior novels to get a first-rate one; 2) what determines the first-rateness of a novel is not hatred of fascism, love of democracy, reverence for the U. S. past, emulation of best-seller formulas, adhesion to the Party Line, good intentions, or hard work. It is, rather, a private and non-negotiable possession, namely, creative talent...
...anchor when a mine sank her-added evidence that at least part of Germany's attack was with illegal floaters. Further evidence in this direction was furnished when two mines bumped together and went off thunderously near Zeebrugge. Victim of a floating mine was a 54-ft. whale, found on the Belgian coast with a huge hole in his belly. Near by lay four German mines...