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Meanwhile whales figured in news despatches from both coasts. In Shelton, Wash., lumberport, a large black whale appeared one 2 a. m. Mill hands hooked a hawser around its jaw, towed it to deep water. Thereupon it rushed to another part of the bay, was eventually harpooned. In Dover, N. H., a whale became marooned on a mud-flat, was shot by local police. Editorially, the New York World denounced this act, pointed out that while a live whale is no asset to a community, a dead one is a distinct liability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sea Business | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...will be 40 in October. She was born and reared on a farm near Winnipeg, Canada. Of her early cultural advantages, she says that her mother "dedicated her to God as Hannah did Samuel; instead of Cinderella and Mother Goose, I went to sleep with Jonah and the Whale and Daniel in the Lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sister's Sorrows | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...looking for the Ogopogo The funny little Ogopogo- His mother was an ear wig His father was a whale- I want to put a little bit of salt on his tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Anti-Grab | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...silent version of Herman Melville's story in which Barrymore appeared four years ago, this is a true moving picture, no less effective because a conventional love-interest has been added to the activities of a crazy one-legged sea-captain who wanted to get even with a whale. Across tremendous horizons the camera's eye wheels after the tiny whaling boat chasing a corporate phantom of monstrous, inhuman evil. All the work that a camera can do with great spaces and wild things is done, pictorially, as it should be. This Moby Dick is not a masterpiece. The concentration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 25, 1930 | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

John Wanamaker of Manhattan and Capt. Charlie Thompson, famed old-time fishing guide, were towed 40 mi. to sea off Montauk Point, L. I. by a three-ton whale which absorbed two harpoons and 40 bullets before dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 25, 1930 | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

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