Shark Battle on Pacific Raft Voyage
William Willis details a dramatic rescue after a 1954 shark encounter aboard his raft Seven Little Sisters. He fights to retrieve a damaged line and maintain his position as he is pulled toward the sea, recalling past fishing memories.
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William Willis
Pacific
Peru
Pago Pago
The
Adventurers Club
Willis
Charles A. Lindbergh
North American Newspaper Alliance
Wiliam Willis
New York
Meekie
Samoa
Callao
Almeda
Eerie
Interlude of Courage on the Seven Little Sisters
A narrator reels from a shark encounter while clinging to a balsa raft named My Seven Little Sisters. Blood oozes from a hand as fatigue and numbness threaten his grip. He urges himself to hold fast as the line frays and waves crash, with supplies dwindling.
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Tom
Cape Horn
New York
Eagle Man to Speak at Cedar Rapids Bird Club Banquet
Charles L. Broley of Delta Ontario known as the Eagle Man will address the Cedar Rapids Bird Club at its annual banquet Monday November 22 at Roosevelt hotel. The event includes an all color movie and reservations may be made with Mrs. Robert Vane. Broley, featured in major magazines, has studied the American bald eagle for decades and advocates habitat conservation to prevent extinction.
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Charles L. Broley
Delta
Ontario
Canada
Cedar Rapids
Bird Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Robert Vane
Oil Deliveryman Fills Wrong Tank
Milwaukee report says Lew Breyer believed his faucet leaked when a fuel company deliveryman pumped 305 gallons of oil into a cistern pipe by mistake instead of the basement fuel tank line.
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Milwaukee
Lew Breyer
Breyer
Halliday Charged With Wounding Doris Long in England
Vincent Edward Halliday, 53, was charged in Great Yarmouth with wounding Doris Long with intent after stabbing her. He reportedly told her I am very sorry I thought it was my wife.
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Great Yarmouth
England
Vincent Edward Halliday
Doris Long
Halliday
Miss Long
Cabbie Stops Holdup and Receives Robber’s Overcoat
Baltimore police report taxicab driver Melvin Benton resisted a night holdup. He yelled and kicked a passenger beside him as another robber in the cab grabbed Benton from behind. The two passengers fled and the robber left his tweed overcoat in the back seat.
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Baltimore
Melvin Benton
Benton
YMCA Toastmasters Elects New Club President
War ren B. Bruene was installed recently as president of the YMCA Toastmasters club. He is an engineering group head at Collins Radio Company.
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Warren B. Bruene
Ymca Toastmasters Club
Collins Radio Company
Ancient Diary Reveals Earliest Apple Polisher Story
Washington reports the first apple polisher was a Sumerian schoolboy who buttered up his teacher with a home cooked meal. Dr. Samuel Noah Kramer, of the University of Pennsylvania, uncovers a diary on clay tablets in Iraq showing the boy’s efforts to stave off canings. The note marks Sumer as possibly the first literate culture.
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Washington
National Geographic Society
Samuel Noah Kramer
University of Pennsylvania Museum
University
Iraq
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