Thar She Blows!

Into New York harbor last week steamed two Norwegian whalers, the huge, 22,000-ton Sir James Clark Ross and the smaller Thorshammer. Two weeks out of Norway, they had hardly tied up in the shadow of the skyscrapers before their crews were busily dismantling their anti-aircraft guns, hauling aboard six months' supply of food.

By working at top speed, the ships were able to cast off and head for sea again in seven days. Reason for the haste: they hoped to be the first ships in the Antarctic for the opening, next month, of the first full-blown whaling season in five years....

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