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January 9, 1954

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a reporter at large

A FACTORY SAILS SOUTH AND THERE WAS WHALE

R. B. Robertson

REPORTER AT LARGE about a whaling expedition to the Southern Ocean. Author, a senior medical officer to the expedition, tells about the first leg of the …