Word: basse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend's house in Greenwich Village she met William Bass, a cheerful and rotund New Yorker who is now her business adviser. Both were already married,† but they got divorces and were married by the Mayor of Weehawken, N.J. in October 1938. Then came the hardest times of Helen Traubel's life. She and Bill were broke. In a dark two-room West syth Street apartment near Carnegie Hall they cooked occasional lamb stews, sometimes had to scrape up money for food by cashing in on their empty milk and soda-pop bottles. They visited the Central...
...made to swing, learned to play the thing and became accordionist in Whiteman's band. Then in 1943 an auto accident put him in a cast for 18 months, left him with a permanent limp. Last March he rounded up Clarinetist Andy Fitzgerald, Guitarist Jack Hotop and Bass Player Gate Frega, sold them on his basic idea: "Erase the labels from music. Stop thinking about 'jive,' 'swing,' 'sweet' and 'jump.' Just play music...
...elbow of Cape Cod, between Cuttyhunk Island and Martha's Vineyard, the elusive striped bass gallivant in frothy water. Their favorite spots are tide-ripped ledges which are practically inaccessible both to fishing boats and surf casters. For years, old salts have looked for an easier way to catch them. The citizens of Cuttyhunk finally got the answer...
Borrowing the idea from a Long Island fisherman, they built something that looked like an overgrown rowboat, but had an inboard motor powerful enough to fly a small airplane. The Cuttyhunkers' "bass boats" cost about $4,500 apiece, but in them fishermen could profitably engage in a sport that was just as delicate and more dangerous than trout fishing. The trick was to avoid the submerged rocks, and to get at the fish at the right time-either by casting or trolling by moonlight. It was like an old-fashioned coon hunt on salt water...
Last week Martha's Vineyard ended a month-long annual Striped Bass Derby. Cuttyhunkers, who once got their heads bashed if they dropped a hook in Vineyard waters (and vice versa), signed up confidently...