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...exceed 600,000. Alligators have invaded populated areas, leading to worries that they may attack humans. "It's people, not alligators, that are becoming an endangered species in some Louisiana parishes," says a wildlife official. His fears seem well founded. Golfers at New Orleans Bayou Barriere Golf Club have become somewhat timid since club members found and killed a 5-ft. gator near the 14th fairway. A Metairie, La., family called off an afternoon swim when they found a four-footer in their backyard pool. In Alabama last month a 13-ft. gator glided...
Died. Rube Bloom, 73, self-taught jazz pianist and composer whose songs include Give Me the Simple Life, Truckin ' and Fools Rush In; in Manhattan. Bloom first stepped into the jazz spotlight in 1928, when he won a Victor Records contest with his hit Song of the Bayou, and stayed there for decades...
...have repelled her and attracted her at the same time. But a more obvious parallel to the Regina-Marcus affair would be the relationship Hellman had with her uncle, her first love. When she was fourteen or fifteen he whisked her off impulsively on a fishing trip to the bayou, where he was conducting an affair with a Cajun girl, and when they met again for the first time five years later he tried to convince Hellman to run away with him to South America, which she almost did. In both instances Hellman felt an attraction...
...City Park's lagoons of gators that had already eaten all the park's ducks and were working their way through its fish and turtles. Panicked phone callers-as many as seven a week-report alligators in residential districts, even in the affluent sections bordering Bayou...
John. Several dogs that wandered too close to the water's edge perished when what looked like a log suddenly thrashed into hungry action. The threat has become so great that golfers playing on the bayou-laced local links are advised not to look for balls lost in the water...