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nothing draws sharks like a chum of blackfish, whale bits and blood. And for all those fishermen who think that sharks are good for nothing, he has one further word of advice: turn the tables on that shark. Eat it. Blue shark, he says, tastes "just like striped bass." And the mako and porbeagle are every bit as good as swordfish. In fact, smiles Mundus wisely, many a housewife has bought shark in her friendly neighborhood fish market at $1.60 a pound-as swordfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: Shark-Eating Men | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

...works that are neatly packaged in boxes, which Sir Herbert Read recently thought should be labeled "furniture" rather than "sculpture." Random objects glitter behind glass in the work of Joseph Cornell and Mary Bauermeister; even Louise Nevelson's newest darkling orts of woodwork are kept as purely as blackfish in glass bowls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Era of the Object | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...breakfast. Typical breakfast -fruit-oranges, bananas, local berries, other fruit in season. Cereal-oatmeal, or cold dry, according to season. Heavy cream. Meat, fish, eggs-corned beef hash with eggs; fresh fried blackfish with salt pork; ham or bacon with eggs; creamed chicken (left over) on toast, etc. Honey or marmalade on toast made over open fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECREATION: F. & J. at Play | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...pilot whale, sometimes called blackfish, which averages eight to ten feet in length (some have measured 24 feet and weighed as much as five tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Pothead!11 | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

Animal Spirits. In Omaha, police arrested a Mrs. Blackfish, a Mrs. Raven, and a Mrs. Beaver for fighting like cats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 30, 1945 | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

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